Your top solo

EricTheWeary

Philly_Q said:

EricTheWeary said:

tekbow said:

Uli J on Sails of Charon.

And I don't even like The Scorpions that much, but this blew my mind a couple of years ago when I heard it.

Full on shred at least 5 years before it was really a thing, and surprisingly little gain too.

I can't remember under what category but I've posted that clip on here before, that intro solo is a lovely thing ( although it's easy to get distracted by Uli's porn star moustache). That combination of technical, fluid playing and musicality is quite something. 
I saw him on his Beyond the Astral Skies tour, his album that was an attempt to get away from completely disappearing up his own artistic arsehole. Live most of the vocals were handled by Nicky Moore ( who does some of the backing vox on the album ) and it's a pity he didn't pursue that line up after.    

I'm a big Uli Roth fan, although more for the Scorpions years than his solo career.  I've seen him a couple of times on the same stage as Michael Schenker and it seems like he's always "on" whereas Schenker can be extremely erratic.

He's a surprisingly affable chap, too.  On the Scorpions deluxe reissues which came out a few years ago there's quite a lot of interview material and he's very jolly, not a hippy dippy weirdo at all.

He lived in England for quite a while ( Southend on Sea?) and I think that helped knock the hippy dippyness out of him. I’ve seen a couple of interviews, there’s a PG rig rundown my memory of which is that in isolation his guitar sound is incredibly shrill in isolation but works in context ( true for a lot of rock players I suppose). 

His vocals are very weak, the decision not to employ a singer probably hurt him commercially although I suspect that he was well aware of that. 

sticker

Glenn Tilbrooks masterful pop solo on “Another nail in my heart”  by Squeeze

tone1

I also love Ride on by AC/DC 

and the short but sweet Solo in Jeepster by T-Rex

   https://youtu.be/skjvDLpeh4c

CFH

The solo in Hotel California is superb, I love the way the two guitarists respond to each other. 

west

Love the solo by carlos rios on brother to brother by gino vanelli ... starts at 240-ish ...

tekbow

EricTheWeary said:

tekbow said:

Uli J on Sails of Charon.

And I don't even like The Scorpions that much, but this blew my mind a couple of years ago when I heard it.

Full on shred at least 5 years before it was really a thing, and surprisingly little gain too.

although it's easy to get distracted by Uli's porn star moustache  

You mean the source of his power?

JerkMoans

Impossible to have ‘a’ favourite...

Virtually anything by Marc Ribot on Waits’ 80s records gets it, but more mainstream it has to be Jimmy Page on ‘Since I’ve Been Loving You’. Still brings me out in goosepimples.

Habanero

I Remember You by Skid Row.

rustneversleeps

proggy said:

There really are too many to choose from but I really love Bill Nelson's outro solo on Crying to the sky from the Sunburst Finish album. So tasteful.

And Comfortably Numb of course.

Don’t forget Bill Nelson’s “adventures  of a Yorkshire Landscape “from Live in the air age.

Bellycaster

I know I've had one go, but I forgot to mention the greatest ever solo in a proper Pop song.

Chesney Hawkes - The One and Only (Played by Nik Kershaw, I think!)

gordiji

Talikingof Uli, the mellowish preamble of this solo (2.30) is haunting. It contains everything about making the electric guitar sound great. I never get bored of it. Never cared for the song though.

Philly_Q

gordiji said:

Talikingof Uli, the mellowish preamble of this solo (2.30) is haunting. It contains everything about making the electric guitar sound great. I never get bored of it. Never cared for the song though.

It's great.  Very Hendrixy of course.  I do love the song, in fact Fly to the Rainbow is one of my favourite Scorpions albums, the songs are so melodic and cheerful (although that may not have been the intention!).

poopot

Today it has been Jerry Reid’s fine work on Eastbound and down!

tomorrow it’ll be sumfink else

Schmo

Impossible, but I’ve always particularly loved these:

Van Halen - Push Comes To Shove (EVH)
Journey - Be Good To Yourself (Schon)
White Lion - Little Fighter (Bratta)

Stuckfast

The building tension and eventual resolution in this is something else.

Rocker

Difficult to name a 'top' solo, so many good ones from different genres that choosing one is just about impossible.  The following list is where I am now in nominating what I consider good solos:

Baker Street, Gerry Rafferty

Hotel California, The Eagles

No Woman, No Cry, Bob Marley and the Wailers

Friends in Low Places, Garth Brooks

Cotton Fields, Creedence Clearwater Revisited on the album C.C.R. Recollection

Still in Love with You, Thin Lizzy on the album Live and Dangerous

Grunfeld

It'll vary, and I'll think, best solo?  Gotta be the live version of Then Came The Last Days of May by Blue Oyster Cult (from the On Your Feet... album).  I've nicked, appropriated, re-purposed and re-written every lick in that song in the decades since I first heard it and sometimes I wonder if I've ever learned anything else. 

However, tonight I remembered this.  The song is a ballad so the solo is mostly clean and spacious.  I love it so much for the melody and phrasing.  Michael Schenker on guitar.

UFO, Try Me

Starts 2:30

fob

If I'm in the mood for it:

BeardyAndy

The only solo that makes the hair on my arms stand up is Jimmy Page in 'Since I've been loving you' it's not the most technical but it's go so much depth.

JerkMoans

fob said:

If I'm in the mood for it:

Amen, brother.

Remember once betting a mate I'd learn to play it.  Might be a decent project for Lockdown II