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Eddie Van Halen's "Eruption" Tops Readers' List of the 50 Greatest Guitar Solos (edited title)
Guitar World ^
| September 19, 2013
Posted on 09/19/2013 7:07:50 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Who says lightning doesn't strike twice?
For the second year in a row, Eddie Van Halen has topped a major summer-long poll at GuitarWorld.com.
In 2012, readers crowned him the Greatest Guitarist of All Time. This year, one of his many six-string masterpieces, "Eruption," a wildly innovative instrumental track from Van Halen's self-titled 1978 album, was voted the Greatest Guitar Solo of All Time.
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KEYWORDS: guitarists; music; rockandroll; vanhalen
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To: ConservativeStatement
To: ConservativeStatement
This is a never-to-be-resolved question but my vote is Clapton’s second lead on Crossroads from the “Wheels of Fire” LP. I’ve heard it thousands of times and it still stops me in my tracks.
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posted on
09/19/2013 7:14:20 AM PDT
by
muir_redwoods
(Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
To: muir_redwoods
“Wheels of Fire”...one of my favorites when I was 17. The explosion of musical innovation in the 60s was incredible, a never-to-happen again event. I pity kids today with the crap they listen to.
To: ConservativeStatement
Horrible — and part of it cribbed from J.S. Bach. The best guitar solos ever — and there were many — were all on Led Zeppelin albums.
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posted on
09/19/2013 7:22:56 AM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
To: muir_redwoods
Layla still sends chills down my spine, but Eruption, yeah, Eruption, it must be followed by ‘you really got me’ to have the same impact and push it over the top.
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posted on
09/19/2013 7:24:09 AM PDT
by
Freeport
(The proper application of high explosives will remove all obstacles.)
To: ConservativeStatement
One of my favorites is
Space Guitar by Young John Watson, from 1954.
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09/19/2013 7:24:17 AM PDT
by
Fiji Hill
To: ConservativeStatement
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posted on
09/19/2013 7:26:09 AM PDT
by
Hoodat
(BENGHAZI - 4 KILLED, 2 MIA)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
I pity kids today with the crap they listen to.
Actually there is some really good music being created out there, it's just not being released by record labels and/or playing on the radio. We have a young temp on our crew that's a musician. He plays stuff for us on his smartphone from youtube or music sharing sites that's very good. Artists are going around the record companies.
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posted on
09/19/2013 7:26:09 AM PDT
by
Tailback
To: ConservativeStatement
To: Hoodat
Did you like Steve Howe with Asia?
To: ConservativeStatement
Reverend Horton Heat (aka Jim Heath)
Phil Keaggy
I’d put these two up against anyone anytime.
To: ConservativeStatement
I see the 64 did not even include “Money For Nothing”. Which is probably the greatest intro ever, if not best guitar.
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09/19/2013 7:31:32 AM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
To: ConservativeStatement
I like David Gilmour’s work on Comfortably Numb a lot better than I like Eruption.
I also like Ted Nugent on Stranglehold a lot better than Eruption, and it lost out pretty early on.
And, as far as I am concerned, ANYTHING by Stevie Ray Vaughn is better than anything by Eddie Van Halen
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09/19/2013 7:32:08 AM PDT
by
WayneS
(Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos...)
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To: Albion Wilde
Horrible and part of it cribbed from J.S. Bach. The best guitar solos ever and there were many were all on Led Zeppelin albums.
Led Zeppelin, who never cribbed from anybody. /
To: ConservativeStatement
Wildly innovative? Yikes.
To: the OlLine Rebel
Good catch.
Mark Knopfler is a fantastic guitarist.
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posted on
09/19/2013 7:33:25 AM PDT
by
WayneS
(Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos...)
To: needmorePaine
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09/19/2013 7:33:51 AM PDT
by
WayneS
(Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos...)
To: the OlLine Rebel
I see the 64 did not even include Money For Nothing. Which is probably the greatest intro ever, if not best guitar.
If you're talking Dire Straits, you have to go with the solo from Sultans of Swing.
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