Let's talk guitar solos
 

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Bulbs of Passion-Dino Jr
Freak Scene-Dino Jr
I got a Right (Meat Puppets version)-the Stooges
New Gods-Meat Puppets
O-men-Butthole Surfers
Soma-Smashing Pumpkins
Geek USA-Smashing Pumpkins
Candle (does the beginning count as a solo?)-Sonic Youth


and.........................

Heard Her Call my Name-Velvet Underground (if one more person says Stairway to Heaven is the best....)

yes j mascis is god, thank you.
sugar kane solo is pretty skillfull though.
dino jr- mountain man, freak scene, wagon, feel the pain. out there.........
basically what you should say 'yeah man, j is the best guitarist ever!'

henrix solos are pretty interesting, as well as neil youngs.

mudhoneys/steves are pretty good but they just tush through them even though they are quite bluesy and awesome.

john frusciante has special solos as well, like suck my kiss, what the hell? i couldnt learn that tapping part, its pretty easy though.

the stooges- loose
pink floyd- time
stevie ray vaughan- little wing
jimi hendrix- all along the watch tower
yeah yeah yeahs- maps
black flag- rise above
meat puppets- oh me
bb king- the thrill is gone
johnny cash- folsom prison blues
dinosaur jr.- kracked
white stripes- ball and a biscuit
yo la tengo- sugar cube
albert king- crosscut saw
minutemen- dont look now

yeah i forgot kracked!!! its such an awesome song.

greg ginns and dr knows (is that his name) solos are sick!

the solo on search and destroy on raw power from the stooges is quite good, but i prefer the first record when ron asheton was the guitarist.

Raw Power's guitar tones are vicious!! R. Asheton's my man though. He played bass on Raw Power.
After the Stooges Ron joined this group called Destroy All Monsters. Really interesting noisy dark shit

Let's talk Marquee Moon

yes!

Marquee Moon is epic! I completely forgot about that one

ron's amazing now, live footage.... i got that dvd, dont know the name, but hes awesome in it

The solo in Cut your Hair by Pavement is quite good too.

But yes, J Mascis is quite the fine guitarist

As is Ginn (honorable mention goes to the solos in American Waste and Beat My Head Against the Wall)

A Stooges DVD?

Not essentially a solo, but the little riff in Pavement's 'Pueblo' is amazing. The solo that ends J Mascis' song 'Bobbin' is great too.

the main show is awesome.

it also has the lagandary comback gig when scott asheton plays on buckets and only iggy, scott and ron are playing and talking about how they wrote the songs

This statement might cause some disagreements, but I think Billy Corgan is a very underrated guitarist. Even for those who hat the SP have to admit he is very skilled.

yeah they are pretty skilled, gish has quite cool guitar parts

I'd say any butthole surfers solo. Specifically all in dust devil.

I forgot to mention the solo in Vamos by the Pixies.

Kim Thayil of Suundgarden on Like Suicide... and many other songs off superunknown. Also Josh Homme has had some good solos with Kyuss.

yeah kim thayil has short solos but theyre fucking hard and so technical.

some cobain solos on bleach, like school sound awesome as wel.

I was gonna say Come as You Are to take the piss but Cobain was ok as you said.

i feel like listening to nirvana, i havent listened to them in ages.

I like Andy Gill solos the best.

Too many by dinosaur - raisans, mountain man, kracked, bulbs, sludgefeast, let it ride...
hendrix - spanish castle magic, voodoo child
bardo pond - tantric porno, be a fish
sabbath - N.I.B.
butthole surfers - human cannonball
dead meadow - sleepy silver door
sebadoh - sacred attention
kyuss - supa scoopa... , demon cleaner
mudhoney - get into yours
mbv - you never should
soundgarden - let me drown
nirvana - love buzz
pumpkins - bury me, hummer (delay one), Geek USA
qotsa - song for the dead
screaming trees - nearly lost you
aic - bleed the freak

yeah, actually all of dinosaurs first records are awesome, that flanged out solo in forget the swan, my god...

What else is new always grabbed me.

I always thought that one was a bit cheesy, it's too polished for my liking. The last few albums the solos are good technically from a guitarists point of view but they're pretty boring really. On the first few albums the solos were really raw and innovative and are far better in my opinion.

I could go off about one of my favorites of the Japanese redline-riding style, but in the interest of not being so "regugitative and repetitive" ( a somewhat valid atari2600 criticism), I will cast a vote for "Moisture" by The Residents. There is some debate between myself and a friend as to whether this is the work of Fred Frith or Snakefinger (they are both great players and they are both on this album), but it is pretty great no matter who lid it down.

Sonic Youth - Becuz
Meat Puppets - New Gods
Jimi Hendrix - All along the Watchtower

A lot of Lightning Bolt songs have really sweet bass riffs too

MMM HMM. I'd say that one solo in the middle of dracula mountain is my favorite, where the overdrive cuts out and its just a high pitched distortion solo.

But I think YLT's song We're An American Band has my favorite solo of all time. I've never been so moved before during any bands live performance as when they played that song.

I've never really cared for solos, to be honest. Only a few bands can pull them off without me being overly critical: Smashing Pumpkins, Dinosaur Jr...

Almost makes you wanna dance. Good choice.

Shut Up by the Monks has a nice solo and nothing else that hasn't already been mentioned comes to mind - unless the Father Cannot Yell noise/solo counts, which I think it should.

neil young, dudes

i especailly like that part in "vampire blues" where he just plays one note like a dying motor, just weird huzz cloud in an otherwise very blues based song.

plus all those epic songs w/ crazy horse

helluva good selection,
tantric porno is my overall favourite bardo pond song

fuck, i was just thinking about that one!

yeah man, hes fucking amazing, his gear is cool, 645 identical fender tweeds and none sound like his original, he fried the amp once, then he fixed it and put in oversized tubes. ha. and his les paul with the firebird pickups, whoa

Snakefinger as far as i know, but yeah great either way.

Well I only got into Dino JR recently so I only have Green Mind and Where You Been, and I understand that their older stuff is a lot different. I think I'm getting You're Living All Over Me for christmas.

It's so hard to pick a favorite but that one has to be up there, it's perfect but I also love Tommy Gun Angel and Destroying Angel equally

Louie Louie - the kingsmen's version
Making the nature scene - Lee's freakout