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Kooltrane Jun 28 2013 at 7:55 PM	There are way too many to name but here are 5 that are influential as well as particularly mind-boggling IMHO: PM: Song For Bilbao on Travels Clapton: Crossroads w/Cream Wes Montgomery: Unit 7/Smokin @ The Half Note D. Allman: Whipping Post/Live at Fillmore East Beck: Diamond Dust/Blow By Blow Any others?
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djangocat Jul 09 2013 at 6:49 AM	I agree that the Something solo by George Harrison is a great solo. It fits the song perfectly as do so many of his solos! It is so melodic like Pat’s solos are, although Pat’s are more complex.
franksexton Jul 08 2013 at 4:23 PM	zappa- shut up and play your guitar, shut up and play your guitar some more and return of the son of shut up and play your guitar, willie the pimp. hendrix - hear my train a comin’ from Blues, who knows from Band of Gypsies. Almond Brothers - in memory of elizabeth reed from Live at the Filmore. santana/claptin - eyesight to the blind from Crossroads Live
ZMan Jul 07 2013 at 5:08 PM	If "influential" and "mind boggling" are the criteria, then Eruption has to be on the list. Every single guitarist who heard Van Halen’s self-titled debut in 1978, jaw dropped in utter disbelief. It was ground-breaking, game changing and just flat out mind blowing all at once.
blisterfree Jul 05 2013 at 1:51 PM	Frank Zappa - Watermelon in Easter Hay and Black Napkins come to mind, especially.
fredsimon Jul 05 2013 at 1:47 AM	Jimi - Red House - Hendrix In the West ... OMG & WTF, like they say.
DCTWMT Jul 04 2013 at 7:33 AM	George Harrison’s solo on "Something". Pure beauty, and shows you don’t have to always play at 200mph.
zargb5 Jul 02 2013 at 6:54 PM	1. Pat’s 80/81 track 2. Hendrx voodoo chile slight return 3. Allan Holdsworth devil take the hindmost 4. Jimmy page dazed and confused 5. robben ford revelation 6. eric johnson cliffs of dover 7. shawn lane rice with the angels 8. david torn snapping the hollow reed 9. clapton stormy monday 10. scott henderson the neccessary blonde theres too many to mention ive left out buckethead, john scofield, jeff beck, kurt rosenwinkel, django to name but a few
tomm Jul 02 2013 at 9:05 AM	Another great overlooked solo of Pat’s is "Nascente" on the Michael Brecker album "The Nearness of You."
BobSmith Jul 01 2013 at 6:53 PM	Pat’s GR-300 solo on "Story from a Stranger" has always been my favorite of his many on the synth. Pat always brings out the Roland at the perfect moment in a given piece but this one just really stands the test of time with its emotional intensity and craftsmanship (coming in at the most perfect moment in the song for maximum impact). To me, it’s kind of the Roland equivalent to arguably his most memorable solo ever, from "It’s for You".
sunship Jul 01 2013 at 9:16 AM	Oh and of course the two solos on "Sariel’ off of "Tap". That is some of the best playing I have heard from Pat. There is that long held note that just bites into you! It isnt serious jazz lines, but it doesnt matter, it is some of the best playing from Pat. It speaks volumes.
sunship Jul 01 2013 at 9:13 AM	Yes Harn - Harbor lights has a great solo in it. I like it so much, because it seems radically different then Metheny’s approach. Perhaps it is because he is playing the Roland. Maybe it changes his approach.
sunship Jul 01 2013 at 9:12 AM	How can we leave out Jimi Hendrix? I mean every single solo has something very interesting. He redefined the way an electric guitar could be played. The emotion on the records puts him in a building with very few peers. But if you want to pin me down, how about "All Along The Watchtower"?
harn Jun 30 2013 at 1:11 PM	One of my favourite Pat solos, well actually he plays two in the same song, one in the middle and one at the end and they’re both killer, is on the title track of Bruce Hornsby’s Harbour Lights, every note is perfectly placed and his phrasing is exquisite. I really like Steve Hackett on Firth Of Fifth and I feel compelled to mention Andy Summers as along with PM he has had more of an influence on me than any other guitar player, he’s not generally known for solos but Driven To Tears and Bombs Away from The Police’s Zenyatta Mondatta are superb, again great phrasing. I’m sure I read somewhere that Pagey had those opening few notes of the Stairway solo worked out prior to recording and he did a handful of takes beginning with that and then chose the one with most spirit, it is great there’s no denying!
blisterfree Jun 29 2013 at 10:10 PM	I will have to check out that Gary Thomas piece - thanks! As for Secret Beach, I completely agree, but went with Toward the Light off that disc instead. And as long as we’re stepping out of the jazz idiom with Led Zep, I feel compelled to put a word in for every note Ritchie Blackmore ever played on the Perfect Strangers record.
BobSmith Jun 29 2013 at 8:12 PM	Well you would have to include Jimmy Page’s solo in Stairway to Heaven. I remember reading somewhere where Pat said he really loved that solo too. In one of the Zep books it says that Page did that one on a first take standing right in front of one of the the studio monitors jacked way up, with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth. Did it on one of his Telecasters too, not his famous Sunburst Les Paul.
jwmusic Jun 29 2013 at 1:11 PM	Two Pat Metheny solos that might be overlooked: "You Don’t Know What Love Is" from Till We Have Faces (Gary Thomas)and "Secret Beach" from Metheny/Mehldau Quartet.
blisterfree Jun 29 2013 at 2:23 AM	As far as Pat and PMG go, Song for Bilboa comes in near the top, for sure, not the least because it’s a live take; who other than Pat could pull that off? Other great solos in no particular order, and picking the quintessential one from each PMG album currently on my iPod: American Garage, End of the Game, Imaginary Day, Spring Ain’t Here, AYGWM, Lone Jack, Language of Time, Half Life of Absolution, As It Is, Third Wind, To The End of the World. Also... Bright Size Life, Tears of Rain, Longest Summer, Toward the Light, and Sariel, to name just a few from Pat’s outside projects.
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