Yeah..I’m posting…

I’d like to nominate Alex Skolnik in “Over the Wall” by Testament

Dinosaur Jr.: Sludgefeast

hammett’s solo in “sad but true” is better.

Get Up, by Van Halen…

stairway to heaven is just classic

Angel-Aerosmith

Leslie West: “Theme For An Imaginary Western” by Mountain

You should be ashamed of yourselves if you don’t include Led Zeppelin’s “Heartbreaker” solo

In 1988, at an aftershow in Camden, Prince did a cover of “Just My Imagination” that featured an incredible guitar solo, one of his best actually. It’s only available via boot, but well worth the hunt.

Van Halen’s “Eruption,” of course.

Rush’s “Freewill” features some amazing shredding by Alex.

Neil Young’s “Cinnamon Girl” is the anti-guitar solo guitar solo.

“Killing in the Name” – Rage’s Tom Morello introduces the world to the whammy pedal. A couple of Morello’s honorable mentions are Rage’s “Bulls on Parade” and Audioslave’s “Doesn’t Remind Me.”

“Animal” – Pearl Jam

“Ball and Biscuit” – White Stripes. The whole song is one awesome solo.

“Paradise City” – GNR. beats November Rain any day

Beat it Michael Jackson. when Edward makes the knocking sound then a door opens at the begining of the solo is really cool

solos are dumb if you think about it.

led zeppelin’s the ocean and in my time of dying
molten led!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ball and Biscuit – White Stripes

Good call on “One,” but I’d add “Fade to Black” too.

Led Zeppelin: Staiway to Heaven

Nirvana: Smells like teen Spirit (simple, short, but it gets the job done)

I’m glad to see someone else picked Aerosmith’s “Angel”…I love how Perry turned in a nice bluesy solo instead of some finger fretboard funfest like any other band would’ve on this otherwise schmaltz ballad.

Jimi Hendrix: “Star-Spangled Banner”

Hendrix-all along the watchtower

Metallica – The Unforgiven
Led Zeppellin – Stairway To Heaven
Guns N’Roses – Sweet Child O’Mine
Eagles – Hotel California
Joe Satriani – Summer Song
Van Halen – Hot For The Teacher

Metallica – The Unforgiven
Led Zeppellin – Stairway To Heaven
Guns N’Roses – Sweet Child O’Mine
Eagles – Hotel California
Joe Satriani – Summer Song
Van Halen – Hot For The Teacher

I believe slash played a killer solo it was called Appetite for Destruction, you know the biggest masterpiece in rock and roll

Joe perry and Brad whitford did the same thing on ROCKS

1. comfortably numb 2.shortest straw. 3. spanish fly 4.ten years gone 5.bron-yur? my top 5

Geneis/Steve Hackett- Firth of Fifth

I can’t believe I’m going to be the first to mention RANDY RHOADS!!! Mr. Crowley, Flying High Again…
Also, Metallica’s “Master of Puppets” all solo’s, but particularly the slow break. Beautiful. If you don’t agree with me, listen to these songs again and realize that I’m right.

Firth of Fifth- Genesis

sultans of swing baby!

Slash-ANYTHING GOES

guns n roses- estranged

George Harrison on John Lennon’s Gimme Some Truth. This has to the most famous guitar solo ever.

Also try Roger McGuinn on Eight Miles High.

These guys were doing classic solos before most anyone else on this list.

oh and cortez the killer for neil young is a good one too!

-Amazing-Aerosmith
-Walk this way-Aerosmith
-Hey Joe-Jimi Hendrix
-Purple rain-Prince
-Fury-Prince
-No thing else matters-Metallica
-Maggot brain-Funkadelic
-Wet sand-Red hot chili peppers
-Give it away-RHCP
-Rain down on me-Kane (Kane is a Dutch band, for those of you who don’t know)
-Moby dick-Led Zeppelin
-I don’t live today-Jimi Hendrix
-Come as you are-Nirvana

Jimmy Page-TANGERINE

radiohead paranoid android

Pink floyd – money is my favorite

radiohead – paranoid android

Matt Bellamy’s solo in Muse’s Stockholm Syndrome.

Keith Richards on “Sympathy for the Devil”
Neil Young on “Donw by the River”

Layla- Derek & The Dominoes.
Money For Nothing-Dire Straits.
Black Magic Woman- Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green)
Have You Ever Loved A Woman?- Eric Clapton
Purple Haze- Hendrix
Sometimes I Feel So Uninspired- Traffic

crossroads– cream
la grange– zztop lyon 6.6.06–red hot chili peppers
star spangled banner— a guy called jimi
free bird–lynyrd skynyrd
texas flood– stevie ray vaughn

My Sharona. Seriously.

2 that should be mentioned

Outlaws, Green Grass and High Tides (which no one remembers or has heard?) and Eddie VanHalen with Eruption(someone did post)
Also, remember Chicago from the early days with Terry Kath?

Lots of good Neil Young solos

ball and biscuit—the white stripes

Robert Quine’s work on Lou Reed’s Blue Mask

Left off Clapton on Crossroads and Bad Love – these are among my favorites.

Clapton – While My Guitar Gently Weeps, “Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking” album

Gilmour – Young Lust, Comfortably Numb, Have a Cigar, Wish You Were Here, Not Now John, “Animals” album, On the Turning Away, Sorrow, High Hopes….

That’s all you need, really! Time to shut down this thread now!

Layla- Derek & The Dominoes.
Money For Nothing-Dire Straits.
Black Magic Woman- Fleetwood Mac(Peter Green)
Have You Ever Loved A Woman?- Eric Clapton Purple Haze- Hendrix
Sometimes I Feel So Uninspired- Traffic!

stairway to heaven is just classic
I say Geek USA by the smashing pumpkins AND Cherub Rock by the smashing pumpkins.both songs were in the top 100greatest guitar solos of all time in this list I found.Byt Geek USA is better

RHCP-Dani California

LED ZEPPELIN-STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN
METALLICA-ONE
GUNS N ROSES-NOVEMBER RAIN
VAN HALEN-ERUPTION
OZZY OSBOURNE-MR CROWLEY
PINK FLOYD-COMFORTABLY NUMB

to name some of the best

Listen to Knopfler on the live version of “Sultans of Swing”….greatest solo ever.

Brian May – It’s Late, The Prophet’s Song, White Man, Brighton Rock…..on and on.

-Come as you are-Nirvana

Marc Ford on The Black Crowes “Sometimes Salvation” from the Southern Harmony and Musical Companion record. Perfection.

Eagles- Hotel California

Jeff Beck’s rendition of “A Day In The Life”.

Heart Shaped Box-Kurt Cobain
She’s Only 18 John Frusciante
Pale Blue Eyes-Lou Reed
Life’s Been Good-Joe Walsh
Easily-John Frusciante

What decade is this?

Radiohead: paranoid android

and i agree with most of the posts above…nice call on Killing in the name of…great solo

Nils Lofgren on live version of Springsteen’s “Youngstown” on live in New York.

soma duh.

Steve Vai’s “For The Love Of God” is majestic and enthralling.

The Eagles – “Hotel California”
Neil Young – “Cortez The Killer”
Rolling Stones – “Sway”
Robert Randolph and the Family Band – “Tears Of Joy”
Ozzy Osbourne – “Crazy Train”

led zeppelin- baby im gonna leave you
rolling stones- sympathy for the devil
ac/dc- thunderstruck

Neil Young, Like a Hurricane

led Zeppelin – stairway to heaven, but Ace Frehley of Kiss is very cool in Detroit Rock City!

Some of you seem to be confusing riffs with solos.

It’s not a top five, there’s so many good ones at least a top 10, if not 100…

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alive-pearljam

It’s ok not to mention Radiohead once in a while. Chill out Radioheadcases.

Eruption – Van Halen
Hands down. You can’t beat it.

The rest:

Stairway to Heaven – Led Zeppelin
Ball and Biscuit – White Stripes
Sleep Now in the Fire – Rage Against the Machine
Soma – Smashing Pumpkins

Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven (of course)
Neil Young – Cortez the Killer
The Eagles – Hotel California
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Could Have Lied
Soundgarden – Black Hole Sun
Jimi Hendrix – All Along the Watchtower
Neil Young – Down By the River

“Machine Gun” – Jimi Hendrix
“Maggot Brain” – Eddie Hazel in Funkadelic

rage against the machine “killing in the name”

guns n’ roses “november rain”

van halen “eruption”

led zepplin “stairway to heaven”

jimi hendrix “machine gun”

Neil Young’s one-note solo on “Cinammon Girl”

damn how could i forget…

funadelic “maggot brain”, hands down.

not sure if it was mentioned but ‘Maggot brains’ by funkadelic gets my vote

richard lloyd’s part on ’see no evil,’ tom verlaine’s part on ‘marquee moon.’ (both on the album ‘marquee moon’ by the group television.)

Jane’s Addiction – Three Days

Sludgefest — Dinosaur Jr
Southern Man — Neil Young
(honorable mention to Cortez the Killer)
The Rover — Led Zeppelin
Ace of Spades — Motorhead

Ace Frehley – Kiss

Shock Me

WHIPPING POST!!!!!!!

I agree with below post, awesome guitar work on Marquee Moon by Television

alive or go by pearl jam

DAVE MUSTAINE-TORNADO OF SOULS

for my money “Blue Light by David Gilmore is one that gets me rockin’ everytime

eruption: van halen

sweet child o mine: gnr

for my money “Blue Light by David Gilmore is one that gets me rockin’ everytime

“Stairway To Heaven,” Led Zeppelin
“Beat It,” Michael Jackson
“Bat Country,” Avenged Sevenfold
“Enter Sandman,” Metallica
“Danding Through Sunday,” AFI

Pretty much anything by Nels Cline live.

stairway to heaven by Zeppelin
Purple Rain by Prince
Crazy Train by Ozzy
Who knows by Hendrix and the Band of Gypsies
Layla by Clapton
Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd
Jessica by the Allman Brothers
Sweet Child O Mine by GnFnR
Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen

Jack White Ball and a Biscuit
Clapton Crossroads
Gilmour Comfortably Numb
Page Dazed and Confused
Hendrix Voodoo Child

velvet underground – sweet nothing
mmj – lay low
wilco – ashes of american flags (live)

Radiohead- Just

Weezer- Tired Of Sex

RHCP- Easily

The White Stripes- Ball And Biscuit

Weezer- Pink Triangle

Pixies- Hey

Radiohead- Paranoid Android

Weezer- Only In Dreams

Hendrix- Bold As Love

RHCP- Torture Me

crossroads!!!!!!!!! clapton is god

i like the cinnamon girl nominations.

PEARL JAMS- ALIVE
THIS SOLO SPINS AROUND IN MY SKULL FOREVER,JUST LOOPING!!!

Sludgefest- Dinosaur Jr.

Oh and cant forget The Beatles:

Something
I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
Hey Bulldog
Taxman
The End

Roy Buchanan-”The Messiah Will Come Again”
Stevie Ray Vaughan-”Life Without You”
Jimmy Page-”White Summer”
Prince-”While My Guitar Gently Weeps”
Jimi Hendrix-”Wild Thing”
Billy Gibbons-”Just Got Paid”
Eric Clapton-”The Core”
Duane Allman & Dickey Betts-”In Memory of Elizabeth Reed

Mars Volta – L’via L’viaquez
Weezer – Tired of Sex
White Stripes – Black Math

Springsteen Adam Raised A Cain

Hendrix – Red House

i love this guitar prince

Three Days- Jane’s Addiction

ahhhem….FRANK ZAPPA!!!!! The guy released at least six LPs worth of NOTHING BUT GUITAR SOLOS, not to mention some great ones on non-guitar solo only albums. May I suggest Watermelon in Easter Hay from “Joe’s Garage” or Rat Tomango from Sheik Yerbuti.

I forgot to add “Bulls on Parade” by Rage Against the Machine.

Off the top of my head…

-”Crossroads” — Cream
-”Marquee Moon” — Television
-”Cinnamon Girl” — Neil Young & Crazy Horse
-”Comfortably Numb” — Pink Floyd
-”King Harvest (Has Surely Come)” — The Band
-”Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad?” — Derek & the Dominos
-”While My Guitar Gently Weeps” — The Beatles w/ Eric Clapton
-”Sympathy for the Devil” — The Rolling Stones

Pearl Jam – Alive

Zwan – Jesus, I/ Mary Star of the Sea

Metallica – Master of Puppets

but I’d be willing to forfeit all of them for Sweet Child O’ Mine (gets me every single time)

under the bridge RHCP
bold as love hendrix
sweet child o’ mine gnr
comfortably numb floyd
long hot summer night hendrix
alive pearl jam
sweet jane (off of Lou Reed’s Animal)

all of these solos have an incredible amount of soul. they also deal in more than one dimension and are extremely creative. any solo that solely involves a guitarist trying to showoff should not be included – you can teach and practice speed and technique, but you cannot teach creativity

The White Stripes- Ball and Buscuit
The White Stripes- Ball and Buscuit
The White Stripes- Ball and Buscuit

Dude, it’s like 9 minutes long with three amazing guitar solos…each one significantly better than the last until you have a heart attack as Jack White wails through the third one.

I’ve had 259 heart attacks from this song…259

Prince – Let’s Go Crazy

Prince Purple Rain

yeah…good call on “maggot brain” to the couple people (way) below…plus jonny greenwood (of radiohead) is always playing SOMEthing sweet

1. Alive-pearl jam
2. John Frusciante- Dani California
3. Slash – Sweet Child o’ mine
4. Jimmy Hnedrix – purple haze
5. Hillel Slovak – The brothers cup
6. Jimmy Page – Rock n’ Roll
7. Eric Clapton – layla (unplugged)

Golden Country – REO Speedwagon
Why this has never made a top ten list I will never know

the Bosses Adam Raised A Cain!

Golden Country – REO Speedwagon
Why this has never made a top ten list I will never know

Crossroads is the best ever by far.

Cherub Rock is also very unappreciatted

Golden Country – REO Speedwagon
Why this song has never made a top ten list I will never know.

and electioneering by johnny g of radiohead

“go your own way” fleetwood mac
“time” pink floyd
“hotel california” the eagles
“where eagles have been” wolfmother
“way out” yeah yeah yeahs
“hand of stone” mastodon

what about some maiden or priest?

Freebird is in a class by itself, I would include Layla by Clapton here and anything else Duane Allman does solo wise. These mentioned names should never be put in any category with Metallica. Metallica and their generic riffs and power chords, WAY OFF!

“Side with the Seeds” by Wilco.

I know it’s new, but it’s got the best guitar solo since Paranoid Android.

At Least That’s What You Said – Wilco
The Fly – U2

Ted Nugent- Stranglehold
everyone else backdown

GNR – Sweet Child of Mine

Bon Jovi – Wanted Dead or Alive

Hendrix – Machine Gun = game over.

This is the solo that takes up the entire top 10.

1.- Comfortably Numb – Pink Floyd
2.- Life goes On – Poison
3.- You Don’t Fool Me – Queen
4.- Judgement Day – Van Halen
5.- The Fly – U2

and totally agree with soma

STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN-ZEPPELIN
ONE-METALLICA
NOEVEMBER RAIN-GUNS

Sweet Child O’ Mine

the jimi hendrix experience- all along the watchtower

system of a down- physco

metallica- fade to black

pantera- cemetery gates

soundgarden- like suicide

red hot chili peppers- dani california

chuck berry- johhny b. goode

van halen- eruption

santana- smooth

dragonforce- revolution deathsquad

outkast- prototype

METALLICA-FADE TO BLACK
VAN HALEN ERUPTION
SWEET CHILD OF MINE-GUNS N ROSES

No Stairway? Denied!

“Hurricane” by Neil Young. Fucking amazing.

“Man in the Box” Alice in Chains.

There are a ton of good ones, but I think Sweet Child O’ Mine is the best. I don’t even like the song all that much, but the guitar solo is truly inspired.

creeping death is awesome but from kirk id choose “one”
“stairway”
“mr crowley”
“comfortably numb”
“novemver rain”

creeping death is awesome but from kirk id choose “one”
“stairway”
“mr crowley”
“comfortably numb”
“novemver rain”

im sorry but i cant stand the solo in sypathy for the devil

Noel Gallagher of Oasis. His solos on “Live Forever” “Champagne Supernova” and “D’You Know What I Mean?” are all classics! Are you mad fer it?!

the most serious guitar solo ever has to be alvin lee doing “goin home” from the original woodstock soundtrack. everyone else (except Jimi) are pretenders

Rage Against the Machine: Know Your Enemy

smashing pumpkins “starla”
it’s pure 5-minute solo satisfaction

“Ten years gone” Led Zeppelin
“Echoes” and “dogs” Pink Floyd.

“la villa strangiato” Rush

Stairway to Heaven, Like a Hurricane, Eruption, Comfortably Numb, Anything ever recorded, or played and not recorded, by Jimi Hendrix.

thats a very heavy rock list for rolling stone. I’m proud of you.

This list isn’t necessarily my favorite, just aught to be mentioned since no one else has yet.

David Gilmour of Pink Floyd – Time
Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains – Man in the box
Neil Young – Cinnamon girl
Robert Fripp of King Crimson – 21st century schizoid man

HOTEL CALIFORNIA- THE EAGLES

HOTEL CALIFORNIA- THE EAGLES

Something a little different:

Jessica: Allman Brothers

“The Real” you suck, you obviously have never heard a real metallica song. and this is about solos not riffs and powerchords!

Freebird becomes noise two minutes in.
nothing by Led Zeppelin becuase it sucks.
I would say Little wing and all along the watchtower by Jimi Hendrix.
But even though I don’t like prog-rock 21st Century Schizoid Man-king Crimson
Kinda unknown but Love Is The Law – John Squire (Seahorses)
I Heard Her Call My Name – Lou Reed
Paranoid Android – Johnny Greenwood (Radiohead)
L’Via L’Viaquez – John Frusciante/Omar A Rodriguez-Lopez (Mars Volta)
Light My Fire – Robby Krieger (The Doors)
All beter then what’s listed.

Duanne Allman-Boz Scaggs”Loan Me A Dime”

Neil Young w. Crazy Horse – Cowgirl in the Sand (Live at the Fillmore East version)

Cream – Crossroads

Bob Dylan – Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat

Albert King & John Mayall – She Wont Gimme No Loving

Duanne Allman-Boz Scaggs”Loan Me A Dime”

I can’t beleive you included Soma in your top 5. But I am so glad you did. That solo has been one of my favs for years!

van halen-you really got me and dreams
prince-let’s go crazy
highway star-deep purple

All guitar solos off Ozzy’s first two albums and any Dave Mustaine solo rember Kirt played all his solo’s on kill em all

Zappa – Black Napkins
Bill Nelson (Bebop Deluxe)- Crying to the Sky
Roy Buchanan – Messiah
Santana – Samba Pa Ti
Mick Taylor (Stones) – Time Waits For No One
Marc Ribot (Tom Waits)- Hang Down Your Head
Eddie Hazel – Maggot Brain
Steely Dan – Reeln in the Years
Paul Burlison of the Rock and Roll
Trio – Train Kept a Rollin

skynyrd – free bird
steely dan – do it again

skynyrd – free bird
steely dan – do it again

skynyrd – free bird
steely dan – do it again

SCREAMIN SOLOS
FOR.DON HENLEYS “DIRTY LAUNDRY”

Derek and the domino’s -Layla
Yardbirds -Train Kept A-Rollin
Led Zepplin -Whole Lotta Love
Allman Brothers -Whipping Post
Pink Floyd -Wish You Were Here
The Stone Roses -I Am the Resurrection
Johnny Thunders -Born to Lose
and the original guitar hero Chuck Berry -Johnny B. Goode

Weezer’s “Buddy Holly” if only for the little run at the end of the solo that’s orgasmic.

stairway to heaven
catch hell blues (just one long solo)
Zero
bulls on parade
ten years gone
Kielbasa
3’s & 7’s

Turn It Again – Red Hot Chili Peppers

“Time” by Pink Floyd (evocative, powerful)
“Eruption” by Van Halen (relentless)
“All Along the Watchtower” by Jimi Hendrix (masterful)
“Comfortably Numb” by Pink Floyd (timeless)
“Ball And Biscuit” by The White Stripes (violent, over-the-top)

… And many more. But I will soon run out of adjectives to describe each :-p …

Queens of the Stone Age – God (is in the radio)… punches you in the face.

Jimi Hendrix – Machine Gun… ’nuff said

Pearl Jam – Alive

My Morning Jacket – Dondante… Live this solo will melt your face

Guns n Roses – Estranged… don’t get too much more epic

Pink Floyd – Gold its in the Hills… check this over Comfortably numb every time

Blue Sky- Allman Brothers Band

Great post!

TIME BY PINK FLOYD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ball and Biscuit-The White Stripes
(personal all time fav)

Taxman-The Beatles

Cigaretts and Alcohol-Oasis

Search and Destroy-The Stooges

Whole Lotta Love- Led Zeppelin

Stairway to Heaven (How the West Was Won)

Van Halen-Eruption
Metallica-The Call of Ktulu (an entire song of Hammett rather than a couple minutes)
Guns & Roses-Sweet Child O’ Mine (gotta represent for Slash)

FREEBIRD!!!!!

“Buck’s Boogie”

Buck Dharma, Blue Oyster Cult

AC/DC ‘LET THERE BE ROCK’

freebird?

*throws up in mouth a little*

Since this list is for the “Coolest Guitar Solos” of all time (and not the “Best”) I nominate:

MC5- Looking At You
Megadeth- Hanger 18
White Stripes- Ball & Biscuit
Metallica- One
Deep Purple- Highway Star
The Stooges- 1970
Blue Cheer- Sun Cycle
Van Halen- Eruption
Slayer- Angel of Death
Kyuss- Whitewater

Buckethead “Jordan”
Buckethead “Soothsayer”
Buckethead “Welcome to Bucketheadland”
Buckethead “Cattle Prod”
Buckethead W/Praxis “Animal Behavior”
Buckethead “Big Sur Moon”
Buckethead “Giant Robot”

Buck’s Boogie

and

Veteran of the Psychic Wars from ET Live

Buck Dharma, Blue Oyster Cult

Sincerely, f* what you think of Kiss. Ace Frehley is responsible for 80% of the ppl listed on picking up a guitar in the first place, and they’d tell you so.

Any list excluding him is irrelevant.

anything live by Buck Dharma, Blue Oyster Cult

All Along The Watchtower – Jimi Hendrix
Stairway To Heaven – Led Zeppelin
Sweet Child O’ Mine – Guns N Roses

aright i wont pick any obvious ones cuz that seems to b all anyone is picking so

The Who- Wont Get Fooled Again
Led Zeppelin-Heartbreaker
Derek & The Dominoes- Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out
and an obvious one i havent seen anyone put yet
AC/DC- You Shook Me All Night Long all classic solos by classic guitarists

In no order
-Since I’ve Been Loving You
-Sweet Child O’ Mine
-War Pigs
-Little Wing
-Prince’s solo at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction For George Harrison (While My Guitar Gently Weeps)

walk this way….

the whole song is a guitar solo . Perry is in the top 5

no phish? unimaginable!

GNR estranged

phish?? jesus f’n christ :-/

go obama eh?

Little wing/ All along the watchtower/ voodoo Child (slight Return- Hendrix
Stairway to heaven/Heartbreaker -led zep
Blue Sky-Allman Bros.
Comfotably Numb- Pink Floyd
Sweet Child o’ mine/ November Rain -GnR
Crossroads/ White Room-Clapton
Texas Flood-vaughn
Johnny B. Goode- Berry
Eruption-Van Halen

Dire Straits- Sultans of Swing?

Limp Bizkit – My Way (or the Highway )

H.I.M. -

Wicked Game – Linde

…do never test

good call on
Zwan – Jesus, I/ Mary Star of the Sea

GnR – Estranged (seems like everyone has a different fave GnR song/solo)

Radiohead – Paranoid Andriod

Television – Marquee Moon

Interpol – the very end of PDA (really easy to play but cool none the less)

“Big Drift Away” by British Lions

EDWARD VAN HALEN (Enough of “Eruption”, PLEASE!)
“Outta Love Again”
“D.O.A”
“Girl Gone Bad”
“House of Pain”
“Me Wise Magic”
STEVE VAI
“Big Trouble”
“For the Love of GOD”
PETER KLETT
“Far Behind”

Avenged Sevenfold: Seize the Day

Metallica- Master of Puppets
Metallica- One
GnR- November Rain
Megadeth- Sweating Bullets
Van Halen- Eruption
Lynyrd Skynyrd- Free Bird
Eagles- Hotel California
Black Sabbath- N.I.B.

…and pretty much any solo that Stevie Ray Vaughan, Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malmsteen, or even Tom Morello is pretty badass

Metallica- Master of Puppets
Metallica- One
GnR- November Rain
Megadeth- Sweating Bullets
Van Halen- Eruption
Lynyrd Skynyrd- Free Bird
Eagles- Hotel California
Black Sabbath- N.I.B.

…and pretty much any solo that has Stevie Ray Vaughan, Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malmsteen, or even Tom Morello is pretty badass

Metallica- Master of Puppets
Metallica- One
GnR- November Rain
Megadeth- Sweating Bullets
Van Halen- Eruption
Lynyrd Skynyrd- Free Bird
Eagles- Hotel California
Black Sabbath- N.I.B.

…and pretty much any solo that has Stevie Ray Vaughan, Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malmsteen, or even Tom Morello is pretty badass

This week´s topic made me realise something about myself… I tried to remember some great guitarsolos, but I couldn´t. All I could remember was great basslines and fantastic drumtracks. Being the youngest in a family of musicians I´ve stayed far away from all instruments all my life, but now I know that if I did play, I´d definitely be in the rythm section…

Billy Gibbons is the single most underrated guitarist ever. In honor of this fact, I nominate his solos from:

Just Got Paid
Sharp Dressed Man

Both velvety smooth slide guitar perfection. Few have ever done it better.

for simplicity, poignancy:
Bell Bottom Blues-Clapton
Eminence Front-The Who
Another Brick in the Wall-Pink Floyd
Sultans of Swing–Dire Straits
Beat It–EVH
Hey Joe–Hendrix

jockey full of bourbon is one of my personal favorites. also-californication (john frusciante) and taxman (paul mccartney)

Mic Check – Rage Against the Machine

While My Guitar Gently – The Beatles

Sympathy for the Devil – the Rolling Stones

Runnin’ Down A Dream – Tom Petty (Solo by Mike Campbell)

Stairway to the goddamn Heaven best solo ever. No question.

cream-crossroads(live)-clapton
led zeppelin-heartbreaker/livin lovin maid-page

white stripes – jack the ripper

white stripes – jack the ripper
def leppard – high n dry

Some of my faves:

Slash – Sweet Child of Mine
David Gilmour – Comfortably Numb
The Edge – Even Better Than the Real Thing
John Frusciante – She’s Only 18
Jimmy Page – 10 Years Gone
The Edge – The Fly
Tom Morrello – Killing in the Name
Billy Corgan – Geek USA
Slash – Estranged
Kirk Hammett – Fade to Black

Nirvana- In Bloom, Sappy
Radiohead- Just
Beatles- A Hard Day’s Night, Rain, Hey Bulldog
Rolling Stones- Sympathy For The Devil
Neil Young- Down By The River
Pearl Jam- Alive
Pixies- No. 13 Baby
Sonic Youth- Cotton Crown
Jimi Hendrix- All Along The Watchtower

Oh come on, you guys getting jealous of Q magazine and just doing the exact same list as them?

Wait to leave everything wide open with no parameters, like say the solo should be something considered to have contributed to the evolution of rock guitar. Instead, you have people listing buckethead songs. And not enough people are listing people like Jimi Hendrix, who’s widely considered to have been one of the most pivotal guitarists in the history of rock music. You didn’t even bother with Zeppelin, another artist widely considered to have altered the landscape of guitar rock and that has influenced the vast majority of all guitar rock recorded after their existence (RS never really liked them though, anyways). Or Eric Clapton, another gentleman who bridged the blues era together with the rock era. All of these artists have written solos that have done much more for rock music than the smashing pumpkins. Billy Corgan? seriously?

How about:
Telegraph Road – Dire Straits
Little Wing – Jimi Hendrix/Derek and the Dominos/Stevie Ray Vaughn

How about:
Telegraph Road – Dire Straits
Little Wing – Jimi Hendrix/Derek and the Dominos/Stevie Ray Vaughn
Europa – Santana

1. Mick Ronson on Bowie’s “Moonage Daydream”

2. Tom Verlaine on Television’s “Marquee Moon” (shame on Rolling Stone for overlooking this one)

3. David Gilmour on “Dogs”… possiblt his most overlooked guitar work

4. Jonny Greenwood on “Paranoid Android”, “Lucky”… and “The Bends” … no one does it like Jonny

also–Stairway-Led Zeppelin
Too Many Ways to Fall–Arc Angels
Sweet Child & Estranged–G&R
Who Are You–The Who
We Will Rock You–Queen
Mother Father–Schon/Journey

Sweet Child O Mine – Slash
Comfortably Numb – David Gilmour
Walk This Way – Joe Perry
Yankee Rose – Steve Vai
Sultans of Swing – Mark Knopholer(sp is wrong, im shure of it)

And the best solo of all

Stairway to Heaven – Jimmy Page

Janes Addiction – Three Days
Radiohead – Paranoid Android

The End, The Beatles. Where John Paul and George all contribute to the solo.

Slash-master of solos
Buckethead- Jordan
Metallica- Master of Puppets
Led Zeppelin- Hearbreaker
The Doors- Light My Fire
Van Halen- hot for teacher

Slash (Guns N’Roses) on Estranged
Jack White (The White Stripes) on Ball and Biscuit
Berton Averre (The Knack) on My Sharona
Kirk Hammett (Metallica) on The Unforgiven
David Gilmour (Pink Floyd) on Mother

Eddie Van Halen “Eruption” and absolutley anything Jimi Hendrix

Brad Penn, great choice with “Even Better Than the Real Thing”, you beat me to it. What a sexy solo.

guitar solos. hmmm…

o.k. here goes…

can’t you hear me knockin’- stones (that’s a good one)

10 years gone -OR- the rain song-zepplin

all i want is you- u2

estranged -gn’r

riviera paradise- stevie ray vaughn

cold gin- kiss (off of alive… ace was good on that)

these imporant years – husker du

although i gotta agree with the cat who put mike campbell’s solo from the heartbreakers (tom petty &…). there’s an incrdeible guitar player who can get you in a good mood. theres a ton more. there always will be.

Lindsay Buckingham Of Fleetwood Mack is a very underrated guitarist.

“Sunrise Dance With the Devil” by Hot Tuna has an awesome guitar solo . . . totally underrated jam band by the way.

John J. and Gene are right on about Steve Hackett’s solo on “Fifth of Firth” from Genesis’ “Selling England By The Pound.” It is mind blowingly beautiful. You can You Tube the song. If you’ve never heard it, it is a MUST LISTEN! My pick however, is a Led Zeppelin song. (wait,wait! Just listen. Don’t tune me out just yet!) I knew there would be a lot of Zeppelin on the list, so I went down the list (yes,I actually read other people’s stuff), and “Since I’ve Been Loving You” was nowhere to be found. I don’t know if it wasn’t picked because it’s on Zeppelin III-the least popular record(not for lack or quality). “Since I’ve Been Loving You” is also a MUST LISTEN! You can YOU TUBE this one as well!

-Anytime Metallica does the twin-solos, like on “Fight Fire With Fire”.
-Dimebag – “Domination”
-David Gilmour – “Comfortably Numb”

Sweet Child of Mine – Guns n Roses
Voodoo Child – Jimi Hendrix
Stairway to Heaven – Led Zeppelin
Turn it Again – Red Hot Chili Peppers
Give it Away – Red Hot Chili Peppers

leslie west and the who”baby dont you do it
cream crossroads
blues de luxe jeff beck group

Finally, I’ve been waiting for this one.

Yellow Ledbetter by Pearl Jam- Long Live Mike McCready

Adam Raised a Cain by Bruce Springsteen- The Boss is actually pretty good, but only a handful of his songs have solos.

The Spirit of Radio by Rush- Alex Lifeson + Wah-Wah Pedal= freakin’ awesome.

Sympathy for the Devil by the Stones- Keith’s all-time best.

Heartbreaker, Stairway, Dazed and Confused, etc, etc by Led Zeppelin

Layla and While My Guitar Gently Weeps by Eric Clapton- Well he is God

FREEEEEEEEEEE BIIIIIIRD lynyrd skynyrd
Southern Man -Neil Young

SRV — Texas Flood. doubt me? youtube his live performance at macumbo

Wilco- “At Least Thats What You Said”…amazing outro….

Samba Pa Ti – Santana

Any of the Hits played on Santana’s “Lotus” Album

not a deep inspired musical group but this one sent chills down my spine

byzantine – jeremiad

David Gilmour – Time, Comfortably Numb
George Harrison – Let it Be, Something

Frank Zappa’s “Nanook Rubs It”
Led Zeppelin’s “Heartbreaker”
Audioslave’s “Doesn’t Remind Me”
Jimi Hendrix’s “Voodoo Child”
Guns n Roses’s “Paradise City
The Hold Steady’s “Most People are DJs”
Jethro Tull’s “Auqualung”
The Mars Volta’s “Tettragrammaton”
Pink Floyd’s “Annother Brick in the Wall, part 2″ and “Time”
Prince’s “Lets Get Crazy”
Smashing Pumpkin’s “Geek USA”
Soundgarden’s “Back Hole Sun”
Wilco’s “At Least that’s What You Said”

Fuck You — Eruption , EDDIE VAN HALEN

Stairway to Heaven – Led Zep
Comfortably Numb – Pink Floyd
Money – Pink Floyd
3 Days – Jane’s Addiction
Alive – Pearl Jam
All Along the Watchtower – Hendrix

Pearl Jam- Alive
Metallica- Disposable Heroes
Led Zeppelin- Stairway To Heaven
Guns N’Roses- Sweet Child O’Mine
Van Halen- Eruption
Red Hot Chili Peppers- Wet Sand
Cream- White Room

GOOOOOOOOOOOD !!!!!! EDDIE VAN HALEN the first ever , 50 solos

The Allman Brothers “Mountain Jam”
– The song IS the solo, and what a solo at that.

The Stairway solo, duh.

Cream “Crossroads”
– The live version changed rock guitar forever.

Please ??? EDWARD VAN HALEN – ERUPTION , SPANISH FLY , FOOLS , MEANS STREET , HOT FOR THEACHER , PANAMA ( GOD ) , 5150 , 316 …

LADIES and GENTLEMEN ? EDDIE VAN HALEN , is always the best , PANAMA , JUMP , ICE CREAM MAN , ERUPTION , BALUCHITERIUM ….

I’m not sure what the greatest solo is but I know it was played–live–by Trey Anastasio.

any john frusciante, he pwns

for keith- sway
jack white- ball and biscuit
jimi- watchtower
duane- liz reed live
warren- brand new angel
slash- sweet child of mine

ERUPTION —- EDDIE VAN HALEN

And I second “Bold As Love” (Jimi Hendrix, not John Mayer version!)

And I have to agree with “Bold As Love” (Jimi Hendrix, not John Mayer version!)

but of course the best live solo ever is run like an antelope by phish before trey was that coked and pharmied out

ERUPION , ERUPION , ERUPION ! EDWARD VAN HALEN , you know Rolling Stone , what’s happening ?

Ice Cream Man – Van Halen , Panama – Van halen , Erupion – Van Halen

this could take all night but off the top of my head:
cortez the killer – neil young
impossible germany – wilco
dondonte – my morning jacket
lounge (closing time) – modest mouse
ball and biscuit – white stripes
in my time of dying – zep
voodoo child – hendrix, stevie ray did it justice too

It’d be a shame not to mention Robert Quine’s work with Lou Reed on The Blue Mask LP or even his work with Richard Hell & The Voidoids on say “Blank Generation.” The guy really had it going on.

Beat it – Eddie Van Halen

so i’m not too fond of Soma.

i’m more thinking of “at least that’s what you said” by wilco. it’s not ripping guitar work, but its passionate, which you don’t really get these days.

and i’d also go for “i want to be the boy” by the white stripes. a lot of guitarists today can rip out a good solo, but nobody can bend strings like jack

Erupion – Van Halen , Seventeen – Reb Bech , You’re All Need – Warren de Martini , Panama – Van Halen , Fools – van Halen , Romeo Delights – Van Halen

Anything by John Frusciante!! But especially Turn it Again,Wet Sand and Dani California.

Jimmy Page’s all time favorite guitar solo—- Steely Dan – “Reelin’ In The Years”

ERUPTION —- VAAAAANN HAAAALENNNN !!!!!! The End

Van Halen — Ice Cream Man and Wait — Vitto Brata

Alex Lifeson of Rush: “La Villa Strangiato” and “Freewill”

ERUPTION!!! Never better, more innovative and complete. No question for me.

Page/Zep-”HEARTBREAKER”

This song is about the last place one might look for a great guitar solo, but Thomas Dolby’s “Budapest by Blimp” (from the 1989 album “Aliens Ate My Buick”) is jaw-dropping. Credit goes to studio musician Larry Treadwell. Tread VERY well! Besides, the song is an odd pop-prog-funk masterpiece.

Eric Clapton in “Crossroads” by Cream

Jack White in “Ball and Biscuit” by The White Stripes

Ronnie Wood in “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking” by the Rolling Stones

Someone’s got to agree with me on this brilliant solo:

The guitar solo on Zwan’s “Settle Down”

chea and also wet sand by frusciante

METALLICA-ONE
ZEPPELIN-STAIRW AY TO HEAVEN

Micheal Schenker of UFO playing on “Rock Bottom” on their 1974 “Phenomenon” LP

David Gilmour – Time (and Comfortably Numb)
Anything Hendrix did – my personal favorite “Easy Rider”
Prince – Purple Rain and Let’s Go Crazy
Bachman Turner Overdrive – Down Down (not a million notes a second solo, but beautiful) also in this category Boston’s “More Than a Feeling”
Van Halen – whatever Eddie does is usualy fantastic – Panama, Unchained, Eruption
Led Zep – Ten Years Gone, Stairway, Since I’ve been lovin you
Devo’s one note solo on their version of “Satisfaction”!

Hendrix was the king of solos; the three that stand out to me from Jimi were: Bold as Love, Voodoo Chili, and the heaviest blues/rock song of all-time, Machine Gun.

After Hendrix, Frusciante and Gilmour stand out to me because of their creativity… not the speed of the their solos. With Gilmour, Time and Comfortably Numb are brilliant. Fruscainte has so much impropto stuff, and the Stadium Arcadium album is filled with vibrant solos; but I really enjoy Could have Lied, Wet Sand, Scar Tissue, and She’s Only 18.

Other great solos are November Rain, Purple Rain, Freebird, Michael Jackson’s Beat It, and perhaps the most famous guitar solo of them all.. Stairway to Heaven.

Git rid of the Buckethead and similar artist. That is not music, that is garbage… he, like many others, are just playing scales extremely fast. Nothing artistic about that.

Zappa….Inca Roads, Watermelon in Easter Hay.

Zappa….Inca Roads, Watermelon in Easter Hay.

Led Zeppelin – Stair way to heaven

RHCP – Dani California

Van Halen – Jump

Jimi Hendrix – All along the watch tower

PearlJam – Alive

Led Zeppelin – Stair way to heaven

RHCP – Dani California

Van Halen – Jump

Jimi Hendrix – All along the watch tower

PearlJam – Alive

Johnny Cash on “Folsom Prison Blues”

Keith Richards on “All Down the Line” by the Rolling Stones

Jimmy Page on “Bron Y’Aur” by Led Zeppelin

Rage Against The Machine – Sleep Now In The Fire

And where is the muse love? MATTHEW BELLAMY
MUSE – Stockhom Syndrome or Plug In Baby

The Strokes – Take It or Leave It

The Vines – Outtathaway!

White Stripes – Ball & Biscuit

Foreplay/Longtime transition solo by Tom Scholz of Boston.

Steve Jones of the SEX PISTOLS on EMI.
All hail whoever listed the BRITISH LIONS!

ERUPTION, ITS A KNOW BRAINER THAT SONG SHOULD BE ON THAT LIST!!! JEESE

any white stripes song
libertines-boys in the band
the strokes-take it or leave it

any white stripes song
libertines-boys in the band
the strokes-take it or leave it

Purple Rain- Prince

Many of us agree Eddie Van Halen is a great guitarist. Let’s hope he gets his shit together to continue

I know no one cares, but listen to Robert Fripp’s solo in the first four minutes of King Crimson’s “Requiem” from the album Beat (1982).

Also,
David Gilmour, “Another Brick In The Wall Part 2″ (Pink Floyd)

Eric Clapton, “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” (Beatles)

John & Paul & George, “The End” (Beatles)

Eddie Van Halen, “Beat It” (MJJ)

Peter Frampton, “Do You Feel Like We Do (live)” and “Work” from the Thelonious Monk tribute album That’s The Way I Feel Now

oh, and this MUST be on the list …

Berton Averre, “My Sharona” (The Knack)

how about blackout by scorpions or stairway or sweet child o mine

White Stripes — Ball and Biscuit

Van Halen: Eruption,ice cream man,beat it

SLASH Of GUNS N ROSES: Sweet Child Of Mine,Estranged,November Rain,Don’t Cry Paradise City and Welcome To The Jungle.

New order crystal
new order regret
joy division love will tear us apart
new order primitive notion
new order brutal

Eruption
Maggot Brain by Funkadelic(Eddie Hazel)
Still Got the Blues by Gary Moore
Stranglehold by Ted Nugent
Almost anything on the first 3 Rainbow albums (Ritchie Blackmore)
In Memory of Elizabeth Reed by the Allman Bros.
Mother Earth by Gov’t Mule (Warren Haynes)
Too Rolling Stoned by Robin Trower
Europa by Santana

Off the top of my head, i would nominate:
Stone Roses – Love Spreads
-
Joe Satriani – Satch Boogie
-
Black Flag – My war
-
Slah – November Rain
-
Django Reinhardt – Belleville
-
Metallica Master of Puppets

Given Time, I would come up with more, but these get played on my iPod the most.

Cream – Crossroads
Led Zeppelin – Since I’ve Been Loving You
Jimi Hendrix – Machine Gun

November Rain

Theres isnt a greater, more true rock guitar solo than Keith Richards on Sympathy for the Devil…. there are many great solos more complex or more technically difficult, but this one is both a ripping part of the best song of all time, and also quite literally a guitar solo that changed the world.

Ball and Biscuit- White Stripes

It may not be the best, but it deserves to be on the list.

the stone roses – made of stone

Joe Satriani – Always With Me, Always With You
Steve Vai – For the Love of God
Yngwie Malmsteen – Black Star

…plus anything by Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck

LED ZEPPELIN- STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN
LED ZEPPELIN- DAZED AND CONFUSED
METALLICA- FADE TO BLACK
GUNS N’ ROSES- ESTRANGED
IRON MAIDEN- HALLOWED BE THY NAME
VAN HALEN- ATOMIC PUNK

I’ve always been a huge fan of the solo in Soma. I’m going to have to bust it out now that you’ve reminded me. There are more talented guitarists out there than Corgan, but when he sets his mind to it the dude can emote like crazy. He’s like the Gilmour of the 90’s. The solo in Comfortably Numb is untouchable.

jimmy page sounds like hes playin a buzz saw on dazed and confused….jack white on any live performance of ball and a biscuit…seen it three times live and numerous videos…its never the same twice…always incredible

jimmy page sounds like hes playin a buzz saw on dazed and confused….jack white on any live performance of ball and a biscuit…seen it three times live and numerous videos…its never the same twice…always incredible

I really don’t anything different to add, just another to reaffirm what everyone else says…

David Gilmour “Comfortably Numb”

One of my top ten favorite songs ever with one of the best guitar solos ever. Not very technically complex, but fucking mind-blowing the same.

Jimmy Page “Stairway to Heaven”

What can I say? The guitar solo in this song introduced me to the power of rock and roll. I get chills every time I hear the beginning of the solo. It’s orgasmic.

Slash “Sweet Child O’ Mine”

Classic song. Classic solo. A Universally accepted fact. I still don’t understand how Kurt “Power Chord” Cobain got Number 12 on RS’s Greatest Guitarists of all Time list and Slash wasn’t even on the fucking list.

Robert Fripp “Fashion”

Robert Fripp to me, is like the Stravinsky of Guitar Heroes. Harsh, mechanical, atonal genius. Also a favorite guitarist of David Bowie. Great song by Bowie with a fucking sick solo.

Prince “Why My Guitar Gently Weeps” Live Rock Hall Inductions 2004

I love the original Beatles song and I love Clapton’s solo work, but the live version featuring Prince at the 2004 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductions is wow. I have no words to describe that solo. It took my 20 years of life on this planet to realize one simple truth: Prince is a fucking genius.

smashing pumpkins-soma
is amazing

The solo in Soma is orgasmic.

Let’s see-Lindsey Buckingham and
James Honeyman-Scott from The
Pretenders very rarely get their
dues as guitarists,so I’d like to
throw in a couple of ripper solos
from both for starters-
“Isn’t It Midnight”,”The Chain”
and “I Don’t Want To Know”(L.B.)
“Tattooed Love Boys”,”The Wait”
and “Kid”(J.H.S.)
Honorable mentions to-
“Bad To The Bone” and “Gear Jammer”-George Thorogood
“Let There Be Rock”-AC/DC
“Start”-The Jam
“You Really Got Me”-The Kinks
“Got Hit”-Mental As Anything
Cheers!

Forgetful me left out the killer
solos in Creedence Clearwater
Revival’s “Travelin’ Band” and
Midnight Oil weren’t too shabby in
the solo department either-check
out the likes of “Powderworks”,
“Stand In Line”,”Profiteers” and
“No Time For Games”

Money for Nothing – Dire Straits

Love Removal Machine-Billy Duffy

Moanjam- Ty Tabor

Three Days- Dave Navarro

How’d you pin that one on me?- J. Mascis

Modern Times- Daniel Auerbach

Ball and Biscuit- Jack White

James Burton on Ricky Nelson’s “Hello Mary Lou.”

David Gilmour- Comfortably Numb

Outlaws- Green Grass And High Tides

BLUE SKY by the Allman Bros is amazing!

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez from The Mars Volta on Tetragrammaton, Viscera Eyes, Frank Zappa on Shut Up and Play ‘Yer Guitar Some More

Opeth’s A Fair Judgement.

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

The whole song is beautiful, but 6:30 mark to 8:oo mark is sweet.

“Paranoid Android” – Radiohead (I’ll never get over it)

“Soulshine” – Gov’t Mule/Warren Haynes (the word soul is a minor compliment)

“Ground on Down” – Ben Harper (whew, it’s beautiful)

“Since I’ve Been Loving You” – Led Zeppelin (Blues absolutely at the top of its game)

“Shotgun Smile” – Winterville (If you haven’t heard these guys find them now)

Pink Floyd – Time
Zeppelin – Achilles Last Stand
AC/DC – Whole Lotta Rosie
Prince’s live performance of Fury on SNL. Awesome.
Cream – Crossroads

Blue Sky- The Allman Brothers

Hey Joe-Jimi Hendrix
Voodoo Child (slight return)- JImi Hendrix

Roy Buchanon “The Messiah Will Come”

Definitely David Gilmour on “Time”

Deep Purple – Smoke On The Water
Black Sabbath – Iron Man

The Police – Bring On The Night
Stevie Ray Vaughn – Little Wing
Sting – Little Wing
Hendrix – All Along The Watchtower
Drive By Truckers – World Of Hurt
Neil Young – Down By The River
Prince – While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Live At The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame)
REM – Sweetness Follows
U2 – Bullet The Blue Sky
Most Sonic Youth Songs
Steely Dan – Haitian Divorce
Most Eddie Van Halen Solos
Incidentally, Jimmy Pages favorite guitar solo was in Steely Dan’s Reelin In The Years.

I really like the guitar solo in MC5’s “Lookin’ At You” as well as Jack White’s guitar in “Screwdriver”

HOTEL CALIFORNIA……..NUFF SAID BUT HEY LETS NOT FORGET WHITE STRIPES RAUNCHY BALL AND BISCUIT and THE SWEET IMPOSSIBLE GERMANY.

WHY ISN’T STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN ON THIS LIST? WATCH EARL’S COURT AND THEN YOU’LL UNDERSTAND THAT THIS SONG DESERVES TO BE ON TOP OF THIS LIST.

Prince – Purple Rain (1984)

I may be repeating that too much and too often, but here it fits perfectly – Hotel California by Eagles.

I’ve scrolled through a good portion of this list, and what I don’t see is any Deadheads waxing lyrical about any Jerry Garcia “Fire on the Mountain” Munich 72 or other such supposed guitar wizardry. Is it possible that Deadheads actually don’t read Rolling Stone? But, as I’m not much of a DH myself, I’m curious: What are some great Jerry moments? Share if you know…

I’ve been partial to Slash’s roll in Paradise City, Bill Duffy’s solo in Medicine Train, or anything by Stevie Ray.

‘Sunshine of Your Love’by Eric
Clapton when he was in CREAM.
I can still remember hearing them
play a gig at Brandeis in (gulp!)
March of’68. They were snowbound
in Minnesota and didn’t go on til
about 1:00am. When he hit those
opening notes, the place arupted!

Jimmy Page”Since I’ve Been Loving You”

I’m not sure if it’s the coolest or the best, and quite frankly I loath the song, but I think it’s the best known solo for billions and for that alone, it should be mentioned:

“Beat It” – Michael Jackson.

the beatles
-hey bulldog
-taxman
-while my guitar gently weeps
THE BEST

Hotel California… you know if I hadn’t ever been to China I’d probably go along with that. But since coming here 4 years ago I’ve heard HC hundreds and hundreds of times.

Soundwise I’ve always like the solo on “Know Your Enemy” by RATM

Van Halen.

Eruption.

Blows everything on Rolling Stone’s list out of the water.

22 going on 23-butthole surfers

On that note… I’ve noticed that Rolling Stone has a somewhat befuddling stance on Van Halen.

Half the time the print articles bemoaning Dave-Vh’s absence.

Then they create a list of what they think are the 100 greatest guitarists of all time, and Eddie Van Halen is in the 70s. Apparently one of the most amazing guitarists ever is far lamer than Kurt Cobain and Jack White. Right… and now they don’t mention him at all.

Make up your mind, RS.

Black Hole Sun ~ Soundgarden
In Bloom ~ Nirvana
Smells Like Teen Spirit ~ Nirvana
Man In The Box ~ Alice In Chains
Porch ~ Pearl Jam
Why Go ~ Pearl Jam
Garden ~ Pearl Jam

ANYTHING BY JEFF BECK!!!
(are you kidding me??!!!??)

Few more:

Duane Eddy – Sugar Foot Rag. It’s like fifteen seconds long, but I’ve never heard anything like it. How the hell do you play that?

AC/DC – Let there be Rock

Oh, and let’s not forget that one of the single best solos ever is also one of the first – BILL HALEY – Rock Around the Clock. So fast and perfect, WAAAY ahead of its time.

I’m gonna’ catch hell for this………..BUT……….

Alter Bridge-Open Your Eyes

That tasty little bitch invokes air guitar from my pasty white ass every time I hear it.

Hendrix – All Along the Watchtower – I’ve heard it, what? 1,000 times? And still marvel at it.

Hear is my assessment of the best guitar stuff, the first six are the Premier League of players, everyone else is second division including Hendrix, who I love.

Michael Bloomfield
Stop – Supersession, the nearest rock has got to free form Jazz.
One way out – Lost supersession tapes
East/West & Work Song – Paul Butterfield Blues Band The original extended solos – pre Hendrix

James Burton
Susie Q – Dale Hawkins
Thats all right mama – Hoyt Axton’s Life Machine album – the sultriest, dirtiest, an almost pornographic solo
Boulder to Birmingham – Emmylou Harris
Petty Polly – Judy Collins Who knows where the time goes – he duets/duels with Stephen Stills if that doesnt put chills up and down your spine, you are missing a spine

Howard Slackman
Just say I love him – Nina Simone’s Forbidden Fruit – a sweeter more emotional solo you will not hear.

Robbie Roberton
It makes no difference
The weight
Unfaithful servant
Who do you love
Tears of rage
All of his playing with Dylan especially the Free Trade Hall in 1966

Nils Lofgren
Keith dont go
Cry tough
The sun hasnt set on this boy yet
He is still amazing see him live while you have the chance

Jeff Beck
Any of his recordings – see him live

Neil Young
Losing End – the first thing I heard by him, there is no one like him.

Stephen Stills
Pretty Polly – see James Burton
First boy I loved – Judy Collins, who knows where the time goes, solos in, out , over and under her voice heartbreaking.

Eric Clapton
Going home – Delanney & Bonnie
Go back home – Stephen Stills, he takes a pedestrian workout, raises the bar for the band and makes them work to keep up.

finally
I ride alone – Lee Clayton – dont even know who the guitarist is but he deserves to be honoured

The West Wing: Season Two ends with President Bartlett fighting for his political life. As he travels to make the speech of his career, we hear “Brothers In Arms” by Dire Straits. Surely on the most sensitive guitar solos of all time…?

Led Zeppelin- Stairway to Heaven
Led Zeppelin- Heartbreaker
Black Sabbath- War Pigs
Pink Floyd- Comfortably Numb
Van Halen- Eruption

Like a Hurricane-Neil Young

Time – Pink Floyd.

Europa – Santana

Paranoid Android – Radiohead

Covered in Rain – John Mayer

The dual solos on Television’s Marquee Moon

Soma of the Smashing Pumpkins! that has to be my old time favourite solo, fantastic pick, however Hello Kitty Kat/Geek USA/Starla and Quiet are strong runner-ups

other superb solos:
Ledzep – Stairway
Pink Floyd – Time
Filter – Where do we go from here
Jane’s Addiction – Three Days

“Crossroads” by Cream

“Have you heard” by John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers

“Sympathy for the Devil” by the Stones

“Machine Gun” – Jimi Hendrix (And it’s live…unbelievable!)
“Good Times, Bad Times” – Zeppelin
“Crossroads” – Cream (Clapton)
“Sweet Child O Mine” – Guns & Roses
Either-”Jessica” or “Blue Sky” by the Allman Bros. (Dickey Betts)

“Machine Gun” – Jimi Hendrix (And it’s live…unbelievable!)
“Good Times, Bad Times” – Zeppelin
“Crossroads” – Cream (Clapton)
“Sweet Child O Mine” – Guns & Roses
Either-”Jessica” or “Blue Sky” by the Allman Bros. (Dickey Betts)

Metallica-Master of Puppets
The Darkness-I Believe In A Thing Called Love

The most amazing guitar solo of all time has to Stevie Ray Vaughan – Leave my girl alone, live from austin city limits. That speed combined with feeling is just unbelievable.

I have to nominate the late, great Dimebag Darrel from Pantera. Guitar god. Plain and SImple.

Track: Floods-Pantera (Album:The Great Southern Trendkill)

Well . . . anything by Jimi Hendrix is obviously amazing. I would also nominate Dean DeLeo from STP and Army of Anyone. He’s had some quality solos over the years.

Pearl Jam’s ‘Alive’

How can you not put up Crossroads-Cream
Eruption- Van Halen
Voodoo Child (Slight Return)- Jimi Hendrix
Stairway to Heaven- Led Zeppelin

The guitar solos on ZZ Top’s “Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers” and Jeff Beck’s “Brush With The Blues” are great.

The guitar solos on ZZ Top’s “Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers” and Jeff Beck’s “Brush With The Blues” are great.

Jimi Hendrix – anything he has ever done ditto Stevie Ray Vaughn
Tool – Pushit
Thin Lizzy – Rocker(i can’t believe no ones mentioned lizzy)
Smashing Pumpkins – entire Siamese Dream album
Metallica – The Outlaw Torn
U2 – Fly
Janes Addiction – Three Days
GN’R – Sweet Child O’ Mine
Van Halen – Eruption

Judas Priest’s Glen Tipton in Delivering the Goods.

Europa by Santana

Derek and the dominoes – WHy does love got to be so sad?

Blackmore – Hard Lovin’ Man
Gorham/Robertson – The Emerald
Knopfler – Down to the Waterline
Farner – Inside Looking Out (Live ‘71)
Clapton – Sunshine of Your Love
Hendrix – Machine Gun
Gilmour – Mother
May – Brighton Rock

Coma- Guns N Roses
Love Hate Love- Alice In Chains
Big Gun- Soundgarden
Dopesmoker- SLEEP
The Ballad Of Jimmy Hendrix- Stormtroopers Of Death

Time, Pink Floyd
Blue Sky, Allman Bros.
Fool in the Rain, Zep

MOE’s “32 Things”

TELEVISION’S “Friction”

DIRE STRAITS’ “Tunnel of Love”

You better had put freaking “Free Bird” there otherwise I’d boycott the magazine. Hands down the most gut-wrenchingly emotional guitar solo of all time. “Comfortably Numb” and “One” come close of course but where the hell is Van Halen’s “Eruption”, Prince’s “Purple Rain” and Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven”?

Crossroads-Cream
Eruption-Van Halen
those are my two favorites…

beatles-let it be
velvet underground-oh sweet nothing
lenny kayes solo on the patti smith group because the night

beatles-let it be
velvet underground-oh sweet nothing
lenny kayes solo on the patti smith group because the night

beatles-let it be
velvet underground-oh sweet nothing
lenny kayes solo on the patti smith group because the night

How about either The Camera Eye or The Analog Kid by Alex Lifeson.

Randy Rhoads had several guitar solos/riffs that equal or are better than anything mentioned here. Throw on Blizzard of Oz
r. Crowley/Crazy Train or Diary of a Madman releases and you will agree.

Randy Rhoads had several guitar solos/riffs that equal or are better than anything mentioned here. Throw on Blizzard of Oz
Mr. Crowley/Crazy Train or Diary of a Madman releases and you will agree.

“Badge” by CREAM
A.K.A. Eric and George.
I’ve always wished it would go on for about 4 hours. Has anyone out-there in RollingStone-land vere witnessed a live show where Clapton opened it up for a spell.
Tell us about it.
Fire one up and crank THAT bad boy!

Boston-Hitch a ride CANNOT believe it is not already on here???

hendrix- machine gun on news year eve

This is a great list already but there’s a few I’d like to throw into the pot.
‘Stairway To Heaven’, Led Zeppelin
‘Hey Joe’, Jimi Hendrix
‘Hotel California’, The Eagles

Everyone says that “Comfortably Numb” is the best solo on a Pink Floyd album, but I think that “Time” has the best one; it’s pure emotion.

pearl jam – yellow ledbetter
weezer – tired of sex
pearl jam – alive

I Could Have Lied – Red Hot Chili Peppers (John Frusciante is the best!!!!)

“sleep now in the fire”–tom morelo

and i will second “ball and a biscuit” by jack white

Jimi Hendrix-”Voodoo Child”, “All Along The Watchtower”

Prince-”Purple Rain”, “Alphabet Street”, “Rasberry Beret”

Lenny Kravitz-”Are You Gonna Go My Way”

Beck-”Where It’s At”

Van Halen-”Hot For Teacher”

Guns ‘N’ Roses-”November Rain”

Barenaked Ladies-”Brian Wilson”

Oasis-”Champagne Supernova”, “Don’t Look Back At Anger”

Sublime-”Santeria”

Rage Against The Machine-”Bulls On Parade”, “Guerilla Radio”

These must be on any guitar solo list:

Prince- Let’s Go Crazy
Van Halen- Eruption
Jimi- Voodoo Chile

smashing pumkins?

This could go on forever. Here’s just a few classics:

Heartbreaker – Led Zep
Hot for Teacher – Van Halen
Even Flow – Pearl Jam
Man in the Box – Alice in Chains
Machine Gun – Jimi Hendrix
Five Long Years – Eric Clapton
Smell a Rat – Buddy Guy

I could sit here all day. The guitar is without a doubt the best instrument EVER.

Rock on!

metallica one
metallica the unforgiven
guns n roses sweet child of mine

The Isley Brothers-”Who’s That Lady”, “Footsteps In The Dark”…

Anything they touched which went gold(and platinum)during the 70’s- when they were in their funk rock phase-and then on.

Dinosaur Jr – “Thumb” and “Get Me”
Led Zeppelin – “Since I’ve Been Loving You”
Prince – “While My Guitar…” HOF induction
Lenny Kravitz (Slash) – “Mama Said”
Metallica – “Fade to Black”
Wilco – “Impossible Germany”, “At Least That’s What You Said”

crazy train-randy rhoads

voodoo chili jimi hendrix

purple rain prince

comfortably numb pink floyd

“Marquee Moon” By Television

OK,here’s what I think : For me the best guitarists of all time are (not in order,except the first one):
1.Ritchie Blackmore
2.Yngwie Malmsteen
3.Slash
4.Vinnie Moore
5.And of course,the Steelheart’s guitarist
So,almost all of their songs got wonderful solos.I don’t think this is the place where I should write all their discograrhy

the beatles and eric clapton – while my guitar gently weeps
sympathy for the devil – rolling stones
comfortably numb – pink floyd
stairway to heaven – led zeppelin
master of puppets – metallica
smells like teen spirit – nirvana

purple haze – jimi hendrix
layla – eric clpton

Boston (Barry Goudreau)–Foreplay/Long Time
Floyd–Time
Alvin Lee–I’d Love to Change the World
Rick Derringer–Rock and Roll Hootchie Koo
Jimi–Voodoo Child
Eddie Van Halen–Pick a solo. Any solo.
The Who–Pinball Wizard
Badco–Good Lovin Gone Bad

“Tears” by The Stone Roses (John Squire)

Forgot–
Missing You–HSAS (Neal Schon)
Street Fightin Man–Stones
Keep Yourself Alive–Queen
Sugar Mice–Marillion
Go Your Own Way–Fleetwood Mac

Wanna thank Rolling Stone. And here, I thought your magazine turned into a rap rag a few years ago.

STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN BABY

Layla
War Pigs
Rush – La Villa Strangiato
While my guitar gently weeps
Allman brothers – blue sky
and definitely Comfortably Numb

Gilmour – Dogs (I’ll resist the strong urge to list every great Floyd solo and stick with this one)

Knopfler – Sultans of Swing (love that bluegrass)

Thayil – Like Suicide (quintessential orgasmic solo)

McCready – Say Hello 2 Heaven (best rock blues guitarist from the Seattle thing)

Cantrell – Man in the Box (short simple and sweet)

Page – Achilles Last Stand

What do people hear in Morello that I don’t? IMO opinion, overbearing and seems to ruin more songs with unnecessary effects than he improves…

good picks, but aren’t we forgetting Dream Theater? pick any song at random and you’re practically guaranteed a mind-blowing, intensely prog solo.

heartbreaker-Led Zeppelin

Eruption – Van Halen.
Enough said.

“Fucking Hostile” by Pantera. Best solo ever.

1. Any song from VH1-1984
2. Round & Round by Ratt
3. Anything by Jimi Hendrix
4. Shock Me by Ace Frehley/KISS
5. Stairway To Heaven

Pink Floyd – A Great Day For Freedom

One of the most amazing guitar solos i have ever heard (and that was not mentioned in this list)

OK, all the obvious ones are listed (Stairway, Crossroads, Eruption, etc.). A couple of more obscure favorites of mine include:

1. Jimi’s second “Hey Joe” solo live at Monterrey–it wasn’t until after many years of loving this solo that I saw the video and realized he did the whole dang thing behind his head.

2. Lindsey Buckingham doing “I’m So Afraid” on the live Fleetwood Mac album.

Crossroad Blues-Cream
Shes Not There-Santana
Sympathy for the Devil-Stones

John Frusciante’s “Look On” off his Inside of Emptiness album. It’s a 1:45 guitar solo. You have to check it out.

Ride On by AC/DC contains the greatest solo ever by Angus Young, the greatest guitarist ever

Velvet Revolver-Gravedancer

Sultans of Swing (dire straits)

While My Guitar Gently Weeps (beatles)

Voodoo Chile (jimi)

Siva (pumpkins)

I’m down with November Rain, also Cult Of Personality by Living Colour, Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’ – The Rolling Stones, Black Magic Woman – Santana

like someone said,this list needs a lot more Thin Lizzy. Brian Robertson and is awesome on everything. and where the hell are Richie Blackmore and Brian May?!

sum 41- in too deep

Soma?? RS, gimme a fuckin’ break. I didn’t even realize there was a solo in that song. If you needed to choose a song from the Pumpkins’ catalog, you should’ve chosen Cherub Rock. However, if you are choosing solos based on merit, rather than your methods, than I’d have to go with VH eruption or Jump. Little Wing, the Derek and the Dominoes version has a gorgeous solo by Duane Allman. Unbelievable stuff! For something a bit more contempary (relatively speaking), Sweet Child o’ Mine has a great solo as well.

Zakk Wylde-We Live No More(Live) ZZ Top-Jesus Just Left Chicago Ted Nugent-Stranglehold RHCP-Lyon 6.6.06 (Live) Led Zeppelin-Dazed And Confused(Live) Kenny Wayne Shepherd-Blue on Black Buckethead-Jordan

Best Guitar Solos:

Eric Clapton’s solo on “Have You Ever Loved A Woman?” on Derek+Dominoes: “Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs”

Randy Rhoads’ solo on Ozzy’s “Crazy Train”

and since everyone takes guitar solos way too seriously — 99 percent of them are just guitar masturbation —

Funniest Guitar Solos

the too-painful-for-human-ears guitar solos in “This Is Spinal Tap”

Michael J. Fox’s solo on “Johny B. Goode” in “Back To The Future”

St. Elmo’s Fire by Briano Eno

Robert Fripp plays the guitar on here, I don’t hear a single bum note and hes putting all the shredders to shame with his flawless technique. He’s not playing the guitar as much is he is slowly bleeding all sorts of wonderful noise from it.

Anything by Dinosaur Jr but especially

Freak Scene
The Wagon
Get Me
Just Like Heaven cover

Also, pick your favorite Neil Young and Crazy Horse song
My vote is for My My Hey Hey (or it might be the other way around)

ANOTHER GIRL ANOTHER PLANET BY THE ONLY ONES AND SUBWAY TRAIN BY JOHNNY THUNDERS!

CC DeVille’s solo in “Talk Dirty to Me” was the best ever for sheer technical superiority.

I’d like to put in a nomination for Zack Morris in “Friend Forever”

The Doors: Five to One

Pearl Jam’s (Mike McCready) Alive or live version of Evenflow. Ditto on Lindsay Buckingham’s solo on “I’m So Afraid.”

The Beatles – A hard day’s night
The Strokes – Reptilia
Deep Purple – Smoke on the water

I just wanted to say that I think everyone’s picks are pretty right on.
But I really wanted to congratulate Rolling Stone for putting Soma on their list. Great choice RS.

Pink Floyd – Money

Wilco – Impossible Germany
Local H – Buffalo Trace
Stone Temple Pilots – Trippin’ On A Hole in A Paper Heart

dazed and confused (live or studio) – led zeppelin

this one may not be the best, but when you listen to stranglehold by ted nugent when you’re high, oh my god is it cool

oh, and jessica by the allman brothers band

IRON MAIDEN – NUMBER OF THE BEAST, FEAR OF THE DARK, WASTED YEARS, WEEKEND WARRIOR

METALLICA- FADE TO BLACK, CREEPING DEATH

AC/DC- SOUL STRIPPER, BACK IN BLACK, TOUCH TOO MUCH

RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE- BULLS ON PARADE, KILLING IN THE NAME OF, ASHES IN THE FALL

GUNS N’ ROSES- SWEET CHILD O’ MINE,
NOVEMBER RAIN, ESTRANGED

LED ZEPPELIN- DAZED AND CONFUSED, STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN

VAN HALEN- ATOMIC PUNK, ERUPTION, HUMAN BEING, PANAMA

Maggot Brain by Funkadelic
Machine Gun- Jimi Hendrix

Frank Zappas Shut up and play yer guitar the whole album

Eric Clapton, “Five Long Years.”

Jimi Hendrix-Come On (Let The Good Times Roll)

Eric Clapton-Steppin’ Out

Clapton on “Let it Rain”
Ryan Adams “Shadowlands”

1. comfortably numb – pink floyd
2. Stairway to heaven – led zepplin
3. eruption – Van Halen
4. Free Bird – Lynard Skynard
5. All along the watch tower – Jimi Hendrix
6. November rain – Guns N’ Roses
7. Hotel Califonia – The Eagles
8. one – Metallica
9. Crazy train – Ozzy Ozborne
10. Crossroads – Cream
11. Voodoo Child(slight Return) – Jimi Hendrix
12. Layla – Eric Clapton
13. HeartBreaker – Led Zepplin
14. Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen
15. Time – Pink floyd

I Could Have lied, RHCP
Beat it, Eddie Van Halen
Three Days, Jane’s Addiction
Bullet the Blue Sky, U2

Prince’s guitar solo at the Hall of Fame on While My Guitar Gently Weeps.

It’s astounding.

Here’s a soon-to-be classic that no one’s heard yet: The Golden Dogs playing their song “1985″. It’s a 4 minute song with the last 2 minutes of it as an awesome guitar solo. It’s on iTunes. They’ve just signed with Yeproc.

Radiohead – Paranoid Android

Speaking of “One”, U2’s “One” features a brief, yet beautiful solo by The Edge right before the third verse (”Did you come here for forgiveness”). Very subtle, but one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever heard.

Voodoo Child (Slight Return)-Jimi Hendrix
Layla-Derek and the Dominos
Marquee Moon-Television
Rain Song-Led Zeppelin
Soul Sacrifice-Santana

the new Smashing Pumpkins song – Tarantula

Oh yea, and these too…
Like a Hurricane-Neil Young
Black-Pearl Jam
Us and Them-Pink Floyd
Panama-Van Halen
and…
Little Wing-Jimi Hendrix

hello operator – white stripes

audioslave- “doesnt remind me”
the white stripes- “ball and biscuit
jimmi hendrix-”all along the watch tower”(tho whole song is one amazing solo in my opinion)
jimmi hendrix- “voodoo child(slight return)”
zeppelin- “heart breaker”

ball and a biscuit- white sripes
slither- velvet revolver
one- metallica
smell like teen spirit nirvana
light my fire- the doors

smashing pumpkins cherub rock
led zepplin the ocean
pearl jam yellow ledbetter
nirvana breed,school,drain you

1. David Bowie – Let’s Dance (album version with Stevie Ray Vaughn on guitar, great song)
2. Dream Theater – Peruvian Skies
3. Van Halen – the entire Van Halen album
4. Journey – Seperate Ways
5. Scorpions – Holiday or The Zoo
6. Pink Floyd – name something
7. Led Zeppelin – too many to list
8. Def Leppard – Rock of Ages
9. Sammy Hagar – There’s only one way to rock
10. Metallica – One
11. Alter Bridge – Metalingus (great song check it out)
12. ZZ Top – entire Eliminator album
13. Cream – Sunshine of your love
14. Extreme – More than words -great acoustic solo
15. White Lion/Golden Earring – Radar Love
16. White Lion – Cry for Freedom

oh and i forgot the allmans brother bands “tied to the whipping post” listen to the old live tapes of duane just letting loose…greatest slide guitarist in history

Duane’s solo on In Memory of Elizabeth Reed from At Fillmore East

Nils Lofgren on Springsteen’s Youngstown; Live in NYC. Check it out and tell me what you think. Much underated player- Keith Don’t go…..

C.C DeVille- “Talk Dirty To Me”
Raffi- Greatest hits album
Taco- Puttin on the Ritz
Don Johnson- Heartbeat

GMO- Just read your post. You beat me to the punch Nils Lofgren-Springsteen’s Youngstown NYC.

GMO- Just read your post. You beat me to the punch Nils Lofgren-Springsteen’s Youngstown NYC.

1-Jimi Hendrix-Voodoo Chile
2-Gary Moore-Parisienne walkways.
3-Ten Years After-Bluest Blues.
4-Eric Clapton-Layla.
5-Eric Clapton-Holy Mother.

I´m blues enthusiastic from Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL.

Mick Ronson – Slaughter on Tenth Avenue
The Knack – mid-song solo on My Sharona
Prince – Let’s Go Crazy
David Bowie – Moonage Daydream (live)

I hate to break it to you guys, but the ‘Freebird’ solo makes me cringe every time I hear it. It has absolutely zero direction, goes absolutely nowhere and using (and repeating endlessly) a totally predictable (not to mention cliched) southern rock lick as the basis for your solo is a poor idea. If you’re going to play such a long solo, make it go somewhere; don’t just wank.

My noninees are:
Jim Hall – ‘The Way you Look Tonight.’ a fabulous solo that tells a story.
Bill Frisell – Naked City’s ‘Snagglepuss’. Frisell’s guitar work on Naked City’s first album is spectacular but this very short solo is particularly ear-catching.
Slash – ‘Sweet Child o’ Mine’ I know it’s been said already but I think it should be mentioned due to it’s archetecture and the fact that Slash actually addresses the chords behind him rather than just buring pentatonic scales like so many other guitarists at the time.

The Eagles- Hotel California

The Rock- The Who
You Really Got Me- The Kinks
And Your Bird Can Sing- The Beatles
Crossroads- Cream
Bold As Love- The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Led Zeppelin- Dazed and Confused from their concert/movie Song Remains The Same.

John Petrucci – Entire Scenes From A Memory Album

Smashing Pumpkins = “Soma” and “Bring The Light” is brilliant for today’s modern rock.

About time Rolling Stone gives props to the music/talent of this band and not portraying its typical media bias against Corgan b/c they favor Cobain.

Down By The River – Neil Young
Johnny B. Goode – Chuck Berry
All Along the Watchtower, Voodoo Child(Slight Rtn), Who Knows, Machine Gun-Hendrix
Since I’ve Been Loving you – Page

Man, I love the guitar…this is my top 10
1. Couldn’t Stand The Weather- SRV
2. Adam Raised A Cain- Bruce Springsteen
3. She’s Only 18- John Frusciante
4. Layla- Eric Clapton
5. Perfectly Good Guitar- John Hiatt
6. Can’t Stop- John Frusciante
7. Stop!- Dave Navarro
8. L’via L’viaquez- Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
9. Voodoo Child- Jimi Hendrix
10. So Alive- Ryan Adams

TOOL – Triad – ADAM JONES

Conversation over.

John Sykes in “Still of the Night”
John Sykes in the entire “Blue Murder” album
Carlos Rios in “Appaloosa”
Jimi Hendrix in “Voodoo Chile” – every version
Duane Allman in “Whipping Post” Fillmore
Eric Johnson in “Cliffs of Dover”
Jerry Douglas in ANYTHING
Carlos Santana (every note he ever played)

The Eagles – Hotel California
Queen – Brighton Rock (Live)
Joe Walsh – Turn to stone

Out of curiosity:

When people say Layla, are they referring to Claptons lead during the middle of the song or Duane Allmans solo at the end?

David Gilmour-Comfortably Numb
Johhny Winter-Highway 61 Revisited
Eric Clapton-White Room
Jimmy Page-Nobody’s Fault But Mine
Tom Verlaine-Marquee Moon
The Edge-All I Want is You
Albert Lee-I’d Love to Change the World
Ted Nugent-Hibernation

LED ZEPPELIN – STARIWAY TO HEAVEN
GUNS N ROSES – NOVEMBER RAIN
RANDY RHODES – BARK AT THE MOON
A PERFECT CIRCLE – ORESTES (LIVE W/ EXTENDED SOLO)

FASTER Y THR MANIC STREET PREACHERS

Landslide – Smashing Pumpkins
Purple Haze – Jimi Hendrix
Blue Jean Blues – Jeff Healey
Little Wing – Stevie Ray Vaughan
Walking Blues – Eric Clapton
I Aint Ever Satisfied – Muddy Waters
While My Guitar Gently Weeps – Eric Clapton

Led Zeppelin: The Song Remains The Same

Van Halen: House of Pain

Smashing Pumpkins: Soma

Jane’s Addiction: Three Days

Led Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven (esp live versions)

Floyd – Comfortably Numb

“Bold As Love”-Jimi Hendrix
“Lenny”-SRV
“Layla”- Derek And The Dominoes
“Slow Dancing In A Burning Room”/”Covered In Rain”/”Bold As Love” (cover)-John Mayer
“You’re Damn Right I’ve Got The Blues”-Buddy Guy
“Rock Me Baby”-BB King

slash in sweet child o mine, keith richards in sympathy for the devil, any and all solos by albert king, stevie ray and duane allman and dickey betts, but as far as skynyrd goes, rossington, king, and collins could intertwine as good as any threesome in rock history, id rather hear the comin atcha from a tunnel solo from needle and the spoon.

metallica-one

I think you could nominate a lot of Phish for guitar solos. Down with Disease, Reba, Divided Sky. Rolling Stone has never known what to do with Phish, and have always been underrated. I don’t see any other guitarists on this article or in the comments where you have an improvised solo for 20+ minutes.

Jimmy page : The lemon song
Jimmy Hendrix : All along the watchtower

Rainbow in the Dark-Dio/Vivian Campbell

For the Love of God/Steve Vai

Evenflow/Pearl Jam

Crying in the Rain/Whitesnake-John Sykes

Floyd – Comfortably Numb

Oh wait I need to name a bunch of shit not in the voting, All of the Best songs of all thhe 100 plus bands I seen, WTF does all these lames comments have to do with the real vote.

the outro solo of Bold As Love by Jimi Hendrix, also Voodoo Child by Hendrix

“Maggot Brain” – Eddie Hazel was amazing

Duane Allman-Statesboro Blues

the slide is so breathtaking and smooth and soulfull, definatley one of the most satisfying things brought to my ears

November Rain or Sweet Child

Chili peppers – Wet Sand
Radiohead – Electioneering
Allman Brothers Band – Whipping Post
Modest Mouse – Trailer Trash (I doubt that’ll make the list, but I had to say it).

Wishbone Ash; Argus
Santana; Abraxsas

Led Zeppelin -
Stairway to Heaven, Whole Lotta Love, and Heartbreaker
Jimi Hendrix -
Voodoo Child (Slight Return), All Along the Watchtower, and Little Wing
Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb
Eric Clapton – Crossroads
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Free Bird
Guns N’ Roses – November Rain and Sweet Child of Mine

Carlos Santana
Duane Allman
Dickey Betts
Eric Clapton
Jimmy Page
Jimi Hendrix
Andy Powell: WA
Ted Turner: WA

Achilles Last Stand, Stairway to Heaven, Sweet Child O Mine

Achilles Last Stand, Stairway to Heaven, Sweet Child O Mine

Led Zeppelin- Achilles Last Stand
Led Zeppelin- Stairway to Heaven
Guns n Roses- Sweet Child O Mine

In no particular order:

Metallica- “One”;”Ride the Lightning”
Derek and the Dominoes- “Layla”
Smashing Pumpkins-”Cherub Rock”
Smashing Pumpkins-”Quiet”
The Mars Volta- “L’Via L’Viaquez”
Radiohead- “Just”
Radiohead-”The Bends”
Soundgarden-”Black Hole Sun”
Stevie Ray Vaughan-”Texas Flood” any version is disgusting
Liquid Tension Experiment-”When the Water Breaks”
Red Hot Chili Peppers-”Wet Sand”
Alice in Chains-”Them Bones”
Allman Brothers Band-”In Memory of Elizabeth Reed”
Rage Against the Machine-”Killing in the Name”;”Know Your Enemy”
Avenged Sevenfold-”Beast and the Harlot”
Coheed and Cambria-”Welcome Home”
Cream-”White Room”
Gary Hoey-”Wipeout”
Janes Addiction-”Been Caught Stealing”
Jimi Hendrix-”Third Stone From the Sun”;”All Along the Watchtower”;”Are You Experienced”;”Freedom”;”Star Spangled Banner”;”Voodoo Child”
Led Zeppelin-”Dazed and Confused”;”Over the Hills and Far Away”
Pearl Jam-”Evenflow”
Pink Floyd-”Comfortably Numb”
Prince-”Fury”
Rush-”YY Z”
Velvet Revolver-”Slither”
there. i think a few of those might be good enough

Johnny Thunders “You Can’t Put Your Arms Around A Memory
Bob Stinson/Replacements “Sixteen Blue”
Bob Mould/Husker Du “Turn on the News”
Prince “Can’t Take the Place of Your Man”
Cheetah Chrome/Dead Boys “Aint It Fun”
Hendrix “Voodoo Child”
Ace Frehley “Rock n Roll All Nite”
Mark Knofler/Dire Straits “Skataway”
Keef Sympathy for the Devil”
Mick Taylor/Stones “Moonlight Mile”

led zeppelin stairway to heaven
metallica one
van halen eruption
pink floyd comfortably numb

Shoplifters of The World

“Sympathy for the Devil”- Stones
“Little wing”- Hendrix
“While My Guitar Gently Weeps_-Clapton
“Black Dog”- Led Zeppelin

Frame by Frame – Robert Fripp and Andrean Belew of King Crimson

Since I’ve Been Loving You – Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin

Sweet Jane Intro – Steve Hunter of Lou Reed’s Rock and Roll Animal Band

Have You Ever Loved A Woman – Eric Clapton – Derek and the Dominos Live at the Filmore East

Shine on You Crazy Diamond – David Gilmour Pink Floyd

Johnny B. Good – Jimi Hendrix Live at Berkeley

You Don’t Love Me – Dwayne Allman ABB Live at the Filmore East

It’s My Own Fault – Johnny Winter, Johnny Winter And Live

Sweet Child of Mine – Slash GNR

Cause We Ended As Lovers – Jeff Beck Blow by Blow

Black Hole Sun – Peter Frampton (His latest instrumental Album)

Stay With Me – Ronnie Wood and the Faces

Brown Sugar – Keith Richards The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers (not really a lead but outstanding rhythm riff throughout)

Reelin’ in the Years – whoever the guitar players were with Steely Dan

The Thrill is Gone – BB King

Mississippi Queen – Leslie West Mountain

i have to say the one guitar solo that absolutly moves me is the solo from metallica fade to black.which is also my all time favorite song.

i also forgot to mention randy rhodes/ozzy crazy train

Pearl Jam – “Alive”

95% of solos suck.

Tom Dumont – Don’t Speak by No Doubt

Bryan Adams Summer of 69

BLUE SKY by the Allman’s, C’MON, THREE MINUTES OF BLISS!!!

Nirvana “Smells LIke Teen Spirit” Fuck your chops, assholes! Eat my shit!

Weezer – “Dope Nose”..not too shabby; also, Cream – “White Room”

Tool- Third Eye

Breath ~ Pearl Jam
Yellow Ledbetter ~ Pearl Jam
Them Bones ~ Alice In Chains
Say Hello 2 Heaven ~ Temple Of The Dog
Reach Down ~ Temple Of The Dog
School ~ Nirvana
Heart-Shaped Box ~ Nirvana (short but cool)
About A Girl ~ Nirvana (short but sweet)

1: Heartbreaker- Zeppelin
2: FreeBird- Skynyrd
3: Little Wing- Hendrix
4: Mountain Jam- Allman Bros
5: Eruption- Van Halen

Terry Kath in 25 or 6 To 4 from Chicago II.

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oh yeah, and…
ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER

TIME, Pink Floyd

COVERED IN RAIN, John Mayer

BALL & BISCUIT, The White Stripes

PARANOID ANDROID, Radiohead

BUT TIME IS THE BEST.

Since we can talk about classic rock solos all night, heres my picks from the 90’s onward:
Alive – Pearl Jam
I Could Have Lied – RHCP
Ball and Biscuit – White Stripes
Trippin’ on a Hole in a Paper Heart – Stone Temple Pilots
Take the Power Back – RATM
Man in the Box – Alice in Chains
Alone Together – The Strokes

HOLY SHIT!!!Are you kidding me!?! No mention of Ritchie fucking Blackmore? (Smoke on the Water, Burn, Highway fucking Star) My God you emo assholes and your post-punk bullshit need to stay the fuck out of this list. And you!!Rolling, fucking totally clueless too cool for school, Stone! Let the the dream of being the next Lester Bangs die!! You have no right to write about rock and roll if you don’t include Eddie Van Halen in your potential top five greatest guitar solos. Holy Shit! I mean it isn’t even their best song, but if you don’t include “Jump”, then you should all consider suicide as a viable option out. C’mon! I don’t want to see one reference to fucking anything recorded after 1995 anywhere near this list. Jesus help us! Wake the fuck up!!!

someone said it earlier, and I felt compelled to repeat it…

pearl jam – yellow ledbetter

“Willie the Pimp” by Frank Zappa
“Comfortably Numb” by Pink Floyd
“Embryonic Journey” by Jefferson Airplane
“Surrender” by Cheap Trick
“25 or 6 to 4″ by Chicago
“While My Guitar Gently Weeps” by the Beatles
“The End” by the Beatles
“Purple Rain” by Prince
“Heaven and Hell” by the Who
“Overture” by the Who
“All Along the Watchtower” by Jimi Hendrix Experience
“Like A Hurricane” by Neil Young
“Green Grass and High Tides” by the Outlaws
“Beck’s Bolero” by Jeff Beck
“More than a Feeling” by Boston
“Innuendo” by Queen
“Thick As a Brick” by Jethro Tull
“More Than This” by Roxy Music
“Space Suit” by They Might Be Giants

Time — Pink Floyd.

Neon Knights-Tony Iommi
Any Zappa
Cocaine (Live)-Clapton
In the Evening-Jimmy Page (rare working of the whammy bar).
Shapes of Things-Jeff Beck w/R. Stewart.
Eyes of the World (live)-Jerry Garcia
YYZ-Alex Lifeson
Baby Let’s Play House-Scotty Moore
Fools Rush In-James Burton
Who’s that Lady?(pt. 1&2)-Isley Bros.

metallica one
ozzy osbourne mr crowley
led zeppelin stairway to heaven

jethro tull- aqualung
quicksilver messenger service-fresh air

1. All Along The Watchtower (hendrix)
2. Free Bird (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
3. Stairway To Heaven (Zeppelin)
4. Purple Haze (Hendrix)
5. One (Metallica)
6. Raining Blood (Slayer)
7 Crazy Train (Ozzy)

sum 41 – the bitter end

neil young – like a hurricane
led zeppelin – since i’ve been loving you
zz top – just got paid
dire straits – sultans of swing

Eruption – Van Halen
The Lemon Song – Led Zeppelin
Paralyzed – Ted Nugent
Crazy On You – Heart

Rick Derringer (All American Boy) – Rock n’ Roll Hootchie Koo
Allman Brothers (Eat A Peach) – Dickie Betts’ solo in “One Way Out”
ZZ Top (Tres Hombres) – Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers

eruption. van halen.
hey joe. hendrix.
death letter (live). white stripes.
freebird. lynard skynard.
whipping post. allman brothers band.
in no particular order, they may not be the best, but they are close to perfect in my book

Removing the guitar gods, Clapton, Page, Hendrix, Eddie V, I like to look deeper

Stevie Ray Vaughan – Crossfire, Boot Hill
Buddy Guy – Anything, Clapton calls him the greatest and can he hold a note. See him live.
Richie Sambora – Hey God, solo stuff different from Bon Jovi stuff.
Jonny Lang – The kid can play

check out ‘out of my mind’ by the john mayer trio for a nice slow rolling blues blowout (i know he is kind of a pussy on his other albums, but the trio does music justice)

‘eruption’ by van halen

‘november rain’ by guns n roses

‘bullet the blue sky’ by u2

‘heard it through the grapevine’ by ccr

and of course ‘this is why im hot’ by mims.

la villa strangiato?

RCHP – Wet Sand – John Frusciante is the man

Nobody mentioned “Hotel California” Live version, which is much better than the studio version

Eruption – Eddie Van Halen
Freebird – Lynyrd Skynyrd
Stairway to Heaven – Led Zeppelin
Hotel California – The Eagles
Spanish Fly – Eddie Van Halen
Still In Love With You – Gary Moore
Babe Im Gonna Leave You – Led Zeppelin
A Lil Aint Enough – David Lee Roth (Jason Becker)
Mr Crowly – Ozzy (Randy Rhoads)
For the love of god – Steve Vai
Comfortably Numb – Pink Floyd
No More Tears – Ozzy (Zakk Wylde)
The Loner – Gary Moore
Ice Cream Man – Eddie Van Halen
Price you gotta pay – Paul Gilbert
Hangar 18 – Marty Friedman
Jet City Woman – Chris Degarmo

Sister Ray

Tom Verlaine-Marquee Moon
Keith Richards-Sympathy for the Devil
Sterling Morrison-Oh Sweet Nuthin’
Hendrix-Little Wing
All the solos on Sonic Youth’s Unmade Bed are amazing too.

santana-europa

The Rolling Stones Hand Of Fate Wayne Perkins on guitar.

Layla: Eric Clapton
Money: Pink Floyd
Babe im gonna leave you: zepplin
Yellow Ledbetter: Pearl jam
Voodoo Child (Slight return): Hendrix
Cherub Rock: Smashing Pumpkins

Neil Young – Cortez The Killer
Jeff Beck – Ain’t Superstitious
Jimi Hendrix – All Along The Watchtower
Jimmy Page – Heartbreaker
Jeff ‘Skunk’ Baxter (Steely Dan) – My Old School
Frank Zappa – Zoot Allures
David Gilmour – Time
Ace Frehley – Love Her All I Can
Bill Nelson (Be Bop Deluxe) – Crying To The Sky
Earl Slick (David Bowie) – Station To Station
Robert Fripp (David Bowie) – Teenage Wildlife
Stevie Ray Vaughn (David Bowie) – China Girl
Elliot Easton (The Cars) – Just What I Needed
Eddie Van Halen – I’m The One
Albert Lee (EmmyLou Harris) – Luxury Liner
Jeff Beck (Rod Stewart) – Infatuation
Steve Vai (David Lee Roth) – Big Trouble
Adrian Belew (The Bears) – None Of The Above
Vernon Reid (Living Colour) – Cult Of Personality
Eric Johnson – Desert Rose
Derek Trucks – Sahib Teri Bandi

Time Waits For No One…
Winter….
Can’t You Hear Me Knocking!

Mick Taylor.

Better not give E.C. all the credit on Layla. Duane led the way!

Rain Will Fall ~ I Mother Earth
The River ~ The Tea Party

Blue Sky! Dickey & Duane trading lead solo’s…..Nicccccce!

Guns N’ Roses – Sweet Child ‘O Mine
Led Zeppelin – Since I’ve Been Loving You

Robbie Robertson on Eric Clapton’s No Reason To Cry….Sign Language. Lowell George has to be mentioned! Miss ya Lowell!

Corgan may not like his Zwan experiment, but Jesus I/ Mary Star Of The Sea is simply amazing. The second half guitar work is a voice in its own, awesome.

“Stranglehold” by Ted Nugent

Alive-Pearl Jam
Salisbury-Uriah Heep
Riff Raff-AC/DC
Them Bones-Alice In Chains
The Rocker-Thin Lizzy
Always With Me Always With You-Joe Satriani
Stranglehold-The Nuge
Fire and Water-Free
Stargazer-Rainbow

On The Turning Away-Pink FLoyd
Photograph-Def Leppard
Electric Eye-Judas Priest
See No Evil-Television
…to name a few

More variety:

“No More, No More” — Joe Perry (Aerosmith)

“Rainbow In The Dark” — Vivian Campbell (Dio)

“Rebel Yell” — Steve Stevens (Billy Idol)

“For Yasgur’s Farm” — Leslie West (Mountain)

“Nitro” — Dick Dale

Actually… The greatest guitar solo of all time is in Pantera’s Cemetary Gates after the first verse.

in such an un-thought-out top 5 I cannot believe ‘Stairway to Heaven’ did not fall in.

Like A Hurricane ~ Neil Young
Southern Man ~ Neil Young

Steely Dan, “Kid Charlemagne”. I think it was Larry Carlton playing.

Magic Man – Heart
Lie To Me – Johnny Lang
See The Light – Jeff Healey
Texas Flood – Stevie Ray Vaughan
Black Magic Woman – Santana

“La Tristesse Durera” by Manic Street preachers.
“Say Hello To Heaven” by Temple of the Dog.
“I am the Resurrection” by Stone Roses
“Welcome Home” by Idlewild.
“Epic” by Faith No More.

let us not forget the greatest living guitar hero – Jeff Beck!!!
good bye pork pie hat(holy shit! what a solo!!!), ’cause we’ve ended as lovers (he makes his guitar cry!!!), pump, blue wind (what a great duel!!!).
Peter Frampton’s solo on “Do you feel like we do” is pretty awesome (greatest talk box solo of all time!).
Angus Young – Problem Child, Back in black,Night Prowler, to name a few.
Joe Perry – No more, No more, Sick as a dog, You gotta move, to name a few.
Audioslave- Be Yourself (great wah-wah by Tom Morello).

I hate to just echo other people, but…

OMFG you rock for including Soma!!!!

I’d like to nom Squarepusher’s solo in “Hello Meow.” Sure, it’s on a bass, but that’s a type of guitar, and he can play a bass solo as fast and complicated as most people dream of playing standard guitar solos.

Hendrix – All Along the Watchtower
Pink Floyd – Fletcher Memorial Home For Incurable Tyrants
Steely Dan – Reeling In The Years
The Beatles – Something

the beatles
the end
while my guitar gently weeps

“Do You Feel (Like We Do)” – Peter Frampton (from Comes Alive)
“Hot For Teacher” – Van Halen
“Taxman” – The Beatles (short but sweet)
“More Trouble Every Day” – Frank Zappa (see Steve Vai play it live at http://www.zappaplayszappa.com /videos.html)

“Plug In Baby”-Muse
“Ball and Biscuit”-White Stripes
“Can’t Stop”-RHCP

Already mentioned, but too infrequently :

Pearl Jam – Yellow Ledbetter
Santana – Samba Pa Ti

Too many people get caught up in shredding. YL and SPT EMOTE. Same for Little Wing, which has thankfully gotten plenty of love here.

Randy Rhoads- Mr Crowley
Steve Vai- Wings of the storm
Kirk Hammett- Dyers Eve
Eddie VanHalen- “his entire Roth era”
Hendrix- Little Wing

etc etc

Also I understand why it was left off the list (who DOESN’T know Stairway, RS wanted to use its bandwidth to maybe bring something new to the table), but it can’t go unrecognized. Maybe a little ‘and of course – Stairway’ at the end.

Sort of like how when the ‘New Seven Wonders’ were picked a couple weeks back, the Great Pyramids were sort of an ‘honorary #8′ because the whole point of the list was to elucidate people on places maybe they HADN’T thought of but the Pyraminds’ historical value is unquestionable.

Three Days – Jane’s Addiction
Paranoid Android – Radiohead
Under The Bridge – Red Hot Chili Peppers
Drown – Smashing Pumpkins
The Fly – U2

While I have far too many favorite guitar solos to mention in the space provided, I list a few standouts below.

Frank Zappa-”Inca Roads”
Duane Allman-”Blue Sky”
Stevie Ray Vaughan-”Lenny”
Jimi Hendrix-”Machine Gun”
Duane Allman and Dickie Betts-”Whipping Post”
Frank Zappa-”Stinkfoot”
Eric Clapton-”Let it Rain”
Jimmy Page-”The Ocean”
Mark Knopfler-”Sultans of Swing”
Jeff Baxter on Steely Dan’s “My Old School”
Jimi Hendrix-”Bold As Love”
Jeff Baxter and Denny Dias on Steely Dan’s “Bodhisattva”
Denny Dias on Steely Dan’s “Do It Again” (actually an electric sitar solo)
Eric Clapton and Duane Allman-”Anyday”

Down on the Corner by Creedence Clearwater Revival.

Smokin’!

Robbie Robertson (The Band) – King Harvest (has surely come)

amazing, less is more people!

eddie hazel.

MAGGOT BRAIN!!

free ya mind and ya ass will follow!

Pretty much most guitarsolo’s played by:
-Jimi Hendrix
-Jimi Page
-Joe Perry
-John Frusciante
-Angus Young
-Slash
-Santana
-Prin ce
-Eddie van Halen

this is another one of “those list topics” which brings every rock spider out onto the web…and shows that the heartstrings of every TRUE jammer numbers six.

STEVE HOWE deserves a mention, doncha think? Starship Trooper.

and of course the king of the pre-guitar god era has got to be the mercurical, succint, inventive and jaw-droppingly original Mr. George Harrison.

The End by the band he was invoved with,one “Beatles”, as it were, where he and John Lennon and Paul McCartney trade riffs in a speed round of classic sounds and styles is the most breath-taking moment of it’s era.

and needless to say the most amazing musical instrument ever, the GUITAR, has practitioners from James “Blood” Ulmer to Derek Trucks to the 3 chaps in the Hellecasters constantly pushing the envelope and refracting invention through the prism of imagination and surprising us and themselves and keeping the mighty guitar and “string theory” itself alive and safe so the next collection of molecules can evolve.
(someone play a guitar solo NOW.)

More Than A Feeling or Hitch a Ride–Boston/Tom Scholz
Patiently/Wheel in the Sky–Journey/Neal Schon
Crazy on You–Heart/Nancy Wilson
Mississippi Queen–Mountain/Lesley West
Every Rose…Poison/CC Deville
Ballad of Jane–LA Guns

Here Comes the Sun/All Things Must Pass sessions–George
Revolution– (both versions)–John
Ram sessions–Paul
Band on the Run–Paul and Denny
Let it Be sessions–group

Funkadelic – Maggot Brain
John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers – Steppin’ Out
Derek and the Dominos – Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad?
Allman Brothers Band – Whipping Post
Bob Marley and the Wailers – Concrete Jungle

Cant believe nobody has mentioned Coheed and Cambria-Welcome Home,epic sound!!

Blink and you’ll miss it: Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age), “Feel Good Hit of the Summer” … short but fierce.

I’m not a big fan of guitar solos really but how ’bout:

Prince – “My Guitar Gently Weeps” (Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame ceremony a few years ago)

Neil Young – “Rockin’ In The Free World” (Live on Mtv years and years ago w/ Pearl Jam)

tough, but important category

1) One – Metallica
2) Sweet Child O Mine – GNR
3) Crossroads – Cream
4) Stairway to Heaven – Led Zeppelin
5) Cult of Personality – Living Colour
6) Freewill – Rush
7) Hot For Teacher – Van Halen
Voodoo Chile – Jimi Hendrix
9) (does this count?) Never Going Back Again – Fleetwood Mac
10) Why Go – Pearl Jam
11) I Wanna Be Sedated – The Ramones
12) God Save The Queen – Sex Pistols
13) Statesboro Blues – Allman Brothers
14) Little Martha – Allman Brothers
15) Guerrilla Radio – Rage Against the Machine

And while im at it-Iron Maiden-Fear of The Dark and Mastodon-Colony of Birchmen

In no particular order:

Beatles – While My Guitar Gently Weeps (the original, and the best!!!)
November Rain – Slash/G’N R
John Mayer – Gravity (this is how you show *restraint* while playing)
Statesboro Blues – Duane at his smokin’ best IMHO!
Crazy Train – Randy Rhoads/Ozzy
Prince – Let’s Go Crazy
Cherub Rock – Pumpkins
Freewill – Rush
Trippin’ On A Hole In A Paper Heart – STP
Hotel California – Eagles
Purple Haze – Hendrix
Smoke On The Water – Richie Blackmore/Deep Purple
Turn To Stone – Joe Walsh (how in the HELL did he *not* make the top 100 guitarists, RS???)

Dire Straits: Brothers in Arms
Pink Floyd: Comfortably Numb
Jimi Hendrix: Fire

Eruption – ’nuff said

PS – All Slash solos

Blind Faith’s “Presence of the Lord” has one of Clapton’s best solos, give it a listen

just show you how narrow our blinders and sheep like we are in our listening habits.

Come now…nary a mention of Rory Gallagher!!!????

Sad but very revealing

Often forgotten, but “Heartbreaker” from Led Zeppelin II is amazing. Strongly recommending to those who have never heard it and those who have, listen to it again

Back half of Pearl Jams “Alive”

fleetwood mac-big love [live]
david bowie-stay [live]
j hendrix-castles made of sand

Clapton–Hideaway (Bluesbreakers), While my guitar gently weeps (Beatles), Here in the dark (Taj Mahal Phantom Blues LP), Deserted Cities of the Heart (Cream)
more Beatles: McCartney–Taxman, Drive my Car Harrison–Old Brown Shoe, Hey Bulldog, Something and many more
Randy California–I Got a Line on You, It’s all the Same
Hendrix–Red House, Watchtower, many more
Billy Gibbons–La Grange
Zappa–too many to single out
Peter Green–just listen to the man play
SRV–Texas Flood
Terry Kath–25 or 6 to 4 (Chicago)
Duane Allman/Dickey Betts–ABB Fillmore East
Santana–Samba Pa Ti
Scotty Moore–The Sun Sessions (Elvis)

BTW, I’ve never been a huge fan of the Freebird solos. I just watched the Prince “While my guitar gently weeps” on youtube and kept waiting for it to go somewhere. I was disappointed. Lots of flash, little substance.

crosby, stills, nash & young-down by the river
buffalo springfield-bluebird

alive – pearl jam

I’ll probably take some heat for this but I think Freebird is one of the most boring songs I’ve ever heard! The solo just goes on and on,when I hear it on the radio I turn in off!!

guns n roses – november rain
guns n roses – sweet child o mine
the beatles – the end
radiohead – just

RHCP’s Wet Sand,Stevie Ray Vaughn Texas Flood

metallica – four horsemen

faith no more – easy

the mars volta – drunkship of lanterns

the dead kennedy’s – holiday in cambodia

prince – purple rain

and you can’t leave slayer off of a list like this:
slayer – angel of death

RHCP – Readymade
AC/DC – Back in Black
Aerosmith – Train Kept a Rollin’
Alice in CHains – Them Bones
Nirvana – Pennyroyal Tea
Oasis – Ciggerates and Alchol
Pearl Jam – Rearveiwmirror
Prince – Lets Go Crazy
Queen – Fat Bottomed Girls
The Rolling Stones – Can You Hear Me Knockin’
Van Halen – Ain’t Talking Bout Love
The White Stripes – Hello Operater
The Who – Baba O’ Reilly

Part deux
Europa-Carlos Santana
Bluebird-S. Stills and N. Young
Mississippi Queen-Leslie West
Get Me-J Mascis
Cortez the Killer-Neil Young
If 6 Was 9-Jimi Hendrix
Girl, You Have No Faith in Medicine-Jack White
Dragon Attack-Brian May
The Zoo-Rudolf Schenker
Little Guitars-Eddie Van Halen
Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’-Keith Richards and Mick Taylor

iving colour- cult of personality

u2- bullet the blue sky

sum41- in too deep

the jim hendrix experience- all along the watchtower

pantera- this love

1.stairway to heaven-jimmy page
2.any thing buy john pettruci
3.machine gun-jimmi hendrix
4.for those about to rock-Angus young
5.comfortably numb-pink floyd
6.heartbreaker-jimmy page
7.any Zach wylde solo
8.star spangled banner-jimmi hendrix
9.november rain-slash
10.freebird-skynyr d

the rapture – house of jealous lovers

very subtle… very methodical…

sorry, have to mention one more:

portishead – glory box

Fine with all these guitar solos, but please stop posting Radiohead- thats for the whining solos forum.

Two words- Psycho Holiday
Dimebag

led zeppelin stairway to heaven
metallica one
guns n roses november rain

Fade To Black (Intro Solo)-Metallica-Ride the Lightning

Dr. Hook – Cover of the Rolling Stone.

“Rock and Roll”

Love them Guitar Solos!!!

my chemical romance – thank you for the venom

Oasis- live forever (noel gallagher)

GNR- november rain (slash
Dire straits- sultan of swing (mark knoffler)

The beatles-while my guitar gently weeps (Eric Clapton)

The white stripes- black math (Jack White)

Long live oasis

Dinosaur, Jr.-The lung
The Doors-Light My Fire
Rush-Freewill
Neil Young-Cinamon Girl

Best solo ever? What about “Maggot Brain” by Funkadelic/Eddie Hazel off the album of the same name (1971)? I also love Rush’s stuff, especially Alex Lifeson’s solos from 2112. Trey Azagthoth (Morbid Angel) as well; he even gives his solos names!
Also Neil Young’s solos: the one-noter from “Everyone Knows…”

Eruption-Eddie Van Halen. Cemetery Gates-Dimebag Darrell. One-Kirk Hammett. Paranoid-Tony Iommi. Nutshell-Jerry Cantrell. Crazy Train-Randy Rhoads. Bohemian Rhapsody-Brian May. Tom Sawyer-Alex Lifeson Do you feel like we do-Peter Frampton. No more tears-Zakk Wylde.

I know you guys said you hated it in your album review, but i quite enjoy the guitar solo off of Either Way by Wilco on their new album, and needless to say the song impossible germany has some great guitar work in it.

Come on. Hotel California: a 6-star classic that SINGS every time. While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Clapton). Agree some cats here have confused riffs w solos. As rocking riffs go, Stray Cats strut it with the best of em.

Alright, I know you’re all going to be skeptics about this, but the best guitar solo I’ve ever heard is Nigel Tufman’s of Spinal Tap.
How many other hair bands coudld’ve soloed with such a finely-tuned violin?

no particular order

HEY JUDE- Wilson Pickett cover (Duane ALlman)

CROSSROADS- Cream (Eric Clapton)

ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER- Jimi Hendrix Experience (Jimi Hendrix)

HOUND DOG- Elvis Presely (Scotty Moore)

FREE BIRD- Lynyrd Skynrd

JOHNNY B. GOODE-

Go by Pearl Jam, redeculiz

Okay, look… we’ve got to agree on terminology here, people. Just because it’s a guitar playing without vocals, that doesn’t make it a guitar solo. Riffs, licks, signature melodies etc don’t count. For example, the song “Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’” by the Rolling Stones has plenty of killer guitar work, but no actual solo guitar excursion, it has a SAX solo. Anyways:

Van Halen – Ice Cream Man
Jeff Beck – ‘Cause We’ve Ended as Lovers
Pink Floyd – Time (morons!!! who would nominate Comfortably Numb over this!!!???)
Van Halen – Beat It
Beatles – Yer Blues
Jimi Hendrix – Little Wing
Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven
Metallica – Fight Fire With Fire
Red Hot Chili Peppers – I Could Have Lied
Aerosmith – Livin’ on the Edge
U2 – Bullet the Blue Sky
Queens of the Stone Age – God is in the Radio
Black Sabbath – NIB
ZZ Top – La Grange

Blue Sky- Allman Bros
Crossroad – Cream
Cinnamon Girl – Neil Young and Crazy Horse
The End – The Beatles
It Makes No Difference – The Band
Return of the Grievous Angel – James Burton
The Wind Cries Mary – Jimi
Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad – Derek & The Dominos
plus almost any other random selection you can make of Jimi
and Stevie Ray

Our Lady Peace – One Man Army

Pink Floyd – Another Brick In The Wall Pt. 2

Jimi Hendrix – All Along The Watch Tower

jack white “ball and biscuit”
john frusciante “lyons 6.6.06.”
eddie hazel “maggot brain”
roy buchanon – “when a guitar plays the blues”

btw – what does eric clapton and coffee have in common?

they both suck without cream

Joe Perry (Aerosmith) rips it up on Dude (Looks Like a Lady)
Caleb Followill (Kings of Leon) does nice on True Love Way, perfectly placed
Prince on Let’s Go Crazy?! Motorsick.

1.Led Zep – Stairway
2.Clapton – Layla
3.GNR -Sweet Child
4.Pink Floyd -Time
5.Eagles – Hotel

Honorable Mention
Dead- Unbroken Chain
Led Zep – In the Evening
Phish – Divided Sky….not the main stream but definately impressive

1.Led Zep – Stairway
2.Clapton – Layla
3.GNR -Sweet Child
4.Pink Floyd -Time
5.Eagles – Hotel

Honorable Mention
Dead- Unbroken Chain
Led Zep – In the Evening
Phish – Divided Sky….not the main stream but definately impressive

Wow…just a little passion on this topic. Couple of conspicuous absences:

-Eddie Van Halen
-Stevie Ray Vaughan
-Zack Wylde
-John Frusciante
-Tom Morello
-John Mayer
-James Marshall Hendrix
-Jimmy Page
-Randy Rhoads

Looks like this is definitely worth making a feature out of!

Thank you for your guitar affinity!!!

ANY COLOUR YOU LIKE – Pink Floyd (Dave Gilmour actually)

Stairway to Heaven- Led Zeppelin
Eruption- Van Halen
Free Bird- Lynyrd Skynnyrd
Star Spangled Banner- Jimi Hendrix

Stairway to Heaven- Led Zeppelin
Eruption- Van Halen
Free Bird- Lynyrd Skynnyrd
Star Spangled Banner- Jimi Hendrix

bold as love-hendrix
stairway to heaven
something-g. harrison
time-gilmour
sweet child o’mine-slash

clapton on crossroads!

crossroads!!! if that clapton’s solo is not on the list i will stop reading this magazine… for 3 or 4 days

Some of these guys have been listed for other songs, but…
Eagles–Victim of Love
Ozzy–Mama I’m Comin Home
Straits–Skateaway or Romeo
GnR–Patience (grand acoustic solo)
Bob Seger/SBB–Main Street

Lots of riff comments here masquearding as solos. Should rephrase the question.

Led Zep – Stairway
AC/DC – You Shook Me All Night Long
Mike McCready – Alive
Eddie Van Halen – Eruption
Randy Rhoads – Mr. Crowley

Time by David Gilmour.

And yes, John Mayer has been left out. He’s got a few good solos. Covered in Rain is his best, but he’s got a few shorter, punchier solos, like Only Heart off Heavier Things.

Jane’s Addiction – Three Days

I hate this kind of rankings, music/art isn’t sport where everything could be measured by time/result or supporters (and reviewers)

Red Barchetta – Alex Lifeson

Van Halen – Poundcake or Little Dreamer Take your pick
Jimmy Page Since I’ve been loving you
David Gilmour Time
Tony Iommi – Heaven and Hell
Eric Clapton – While my Guitar Gently Weeps
Jimmy Page Whole Lot of Love (live)

Van Halen – Poundcake or Little Dreamer Take your pick
Jimmy Page Since I’ve been loving you
David Gilmour Time
Tony Iommi – Heaven and Hell
Eric Clapton – While my Guitar Gently Weeps
Jimmy Page Whole Lot of Love (live)

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Revealation (Mother Earth) – Randy Rhoads

i would like to just throw in jeff beck “sleep walk” a guitar master piece.

People might ridicule me for this but:

The White Stripes: “Ball and Biscuit”

Steely Dan’s Show Biz Kids (Rick Derringer)

Runnin´down a Dream” Mike Campbell on “Full Moon Fever”.

Rolling Stones “Time Waits For No One” (Mick Taylor)

FREEBIRD SUCKS!!!!!!

metallica one

Trey Anastasio on either Reba, You Enjoy Myself, or Mike’s Song from New Year’s Eve ‘95, a concert RS said was one of the best of the 90s.

Clapton “Let it Rain”

Anastasio on any track on A Live One

i have to say rollingstone has lost all its creative imput on music in general. your list are made up of college potheads who will never probably move on to knothing besides being told what to write for you magazine. with that said next time you mak4 a %$^k lit put the two rock gods on it that diserve it eric clapton and tom morello. Thanks, losers. im buying Blender for now on!

The Fly – U2
Geek Usa – Smashing Pumpkins
Since Ive Been Loving You – Led Zep

Little Wing- Jimi Hendrix.. awsome!

“Mean Street”
“Eruption”

Eddie Van Halen revolutionized 2-handed tapping.

Tom Morello? Rock god? And you talk about “pot heads”???

For one that is outside of the obvious, check out the 2 and 1/2 solo at the end of “Trailer Trash” by Modest Mouse. It’s like blues meets grunge, and I pray they play it at lollapalooza tonight.

Definitely anything by Pink Floyd. Usually the top choice is “Comfortably Numb”; but I have to say that as a Pink Floyd fan, Gilmou’s most accomplished solo is the one in “Time.” So yes, I nominate “Time.” Time, Time, Time.

Don’t forget these gems:

1. “Valerie” — The Monkees

2. “Blue Collar” — Bachman Turner Overdrive

3. “Rock Around The Clock” — Bill Haley & His Comets

4. “Too Much Time On My Hands” — Styx

5. “Don’t Fear The Reaper” — Blue Oyster Cult

Ball and a Biscuit- Jack White
Comfortably Numb- David Gilmour
Sunshine of your Love- Clapton
Won’t Get Fooled Again- Townshend
The End- Lennon, McCartney, Harrison

I am twice the guitarist this Metallica bum is. I was on a reality show for VH1, I am the man. Metallica has and will always suck. They have always wanted to be Poison. They cannot be us so they keep putting out crappy records. We dropped Poison’ed and everybody knew the kings were back. See we do not wait 7 years to release an album because we know it sucks, we just put our platinum stuff right out for all to desire. I am the only true rock and roll guitarist out there, RECOGNIZE!

Here are some good ones to consider:

Jeff Beck – “Brush with the Blues”

John Frusciante – “Scar Tissue”

Buckethead – “Soothsayer”

White Stripes “Ball and a Biscuit”

Freakin Amazing!!

“Freebird”
“Dazed and Confused” Zepp
“Lay Low” My Morning Jacket”

4. Steve Cropper on Otis Redding’s “Ole Man rouble”

3. Robert Quine on Lou Reed’s “Waves of Fear”

2. Tom Verlaine on Television’s “Little Johnny Jewel”

1. Jimi Hendrix’s “Machine Gun”–the only serious Number One, this is to all other guitar solos what Dunkin is to donuts

Solo at the end of The Rolling Stones epic ‘Sway’. That is a killer solo, Mick Taylor. On par with anything else in Rock ‘n’ Roll.

Here are my Guitar Solo Favorites.

Jimi Hendrix – “Star Spangled Banner”, “Tax Free” and “House Burning Down”

Jeff Beck w/ Rod Stewart – “Beck’s Bolero”, “Ain’t Superstitous”, “Shapes of Things”, “Let Me Love You”

The Yardbirds (Jeff Beck)- “Shapes of Things”, “I’m a Man”, “Heart Full of Soul”, “Train Kept a Rollin”, “Happenings Ten Years Time Ago”, “Evil Hearted You”, “Over, Under, Sideways, Down”

Rush (Alex Lifeson- “Working Man”, “Finding My Way”

Led Zeppelin (Jimmy Page)- “When the Levee Breaks”, “Heartbreaker”, “Whole Lotta Love”, “The Rover” “Can’t Stop Loving You”, “Stairway to Heaven”

John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers w/Eric Clapton)- “Have You Heard”, “Little Girl”

Van Halen (Eddie Van Halen)- “Eruption”, “Jamie’s Cryin+”

UFO (Michael Schenker) – Rock Bottom, “Lights Out”

Derek and the Dominoes (Eric Clapton and Duane Allman) – “Layla”, “Little Wing”

Black Sabbath (Tony Iommi) – “Wall of Sleep/NIB”,”Iron Man”, “Heaven and Hell”, “Neon Nights”

The Rolling Stones (Keith Richards)- “Satisfaction”, “I’m Going Home”, “Midnight Rambler”, “Empty Heart”, “Little Red Rooster”, “Last Time”

CCR (John Fogerty) – “I Put a Spell on You”, “Suzie Q”, “Fortunate Son”, “I Heard it Through the Grapevine”, “Up Around the Bend”

The Grateful Dead (Jerry Garcia)-”Viola Lee Blues”, “The Cream Puff War”, “Truckin”, “New Speedway Boogie”, “Morning Dew”

Quicksilver Messenger Service (John Cipolina) – “Who do you Love”, “Fresh Air”, “Shady Grove”

Steve Miller Band- “Stepping Stone”, “Roll with It”, “Space Cowboy”

Ten Years After w/Alvin Lee – “I’m Going Home”, “Love Like a Man”

Santana (Carlos Santana) – “Black Magic Woman”, “Mothers Daughter”

The Allman Bros w/Duane Allman – “Whipping Post”, “Midnight Rider”

Iron Maiden (Dave Murray)- “Remember Tomorrow”, “Aces High”, “The Prisoner”

The Stooges- (Ron Asheton) “No Fun”, “Out on the Street”, “I’m Loose”, (James Williamson) -”Search and Destroy”, Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell”

The New York Dolls (Johnny Thunders)- “Bad Girl”, “Subway Train”

Soundgarden (Kim Thayil) – “Black Hole Sun”

Joe Satriani- “Surfing with the Alien”

Aerosmith (Joe Perry)- “Dream On”, Train Kept a Rollin”, “No More, No More”, “Sweet Emotion”

Traffic (Dave Mason) – “Mr. Fantasy”, “Pearly Queen”, “Feelin Alright”

The Who (Pete Townsend)- “Bargain”, “Young Man Blues”, “Run, Run, Run”

The Velvet Underground (Lou Reed)-”Foggy Notion”, “Rock and Roll”, “What goes on”, “One of These Days”

Montrose (Ronnie Montrose)- “Rock the Nation”, “Bad Motor Scooter”, “Rock Candy”

Edgar Winter Group w/Ronnie Montrose – “Free Ride, “Frankenstein”

Yes (Steve Howe) – “Yours is No Disgrace”, “Starship Trooper”

Neil Young with Crazy Horse – Cinnamon Girl”, “Cow Girl in the Sand”, Down By the River”, “Southern Man”,

Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention – “Hungry Freaks Daddy”, “Trouble Every Day”, Why dontcha Do me Right”

ZZ Top – “La Grange”, “Tush”, “I’m Bad, I’m Nationwide”, “Cheap Sunglasses”, “Legs”, “Give me all your Lovin”

Robin Trower – “Day of the Eagle”, “Bridge of Sighs”, “Lady Love”

George Thorogood – “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer”, “Who Do You Love”, “Move it On Over”

Cream (Eric Clapton)- “NSU”, “Sweet Wine”, “Cats Squirrel”, “Tales of Brave Ulysses”, “Sunshine of Your Love”, “White Room”, “Crossroads”, Deserted Cities of the Heart”

The Doors (Robby Krieger)- “Light My Fire”, “The End”

Paul Butterfield Blues Band Michael Bloomfield & Elvin Bishop- “Walkin Blues”, “East-West”, “Work Song”, “Mary, Mary”

Chuck Berry – “Nadine”, Johnny B. Goode”, “No Particular Place to Go”.

Joe Walsh – “Walk Away”, “The Bomber”, “Funk No. 49″

Blind Faith w/Eric Clapton – “Had to Cry Today”

Blue Oyster Cult (Donald “Buck Dharma” Roeser)- “Cities on Flame w/Rock and Roll”, “Stairway to the Stars”, “Bucks Boogie”, “Godzilla, “E.T.I (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)” Death Valley Nights”, “Burning For You”

Ted Nugent – “Journey to The Center of the Mind”, “Baby Please Don’t Go”, “Wang Dang Sweet Poontang”, “Stranglehold”

Ozzy Osbourne – (Randy Rhoads) – “Crazy Train”, “Suicide Solution”, “Mr. Crowley”, “Over The Mountain”, “Flying High Again”

Pearl Jam (Mike McCready & Stone Gossard)- “Alive”, “Even Flow”, “Black”

Pink Floyd (David Gilmour)- “Corporal Clegg”, “Echoes”, “One of These Days”, “Time”, “Shine on You Crazy Diamond”, “Have a Cigar”,
“Pigs”, “Comfortably Numb” “Another Brick In the Wall Part II”

Television (Tom Verlaine)- “Marquee Moon”, “Venus”

The Kinks (Dave Davies) – “You Really Got Me”, “All Day and All the Night”, “I Need You”

The MC5 (Fred “Sonic” Smith)- “Kick Out the Jams”, “Looking at You”, “Shakin’ Street”, “Sister Anne”, “Poison”, “Skunk (Sonicly Speaking)”

Fleetwood Mac w/ Peter Green – “Man of The World”, “Need Your Love So Bad”, “Black Magic Woman”

Guns and Roses (Slash) – “Paradise City”, Welcome to the Jungle”, “Its So Easy”, “Rocket Queen”, “Civil War”, “November Rain”, “Sweet Child O’ Mine”, “Your Crazy” “One in a Million”, “Patience”

BB King – “The Thrill is Gone”

Queen (Brian May)- “Keep Yourself Alive”, “Bohemian Rhapsody”, “Killer Queen”

Leslie West & Mountain – “Mississippi Queen”

Too Many Favorites Not Enough Time.

Buckethead w/Praxis “Guitar Virus”
Buckethead “Night of the Slunk”
Buckethead “Soothsayer”

eddie hazel (maggot brain)
jeff beck (cause we ended as lovers)
hendrix (machine gun, red house)
carlos santana (europa)

Agree with many of the above nominations, but haven’t seen any mention of these two fine solos that are essential to the featured songs:
“Maggot Brain” – Funkadelic(Eddie Hazel)
“Moonage Daydream” – David Bowie(Mick Ronson)

BULLS ON PARADE,,,,,,,TOM MORELLO!!!!!

Comfortably Numb – Pink Floyd
The Jack – AC/DC
Estranged – Guns N Roses
Alive – Pearl Jam
Heartbreaker – Led Zeppelin

somebody mentioned “Since I Been Loving You,” right on…”Stairway”’s a great song but the solo isn’t even one of Page’s top 10.

Here’s to Black Flag’s “Slip It In,” Sleater-Kinney’s “Entertain,” Aerosmith’s “No More No More,” Hendrix’ “Third Stone from the Sun,” MBV’s “Soon,” Husker Du’s “Reoccuring Dreams”… should “One” even count since Kirk plays what James & Lars tell him?

Soundgarden – Like Suicide

Definitely Ball and a Biscuit by The White Stripes, and Paranoid Android by Jonny Greenwood and Radiohead.

Frank Zappa – Any version of Inca Roads & Carolina Hardcore Ecstacy
Rush – Freewill
Funkadelic – Comin’ Round the Mountain
Pink Floyd – Shine On You Crazy Diamond 1-5
Gong/Steve Hillage – Isle of Everywhere (live etc.)
I challenge anyone to actually listen to these solos and tell me that they don’t rip.

Listen up, Hendrix fans! Jimi tops his own ‘machine gun’ with a live version of ‘Hear My Train a ‘Comin’ (2nd version), availaible on ‘Jimi Blues’. It’s pretty much an album of just Hendrix solos. This particular version is, ahen, worth the brain hemorrange.

Other notables:
zappa – yo mama
stones – sympathy for the devil
cream – crossroads
radiohead – paranoid android
allman brothers – whipping post
nirvana – love buzz (any live version)
Santana – Incident at Neshabur (live version from ‘Lotus’)

-ball and biscuit by the white stripes
-while my guitar gently weeps the beatles

Nick Zinner–the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ “Miles Away,” or “Maps” or “Sealings”

Interpol’s “PDA” or “Hands Away”

Mogwai’s “Like Herod” or “2 Wrongs” or “Small Children in the Background”

Stephen Malkmus–”Animal Midnight” or “One Percent of One”

another vote for mr jonny greenwood and his amazing guitar work in paranoid android.

oh and mr jeff tweedy in spiders (kidsmoke) is great stuff too. very creative.

also for those who have while my guitar gently weeps by the beatles on their list, you should remember that it was mr eric clapton who played that solo…

“Give Me Some Money” Lead by Nigel Teufnel

Also for those who put for “ataylor”’s post on their list, remember that Mr. Phantom is the one who wrote it.

NO MORE TEARS! CULT OF PERSONALITY! SINCE I’VE BEEN LOVING YOU! fuck the rest.

A substantial number of posters fail to distinguish the difference between a solo and a riff.

Parkway Drive ‘Romance Is Dead’, ‘Smoke Em If You Got Em’ and ‘Its Hard To Speak Without A Tongue’. Jeff Ling and Luke Fitzpatrick rock!

There is not a better guitar solo than The Outlaws Green Grass and High Tides. Give me a break with this “anything Jimi Hendrix”; pick a damn solo, not an artist!!

Richard Simmons-Sweatin’ to the Oldies Volume 4 and B side of volume 6.

John Daly- “You Don’t Know Me(Like I Know Me)”

Garth Brooks- The Life of Chris Gaines

TIME – PINK FLOYD
TIME- PINK FLOYD
TIME- PINK FLOYD

pearl jam-alive

the mars volta- plant a nail in the nasal stream

wilco-impossible germany

audioslave- doesnt remind me (some people overlook this piece of guitar majesty.)

April Wine – Just Between You And Me

REO Speedwagon – Keep On Lovin’ You

The Eagles – Hotel California

Judas Priest – You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’

Be-bop-a-lula by Gene Vincent.

Led Zeppelin – Ten Years Gone
Widespread Panic – Surprise Valley
Neil Young – Southern Man
Widespread Panic – Action Man
Cream – Badge

nine minute solo of willie the pimp by frank zappa i don’t know if any one mentioned stairway to heavon by led zepplin i like the george harrison solo in something,also the black math solo by the white stripes, i always thought that was the most unique solo.

1. led zeppelin “stariway to heaven” – solo that storms heavens gates

2. jimmi hendrix “all along the watch tower” – the best doing what he does

3. white stirpes – “ball and a biscuit” arguably the best guitar player hot on the scene today.

4. pink floyd “comfortably numb” top tier as far as sustained pshyedelic guitar goes.

5. eric clapton and the beetles “while my guitar gently weeps” he really makes his guitar weep.

6. allman brothers “whipping post” duane is best guitarist behind jimi hendix and proves it with his solo in this song

7. jimi hendrix “machine gun” makes sounds with a guitar no one else has been able to do and make sound so perfect

8. metallica “one” the solo for heavy metal

9.chuck berry “johnny b good” one of the first songs to make the electric guitar what it is today

10.lynrd skynrd “freebird” southern rock solo master peice.

now any of thses 10 could be number one depending on the person. they are all great and classic solos

KISS: Shock Me
BLUE OYSTER CULT: Astronomy
UFO: Rock Bottom
TRIUMPH: Magic Power

comfortably numb?! boring!
sultans of swing–dire straits
layla–eric clapton

Don’t Forget Me – RHCP

I Am the Resurrection – Stone Roses
The Fly – U2
Freebird
Stairway
Three Days – Jane’s Addiction
Stir It Up – Bob Marley

Joe Walsh and Don Felder, “Hotel California”, The Eagles.

Vernon Reid, “Cult of Personality”, Living Colour.

Neal Schon, “Any Way You Want It”, Journey.

Mike Campbell, “Runnin Down A Dream”, Tom Petty.

Dimebag Darrell, “Cemetery Gates”, Pantera.

Joe Satriani, “Flying in a Blue Dream”.

Eddie Van Halen, “Eruption”, Van Halen.

I recently heard a metal band from Brazil called Angra, on an album called the Temple of Shadows-a bit of weak materialthere, but mostly incredible power metal with guitar work that blows the speakers out-my pick for best new guitar solo work. In older stuff I would have to say the track, Tea for One, by Jimmy Page of the band Led Zeppelin, recorded in December 1975, in Germany -CHEERS

My top five solos:

Richie Sambora – Wanted Dead Or Alive
David Gilmour – Comfortably Numb
Randy Rhoads – Mr. Crowley
Slash – November Rain
Eddie Van Halen – 316 (entire solo from the VH live album “Right Here Right Now”, Disc 2)

Any solo done by John Frusciante belongs in this list, now if we are talking about skill,

Red Hot Chili Peppers – Readymade

if we are talking about style,

Red Hot Chili Peppers – Don’t Forget Me

Now if are taling about making those two fuse and create great quality music – real art- , I would say:

Red Hot Chili Peppers – Wet Sand

Red Hot Chili Peppers – Scar Tissue

Honorable mentions also go to:

Tom Morello – Doesn’t Remind Me, and Like A Stone

Neal Schon – Lights, and Mother, Father

Kirk Hammet – Master of Puppets, and One

Nuno Bettencourt – Li’l Jack Horny, and Flight Of The Wounded Bumble Bee (the guitar interlude before He-Man Woman Hater)

Mike McCready – Alive

1. Johnny B. Goode – Chuck Berry 2. Crossroads – Cream (Eric Clapton) 3. Race With The Devil – Gene Vincent (Cliff Gallup) 4. Bluebird – Buffalo Springfield (2nd half, Stephen Stills’ acoustic) 5. Hello, Mary Lou – Ricky Nelson (James Burton) 6. May This Be Love – Jimi Hendrix 7. Beat It – Michael Jackson (Eddie Van Halen) 8. Shapes of Things – Yardbirds (Jeff Beck) 9. Then Came the Last Days of May – Blue Oyster Cult (”Buck Dharma”) 10. Day After Day – Badfinger (George Harrison) Honorable Mention: Tunnel of Love – Dire Straits (Mark Knopfler); Be Careful With a Fool – Johnny Winter; Cinnamon Girl – Neil Young; and You Really Got Me – The Kinks (Dave Davies). ‘Nuff sed!

Santana’s solo at woodstock

Whoever played the guitar to to the intros to I Need a Lover and Sweet Jane

rhcp “I could have lied”

Prince’s solo on “My Guitar Gently Weeps” at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony- absolutely amazing.

Also amazing that Prince did not make it on the 2003 100 greatest guitarists list- major oversight.

Stone Temple Pilots – Trippin’ On A Hole in A Paper Heart

Pearl Jam – Alive

Eddie Van Halen “Eruption”
EVH “5150″ Live withour a net version
so many by Eddie to list

Randy Rhodes “I Don’t Know”
Free Bird

Uli Jon Roth’s guitar solo on the old Scorpion’s track “The Sails of Charon” is perhaps the craziest solo I’ve ever heard… EVER

Let me tell you what’s wrong with these solos
“One” – Metallica It is drowd in distortion
“Freebird” – Lynyrd Skynyrd It becomes noise after two minutes
“November Rain” – Guns N’ Roses is one of the two solo molds that G’n'R this one is the sweet child of mine mold
“Comfortably Numb” – Pink Floyd is boring and pretetious
“Soma” – Smashing Pumpkins your joking right

Eruption van Edward van Halen.

Only Lonely by Ginger
Time After Time played by Zakk Wylde
Maggot Brain by Funkadelic
Over the Hill and Far Away (Live) by Led Zeppelin

Kim Thayil: Black Hole Sun:

Absolutely genius. Does away with traditional melodic solos, (just as most traditional time signatures went out the window on this album), and took advantage of Chris Cornell’s open ended bridge riff. Chris remarked that Kim often plays with such emotion that it’s difficult for him to replicate what he plays verbatim. It’s so spontaneous. This solo is filled with such detail and nuance, and surprise, it’s amazing Kim remains relatively low key post soundgarden.

For my money, it doesn’t get any better than Neal Schon’s solo in “Wheel in the Sky” by Journey.

Also, an absolutely beautiful solo comes from Willie Nelson’s “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain.”

Oh yeah …

Steve Hunter and/or Dick Wagner, “Sweet Jane” from Lou Reed’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Animal live album

Robert Fripp’s solo fills in David Bowie’s “Fashion” are imminently hummable after 27 years

and if you want to hear an incredible Adrian Belew guitar solo, “Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)” by Talking Heads on the Remain In Light album is also imminently hummable after 27 years

Alex Lifeson (Rush) – Limelight
Alex Lifeson (Rush) – La Villa Strangiato
Steve Vai – (David Lee Roth) Looking for trouble
Luke Morley (Thunder) – It happened in this town
Eddie Van Halen – The Ice Cream Man

All right! I have seen some good stuff here. I now have a new list of songs to download. There is just one thing that is bothering me. . .

Y’all have forgotten the best toe tappin’, amp meltin’ guitar solo from MOLLY HATCHET’s FLIRTIN’ WITH DISASTER. Now there is one that rocks.

Hang Loose Y’all

Led Zeppelin – Since ive been loving you.

soma… trying to impress the douchebag crowd with that one, eh?

I think The Edge from U2 is a fantastic, innovative guitar player, but he’s often overlooked as a guitar hero. To perhaps give him more cred as just such a hero, I’d name the solo near the end of “ALL I WANT IS YOU” from Rattle & Hum as a passionate, gorgeous piece of playing, even in its simplicity.

In the RS list, Comfortably Numb is the only song that deserves to be there. The others suck and it shows the lack of taste you stupid Americans at RS have…metallica??wtf??? those guys SUCK!!

My top 10:

Comfortably Numb
Like a Hurricane
Adam Raised a Cain
Kid Charlemagne
Another Brick in the Wall
Badge
Marquee Moon
Black Magic Woman (Santana’s cover)
Stairway to Heaven
Tango In The Night

I think there is a lot of different solos out there, and you cant compare one from another… like david gilmours solo in “comfort numb” is so beautiful you wanna lick his toes, because it lifts the tension of the song.
allthough… i personally think Metallicas “one” solo is awesome, but “the unforgiven” solo is also good, so you will just end up comparing lots of stuff, waste of time.. but if we all can agree of those solos we are all talking about is amoung the greatest ever… then we can say… COOOL.. WE WANT MORE!

In the interest of giving due respect to the acoustic i would have to say Tim Reynolds on soulshine by Gov’t Mule.

Here are my picks in no particular order
1. Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven
2. Velevt Underground – Oh Sweet Nothing
3. Raconteours – Level
4. White Stripes – Ball and Biscuit
5. Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb
6. Pink Floyd – Fat Old Sun
7. Black Sabbath – NIB
8. Eric Clapton – My Fathers Eyes

9. Dire Straits – Telegraph Road

Raalph Macchio vs. Steve Vai in Crossroads

I don’t recall who did Macchio’s guitar for him. I think I recall hearing from somewhere that it was Ry Cooder, but it could’ve been Vai himself as well.

Albert Lee on Dave Edmunds’ “Sweet Little Lisa.”

Comfortably Numb- Pink Floyd. Best ever…period.

Jack White (The White Stripes) – Ball ‘N Biscuit

Beatles – “Carry That Weight”
Led Zeppelin – “Tangerine”, “The Rover”
Rolling Stones – “Sway”
Eric Clapton – “Layla”
Prince – “Purple Rain”

Hey I did see one nomination for Tim Reynolds somwhere on the list. I know electric is king of the solo but if you had to nominate an acoustic artist, Tim Reynolds would be right up there.
PS Moksha, it is generally unacceptable to simply say so and so “sucks” It’s the language of a fifth grader

1). Machine Gun – (Band of Gypsys), Jimi Hendrix
2). Whipping Post – (Live at the Fillmore), Duane Allman
3). Heroin – (Rock and Roll Animal), Ron Asheton
4). A Sailor’s Life – (Unhalfbricking) Richard Thompson
5). Marquee Moon – (Television), Tom Verlaine

sweet solo on one of the Bob Marley “one love” versions

Along with those suggested:

Eric Clapton – Bell Bottom Blues
Richard Thompson – Put ‘er There, Pal

“Then Came The Last Days Of May”
Blue Oyster Cult. Period.
Buck Dharma is a God among players.

well…wait a sec
1.Guns N’ Roses – Sweet CHild O’ Mine
2.Iron Maiden-Transylvania
3.Metallic A-Master of puppets;Enter Sandman
4.Deep Purple-Child in Time

White Stripes Ball and Biscuit

Machine Gun – Hendrix – Nothing else is even close.
SRV – Texas Flood
comfortably numb – Gilmour
Hotel California – Walsh and Felder

metallica sucks

stairway to heaven… duh

I must say I agree with the Purple Rain. Good One. Comfortably Numb is still my favorite of all time. Listen to the PULSE version it gives me goose bumps every time!

Walk This Way – Aerosmith
Layla – Derek & The Dominos
Dirty Laundry – Den Henley (Joe Walsh solo)
Right Now – Van Halen
Comfortably Numb – Pink Floyd
Stairway to Heaven – Led Zeppelin
Supersticious – Beck, Bogert, Appice
All Shook Up – Ry Cooder
Hotel California – The Eagles
Crossroads – Cream

Megadeth’s “Holy Wars” for sure.

This may just be the worst list yet..oh wait, nope just another bad list by Rolling Stone…
No Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, Jimi Hendrix, Tony Iommi…at least they put Gilmour and Slash on the list…but Metallica? and Smashing Pumpkins?..seriously…horribl e

The Rolling Stones – Sympathy For The Devil
The Black Crowes – My Morning Song
Tom Petty – Runnin’ Down A Dream
Chuck Berry – Johnny B. Goode

Metallica has a lot of great solos. Personally, I’ve always enjoyed the solo in “Wherever I May Roam” from the Black Album.

Pearl Jam – Alive
Cream – Crossroads
Pink Floyd- comfortably numb

Scotty Moore – “Heartbreak Hotel” by The Elvis…not many notes but the feel is amazing.

I always had a soft spot for the solo in “Flirtin’ With Disaster” by Molly Hatchet (played by Dave Hlubek, I believe) – great build-up and fine execution.

John Fogerty’s played some great solos, but I’d pick the rhythmic marathon on CCR’s 11 minute version of “I Heard It Through The Grapevine”.

Zappa has many, many great solos as well…my pick: “Zoot Allures”.

Last, but not least, of Neil Young’s many distortion-fests, I’d go with “Cortez The Killer”.

There have many great lists on here this weekend – great job, everyone!!!

Egads! I forgot about Warren Haynes! Throw “Soulshine” into the hat as well…

Oh, and good call (back a-ways) on “Telegraph Road” by Knopfler from Dire Straits!!

MY FAVORITES ARE

1. ZWAN – MARY STAR OF THE SEA (BEST HEARTFELT SOLO I EVER HEARD. BILLY CORGAN)

2. GUNS N’ ROSES – SWEET CHILD O’ MINE (BEST TECHNICAL SOLO. SLASH)

3. RADIOHEAD – PARANOID ANDROID (THIS SOLO SOUNDS LIKE IT’S BEING PLAYED BY THE COMPUTERS WHO WILL RULE US IN THE FUTURE)

4. TOOL – 10,000 DAYS (BEST SOLO TO MATCH LEAD SINGERS EMOTION)

5. SLAYER – REIGN IN BLOOD (SHORT BUT SWEET. BEST METAL SOLO)

6. WHITE STRIPES – TOO MANY TO NAME (JACK WHITE HAS GREAT SOLO’S IN MOST OF HIS SONGS)

I HOPE YOU ENJOYED MY LIST. THEY ARE “MY” FAVORITES AND DEFINATELY DOESN’T IMPLY THEY ARE THE BEST EVER. I ALSO TRIED TO CHOOSE A FEW DIFFERENT ONE’S THAN THE ONE’S PEOPLE ALWAYS CHOOSE.

These are my favorites:

“One” – Metallica
“Freebird” – Lynyrd Skynyrd
“November Rain” – Guns N’ Roses
“Comfortably Numb” – Pink Floyd
“Soma” – Smashing Pumpkins

Stevie Wonder-”All Day Sucker”
The Beatles-”Can’t Buy Me Love”
Fleetwood Mac-”Don’t Stop”,”Gypsy”(Lindsay’s solo, Stevie’s voice…just like their image, real magic)
No Doubt-”Spiderwebs”

Oh yeah,

Cake-”Let Me Go”

Surprised no one has mentioned Kyuss yet. Truly underground legends.

Kyuss – 50 million year trip

Toy Caldwell of The Marshall Tucker Band…”Silverado” Live (bonus track on ‘Carolina Dreams.’
If you’ve heard it,you know what I’m sayin’, if you haven’t,check it out. Thumb pickin’ at it’s finest.

“Marquee Moon” – Television
“Moonage Daydream” – Davis Bowie
” Paint A Vulgar picture” – The Smiths
“Scar Tissue” – Red Hot Chili Peppers
“While My Guitar gently Weeps” – The Beatles

you people just dont understand how much talent, speed, and accuracy it takes to play “Free Bird.” My nominees are, in no order,

1.) Free Bird- Lynyrd Skynyrd,LIVE version played by Allen Collins, Steve Gaines, and Gary Rossington.
2.) Hotel California by Eagles(played by Don Felder, Joe Walsh)
3.)All Along The Watchtower by Jimi Hendrix
4.)Smeels Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana
5.)Smoke On The Water by Deep Purple(played by Ritchie Blackmore)
6.)Carry On My Wayward Son by Kansas(played by Kerry Livgren i think)
7.)War Pigs by Black Sabbath(Tony Iommi)
8.)Make A Mistake With Me(Instrumental) by Brad Paisley, country music has some good guitar playing too, Brad Paisley is great.

Have A Nice Day

my guess is every song known for its solo is on this list already but here is a few real short solos which i particularly like. these songs arent particularly known for the solos.
the police driven to tears
bruce springsteen- candys room

Eagles – Life in the fast lane
Eagles – Hotel California
Joe Walsh – Turned to stone
Pink Floyd – Coming back to life
Dire Straits- Brothers in arms
Led Zeppelin – Over the hills and far away
Led Zeppelin .- Stairway to Heaven
Boston – Foreplay- Long time
Journey – Lights
The Who – Eminent front
Jefferson Starship – Stranger
Neil Young- Like a Hurricane
Styx – Half-Penny, Two-Penny
Doobie Brothers – Long Train runnin’
Yes – I’ve seen all good people
Gary Moore – Parisienne walkways

Let’s see…

1) Tommy the Cat – Larry Lalonde of Primus
2) Jacob’s Ladder – Alex Lifeson of Rush
3) Fifty Fifty – Frank Zappa
4) liar!liar! – Tak Matsumoto of B’z
5) Not Again – Shawn Lane
6) Triad – Adam Jones of Tool
7) Youth Against Facism – Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth
Machete – Buckethead
9) The Sleep – Dimebag Darrell of Pantera
10) Reba – Trey Anastasio of Phish

I can’t say i totally agree with the suggested Rolling Stone list. My favourite solos of all time would have to be led zep/jimmy page solos. Stairway to Heaven is probably the most famous and most memorable guitar solo ever to be played. I have to mention the solo to Led Zep’s Heartbreaker also, the thing was improvised and turned out to be the most energetic and trickiest solos I have ever heard. On a contemporary level, however I would have to say Josh Homme’s work with Queens of The Stoneage includes some of my favourite solos to date. Special mention to:
Jimmy Page- “Heartbreaker”,
“Stairway to Heaven”
Josh Homme- “Make it Wit You”,
“If Only” and strangely
“I never Came”

1 Soma – SP
2 Aeroplane flies high – SP
3 Cherub rock – SP
4 Tarantula – SP
5 Geek USA – SP
6 Quiet – SP
7 Bring the light – SP

“Love to Love” studio 2005 – UFO (Vinnie Moore on guitar)

how the hellll are the pumpkins on this list? what a bunch of jackasses

dude the pumpkins, esp corgan have been one of the most innovative bands throughout the 90’s. billy corgan’s solos are absolutely amazing

“willy the pimp” by late mr.ZAPPA almost 10 minutes of great guitar playing.

THE MAGGOT BRAIN!

These are my top picks in order:
1.) The Outlaws – Green Grass and High Tides
2.) Cream – Crossroads
3.)Beatles w/ Clapton – While My Guitar Gently Weeps
4.) Journey – Wheel in the Sky
5.) Pearl Jam – Alive

Danny Kirwan- Sands of Time

Jimmi Hendrix- Purple Haze
Metalica- Orion
Alice in Chains- Blood Tears Little Girl
Black Sabbath- War Pigs
Iron Maiden- Number of the Beast

anyone whos hear We Used to Know by Jethro Tull knows that Joe Walsh copied its chord phrasings and the solo and turned it into what we now know as HOTEL CALIFORNIA…

i wouldnt jump up and down over hotel.. its good but JETHRO was there first

` WHOLE LOTTA LOVE – short and sweet but the best solo you’ll ever hear

The Velvet Underground – I heard her call my name

Pavement – Stop breathin’

The Velvet Underground – I heard her call my name

Pavement – Stop breathin’

So many ways to slice and dice this question. Are we looking for technical wizardry? Emotion? Sheer lyrical genius? Improvisational? Watershed? Here’s my attempt for all categories:

Technical wizardry: “For The Love Of God”, Steve Vai
Emotion: “Comfortably Numb”, David Gilmour
Lyrical genius: (tie) “Sultans of Swing”, Mark Knopfler, and “Kid Charlemagne”, Larry Carlton
Improvisational: “Down by the Rver”, Neil Young
Watershed: “Purple Haze”, Jimi Hendrix

Frank Zappa: Inca Roads, Helsinki, Kulttuuritalo, 1974 September 22nd or 23rd.

The Best Guitar Solo Ever.

1. Maggot Brain
Guitarist: Eddie Hazel
Band: Funkadelic

2. Unrestrained Growth
Guitarist: Buckethead

3. Jaccob’s Ladder
Guitarist: Alex Lifeson
Band: Rush

4. Machine Gun
Guitarist: Jimi Hendrix
Band: Band of Gypsys

5. Willy the Pimp
Guitarist: Frank Zappa

6. For the Love of God!
Guitarist: Steve Vai

7. Free Bird
Guitarist: Allen Collins
Band: Lynyrd Skynyrd

8. Star Spangled Banner
Guitarist: Jimi Hendrix

9. Cortez the Killer
Guitarist: Neil Young

10. Surfing With the Alien
Guitarist: Joe Satriani

“Star Spangled Banner Improvisation” – Woodstock CD/DVD – Jimi Hendrix

“Nowhere Fast” – Triptych- Bevis Frond (Nick Saloman)

“Sister Morphine” – Sticky Fingers – Rolling Stones (Ry Cooder slide solo)

“Stevie’s Spanking” – Them or Us – Frank Zappa ( Steve Vai – 1st solo, Dweezil Zappa – 2nd solo)

“When It’s Over” – Youth of America – The Wipers (Greg Sage – sorely underrated. Lots of angst)

“Youth of America” – Youth of America – The Wipers (Greg Sage – see above)

“Country Home” – Ragged Glory – Neil Young and Crazy Horse

“Captain Coconut” – Crash Landing – Jimi Hendrix

“Mean Streets” – Fair Warning – Van Halen ( both the intro and outro)

“Baby’s on Fire” – Here Come the Warm Jets – Brian Eno (Robert Fripp and the sonics on this one will test your stereo)

In terms of just making great riffs and technical ability,

Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven
Eddie Van Halen-Eruption(live and regular versions)
David Gilmour-Comfortably Numb and Time
Led Zeppelin-Black Dog, Dazed and Confused.
Free Bird
Metallica-Master of Puppets, One
The Mars Volta-L’Via L’Viaquez
Radiohead-Paranoid Android

well, you did put duane allman at #2 on your guitarist list which was fantastic, i love that choice(my favorite), but put some allman solos up there-blue sky, liz reed, whipping post, back up your duane claim with good allman solo choices

the best solo is from Slash!

and the “the 100 gratest guitarrist of all time” list is corrupted, is a sh*t, there is no Slash !!

GOd will punish who did that list!!

Maggot Brain – Funkadelic

And anything Mike Bloomfield ever did.

My favorites:
Television’s Tom Verlaine: “Little Johnny Jewel” (The Blow Up-Live)

Keith Richard and Mick Taylor: “Sympathy for the Devil” (Get Your Ya-Ya’s Out)

Dinosaur Jr. Jay Mascis: “I Know You’re Out There”

Sonic Youth: Thurston Moore and Lee Renaldo “The Diamond Sea”

King Crimson Robert Fripp: “Lark’s Tongue in Aspic Part 1″

Roxy Music Phil Manzanera: “Serenade” (Stranded)

Robert Quine “Blank Generation”

Lou Reed Velvet Underground: I’m Set Free

Not in any orders…

Teenage Jail – Eagles
Stranglehold – Ted Nugent
Dogs – Pink Floyd
Heartbreaker – Led Zeppelin
Sultan of Swing – Dire Straits
Once I Had a Woman – Jimi Hendrix

How about this one

1.The Rolling Stones-Torn and Frayed
2.Jimi Hendrix-Rock Me Baby(Live)
3.Ten Years after-I’d Love To Change The World
4.The Allman Brothers-You Dont Love Me(Live)
5.The Who-(any solo from The Live at the Isle Of Wight Concert)

1. Machine Gun – Hendrix
2. Bloodsucker – Ritchie Blackmore
1970 Deep Purple
3. Spanish Fly – Eddie Van Halen
4. Circles – Joe Satriani
5. Nantucket Sleighride – L. West
6. Inside Looking Out- M. Farner
7. Leavin’ Again – Savoy Brown
8. Riviera Paradise – Stevie Ray
9. Diamond Dust – Jeff Beck
10. Quadrant 4 – Tommy Bolin
11. White Room – Eric Clapton
12. Sir Duke – Tuck Andress
13. Enigmatic Ocean – A Holdsworth
14. Desparate People – Vernon Reid
15. Stranglehold – Nugent
16. Duel of the Jester & Tyrant – Al Di Meola with RTF
17. Hope You’re Feeling Better –
Ernie Isley
18. Green Grass and High Tides -
Outlaws
19. YYZ – Alex Liefson
20. Dominance & Submission -
Buck Dharma with BOC

Come on people: Can anyone here really touch Hendrix, Gilmour, or Page?

Listen to the steve morse solo on Deep Purple’s total abandon and just try not to have an orgasm.

there’s a lot of good ones mentioned. i wont agree or disagree, but anyone looking for a few other good ones not mentioned (or mentioned seldom):
coming back to life – pink floyd (live, from the Pulse album)
breakdown – guns ‘n rose, slash tears up the last minute of this song
two become one – atreyu – short and sweet and heavy
through the fire and flames – dragonforce (yeah – that little shink fuck actually plays that shit)
crapsody in blue – angus young ac/dc

some less-mentioned faves:
-Hendrix on Johnny B. Goode, from Berkeley
-Hendrix Red House, the one on “Concerts” album
-Kim Thayill, Like Suicide
-Kurt Cobain, Blew (for primitive genius)
-Page, Since I Been Lovin’ You
-Like A Rock solo – hate bob seger, but great solos. Think it’s Rick Vito
-Viv Campbell on Holy Diver, Last in Line, Rainbow in the Dark
-John Sykes, Whitesnake’s Cryin’ in the Rain
-Slash on Locomotive, Estranged

I disregard any list of guitar solos that doesn’t include Maggot Brain by Funkadelic/Eddie Hazel

Police-So Lonely (andy summers)

Where is freakin allen collins on this list. jimmy page can’t even touch allen. It takes amazing speed and precision to play like allen but he seems to never get on these lists. fix it

#1 sweet child of mine – guns n roses

#2 comfortably numb – pink floyd

#3 stairway to heaven – led zeppelin

then it gets tricky. these aren’t in order….

alive – pearl jam should be up there.
black sabbath -war pigs or paranoid.
hendrix – little wing,
cream – white room and crossroads,
dire straights – sultans of swing, eagles – hotel california
guns n roses – november rain

There are so many great guitar solos-better to list favorite players instead. My favorite most OBSCURE and generally UNKNOWN solo, however, is…Tony Iommi’s
“Lonely Is The Word” from Heaven and Hell. My definite nominee for best solo from the year 1980 – singer – RJ Dio.

My favorite guitar solo is very obscure and generally unknown – Tony Iommi’s “Lonely Is The Word” from Heaven and Hell CD recordrd
back in 1980 – vocals – RJ Dio.

My favorites of all-time, part 1:

Clapton: Keep on Growing, Crossroads, Badge, Key to the Highway

Allman: every note on the Fillmore East album, Blue Sky

Betts: ditto as above, Jessica

Hendix: Axis:Bold as Love, She’s So Fine

Page: Heartbreaker

Garcia: Turn on Your Lovelight (from “Live Dead”)

Zappa: Inca Roads, Stinkfoot

Carlos Santana: Samba Pa Ti, Everybody’s Everything

My favorites of all-time, part 2:

Jeff Beck: Jeff’s Boogie, Freeway Jam, ‘Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers, Going Down, Ice Cream Cakes

Ritchie Blackmore: Highway Star

Joe Walsh: Rocky Mountain Way

Joe Walsh/Don Felder: Hotel California

Steve Hunter/Dick Wagner: Sweet Jane

Alvin Lee, Going Home

Larry Carlton: Kid Charlemagne, Don’t Take Me Alive, Haitian Divorce

Elliot Randall: Reelin’ in the Years

Peter Frampton did a few good leads with Humble Pie (and on his live album)

And Roy Buchannan has done a lot of good work- as has Johnny winter, Pat Travers, and Rory Gallagher

The lead on “Two Tickets to Paradise” (whoever that is)

My Favorites of All-Time, part 3:

Slash: Sweet Child O’ Mine

David Gilmour: Time, Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2

Don Felder: One of These Nights

Leslie West, Mississippi Queen, Theme for an Imaginary Western

And the guy from the Knack who played the lead on “My Sharona”. (I know I may have killed my own credibility by saying it, but somebody else did mention it, as well.) Anyway, it’s no joke – the middle part of the song is different from the rest. (And it’s only heard on the full album, not the shortened single version.)

I know I left out a few classic solos.

Also, somebody mentioned “Sleepwalk” earlier — great song — but note Jeff Beck’s cover was a note-for-note copy of the original by Santo & Johnny.

I have to mention the dozens of great guitar solos by the Eight Guitar Gods of 1960s and 1970s Rock and Roll not mentioned here or on my previous lists. The eight would be Allman, Beck, Clapton, Garcia, Hendrix, Page, Santana and Zappa. (I know I didn’t mention Townsend, Lennon, Richards and a host of others but they were all greater songwriters than they were guitarists. Some, especially guys like Townshend, Richards and Cropper had unbelievably advanced rhythmic guitar styles — and great talents as producers — but they weren’t really ground-breaking in their lead guitar parts.)

And by the Unsung Four: Betts, Buchanan, Wood, Winter.

And all of their disciples.

Finally, I acknowledge all of the technically amazing or just plain sweet-sounding guitar solos played by all the minor and/or unknown guitarists of music history. Many of these can be found in the Southern Rock and Blues Rock genres (examples: The entire families and descendants of the Allman Brothers Band and Lynyrd Skynyrd, both of whom have righteously carried on their forefathers’ tradition, au extraordinaire, of playing the fucking shit out of a guitar.) And guys like Rory Gallagher and Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Now, who did I leave out?

tin pan alley- Stevie Ray Vaughn.. Im surprised no one elts brought that up its def. top 5 material

also, “Walk With Me in Hell”-Lamb of God

ok, let’s try and rule out repetitive pentatonic crap, ok? that includes maggot brain, not to mention all southern rock, srv, clapton(ugh) and page among others. the best solo i’ve ever heard is mark knopfler in sultans of swing. not my favorite tone, but tell me you wouldn’t kill to have written that-

Anything PanterA. Much RESPECT to some of the classics on the list, but Dimebag Darrell was and always will be the greatest axe player of all time. Remember Domination. RIP Brother Dime!

DIRE STRAITS:SULTANS OF SWING
SOLID ROCK
LADY WRITER
……..

Dragonforce
Through the Fire and Flames
this is the greatest you guys suck
i really would like to see the other guitar players try this solo. no disrespect to metallica they still rock.

the best solo ever shine on you crazy diamond by pink floyd

Susie Q by Credence Clearwater. Did everyone forget there was a long version of that song? Plus the guitar solo or should I say solos ROCKED!
I cannot believe there are guitar players out there that haven’t listened in awe as almost the entire solo hung on the edge of feedback.

nottingham lace – buckethead
jordan- buckethead
green grass high and high tides- the outlaws
one- metallica

All of you suck… Anyone who went against Jimmy Page and jimmi hendrix has to be retarded. everyone knows that page is number 1 and most of his solos are the best of all time and he could play any of that shit you guys claim noone else can do like dragonforce. and jimi hendrix followed right behind page in skill. of course im a metallica fanatic so kirk hammet belongs up there. Stevie Ray Vuaghn’s Lenny was a great song plus Texas Flood was just all around awsome. Eddie Van Halen is a saint with his guitar. Dimebag Darrel??? His solo on Cemetery Gates was unbeilevably awsome. David Gilmore’s comfterbly numb and lynyrd skynyrd’s free bird? great duet solo. Slash is good but hes not a guitar god in my mind. he is really close to it tho. Clapton and Frampton where guitar solo gods. Tom Merello guitar solos have to be some of the best ive heard in a long time. mixing feedback and unique styles makes him perhaps the top dog of his generation…

S.T.A.I.R.W.A.Y. T.O. H.E.A.V.E.N.

LED ZEPPELIN

Eruption-EDDIE VAN HALEN
BACK IN BLACK AC/DC
Purple Haze-Jimi
Master of Puppets-MetallicA
You Shook Me all Night Long-AC/DC
Good Times Bad Times-Led Zeppelin
Iron Man-Black Sabbath
Crazy Train-Ozzy
Humans Being-Van Halen
Enter Sandman-MetallicA
Parano id-Bl ack Sabbath
Hells Bells-AC/DC

yes these are in freakin’ order.

They should list this up to 1000!
all of the songs and artists under and above this comment rock!

They should list this up to 1000!
all of the songs and artists under and above this comment rock!

Hands down…best guitar song ever is Voodoo Chile

I’ll include some really overlooked guitar solos

1. Bold as Love – Jimi Hendrix
2. Dark Star(Live/Dead Version) – Grateful Dead (Jerry Garcia)
3. Drifting – Jimi Hendrix
4. Marquee Moon – Television
5. Shine on you Crazy Diamond – Pink Floyd, Gilmour
6. The Ocean – Led Zeppelin
7. Paranoid Android/Lucky – Radiohead
8. Runaway – Bon Jovi (A dunce singer but Sambora’s a decent guitarist)
9. Europa – Santana
10. Somebody To Love – Jefferson Airplane
11. Archives of Pain- Manic Street Preachers

I think we must not focus on mere technique … a good guitar solo must combine melody AND technique. There have been some pretty fast hands around but really there’s nothing really pleasant coming out. So I think, if one takes a holistic view of the subject, most of Gilmour’s solos win hands down (Comfortably Numb, Shine On .., Time, Sorrow etc..)

ok… Dream Theater is king. everyone in that band…except Labrie is a beast.

John Petrucci has complicated solos, catchy solos, shredding solos, and solos no one would ever think of.

some of the timings I hear are like 13/8. If youre a real musician and listen to REAL music and not mainstream to what everyone hears, then you would understand what I’m saying.

I’m not putting Jimmy down, he is by far the number one in originality that stated every thing. IF you hear Kashmir, then you know that was the start of the heavy head banging metal.

But To say what I say, JOHN PETRUCCI MASTER OF PROGRESSIVE METAL IS THE TOP! if you want some good hits look these up on youtube.

-In The Presence Of Enemies pt. 1
-In The Name Of God
-This Dying Soul
-As I Am
-The Dark Eternal Night
-Constant Motion
-The Mirror
-Voices
-Octavarium
-an d so many more…Since Dream Theater is mainly prog. metal, a lot of this stuff may be too “hardcore for some metallica, van halen, or zeppelin fans.”
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-”November Rain”- Slash
-”Fade to Black”- Kirk Hammet
-”Eruption”- Eddie Van Halen
-”Stairway to Heaven”- Jimmy Page
-”Crazy Train”- Randy Rhodes
-”One”- Kirk Hammet
-”Cliffs of Dover”- Eric Johnson
-”Sweet Child O Mine”- Slash

Some of my favourites:

1. Hey Joe – Jimi Hendrix
2. Another brick in the wall part. 2 – Pink floyd
3. November Rain – Guns N’ Roses
4. Comfortably Numb – Pink floyd
5. Stairway to heaven – Led zeppelin

1. Metallica – Ride The Lightning
2. Megadeth – Washington Is Next
3. Rush – Hemispheres (at 15:20)
4. Black Sabbath – Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
5. Pink Floyd – Another Brick In The Wall
6. Jimi Hendrix – Are You Experienced
7. Ozzy Osbourne – Mr. Crowley
8. Eric Clapton – Layla (Unplugged)
9. Boston – More Than A Feeling
10. D12 – Revelation

Tetragrammaton’s solo by the mars volta
omar rodriguez lopez rocks

1.november rain :GNR
2.sweetchild o mine:GNR

these aren’t in order, and they rely on overall sound, just cus you play fast doesn’t mean you’re good

*Stairway to Heaven Jimmy Page
*Good Times Bad Times Jimmy Page
*Comfortably Numb David Gilmour (possibly the greatest)
*I’d love to change the world – ten years after (horribly underrated)
*Anything by AC/DC
*All those awesome Black Sabbath solos, like at the end of Iron Man and war pigs and Black Sabbath
*Slash has lots
*2112 – Rush (right after temples of syrinx, tied with Comfortably numb)
*Last in Line- Dio

okay. Stairway to heaven has to be first no doubt. Any people who say slash is great is out of their mind. hes a good guitarist, not great. hes like a bald black/hispanic dude who wears tights and a nose ring. he cant compete with people like Jimi Hendrix, jimmy page, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray vaughan(miss spelled i think) Eddie Van Halen. i like Eddie van halen, but to call eruption a great solo is absurd, The entire song is a solo and a solo has to be mixed with other instruments for part of the song and then the solo starts. Eruption is just guitar playing fast.

Well, my all time favorite solo would have to be Muffin Man by Frank Zappa, followed by Peace Sells by Megadeth lol but some of the others ive read on this list are good such as: Sultans of Swing -Dire Straits
One -Metallica
Crossroads -Cream
Shine on You Crazy Diamond

1: Hendrix – Star Spangled Banner
2:R. Roads – Crazy Train
3: Van Halen – You Really Got Me
4: Guitarist in Lynard Skinnard – Free Bird
5:Guitarist in Metalica – One
6:Guitarist in Twisted Sister – We’re Not Gonna Take It

1. Sweet Child O’ Mine – Slash
still moves people, solos are just (more) ostentatious if they don’t stir some emotion…sweet child defintely does this

Oh and slash isn’t bald or hispanic…just saying Ryan, his iconic long curly black hair somewhat detracts from that statement.

2. Let it be – Greg Benson (The V Word)

Recorded on his first ever guitar…purely for emotional effect

1.Jimmy Page forever!
Since I’ve Been Loving You, Stairway To Heaven and Whole Lotta Love are the best ))
2.Hendrix is also a super guy, but too dirty for me (All long the watchtower)
3.And ofcourse Pink Floyd with Shine On You Crazy Diamond

ALLEN COLLINS….#1 Guitar player ever! Stairway to Heaven, way over played and sucks.

This Would Be My Top 5 List:

1.Comfortably Numb – Pink Floyd
2.Stairway To Heaven – Led Zeppelin
3.All Along The Watchtower – Jimi Hendrix
4.Eruption – Van Halen
5.Free Bird – Lynyrd Skynyrd

1. Comfortably Numb
2. Cherub Rock
3. Drunkship of Lanterns
4. Purple Haze
5. One

Yay. Soma getting some love.

Soma – Smashing Pumpkins
Cherub Rock – Smashing Pumpkins
Geek USA – Smashing Pumpkins
Starla – Smashing Pumpkins
Mary Star of the Sea – Zwan

Billy Corgan rules.

Frank Zappa – Inca Roads (off You Can’t Do That Onstage Anymore Vol.2)
David Gilmour – Time
Danny Gatton – Blues Newburg
Carlos Santana – Europa
Eric Clapton – All Your Love (with the Bluesbreakers)

led zeppelin 4 ever
w jimmy pege
stirway to heaven
good times bad times
comunicateion breakdown
immigrant song
black dog
etcetc…..

all solos are cool but the best solo is “play with me” by extreme

mine would be:
Master of Puppets by Metallica
Eruption by Van Halen
YYZ by Rush
Eulogy by Tool
Love In An Elevator (the whole solo… both parts.) by Aerosmith
all my picks would be metallica solos, but that’s their best to me. there are other bands who deserve being up there.

(In no particular order)

Ruiner by Nine Inch Nails

Helter Skelter by the Beatles

Sympathy for the Devil by the Rolling Stones

Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin

Fire by Jimi Hendrix

Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd

testing…

OK, here we go (thought I might have to sign in):

I really liked the lists by bluesman44 (2/22+23/08), but he left out one major player from Southern Rock: Toy Caldwell from The Marshal Tucker Band. Check out the live version of “24 Hours At A Time”
on the “Where We All Belong” CD. Exhilarating.

Hard to pick just one by Jerry Garcia, but I used to play along on air guitar while listening to “Going Down the Road Feeling Bad” off of Live ‘71 (Skull and Bones).

Ditto for “Let It Rain” by Clapton.

Duane Allman is listed #2 in RS poll of top 100 guitarists, yet barely makes a mark in this list. Have to include “Whipping Post,” “In Memory of Elizabeth Reed,” and “Little Martha.” In addition to “Blue Sky,” of course.

Also missing is “Green Grass and High Tides” by The Outlaws. But “Freebird” still towers over it by comparison.

Anyone remember Tommy Bolin? Check him out on “Post Toastee.”

Kim Simmonds of Savoy Brown? Love his work on “Hellbound Train,” which sounds like a strong influence to Nugent’s “Stranglehold.”

Can’t help but mention two of my favorite Neil Young songs, on the same album “Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere.” That would be “Down By The River” and “Cowgirl in the Sand.”

End Part I.

10 Greatest Solos (not my Favourite) In My Opinion

1. “Stairway to Heaven”
2. “Maggot Brain” – Funkadelic (Eddie Hazel)
3. “Comfortable Numb”
4. “Nottingham Lace” – Buckethead
5. “Eruption”
6. “White Summer/Blackmountain side” – Led Zeppelin
7. “Highway Star” – Deep Purple
8. “Rock Bottom” – UFO (Michael Schenker)
9. “Hotel California” (Composed and mostly played by Don Henley and NOT by Joe Walsh)
10. “In Memory of Elizabeth Reed” – Allman Bros. Band

Sorry Dazer but I disagree with your choice of Freebird over Green Grass. The reason being that this is based on the solo(s) in the song. In Freebird you’re having to wait half the damn song to get to the solo. As where in Green Grass you are practically getting it right off the bat and for the whole song, and it’s constantly changing. Green Grass and High Tides really isnt much more than a big ass guitar solo. Freebird builds up to it and thats the reason I think that people seem to like it more its because they drag out the slow half of the song. And all the while you’re either “goddamn when does this end?” or “will this ever getexciting” and finally the second is answered. Now dont get me wrong I love the song. No disrespect meant to Skynyrd. I just have my preferences. And Dazer I thank you for even mentioning Green Grass and High Tides.

1. Eric Clapton – Further On Up the Road (Last Waltz with the Band)

2. David Gilmour – Comfortably Numb (Pulse)

3. Jimmy Page – Stairway to Heaven

4. Eric Clapton – Layla (Derek & the Dominoes)

5. Gary Rossington – Free Bird (Lynyrd Skynyrd)

6. Stevie Ray Vaughan – Pride and Joy

7. Shuggie Otis – 12:15 Slow Goonbash Blues

8. B.B. King & Eric Clapton – The Thrill is Gone

9. Dickie Betts – Jessica

10. Duane Allman – Stormy Monday (Allman Brothers Live at the Fillmore East)

11. Peter Frampton – Do You Feel Like We Do (Live) (Shine On)

Oasis – Fuckin’ In The Bushes

Hit the lights by Metallica, some of their early work for sure, but it’s amazing… might even beat ONE… limewire it, u’ll see…

Jethro Tull’s Aqualung, Martin Barre. Thin Lizzy,Cowboy song. Henry Gross, Plug me in to something, No joke.