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…

nottingham lace - buckethead
jordan- buckethead
green grass high and high tides- the outlaws
one- metallica

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.

the best solo ever shine on you crazy diamond by pink floyd

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.

DIRE STRAITS:SULTANS OF SWING
SOLID ROCK
LADY WRITER
……..

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!

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-

also, “Walk With Me in Hell”-Lamb of God

tin pan alley- Stevie Ray Vaughn.. Im surprised no one elts brought that up its def. top 5 material

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?

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 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 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.

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.

#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

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

Police-So Lonely (andy summers)

I disregard any list of guitar solos that doesn’t include Maggot Brain by Funkadelic/Eddie Hazel

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

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

Listen to the steve morse solo on Deep Purple’s total abandon and just try not to have an orgasm.

Come on people: Can anyone here really touch Hendrix, Gilmour, or Page?

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

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)

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

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

Maggot Brain - Funkadelic

And anything Mike Bloomfield ever did.

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!!

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

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

“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)

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

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

The Best Guitar Solo Ever.

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

The Velvet Underground - I heard her call my name

Pavement - Stop breathin’

The Velvet Underground - I heard her call my name

Pavement - Stop breathin’

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

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

Danny Kirwan- Sands of Time

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

THE MAGGOT BRAIN!

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

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

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

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

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

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”

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
8) Machete - Buckethead
9) The Sleep - Dimebag Darrell of Pantera
10) Reba - Trey Anastasio of Phish

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

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

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

“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

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.

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

Kyuss - 50 million year trip

Oh yeah,

Cake-”Let Me Go”

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”

These are my favorites:

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

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.

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!!

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!!!

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

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

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

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

Megadeth’s “Holy Wars” for sure.

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

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!

metallica sucks

stairway to heaven… duh

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

White Stripes Ball and Biscuit

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

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

Along with those suggested:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Comfortably Numb- Pink Floyd. Best ever…period.

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

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.

9. Dire Straits - Telegraph Road

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

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

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 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 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.

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

Led Zeppelin - Since ive been loving you.

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

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

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

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.”

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.

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

Eruption van Edward van Halen.

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

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

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

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

Pearl Jam - Alive

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.

rhcp “I could have lied”

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

Santana’s solo at woodstock

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!

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

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

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)

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

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

Don’t Forget Me - RHCP

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

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

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

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.

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

Be-bop-a-lula by Gene Vincent.

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’

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.)

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

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

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!!

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!

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

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

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

“Give Me Some Money” Lead by Nigel Teufnel

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…

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

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

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”

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

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’)

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.

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

Soundgarden - Like Suicide

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?

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

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

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)

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

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

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.

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.

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

White Stripes “Ball and a Biscuit”

Freakin Amazing!!

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

Here are some good ones to consider:

Jeff Beck - “Brush with the Blues”

John Frusciante - “Scar Tissue”

Buckethead - “Soothsayer”

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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

“Mean Street”
“Eruption”

Eddie Van Halen revolutionized 2-handed tapping.

Little Wing- Jimi Hendrix.. awsome!

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

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!

Anastasio on any track on A Live One

Clapton “Let it Rain”

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.

metallica one

FREEBIRD SUCKS!!!!!!

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

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

Steely Dan’s Show Biz Kids (Rick Derringer)

People might ridicule me for this but:

The White Stripes: “Ball and Biscuit”

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

Revealation (Mother Earth) - Randy Rhoads

check it out! www.sliver.ch.tp

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)

Red Barchetta - Alex Lifeson

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

Jane’s Addiction - Three Days

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.

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

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.

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

clapton on crossroads!

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

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

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

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!!!

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

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.

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

Our Lady Peace - One Man Army

Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall Pt. 2

Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watch Tower

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

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

Go by Pearl Jam, redeculiz

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-

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?

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.

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.

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.

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…”

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

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

my chemical romance - thank you for the venom

Love them Guitar Solos!!!

Dr. Hook - Cover of the Rolling Stone.

“Rock and Roll”

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

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

Two words- Psycho Holiday
Dimebag

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

sorry, have to mention one more:

portishead - glory box

the rapture - house of jealous lovers

very subtle… very methodical…

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

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

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

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

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’s Wet Sand,Stevie Ray Vaughn Texas Flood

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

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!!

alive - pearl jam

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

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.

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

Back half of Pearl Jams “Alive”