favorite solos

[CityandColour]

any instrument, any song.

[Skinned Alive]

Guitar:
Radiohead - Paranoid Android (Jonny Greenwood)
or
The Stone Roses - I Am The Resurrection (John Squire)

Bass:
Primus - Tommy The Cat (Les Claypool)
or
The Who - My Generation (John Entwhistle)

Drums:
Led Zeppelin - Rock and Roll (John Bonham)
or
Oasis - Don't Look Back In Anger (Alan White)

[CityandColour]

Guitar:

Any Strokes solo.

Physco - System of A Down
New Years Day - U2
Monuments & Melodies - Incubus

Drums:
Rock and Roll - Led Zeppelin
Dazed and Confused - Led Zeppelin (there was a very nice solo at the end of it on the song remains the same)

[MrsBerry]

Moby Dick - Led Zeppelin (John Boham, drums)

and anyone by Neil Peart (Rush drummer)

[CityandColour]

I love Led Zeppelin, but I don't particularly like the solo in Moby Dick. I think it's way too long. Especially The Song Remains The Same version. It's like, 10 minutes! :stunned:

[Professor Peedston]

yeah, that = :snore:

here are my personal favorites:

Guitar
Dave Gilmour (from Pink Floyd) - "Time"
Paul McCartney (from the Beatles) - "Taxman" (yes, Paul played that, not George)

Drums
Joe Morello (from the Dave Brubeck Quartet) - "Take Five"
John McEntire and John Herndon (from Tortoise) - "Seneca"

Piano
Anybody who can play it - George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" (which I'm also going to nominate right now as "greatest song ever written")
Again, anybody who can play it - Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor
Thelonius Monk - "'Round Midnight"
Dave Brubeck - "Theme From Mr. Broadway"
Billy Joel - "Scenes From an Italian Restaurant"
I'm going to have to stop with that one before I really get carried away. :lol:

Saxophone
Charlie Parker - "Night in Tunisia" (by Paparelli and Gillespie)
John Coltrane - "Resolution"

I think that's enough for now, as there's too many Miles Davis for me to go through before I can pick a favorite trumpet solo. :P

[headbanger_bassist]

bass--
Anesthesia by Cliff Burton
the lead in The Call of Ktulu by Cliff Burton
the 4th solo in Orion also by Cliff Burton

:cool:

[CityandColour]

two more on guitar for me: :P

life on a chain - pete yorn (actually, it kinda segways into harmonica also)
on your side - pete yorn

[Professor Peedston]

That reminds me:

Favorite harmonica solo - Stevie Wonder - "Isn't She Lovely"

[Skinned Alive]

more guitar solos which I personally enjoy playing, and think deserve recognition:

Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven (Jimmy Page) (I know it's a bit of a cliché to list this, but well, it's just brilliant)
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb (David Gilmour)
The Strokes - The Modern Age (Nick Valensi)
Oasis - Champagne Supernova (Live, pre-2000) (Noel Gallagher)
Radiohead - Just (Jonny Greenwood)

[Valleyboy]

even though it probably isnt considered a solo, i love the who's my generation bass line, cos theres a part where you can only hear the bass, its pretty sweet.

alone together, by the strokes, has an awesome guitar solo by nick valensi, i really like it.

[mycdplayerisbroke]

alone together has one of my fav solos too

[CityandColour]

now that I think of it, Audioslave's 'Like A Stone,' has a pretty bad ass guitar solo.

[Skinned Alive]

Piano
Again, anybody who can play it - Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor


well, if we're including classical:

Debussy's Claire de Lune and Arabesque
Shostakovich's Prelude and Fugue in A

[kalter zug]

Rachmaninov

Shostakovich

:stunned:


:sick:


that's not fair!!

[mycdplayerisbroke]

nice avatar skinned alive

[Skinned Alive]

:cool:

[CityandColour]

Damn, Albert's solo in 'The End Has No End' is short, but sweet.

:cool:

[Valleyboy]

aren't all the strokes solos sweet? :cool:

[mycdplayerisbroke]

the 'take it or leave it' solo really sucks nuts

























just kidding that's like my favorite one

[Safe From Explosions]

I love the solo from Time by Pink Floyd. I convinced my band to learn it just so I could hear it "live-ish"... There's a few other Pink Floyd ones that are really good, none of which I can think of at the moment... ;\... Haven't listened to a lot of PF for quite a while. I'll try to listen to some tonight as I'm sure David Gilmour did a lot of great solo's, particularly on The Wall.

[mycdplayerisbroke]

thanks for telling us your life story

[headbanger_bassist]

Rocky Gray's guitar solo from "Ignite" by Living Sacrifice :cool:

[CityandColour]

aren't all the strokes solos sweet? :cool:

Oh yes. I just noticed how sweet the solo in 'Alone Together,' is.

The solo for Communication Breakdown - Led Zeppelin, is pretty cool.

[-JaK-]

paranoid android + let down - great work by jonny greenwood
especially the intro to let down