i would have to say my favorite is the end of we will rock you. the reason this in the 2000's is so you can include any song up until today.

The intro to Metallica's Enter Sandman and One are two of my faves.

Start AND Finish....same song for me..."Eruption" by Van Halen :)

This is like a favorite song thing, to many to mention.  Here are two

Rockport Sunday-Tom Rush
Badge-Clapton

One of my favorite intro's is Guns -n- Roses  Welcome to the Jungle.

Best guitar solo is a toss up between Lynyrd Skynyrd's Free Bird and Led Zep's Stair way to Heaven.

My favourite guitar solos are Kirk Hammett's lead at the end of Metallica's "Fade to Black", Adrian Smith's solo at the end of Iron Maiden's "22 Acacia Avenue" and Slash's classic lead in "Sweet Child O Mine".  :)

Several faves:

Guitar solo + Intro: Loud Love by Soundgarden. Very clever segue of wailing guitar into vocal.
Guitar solo + Intro: the cover of INXS' Don't Change by Grinspoon. Slightly edgier than the original.
Guitar: the playouts (esp. some live concert ones) of Sultans Of Swing and Tunnel Of Love by Dire Straits.
Guitar: playout of Hotel California by The Eagles.

Start me Up-Stones( it always starts me up)

Last dance with Mary Jane - Tom Petty

My favorite guitar into is Beat It By Michael Jackson


Howard

PINK FLOYD CONFORTABLY NUMB!  ESPECIALLY WHEN IT IS LIVE LIKE ON PULSE!

The intro to the Beatles' DAY TRIPPER...as well as the middle part of that song with the vocal harmonies..

the intro to Led Zeppelin's WHOLE LOTTA LOVE!! and the instrumental break where John Bonham really rocks out on drums...!

Favourite intro...'She's Not There' - Zombies (completely unmistakable...!)

Favourite gee-tar solo...'Crawdaddy Simone' - Syndicats (a rarely-heard number by a 60s British group - a severely freaked-out assault on a harmless six-stringed instrument, pre-dating Hendrix's heroics by nearly three years...!! Worth getting hold of...)

I'd have to say the best intro, (if you want to call it that) is Funeral For a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding, of course I love all of Eltons songs, so I'm biased I guess!  ;)

hi jemini! so you are a elton fan!  he sang a song in "the band played on"  movie about the start of aids, have you any idea what it is called?  it is  something like  the love between  father and his son .  i never thought i'd felll this burning in my veins  about the only line in it i remember ! hopefully you can help ? thanks 

  maybe that buring in my veins came from PHILADELHIA  BUT THE LOVE BETWEEN A FATHER AND HIS SON IS THE LINE IN THE SONG

The intro to the Kinks' LOLA

The intro to Santana's version of BLACK MAGIC WOMAN

The subtle intro to Steely Dan's RIKKI DON'T LOSE THAT NUMBER

Santana's Oye Como Va


Howard

I'd have to say the best intro, (if you want to call it that) is Funeral For a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding, of course I love all of Eltons songs, so I'm biased I guess!  ;)


Yes, that is one good intro for a song - '70s style.
;)

This is a good one - two of my favorite intros are Blackfoots "Highway Song" and "Sweet Child O' Mine" from
Guns 'N Roses.  There's a bunch more - my favorite openig riff goes to "Highwat To Hell" from AC/DC.

hi jemini! so you are a elton fan!  he sang a song in "the band played on"  movie about the start of aids, have you any idea what it is called?  it is  something like  the love between  father and his son .   i never thought i'd felll this burning in my veins   about the only line in it i remember ! hopefully you can help ? thanks 


Hey AnchorBay, that would be "The Last Song". Very beautiful, I love that one! :)

INTRO: The Smiths: How Soon Is Now
INTRO: The Smiths: I Started Something I Couldn't Finish
INTRO: Icicle Works: Whisper to a Scream
SOLO: The Beatles: Helter Skelter
SOLO: Fred Frith: No Birds
SOLO: A Flock of Seagulls: The More You Live, The More You Love

"Back In The Saddle"...Aerosmith
"Love Rollercoaster"...Ohio Players
George Thorogood's spoken intro for 'One Bourbon,One Scotch,One Beer'
Intro to "She Sells Sanctuary".....The Cult
Intro to No Doubt's 'Hey Baby'

Best guitar intro
& best guitar-and-keyboard ending
of all time: 

"Layla", Derek and The Dominos (Eric Clapton)

The subtle intro to Steely Dan's RIKKI DON'T LOSE THAT NUMBER


Fyi, and I hope you check it out for the sheer coolness of the song, but the intro to Rikki..... was taken from a 50s jazz song by Horace Silver, called Song for my father.

The guitar solo in Tunnel of Love by Dire Straits.

Guitarist Mark Knopfler is very underrated.  :-\\

Here's a couple I like...

Song intro:
Our House - Madness

Guitar solo:
Strawberry Letter 23 - The Brothers Johnson (guitar solo by Lee Ritenour) 

:)

Best guitar intro
& best guitar-and-keyboard ending
of all time: 

"Layla", Derek and The Dominos (Eric Clapton)




You know about the guy who co-wrote "Layla"?  Jim Gordon developed paranoid schizophrenia and killed his mother with a hammer.  Well, she was always in his head talking to him.  Wouldn't leave the poor guy alone!
Yeah, he was top-notch session musician until his brain melted down.
http://www.united-mutations.com/g/jim_gordon.htm

Guitarist Mark Knopfler is very underrated.  :-\\


Hmmm... Mark's typically thought of as one of the best guitarists ever. That's hardly being under-rated.

But style-wise, he's not exactly the model "rock guitarist", is he? Closer to a classical guitarist, if anything. And I already mentioned 2 Dire Straits songs back in the 8th post of this thread :)

Hmmm... Mark's typically thought of as one of the best guitarists ever. That's hardly being under-rated.


But here in the U.S. of A. you rarely hear him mentioned, and it is very rare to hear any of his stuff on the radio.  :-\\

BT Express-Do It Till Your Satisfied.


Howard

But here in the U.S. of A. you rarely hear him mentioned, and it is very rare to hear any of his stuff on the radio.  :-\\


There's more to the world then your USA. Dire Straits - Sultans of swing has some wicked guitar licks

Favourite Intro: Foreplay/Long Time - Boston

Foreplay is a great instramental intro, not just guitar.  8)

Best intro- Rollling Stones "Honky Tonk Woman" (version from "Let It Bleed" album)
Best solo- Metallica (Cliff Burton)- "Anaesthesia/ Pulling Teeth"

Let's Rock! :D

But here in the U.S. of A. you rarely hear him mentioned, and it is very rare to hear any of his stuff on the radio.  :-\\


here in the canad of a we get all the same stuff you guys get in the us of a, the reason you don't hear anything by him is because people are all into the 50 cent and snoop dogg. nobody really seems to care about classic rock anymore.

Honourable mention to Irish guitarist Phil Lynotte of the group Thin Lizzy, on the song "Emerald" from their "Jailbreak" LP.  8)

Phil was awesome, although a very raw guitar player.  And far too short a time on this earth.

ooooooh, I missed this..

Best Guitar Solo's JEBUZ! That's a hard one, there are so many.

We'll ya'll know i am a total Metallica freak, and there are a few there i love..

One has some awesome stuff in it, Fade to Black & Seek & Destroy and Master of Puppets.

I also think Kirk excelled himself in Sanitarium, but it's not just him for most of the track.

Zakk Wylde is awesome on No More Tears.

Dimebag is awesome on Walk, which happens to be one of my favourite songs.

Finally... where would we be without 'Surfing With An Alien' the ultimate Satriani.

And that's all i gotta say about that!

Tim Brady: Imaginary Guitars

Brady is an avant-garde guitarist/composer from Montreal.

It looks like this thread is back.

Some good song intros from the '70s
You Wear It Well -- Rod Stewart
Tin Man -- America

From the '80s
More Love -- Kim Carnes

From the '90s
Kissing You -- Keith Washington

That's all I have for now...

I gotta mention the Edge's guitar riffs on U2's "Mysterious Ways" and "Bullet the Blue Sky".

And also, the guitar work on Van Halen's "Can't Stop Loving You" is very good.

Random songs with great intros:

Split Enz: Six Monts in a Leaky Boat
Echo & The Bunnymen: Rescue
Depeche Mode: Black Celebration
ABC: Show Me
Pet Shop Boys: West End Girls
A Flock of Seagulls: The More You Live, The More You Love
Icicle Works: Whisper to a Scream
Paul Young: Love of the Common People
Talking Heads: Burning Down the House

GUITAR INTRO:  Bond - Dancin' (On A Saturday Night) (1975)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bmvasrIJX0

GUITAR INTRO:  Journey - The Party's Over (Hopelessly in Love) (1981)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im7ZcIjZk9g

GUITAR INTRO:  Killing Joke - Eighties (1984)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1U1Ue_5kq8

GUITAR INTRO:  Glasvegas - Daddy's Gone (2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Gpnn0XvaSQ


GUITAR SOLO:  Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing (1978)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS9aY41G9EQ

GUITAR SOLO:  Ironhorse - Sweet Lui-Louise (1979)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3ip6gwQo6k

GUITAR SOLO:  Trooper - Janine (1980)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnTGUdeQ_TI

GUITAR SOLO:  Diamond in the Rough - Walk on the Wire (1988)


Ones with great Intros and solos ...

GUITAR INTRO AND SOLO:  Status Quo - The Anniversary Waltz Part 1 (1990)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O57PqQXXvY

GUITAR INTRO AND SOLO:  Manic Street Preachers - Theme From M*A*S*H (Suicide is Painless) (1992)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-g0aBYVCgE

  Today it's Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart's intro to "The Spirit of Radio" and Elliot Easton's solos on both "My Best Friend's Girl" and "Shake It Up"... 8)

Elliot Easton's solo on "Shake It Up"... 8)


I forgot about that one.  Good stuff!

"D-d-d-ance all night!"

Red Rider - Lunatic Fringe Intro   Ooh, it sends chills up and down my spine each time I hear it.

Dires Straights - Walk of Life Intro  Everytime I hear the song it makes me feel young and capable of anything

AC/DC -You Shook me All Night Long Solo Watching Angus play is unbelieveable.

Bryan Adams - The Acoustic Version of Summer of 69 Solo Listen to him pick the guitar throughout the song is something I could never grow tired of.  

Alll Time favorite Guitar Solo = Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac - Lindsey Buckingham is the most underrated guitarist out there.  His playing is second to only a very select hand full of people, if it's second to anyone.  I say it's not, but will listen to argument within reason.


I have so many more, but at 4:00 a.m., those must be some of the best, some of the most memorable.  

The guitar entre into The Doors' song Roadhouse Blues is raw, a instantly recognizeable call to paaaaaaaartyyyyyyyyyyy!  8)

I didn't see this one on the thread-
5 chords from Roy Orbison that everyone knows!!  :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8hiH793eME&feature=related


Now here's Van Halen's version, which I can also post in the thread for the dumbest video I've ever seen!  It's actually good for a laugh-I didn't even know this video existed!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCgbx51mYQE


I'm sure I 'll think of more later.

intro - Stereophonics - vagas two times
solo - eddie van halen - beat it

Guitar Intro-"All the Young Dudes" Mott the Hoople
Guitar Solo-It's a tie between "Whaling Stories" or "Simple Sister" by Procol Harum (Robin Trower provides the guitar solos in these songs).
Intro and Solos-"1983 (A Merman I shall turn to be)" by Jimi Hendrix.

Solos:
Stairway - LZ
Achilles Last Stand
Since I've Been Loving You
Dazed And Confused
Time - Floyd
Comfortably Numb
Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Pts, I-V
Dogs
Sheep