Jimmy Page was the riff maestro without a doubt. But for a solo you can't beat his on 'Since I've Been Loving You' - orgasmic expression!
Since writing the above I put on Led Zep III and listened to 'Since I've Been Loving You'. Now I don't want to keep on about this (but I will!!) - it brought tears to my eyes.
Makes me want to start playing again. Wouldn't have so much time for this place then I guess - decisions...decisions.
Hendrix - too many to choose from..... Electric Ladyland perhaps? Killing Floor live at Monterey?
Ahhhhmmmm........ don't want to name drop......... but in a previous life I was a Bass Guitarist in a touring band, and have played with Clapton.... (one day I'll share the story with you all) anyway......... Clapton rates a man called Albert Lee, as the best Guitarist of all time....... Oh... I have also toured with Jo Brown.... as a Bruver' (remember him?) he is an amazzzzzzzing guitarist, and the first person recorded to bend a harmonic note.......
midnight by joe satriani............thunderstruck by ac/dc........any jimmy page or gary moore...could be here all night!
gary moore still got the blues for you , gary moore parisenne walkways , thin lizzy boys are back in town , the opening riff of bad love by eric clapton , any other clapton songs them im asleep, brian may in queen , hendrix red house, anything by the who, guns n roses , crossroads by cream jack bruce on bass blows clapton away but that aint that hard !! eagles hotel california,the clash should i stay or go, anything by peter green , roniie wood in small faces stay with me, behind blue eyes the solo in the middle that heavy rockers limp bizcit could not do properly so they dropped it t#ssers, johhny winter rock n roll hoocie coo , i could go on all nite i,ll leave it there i think
If you want the best technique you have to look at something by Steve Morse or Steve Vai
...but if you're after somehting that makes you go weak at the knees you can't go wrong with early Van Halen (any solo), but I suppose Music is so subjective it is difficult to get a concensus
George Harrison on "The Bluest Blue" from Alvin Lee's album 1994.
I nominated this on for the Bob Harris Show search for the Greatest Guitar Solo ever some years back.
He gave it a spin on air. The votes came flooding in. And it won by a counrty mile.
A sweeter, more soulful piece of axemanship you've never heard.
As back ups I would add "Kill the Monkey" by Walter Trout or "Rivieara Paradise " by SRV.
And almost ANY Frank Zappa solo.
Also "A Million Miles Away" by Rory Gallagher
Has anybody mentioned John McLaughlin's Celestial Terrestrial Commuters from the Birds of Fire album yet ?
Santana pins it for me however I once sat and watched this blind guy play duelling banjos
and was taken aback... and he played the guitar flat on his lap busking in Plymouth one Xmas shopping period or it may have been Exeter!
I also like a bit of Mark Knopfler, Dire Straits...private investigations! bros in arms all the classics really..
if we were to go bass guitar the guy from level 42 whose name I cannot remember... bugger!!!
benz it is mark king of level 42 he played a fretless bass very very well and thats hard to play trust me ive tried its not easy ......
Cant believe no-one has mentioned these two..
Dire Straits......Telegraph Road
Brian May........God Save The Queen
dont forget Jack black in the SCHOOL OF ROCK :shock:
Aside from the usual suspects, - Page, Clapton, Hendrix, Vai, Satriani, SRV etc
I would like to put a folk hero into the mix,
Richard Thompson, Beeswing or The Way That it Shows from Mirror Blue or Vincent Black Lightning 1952 off of Rumour & Sigh.
For Bass Guitar
Either Flea from RHCP or Les Thompson from Primus
Has nobody thought of Jonny Marr yet ? Great riffs.
Yoss
Keep music live
Angus young ACDC in a league of his own "best band in the world best job i ever had"
Cral Palmers electric drum solo, played live at Cardiff eary 70's ELP
Keith Emmerson's keyboard skill were unequalled at the time.
Malmsteen, Satriani, Clapton, Maclaughlain at thier best never to be beaten.
Have to agree about Richard Thompson... talent versus recognition in inverse proportion.
Forget Duelling Banjos from earlier in the thread....listen to Thompson and Swarbrick on Matty Groves.
The best has to be....
John Entwistle from The Who.
If you want to see the best bass solo in the world, then watch the DVD from the Royal Albert hall. Find the song and enjoy....just watch those fingers fly!!!!!
I have seen john play this extended version of live at wembley and Portsmouth.
Cant express what it was like to watch the master at work!!
He was voted the best bass player in the world shortly before he died. It was my privalge to meet him. What a great guy.
Cheers John
James
Sorry, can't resist this thread. I also can't believe I missed Eric Johnson's Cliffs of Dover.
Peter Green's Need Your Love so Bad and the driving riff of Oh Well Part One drive me crazy.
. Yes to early Clapton/Wishbone Ash/Earl Slick/Leslie West/Alvin Lee.....................................................................................................
To the poster who mentioned a brill` blind banjo player with the instrument on his lap - I hope you have heard some of the great rocky/ rocky-blues CD`s by the Canadian blind guitar ace - Jeff Healey .
Anyhoo could go on all night - I`m afraid I have to mention a big NO to the widdly-diiddly techno-jazz rock guitarists - always TECHNICALLY PROFICIENT - usually pretentious - but sadly never much else - never FUN!!!!!1. Culprits including Di Meola/Yngwe/ some Satriani and most Vai/ John McLaughlin/ et al...
Lastly to the poster who mentioned Dave Edmunds and Sabre-Dance - did you ever hear the even better "Farondole" - same guy - same year...
Anyway - gotta go - lol
ops: Oh.. yes... 'Bad Love' by Clapton, works for me too.
