Top Five Guitar Solos

**Bagpuss** · 5 December 2005, 16:05

black sabbath- sabbath bloody sabbath
Guns n' roses - sweet child o mine
Cream - sunshine of your love
Nirvana - smells like teen spirit
5 a Pearl Jam - Alive
5 b Underones - Teenage kicks

**expat** · 5 December 2005, 16:09

Originally posted by AlfredJPruffock

Given the recent threads from N5 thought Id continue with your niminations and even nominations for the best five guitar solos

So here we go

1 House Burning Down Jimi Hendrix Mother of all Guitar Introductions
2 Moonage Daydream Mik Ronson Mother of all Guitar Fadeout solo
3 Money Dave Gilmour Mother of all Guitar mid song solos
3 Big Muff John Martyn Get away with your powder puff...
4 Taxman George Harrison ... delclare the pennies on your eyes
5 Layla Eric Clapton ... still sends shivers down me back.
5b Framed SAHB Zal Clemence ... I was FRAMED !!!!

Your turn now.

1. All Along the Watchtower Jimi Hendrix. This is what you can do with wa-wa on an electric guitar.
2. Jessica Allman Bros. You can believe that Greg thought up the intro to Layla.
3. Dance the Night Away Cream. Clapton at his most tasteful.
4. Red House (live) Jimi Hendrix. A glimpse of where he might have been going if he had lived.
5. Nuages Quintet of the hot Club of France. Just in case people forget how good Django Reinhardt was. And he did that after losing the use of 2 fingers of his left hand.
5b. What you said, Alf.

So let us stop talking softly now, the hour's getting late....

**PerlOfWisdom** · 5 December 2005, 16:19

name that riff

dum dum dum
dum dum dum dum
dum dum dum
dum dum

**AlfredJPruffock** · 5 December 2005, 16:19

4. Red House (live) - Jimi Hendrix. A glimpse of where he might have been going if he had lived.

Apparently he was going to team up with Emerson Lake and Palmer, to form a super group HELP ie Hendrix Emerson Lake and Palmer

5. Nuages - Quintet of the hot Club of France. Just in case people forget how good Django Reinhardt

What a superb guitarist, still love his version of Sweet Georgia Brown .

**hyperD** · 5 December 2005, 16:46

Originally posted by PerlOfWisdom

dum dum dum
dum dum dum dum
dum dum dum
dum dum

The Archers?

**expat** · 5 December 2005, 16:49

Originally posted by AlfredJPruffock

4. Red House (live) - Jimi Hendrix. A glimpse of where he might have been going if he had lived.

Apparently he was going to ....

2 solos in that Red House: first one blues, second one jazz.

**AlfredJPruffock** · 5 December 2005, 16:55

Aye Expat

I remember Oscar Peterson describing Hendirx as a great Jazz guitarist, not many people appreciate that Jimi was a jazzer , and a fine composer, I liked his voice altough Hendrix had no confidence in his own singing.

**messiah** · 5 December 2005, 17:05

Originally posted by hyperD

The Archers?

No, its The theme tune to "The Little House On The Prarie"

**Fleetwood** · 5 December 2005, 18:16

The heaviest guitar solo EVER and I mean ever, is Lou Reed's on the velvets "I heard her call my name" from White light, white heat (1968), preceded as it is by the immortal words "And then I felt my mind split open...". The next "song" on the LP is "Sister Ray", making this the heaviest ever side two of an LP. (Judge : me).

This however,and indeed most of the tracks mentioned so far, are actually a guitar breaks, not guitar solos, as other instruments are playing as well. A true guitar solo is when just the guitar itself is heard. Try Tony Iommi on Sabbath's "Warning" from the first LP (1969), or Steve Howe on Yes' "Sound Chaser" from "Relayer" (1974).

Bagpuss' choice is actually riffs, which is something else all together. Hendrix fans should check out "Peace in Missisippi" from the under-rated and not particularly easy to find "Crash Landing" (1975). The 1970 John McLaughlin LP "Devotion" is also a classic.

On a weirder note, try Fripp and Eno's "No Pussyfooting" (1973) for two instrumental tracks where Fripp's guitar is fed back onto itself via an Ampex tape recorder.
Other Fripp classics are the guitar break on "21st century schizoid man" from the first LP, (although I prefer the rougher live take on "Earthbound" (1972)). The following year's offering, "Larks' Tongues in Aspic" deserves the attention of anyone remotely interested in the use of the electric guitar.

(That's enough guitar solos. Ed)

Top Five Guitar Solos