The greatest single note in guitar solo history

CaseOfAce

stickyfiddle said:

For those outside the demographic of "old people who can't see past classic rock" - any of the first notes in the following... 

Oasis - Slide Away 
Muse - Plug In Baby 
U2 - With or Without You

That is classic rock stickyfiddle. 
That couldn't be any more classic rock than if it had just staggered thru the door wearing leather trousers with a loose fitting scarf whilst swigging a bottle of jack daniels and flicking peace signs...
before playing a :Les Paul guitar whilst it shoots fire out of the headstock...

BillDL

The false harmonic squawk at exactly 1:52 in the video below of Walter Trout - Kill The Monkey gives me goosepimples.  It's just as he's stepping into the guitar solo after the harmonica finishes.  In fact his solo is riddled with them and his guitar sound is so thick and juicy it's almost as though he is wringing the notes out of the neck.

Boromedic

Hetfields held note (after a banging solo) at the end of Nothing Else Matters, I know it's ebowed but its class none the less.

Jonathangus

fastonebaz said:

The beginning of Angus' 2nd solo in Touch to much and the beginning of the final solo in Walk all over you.

Acdc

If we're talking Angus, I'd like to nominate the A note in the live version of Bad Boy Boogie (from If You Want Blood), which he plays, and then obviously likes it so much that he plays it another couple of hundred times in succession.  

stratman3142

I've got two contenders:

Paul Kossoff, Free Live - The Hunter: The first bend/vibrato.

Or

Ty Tabor, Kings X - Over My Head: The first bend in the second solo, which occurs at 2:03 in the clip below

stickyfiddle

CaseOfAce said:

stickyfiddle said:

For those outside the demographic of "old people who can't see past classic rock" - any of the first notes in the following... 

Oasis - Slide Away 
Muse - Plug In Baby 
U2 - With or Without You

That is classic rock stickyfiddle. 
That couldn't be any more classic rock than if it had just staggered thru the door wearing leather trousers with a loose fitting scarf whilst swigging a bottle of jack daniels and flicking peace signs...
before playing a :Les Paul guitar whilst it shoots fire out of the headstock...

You know what I mean. Chaps that won't listen to anything that came out after Back in Black, and think vocals are just the bit between guitar solos... 

fastonebaz

Jonathangus said:

fastonebaz said:

The beginning of Angus' 2nd solo in Touch to much and the beginning of the final solo in Walk all over you.

Acdc

If we're talking Angus, I'd like to nominate the A note in the live version of Bad Boy Boogie (from If You Want Blood), which he plays, and then obviously likes it so much that he plays it another couple of hundred times in succession.  

I a lways felt their live in Paris versions we're the pinnacle.  Bad boy boogie breakdown in that version is glorious. 

equalsql

JezWynd said:

Ronson peaking on Moonage Daydream.

Absolutely this! 

FarleyUK

Parisienne Walkways - THAT held bend.

richardhomer

Opening note of the solo on Eric Clapton’s studio version of Holy Mother.

TTBZ

If a mute with a stuttery delay thing counts, then that bit on the main riff of MOR by Blur is so cool. 

Also if a chord with wah counts then that bit of Bulls On Parade by RATM. 

I think @ICBM wins with that Sabbath one though!

AK99

stickyfiddle said:

You know what I mean. Chaps that won't listen to anything that came out after Back in Black, and think vocals are just the bit between guitar solos... 

Hey - I resemble that remark...

Thusly. Schenker's opening note from Let it Roll - the original studio version.

Grumpyrocker

The long sustained feedback note at the beginning of Flying In a Blue Dream.

markv

My nomination is the stunning harmonic Neil Young wrings of Old Black at about 2:38 in the Weld version of "Hey Hey, My My". Never fails to send chills down my spine.

gordiji

I always used to wait with anticipation for this note at 4.33 precisely ! The whole passage is mesmorising though.

LPManic

If we are talking about a single note in a solo, then really we should be talking about the single D note in Cinnamon Girl.

idiotwindow

Some good suggestions but surely bends are not single notes?

MagicPigDetective

Yes here I am again with another Soundgarden selection …. Slaves and Bulldozers, Kim Thayil’s frenzied,barely in control wah soaked single note at the start of the solo at 4:16. takes the song to another level of intensity and exhilaration.

https://youtu.be/AEM-1kKcg7g

DarnWeight

Three pages in and no Cinnamon Girl?  It's the de facto reductive guitar solo of the ages!

digitalkettle

DarnWeight said:

Three pages in and no Cinnamon Girl?  It's the de facto reductive guitar solo of the ages!

Fell down a hole I never expected to: searched for Neil Young on Spotify...doh!

I've never really listened closely to this...was hoping, as it's only one note, that he'd manage to play in-tune for once