Your favorite guitar solos?

Road Warrior Number of posts : 17180 Age : 48

What is your favorite hard rock or metal guitar solos?

Little Fighter by Vito Bratta (a melodic masterpiece!)

Serpent Moves by Tommy Vetterli (Coroner)

Lady Killer by Paul Gilbert (Racer X)

How Will I Laugh by Rocky George (S.T.)

Gutter Ballet by Criss Oliva (Savatage)

Mr Crowley by Randy Rhoads (A solo that outshines the actual song)

Practice What You Preach by Alex Skolnick (Testament)

Cemetery Gates by Dimebag Darrell

Eruption by Eddie Van Halen (The original gold standard)

Heart of Metal Number of posts : 1779 Age : 58

Princess of the night...Saxon
Great White Buffalo... Ted Nugent
Night Prowler...AC/DC
Samurai... Michael Schenker
Animal magnetism... scorpions
Desert Plains... Judas Priest
Heaven and Hell... Black Sabbath
On fire... Van Halen
Mercury... die so fluid
Diary of a Madman... Ozzy
Alone Again...Dokken
Helter Skelter... Motley Crue

Metal is my Life Number of posts : 19352 Age : 53

Metallica-The Unforgiven
Metallica-Fade To Black
Slayer-Seasons In The Abyss
Anthrax-Panic
Testament-Over The Wall

Metal novice Number of posts : 85 Age : 124

Eruption - Eddie Van Halen
Any solo by Joe Satriani, but especially anything off Surfing With the Alien
Every solo ever by Jeff Waters (Annihilator)
Every solo off Mind's Eye by Vinnie Moore
Every solo off Yngwie Malmsteens first 3 albums
Almost every solo by John Petrucci
Altitudes -Jason Becker
Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits

And from New Zealands own Heavy Metal Ninjas...Propulsion (Parts 1&2)...
I'm betting you've never heard this track!

Metal is Forever Number of posts : 7234 Age : 53

and just about everything from this guy

Subject: Re: Your favorite guitar solos? Thu Jan 25, 2018 6:44 am

Metal is my Life Number of posts : 40982 Age : 56

That opener is killer!

Metal is Forever Number of posts : 7234 Age : 53

This was my original favourite when I was a kid. We would skip the first part of the song just to get to the solo Very Happy

Road Warrior Number of posts : 17180 Age : 48

Oh yeah, Free Bird... the longest solo ever allowed on radio. Still great after all these years!

Road Warrior Number of posts : 17180 Age : 48

Scorpions (No One Like You)
and Megadeth (Devil's Island)

Good choices Thrasher73!

Metal is Forever Number of posts : 5704 Age : 49

Yngwie Malmsteen - Far Beyond the Sun
Forbidden - Through Eyes of Glass
Testament - Musical Death (A Dirge)
Disincarnate - Stench of Paradise Burning
Testament - Trail of Tears
Toxik - World Circus
Judas Priest - Painkiller

Metal master Number of posts : 828 Age : 51

Pretty much any solo Ty Tabor has ever done.

Metal is Forever Number of posts : 5094 Age : 27

Paranoid by Sabbath has always been one of my favorites. Oh and Wicked World, too.

There's a solo in Powerslave that always f*cking demolishes me.

Some of my favorite solos are in Dogs by Pink Floyd.

Limelight by Rush is up there too (but Alex Lifeson played a ton of my other favorites, too).

Lucretia by Megadeth.

I'm sure more will come to me later.

Metal student Number of posts : 207 Age : 40

Some that immediately come to mind

Dio - Don't Talk to Strangers
Van Halen - Don't Tell Me
Rhapsody - Dawn of Victory
Dokken - Into the Fire
Thin Lizzy - Cowboy Song
Ratt - Back for More
Ozzy - Breaking all the Rules

Road Warrior Number of posts : 17180 Age : 48

Vivian Campbell's solo on Rainbow in the Dark is great. It's very John Sykes-ish.

Metal student Number of posts : 207 Age : 40

Troublezone wrote:: Vivian Campbell's solo on Rainbow in the Dark is great. It's very John Sykes-ish.

All the solos are great. I recall, the first time I heard the speed run on Don't Talk to Stranger. I had to rewind my cassette tape about five times to believe it.

Metal is in my blood Number of posts : 2653 Age : 54

This song has the greatest solo ever written. Surprised it hasn't been brought up yet. Razz

This one is also great. Right around the 5 minute mark is when it starts I think.

Plus just about every solo mentioned above are all great.

Metal is in my blood Number of posts : 3004 Age : 55

I was gonna bring up Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall. Comfortably Numb works, too, though.

Metal is Forever Number of posts : 9948 Age : 49

Pink floyd's solo rules. Truly an amazing piece of history.

Road Warrior Number of posts : 17180 Age : 48

David Gilmour's solos are the perfect example of the old saying "less is more". Great player!

Metal novice Number of posts : 22 Age : 57

UFO - lights out
Thin Litzy - emerald
Frank Marino - he’s calling

Metal master Number of posts : 605 Age : 47

Judas Priest - All Guns Blazing
Evile - Origin of Oblivion
Chimaira - Nothing Remains
Machine Head - Sail into the Black
Paradise Lost - Hallowed Land
Carcass - Buried Dreams
Testament - So Many Lies
Exodus - Deranged
Death - Open Casket
Nuclear Assault - Something Wicked

Metal is Forever Number of posts : 5704 Age : 49

Quote :: Judas Priest - All Guns Blazing
Nuclear Assault - Something Wicked

Good call! Those are some really underrated ones.

Metal master Number of posts : 689 Age : 104

Hamer12 wrote:: Pretty much any solo Ty Tabor has ever done.

Metal master Number of posts : 689 Age : 104

A little twist on this thread. Solos at the beginning of a song.

Scorpions - The Sails Of Charon

Gary Moore - End of The World (With Jack Bruce on vocals) I remember hearing this on the radio with my brother and we were blown away!Who is this? Back in the day when radio ruled!