Posted on 04/13/2011 5:38:31 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch
Our Greatest Guitar Solo Of All Time poll certainly caused some fierce debate amongst guitarists… and that was just in our office. Choosing the 'greatest' guitar solo is obviously subjective in the extreme. But Guitarist had other motivations too – we were eager to see how many modern solos have impressed you all in the thirteen years since our last solo poll. The results were suprising. After asking for your nominations, we took the 20 most popular and asked for you vote on which your though was most deserving here and at MusicRadar. You voted in your thousands, fanbases were motivated and old favourites suffered.
i agree! and it's my fave Eagles song...
big man big talent
[I think Carlos Santana is a glaring omission as well]
Ditto. There are some schlubb solos on that list that have no melody.
That’s right...Meddle that’s the version of echoes I’m referring to...I still have the vinyl (turn table stopped on me) ‘71. Hmmmm interesting about the synch .. I’m sure enhancements were necessary to achieve that :O.
Great music, great memories.
“Under the Double Eagle” by Roy Clark (the live version) is something to be heard as well! Totally unbelievable!
This list is missing some Randy Rhoads. Here’s a live rendition of Ozzy Osbourne’s Suicide Solution. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HGnsJp0GNg
.. and some Uli Jon Roth as part of the Scorpions for good measure: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jCd9vg3BDw
a) Manic Street Preachers should not be one this list — there it is nothing of a solo and nauseatingly out of tune in parts.
b)Too much Dream Theater (two selections) and Van Halen (two selections) — Eddie did the Michael Jackson song — and two Guns Roses (scrap November Rain). In fact, scrap the idea of TWOs — two Zeppelin, two Hendrix, etc.
c) Missed some awesome talent: Buckethead, Atomic Bitchwax, etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0HnIr6jYWU
Guitar Player magazine I think had readers vote in their magazine yearly poll. Howe won for at least a decade.
When I was a kid the local movie theater would have surfing films or concerts. They were great because it was so big. Only Das Boot and Alien at a huge auditorium with concert speakers beat it.
Anyway they had Yes from Close to the Edge and it was the concert. The playing was peerless with Rick Wakeman, Bill Bruford on drum (drumming god) and Steve Howe. Chris Squire is a very good bass player as well. It was fantastic on screen cause it was huge.
The funny thing was they were sort of vegitarian hippies, not so sure of Bruford. Wakeman’s father was a baptist minister and he played the church organ. Wakeman was also a beer drinker, liked his steak pies, possibly a smoker plus he is a pretty devout Christian.
Side story: Rick Wakeman essentially wrote all of Morning Has Broken by Cat Stevens but never got credit. it was based on a hymm. Cat real name was Steve something. Cypriot greek who became a Muslim. Wakeman was a session muscian for bowie and many others. Nice bloke.
And of course I left out Holdsworth!
Any 20 KISS songs with Ace Frehley on lead guitar. Lock the thread. Next topic.
Don’t tell me your age, just answer the question at the top of the thread. (I’ve learned a few tricks from a Gypsy woman.)
A few off the top of my head:
Jimmy Page — Since I’ve Been Loving You
Denny Dias — Do It Again (Steely Dan)
Jimmy Hendrix — Voodoo Chile Slight Return (cliched pick but it’s a killer)
David Gilmore — Another Brick in the Wall (the one after the kids sing)
Jeff Beck — anything off Wired or Blow by Blow
Richard Thompson — Hard On Me
Clapton — Doublecrossing Time and Hideaway (Bluesbreakers)
Clapton — for some reason I really like his solo on the 1988 version of After Midnight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeDtmbt4JS4&feature=related
Steve Lukather — outro solo on Roseanna
Freddy King — Woman Across the River
Albert King — Crosscut Saw, Stormy Monday, Born Under a Bad Sign, etc.
There are so many. The guitarist for the Cars has three or four really good little solos on some of their hits. The solo on I’m The Only One by Melissa Etheridge (don’t know the guitarist). Eric Johnson’s outro on Desert Rose. Albert Lee’s understated outro on Emmylou Harris’s Tulsa Queen. Angus Young’s perfect solo on You Shook Me All Night Long. Anything Billy Gibbons. And of course George Harrison has some non technical but memorable solos.
One of my favorite players, is Ian Bairnson of The Alan Parsons Project, tons of great solos, “Can’t Take it With You”, “Psychobabble”, “Games People Play”, the list goes on and on, one of the most underrated guitarists ever.
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