10 BEST PROG GUITAR SOLO
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Topic: 10 BEST PROG GUITAR SOLO
Posted By: Jaja Brasil
Subject: 10 BEST PROG GUITAR SOLO
Date Posted: April 07 2005 at 19:44
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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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Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: April 07 2005 at 19:49
| 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. |
Posted By: Ben2112
Date 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 |
Posted By: Hierophant
Date 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. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: April 07 2005 at 21:24
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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* |
Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: April 07 2005 at 21:38
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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 ------------- [HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!> |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: April 07 2005 at 21:51
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I have one!! Genesis's Anthony Phillips guitar solo during the second half of 'The Knife'! |
Posted By: HaroldLand
Date Posted: April 07 2005 at 22:47
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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  |
Posted By: HaroldLand
Date Posted: April 07 2005 at 22:50
he was actually a guitarist first .. played bass because they needed someone to do it |
Jaja Brasil wrote:Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: April 07 2005 at 23:15
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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 By: threefates
Date Posted: April 08 2005 at 00:12
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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 By: greenback
Date Posted: April 08 2005 at 00:33
good call, but too many David gilmour! ------------- [HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!> |
Posted By: 46and2
Date Posted: April 08 2005 at 00:34
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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 By: greenback
Date Posted: April 08 2005 at 00:43
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! ------------- [HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!> |
Posted By: video vertigo
Date Posted: April 08 2005 at 01:35
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Lifeson- La Villa Strangiato I can't think of any to compare maybe I'll come back to this.
------------- "The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse." - Zappa |
Posted By: Miaugion
Date Posted: April 08 2005 at 05:29
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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 |
Posted By: Poxx
Date Posted: April 08 2005 at 05:30
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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 By: Blacksword
Date Posted: April 08 2005 at 05:42
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Xanadu - Alex Lifeson In no particular order. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Man Erg
Date 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 ------------- 
Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb. |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: April 08 2005 at 05:55
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). |
Posted By: threefates
Date Posted: April 08 2005 at 06:45
Are you kidding??? There is no such thing as "too much David Gilmour"....!! ------------- THIS IS ELP
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Posted By: Xanadu
Date Posted: April 08 2005 at 06:58
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Aqualung - martin barre The web - marillion guitarist Musical box - hackett Maggot Brain - eddie hazel (the ultimate...may not be consider progressive) Comfortably numb - Gilmour
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: April 08 2005 at 08:14
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Too many I cant even start, maybe I will Alex Lifesons fave of himself is the solo from Lamplight ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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eventually.Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: April 08 2005 at 10:42
U.K. is the album that opened the world of Holdsworth to me. I bought the record right after it came out because Bruford and Wetton were on it, but I was totally unprepared for what Holdsworth's guitar would mean to me, even 27 years later. |
Posted By: Valarius
Date Posted: April 09 2005 at 06:47
All of John Petrucci's. 
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Posted By: frenchie
Date Posted: April 09 2005 at 07:11
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here's one for you. Track down "Under a Glass Moon" from Dream Theater's "Images and Words" album. Wait for the build up midway thru and then... OH! One of the best solos i've ever heard. For you non believers, i know its Petrucci, i know some of you think he can overdo it but this one is different and exceptional and a great solo! Check it out, i dare you, and for the DT fans, well you already know of this excellent solo, but remind yourself of it anyway. ------------- The Worthless Recluse 
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Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: April 09 2005 at 08:54
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Steve Morse - "endless waves" but all his solos are moving Allan Holdsworth - the acoustic solo introduction to 'Nevermore' Steve Howe - Turn of the century Steve Hackett - dancing with the moonlit knight Andy Latimer - most of his soloing on Camel's 'Snowgoose' Ron Jarzombek - his soloing on Spastic Ink's 'Ink complete' is simply stunning ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: alan_pfeifer
Date Posted: April 09 2005 at 09:22
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Howe and his work throughout Gates of Delerium Lifeson: the solos in YYZ, 2112, La Villa Strangiato And a new kid to the pack: Omar Rodriguez: pretty much anythin off the new album, Solo W/ John Frusiante in Cicartiz ESP |
Posted By: alan_pfeifer
Date Posted: April 09 2005 at 09:25
| also, the short litle solo by Fripp in Cat Food, I love that! |
Posted By: Richardw
Date Posted: April 09 2005 at 11:17
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Steve Hillage (Gong) - Master Builder John Petrucci (Dream Theater) - Home Mikael Akerfeldt (Opeth) - Wreath Robert Fripp - Asbury Park Martin Barre - A New Day Yesterday (Bursting Out) Ian Crichton (Saga) - The Pitchman Edgar Froese - Coldwater Canyon Piggy (Voivod) - Ravenous Medicine Todd Rundgren - Singring & The Glass Guitar Zappa - Black Napkins/Watermelon../Muffin Man/Zoot Allures/Eat That Question/Yo Mama/Rat Tomago/Punky's Whips/Alien Orifice. etc. etc. etc. |
Posted By: Jaja Brasil
Date Posted: April 09 2005 at 13:35
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Hi Guys, Isn't funny ? Jan Akermann is one of my favourite Guitarrist but he 's not in my top 10 solo list. (The first in this Topic) But it doesn't matter at all. I think he's fantastic ! Best Greetings... |
Posted By: Litl
Date Posted: April 09 2005 at 13:48
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Nobody does it like Steve Howe and my favorite solos of his are on Yessongs (Starship Trooper is #1) Then David Gilmore, Uncomfortably Numb from Delicate Sound... But, Steve Howe fans, have you heard Joey Backenstoe on Blue Shift, Not The Future I Ordered? Excellent work and the solo at the end of Rome is a total ass kicker very much in the style of Howe. I've heard nothing else of this guy other than this one album. I have mourned the lack of a guitarist as wildly genius, unique, and faaast as Steve Howe in the current resurgence of progressive bands. However I continue to seek... Any ideas out there? |
Posted By: Reed Lover
Date Posted: April 09 2005 at 14:23
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Favourite Solos: 1. Lifeson:La Villa Strangiato
6. Gilmour:Comfortably Numb
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Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: April 09 2005 at 20:46
This is TOTALLY my favorite moment in Prog... This intro just blows me away. Merely seconds long, it just rips my skull open and sprinkles in the notes... one by one, and seals it up with brimming oodles of joy. Yeah, it doesn't get any better. |
Posted By: threefates
Date Posted: April 09 2005 at 20:52
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Huh??? ------------- THIS IS ELP
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Posted By: Litl
Date Posted: April 10 2005 at 01:07
| Sorry, Comfortably Numb. Little projection there........ |
Posted By: Forgotten Son
Date Posted: April 10 2005 at 11:27
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1. David Gilmour - Comfortably Numb 2. Steve Rothery - The Web 3. Frank Zappa - Watermelon in Easter Hay 4. Andy Latimer - Ice 5. David Gilmour - On the Turning Away 6. Steve Rothery - Jigsaw 7. Steve Hackett - Every Day 8. John Mitchell - Serenity 9. Steve Rothery - Sugar Mice 10. David Gilmour - Have a Cigar |
Posted By: Prog_Bassist
Date Posted: April 10 2005 at 12:06
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EVERY UK/UK SONG!
ALLAN HOLDSWORTH OWNS ALL. ------------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhuxaD8NzaY" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhuxaD8NzaY |
Posted By: Machinemessiah
Date Posted: April 10 2005 at 14:21
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All of Lifeson's...
Hackett
Rothery
Zappa
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: April 10 2005 at 18:41
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Alex Lifeson (Rush) - Tom Sawyer or BOTH of Natural Science Greg Lake (ELP) - Karn Evil 9 David Gilmour (of you know who) - Mother or Time Steve Howe - Sound Chaser |
Posted By: HaroldLand
Date Posted: April 10 2005 at 21:17
gives me shivers every time too! |
Posted By: tuxon
Date Posted: April 10 2005 at 21:25
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Keith More on Arena's Sirens. ------------- I'm always almost unlucky _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Id5ZcnjXSZaSMFMC Id5LM2q2jfqz3YxT |
Posted By: valravennz
Date Posted: April 11 2005 at 00:11
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Steve Howe - Roundabout Greg Lake - In the Beginning David Gilmour - On the Turning Away Steve Rothery - Sugar Mice Steve Hackett - Ace of Wands Robert Fripp - 21st Century Schizoid Man Martin Barre - Aqualung ------------- 
"Music is the Wine that fills the cup of Silence" - Robert Fripp |
Posted By: Jaja Brasil
Date Posted: April 11 2005 at 23:55
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Hi Guys, I remembered yesterday one of my favorites solos: The final part of SHADOW OF HIEROPHANT (Steve Hackett) It's SUPERB !!!! Sorry but my list has 11 solos from now on...
Best Greetings
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Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: April 12 2005 at 11:07
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So it is a pity he only recorded with UK on the first of their three legitmate albums then! There is a bootleg, I think taken from a FM broadcast for a Boston radio station, which has a couple of tunes with AH playing guitar, but in legitimate form are on the 2nd or 3rd albums - makes you wonder what may be lurking in the archives? |
Posted By: VLADO
Date Posted: April 12 2005 at 11:38
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I do not like such polls because it is very hard to extract one part from the complex work. I like a olt of guitar solos and it is hard to recollect them now. But anyway, I remember that long time ago (15 years maybe) I liked solos in the Jewell of Pendragon (victims of life?) ------------- ...and in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make... |
Posted By: Radioactive Toy
Date Posted: April 12 2005 at 11:54
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just mentioned the songs.. don't know names floyd - comfterbly numb -------------  
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Posted By: AyreonTheMute
Date Posted: April 12 2005 at 12:08
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Posted By: G.Baldin
Date Posted: April 12 2005 at 13:38
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There´s no such thing... solos can be changed. It´s IMPOSSIBLE to get just ten out of ten million! (but I notice you guys really like David Gilmour...). Well, here goes a small list that suggests something different: (NOT IN PREFERENCE ORDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) 1- Steve Hacket on THE MUSICAL BOX 2- Gary Green on THE HOUSE, THE STREET, THE ROOM 3- Steve Howe on YOURS IS NO DISGRACE 4- Mark Tippins on FLOW GUIDES AREN´T MY BAG 5- Robert Fripp on PICTURES OF A CITY (maybe THE best guitar solo ever) |
Posted By: Rhayader
Date Posted: April 12 2005 at 13:42
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I can't think of ten right now, but off the top of my head I'll have to say: Alex Lifeson's from La Villa Strangiato Steve Howe's from Mood For A Day (well, if that really counts as a guitar solo....) Kerry Livgren's from Carry On Wayward Son Jan Akkerman's from Hocus Pocus Andy Latimer's from Lady Fantasy Probably not the best, but definetly my favourites. ------------- "Sadder still to watch you die than never to have known it..." Rush - Losing It |