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Jaja Brasil 
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Posted: April 07 2005 at 19:44 |
Hi Everybody,
I know there must be a topic about it. But here I go again.
Which are the Top 10 Prog Guitar Solos ?
Here is my list:
1-Confortably Numb – David Gilmour
2-Time – David Gilmour
3-Firth of Fifth – Steve Hackett
4-The Gates of Delirium (the “SOON” part) – Steve Howe
5-Ice – (from “Never Let Go” live album version) - Andy Latimer
6-Yours is No Disgrace – (from "Yessongs" live album) - Steve Howe
7-Aqualung – Martin Barre
8-Lady Fantasy – Andy Latimer
9-The Web – Steve Rothery
10-From The Beggining - Greg Lake (I know he is a bassist, but I love this solo!)
Please note that I didn’t make a list with one music from each Guitarrist. This is the list of my favourite solos. (and, surprise! My favourite guitar player is Steve Howe...)_
I know it’s very hard, but it’s only 10...
And remember this is just MY opinion...
What about yours ?
Best Greetings...
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Dick Heath
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Posted: April 07 2005 at 19:49 |
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Bill Bruford who knows a thing or two musicals, says it all in the
liner notes of the recent Allan Holdsworth Against The Clock :
Holdsworth solo when in UK for In The Dead Of Night - simply makes
every guitarist listed above sound ordinary and cliched.
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Ben2112
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Posted: April 07 2005 at 19:59 |
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My top 10:
Gilmour - Comfortably Numb (middle solo)
Gilmour - Dogs (all solos)
Gilmour - Mother
Howe - Starship Trooper
Hackett - Firth Of Fifth
Hackett - Dancing With The Moonlit Knight (not sure if this would really be considered a solo per se, but I'm talking about the fast part that follows "Knights of the green shield stamp and shout"
Howe - America
Lake - From The Beginning
Lifeson - 2112 (first solo)
Lifeson - Digital Man
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Posted: April 07 2005 at 20:03 |
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Opeth - Wreath
Not technically-wise but i get the chills every time i hear it.
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Posted: April 07 2005 at 21:24 |
Guitar solos, eh? I think the last really good guitar solo I really loved was on an SOAD album. And then they got big, and suddenly the kids were all wearing their shirts... bummer. They were my personal band for one year and I felt like the only one who knew about them. *sighs*
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greenback
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Posted: April 07 2005 at 21:38 |
okay: for the sound quality:
1-steve rothery - jigsaw
2-alex lifeson - marathon (and most of the solos on power windows)
3-steve hackett - spectral mornings
4-steve hackett - every day
5- steve hackett - the steppes
6- frank zappa - black napkins
7 - frank zappa - packard goose
8- steve rothery - she cameleon
9-gary chandler (jadis) - hiding in the corner
10- alex lifeson - here again
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Posted: April 07 2005 at 21:51 |
I have one!!
Genesis's Anthony Phillips guitar solo during the second half of 'The Knife'!
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HaroldLand
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Posted: April 07 2005 at 22:47 |
yeah, 10 is a quite a few to think of.. but i think steve howe's solo
on sound chaser is pretty awesome.. it really displays his distinctive,
almost sloppy(in a cool way) style.. and pat moraz's synth
accompanyment really adds to the thrill of it
hmm.. since im on steve howe.. some other songs with awesome solos by him:
-perpetual change (plays his jazz box to the fullest)
-yours is no disgrace (the one in the intro is pretty
killer)
-going for the one (he sure knows how to work the pedal
steel)
-don't kill the whale (this one's always stuck out to me..
has a certain
improvised sound
that I dig)
-pennants(from the steve howe album.. this one flows with
the progression really
well.. sounds almost dicky betts-ish, southern
rockish)
-surface tension (classical.. but a guitar solo
nonetheless.. and real contemporary
so i think it counts as 'prog contemporary
classical')
-close to the edge intro solo (musical chaos.. pure genius)
i'm a big yes fan.... these are my favourites 
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Posted: April 07 2005 at 22:50 |
 Jaja Brasil wrote:
10-From The Beggining - Greg Lake (I know he is a bassist, but I love this solo!)
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he was actually a guitarist first .. played bass because they needed someone to do it
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Posted: April 07 2005 at 23:15 |
Dick Heath wrote:
Bill Bruford who knows a thing or two musicals, says it all in the liner notes of the recent Allan Holdsworth Against The Clock : Holdsworth solo when in UK for In The Dead Of Night - simply makes every guitarist listed above sound ordinary and cliched. |
Thing is, Dick, most people wouldn't know it's worth, even if they heard it twenty times. Some things can't penetrate concrete.
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Posted: April 08 2005 at 00:12 |
Greg Lake: guitar solo on KE9-1-2
Greg Lake: From the Beginning
David Gilmour: Comfortably Numb
David Gilmour: Dogs
David Gilmour: Coming Back to Life (opening)
David Gilmour: SOYCD
David Gilmour: Sorrow
David Gilmour: Time
David Gilmour: Marooned
Robert Frip: 21 Century Schizoid Man
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Posted: April 08 2005 at 00:33 |
threefates wrote:
Greg Lake: guitar solo on KE9-1-2
Greg Lake: From the Beginning
David Gilmour: Comfortably Numb
David Gilmour: Dogs
David Gilmour: Coming Back to Life (opening)
David Gilmour: SOYCD
David Gilmour: Sorrow
David Gilmour: Time
David Gilmour: Marooned
Robert Frip: 21 Century Schizoid Man
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good call, but too many David gilmour!
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46and2
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Posted: April 08 2005 at 00:34 |
Here are my favs in no particular order
Lateralus- Tool
A Fair Judgement- Opeth
Comfortably numb -david gilmour
others i dont know right now....
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Posted: April 08 2005 at 00:43 |
danbo wrote:
Dick Heath wrote:
Bill Bruford who knows a thing or two musicals, says it all in the liner notes of the recent Allan Holdsworth Against The Clock : Holdsworth solo when in UK for In The Dead Of Night - simply makes every guitarist listed above sound ordinary and cliched. |
Thing is, Dick, most people wouldn't know it's worth, even if they heard it twenty times. Some things can't penetrate concrete.
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yeah i know that you mentioned the solos "ABOVE" are cliche: mine were below! i know they rule! those solos are the top of the tops!
regarding holdsworth, his solo on in the dead of night is very good but holdsworth made better ones:
the one on "Three sheets to the wind" (road games) is much better!
the one on "tokyo dream" is also more melodic.
have you heard the one on bruford's "The Abingdon Chasp" (one of a kind)? IMPRESSIVE!
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Posted: April 08 2005 at 01:35 |
Lifeson- La Villa Strangiato 
I can't think of any to compare maybe I'll come back to this.
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Posted: April 08 2005 at 05:29 |
01 Steve Rothery - Easter
02 Dave Gilmour - Comfortably Numb (from Pulse)
03 Dave Bainbridge (Iona) - Inside My Heart (from Heaven’s Bright Sun)
04 Steve Rothery - Hotel Hobbies
05 Steve Rothery - Seasons End
06 Steve Rothery - Sugar Mice
07 Dave Gilmour - Sorrow (Pulse)
08 Steve Hackett - Firth of Fifth
09 Steve Howe - Soon
10 Dave Bainbridge - Flight of the Wild Goose
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Poxx
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Posted: April 08 2005 at 05:30 |
Some nice solos mentioned so far.
Camel - Chord Change (Guitar, Andy Latimer). Not a technically stunning solo, but so very beautiful and emotional.
Buckethead - Jump Man (Guitar). Hard and cold, but still very emotional.
King Crimson - Islands (Saxophone, Mel Collins). This one speaks for itself
Alot of Ozric Tentacles works: Eternal Wheel, Coily, Aura Borealis. Much of their music consists of solos and complex instrumental patterns, thus its hard to pinpoint any specific solos.
Off topic, can anyone tell me how I get to the next line in this text editor, without having to write enough text for it to automatically go down? Whenever I press enter it skips one line. Its pretty frustrating.
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Posted: April 08 2005 at 05:42 |
Xanadu - Alex Lifeson
La Villa Starngiato - Alex Lifeson
Lunar Sea - Andy Latimer
Dogs - Dave Gilmour
Chelsea Monday - Steve Rothery
Everyday - Steve hackett
Spectral Mornings - Steve Hackett
Starship Trooper (Wurm) - Steve Howe
Willie the Pimp - Frank Zappa
No Quater (Live) - Jimmy Page (Not really prog, I guess, but do I look like I care )
In no particular order.
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Posted: April 08 2005 at 05:44 |
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Robert Fripp - The Night Watch/Fadeaway and Radiate(Blondie)
Sorry.Can't choose between the two
Franco Mussida (PFM)-Alta Loma 9to5 - Live in the USA
Steve Hackett - Firth of Fifth
Keith Cross (T2)-Morning
Andrew Latimer - Lunar Sea
Frank Zappa - Muffin Man
Steve Howe - Remembering...
Allan Holdsworth (UK)- In the Dead of Night
Steve Hillage (Gong)- A Sprinkling of Clouds
Stewart Lickerish (The Enid)-In the Region of the Summer Stars
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Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb.
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Posted: April 08 2005 at 05:55 |
greenback wrote:
[regarding holdsworth, his solo on in the dead of night is very good but holdsworth made better ones:
the one on "Three sheets to the wind" (road games) is much better!
the one on "tokyo dream" is also more melodic.
have you heard the one on bruford's "The Abingdon Chasp" (one of a kind)? IMPRESSIVE!
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I would agree with you that AH has done better things, but that very guitar solo was so innovative (but if you listen carefully there are at least 2 separate takes cut and pasted together), I can't think of anybody inside the rock world who had taken that level of risk before and gone against the main melody/theme and illuminated the middle of the tune (subsequently Holdsworth illuminated many otherwise mediocre tunes).
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