Great solo's from well known players on slightly more obscure tracks

Luminous

I'm not sure if this topic has been posted before but here's some amazing ( IMO ) playing on tracks you may not have heard.

I'll start with Eric Bell on early Thin Lizzy.

Luminous

Luminous

Jaco on All american alien boy ( solo starts at 1.13ish)

Luminous

Steve Vai on "Ease" by PiL   ( solo starts at 5.34 )

Luminous

I'm not a huge Brian May fan but I think he's wonderfully twisted here ( 3.25)

dogload

Mike Oldfield on lead

vasselmeyer

Four minutes twenty seconds of Gary Moore blazing away on "You Know My Love" from the "Old Ballads New Blues" album. Utterly utterly brilliant and hardly anyone has heard it. Solo starts at 3:04.

siraxeman

Check Brian Mays aweseome solo on this song he played on.. (not Queen)

solo @ 2:53

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJc8DNZEfrA

guitarfishbay

Marty Friedman plays on this Firewind track.  Love the solos from 2:25 onwards.

Guthrie Govan plays a solo on this Periphery track.  Any metal fan under 30 probably already knows about it but others might not!

Chalky

@dogload - love Mike Oldfield so thanks for introducing me to that. My sister worked for a music publisher when Tubular Bells was being pushed for release and about 6 weeks before it was released she got me a copy (black and white label) and said "Try this". Pretty much wore it out!

dogload

@Chalky I'm pleased you like it  

Apparently Tubular Bells was conceived and put together when Oldfield shared a flat with Kevin Ayers in Tottenham - just up the road from where my mate lives as he likes to tell me every time I see him! 

I remember seeing TB in Woolworths when I was a nipper (must have been early 70's) and asking my mum if I could have it. She replied (and I remember her words exactly!): 'It's just a cacophony of sound'. Recently Tubular Bells came up in conversation and she said that she liked it. I felt it my duty to remind her!

EricTheWeary

Luminous;34325" said:

I'm not sure if this topic has been posted before but here's some amazing ( IMO ) playing on tracks you may not have heard.

I'll start with Eric Bell on early Thin Lizzy.

It's a great track but I might take issue with it being described as obscure !
It's a shame Eric ( ooh, great name...) couldn't cope with fame as his playing with Lizzy is fantastic.

Luminous

Slightly more obscure

Chalky

@dogload - TB gestation stories seem to vary a lot! I love the original non-remastered version because it contains so many mistakes and fluffs, allegedly because it was recorded when the studio was free.

fretfinder

Clapton's solo on Holy Mother - much of it is the same bent note but it's rather glorious imho. Solo starts about 3.14

fretfinder

And Mick Ronson on Moonage Daydream, another solo where there's not many notes but boy does it feel right, and there's some excellent bending. Solo starts at 3.14.

SimonC

Steve Lukather on Greg Lake's "It Hurts".

Fantastic solo.

The rest of the album actually features Gary Moore, but this track is definately Luke, despite what others think on Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T6JRNO3Fdg

 

 

richardhomer

fretfinder;519837" said:

Clapton's solo on Holy Mother - much of it is the same bent note but it's rather glorious imho. Solo starts about 3.14

That is possibly my favourite guitar solo of all time! Thanks for posting.

EC was on great form
In the mid-80s:

thomasross20

I love Moonage Daydream! First heard the Racer X version!

Sassafras

Can't think of any particular track but I like most of Mick Taylor's solos. And pretty much anything of Stevie Ray Vaughan.

I also thought Bill Harkleroad (Zoot Horn Rollo) was pretty inventive.

Oh, and Robby Krieger.

When I think about it there are too many too list.

Don't know who played it but I like the guitar on 'She Came in Through the Bathroom Window'. Possibly George Harrison.

axisus

Stevie Ray Vaughan on all the Let's Dance album tracks!

I ..... er ..... even bought a Don Johnson album once because SRV contributed one (or maybe two?) solos.