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EVH - Eruption - unbelievably exciting!
Billy Idol/Steve Stevens - Man for all seasons - just a beautifully composed solo with separate sections and a fabulous clean run.
Dream Theater - Under a glass moon - so inventive, so much going on and the first time I heard the 'warble' sound
EVH - Eruption
And third is either White Lion - Wait or EVH - Beat it.
Bon Jovi. Dry county
Kurt Cobain: Smells Like teen spirit.
Janes Addiction - Up The Beach, because it has wiggly bits but is still quite musical
Van Halen - Jump - because it drives home the absolute nadir of stunt guitar playing, utterly irrelevant to the song, just egotistical showboating and eclipsed musically by the keyboard solo that follows.
Kirk Hammet - Master of Puppets - that solo blew me away as a 17 year old
Slash - Welcome to The Jungle
She Shook Me Cold - Bowie (Mick Ronson)
You Lit A Fire - Nils Lofgren
2. John Cage - 4' 33""
3. John Cage - 4' 33""
@Demonseated - wis for moonage daydream - I first heard that when I was 17 - that solo and the whole record did strange things to me.
I haven't gone for my favourite solo's or the ones I think are best - I've picked the three that were most influential -
1 - live forever, Oasis - I was 15 and had dismissed guitar music as belonging to miserable nirvana fans with sh*t clothes and no girlfriends. Live forever came out and changed everything. It wasn't fas,t flash bollocks like Kirk Hammett - it was melodic and euphoric and was being played by lads in decent trainers. Made it possible for me to play guitar
2 - maggot brain, funkadelic - I'd dismissed virtuoso playing and long musical interludes as being boring, pretentious posturing - but this spoke to me - its so expressive and soulful
3 - stir it up, bob Marley - its just sweet isn't it?
Dave Murray on Number Of The Beast
Gary Moore on Devil In Her Heart
Slash - It's So Easy
Ministry - Jesus Buit My Hotrod
I'm usually struck by the way the drums drive the song- dragging it back in the verses and powering it through the choruses- but last time I heard it it was the guitar solo that got me. So simple, but so soulful and so compelling. Dude should have his picture in the dictionary next to "underrated".
For me?
Gary Moore - Cold Day In Hell. His best? Probably not, but it was the single I heard from After Hours around the time I started playing guitar, and it blew me away. Partly because I hadn't heard Albert King at that point, but mostly because it was right in my wheelhouse- a bit blues, a bit rock, fairly understandable from a theory point of view, played with Moore's signature energy and fire, and just dead dead good.
Longpigs - The Sun Is Often Out (album). Couldn't pin it down to one. This was Richard Hawley before he was Richard Hawley, and it really stood out among the Britpop pack for its guitars. Sure, there were other great players on that scene (Butler/Oakes in Suede, Graham Coxon, Greenwood/O'Brien/Yorke in Radiohead) but I really liked Hawley's playing- crafted but chaotic, modern but clearly rooted in the likes of Robert Quine and all the old stuff that Hawley likes. OK, if you made me pick one it would be "Far", which actually has a solo of sorts. It's making me want a Gretsch.
Roy Buchanan - Hey Joe (Live In Japan). I was gigging with a Telecaster around the time I heard this, and a guy told me after a gig once that I sounded like Roy Buchanan. I didn't, but it made me curious- I'd heard of the guy but never listened to his music. This was the track that really got me. I mean who hasn't heard "Hey Joe" a million times? This version turns the story on its head, and adds so much drama, such a sense of tragedy and regret. The dynamic shifts are brilliant, and the wailing guitar fits beautifully. The chords at the start are my other favourite part- it sounds like the amp is up super loud and the speaker is breaking up because of the bass.
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
I can just about accept this level of soloing ...
TNT (Ronnie le Tekro) - Tonight I'm Falling
Steve Vai - pretty much anything off P&W/Sex & Religion.
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Ozzy Osbourne (Randy Rhoads) - Crazy Train
Van Halen - Eruption
Too Drunk to Live Too Young To Die - Alcatrazz (w/Yngwie)
Sidetracked - Freddie King
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
Turning Japanese
Kayleigh
I wanted 'Beat It' but I can't say it influenced me
Edwin Dare - Never Had Time
Ratt - Nobody Rides For Free.