Concise Guitar Solos

[THX1123]

I like concise, song-serving solos.

Elliot Easton provides a good example of this concept on lots of Cars songs, but this one in particular:



And this one also:



Any others?

 

[Boxla]

I think one of the best concise solos is Brad Nowell's on Sublime's Santeria. It's one of those solos that non-guitars players know every note of. He also has a great concise solos on Ebin, Badfish and What I Got

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Here's a concise banjo solo (2:00) followed by a concise electric guitar solo (2:14). A two-fer!

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

And Joe Walsh tunes outside the Eagles are full of 'em.

 

[elihu]

I love Andy Summers’ solo on Driven To Tears.

Great tone, great choice of notes…

Perfect.

 

[brookdalebill]

Joe Walsh’s (James Gang) solo on Midnight Man, not a wasted note!
Same goes for James Honeyman-Scott’s solo on (The Pretenders) Kid.

 

[trandy9850]

One of my favorite concise guitar solos….go to 2:25.

 

[Jakedog]

Two days in a row I get to drop a Dan Vickrey guitar masterpiece on the TDPRI. I’ll take it!

To me, this might be the most perfect guitar solo ever.

 

[Old Plank]

Maybe the most concise of all time, George at the 1:00 mark ...

 

[brookdalebill]

Joey Molland on Badfinger’s No Matter What, and Baby Blue.
Roy Nichol’s solo on Merle Haggard’s Mama Tried.
James Burton’s solo on Haggard’s Lonesome Fugitive.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Joe Walsh’s (James Gang) solo on Midnight Man, not a wasted note! . . .

Yup! See post 4.

 

[buster poser]

1:10 or so

 

[Mr. St. Paul]

Luther Perkins - Folsom Prison Blues

Steve Cropper - Time Is Tight

Keef - Sympathy For the Devil

 

[brookdalebill]

Dickey Betts’ first solo on Ramblin’ Man.
The first solo on Elvin Bishop’s Fooled Around And Fell In Love, the AM radio cut, not the extended solo.

 

[willietheweirdo]

This song's got three of 'em (the fourth is NOT concise )

 

[THX1123]

 

[Dukex]

The Beatles were masters at this.
So was CCR.

 

[memorex]

 

[Dostradamas]

Concise, what a great word to describe the brothers Young.

\m/ WE ARE NOT WORTHY! \m/

 

[Blue Bill]

I like the first solo on Comfortably Numb: starts at 2:38