Greatest Prog Rock Guitar Solo?
Printed From: Progarchives.com
Category: Progressive Music Lounges
Forum Name: Top 10s and lists
Forum Description: List all your favourites here
URL: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=65325
Printed Date: August 14 2025 at 07:39
Software Version: Web Wiz Forums 11.01 - http://www.webwizforums.com
Topic: Greatest Prog Rock Guitar Solo?
Posted By: WatcherOfTheSkies88
Subject: Greatest Prog Rock Guitar Solo?
Date Posted: February 24 2010 at 21:37
|
What do you guys think is the greatest progressive rock guitar solo that you've ever heard? Here are some of my favorites: - "Firth of Fifth" by Genesis... Steve Hackett's guitar solo is probably one of the top 5 most beautiful moments in rock history. - "Whaling Stories" by Procol Harum... not nearly as celebrated as other ones, but I think Robin Trower's guitar solo in this epic song is truly spine-tingling and may be my favorite guitar solo of all time, regardless of the genre. This song is probably in my top 3 for favorites of all time. - "Child in Time" by Deep Purple... I think this song qualifies as a progressive rock song, based on its 10 minute length and multiple sections. Ritchie Blackmore's solo is truly electrifying and incredible. My favorite song ever. |
Replies:
Posted By: WatcherOfTheSkies88
Date Posted: February 24 2010 at 21:38
| For those of you who haven't heard "Whaling Stories", here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv27j2yQUo4 |
Posted By: WalterDigsTunes
Date Posted: February 24 2010 at 21:40
| Watermelon in Easter Hay |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: February 24 2010 at 21:58
Black Napkins
 |
WalterDigsTunes wrote:Posted By: WalterDigsTunes
Date Posted: February 24 2010 at 21:58
Pink Napkins  |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: February 24 2010 at 22:01
That's a good one, love the wah-wah, it's very dreamy.
|
Posted By: Xanthous
Date Posted: February 24 2010 at 22:23
New poll, Black Napkins vs. Pink Napkins I'll go with Pink Napkins Well, on the real topic I have to go with Pete Cosey's many epic guitar solos in the Acid-Funk improvisation "Zimbabwe" on Miles Davis' Pangaea album. 40 minutes of primordial, sludgy sounding flanger and wah by the two guitarists on the track make it one of my favorite tracks of all time.
|
Posted By: Harry Hood
Date Posted: February 24 2010 at 23:13
This.  Honorable mention goes to Astral Dog by the Flower Kings. ------------- 
|
Posted By: Tarquin Underspoon
Date Posted: February 24 2010 at 23:15
|
Easter by Marillion is definitely up there. ------------- "WAAAAAAOOOOOUGH! WAAAAAAAUUUUGGHHHH!! WAAAAAOOOO!!!" -The Great Gig in the Sky |
Posted By: King Crimson776
Date Posted: February 24 2010 at 23:35
|
The last one on All of the Above by Transatlantic. Roine Stolt is awesome. Also, Allan Holdsworth's work in U.K., particularly the song Nevermore.
|
Posted By: The Runaway
Date Posted: February 24 2010 at 23:45
|
Throw Down the Sword! ------------- http://www.formspring.me/Aragorn224" rel="nofollow - Trendsetter win! The search for nonexistent perfection. |
Posted By: npjnpj
Date Posted: February 25 2010 at 02:45
|
I read the tread title and opened it, wanting to enter 'Child In Time', and whaddayaknow ! I mean the 'In Rock' studio version, by the way.
|
Posted By: Synchestra
Date Posted: February 25 2010 at 02:53
|
Peel the Paint by gentle giant... Its a monster! Honorable mentions to Stairway by Zeppelin (even if its not really prog) and pretty much anything by David Gilmour.. Can't really remember alot of others at the moment... Maybe that means the rest aren't as great as these ------------- 'Yeah, thats.. Whatever you're talking about for ya' - Zapp brannigan |
Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: February 25 2010 at 14:41
|
Steve Rothery - Neverland - Marillion.
------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: The Runaway
Date Posted: February 25 2010 at 14:53
And oh how I love listening to the 3 and half minute version of the solo on Scraping the Barrel! ------------- http://www.formspring.me/Aragorn224" rel="nofollow - Trendsetter win! The search for nonexistent perfection. |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: February 25 2010 at 14:54
Too general of a topic.....I'll go with anything by David Gilmour. Honorable mention to Steve Vai (but not sure how to define a solo by Vai??) 
-------------   
|
Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: February 25 2010 at 15:02
|
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOMDVMIfkxg - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOMDVMIfkxg
I actually don't cue in on guitar solos anymore. Stairway is not my favorite Zep solo, and Page is one of the guys I learned alot of em note for note. No Quarter, Fool in the Rain, or course Dazed and Confused.
Besides Dancing with the Moonlit Knight, I'll have to think about it.
There is this little break in Ghost of Perdition that gets me every time though... ------------- You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all. |
Posted By: ProgressiveAttic
Date Posted: February 25 2010 at 15:18
|
What is wrong with you people?
What about Steve Howe (Sound Chaser, Siberian Khatru, The Ancient, The Clap, Mood for a Day, etc.) or Robert Fripp (21rst Century Schizoid Man, Red,The Night Watch, Fracture,Larks Tongues Part I, II and III, etc.)? ------------- Michael's Sonic Kaleidoscope Mondays 5:00pm EST(re-runs Thursdays 3:00pm) @ Delicious Agony Progressive Rock Radio(http://www.deliciousagony.com) 
|
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: February 25 2010 at 15:21
|
The Sailors Tale - Robert Fripp (though it's just chords) from Islands Karn Evil 9 - Greg Lake from Brain Salad Surgery America - Davy O'List from Ars Longa Vita Brevis Swastika Girls/Heavenly Music Corporation - Robert Fripp - from No Pussy Footing (i.e. pretty much the whole album) The last few seconds of the Crimson live atrocity Earthbound features Fripp playing unaccompanied and always makes the hair on the back of my neck bristle agreeably. ------------- 
|
Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: February 25 2010 at 15:40
|
Once we get into jazz - rock there are so many great performances.
I'll plug in for Quadrant 4 before Pablo gets here...it is one of the most fire-y solos ever.
------------- You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all. |
Posted By: WalterDigsTunes
Date Posted: February 25 2010 at 15:49
But see, then the question is... which version? Plenty of live performances absolutely blow away the studio takes. |
Posted By: ProgressiveAttic
Date Posted: February 25 2010 at 16:29
Good point.... my favorites of these specific tracks are: *21rst Century Schizoid Man (Great Deceiver and Summit Studios.... I also loved the one in USA and the original has Lake on vocals....) *Red (Absent Lovers) *Larks Tongues I (Great Deceiver CD 2 and 3... If I remember well) *Larks Tongues II (USA and Absent Lovers) *Larks Tongues III (Absent Lovers) *Fracture (USA) ------------- Michael's Sonic Kaleidoscope Mondays 5:00pm EST(re-runs Thursdays 3:00pm) @ Delicious Agony Progressive Rock Radio(http://www.deliciousagony.com)
|
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: February 25 2010 at 16:37
|
Leaving the fusion guys out of it I vote Frank Zappa on "Montana". |
Posted By: tamijo
Date Posted: February 26 2010 at 03:04
|
Fripp on Eno's Babys on Fire ------------- Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours |
Posted By: jplanet
Date Posted: February 26 2010 at 03:30
|
Steve Howe - Gates of Delirium (both middle section and Soon), Roundabout, CTTE intro Steve Hackett: Firth of Fifth Alan Morse - Devil's Got My Throat, duel with Jordan Rudess on "Burn it in the Fire" (w/Neal Morse) Alex Lifeson - La Villa Strangiato ------------- https://www.facebook.com/ShadowCircus/" rel="nofollow - ..::welcome to the shadow circus::.. |
Posted By: otto pankrock
Date Posted: February 26 2010 at 12:33
|
You Fool No One-Deep Purple Live in London
21st Century Schytzoid Man K.C. Live Usa
Musical Box-Genesis
Solar Music III-Grobschnitt Solar Music Live
That's all I can think of at the moment...
|
Posted By: WalterDigsTunes
Date Posted: February 26 2010 at 12:48
Good calls. I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest Belew's AMAZING Larks Tongues II that features on the 1982 performance that appears in the Neal and Jack and Me DVD. |
Posted By: Pete A.
Date Posted: March 01 2010 at 14:49
|
Holdsworth on "The 4:15 Bradford Executive" or "In The Mystery". Fripp, "Sailor's Tale" and "Prince Rupert's Lament". Ax Genrich did some amazingly creative solos on the 1st four Guru Guru LPs. Fred Frith on "Teenbeat Reprise" from the first Henry Cow LP. Phil Miller on "Gigantic Land Crabs..." from the first Hatfield and the North LP. This isn't Prog, but John Mclaughlin does a truly sublime solo on "Follow Your Heart" from the Joe Farrell Quartet LP. So many to chose from, but Hackett on "Firth Of Fifth" might take the cake.
------------- Petey |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: March 01 2010 at 15:03
 One I love from the Jazz Rock/Fusion world is John Goodsall's solo on Unorthodox Behaviour.
Holdsworth's solo on The Struggle of the Turle to the Sea Part 3 is amazing.
|
Posted By: Tigereye
Date Posted: March 01 2010 at 18:05
|
One of the most exciting for me is Steve Howe's solo in Perpetual Change on the Yessongs album. One of the most tonally beautiful and expressive is Steve Hackett's on Firth of Fifth.
------------- I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else. ~Lily Tomlin |
Posted By: SilverEclipse
Date Posted: March 01 2010 at 20:56
|
"Welcome Home" - Travis Stever and Claudio Sanchez, Coheed And Cambria
"The End Complete V: On The Brink" - Claudio Sanchez, Coheed And Cambria
"Starship Trooper" - Steve Howe, Yes
"Sound Chaser" - Steve Howe, Yes
"Awaken" - Steve Howe, Yes
"Atom Heart Mother (Breast Milky)" - Dave Gilmour, Pink Floyd
"Time" - Dave Gilmour, Pink Floyd
"Comfortably Numb" - Dave Gilmour, Pink Floyd
"Lark's Tongue's In Aspic (Part 1) - Robert Fripp, King Crimson
and of course several Howe bits in The Gates Of Delirium
------------- "and if the band your in starts playing different tunes, I'll see you on the dark side of the moon" |
Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: March 02 2010 at 00:03
|
I vote for Every Day by Hackett.
And there are two other solos on that album that deserve consideration as well. Spectral Mornings is a gem. ------------- 
|
Posted By: DAVE M
Date Posted: March 02 2010 at 02:18
|
From Soft machine's albuim Bundles, Allan Holdsworth incredible very lengthy intricate work on Profile on Side 1 (for those of you with the vinyl version).
Also Phil Miller's solo on Shipwrecked by Hatfield & the North.
|
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: March 02 2010 at 10:53
Hah! Thank you! Howe's solo work in TFTO, such as the amazing solo in "Ritual," bears mentioning. I love Fripp's solo in "Fracture," although his wild solo in Eno's "Baby's On Fire" is a personal favorite! I'd like to nominate John Goodsall's barn-burner jazz-rock solo on the incredible song "Deadly Nightshade," from the Brand X album "Masques." A forgotten gem, apparently. If there is a single "greatest" prog solo, I haven't heard it yet. Prog guitar tends to be more dispersed than conventional rock (Deep Purple??). For example, Howe solos rather wildly throughout much of "The Gates of Delerium". And, I'm glad he does, it is incredible!!
|
Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: March 02 2010 at 11:06
|
Camel- Ice
Manfred Mann's Earth Band- Visionary Mountain
King Crimson- Sailor's Tale
Hackett- Every Day and Spectral Mornings
Odyssice- Scream and A Prophet's Dream
Iona- Castlerigg
Genesis- The Knife
Focus- Birth
a hundred more...... ------------- I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth. |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: March 03 2010 at 10:09
|
If I were on a dessert island and had to pick only one, I'd say that Bob Fripp's solo during "21st Century Schizoid Man" on ITCOTCK would be the classic. That LP launched the movement.
|
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: March 03 2010 at 10:22
Oops, DESERT Island! Live by spell-check, die by etc. I'd still pick Fripp's work on that LP as the seminal beginning/best prog rock guitar work. His energy was AMAZING!
|
Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: March 03 2010 at 10:25
|
I forgot about Lifeson...I LOOOOOVVVEEE the Limelight solo, the absolute favorite solo I ever played live. He has alot of great ones and Stangiato has to be up there. Gilmour has so many...I guess I still don't have them in my Prog mental basket.
Ice was a great choice for Latimer, BTW. ------------- You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all. |
Posted By: rogerthat
Date Posted: March 03 2010 at 11:15
|
Steve Hackett - Firth of the fifth, Everyday, Spectral Mornings, Fountain of Salmacis (coda). David Gilmour - Time, Money, Echoes, Dogs Robert Fripp - Fallen Angel (very short though) Martin Barre- Aqualung off Bursting Out/Live at Madison Square Garden Andy Latimer - Sahara Steve Rothery - She Chameleon, Script for a Jester's Tear Steve Howe - Turn of the Century John Petrucci - Voices, Under A Glass Moon |
Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: March 03 2010 at 11:36
I've always want to go to Dessert Island, swim in chocolate sauce, bounce in the marshmallow pit. MMMMM.... ------------- You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all. |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: March 03 2010 at 11:57
Good call! ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: ProgressiveAttic
Date Posted: March 03 2010 at 12:09
|
not the greatest but a very good one that I found in youtube recently:
Enrico Rosa (from RPI band Campo di Marte) ------------- Michael's Sonic Kaleidoscope Mondays 5:00pm EST(re-runs Thursdays 3:00pm) @ Delicious Agony Progressive Rock Radio(http://www.deliciousagony.com)
|
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: March 03 2010 at 15:30
You know you are a chocolate addict when.... |
Posted By: sidereal
Date Posted: March 03 2010 at 17:25
|
Lake's guitar solo in Karn Evil 9 is pretty damn impressive (part 2, i think, the more so because his guitar is so rare
------------- "Without music life would be a mistake" - Friedrich Nietzsche |
Posted By: Adams Bolero
Date Posted: March 04 2010 at 06:53
|
That's an almost impossible question to answer but Gary Green's solo on 'Just The Same' is somewhere near the top. |
Posted By: antonyus
Date Posted: March 04 2010 at 07:18
| camel - lady fantasy |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: March 04 2010 at 09:00
Thanks, I agree!
|
Posted By: Kashmir75
Date Posted: March 05 2010 at 18:47
|
David Gilmour- Dogs John Petrucci- Voices (last solo), Octavarium (the one near the end) Jimmy Page- Stairway (How The West Was Won version) Steve Rothery- Lavender Steve Howe- Clap Alex Lifeson- Limelight, Anesthetize  (on PTs Fear of a Blank Planet)Steve Wilson- Voyage 34 phase one ------------- Hello, mirror. So glad to see you, my friend. It's been a while... |
Posted By: Johnnytuba
Date Posted: March 07 2010 at 11:33
|
I can't believe no one here suggested Page's guitar solo in Achilles Last Stand.....epic! Goosebumps everytime! ------------- "The things that we're concealing, will never let us grow. Time will do its healing, you've got to let it go. |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: March 07 2010 at 11:55
The problem is, the thread title says 'prog rock', and very few people here will consider Led Zeppelin prog. Personally speaking, my favourite guitar solos are mostly to be found in the work of Prog-Related bands, such as Deep Purple, Black Sabbath or Blue Oyster Cult. However, if I have to think about some great guitar work in a band considered fully prog, I'd go for Gary Moore with Colosseum II - all three albums. That's stuff that should get much more love than it usually does! |
Posted By: skorziks
Date Posted: March 08 2010 at 21:20
|
Rush(Lifeson) - La Villa Strangiato
------------- The ice cream lady wet her drawers to see you in the passion play. |
Posted By: stev
Date Posted: March 09 2010 at 13:50
| How about Mick Box's solo on Salisbury by Uriah Heep |
Posted By: Lonnie
Date Posted: March 09 2010 at 22:36
|
I agree with a lot of solos posted here so far. My favorite, however, is Paul Gilbert's solo in Neal Morse's "The Door" ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Lonmower/?chartstyle=Cm"> 
|
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: March 10 2010 at 10:13
|
Awaken -- Steve Howe/Yes Answers?Questions!Questions?Answers! -- Jan Akkerman/Focus Comfortably Numb -- David Gilmour/Pink Floyd Streetwalker -- Jan Akkerman Firth of fifth -- Steve Hackett/Genesis Black Napkins -- Frank Zappa The Blues -- Mirek Gil/Collage Mediterranean Sundance-- Al Di Meola ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: ProgressiveAttic
Date Posted: March 10 2010 at 15:59
|
------------- Michael's Sonic Kaleidoscope Mondays 5:00pm EST(re-runs Thursdays 3:00pm) @ Delicious Agony Progressive Rock Radio(http://www.deliciousagony.com)
|
Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: March 10 2010 at 16:45
|
Steve Rothery-Easter Steve Howe-Perpetual Change, South Side of the Sky(coda), Intro of CTTE Steve Hacket-Firth of Fifth, Musical Box, The Steppes, Everyday Adrian Belew on Talking Heads' The Great Curve(may not be considered true prog, but 2 amazing solos) Alan Morse-The Great Nothing(coda) David Gilmour-Comfortably Numb, Intro to Wish you Were Here Roine Stolt-Psychedelic Postcard Alex Lifeson-Limelight, Bravado |
Posted By: Mr. Maestro
Date Posted: March 10 2010 at 18:17
|
"Child in Time" by Deep Purple (Of course.) "Oasis" by Enchant (Very melodic, but very technical at the sime time - imagine John Petrucci meets Steve Hackett.)
"Tumeni Notes" by Steve Morse (My personal favorite. The title says it all.)
"All of the Above" by Transatlantic (Roine Stolt has an absolutely ripping solo about two-thirds of the way through.) ------------- "I am the one who crossed through space...or stayed where I was...or didn't exist in the first place...." |
Posted By: Bitterblogger
Date Posted: March 10 2010 at 19:18
|
The Bash--Steve Morse, Dixie Dregs (Night of the Living Dregs)
Fat Time--Mike Stern, Miles Davis (The Man With the Horn)
Astral Traveller--Peter Banks (Tales from Yesterday)
|
Posted By: LostKey
Date Posted: March 15 2010 at 03:53
|
Rush - Alex Lifeson - La Villa Strangiato |
Posted By: CinemaZebra
Date Posted: March 16 2010 at 23:46
 I think I'll vote for it as well.------------- 
|
Posted By: Failcore
Date Posted: March 17 2010 at 00:10
|
+1 to all Steve Morse mentions. Also like to suggest Criss Oliva in "Ghost in the Ruins." Really enjoyable IMO. ------------- 
|
Posted By: Lizzy
Date Posted: March 17 2010 at 14:21
|
One of my all time favourite solos is Gilmour's Hey You. Firth of Fifth also deserves a mention. As for prog related - Queen's The Millionaire Waltz, and proto-prog: Child in Time - possibly the best solo ever. |
Posted By: wilmon91
Date Posted: March 17 2010 at 15:28
|
You could consider what a solo is, and what different forms of solos there are. In my view there's free form solos and there's more melodic solos. But a main melodic theme by guitar isnt really a solo. A solo part is something aside from the main parts of the song, were the soloist is free to do anything, sort of. Otherwise Spectral Mornings by Steve Hackett would be regarded as one long guitar solo. Camel has a lot of great guitar melodies that are often core themes of the songs. Other solos are more improvised and free-form. Solos in jazz can be random notes within different scales. But a solo can also be very melodic at the same time as being something aside from the main themes. It’s really hard to name good solos because I dont regard a solo as something separate from the rest of the music, it's a part of the whole. I dont like guitarists trying to show off or impress, it results in too much focus on the playing and execution rather than the sound and music. Another thing to consider is the length. There’s a difference between long and short solos. It can be hard to pick short solos though. I cant name my favourite solos, I don’t have any, but I love the playing of Ian Crichton, and all of his solos are brilliant. A few of them: Saga - Don't Be Late (Ian Crichton) (two solos really)
Saga - Intermission (Ian Crichton) (from Heads Or Tales) Saga - You And The Night Paul McCartney - No More Lonely Nights (David Gilmour) I can really appreciate simple solos like this. It’s two solos, one of which is a melody, the other is more free form in the ending. I love that sound. Ian Crichton maybe got the inspiration from him because he has a similar sound on Heads Or Tales. Camel – Lunar Sea (Andy Latimer) I must name something of Steve Hackett…. how about “The Lamia”. I had that solo on my mind the other day. ------------- http://www.lastfm.se/user/wilmon91" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: sydbarrett2010
Date Posted: August 09 2010 at 05:09
| pink floyd - comfortably numb |
Posted By: Gandalff
Date Posted: August 09 2010 at 06:28
|
Nobody had mentioned Fripp´s excellent, protracted and unfolding solo in Starless (or I´ve omitted this one here). I like Fripp guitar for example in Great Deciever or Sailor´s Tale.
Another beautiful guitar solos:
Planeta Hieronyma Bosche I (Pavel Váně, Progres 2)
Čajovna (Radim Hladík, Blue Effect)
Meeting of the Spirits, The Dance Of Maya (John McLaughlin, Mahavishnu Orchestra)
Nech žije človek (Jozef Farkaš, Collegium Musicum)
Roundabout (Steve Howe, Yes)
God of Light Revisited (Andy Latimer, Camel)
Desolation Valley (Roye Albrighton, Nektar)
|
Posted By: tarkus1980
Date Posted: August 09 2010 at 09:55
|
The greatest guitar solo of all time is the one in "Baby's on Fire." I've had this opinion for almost a decade and don't see it changing any time soon. ------------- "History of Rock Written by the Losers." |
Posted By: MattGuitat
Date Posted: November 14 2011 at 23:56
|
I'm glad someone mentioned Greg Lake's solo in Karn Evil 9. But my favorite guitar record is Relayer and To Be Over is probably the most complex, diverse, and aggressive but beautiful solo ever.
|
Posted By: HarbouringTheSoul
Date Posted: November 15 2011 at 06:04
|
Frank Zappa - Inca Roads (YCDTOSA2/One Size Fits All version) There's a reason why he called his guitar solos "instant compositions". Not only did he have a great guitar tone, the most sensitive interplay with his backing musicians and an impeccable sense of tension and release, on his best days he was able to come up with the most beautiful melodies in real time. This particular "Inca Roads" is not just my favorite guitar solos, it remains one of the most exciting and "complete" compositions I ever heard. That's an amazing feat for something that was made up on the spot. The edit found on One Size Fits All is pretty respectful and keeps all the important highlights, but I still marginally prefer the unedited original. Other great solo vehicle by Frank Zappa would be of course his big three: "Zoot Allures" (preferably any version with the effect-drenched "Ship Ahoy", my personal favorite is the one on FZ Plays the Music of FZ), "Black Napkins" (original version) and "Watermelon in Easter Hay" (also the original version). Among my personal favorites are "What's New in Baltimore?" (again, the original), "Let's Move to Cleveland" (despite the bad audio quality, the version found on BTB1: As An Am: Frank simply rips, and there's no stupid Allan Zavod keyboard noodling to distract. If you don't go for bad-quality recordings, the rather short but tasty version on The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life is also great.), "Outside Now" (the "original solo" from the Guitar album, which was also xenochronized onto "Keep It Greasey" from Joe's Garage to great results), the "Hold the Line solo" (full solo with original backing musicians as "Occam's Razor" on One Shot Deal, xenochronized onto "Wet T-Shirt Nite" as "Toad-O Line" on Joe's Garage) and "five-five-FIVE" from Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar. As you can see, Frank Zappa is by far my favorite soloist. Nobody else can hold a candle to him, although I of course do appreciate other soloists. |
Posted By: stonedwasherman
Date Posted: November 15 2011 at 23:39
|
the journey called solar music live. Is there a better solo EVER ------------- wash it stoned -stonedwasherman http://stonedwash.tumblr.com" rel="nofollow - Maggot Brain |
Posted By: skorziks
Date Posted: November 16 2011 at 02:19
|
Best solo: Band: Rush Album: Hemispheres Song: La Villa Strangiato time index: 3:36 - 5:14 ------------- The ice cream lady wet her drawers to see you in the passion play. |
Posted By: MattGuitat
Date Posted: November 20 2011 at 00:21
Definitely best Rush solo. I saw him play it live and it was ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE!!!
|
Posted By: Midnight Lightning
Date Posted: November 20 2011 at 02:41
|
Great choices so far. A couple that I haven't seen mentioned that I think deserve to be: To Be Over - Yes, Steve Howe Rhayader Goes to Town - Camel, Andrew Latimer Hocus Pocus, Anonymous II - Focus, Jan Akkerman Solar Musick Suite - Steve Hillage
|
Posted By: lemur voice
Date Posted: November 20 2011 at 06:07
|
Steve Unruh...Mimosa. ------------- prog on forever |
Posted By: infocat
Date Posted: November 20 2011 at 09:22
|
Haven't looked to see if this has been mentioned, but... "Space Between Your Ears" - Ozric Tentacles Absolutely amazing!!! It's at the end of the song, so... But the entire song is wonderful. ------------- -- Frank Swarbrick Belief is not Truth. |
Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: November 20 2011 at 11:33
| Steve hackett from Neal Morse's ? album.... the song is twelve |
Posted By: MintySnares
Date Posted: November 29 2011 at 18:04
|
Steve Hackett - Firth of Fifth |