[AngryCapitalist]

I call BS on this list....
Has the editor of “Guitarist” ever listened to anything on “Layla and Assorted Love Songs”, in my opinion the single best overall guitar album ever recorded. Anything on that album, excluding the last cut (sorry Mr. Whitlock), would put 80% of that list to shame. Or what about something from The Allman Brothers Band? Dwayne Allman? He REVOLUTIONIZED the art of playing rock guitar to a point exceeded only by Hendrix and Clapton.... and nary a mention.

If anyone in here has ever wondered into a Guitar Center on any given Saturday you can see the demographic that constitutes the majority of those who voted in this “poll”... The mid teen wannabe hipsters plunking out the latest bilge force fed to them by the music industry in sausage like fashion reminiscent of those hapless school children in The Wall. Or those twenty somethings on their lunch break from somewhere in the food court who feel like because they can play a few chords everyone in the store is obligated to stop what they are doing and focus their attention on their singing some drivel they “wrote” in their mom’s basement over the past weekend. Ya, Ive been in there and seen who voted in this poll first hand. Most have no real appreciation for music as a art and only see it as entertainment, a distinction made for the benefit of acceptance at the expense of the soul. Sorry for the rant...

The A.C.

P.s. Big Floyd head here as well... although I’m partial to the solo in “Time”....

[InvisibleChurch]

ok

[Alberta's Child]

I'm not into "hard rocking" guitar solos, so my tastes are a bit more on the mellow side.

I think Dickey Betts on the Allman Brothers classic "Blue Sky" is one of the best guitar solos I've ever heard.

[knarf]

And of course, a live "Whipping Post" .. (two parts .. long version)

[TruBluKentuckian]

Duane Allman never gets the credit he deserves, though Rolling Stone did name him #2 all time.

His solo on "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" from the Fillmore East album is astonishing.

Along that line, here is a solo from Derek Trucks, also of the Allman Brothers, from, again, "Liz Reed". You'll have to work to get this one as it's kinda buried on the site.

Click here and after the page loads scroll down the list to "Allman Brothers Band" and click on "Jam Session".

Derek was feeling his oats that night.