Posted on 10/03/2010 7:23:12 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
With todays announcement of the Top 10 Guitar Solos of All Time, another Gibson.com Top 50 list is in the books. Below, check out the full rundown of all 50 solos that made the list. (You can get more information on each of the entries here: #50-41, #40-31, #30-21, #20-11 and #10-1.)
Plus, take a look at the readers poll and the guitarists who scored multiple entries further down the page.
(Excerpt) Read more at gibson.com ...
Not as much as you can imagine.. I bet Metallica’s S&M or Epica’s Classical Conspiracy are much more cost effective than some of the over-synthesized Kanye West albums.
Redline The Penetrators Rip Trillby
“Its not him soloing my friend its Jimi.”
Shit, just Google “All Along the Watchtower” and Dave Mason’s name and kick back and listen to him play electric guitar, my friend.
Yawn... It isn’t Gibson but check out Tommy Emmanuell’s version of the Guitar Boogie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNZL7GkqeRI&feature=related
Uncle Ted Nugent is my second choice after Jimi Hendrix. Nugent can do some of the things that I saw Hendrix do on guitar. Uncle Ted is a magician with the guitar. However, Hendrix could play guitar behind his back and never miss a note.
As good as Sultans of Swing is, Telegraph Road is much better.
Hendrix had been working on and off with the members of the band Traffic as he recorded Electric Ladyland. Traffic guitarist Dave Mason caught Hendrix at a party and the two discussed Bob Dylan’s newest album, John Wesley Harding, containing “All Along The Watchtower.” Hendrix, long fascinated with Dylan, decided to cover the song on the album. On the resulting track, Mason plays rhythm on a 12-string acoustic guitar.
Exactly, not having Frank Zappa on this list is criminal.
Comfortably Numb, thats all I have to say!
I have owned that album in any form available. I love that song “Bridge of Sighs!”
One look at this and you could probably throw the entire list into the nearest trash can. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muUzaCFPxOg&feature=related
Mason did his own Watchtower .Maybe you’re talking about that ..That’s a pretty unknown track . PS I a Traffic fan and always dug Mason. We were discussing major solos and the Watchtower everyone was talking about was the Hendrix version. Perhaps this is the mixup.
Or David Lindley. The solo begins at about 5:24. Pushing the limits of what can be called a "guitar" solo, true, but damned fine pickin' and slidin' nonetheless.
Another Johny Noname.
Davids one of the most amazing guitar players as I said above, Comfortably Numb is one of the top 10... Beautiful sounds coming from a guitar...OMMMMM!!!!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.