What are the top three guitar solos that have influenced you the most?
The three solos that changed your life and made you re-evaluate your playing?
For me it's:
Tony Peluso's solo on the outro of The Carpenter's 'Goodbye To Love'
Larry Carlton's legendry solo on Steely Dan's 'Kid Charlemagne'
And Robben Ford's solo on The Yellow Jackets 'Monmouth College Fight Song' captured at Montreux on the 'Casino Nights Live' album.
Which, incredibly, was actually filmed!
Kicks in at 1:36
(pronounced: equal-sequel) "I suffered for my art.. now it's your turn"
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Dokken - The Hunter
Megadeth - Tornado Of Souls
Join Together - The Who. Odd choice I know but those lead breaks made me want to play guitar in the first place.
Kid Charlemagne - Steely Dan. Well no explanation needed.
Cliffs of Dover - Eric Johnson (the whole thing). Heard it on the Radio when it came out and at the time couldn't believe my ears.
This edition..I think I still have this somewhere up in my loft...with a bunch of other issues from the same period.
http://www.guitarflashback.com/backissues/guitarplayer/8605gp.JPG
GnR- Rocket Queen. Again, not the solo, but the bit where it becomes REALLY crunchy chordal riffs. Made me realise guitars could be sleazy and dangerous.
Satriani- Surfin with the Alien. All of it. I had never heard instrumental rock guitar before. It opened up a whole new world for me.
Horslips - Dearg Doom
Gloria - One day at a time
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
Baker Street- Gerry Raferty
Jessie's Girl- Rick Springfield
Eruption ... bear in mind I'm old, when I heard that it didn't even sound like a guitar, I thought it was a keyboard. I was playing but had no idea a guitar could sound like that !
Mother, Pink Floyd .... never comes up as his best work like Numb does but the sheer feel in that solo struck a chord in me and still one of my faves
Melodic and not completely pointless.
Marquee Moon - Television.
(Relatively) Clean can be cool.
Hello -L. Richie.
I just really like it.
That's just three off the top of my head. I usually switch off during solos.
Badge by Cream. First solo I learned note for note properly. It has some fantastic phrasing.
Warning by Black Sabbath. I listened to this yesterday and noticed how I'd lifted nearly all my licks from it. Tony is a massive hero.
Lynyrd Skynyrd's epic on Freebird - as i say, this was and remains epic
The solo on Black Sabbath's Paranoid - short and sweet
Hawkwind's Master of the Universe, as I have these on a mind loop
Frank Zappa's Watermelon in Easter Hay on the Joe's Garage album - probably one of Frank's best and most accessible solos
Yes, I know I slipped in an extra, but we like bonus tracks, do we not?
"Rock Bottom" -- UFO -- Strangers live version [I could have chosen any number of Michael Schenker solos but this has lots of my favourite Schenker trademarks]
"Baby's On Fire" -- Robert Fripp playing on Eno's song is beautiful madness!
Shine on You Crazy Diamond - I'd never heard a solo this long before - or which held my attention. It may well be my favourite piece of guitar playing of all time.
Need Your Love So Bad - Peter Green's masterpiece of understatement and phrasing. The most 'elegant' of all blues players....
The Kid With The Replaceable Head - Richard Hell & The Voidoids (Robert Quine)
Lookin' At You - MC5 (Fred, I think)
I'll have another list by lunchtime, this is just what popped up right now in my little head.
Lindsey Buckingham - Go Your Own Way
Mark Knopfler - Tunnel Of Love
There would be a Ritchie Blackmore one in there, except that I can't nail it down to one solo.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Anyway, I usually say Whole Lotta Love as the song where I thought aha that's what they mean by lead guitar, although it's a memory shrouded by the mists of time so who knows.
Dressing Trashy by Philip Walker ( might have been Otis Grand on guitar) as it was the first of still a tiny number of songs where I attempted to learn a solo to reproduce it live in a way that passably resembled the original.
Dallas 1pm by Saxon. I'd have to admit in retrospect much of their stuff doesn't stand up that well but I loved the dynamics of this.
Dave Gilmour - Time
Eric Johnson - Desert Rose
Marc Ribot - Jockey full of Bourbon
I was going to put EVH but I was more inspired by the riffage and licks than full solos.
Bob Mould - Wishing Well
Neil Young - Cortez The Killer
I'd probably include something off Marquee Moon too, but I wouldn't want to try and separate the whole Verlaine/Lloyd thing.
2) Stargazer
3) For the Love of God
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
2/ Still in Love with you - Thin Lizzy and the Live & Dangerous version (Brian Robertson and Scott Gorham)
3/ Hard to say I'm sorry - Chicago (Steve Lukather)
Bubbling under were more Lukather, particularly the ballads or something off of "Isolation"
Robben Ford's "Talk to your daughter" and "Help the poor.
Something from Neal Schon from the Escape album
"Eruption" by EVH
And.."Hotel California"