I think this is my favorite guitar solo.

pinkphiloyd · Post by **pinkphiloyd** » Tue Jun 09, 2015 3:00 pm

It's definitely up there, anyway. The outro solo at the end of this Ryan Adams tune. From what I gather Greg Leisz played it, and it's just played so...damn...eloquently. Perfect touch. And it all starts with the tone. This is, I've decided, the ultimate "clean" tone to me, but it's right there on the edge. It sounds like single coils into a Fender amp of some sort to me, but that's about as far as I'm willing to go...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nhKPCz-3Wk

The solo starts at ~3:35 if that's all you're interested in.

JoeCon · Post by **JoeCon** » Tue Jun 09, 2015 3:50 pm

Very nice...
For me it's the outro solo in Tony Williams Lifetime song Snake Oil. It's Allan Holdsworth but not as his most frenetic. Just a singing tone and great choice of notes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW5pmgVuB5U

Solo at the end....

Ron Worley · Post by **Ron Worley** » Tue Jun 09, 2015 11:21 pm

That Ryan Adams solo is just killer- the kind of thing I hear in my head. Saying volumes in just a few very tasty notes. I'll take that over any shreddy wanking every time.

DonMoose · Post by **DonMoose** » Wed Jun 10, 2015 12:47 am

Ron Worley wrote:That Ryan Adams solo is just killer- the kind of thing I hear in my head. Saying volumes in just a few very tasty notes. I'll take that over any shreddy wanking every time.

That. On the other hand, only a couple of guitarists can get away with a solo of just one note (of a scale, played multiple times). Neil Young and Robert Fripp are the only two I can think of.

YouTube · Post by **xtian** » Wed Jun 10, 2015 3:59 am

DonMoose wrote:only a couple of guitarists can get away with a solo of just one note

I'll add George Harrison (if it is indeed him) in Back in the USSR.

JazzGuitarGimp · Post by **JazzGuitarGimp** » Wed Jun 10, 2015 4:04 am

DonMoose wrote:Neil Young and Robert Fripp are the only two I can think of.

Cinnamon Girl.... What a perfect solo.....

TUBEDUDE · Post by **TUBEDUDE** » Fri Jun 12, 2015 4:16 am

My favorite rock solo is at 2:35 in You're Gonna Need Me . Joe Walsh with the James Gang conducted a clinic on how to use a.wah with an echoplex. But above that it's a tie between Scott Henderson at the end of Tore Down House, and the solo at 2:11 in Lucky Henry of of Walter Becker's 11 Tracks Of Whack. All three are so.fluid and say so much in such a short time.
Sorry I have no links.

vibratoking · Post by **vibratoking** » Fri Jun 12, 2015 4:20 pm

Sounds heavily inspired by the Curtis Mayfield, Jimi Hendrix school. The Wind Cried Mary comes to mind.

David Root · Post by **David Root** » Tue Jun 16, 2015 10:25 pm

If I didn't know that was a Ryan Adams song I would have said it was a Jackson Browne song with David Lindley playing solo but not on lap steel. Tell me it's not in C.

67plexi · Post by **67plexi** » Fri Jun 19, 2015 7:34 pm

To date this one still get's me Jimmi Machine Gun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJw_XqvsSIs

NickC · Post by **NickC** » Fri Jun 19, 2015 9:13 pm

One of my favorites, Bill Nelson (Be Bop Deluxe), Sister Seagull:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQxx978499U

Maid In Heaven

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WeiBzGBTu8

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