your favorite MELODIC solos?

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off the top of my head I will say:

1) Little Fighter - White Lion
2) Superstitious - Europe
3) Another Day - Dream Theater
4) All That I Bleed - Savatage
5) Dominion - Scar Symmetry
 
Goodbye to Romance - Randy Rhoads
Brothers in Arms - Mark Knopfler
When the Children Cry - Vito Bratta
Stairway to Heaven - Jimmy Page
All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
Is This Love - John Sykes
Mother Father - Neil Schon
 
Comfortably Numb
So Many Tears-Dokken
Stone in Love-Journey
Is This Love-Whitesnake
Hotel California
Please Forgive Me-Bryan Adams
Just about any Journey Ballad
ok, I'll admit it...Stairway To Heaven
many more that I can't think of now
 
Can't be specific.


Just about anything Michael Schenker has played.

Every solo on the first Boston album.

Some Ronnie Lee Tekro solo's.

Hotel California.

Anything David Gilmour plays.

Yeah, not feeling EVH when it comes to melodic, he's too off the cuff for me.
 
Brian May- Bohemian Rhapsody
Adrian Vandenberg- Burning Heart
Vito Bratta- Tell Me, Wait, Little Fighter
+1 on Superstitious (Europe)- That was Kee Marcello, right?
Nuno Bettencourt- Song For Love
Scotti Hill (Skid Row)-I Remember You
Frank Hannon (Tesla)- Love Song.
 
crwnedblasphemy":1gxqxycp said:
5) Dominion - Scar Symmetry
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Actually thought of Scar Symmetry even before opening the thread lol. That whole album is one of my favorite metal listens these days. I was thinking of Ghost Prototype II - Deus Ex Machina though. The actual first break solo is a shred fest, but all of the little solos thrown throughout are great and add to the music well.

Second I would have to say Meshuggah - Cadaverous Mastication, the solo section that starts at around the 5:00 mark. You sort of have to listen to the whole thing to get the full effect, as good music usually is that way. Partly because I didn't know Meshuggah had it in them!
 
Just off the top of my head at this moment...


Several of Neil Geraldo's tunes, including "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" and "Promises In the Dark".

Knopfler's "Telegraph Road" and "Romeo and Juliet" from the Live Alchemy recording.

Ritchie Sambora's solos.

The Motels "Only the Lonely"

Tears for Fears "Everybody Wants To Rule the World"

Several Eddie Money tunes

Bunch of U2 songs

John Waite "Change"

Robin George "Heartline"

The Pretenders "Back on the Chain Gang"

Scandal "The Warrior"

Bunch of Honeymoon Suite tunes.

Bunch of Paul Dean's stuff with Loverboy.



I've noticed that many chick singer-fronted bands tend to have lead players who play melodically. Most chicks get bored with mindless wanking..
 
Not sure if its really a solo as the whole song is an instrumental, but I love Santana's Samba Pa Ti
 
I have never heard anybody more melodic than Michael Schenker.
My second choice might be Vito Bratta
 
Who's Cryin' Now - Neal Schon

My favorite solo of all time actually.
 
way too many but here's a couple

Empty Rooms - Gary Moore
Icraus Dream Suite - Yngwie Malmsteen
Tonight solo and outro - Randy Rhoads
Alone Again - Dokken
Burning Heart - Vandenberg

etc. etc...
 
i guess for rock music here's some that come to mind..

Schenker/Uli Roth - anything
Blackmore - Weiss Heim, Maybe Next Time, Wasted Sunsets, Catch the Rainbow
Schon - Faithfully
Greg Howe - The Terrace
Gary Moore - The Loner, Empty Rooms
Hendrix - Watchtower
Eric Johnson - a ton of them
Yngwie - crying, suffer me, miracle of life, Icarus, Amberdawn, Brothers, Majestic Blue, Magic City
Jeff Beck - Nadia, suspension, Declan, The Final Peace, Corpus Christi Carol
Boston - more than a feeling
Zeppelin - Stairway
 
quite a few but off the top of my head

a bunch of tony macalpine solos - mainly stuff off maximum security // edge of insanity/premonition/ and stuff off his other albums too
somewhat underrated, to think he accompanies(or accompanied) vai live on keyboards heh

in flames - zombie inc

shawn lane - get you back // flying pianos

eric johnson - a few of his tracks

metallica - to live is to die - only the james hetfield solo in the middle around 5:30

harem scarem - there was a time

joey tafolla - nine tomorrows - paul gilbert's solo in this around 1:30 is smokin

+1 on cry for you from andy timmons

and whitesnake - the deeper the love
 
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