My Favourite Guitar Solos

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@LeonTodd 18 күн бұрын

Favourite solo and why?

@bryanterry415 18 күн бұрын

Randy in SATO, so musical, melodic, follows the theme of the song, plus, it RIPS!! 🤘🤘🎸🎸

@robertfrippers 18 күн бұрын

Beyond the realms of death!

@paddytguitar 18 күн бұрын

Every Sykes solo - I’ll go for an underrated one today and say Straight for the Heart

@Andrew-qc9xw 18 күн бұрын

@@bryanterry415 it’s a journey that solo. I second your opinion

@RoosterOvenMittz6969 18 күн бұрын

In Bloom by Nirvana has a killer solo, also "reptile" by Periphery!

@mickbuffalo 17 күн бұрын

Tony Iommi’s solos on Heaven and Hell album are his most heartfelt that totally complement Dios vocals. Masterpiece

@NikolajChristensen 18 күн бұрын

Mr. Crowley. From tribute. Not surprised so many mentions RR already. Note choices and pure attitude.

@LeonTodd 18 күн бұрын

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.

@usagi2988 18 күн бұрын

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.

@LeonTodd 18 күн бұрын

Totally agree!

@matthewvonstiegler8917 15 күн бұрын

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.

@cheenu711 18 күн бұрын

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.

@klextacy 18 күн бұрын

1000%

@LeonTodd 18 күн бұрын

Great singer too!

@demokraatti 18 күн бұрын

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.

@hanovergreen4091 18 күн бұрын

Yay!!! Missed your 100K mark so Congratulations! Hope all is well. Best Regards and Best Wishes!

@LeonTodd 18 күн бұрын

Thanks mate!

@rsvette123 17 күн бұрын

Coming back to life great choice I play it every night - thanks Leon

@peterharvin2775 18 күн бұрын

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.

@rutger4131 5 сағат бұрын

Beautiful jam in the end man. Cool guitar too!

@LeonTodd 3 сағат бұрын

Thank you kindly!

@6stringstandard136 18 күн бұрын

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.

@themojoman 18 күн бұрын

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!

@LeonTodd 18 күн бұрын

Great list!!!

@mrbigbosskojak 15 күн бұрын

Great list, some gems on here!

@04241982 18 күн бұрын

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)."

@JeffreyRutland 17 күн бұрын

‘rawdogging the electric guitar’ 😂😂😂

@CatDieselPwr 17 күн бұрын

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 🤘😎

@danieldesy2969 18 күн бұрын

Huge kudos for mentioning “In the Dead of Night”. Nice one!

@MichaelSorensen-bl3ec 18 күн бұрын

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.

@sellandinho 18 күн бұрын

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.

@LeonTodd 18 күн бұрын

Oh of course I forgot Nuno!!! So many great solos on Pornograffiti

@seanhart213 18 күн бұрын

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

@JacksonCharvelRULE 18 күн бұрын

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

@mtguitar5150 18 күн бұрын

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.

@bgm9517 18 күн бұрын

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.

@TavaresProject 13 күн бұрын

Limelight is definitely one of the great solos. For a million years solo is epic!!!

@RobUttley 18 күн бұрын

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!

@sadwingsraging3044 18 күн бұрын

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.😊

@Donan777 18 күн бұрын

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.

@reverend11-dmeow89 18 күн бұрын

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@rodrigomartins9692 18 күн бұрын

I love a bunch of Richie Sambora solos

@MichaelSorensen-bl3ec 18 күн бұрын

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.

@joemcgraw5529 18 күн бұрын

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

@MickH60 17 күн бұрын

Thin Lizzy were the first band I ever saw live...!!!

@sturmtheguitarist 18 күн бұрын

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

@jfatta 18 күн бұрын

Ronnie Le Tekro is the BOSS!!!

@GuitarGears4544 18 күн бұрын

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.

@LeonTodd 17 күн бұрын

Yesssss!!

@user-pq8jj7cq1f 18 күн бұрын

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 :)

@Skypor 15 күн бұрын

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?

@LeonTodd 14 күн бұрын

Go easy on the bass to start but otherwise use what you think sounds good :)

@drockny 18 күн бұрын

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.

@paulbradshawguitar 18 күн бұрын

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

@LeonTodd 18 күн бұрын

Out of Love is actually peak Sykes. He sings great on that one too!

@TheBoss0Time 17 күн бұрын

Judas Priest Painkiller guitar solo is the definition of a metal solo!

@hartm11petrucci 17 күн бұрын

Ty Tabor's Cigarettes on Live '94, incredible solo

@LeonTodd 17 күн бұрын

Yessss!

@heavybrett-al4082 18 күн бұрын

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.

@neilevans6229 18 күн бұрын

Mick Ronson - Moonage Daydream

@LegendaryK4 18 күн бұрын

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.

@LeonTodd 18 күн бұрын

Seeing the clips of Zakk playing that live on YT definitely hits hard. Still can't believe Dime isn't with us.

@jasonhudson5357 18 күн бұрын

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

@LeonTodd 18 күн бұрын

been on a big GM kick lately - all his solos are incredible!

@jasonhudson5357 18 күн бұрын

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.

@RoosterOvenMittz6969 18 күн бұрын

Dream Theater "the best of times" or "ministry of lost souls" are the most beautiful, heartbreaking solos ive ever heard, @leon!

@SolaChristus 14 күн бұрын

Except Hollow Years from live at Budokan…. ;)

@Robbie28 18 күн бұрын

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 18 күн бұрын

Revelation Mother Earth is probably my favourite Randy solo

@Robbie28 18 күн бұрын

@@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.

@MickH60 17 күн бұрын

@@LeonTodd Or the second solo in "Tonight", it forces you to squeeze ever ounce of volume from the stereo to hear every last note....

@adam872 18 күн бұрын

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.

@LeonTodd 18 күн бұрын

Totally! "One Foot Out the Door" and "Beat It" refashion THAT lick from ITDON masterfully.

@damianval4626 18 күн бұрын

It's gotta be Blue powder for me,bit cliche probably but as a fifteen year old I'd never heard anything like it!

@owenthebrit 18 күн бұрын

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)

@LeonTodd 18 күн бұрын

Sorrow by Pink Floyd

@ALIASZARDOZ 18 күн бұрын

Naaaaannn... Your favorite solos should be: Allan Holdsworth => UK - In The Dead Of Night Jimi Hendrix => Johnny Be Good (live) And this one => kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pct2hK-VyLnZeWQ.htmlsi=pl9MzHS39-ll69jM At 3'10"... Phil from Dunkirk 😘

@Strat642001 18 күн бұрын

EJ "Lonley In The Night". To me, the epitome of the "400 lb violin".

@LeonTodd 18 күн бұрын

Ooooph that tone. Venus Isle goes hard too

@medved3027 18 күн бұрын

Marty Friedman's solo in "Be" takes the cake for me. The entire album is not to my liking, and most of the song is weird as weird as well, but man, what a solo: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Zpllf5t1vNPKZok.html

@MickH60 17 күн бұрын

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...

@LeonTodd 16 күн бұрын

Psalm of Lydia!