What is the first guitar solo you remember catching your attention?

[sunvalleylaw]

You know, the one that said, "Whoa!, that rocks!"

I'll be honest. For me, the earliest one I can remember is this:

[msteeln]

I saw Peter do his Comes Alive show at the Pamona fairgrounds the night before he recorded the Frisco gig that became the world record breaking seller. Brownsville Station goofed it up, then PF, a drunk and fun Lynyrd Skynyrd, and a killer Black Sabbath.
My first head turning guitar solo was something by Scotty Moore, due to all the Elvis my baby sitting cousin played.
Then she dated Dick Dale and the fuse was lit!

[tunghaichuan***]

I discovered Pink Floyd the first year I went to high school, which was 1980. The Wall had just been released the previous year.

"Comfortably Numb" was my favorite song for a long because of the solos. The second solo/outro was my favorite. It took me a long time to appreciate the first solo.

[BigJD]

AC/DC Long way to the top. Bagpipes and guitar trading off was way cool back then.

[t_ross33]

Luther Perkins on "Folsom Prison Blues", Don Rich on "Buckaroo", James Burton on "Working Man Blues".

My Dad was a huge country fan (and a damn fine musician) and I grew up listening to Johnny, Buck, and Merle. The sounds of that era have left a lasting impression on me.

[Tig***]

I had the Frampton Comes Alive album as a kid when it first came out, and dug it. I liked most of the songs, and the solos were cool, but the heaviness of "I'll Give You Money" attracted me.

However, the first solo that really caught my attention was the year before, "Bohemian Rhapsody".

[deeaa*]

Hm...could be some solo on some Michael Jackson track on Thriller...the one EVH plays.

[Spudman***]

I was 12 in 1972 and blown away.

[sunvalleylaw]

I was blown away by that one too, but not until I heard it in like '79 in the high school lunch room.

What is it about middle school and this? Spud, at 12, you were in middle school at the time Yes got your attention, as I was in middle school when Frampton got mine.

[R_of_G]

Richards' solo on "Sympathy for the Devil" was one I remember loving as a kid. I thought that tone was the coolest thing ever.

The other one that really opened up my eyes was the first time as a teenager I heard Robert Quine's solo on the Voidoid's "Blank Generation." Not a flashy solo. Not a long solo. Just a solo that sounded so different than anything I'd heard before.

[marnold***]

I don't know if I remember the first solo that really struck me. I do remember the first sound that really struck me. It was George Lynch's pinch harmonics at the beginning of Dokken's otherwise lamentable "Burning like a Flame." Loved them ever since. Screeeeeeeam!

[Duffy]

Probably would have to be "Pipeline", the old surf song played by Dick Dale and others including SRV.

[Katastrophe]

It's gotta be something off of Fleetwood Mac's live album... My stepdad had this cool Trans Am with T-tops, and we'd blast that cassette on road trips. Lindsey Buckingham's guitar work was my first exposure to rock music with solos...

[Ch0jin]

My memory is a bit hazy, but I'm reasonably sure it would have been something from Dark Side of the Moon or Led Zep IV, as aside from American Pie, they were the first two albums I can remember borrowing off a friend at school and riding home with up my shirt. It's horribly cliche' but if I have to pick, it was probably Mr Page in Whole Lotta Love.

[sunvalleylaw]

It's horribly cliche' but if I have to pick, it was probably Mr Page in Whole Lotta Love.

Cool! That is the thing, it does not matter if it is cheesy, since presumably we were all kids when it happened. It is what one grabbed you first that you remember. Good answer.

In fact, I like all the answers. I was wondering when a surf song was gonna come up. The only other answer I can think of is something off of "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", which I know has some good guitar. But I can't think of a specific song, and any parts I think of are piano. So I went with Frampton.

[Eric***]

That's a good question. I didn't really get into music until I was in high school (94). Before then I just heard the oldies station that my mom would play in the car, but I never paid attention to anything outside of the obvious melodies like in Beatles songs.

But anyway, I guess it would be Weezer or something. Maybe the guitar solo in "Buddy Holly?" Honestly though, I don't think I really noticed a guitar solo until I heard that STP song "Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart." Probably a weird first guitar solo to catch my attention, but whatever.

[60's guy]

I think it was http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIuIIqbyEIU

OMG! I am old!

[bcdon***]

My Dad was a huge country fan (and a damn fine musician) and I grew up listening to Johnny, Buck, and Merle. The sounds of that era have left a lasting impression on me.

I grew up watching Hee Haw and so Roy Clark and Buck Owens were the first guitar players I remember, along with Cash, Merle, Willie, and any other kind of honky-tonk.

[R_of_G]

I grew up watching Hee Haw and so Roy Clark and Buck Owens were the first guitar players I remember, along with Cash, Merle, Willie, and any other kind of honky-tonk.

I remember this Roy Clark bit from when I was a kid. I saw it again recently showing DVDs to my kid and she enjoyed it as well. He's so damn talented it's ridiculous.