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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at guitarworld.com ...


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: guitarists; music; rockandroll; vanhalen
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1 posted on 09/19/2013 7:07:50 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: ConservativeStatement

EVH and SRV.


2 posted on 09/19/2013 7:13:43 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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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.


3 posted on 09/19/2013 7:14:20 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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“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.


4 posted on 09/19/2013 7:16:57 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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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.


5 posted on 09/19/2013 7:22:56 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
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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.


6 posted on 09/19/2013 7:24:09 AM PDT by Freeport (The proper application of high explosives will remove all obstacles.)
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To: ConservativeStatement
One of my favorites is Space Guitar by Young John Watson, from 1954.
7 posted on 09/19/2013 7:24:17 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: ConservativeStatement
This list is crap. How can they not include Steve Hunter's Intro or Steve Howe's Seen All Good People?

Steve Hunter

Steve Hunter with Lou Reed

Steve Howe

Steve Howe w/Yes

8 posted on 09/19/2013 7:26:09 AM PDT by Hoodat (BENGHAZI - 4 KILLED, 2 MIA)
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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.
9 posted on 09/19/2013 7:26:09 AM PDT by Tailback
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To: ConservativeStatement

Pat Travers


10 posted on 09/19/2013 7:27:40 AM PDT by Gettin Betta
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To: Hoodat

Did you like Steve Howe with Asia?


11 posted on 09/19/2013 7:28:25 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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Reverend Horton Heat (aka Jim Heath)
Phil Keaggy

I’d put these two up against anyone anytime.


12 posted on 09/19/2013 7:30:53 AM PDT by Hammerhead
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I see the 64 did not even include “Money For Nothing”. Which is probably the greatest intro ever, if not best guitar.


13 posted on 09/19/2013 7:31:32 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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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


14 posted on 09/19/2013 7:32:08 AM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos...)
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To: All

Michael Schenker


15 posted on 09/19/2013 7:32:17 AM PDT by Maverick68
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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. /
16 posted on 09/19/2013 7:32:27 AM PDT by needmorePaine
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To: ConservativeStatement

Wildly innovative? Yikes.


17 posted on 09/19/2013 7:33:06 AM PDT by martiangohome
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Good catch.

Mark Knopfler is a fantastic guitarist.


18 posted on 09/19/2013 7:33:25 AM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos...)
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To: needmorePaine

;-)


19 posted on 09/19/2013 7:33:51 AM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos...)
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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.
20 posted on 09/19/2013 7:34:26 AM PDT by needmorePaine
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