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I really like this "Just Plain Forum". Great topics and players to talk with.

We all have favorite guitar riffs or lead solos that are just so inspiring to listen to over and over again, that they give us thrills and chills.

Two of my all time favorites are:

Martin Barre using a Les Paul guitar to play the solo on Jethro Tull's "Aqualung".

This solo shows the power of the electric guitar as an emotion driven instrument.

2. Terry Kath using a Fender Telecaster, distortion and a wah-wah pedal on Chicago's
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This is so amazing to listen to. It's Jazz and Rock combined perfectly. He is missed.

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I'm not a huge Floyd fan, but almost any solo done by David Gilmour is brilliant. I can replay almost any solo of his in my head... intensely melodic. Kind of a cliche, but I'd put his 'Comfortably Numb' solo at the top of my all-time list.


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I agree, Gilmore solos, very memorable.

Also, van halen solos, randy rhoades solos, My fav of all time is Rubina by Satriani off his first CD. Absolutely amazing.

I've got many others, but I won't bore you.

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John Cippolina, of Quicksilver Messenger Service, on their first album--the solo that has him playing a solo that sounds like a whip cracking and notes that just dripped through a wah-wah pedal, through the ears, and right into the back of the head...I get chills just thinking about it!! Oh, yeah, just remembered the song--"The Fool".

Hendrix, "Voodoo Chile"--also Stevie Ray's version--and "Little Wing".

And, cut Carlos Santana loose in concert, and it's incredible what he will do...


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The solo from Steely Dan's Peg.

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Doc Watson playing John D. Loudermilk's instrumental, "Windy and Warm".

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Jimmy Page's solo in Heartbreaker/livin lovin
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Gary...

I'm pretty sure Terry is using his SG on that 25 or 6 to 4 solo...

Terry really didn't like Fenders much...

For distortion in the early days, Terry used to plug into an old Bogen 25 watt PA head..then right out of that into a Fender Showman head out to a 2 Lansing 15 bottom.

He came directly off the speaker leads on the Bogen into the front of the Showman.

Lotsa buzz !

Terry was a great guitar player, and a pretty wacky guy.

We miss him here in Chicago too !

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Bob,

Thanks for the correction on Terry Kath.

I based my thought on a video I have of Chicago playing 25 or 6 to 4 Live. Terry was playing a white Telecaster with a humbucker in the neck position.

I also have a book of Chicago music and lyrics showing pictures of him playing the same Telecaster and also a Fender P bass in the studio.

I just assumed he was a Telecaster man. Gibson SG's are great guitars too. I have pics of me playing a cherry wood one. They were featherweight powerhouses.

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I read that Terry Kath did use a Stratocaster on "Free Form Guitar" (I think it was in the liner notes of the CD re-release). And you can hear that strat whammy bar being used in the piece (can you call it a song? :-))

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1.watermelon and easter hay, frank zappa
2.purple rain, prince (live 99 nyc new years show)
3.pigs (three different ones), gilmour/floyd
4.mean street, eddie/van halen
5.comfortably numb, gilmour again.
sorry you only asked for one, but any one of those can bring tears to my eyes

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Yeah...

Terry did use a strat on that one..

When Terry saw Hendrix he (like alot ofus) picked up a strat and started messing around..
Honestly tho, he really did use an SG 99% of the time,,at least in the early daze.
We used to go to Barnabys and see Chicago Transit Authority when they were inventing themselves..
All the guys were in other bands..Terry and Wally and Danny and the rest were in a band called the Big Thing.
Pete was in the best 4 piece band I've ever seen, The Exceptions.
They would get together as Chicago Transit Authority on Monday and Tuesday nights at Barnabys.
All of us were numbed by what they were doing..I remember their Magical Myster Tour medley..whew !
Terry was areally good guitar player..loved the jazz guys..Barney Kessell and the like...
never listened to Blues much..thought it was boring..
He was one of the original"sez drugs and rock and roll" guys here in town.
Alot of us were scared to hang around with him..you never knew what he was into...always had guns around, he loved 'em.

Wish he was here...

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Hiram Bullock - Little Wing w/ Sting
Eddie Hazel - Maggot Brain & Red Hot Momma w/Funkadelic.

Don't laugh.... the solo form Everybody wants to rule the world - Tears for fears. I don't like the song that much but that solo always makes me smile

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Larry Carlton...Steely Dan's "Royal Scam"
"Dont take me alive" and "Kid Charlamane"

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Oh yeah...
How many of you figured out Eric Claptons solo on "Crossroads"? That was a great learning tool...

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Jeff Beck: the master of melody on the electric guitar on Stevie Wonders
Cause we ended as lovers...the whole song....

I saw him on Leno last night play blues with BB.His mastery of the whammy bar is without peer.At nearly 60 he still plays with the abandoment and passion of 19..... amazing.

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I'm not really a metal head. I guess I'm not a virtuoso at lead either. (I don't even play electric) But at the risk of looking stupid. I'll just say that the solo on Boston's "Gonna Hitch a Ride" was the first guitar solo to give me chills. I believe it was Tom Scholz playing. Don't ask me what guitar or electronics he was hooked up to. I just loved it. I still get a charge out of turning that song up when the solo starts!

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Concerto De Aranuez. I love the guitar solos in that . So expressive. The melody so beautiful it hurts.

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Maybe it's because I haven't heard it for a while...but,
Yesterday, while I was bending nails, Jethro Tull's "Aqualung" was playing on the radio. Towards the end of the song, when the guitar player stepped out, I had to stop mid-bend. The hairs on my arms were standing straight up.
Whew,
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Roy Buchanan... The Messiah

The riff shows up in a bunch of his work, but man does it wail here!


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MY 2 cents

1. Steve Howe - The Yes Album
"Yours Is No Disgrace"
pick any solo run in that song.

2. Ritchie Blackmore - Made In Japan
"Highway star"
still gives me chills

3. Brian May - Night At The Opera
"Bohemian Rhapsody"

4. Steely Dan Countdown To Ecstasy
"Bodhisattva"
pick jaw off floor

5. Robin Trower - Live
"Too Rolling Stoned"

youngsters ..live it...learn it...

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Steve Vai - "For the Love of God" off of Passion and Warfare.


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Any song, any solo on the Blind Melon Self titled album.

I know that's quite broad, But simply put: That album is why I play the guitar.


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For me, it's gotta be a few Duane Allman solo's....from the Layla album and other tunes that include the Allman Brothers B.B King Medley; Statesboro Blues and Dreams. thanks.

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My fave has to be Alex Lifeson's guitar solo on Cinderella Man off of the album A Farewell To Kings. Anyone whoever just got a wa-wa pedal or guitar with a tremolo arem could identify with that solo. It's like he is a kid who just got those 2 nifty toys and he is just going for it. He is by far my reaon for picking up a guitar in the first place and I still love what he does.

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I sure can't play like that, but I've got a special place in my heart for Mark Knopfler's leads in Down to the Waterline and Brothers in Arms, to name just two. Also, I'll never pass over the Carlos Santana Black Magic Woman.

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Knoffler on "Sultans of Swing." The whole dang song!

Hendrix on "The Wind Cries Mary." The whole song!

Beatles "And Your Bird Can Sing." Two guys playing in such perfect sync that it sounds like one guitar. Back before the Eagles and the James Gang, Joe Walsh used to be in a great club band called The Measles, who gigged around Kent, Ohio. He used to do both parts on "And Your Bird..." He did it pretty darned convincingly, too

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I find it hard to say I actually get "chills" from much in the line of guitar playing... but there are a couple instances I can recall...

Eric Clapton... from the 24 Nights album, "Wonderful Tonight" (very much different than the hit version) I would suugest this "chill" to be emotionally derived from the pure taste and passion in Clapton's delivery.

Monte Montgomery, when seeing him live and playing his breath-taking acoustic guitar versions of "Little Wing" (Hendrix) and "Romeo & Juliet" (Dire Straits/Knopfler)
I stand in total awe of this man and what he does. Completely jaw-dropping.

I suppose the strangest one I can come up with is from a CD I received this Christmas by a guitarist named Guy Van Duser. The CD is called "American Fingerstyle Guitar", and the song of mention is...of course... The Stars and Stripes Forever. [Linked Image] No, no, no....this was not a patriotic chill... it was a "talent chill"...when he suddenly shifted to playing both the marching melody and the trilling fife part at the same time.
Total mind-blow, reminding me I am but a mere mouse among men.
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In no particular order:

Hendrix's "Machine Gun." The whole song is one big solo and, as Joe Satriani put it once, the Bible of electric guitar.

The solo in the Stone's "Can't You Hear Me Knockin'" (I never was sure who did that one)

One of my favorite SRV solos, the one in "Life Without You"

Anything by David Gilmour

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What Fun!!
I've been reading all your thoughts, and not dreaming of posting, until a couple of the most recent resonated with me and I decided to jump in.

Terry, you mentioned Steve Howe. My SH jawdropper was in the YES film, where he plays "Clap," (acoustic solo piece) live, standing up, and with a flat pick and fingers. At the time (ca 1972?) I thought it was freakin' transcendental. You also referenced, Steely Dan's "Bodhisattva" which had a couple solos by Jeff (Skunk) Baxter and Denny Dias. To me, Dias' solo is the most amazing and blistering playing over changes I've ever heard. Definitely my #1 rock lead solo.
And CiscoKid gary! Thanks for opening up the post to Guy Van Duser. I heard him do Stars & Stripes live back in Mpls. ca 1978 at Coffeehouse Extempore. I (ambitiously) signed up on a list he promised to send the tab to when he completed it (never heard from him - had to get it like 20 years later.) If that blew your mind, you oughta check out his rendition of Fats Waller's "Alligator Crawl" on his "Stride Guitar" LP. Yikes!
Since the acoustic solo guitar has been entered into the fray I'll just say I was stunned into catatonia in 1968 when I walked by a local 'hippie' music fest, and heard a young Leo Kottke playing John Fahey's "Last Steam Engine Train." That transformed the guitar for me. Still grabs me, but that's probably just nostalgia.
Thanks, fellow guitarists for the chance to riff on this....
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Gary:
Great question:
For me, it's Monte Montgomery's version of Hendrix's "Little Wing" done completely as an instrumental on an acoustic guitar (with few effects). Smokes.......as does most of his solos in a lot of his songs. Got me playing guitar again.
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For holy-smoked-ness I'd have to go with "Bodhisattva" and "Kid Charlemagne" by Steely Dan. Also dig "Cliffs Of Dover" by Eric Johnson.

Oddly, as for just plain cool-vibed-ness I'd go with "Kid" by the Pretenders. Nothing flashy at all, it just fits the song so damn well...

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Wow, it's been a long time since I even *thought* about guitar solos...why is that?

I have to agree about David Gilmour: he's one of the best and least appreciated. I still think some of the solos on "The Final Cut" were his best work. Really melodic stuff.

A lot of my guitar heroes were progressive rockers: Steve Howe, Steve Hackett, Alex Lifeson, Steve Rothery (lots of Steves!), Adrian Belew.

I remember being totally blown away by Trevor Rabin's effect-laden, pitch-shifted solo in "Owner of a Lonely Heart" back in the 80's version of Yes. I'd never heard anyone play like that before.

Same deal with Jimmy Page's outro solo in "Black Dog." It was one of the weirder solos I'd ever heard, what with the Leslie warble and all.


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I started playing guitar 18 years ago when I was 15. I was making pretty good strides until I saw Stevie Ray Vaugn play Texas Flood live on my 16th birthday. I almost quit playing right then. 18 years later I still can't even "Air Guitar" that song. His brother Jimmy said it best "Stevie doesn't play a song the same way once". Hah! Aint that great!?!

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I forgot this one till recently.

Better Love - Isley Brothers. Ernie Isleys' tribute to Jimi is completely off the hook.

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David Lindley's lap steel slide work in Jackson Browne's song/tribute to Lowell George, "Missing Persons". Such a soulful and moving arrangement.

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"Red House" any Live version
Jimi Hendrix

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There's a Van Halen live video called "Live Without A Net" that came out in '86 or '87. Eddie played a solo during the song "5150" that completely mesmerised me. I actually dubbed the audio track of the video down to a cassette tape so I could listen to it over and over again on the stereo.

I'm also obsessed with fade-out outro solos. I particularly like the solo(s) at the very end of "Ramblin' Man", just before the record fades completely out. The solo at the end of Black Crowes "Jealous Again" (played by Rich Robinson, I believe) is simple but still really cool.

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Randy Rhoads Children of the Grave solo on Tribute.That's All.

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Freddie King in Have You Ever Loved a Woman?
Claptons' in the same tune (on the Layla record) is awfully good as well. Jeff Beck in Cause We've Ended as Lovers is pretty wonderful. Duane Allman and Dickey Betts in Whippin' Post. Every time Chet Atkins picked up a guitar!


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Anything by:

Roy Buchanan
Danny Gatton


Jim Weider live will blow you away! good CDs too. http://www.jimweider.com/

of course also just about anything by Hendrix, Clapton, Jeff Beck, Prince, Jimmy Page, Robben Ford, Chet Atkins, Sonny Landreth (slide supreme!), Stevie Ray Vaughn, the 3 Kings (Freddie, Albert, B.B.)

Ones to keep track of; Johnny Lang, Eric Steckle (www.ericsteckle.com 13 years old!).

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This topic should always go on. Let's see;
Let us not forget Rory Gallegher, blues dude from the Emerald Isle. The guitar player from the Dutch band, Focus. Another Dutch band, Golden Earring, remember Radar Love? AND if you have never heard of Bill Nelson!?, from Bebop Deluxe among other bands. Now there are some players.
The lead solo from Crying to the Sky,by Bebop Deluxe. It was a pretty big radio hit in the mid 70's. Bill Nelson on guitar.

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The intro to "You Really Got Me" by Van Halen. Also "FreeBird".

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Brent Mason on Alan Jacksons' song "I don'teven know her name" and on Mary Chapin Carpenters' song "How do". ......Kenny
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Danny Gatton-everything
David Gilmore-Comfortably Numb he's one of my most favorite.
Don Felder-Eagles-totally overlooked
George Harrison-for his slide playing in particular
George Benson-for singing with his guitar.
Jim Mankey for Concrete Blonde on the song "Joey" A very unique sound.
The lead to "Magic Man" by Heart What a killer sound that was and still is.
Mark Knoffler- Sultans, South Bound Again & Settin' Me Up
Alanta Rhthym Section-Spooky,Champaine Jam, & Georgia Rhthym.
Bread-Guitar Man.
Jimmy Vaughn-Strange Pleasures-That whole album, it grooves.

There are so many.
So, so, many.

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Somebody already mentioned "Cause We've Ended as Lovers" by Jeff Beck.
How about "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue," by Mick Ronson (Ian Hunter Live album)?
Or "Penguin in Bondage", Frank Zappa (Roxy & Elsewhere)
Or "End Game", Robin Trower (Truce)


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Leslie West:
Nantucket Sleighride
Neil Young:
Cortez the Killer (from Live Rust)
Like A Hurricane (ditto)
Keith Richards:
Gimme Shelter
Jimi Hendrix:
All Along the Watchtower
Machine Gun
Roy Buchanan:
The Messiah Will Come Again
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I second that vote for Cortez the Killer - it makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up from the guitar [Linked Image]

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