Best Guitar Solo of the 80s?

[Dolan]

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Autograph-Turn Up the Radio is a great solo. Wasnt the best song in the world but the solo was great. Adrian Vandenburg-Welcome To The Club is another cool solo.

[npacheco]

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I don't know why, but my two favorites were Wolf Hauffman (sp?) on Accept's Metal Heart and Reb Beach on Winger's Seventeen. Those two solos just blended with the song so well. The continued where the song was going, then took you off on a little journey, and then brought you back into the song.

I liked a lot of Meniketti's stuff too. The solo for I Believe In You is cool.

Not to get off on too much of a tangent, but about a month ago, I had a dream that a bunch of people asked me to play the guitar. Well I'm just a beginner and don't really know how to play anything. In my dream I knew I didn't know how to play anything, but still picked up a sweet gold Les Paul and starting playing this killer solo. Didn't realize what I was playing, but about two days after my dream I was driving to work and I threw on Y & T Best of '81 to '85 and was listening to I Believe In You, and it was what I had played note-for-note in my dream. I almost wrecked when I said to myself, "Holy crap, that is the EXACT solo from my dream the other night!"

Sorry for the tangent, back to this thread...

[JacksonConcept]

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Couldn't pick one.
Jake E. Lee - Bark at the Moon
Iron Maiden - Wasted Years, Trooper, Aces High..many more
Judas Priest - Electric Eye, Screaming for Vengeance,..etc
George Lynch - In My Dreams, Tooth and Nail..many others
Randy Rhoads - All of em kick ass......
Van Halen - Too many badass solos to count

Way too many to list IMHO.

[jgcable]

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I always liked the solo from 25 or Six to 4. Can't remember if it was 70's or 80's though. [img]/images/graemlins/scratchhead.gif[/img]

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It was the 70's and it is my favorite guitar solo of all time. It was the sole inspiration for me to initially pick up the guitar. Thanks for bringing it up!!! [img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]

[jgcable]

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Awesome rock story's..I can't belive Stevens is that kind of a dick...I saw hin on Stearn a while back , he's a strange bird...but a hell of a player...and I thought Alexi Laiho was a tool..

These guys ain't no big Rock Stars but I'm, hanging with Nevemore on their bus...they are sharing the bus with Arch Enemy. So Jeff is showing me around and where everyone sleeps...there is ONLY one private little room in the back and they draw straws or some shit for that one. So he opens the door to show me inside and Johan Liva is getting a hummer...and he growled just like he does on the records..."heyyyyyy what the fuckkkkkkkkkk maaaannnnnn!"...At this time Warrel walks on the bus and asks me ...HEY DUDE...you know where I gan get some good blow for our swedish buds...Jeff knows I'm a cop and starts fuckin' with Warrel , all serious lookin ' , so I go along and pull the badge all serious lookin' ..and he turns white as a fuckin' ghost ...and says ..."wha whaa what that fuck man ..Oh shit what the hell is goin' on!!!"..he was freaked!!! [img]/images/graemlins/what.gif[/img]

it looked like he was going to have a stroke ...so I laughed my ass off , he was confuses , then relieved ..that is when I just met Warell....he's a silly bastage.

So many awesome solos back in the 80's...Greg Howe and MacAlpine kicked my ass back in the day..they both put out band efforts ...alot of blazing solos..but the song writing was cheezy but not as bad as Nitro.... hell that stuff sucked...the solos were cool...but damn that was some aweful crap!

The Scream was cool...Bruce of Racer X kicked ass...cool solos on that stuff..I really like Rough Cutt too..especialy the first album..the solos on Take Her are cool..

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I was a dick to the fans myself. Especially when my band was really popular. I was only interested in ripping up my guitar and ripping into the chicks. Fuck off was a common statement out of my mouth. I actually loathed hanging with the audience unless they were the girls I was flicking picks at. My picks had a lightning bolt and my phone number on them. What a pompous dick. I did bag more chicks than the Colonel though!

[charvelguy]

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I always liked the solo from 25 or Six to 4. Can't remember if it was 70's or 80's though. [img]/images/graemlins/scratchhead.gif[/img]

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It was the 70's and it is my favorite guitar solo of all time. It was the sole inspiration for me to initially pick up the guitar. Thanks for bringing it up!!! [img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]

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He inspired me the same way Hendrix inspired other guys to begin playing, well him, and host of other like Kiss & Blackmore. The guy definitely had soul & fire.

I recall seeing Chicago on TV (I think Don Kirschners) in the 70's. This guy was playing this wild painted Les Paul with triangles and other shapes/crap on it long before EVH was doing the stripes thing.

John.. a phone number on a guitar pick? We used to put the band hotline on picks (std answering machine message) but never our personal phone, that would invite disaster, especially with a live in... [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[npacheco]

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Oh, I forgot about the "dueling" guitars on the intro to Tesla's "Cumin' Atcha Live". The solo on that song is awesome too.

Giant's "I'm A Believer" has a cool intro, and I love the way it just leads into the song...

[charvelguy]

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Dan Huff, I completely forgot about him.
Harry Cody of Shotgun Messiah too-Heartbreak Blvd come to mind-those are probably 90's, possibly very late 80's.

[GodOfRhythm]

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How about

'The Killing Hand'

[dinkyjacksonman]

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Dann Huff rules big fukking time.
How about Sykes?
"Is this Love" of Whitesnake was a killer solo.
Also "crying in the rain"
Amazing player and very underrated IMO.

[markD]

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for me it's the solo section of Iron Maiden's "powerslave" - the song, not the record. i always loved that one and it is what inspired me to play guitar. it still does.

[Razor]

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Ok, not an 80's solo, but an early 90's solo by an 80's guitarist...Lynch's solo on "When Darkness Calls" on the self titled second Lynch Mob album. Blows me away every time I here it. Hands down my favorite solo.

Just a few more of my favorites

Randy Rhoads "Over the Mountain"
George Lynch "Heaven Sent"
George Lynch "Into the Fire"
Warren DeMartini "Shame, Shame, Shame"
Warren DeMartini "Wanted Man"
Warren DeMartini "Round and Round"
Warren DeMartini "Lay It Down"
Dave Meniketti "L.A. Rocks"
Mick Mars "Home Sweet Home"
Jake E. Lee "Bark at the Moon"

I'm stopping now.

[paulbag]

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off the top of my head, the solo's in "good mourning black friday" courtesy of chris poland and megadeth. [img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]

[GodOfRhythm]

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The solo in Practice What You Preach (song) is pretty damn amazing.

[bombtek]

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Ya'll can say whoever whatever ya want .....ya Ed and and that guy with unspellable name and wicked fast fingahs were the two that everyone wanted to be like.....but the MOST killer solo of that time .....without a doubt....no quarter given......was definately Jake E Lee in Bark at the moon.....I mean C'mon...there is no equal to the soloing in that song..pffft all the rest who disagree.....yer all wrong lol. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
Flame away lol