What are the best drum or guitar solos of all time.

Illinois Enema Bandit

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idk really what to post because stunt guitar solos rarely are difficult to play & based on simple pentatonic scale like 90% of bucket heads stuff,flashy yes by difficult no,a player such as bucket head don't hold a candle to warren cucurillo from Duran Duran or virtually unknown Mike Keneally,here's a beautiful solo by Kenally & one of my all time favorites,check Mikes picking style & the emotional notes he picked
and mike here again just delivering a blisteringly unique solo
and then we have soulful players like relatively unknown Dweezil Zappa just killing a standard blues run making it anything but standard boring blues
then for stunt guitar the master Steve via delivering one of his best solos ever with pure stunt guitar

and before people laugh at Duran Duran being a band full of idiots groove on some warren cucurillo first with this shred


same with drums,Neil Peart is a good drummer but nowhere near close to the master class of drummers,I'll touch off some drummmers in another post.

watch those links if u want 2 get turned on to some monsters of guitar
 

Illinois Enema Bandit

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to get into the masterclass drummers a good start is with Terry Bozzio,bozzio is a full conseorvatory trained percussionist with obscene skills

another bozzio clip with him playing his
full kit


here's another with Terry playing his small octoplus kit & killing it


and finally Terrys most famous performance

 
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Illinois Enema Bandit

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and for the serious master class of drums guitar & vocals are these 2 smoking hot pieces of music with Frank Zappa & drummer Chad Whackerman just destroying it.

note as with all Zappa works the song is a composed piece of music,each riff,flan,buzz roll etc all written on piano & transcribed for each instrument ,the vocals on " I come from nowhere are written to be off key,I've got $500 reward for the 1st guitar player to transcribe the guitar solo in this masterpiece,I've yet to hear a rock song come close to the obscene licks played here by Frank Zappa's gang

I come from nowhere


and dig this little dittys dual solos between Zappa & Steve Via,absolute masterworks.

ship arriving too late to save a drowning witch

 
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