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Well as for my favourite guitar solo i would say that the one in U.D.O's Heart Of Gold or SLAYER's-Die By The Sword and WINTERHAWK's-Free To Live.My favourite guitarrists were always:
1)Randy Rhoads
2)Criss Oliva
4)Jerry Fogle(Cirith Undol)
5)Matthias Dieth(Gravestone,U.D.O,Sinner)
6)Jordan Macarus(Winterhawk)
7)Michael Denner
8)Adrian Smith
9)Wolf Hoffmann
10)Wylum Pearson(Taist Of Iron)
11)Jeff Hannemann

My favorite solo is BLACKFOOT "Highway Song"

My fave guitarists are :
Michael Schenker
Ritchie Blackmore
Ace Frehley
Randy Rhoads
Gary Holt & Rick Unholt
Randy Rhoads
Trey Azagtoth

Guitarists:
ULI ROTH
RANDY RHOADS
BRIAN MAY

Favorite solo? Difficult to pick just one. I'll name a few that come to my mind right now:

SCORPIONS - Longing for fire
JUDAS PRIEST - Rock hard ride free
IRON MAIDEN - Quest for fire
NIGHTMARE - Running for the deal
ION BRITTON - Night frite
QUEEN - March of the black queen, I want it all
RUSH - Between the wheels
TITAN FORCE - Fields of valor

Strange. The one (?) thing typically Metal that I never cared much about is guitar solos. Solos = jazz / Riffing = Metal. Will develop this thesis further when sober..

The ones that bring the melody with "out of this world" emotions and feeling are for me:

Jerry Fogle from Cirith Ungol &
Alan Jones from Pagan Altar

Best guitarist: Michelangelo Batio (this one's for you tomas )


Best solo: The solo in 'To the wall' on Sepultura's Schizophrenia album (but have to be honest that this choice differs from time to time, depending on wich album I'm listening too )

Maybe not the technically most awesome stuff around, but I always found Rev. Nice's (DEEP SWITCH) solos to be very memorable.

it know it's a cliché but those slayer solos do it every time!

as for the remark about m. batio: HAHAHAHA ...

xr2m wrote:Maybe not the technically most awesome stuff around, but I always found Rev. Nice's (DEEP SWITCH) solos to be very memorable.

I'm with you, totally!

My favourite guitar solo ever is the one right before the last verse in "Borderline" by Gotham City. It is full of power, energy, emotion and melody and is the natural climax of the song - and thus of the album - and thus of heavy metal.

Some of my favourite guitar players when it comes to solo/lead work are Michael Denner and Criss Oliva.

But I'm partly with Dan here. Solos as such are overrated and bands do 'em to often. In many cases a song would have done better without the solo. Who thought it would be a good idea for a mediocre guitarist without a clue should play a senseless mish-mash of random tones for 30 seconds+ in every song? I don't know, but the idea sucked.

But a great solo can be pure heaven if you have a great guitar player who actually writes great solos with melody and structure that are a part of the song and not just some noise that we would have been better off without thrown upon the song.

No band can even come close to JUDAS PRIEST on this topic (just like in every other topic ever created).
I mean, to do such fantastic melodic solos like for example Dreamer Deceiver and Beyond the realms of death in ´76/´78 would be enough for this. Then listen to what they did 10-15 years later with the solos of Reckless, Ram it down, Painkiller, All guns blazing etc. The scales and intervals used are just so morbid and metallic!
The solos on Angel of retribution are all fucking perfect as well, with Demonizer, Judas rising and Lochness at the very top.
They really have something to say with their solos, which is a very rare phenomenon I think.

Perhaps they are not the best technically, but ware masters of their craft and innovators, never to forget that were very inspired:

Blackmoore of Purple (well technically is great)
Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath
Glen and KK of Judas
Dave and Adrian of Iron Maiden
Brian May of Queen
Mantas of Venom
Quorthon of Bathory
Blackfire of Sodom/Kreator
Mille of Kreator
Mal Spooner of Demon
Kevin of Angel Witch
Mick Mars of motley Crue

Of course there are many, but these ones are the ones I can remeber right now

Best Solo - Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd perhaps?

Best Guitarist?

Bill Steer
David Gilmour
Dave Murray & Adrian Smith
Jeff Hanneman
Dave Mustaine
Hetfield & Hammet
Nocturno Culto
Ronnie LeTekro (TNT)
Schenker & Jabs

just some that come to mind

msp wrote: Ronnie LeTekro (TNT)

just some that come to mind

Yeah!!!TNT RULEZ!!!

YNGWIE J. MALMSTEEN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!