Hey classic rock fans: post a lesser known, maybe forgotten, guitar solo that really does it for you

[darkstar]

Here’s one from me. Steve Hillage, 1976, covering Its All Too Much by the Beatles. There’s a solo in the body of the song, but it’s the outro solo that begins at 4:30 that does it for me if you want to skip ahead.

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[red dog 1]

1. Alvin Lee - Ten Years After - I'm Going Home

[darkstar]

2. Sizzling indeed!

Classic tone going on there, that’s fer sure!

[hermetic]

17. Right on!

Rock it, Alvin!!

[ProfessorGAC]

24. That's Not Lesser Known Though

Practically ever rock guitar fan knows about that Woodstock performance.
I'm in the camp that finds it unimpressive & way too long, I find it to be a slopfest.
But that's not my objection:
His solo on I'd Love To Change The World is WAY better. Cleaner, more accurate, more musical.
The OP was talking lesser known solos. Not sure Alvin at Woodstock qualifies.

[moniss]

46. I would go for

"Bluest Blues". The added attraction being George Harrison doing the first slide solo in the song. The rest is Alvin Lee. While the song is more a blues ballad/blues rock than purely a rock song. As far as rock I would say this is pretty good from "Night of The Guitars". I always felt that the music critics who didn't like Alvin over some others never gave him credit for not being a guy to "pedal" as opposed to play, bend, slide, sustain. I appreciate the players who give it to me from their fingers rather than their feet. I'm not snobby about it I just prefer one more than the other. "Lost In Love" is pretty good as well.

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[Botany]

44. As good as it will ever get.

Alvin Lee and 10 Years After @ Woodstock.

[LuckyCharms]

3. Ween (Mickey Melchiondo). Johnny on The Spot. Starts at 1:10.

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[darkstar]

6. Hot stuff!

[SonOfNebanaube]

4. Electric Sun

The entire album...

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[darkstar]

7. Dig the brief use of harmony lines...

[Ferrets are Cool]

5. Well, this will certain fall into the catagory of "lesser known", but is one of the best guitar solo's ever...

the solo is by Guthrie Govan, a guitar god, and on the song Drive Home, by Steven Wilson.

OR, if ya just want the solo...

[darkstar]

8. That is really to my tastes.

So thanks. I have a buddy really into Wilson, so I might have heard it before while we were jibber-jabbering, but it really is special, ain’t it?

[LA Blue Bengal]

13. Big fan of

Steven Wilson and Guthrie Govan here

[hermetic]

16. Ooooh, that was pretty

Never heard it before but bookmarking it now. Thanks!

[Ferrets are Cool]

60. Steven Wilson's catalog is immense. You will not be disappointed going down that rabbit hole.

[ProfessorGAC]

25. Guthrie Is Lesser Known To The Masses

But, in guitar circles he's godlike. Like he's Thor & the guitar is his hammer.
He is amazing!

[Ferrets are Cool]

61. I agree 100%.

This always blows me away every time I watch it:

[John Ludi]

32. Nice!

Love Porcupine Tree and Wilson's work in general.

[Eko]

35. Man I'm so jaded when it comes to guitar solos.

I spent the last 38 years playing music, went to school for it, worked in the industry for about 35 years still do, 5 days a week I hear people playing,taught music, had some of the best teachers there are and that solo effing rocked. It really starts at 5:06 and the video below the first one misses a lot of the beginning which is some of the best playing on that solo. His use of bends is perfect, he pre-bends and swallows notes to make it sound like a slide guitar. I cant remember the last time I heard a solo and thought, yup, that's a 9.7 let alone anything past a 8. Ive listened to him before but I must have missed the good stuff somehow. I've got one for you, he even mentions Guthrie as a inspiration and you can hear it with his work to make it sound like a slide guitar.
5 min is when it gets really good but give the whole thing a watch if you can, the keyboardist goes awesome at about 4min.

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[Hey Joe]

9. The Tubes

Talk to ya later- two guitar solos
One in the middle and the ending solo.
Just awesome!

[darkstar]

10. Looked it up and it sounds like it's

Lukether on guitar. Always liked it myself, but never knew who played it.

[ProfessorGAC]

26. Steve Lukather!

This was the song I was going to post. Now I don't have to.
Bill Spooner does a great job of miming it in the video but Lukather played nearly all the guitar parts on that song.
Since you didn't post the video, I'll add it so others can hear what you're talking about.
The first solo starts at 3:29; the outri solo begins at 4:04.

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[ms liberty]

33. From the Completion Backward Principle. Produced by David Foster, with

His favorite session musicians sitting in. History knows them as Toto. They also played on The Tubes next album, their 2nd David Foster produced album, Outside Inside. That's the one "She's a Beauty " is on.
Foster was able to rein in their campiness and gave them some structure, and it turned Completion Backward Principle into what I think is their best album. I love it. It's in my top 10 best albums ever.

[LA Blue Bengal]

11. Uli Jon Roth in Scorpions' "Sails of Charon"

I’ve been digging into 70s era Scorpions lately. Roth was heavily influenced by Jimi Hendrix, so it’s an entirely different vibe:

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[darkstar]

14. Cool!

Never knew they had what feels to me a proggier side. Thanks for hipping me to it!

[WA-03 Democrat]

12. Mick Taylor

the best guitarist the Stones ever had

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[darkstar]

15. Agreed regarding MT!

Can’t You Hear Me Knocking is on that album, right? Beyond the Stones, one of my favorite solos of all time. This one is tasty too!

[amerikat]

38. Beat me to it.

Outstanding guitar.

[hermetic]

18. I have long been fascinated

by the guitar solo at the end of this song. Such nimble fingers. It's hard to find a video that goes all the way to the end but this should work:

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[darkstar]

19. A classic fer sure!

[Midnight Writer]

20. Ice - Camel Andy Latimer puts it all together for this one.

Crying To the Sky - Bebop Deluxe Bill Nelson cranks it to 11

Lights Out - UFO Micheal Schenker shreds.

What Is a Woman's Role - Trapeze Mel Galley plays the lead on this one

Summer Elegy - Richard Wright Snowy White does the honors

Solid Ice - Jimmy Thackery Jimmy digs into his bag of techniques and displays them all in a 10-minute instrumental

Lotus Feet - Mahavishnu Orchestra John McLaughlin nails this whimsical solo on a synth-axe

[darkstar]

21. That's a lot to get through

but I know I dig me some Camel, and after checking Lotus Feet, yeah that is sweet and, as you say, whimsical.

Thanks!

[Midnight Writer]

22. What can I say? I am a big fan of guitar music. I could list dozens of amazing performances.

[hermetic]

23. Here's some awesome guitaring...

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[darkstar]

39. Had forgotten about that one!

Great choice.

[Leghorn21]

55. One of the best of all excellent jams of the 20th century, hands down, I can air guitar the shit out of this one!!!!

A+++++, hermetic!!

[DEbluedude]

27. Intro to Lou Reed's Sweet Jane

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[Charlie Chapulin]

41. Oh, ya. Tasty lick, that one.

[John1956PA]

58. I posted below a reference to a mashup of that number with . . .

. . . a Native American themed Jazz number by Jim Pepper. The artist who did the mashing was the incredibly talented Michael Stanley.

[Easterncedar]

28. What a great question

I am appreciating the answers

[Maninacan]

29. Keller Williams

Mary Jane's last dance.

[darkstar]

43. I see...

Just ran off to listen to it and it a medley of two TP songs. Sweet picking throughout.

[John Ludi]

30. UK In the Dead of Night

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[John Ludi]

31. Marillion - Easter

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[bbernardini]

34. Frank Zappa - Any Kind Of Pain

While slightly edited, I believe the solo is from one performance. The improvisation so good Mike Keneally played it note-for-note like a composed part for the "Zappa's Universe" tribute concerts 5 years later.

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[Ferrets are Cool]

62. Frank is so underappreciated as a guitarist.

[Morbius]

36. Michael Schenker (UFO)

Rock Bottom

I call this an intelligent guitar solo.

[D. Spaulding]

64. Yes!

I was at the Chicago show that was recorded for the UFO "Strangers in the Night" album. One of the best solos of all time in my view.

[Charlie Chapulin]

37. Armageddon Silver Tightrope

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[Charlie Chapulin]

40. Long song, comes at the end.

[Earl_from_PA]

42. Jesse Ed Davis

On Jackson Browne's Dr. My Eyes...

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[moniss]

47. Just saw a nice mention of him on an interview of

Bobby Whitlock.

[Botany]

45. Chet Atkins and Mark Kopfler

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[Buckeye_Democrat]

67. My (deceased) father's two favorite guitarists!

I was a teenager in the early 80's who didn't like country music, and who knew.almost nothing about Chet Atkins. But I liked rock groups like Dire Straits.

One day, I was playing a Dire Straits album on my stereo. Dad stopped to listen as he was walking by, and he asked me who was playing the guitar? "He's really talented!" He could also tell, just from listening for a minute or so, that Knopfler was a "finger picker" (like how my Dad played guitar).

My father was in his 40's when I was born in the late-60's, so he always seemed old and out of touch with modern culture when I was a teenager. But to my surprise, Dad soon thereafter had Dire Straits cassette tapes in his car! He bought them on his own. I just happened to come across them in his car months later.

In the mid-50's, long before I came along, Dad sang and played guitar on a local radio station when they had weekend talent contests. Mom eventually put an end to it because she heard teenage girls screaming in the background after Dad started to perform. Hearing that story REALLY blew my mind! Dad would smile and say (I think jokingly) that he was Elvis "before there was an Elvis", at least until Mom put an end to it.

[Brother Buzz]

48. John McFee Playing Chicken Butt with Clover

Note the new harp player, Huey Lewis laying down some serious licks.

[moniss]

49. Gary Moore with John Mayall "So Many Roads"

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[moniss]

50. Al Kooper "As The Years Go Passing By"

Al on the Hammond, Fender guitar and piano. Those pops and ticks let you know it's a real deal from the LP.

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[moniss]

51. Gary Richrath and REO Live in 1976 "Golden Country"

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[Earl_from_PA]

59. Gary was one of the most

underrated guitarist of all time. And he died far too young.

[moniss]

52. Jim Krueger with Dave Mason "All Along The Watchtower"

We lost Dave on April 19th. RIP.

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[bobalew]

53. Damn! That was quite an enjoyable ride down memory lane!

Thanks everybody!

[John1956PA]

54. The Allman Brothers Band, "Seven Turns"

[Sewa]

56. Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush - Something's Comin' Our Way

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[John1956PA]

57. Michael Stanley, "Sweet Jane / Wichi Tai To" mashup

[BWdem4life]

63. Here's one for ya

[D. Spaulding]

65. One of my favorites from Alex Lifeson of Rush;

La Villa Strangiato

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

66. Cause We've Ended as Lovers

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[VGNonly]

68. Beck's Bolero

The backing band isn't too shabby either.

[Tikki]

69. "Louie, Louie". 1963 Paul Revere and the Raiders..

Guitar break by then PR&TR'S Guitarist Steven West.

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Tikki

[tanyev]

71. Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover