My Favorite Guitar Solos in Some of My Favorite Songs, Pick # 27

Pick # 27.Great guitar solos:"Layla" guitar solos by Eric Clapton/Duane Allman from the album "Layla And Other Asorted Love Songs" by Derek and the Dominos (1970).

Mine for today has probably already been mentioned. "I'm the one" by Van Halen.

27) Gary Richrath of REO Speedwagon ,Golden Country Live You Get What You Play For

Rush Bastille Day (live version from ATWAS) Alex Lifeson.

Snowy White's solo on Summer Elegy from Rick Wright's 'Wet Dream'.

My pick for day 5 is The Kinks : You Really Got Me ( guitar solo by Dave Davies ). I don´t instantly remember the solo by Mick Taylor in Time Waits For No One, so I have to revisit the song. And so I did. I paused this video and I listened to Time Waits For No One. It´s a good, solid solo.

Hi Pete, hope you are doing well today. I haven't heard "Time Waits for No One" (or the accompanying album) in years, and I'll have to pull it out later now that you've turned my mind to it. My pick for today was a staple of the old "Best Classic Rock/Best New Rock" radio format back when I was a teenager, and it still gives me the chills to this day. It's the one and only Gary Moore, with "Still Got the Blues," from the 1990 LP of the same name. Moore's outro solo, which occupies pretty much the entire second half of the six-minute track (quite a contrast to the Andy Summers solo I chose yesterday!) is a slow-burning cry of anguish that finds Gary playing variations on the beautiful "head" melody and using the entire fretboard to great effect, with emphasis on his stinging high notes and a rich, glorious tone. The album as a whole, which marked a change in style for Moore to say the least, contains several other excellent solos (including one by guest Albert King) and I think it's a must for any fan of classic blues-rock guitar.

1. George Harrison, "Something" (The Beatles, ABBEY ROAD, 1969) (HM: "And I Love Her")

2. Roger McGuinn, "Eight Miles High" (The Byrds, FIFTH DIMENSION, 1966) (HM: "My Back Pages")

3. Kim Mitchell, "Paradise Skies" (Max Webster, A MILLION VACATIONS, 1979)

4. Andy Summers, "Driven to Tears" (The Police, ZENYATTA MONDATTA, 1980)
5. Gary Moore, "Still Got the Blues" (STILL GOT THE BLUES, 1990)

5 – Martin Barre (Jethro Tull) – "Pibroch" (Ian Anderson's Celtic translation of "Pee Break" lol) from Songs from the Wood. Martin has a wealth of great guitar work he has done with Tull, but this blistering, insane, distorted and fuzzy guitar solo played multiple times throughout the song over echoes and overdrive and reverse tapes or whatever the engineer Robin Black and producer Ian Anderson did, was uniquely wonderful.

#27. Duane Allman – Hey Jude by Wilson Pickett (1968)

Basically unknown at the time, Duane Allman played on this song at FAME studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama in 1968. Duane had to talk Wilson into doing “Hey Jude”(Lennon McCartney) which had just been released by The Beatles. Wilson was reluctant to sing it. But the arrangement was so beautifully created that Wilson was willing to take a chance. I guess you could call it an early salvo of Southern Rock. Tasty guitar is heard all through the song with the backing of the Muscle Shoals rhythm section.
At 2:44 the song goes into its climax with an explosive powerful scream by Pickett. He wails at full volume, hollering his lungs out as only Wilson Pickett could do.
Duane plays a fierce solo. It hits you in the gut with its incredible feel as the notes are struck. It could be the best solo ever on a R&B song. The back and forth between Wilson and Duane on this tune is that of legend.
Eric Clapton heard it and tried to find out “Who’s that guitar player?”.
Eric and Duane would team up later to form one of the greatest guitar alliances of all time with Derek & The Dominoes.
Duane would soon found The Allman Brothers Band. But it was through session playing like this that earned him his reputation.

"Time Waits for No One" is one of my favorite deep tracks of all time, and not just from the Stones. Great pick, Pete. Thanks.

Hi Pete. Not really a fan of The Rolling Stones. Sorry. Here is my pick for day 5.
Pick # 27 – Pink Floyd – David Gilmour – Comfortably Numb

05. Trevor Rabin – Hearts (Recorded '82 – '83, rel. 1983)
H.M. Rhythm of Love (Recorded '85 – '87, rel. 1987)

Aug 5th: Viv Campbell
on Dio- The Last in Line
Epicness! Dio's best, say I. Very winding Lead. Viv was quite the find for RJD, like Ozzy's Randy Rhoades pickup.
He's been in Def Leppard since 92, nice gig!