Best Guitar Solo Ever

There are so many amazing guitar solos that I could name.

Everyone here seems to be posting the more common ones.

I can't argue with any of the selections, even though I can't view them from work I can still guess what solos they are.
 
Not bad if a lot of fuzz and wah-wah wanking is your thing.

Um, yeah. Or try this...

"Another solo over a vamp, here in E Mixolydian. The vamp does I-II-VII in E Mixolydian, while the bass gives an E pedal note. The sound of the guitar and some of its licks are remindful of the "Easy meat" solo from "Tinsel town rebellion", recorded about a week later at Santa Monica, December 1980. The vamp returns with variations and extensions as a concert opener on "The best band you've never heard before" (see the corresponding section).

In Guitar Player, October 1995, Zappa comments upon the fact that a bass pedal note or the key of a vamp doesn't prescribe a keynote for his solos:
GP: "Heavy duty Judy" sounds as if it's based on more than one tonality.
FZ: I do that all the time. For instance, that's just an E7 vamp, and I like to play in the key of A. It's just like playing in the tonality of the eleventh [extending E7 to A would create an 11th chord on E].
GP: That can be pretty hairy for someone used to playing only major and minor chords and 7ths.
FZ: They are missing out! The fun doesn't start until you get at the eleventh.
GP: Further complicating the piece are the many different rhythms.
FZ: Well, basically, in that tune you've got the band - bass, keyboards and rhythm guitar - playing the same shuffle rhythm, and the guitar and drums are going apeshit on top of that, but always knowing where the downbeat is going back. That doesn't mean you have to play the downbeat, because everybody else is doing it - playing hemiolas across the bar".

Shut up 'n play yer guitar
 
I respect Frank Zappa as a creative force but that first solo was just plain terrible in every conceivable way.
 
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I respect Frank Zappa as a creative force but that first solo was just plain terrible in every conceivable way.

It was excellent from a theoretical point of view but how much of that can you listen to before enough's enough?
 
Ill try it again and see. Heres one...definitely not the best solo ever but I think its way cool.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGZ59dWI_PU]Peste Noire- Nous sommes fanées - YouTube[/ame]
 
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Eric Johnson...

... not sure of the name of the song...

... but it has a Celtic sound to it...

... might be The Cliffs of Dover...

... awesome.
:cool:
 
This thread needs more SRV:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWLw7nozO_U]Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood (Long version!) - YouTube[/ame]
 
You can never have too much SRV.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zgf2ltPeRE&feature=related]Stevie Ray Vaughan - Crossfire - YouTube[/ame]
 
I love this song...so mellow!

Stevie Ray Vaughan..."Lenny"

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s-OafVVG5U]stevie ray vaughan lenny - YouTube[/ame]
 

Props for the thread. I enjoyed many of the tunes.

And you're right, too, CF. I knew Zappa was good, but I kind of overlooked HOW talented he was as a true musician due to the comic overlay.

TY Brother.

It's a massive piece, it's more involved than most classical symphonies, that's why I'm not kidding when I say you should only listen to maybe 10 seconds at a time (OK, I'm kidding, but still). That particular piece is a classic example of a spontaneous composition that Zappa would perform on guitar taking into account what the musicians around here were doing at that exact moment.

That's the most amazing part about it; its not that he could play notes fast it's that Zappa and say drummer Vinny Colaiuta knew exactly what the other guy was going to do. When you hear it for the first time, well, it gave me chills.

None of the parts were written out -- it was performed live, one shot, no misses, no excuses.
 

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