Topic: The most emotive guitar solo ever... (Read 14953 times)

Cpt.Fantastic · « **on:** 10 Jun 2005, 13:52 »

NOBODY will agree with me here, but I am listening to 'Throw Down The Sword' by Wishbone Ash, like I have been for the past 30 mins, and the guitar solo is so... pure and emotional. Oof, I love it!

Suggestions for more emotive and powerful guitar solos; GO!

ASturge · « **Reply #1 on:** 10 Jun 2005, 13:54 »

Hmmmm

Tough one.

I really dont know...

Robbo · « **Reply #2 on:** 10 Jun 2005, 14:01 »

I almost read that as "most emoted guitar solo" (yeah, don't ask why, I have a reason)

Hmmm, DEFINATLY have to throw in the 15:19 solo in A Change of Seasons and Comfortably Numb as well.
I'm gonna be adding lots of things I think...as they're just two favs that stick out in my mind. And of course, can't have heard them all as well.

I hope hope this doesn't come down to "slow and wailling is emotional, fast is soulless technical bollocks".

deborah · « **Reply #3 on:** 10 Jun 2005, 14:15 »

dug martsch, broken chairs, '99 tour

or his '03 tour - cortez the killer

sp2 · « **Reply #4 on:** 10 Jun 2005, 14:18 »

Hendrix's solos ooze emotion and that emotion is sex.

Merkava · « **Reply #5 on:** 10 Jun 2005, 14:19 »

Yeah, Hendrix owns all emotive guitar solos.

But if we ever get into the "slow = emotive" argument, I'd like to be the first to mention John Fruscante. I win. XP

sp2 · « **Reply #6 on:** 10 Jun 2005, 14:27 »

Quote from: Merkava

Yeah, Hendrix owns all emotive guitar solos.

This is because sex trumps just about every other emotion.

Kai · « **Reply #7 on:** 10 Jun 2005, 14:51 »

Steve Vai has to have something, since every single fucking song he made is really one big long guitar solo.

Robbo · « **Reply #8 on:** 10 Jun 2005, 16:07 »

Please save insults like that for Yngwie, because he is actually a stereotypical wank artist, unlike the rest.

Merkava · « **Reply #9 on:** 10 Jun 2005, 17:17 »

Quote from: Kai

Steve Vai has to have something, since every single fucking song he made is really one big long guitar solo.

Hell NO! Don't bring that Vai shit round here!

Kai · « **Reply #10 on:** 10 Jun 2005, 17:21 »

Quote from: Robbo

Please save insults like that for Yngwie, because he is actually a stereotypical wank artist, unlike the rest.

Also, I can't pronounce that fucker's name.

Signum_Tenebrae · « **Reply #11 on:** 10 Jun 2005, 20:10 »

Quote from: Kai

Quote from: Robbo
Please save insults like that for Yngwie, because he is actually a stereotypical wank artist, unlike the rest.

Also, I can't pronounce that fucker's name.

ENG-Vay is how you prononuce it I believe.

Hendrix is highly overrated, IMO.

And though it's not actually a solo as much as it is a "lead riff" I vote for the guitar part in Burzum's "Det Som En Gang Var" that comes in just under 8 mins into the song.

Psiogen · « **Reply #12 on:** 10 Jun 2005, 20:20 »

The Velvet Underground - "I'm Set Free"

mmmmmmmmmmmmmm......

KharBevNor · « **Reply #13 on:** 11 Jun 2005, 05:34 »

Quote from: Signum_Tenebrae

And though it's not actually a solo as much as it is a "lead riff" I vote for the guitar part in Burzum's "Det Som En Gang Var" that comes in just under 8 mins into the song.

Also, speaking of Burzum, the similiar 'lead riff' that pops in at 4:03 on 'Ea, Lord of the Deeps. That is quite beautiful.

Also, the 2:45 'I am the loving darkness' solo on Cryptic Wintermoon's 'Supersatan' is really quite lovely, in my mind. On a similiar note, the solo in Illnath's 'Cast Into Fields of Evil Pleasure' (the shortish one that comes right after 'Bending the borders of emotional measure, Cast, far into the fields of eeevil pleeeeasuuuuure!" hit's a really good note.

I'd agree with Robbo on 'Comfortably Numb' definitely. There's so many to think about though, and emotional means different things to different people. I'm a huge fan of those really uplifting power metal and classic MDM solos, for example.

oddball318 · « **Reply #14 on:** 11 Jun 2005, 07:31 »

Zappa - Filthy Habits
instrumental track really focused around the guitar parts, fantastic use of waah-waah pedal and feedback, super moody.

Kai · « **Reply #15 on:** 11 Jun 2005, 07:42 »

While we're on Zappa, Zoot Allures fits in the category too.

Jeridus · « **Reply #16 on:** 11 Jun 2005, 21:28 »

At about 17:15 in Rush's 2112 (part six: soliloquy) is, IMO, the most emotional guitar solo of all time, leading into the lines "My spirits are low in the depths of despair/My lifeblood.../Spills over..."

Absolute, raw sadness drips from each note, as Alex Lifeson just wails away on the guitar.

Borondir · « **Reply #17 on:** 12 Jun 2005, 23:09 »

From just the cd's I happen to be listening to about now I'd say the outro solo from Enslaved, "As Fire Swept Clean the Earth" from Below the lights. The whole song also has the most emotive tremolo 'black' riff I've ever heard.

My all time most emotive would probably be Randy rhoads' incredible work on Mr. Crowley, but I know I'm forgetting tons of stuff.

amok · « **Reply #18 on:** 13 Jun 2005, 19:17 »

Quote from: Robbo

Hmmm, DEFINATLY have to throw in the 15:19 solo in A Change of Seasons and Comfortably Numb as well.

Kudos, those were my two answers

lil_john_pi · « **Reply #19 on:** 13 Jun 2005, 19:22 »

the most emotive guitar solo i have ever heard has to be one performed by deep purple. I don't know what the name of it but its pacing and technique were beautiful. Lost of tricks withe the volume control on the guitar(don't know the technical name for it.

Robbo · « **Reply #20 on:** 14 Jun 2005, 00:29 »

I dunno what one you're on about, but I know have to go listen to Child In Time just because.

Amok, ACOS is one of the song I use a lot of counter the "Prog is soulless technical crap" bullshit. Man, I have about 3 versions of it and I still dont have all the different incarnations.

happybirthdaygelatin · « **Reply #21 on:** 14 Jun 2005, 13:31 »

Quote from: deborah

dug martsch, broken chairs, '99 tour

or his '03 tour - cortez the killer

Interesting. I'm trying to go see Built to Spill this Friday.

deborah · « **Reply #22 on:** 14 Jun 2005, 13:35 »

if you've never seen dug sit down on his legs and rock back and forth through a guitar solo, playing the pedals with his hands, you haven't seen shit.

i hope the show is a good one - it was when they passed through here back in early may.

happybirthdaygelatin · « **Reply #23 on:** 14 Jun 2005, 13:46 »

I guess I've never seen shit. If anything though that's helped make up my mind on taking the day off for an 8pm show if I have to though.

Merkava · « **Reply #24 on:** 14 Jun 2005, 14:52 »

Quote from: happybirthdaygelatin

Quote from: deborah
dug martsch, broken chairs, '99 tour

or his '03 tour - cortez the killer

Interesting. I'm trying to go see Built to Spill this Friday.

Cortez the Killer is equal to a 25 minute orgasm.

Well, everything Built to Spill has done can be compared to particularly awesome orgasms you've had. XP

Borondir · « **Reply #25 on:** 14 Jun 2005, 15:00 »

Oh, I forgot about Virgin Black "Museum of Iscariot"
Samantha Escarbe is one of the most amazing guitarist in today's metal underground in my opinion. Particurlarly in doom, not usually a genre noted for amazing lead work.

Schmung · « **Reply #26 on:** 14 Jun 2005, 15:42 »

Winged cyborg ninja monkeys.

blindsuperhero · « **Reply #27 on:** 14 Jun 2005, 16:21 »

Cortez the Killer, as in Neil Young - Cortez the Killer? I think I'd rather see Neil Young play it, to be honest (unless it's actually a different song, with a coincidentally identical title)

Merkava · « **Reply #28 on:** 14 Jun 2005, 16:38 »

It's a cover that, as even all of the critics say, captures the spirit of the original.

bucky_2300 · « **Reply #29 on:** 14 Jun 2005, 16:58 »

Pink Floyd - Time

or Crazy Train.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #30 on:** 14 Jun 2005, 16:59 »

Quote from: Borondir

Oh, I forgot about Virgin Black "Museum of Iscariot"
Samantha Escarbe is one of the most amazing guitarist in today's metal underground in my opinion. Particurlarly in doom, not usually a genre noted for amazing lead work.

Nice choice. But don't let Candlemass hear you talking about doom bands not having particularly decent lead guitar.

Borondir · « **Reply #31 on:** 14 Jun 2005, 22:06 »

Quote from: KharBevNor

Quote from: Borondir
Oh, I forgot about Virgin Black "Museum of Iscariot"
Samantha Escarbe is one of the most amazing guitarist in today's metal underground in my opinion. Particurlarly in doom, not usually a genre noted for amazing lead work.

Nice choice. But don't let Candlemass hear you talking about doom bands not having particularly decent lead guitar.

Oh crap, when I wrote that I was thinking more of death-doom (which Virgin Black is not). You're right, Candlemass had better not hear me saying that.

MrKneebone · « **Reply #32 on:** 14 Jun 2005, 22:09 »

I'm not a huge U2 fan, but the guitar solo in Love is blindness gives me shivers. less is definitely more.

Also Jeff Buckley's version of Halelujah - probably for the same reasons as the above - the starkness really gives the solo it's power.

deborah · « **Reply #33 on:** 15 Jun 2005, 06:25 »

Quote from: blindsuperhero

Cortez the Killer, as in Neil Young - Cortez the Killer? I think I'd rather see Neil Young play it, to be honest (unless it's actually a different song, with a coincidentally identical title)

what merkava said.
they also, ironically, did an exceptionally brilliant cover of freebird last tour. that dude from the delusions and netson were playing the guitar solo dead-on, note-for-note with each other. built to spill encores make me cream my shorts.

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Cpt.Fantastic

ASturge

Robbo

deborah

sp2

Merkava

sp2

Robbo

Merkava

Signum_Tenebrae

Psiogen

oddball318

Jeridus

lil_john_pi

Robbo

deborah

Merkava

Schmung

blindsuperhero

Merkava

MrKneebone

deborah