I have a '75 LP Custom with T-top pickups and I solidly agree with the sound of the neck pickup... it's absolute silky butter. Also, the solo in "Limelight" is such a beautiful & brilliant example of painting in textures rather than in single notes... it's like an Impressionist/Monet/Renoir masterpiece in audio form.
Have to agree Crying in the Rain blew me away too. Such an incredible build up and crescendo. Just amazing. That whole album is such a showcase for how good he is.
Just to name a few great solos that I love: - Randy Roads: "Mr. Crowley" - Yngwie Malmsteen: "Magic Mirrors" - Jason Becker: "It's Showtime" - Nuno Bettencourt: "Get the Funk Out" (and many other) - John Petrucci: "The Best of Times" - Kee Marcello: about every Europe solo - Tony MacAlpine/George Lynch: "Tears of Sahara" - Brian May: "Bohemian Rhapsody" & "The Show Must Go On" and a million more by all the great guitarists out there. It's hard to pick a particular solo by instumentalists like Vai or Satriani or Vinnie Moore or Marco Sfogli or Roy Ziv or ... I love them all!
Yessss, I think John Sykes never gets the credit he deserves. His vibrato is so unique. It can be super aggressive and super melodic when he wants it to. Incredible guitar player with just the raw speed and technique, had the feel, and was an excellent songwriter. He made Whitesnake THE 80s band and turned them to stadium filling act. I just wish more people knew of his greatness.
And most importantly he has such a great pair of ears. He obviously hears the notes so clearly. The way he bends and hits the right notes is just amazing. One thing I absolutely love about his solos is the way he changes the gears all the time. It never sounds static or repetitive. Amazingly gifted guy.
Winger "Headed for a heartbreak" the main solo. Melodic, emotional, and built to a crescendo. Same thing for KISS "Reason to live" and Def Leppard "Miss you in a heartbeat(electric version)."
Time, David Gilmour, Pink Floyd. It is soulful and peaceful yet it’s also aggressive. I can hum it from memory. The tone is exquisite. And it fits perfectly in the song and audibly matches the theme of time’s continued circular March moving forward , uncaring about the lives of individuals.
A great list. And thanks for pointing out something about my favorite here, Limelight. I'd never thought properly about the careful construction of that solo in terms of emotional buildup and impact. Especially that last note.
I love a lot of the solo's you mentioned. I would add just a couple: Guthrie Govan on Steven Wilson's songs Drive Home or Ancestral...both are fantastic Love the Limelight solo (or almost any Alex Lifeson solo), but the outro solo on Different Strings is just so emotional and full of feel, nothing flashy, but perfect for the song.
Too many to count, but way back as a young impressionable player at 12 just discovering lead guitar, a few come to mind No One Like You by Scorpions Miracle Man and Bark At The Moon by Ozzy Caught In A Mosh by Anthrax Hangar 18 by Megadeth Wrecking Crew by Overkill Hot For Teacher by Van Halen 2 Minutes to Midnight by Iron Maiden Return To Serenity by Testament The Final Countdown by Europe Highway Star by Deep Purple
No one can play the Limelight solo exactly like Alex Lifeson... he puts his actual soul in that solo each and every time he plays it. My first favorite solo of all time is Angus Young AC/DC You Shook Me All Night Long
I should have mentioned Glenn Tipton's solo in Electric Eye, and Michael Schenker's solo in the UFO song 'Let It Roll'. Both of these solos have really great phrasing, something quite a few other players could learn to use. Jake E Lee tears it up BATM, and also on lots of the Badlands songs.
For me its the first solo on November Rain. I also really like Nunos Get the Funk Out solo. I was never a huge fan of tapping solos, but when I heard that one I had to learn it.
My Top 5: 1) Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing 2) Van Halen - Dreams 3) Symphony X - Of Sins And Shadows 4) Europe - Superstitious 5) TNT - Tonight I’m Falling
The 1st solo on the L&D version of "Still in love with you" was played by Brian Robertson. Gary Moore played it on the studio version. John Sykes always played it marvelously live during his short stint with Thin Lizzy.
Saint In memory of Steve Clark from Def Leppard, in addition to great riffs, he created some of the greatest solos in the entire history of rock... Suffice it to mention songs such as: "Bringin' on the heartbreak", "Me & my wine", "Die Hard The Hunter (although here his ideas were also added by Phil Collen) ", "Dont shoot shotgun", or "Hysteria (here also with the help of Phil Collen)". What counts most in solos is emotion and melody, and that's where they are :)
Ah, you mentioned George Lynch - lovely. Wicked Sensation is a total masterpiece. Even the lesser tracks on that album have great tone and great solos!
First off. 👊🏻😬🛡 Behind me Leon! I got us covered! I never bough Appetite for Destruction myself. As far as solo guitars go I'm going to pull one out of the hat and defy anyone to not do a double take and have a serious think about it. Grab your lawn darts, lay Paradise Theater in the circle and put 4 darts in it to pick one as long as you hit Half-Penny Two-Penny as one of the 4 songs. Tell me I'm wrong.😊
For me, the watershed solo to end all solos is Gilmour's contribution to the Pink Floyd song "Dogs." Why? Because it's just an endless display of creativity. Of course, there isn't just one solo, there's probably at least five, each one more breathtaking than the last. And all the background chord progressions seem so perfectly Gilmour. The lyrics and sung melodies are equally great.
The boys are back in town almost haunts me,But I remember when it first hit the radio,I was a fan Immediately ,theres a interview recently that Scott did where he explains how the Thin Lizzy Sound came about and it was a tape delay edit gone wrong they thought ,Iron Maiden Im sure adopted that 2 guitar Virtuoso from Lizzy but Thin Lizzy really did it for me back in the day and when im feeling down I hit the Cd in my car and it brings me back up ,I am really a voice guy from way back and have always studied the Maestros Like Robert Plant ,Ian Gillian ,Steven Tyler ,Chris Cornell but I love to play as well ,your a awesome Player Leon and wish you the best brother !!!1
First solo I learned correctly was Ace Frehley’s solo on Save Your Love. Still like it. Yngwie’s solo on Leonardo and the solo on Draw the Line are also favourites. Robbo’s solo on the live video of Still in Love With You really knocks me out.
Check out live in the emerald isle , his solo in Shapes of things is awesome, I remember seeing it on Rage in the 80's as a teen , he was instantly a favourite.
probably too many favourites to list 😄 , growing up it would have been Fade to Black or James's solo in the bridge of To Live is to Die since then, some would be : Jeff Beck - where were you Shawn Lane - Get you back (in particularly the live at the New Daisy Theater 92) or his once upon a time in the west Blue Murder - Out of Love (the bends/vibrato and how it builds, so much Sykes goodness) Paul Gilbert's solo on the Joey Tafolla track 'Nine Tomorrows' various Tony Macalpine solos from Edge of Insanity or Maximum Security Eric Johnson - Total guitar video ending part (sets a delay on hold, and it's just beautiful) great call otherwise on that Pink Floyd track, instant goosebumps when i heard the live versions
In The Dead of Night is Mount Rushmore for me. I'll let Bill Bruford explain why: "“94 seconds of liquid passion married to a blinding technical facility that was to go down in the annals of rock guitar history. All the hallmarks of his brilliant playing were there… poise, pace, melody, the Slonimsky interval jumps, the whammy-bar [tremolo arm], and all over a killer groove.”". I'd not heard anything like it at the time and seldom since. I can see why he influenced so many other great players, like my boys EVH and Lerxt.
I've had the entire solo section for sweet child more or less memorized for a while. I hack through a phrase or two but I can fool any layman. Slash is great. I'm way more cliche. Tornado of Souls, probably I'm the One, Little Fighter.
I thought about my fav solo's....and couldn't stop thinking and choose🤣 there's to many in my life that are iconic and special.....but at the moment in life, Iommi on Sabbath "black moon", Skidrow "quicksand Jesus",Dokken "lost behind the wall".... that's what I'm dissecting at the moment.
Pantera - Floods…. As a kid I would have said Fade to Black. I don’t know how to put into words why it is my favorite, just hits me right in the feels.
Naaaaannn... Your favorite solos should be: Allan Holdsworth => UK - In The Dead Of Night Jimi Hendrix => Johnny Be Good (live) And this one => th-cam.com/video/oeFQLdcSuI0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=pl9MzHS39-ll69jM At 3'10"... Phil from Dunkirk 😘
the BM800 mic on the cheap-out online sites can be found along with a whole cheap-out desk mounted arm and the whole nine yards for $25US to $80US for exctly the same kit. And the thing has its own 'character'. ;-) On You tube nobody can hear the difference.
I really love most of Randy Rhoads solos. Most of his are really a song within the song. He was just amazing and not just for HIS time. I think he would be amazing today also. Such a talent we lost back then. Today, Paul Gilbert is such a monster. Again, very melodic. I would definitely put him in same class as Joe Satriani and Steve Vai. You make great videos, sir tyvm for that..
@@LeonTodd HAHA i was going to post that. I still get goosebumps everytime i hear it cause its just that perfect in my opinion. Also Mr Crowley too but Revelation is in a class by itself for sure.
Surprised you didn't mention Dokken "Heaven Sent" from Beast from the East. George completely goes off on that rendition. Check it out it's much different from the Back For The Attack version.
Randy Rhoads has a number of great solo's, so many perfect note choices and melody, and don't discount Jeff Loomis, he's a machine, one of the cleanest pickers on the planet...
Hey I got the York Audio Friedman IR's for use with the NUX Amp Academy. I really like your IR in that pack, any advice on how I should dial in the Friedman model in the Amp Academy?
Leon...what were you soloing over at the end there ? was it a "Song" or just a random chord progression....( please anyone else Chip in...Leon might not see this)
Favourite solo and why?
Randy in SATO, so musical, melodic, follows the theme of the song, plus, it RIPS!! 🤘🤘🎸🎸
Beyond the realms of death!
Every Sykes solo - I’ll go for an underrated one today and say Straight for the Heart
@@bryanterry415 it’s a journey that solo. I second your opinion
In Bloom by Nirvana has a killer solo, also "reptile" by Periphery!
Tony Iommi’s solos on Heaven and Hell album are his most heartfelt that totally complement Dios vocals. Masterpiece
Yay!!! Missed your 100K mark so Congratulations! Hope all is well. Best Regards and Best Wishes!
Thanks mate!
Mr. Crowley. From tribute. Not surprised so many mentions RR already. Note choices and pure attitude.
Tribute version is THE one as far as I'm concerned. Listened to that on my Discman copy on the way to year 9 every day for a month.
I have a '75 LP Custom with T-top pickups and I solidly agree with the sound of the neck pickup... it's absolute silky butter.
Also, the solo in "Limelight" is such a beautiful & brilliant example of painting in textures rather than in single notes... it's like an Impressionist/Monet/Renoir masterpiece in audio form.
Totally agree!
Have to agree Crying in the Rain blew me away too. Such an incredible build up and crescendo. Just amazing. That whole album is such a showcase for how good he is.
Just to name a few great solos that I love:
- Randy Roads: "Mr. Crowley"
- Yngwie Malmsteen: "Magic Mirrors"
- Jason Becker: "It's Showtime"
- Nuno Bettencourt: "Get the Funk Out" (and many other)
- John Petrucci: "The Best of Times"
- Kee Marcello: about every Europe solo
- Tony MacAlpine/George Lynch: "Tears of Sahara"
- Brian May: "Bohemian Rhapsody" & "The Show Must Go On"
and a million more by all the great guitarists out there. It's hard to pick a particular solo by instumentalists like Vai or Satriani or Vinnie Moore or Marco Sfogli or Roy Ziv or ... I love them all!
Great list!!!
Great list, some gems on here!
Yessss, I think John Sykes never gets the credit he deserves. His vibrato is so unique. It can be super aggressive and super melodic when he wants it to. Incredible guitar player with just the raw speed and technique, had the feel, and was an excellent songwriter. He made Whitesnake THE 80s band and turned them to stadium filling act. I just wish more people knew of his greatness.
1000%
Great singer too!
And most importantly he has such a great pair of ears. He obviously hears the notes so clearly. The way he bends and hits the right notes is just amazing. One thing I absolutely love about his solos is the way he changes the gears all the time. It never sounds static or repetitive. Amazingly gifted guy.
Coming back to life great choice I play it every night - thanks Leon
Winger "Headed for a heartbreak" the main solo. Melodic, emotional, and built to a crescendo. Same thing for KISS "Reason to live" and Def Leppard "Miss you in a heartbeat(electric version)."
Time, David Gilmour, Pink Floyd. It is soulful and peaceful yet it’s also aggressive. I can hum it from memory. The tone is exquisite. And it fits perfectly in the song and audibly matches the theme of time’s continued circular March moving forward , uncaring about the lives of individuals.
Beautiful jam in the end man. Cool guitar too!
Thank you kindly!
A great list. And thanks for pointing out something about my favorite here, Limelight. I'd never thought properly about the careful construction of that solo in terms of emotional buildup and impact. Especially that last note.
I love a lot of the solo's you mentioned. I would add just a couple:
Guthrie Govan on Steven Wilson's songs Drive Home or Ancestral...both are fantastic
Love the Limelight solo (or almost any Alex Lifeson solo), but the outro solo on Different Strings is just so emotional and full of feel, nothing flashy, but perfect for the song.
Surprised Jake E. Lee and his Bark At The Moon solo didn't get an honorable mention. I think I've seen you slice into that a few times 🤘😎
Huge kudos for mentioning “In the Dead of Night”. Nice one!
Too many to count, but way back as a young impressionable player at 12 just discovering lead guitar, a few come to mind
No One Like You by Scorpions
Miracle Man and Bark At The Moon by Ozzy
Caught In A Mosh by Anthrax
Hangar 18 by Megadeth
Wrecking Crew by Overkill
Hot For Teacher by Van Halen
2 Minutes to Midnight by Iron Maiden
Return To Serenity by Testament
The Final Countdown by Europe
Highway Star by Deep Purple
No one can play the Limelight solo exactly like Alex Lifeson... he puts his actual soul in that solo each and every time he plays it.
My first favorite solo of all time is Angus Young AC/DC You Shook Me All Night Long
I should have mentioned Glenn Tipton's solo in Electric Eye, and Michael Schenker's solo in the UFO song 'Let It Roll'. Both of these solos have really great phrasing, something quite a few other players could learn to use. Jake E Lee tears it up BATM, and also on lots of the Badlands songs.
For me its the first solo on November Rain. I also really like Nunos Get the Funk Out solo. I was never a huge fan of tapping solos, but when I heard that one I had to learn it.
Oh of course I forgot Nuno!!! So many great solos on Pornograffiti
My Top 5:
1) Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing
2) Van Halen - Dreams
3) Symphony X - Of Sins And Shadows
4) Europe - Superstitious
5) TNT - Tonight I’m Falling
Ronnie Le Tekro is the BOSS!!!
The 1st solo on the L&D version of "Still in love with you" was played by Brian Robertson.
Gary Moore played it on the studio version.
John Sykes always played it marvelously live during his short stint with Thin Lizzy.
Saint In memory of Steve Clark from Def Leppard, in addition to great riffs, he created some of the greatest solos in the entire history of rock... Suffice it to mention songs such as: "Bringin' on the heartbreak", "Me & my wine", "Die Hard The Hunter (although here his ideas were also added by Phil Collen) ", "Dont shoot shotgun", or "Hysteria (here also with the help of Phil Collen)". What counts most in solos is emotion and melody, and that's where they are :)
Ah, you mentioned George Lynch - lovely. Wicked Sensation is a total masterpiece. Even the lesser tracks on that album have great tone and great solos!
First off. 👊🏻😬🛡 Behind me Leon! I got us covered! I never bough Appetite for Destruction myself.
As far as solo guitars go I'm going to pull one out of the hat and defy anyone to not do a double take and have a serious think about it.
Grab your lawn darts, lay Paradise Theater in the circle and put 4 darts in it to pick one as long as you hit Half-Penny Two-Penny as one of the 4 songs.
Tell me I'm wrong.😊
Limelight is definitely one of the great solos.
For a million years solo is epic!!!
For me, the watershed solo to end all solos is Gilmour's contribution to the Pink Floyd song "Dogs." Why? Because it's just an endless display of creativity. Of course, there isn't just one solo, there's probably at least five, each one more breathtaking than the last. And all the background chord progressions seem so perfectly Gilmour. The lyrics and sung melodies are equally great.
Yesssss!!
The boys are back in town almost haunts me,But I remember when it first hit the radio,I was a fan Immediately ,theres a interview recently that Scott did where he explains how the Thin Lizzy Sound came about and it was a tape delay edit gone wrong they thought ,Iron Maiden Im sure adopted that 2 guitar Virtuoso from Lizzy but Thin Lizzy really did it for me back in the day and when im feeling down I hit the Cd in my car and it brings me back up ,I am really a voice guy from way back and have always studied the Maestros Like Robert Plant ,Ian Gillian ,Steven Tyler ,Chris Cornell but I love to play as well ,your a awesome Player Leon and wish you the best brother !!!1
Thin Lizzy were the first band I ever saw live...!!!
First solo I learned correctly was Ace Frehley’s solo on Save Your Love. Still like it. Yngwie’s solo on Leonardo and the solo on Draw the Line are also favourites. Robbo’s solo on the live video of Still in Love With You really knocks me out.
Hard to narrow it down to 3 but for me, it'd be - I'm the one - Van Halen, Mr Crowley- Randy Rhoads then anything Gary Moore
been on a big GM kick lately - all his solos are incredible!
Check out live in the emerald isle , his solo in Shapes of things is awesome, I remember seeing it on Rage in the 80's as a teen , he was instantly a favourite.
probably too many favourites to list 😄 , growing up it would have been Fade to Black or James's solo in the bridge of To Live is to Die
since then, some would be :
Jeff Beck - where were you
Shawn Lane - Get you back (in particularly the live at the New Daisy Theater 92) or his once upon a time in the west
Blue Murder - Out of Love (the bends/vibrato and how it builds, so much Sykes goodness)
Paul Gilbert's solo on the Joey Tafolla track 'Nine Tomorrows'
various Tony Macalpine solos from Edge of Insanity or Maximum Security
Eric Johnson - Total guitar video ending part (sets a delay on hold, and it's just beautiful)
great call otherwise on that Pink Floyd track, instant goosebumps when i heard the live versions
Out of Love is actually peak Sykes. He sings great on that one too!
In The Dead of Night is Mount Rushmore for me. I'll let Bill Bruford explain why: "“94 seconds of liquid passion married to a blinding technical facility that was to go down in the annals of rock guitar history. All the hallmarks of his brilliant playing were there… poise, pace, melody, the Slonimsky interval jumps, the whammy-bar [tremolo arm], and all over a killer groove.”". I'd not heard anything like it at the time and seldom since. I can see why he influenced so many other great players, like my boys EVH and Lerxt.
Totally! "One Foot Out the Door" and "Beat It" refashion THAT lick from ITDON masterfully.
There's a racer x bootleg floating around where Paul and Bruce play on the same guitar. Paul picks while Bruce frets, over the song Getaway.
‘rawdogging the electric guitar’ 😂😂😂
I've had the entire solo section for sweet child more or less memorized for a while. I hack through a phrase or two but I can fool any layman. Slash is great. I'm way more cliche. Tornado of Souls, probably I'm the One, Little Fighter.
I thought about my fav solo's....and couldn't stop thinking and choose🤣 there's to many in my life that are iconic and special.....but at the moment in life, Iommi on Sabbath "black moon", Skidrow "quicksand Jesus",Dokken "lost behind the wall".... that's what I'm dissecting at the moment.
Pantera - Floods…. As a kid I would have said Fade to Black. I don’t know how to put into words why it is my favorite, just hits me right in the feels.
Seeing the clips of Zakk playing that live on YT definitely hits hard. Still can't believe Dime isn't with us.
I love a bunch of Richie Sambora solos
Naaaaannn...
Your favorite solos should be:
Allan Holdsworth => UK - In The Dead Of Night
Jimi Hendrix => Johnny Be Good (live)
And this one => th-cam.com/video/oeFQLdcSuI0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=pl9MzHS39-ll69jM
At 3'10"...
Phil from Dunkirk 😘
the BM800 mic on the cheap-out online sites can be found along with a whole cheap-out desk mounted arm and the whole nine yards for $25US to $80US for exctly the same kit.
And the thing has its own 'character'. ;-)
On You tube nobody can hear the difference.
Ty Tabor's Cigarettes on Live '94, incredible solo
Yessss!
I really love most of Randy Rhoads solos. Most of his are really a song within the song. He was just amazing and not just for HIS time. I think he would be amazing today also. Such a talent we lost back then. Today, Paul Gilbert is such a monster. Again, very melodic. I would definitely put him in same class as Joe Satriani and Steve Vai. You make great videos, sir tyvm for that..
Revelation Mother Earth is probably my favourite Randy solo
@@LeonTodd HAHA i was going to post that. I still get goosebumps everytime i hear it cause its just that perfect in my opinion. Also Mr Crowley too but Revelation is in a class by itself for sure.
@@LeonTodd Or the second solo in "Tonight", it forces you to squeeze ever ounce of volume from the stereo to hear every last note....
Surprised you didn't mention Dokken "Heaven Sent" from Beast from the East. George completely goes off on that rendition. Check it out it's much different from the Back For The Attack version.
EJ "Lonley In The Night". To me, the epitome of the "400 lb violin".
Ooooph that tone. Venus Isle goes hard too
Dream Theater "the best of times" or "ministry of lost souls" are the most beautiful, heartbreaking solos ive ever heard, @leon!
Except Hollow Years from live at Budokan…. ;)
Mick Ronson - Moonage Daydream
Randy Rhoads has a number of great solo's, so many perfect note choices and melody, and don't discount Jeff Loomis, he's a machine, one of the cleanest pickers on the planet...
Psalm of Lydia!
Hey I got the York Audio Friedman IR's for use with the NUX Amp Academy. I really like your IR in that pack, any advice on how I should dial in the Friedman model in the Amp Academy?
Go easy on the bass to start but otherwise use what you think sounds good :)
It's gotta be Blue powder for me,bit cliche probably but as a fifteen year old I'd never heard anything like it!
Gary - Victims Of The Future. Emotion, composition and technique. Typical Moore. On an old strat too.
Gaza definitely knows how to pull on the heartstrings
Leon...what were you soloing over at the end there ? was it a "Song" or just a random chord progression....( please anyone else Chip in...Leon might not see this)
Sorrow by Pink Floyd
Pantera ... cemetery gates