any instrument, any song.

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)

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)

Moby Dick - Led Zeppelin (John Boham, drums)

 

and anyone by Neil Peart (Rush drummer)

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:

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

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:

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

That reminds me:

 

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

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)

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.

alone together has one of my fav solos too

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

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

Rachmaninov

 

Shostakovich

 

:stunned:

 

 

:sick:

 

 

that's not fair!!

nice avatar skinned alive

:cool:

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

 

:cool:

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

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

just kidding that's like my favorite one

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.

thanks for telling us your life story

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

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.

paranoid android + let down - great work by jonny greenwood

especially the intro to let down