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The 20 Greatest Guitar Solos Of All Time (or "What I Did With My Wednesday Night")
guitarist ^ | Tue 22 Mar 2011, 5:05 pm GMT

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.


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To: buccaneer81
And the best Eagles solo wasn't Hotel California, it was "One of These Nights."

i agree! and it's my fave Eagles song...

161 posted on 04/13/2011 7:16:02 PM PDT by latina4dubya ( self-proclaimed tequila snob)
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To: sleddogs

big man big talent


162 posted on 04/13/2011 7:17:15 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: The_Sword_of_Groo

[I think Carlos Santana is a glaring omission as well]

Ditto. There are some schlubb solos on that list that have no melody.


163 posted on 04/13/2011 7:17:15 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown (HARRY: Money Mob & Influence (See my Expose on Reid on amazon.com written by me!))
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To: All
Charlie Christian's 1941 Swing To Bop
164 posted on 04/13/2011 7:18:22 PM PDT by andyk (Wealth != Income)
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To: Outlaw Woman
One more artist for you to check out....Steve Kimock. Unbelievable player. All instrumental so its not for everybody, but Kimock is amazing.

Cut and paste this link to browse and download tons of live music. Lots of great live music by bands you've never heard of and some you have.

http://www.archive.org/browse.php?collection=etree&field=%2Fmetadata%2Fcreator
165 posted on 04/13/2011 7:20:46 PM PDT by The_Sword_of_Groo (<=== Proudly resides in occupied Georgia)
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To: InvisibleChurch
16 Vestal Virgins
166 posted on 04/13/2011 7:22:10 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: The_Sword_of_Groo

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.


167 posted on 04/13/2011 7:22:12 PM PDT by Outlaw Woman ("My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge;..." Hosea 4:6)
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To: InvisibleChurch

“Under the Double Eagle” by Roy Clark (the live version) is something to be heard as well! Totally unbelievable!


168 posted on 04/13/2011 7:22:17 PM PDT by ExTxMarine ("Convictions are more dangerous to truth than lies." ~ F. Nietzsche)
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To: InvisibleChurch

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


169 posted on 04/13/2011 7:24:02 PM PDT by ConservativeTeen (Proud Right Wing Extremist)
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To: InvisibleChurch

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.


170 posted on 04/13/2011 7:24:51 PM PDT by Blind Eye Jones
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To: TheBigIf

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.


171 posted on 04/13/2011 7:25:03 PM PDT by Frantzie (HD TV - Total Brain-washing now in High Def. 3-D Coming soon)
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To: knarf

Agreed. Allen Collins.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9C91dQFxjM


172 posted on 04/13/2011 7:25:17 PM PDT by Daffynition (DBKP ~ Death By 1000 Papercuts)
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To: Frantzie

And of course I left out Holdsworth!


173 posted on 04/13/2011 7:25:24 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Which has more wrinkles? Helen Thomas' face or Lawrence O'Donnells' panties?)
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To: InvisibleChurch

Pat Metheny - The Roots of Coincidence

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


174 posted on 04/13/2011 7:26:20 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: InvisibleChurch

Any 20 KISS songs with Ace Frehley on lead guitar. Lock the thread. Next topic.


175 posted on 04/13/2011 7:26:53 PM PDT by Crawdad
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To: InvisibleChurch
For your consideration: Dragonforce THROUGH THE FIRE AND FLAMES.
176 posted on 04/13/2011 7:28:05 PM PDT by ForGod'sSake (You have only two choices: SUBMIT or RESIST with everything you've got!!!)
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To: InvisibleChurch

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.)


177 posted on 04/13/2011 7:28:31 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: InvisibleChurch
Cinnamon Girl. Anyone can play the guitar solo in this one. It's the same note played over and over.
178 posted on 04/13/2011 7:29:20 PM PDT by death2tyrants
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To: InvisibleChurch

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.


179 posted on 04/13/2011 7:35:00 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: BornToBeAmerican

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.


180 posted on 04/13/2011 7:35:46 PM PDT by dfwgator
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