RATM’s Tom Morello? The guy was really innovative.

Songs that should be up there:

DragonForce- Operation Ground and Pound

Jerry C- Canon Rock

Mudvayne- Dig

Muse- Knights of Cydonia

Coheed and Cambria- Welcome Home

Avenged Sevenfold- Afterlife

what ever happened to the amazing bass and guitar solo in for whom the bells toll by metallica. Also why isnt thereany rush at all they have amazing solos. Fade to black by metallica has a really good opening solo.

Where is Megadeth, COB, Arch Enemy? They make the best solos…Rolling Stones views are dumb.

impressed with the addition of soma. i agree with previous posts, if that solo doesnt give you goosebumps, you have no pulse! i also wouldnt have minded cherub rock or starla to be added.

coheed and cambria have a great solo in welcome home too.

eruption is overrated, dragonforce sucks.

1. Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
2. Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
3. Sweet Child O Mine - Guns N Roses
4. Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) - Jimi Hendrix
5. Three Days - Jane’s Addiction
6. All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
7. Estranged - Guns N Roses
8. Heartbreaker - Led Zeppelin
9. Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix
10. Alive - Pearl Jam
11. November Rain - Guns N Roses
12. Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne
13. Geek USA - Smashing Pumpkins
14. Dazed And Confused - Led Zeppelin
15. Rainbow in the Dark - Dio
16. High Hopes - Pink Floyd
17. Tornado of Souls - Megadeth
18. Whole Lotta Rosie - AC/DC
19. Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd
20. Stop! - Jane’s Addiction
21. N.I.B. - Black Sabbath
22. Time - Pink Floyd
23. Nothing Else Matters - Metallica
24. Mr. Crowley - Ozzy Osbourne
25. Jambi - Tool

Nothing by RUSH?
Working man?
YYZ?

they should have at least one dream theater song on their with the way john petrucci plays his solos and just his guitar in general especially on the dark eternal night that should be on thta list but of course rolling stone does not do anything about or even mention dream theater in theirs magazines like they do with the bands that are on that list, check Dream Theater out they deserve credit for there work

1.through the fire and flames by dragonforce.

2.eruption van halen

3.her voice ressides by bullet for my valentine.

4.powerslave by iron maiden

5. goodbye my love lovehatehero.

6.one by metallica

7. no one like you by scorpions

8.no more tears by ozzy osbourne

9. 2112 by rush

10. starway to heaven by led zepplin

thease are some of the best solos ive ever heard

Billy Corgan is the man…..soma is an amazing solo…..cherub rock/geek usu/here is no why are some other greats by him.

Why Isnt Queen Up There?…

For The People Who Dont Know The Insanly Massive Guitar Solos In Some Of Their Songs, Listen To My Fairy King Or Great King Rat By Them.

Queen Is Amazing

Pull out the vinyl version of Woodstock and cue up “I’m Going Home” by Ten Years After. Best guitar work in a live performance–ever.

What about Steve or Jeff Beck? Just overlooked them?

There should be some more songs by led zeppelin that are not overplayed. What ever happened to “The ocean” or “Dazed and confused”? I mean stairway is notoriously known as great, but what about “Heartbreaker” or even “I can’t quit you baby”? In addition, people need to give Carlos Santana a bit more credit…I mean the solo in “She’s not there” is absolutley face melting….Lastly all you people who think “Through the fire and flames” should be up there are completely stupid!!!!!!!! Great guitar solos are not just judged on speed.

Good list but could be better

1)Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven

2)Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird

3)The Allman Brothers Band - Jessica

4)Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb

5)Guns N’ Roses - November Rain

6)Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower

7)Eagles - Hotel California

8)The Doors - Light My Fire

9)Sublime - Santeria

10)Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication

I personally Belive david Gilmour should hold numer one for either Comftorably numb or perhapps his solo on Hav a Cigar. the most overlooked solo he soes, and one of the hardest to get the 2 to 5 fret bends and sustains at over 3 fretts over the original. And he never misses a note as far as tine or bending. the man has the fat genious fngers.
How about Fat Old Sun, or Shine onl in ecompete?? Sorrow, on the turnig away. he has to many solos that are all woth while to call the best. Sorry to alot of great guitar player. I am one, and appeciate everything you and i do, But David Gilmour wins my soul 100% And alot of more people than imagined.

I personally Belive david Gilmour should hold numer one for either Comftorably numb or perhapps his solo on Hav a Cigar. the most overlooked solo he soes, and one of the hardest to get the 2 to 5 fret bends and sustains at over 3 fretts over the original. And he never misses a note as far as tine or bending. the man has the fat genious fngers.
How about Fat Old Sun, or Shine onl in ecompete?? Sorrow, on the turnig away. he has to many solos that are all woth while to call the best. Sorry to alot of great guitar player. I am one, and appeciate everything you and i do, But David Gilmour wins my soul 100% And alot of more people than imagined.

OMG! Listen to some real solos like the one on Domination by Pantera, or the second solo on Master of Puppets, or even Avenged Sevenfold’s Bat Country or even Afterlife. Trivium’s solos also kickass compared half these. As for the white striped, they should never get a mention on anything to do with being great at an instrument.

Crazy Train by RAndy Rhoads should have been first

And if you’re in search of a “cool” solo, my bet’s The Beatles’ “The End”, the three guitar players jamming without exceeding

Television! But there are TWO solos on the song…

Neil Young and his one note solo… cool, though I think that the jams of either Down by the River or Cowgirl in the Sand should have benn included.

Guns N Roses are a bit overrated though Slash’s a cool fellah.

As for the Smashing Pumpkins… I think it deserves to be mentioned that “Soma” alone has like 40 overdubs…

If there’s Eruption, then why isnt thre Led Zep’s Heartbreaker?

Machine Gun is awesome, but where’s Voodoo Child (Slight Return)???

Comfortably Numb should have been #1, perhaps (just listen to it live!!).

And Stairway’s a bit overrated, I think I adore more the solos on Dazed and Confused, and (specially) on Since I’ve Been Loving You.

First of all: a solo should not be based on speed alone. second of all- we have all heard sweet child, eruption, free bird, and stairway. how about some input of songs that arent as overplayed?

1) Boston- Don’t Look Back (Sholtz)

2) Ozzy Osbourne- Mama I’m Coming Home (Wylde)

3) Led Zeppelin- The Ocean (Paige)

4) Chicago- 25 or 6 to 4 (Kath)

5) Isley Brothers- That Lady (Isley)

even Steve Howe’s (Yes) solo on “I’ve Seen All Good People”

oh yea-for the record, Randy Rhoads is the best guitarist of all time.

Kinda Ready —> WRONG on the negative comments

Ball & Biscuit? Jack white is the WORST guitarist i have ever heard, Meg White is the worst drummer ive ever heard…..but the White Stripes are awesome

Free Bird is #1

Highway Star should be on here, but Child In Time was better

toby — none make it, sorry

Neil Young? come on

Crossroads, yeah, only if its the Wheels On Fire live version

Where be All Along Thw Watchtower (Hendrix’s)?

Just because a guitar solo is played faster and with more technicality doesn’t make it better. A good guitar solo should evoke emotion and should be memorable after the first listen, and looking at many of the metal players people posted, the vast majority of them just can’t do that. Besides, of course, a few exceptions (Iron Maiden players, Randy Rhoads, mostly)

finally GNR gets a #1, they are my favorite. Even theough they’re my fav. my top 5 are
1.Eruption
2.One
3.Free Bird
4.Crazy Train
5.November Rain

this list is crap… jimi hendrix’s instrumental version of bold as love is probably the best guitar solo i know of…pick 24 more jimi hendrix songs to fill the rest of the list because he pwns all others

not enough blues. “the sky is crying” by stevie ray vaughn is amazing.

i think john mayer needs to get his act together and get a song on this list… he’s capable.

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Hey i am chuck norris’ cousin and i want to say that everyone below me is wrong about their picks. All solos are beautiful and rolling stone just has a stick up their but and wouldnt understand true music if it slapped them in the face with its big donkey dick. GO JOHN FRUSCIANTE! that guy understands!

Eruption and Voodoo Child definitely belong in top five. Time has a good solo, but Money or Shine On You Crazy Diamond are both better. and Stairway is epic, but you guys forgot all about Heartbreaker! one of Jimmy Page’s best solos. Ball and Biscuit should be higher up, too. Oh yeah, and Paradise City needs to be there.

So, uh, Blue Sky and Highway Star anyone?

MAn there’s no respect to Santana @ all… I mean his solos were alot better than some of the ones up there… Yea November Rain is great but dag it shouldn’t be up there now dont get me wrong I love Slash he’s my fav. guitarist but Sweet Child of Mine??? NOWAY that should be #1. I mean Freebird, Eruption those should easily be # 1 and 2 on that list…And I mean like I read in a comment earlier up here Dragonforce’s Through the Fire and Flames is def 1 of the greatest solo’s I’ve ever heard…

hey where is martin barre and his solo for aqualung? come on people honestly

yea way to exclude every great metal band that play with far better technique them so of these guys could dream of. how about buckethead or the duo from dragonforce, all that remains, shadows fall, august burns red, and there could have been four of five songs from ozzy i mean come “sweet child of mine???” its could an should be on the list but not number one

every solo on the list is great, so ill save the self righteous guitar player crap about how easy or difficult these solos are to pull off. soma has always been my favorite solo, the world-coming- down layered guitar at the end of the solo changed my perspective on what a guitar should be used to create. if this one doesnt give you goosebumps, you dont have a pulse

the final countdown by europe has the sweetest solo ever. u ppl should check it out.

first off how is stairway to heaven not at least in the top 5!!!

before i say this you should know i am Guns N Roses fan but to be honest although sweet child o mine is an amazing song it should not be at #1!!

Here is my personal list.

#1-“Stairway to Heaven,” Led Zeppelin
#2-“Freebird,” Lynyrd Skynyrd
#3-“Eruption,” Van Halen
#4-“One,” Metallica
#5-“Sweet Child O’ Mine,” Guns N’ Roses
#6-“November Rain,” Guns N’ Roses

I am only doing the first 6 in my list.

i think queen has much better guitar solos than much of the bands here, “i want it all”, “bijou”, “we will rock you”, “we are the champions”, and much more….

I thoroughly agree with ’sweet child of mine’ at #1. It’s fucking perfect!
Comfortably numb perhaps joint #1. EPIC!
Stairway to heaven - cliche but definitely #3 or at least top 5.
‘alive’ by pearl jam should higher up.
Black Sabbath definitely need an entry - possibly ‘war pigs’ or ‘paranoid’??
And where’s ‘road to hell’ by Chris Rea and ‘little wing’ by Hendrix!!??

Get rid of prince, white stripes and Chili peppers. Great artists/musicians but can’t compete here in terms of solos!

The guy 2 entries above me is talking shit, as are many others here

oh em gee. Why does Guns n Roses win EVERYTHING? They suck. I mean, sure, Slash is a pretty decent guitar player but come ON. Nothing original, nothing different … and even though this has nothing to do with guitar solos, Axl Rose sounds like an old lady. And Soma should be a lot higher on there, James Iha doesn’t get enough credit, he’s amazing. Stairway to Heaven … great solo, but way over played. Led Zeppelin has some other great songs that don’t get as much credit that I personally like a lot better than Stairway to Heaven. I think Led Zeppelin should be a lot higher on the list. Uhmm … Yeah, I’m done ranting.(-:

Wow…i’m pretty sure i’d much rather drag myself through a cave of broken glass naked before i agreed this is the top guitar solo list…there’s no Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Ray Vaughan, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Paul Gilbert, Robert Johnson, John Petrucci, Randy Rhoads, Glenn Tipton, Eric Johnson, Dime Bag Darrel, Iron Maiden, Dave Mustain, Herman Li (ESPECIALLY!!!), Sam Totman, Jason Becker (I mean seriously guys come on), Jeff Beck, Zakk Wylde, Tony Iomi, Michael Angelo Batio (you should all be shot…survivors will be shot again), Leo Kotke, Brian May, Richie Blackmore, Living Colour, Bucket Head…need I continue? And if you don’t know these names just go kill yourself…you’re already dead to the guitar world…

some of my favorites:(a little more than 25 i think)

Metal Meltdown- Judas Priest
Number of the Beast- Iron Maiden
Don’t Look Back- Boston
25 or 6 to 4- Chicago
The Rocker- Thin LIzzy
Cheap Sunglasses- ZZ Top
Burn- Deep Purple
Tooth and Nail- Dokken
Eruption- Van Halen
One- Metallica
Paradise City- Guns N Roses
That Lady- Isley Brothers
All Along The Watchtower- Jimi Hendrix
Brighton Rock- Queen
Shock Me- Kiss
Cult of Personality- Living Colour
Freebird- Lynyrd Skynyrd
Hangar 18- Megadeth
Flirtin With Disaster- Molly Hatchet
You Can Still Rock In America- Night Ranger
Mama I’m Coming Home- Ozzy Osbourne
Working Man- Rush
Sails of Charon- Scorpions
Black Hole Sun- Soundgarden
Cold Shot- Stevie Ray Vaughn
Sin City- AC/DC
Play With Me- Extreme
The Lemon Song- Led Zeppelin
Paranoid- Black Sabbath

whoever thinks that k\john fruciante is the best guitarist is a retard

ps where the hell’s queen
Brian May?

Just a little thinking makes the idea of a best-solos list pointless. After all…

“Starless” - King Crimson… a one-note-at-a-time, sustainer-led masterpiece by Fripp. Stunning!

“Firth Of Fifth” - Genesis… Now that’s some emotion on a solo…

Those two are just a little example of what makes a 25-place list pointless. Too many options!

So, “too much distortion” puts the solo out of contest? Ridiculous. Indeed!

As for the Pumpkins’ solo, it’s a hard call… Soma may be their very best not because of technique but because of the way Corgan creates that powerful, chaotic crescendo that power-ups the distorted part of the song.

Hey,
Johnny Fuel I completely agree with the whole Van Halen thing. Eruption should be higher and how the hell is Eddie Van Halen number 70!

these are all story-like solos, not very show offy, i dont mind the list, maybe jack white can beat it, same with creedence, but wow listen to elizabeth reed, the second solo by duane allman it’s EPIC

What about Larry Carlton’s solo in ‘Kid Charlemagne’ with Steely Dan? That is in the top 5!!

Brian May’s ending solo on We Will Rock You. You cannot deny it.

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The Red Hot Chili Peppers should’ve been higher, John Frusciante is the best guitarist now!

The Red Hot Chili Peppers should’ve been higher, John Frusciante is the best guitarist now!

Man what the FUCK is with these magazines and their boner for jack white!! It’s insane how only one metal band made the list (metallica of course). Not ragging on Van Halen or anything, but i could play eruption like a month after starting to learn guitar.

Im glag u included Smashing Pumpkins and Radiohead, but i am dissmayed that you picked “Soma” and “Paranoid Android”. Smashing Pumpkins have at least 2 better solos, Geek USA and Cherub Rock,as well as a fantastic solo in everysong from gish. and Radioheads`s paranoid is aesome but I think that The song “Just” By them has a bettersolo. I also Think Daft Punks Aerodynamic deserved to be on. O well maybe its me.

Great list, I was especially impressed by the inclusion of Soma, the best Smashing Pumpkins song and I would argue the best song ever written about a relationship. However, I would have really liked to see Shine on You Crazy Diamond on the list and possibly “This is a Low” by Blur

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Hmmm, I’m wondering why Gun’s N’ Roses made the list twice. I mean their good, but to have 2 in the top 25 cool guitar solos? And I think Rolling Stone must have something against Van Halen, Eruption is at 12, and Eddie only made #70 on their list of greatest guitarists of all time. What a bunch of fucks.

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I love the guitar solo in the American Gigolo long version of Blondie’s Call Me, wow it’s just awesome!!!

I also like the guitar riff in their single Atomic, very cool, not too mention the lead to One way or another….classic!!!

I love the guitar solo in the American Gigolo long version of Blondie’s Call Me, wow it’s just awesome!!!

I also like the guitar riff in their single Atomic, very cool, not too mention the lead to One way or another….classic!!!

Did anyone else notice that Gilmour of Pink Floyd made the list twice? Time and Comfortably Numb - I love the Time solo, but am surprised it made this list.

What about the coda and solo from Layla?

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what about the solo at the end of Feel The Benefit by 10cc?
Also, Santana’s solo in Somewhere In Heaven. It ROCKS!!!

Deep Purple-Burn or Highway Star

I am supprised there was only one Neil Young song on this list. A rather lame guitar solo compared to songs like Down By The River, Cowgirl In The Sand, and Like a Hurricane.

“Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers -Jeff Beck
“Planet Caravan” -Pantera
“Ruiner” Nine Inch Nails
“Take It” Stevie Ray Vaughan
“The Diamond Sea” Sonic Youth
“Texas Flood” SRV

Oh, and in my opinion, Coheed and Cambria’s Welcome Home belongs on the list.

This is a great list, and i’m surprised Yellow Ledbetter made it since it’s really overlooked. But I really think Cream’s Crossroad should be number 1. I get goosebumps every time I hear Clapton shredding that guitar.

Solid list. I think The Gap Band’s “Yearning For Your Love” and Frankie Beverly feat. Maze’s “Before I Let Go” would’ve made good canidates as well.

i disagree with GNR sweet Child there were lots better choices. GNR sucks.

People, at least Nirvana didn’t make this list. Every other guitar list in existence includes that band. ::Shudder::

Lindsay Buckingham’s solo on “So Afraid” on the Mac reunion album The Dance is awesome. His acoustic version of “Big Love” (which won him a Grammy) on same said album is awesome. And I have always had a soft spot for the simple outro guitar solo on “Shout” by Tears for Fears.

Listen to some of Frusciante’s solo work…they destroy half of these crappy choices

They loop the solo on Freebird at one point.

Ball & Biscuit, wow. If you’re a stubborn classic rocky who hates this innocuous band, give this track a listen.

I agree that Aqualung should be on the list, and something from Phish (Maze? Runaway Jim? Run like an Antelope?)

I’m much more upset that Lindsey Buckingham isn’t on this list. I guess he’s one of those guys who has to die to be appreciated?!

all along the watchtower-jimi hendrix
vodoo child-jimi hendrix
cliff of dover-eric johnson

this list suck!

Watermelon in Easter Hay - Frank Zappa

Why oh why is this magazine in love with this awful group? Who are these “readers” who’ve come up with this awful list.

So Page only makes the list once?

Satriani? Vai? Petrucci?

Useless magazine. Jack White can suck it!

i agree that soma is great but i also agree with most of the posters here that there are better pumpkins solos out there.. my fave is Here is No Why.

Rolling Stone,your list is terrible. I can think of 25 better solo’s than the one’s on your list. There are only four on your list that are worthy to be there, and none of them are # 1.

Of course a list like this “best” will always be subjective. But THIS lists seems even more off-base.

I want to say thanks to all the people that made it possible for Telegraph Road to make the list…however I believe Duane Allman’s work on Wilson Pickett’s Hey Jude should have made it…

Smashing Pumpkins - Corgan has a lot of amazing solos…..get radiohead off the list and add geek usa by pumpkins

nose… la lista la veo bn sobretodo pos que la encabeza guns and roses …pero pienso k paradise city tambien tendria k estar incluida en esa fantastica lista de solos….. por lo menos es lo k yo pienso

out of these 25 songs,only 10 deserve to be there and another ten are great but theres a better solo by the same band/artist thats not on the list.for example,the solo in paranoid android is cool but they have a waay better solo in just and the solo in soma by smashing pumpkins is fantastiv but they have better solos in Geek USA and in Cherub Rock

Uhhh…. “Bleeding Munk” . Other than the last sentence , I agree with everything you say. This list was created in a vacuum.

This list is crap. its like some ass sitting behind a desk decided to list a bunch of pop rock songs, and threw in a few worthless obscurities to make it look like he did his job. This is another list of filler crap to get you to click. Truely sad. the fact that I clicked makes me want to stab myself in the scrotum with a fork.

This list is crap. its like some ass sitting behind a desk decided to list a bunch of pop rock songs, and threw in a few worthless obscurities to make it look like he did his job. This is another list of filler crap to get you to click. Truely sad. the fact that I clicked makes me want to stab myself in the scotum with a fork.

POP! Tooooo……much……

My brain just popped thinking of all the worthy solos.

The list is what it is, a list. Therefore, limiting, but fun.

Admiral Ackbar, go on LimeWire or something like that and download “Marquee Moon”. It was more of an underground song when it was first released on the album of the same name in 1977, so you may have never heard of. It’s 10 minutes long and totally brilliant. I believe that both the song and the album appeared on the “500 songs” and “500 Albums”.

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eruption should be at the top of the list…

This is the same crappy rag of a magazine that had Eddie Van Halen as the #76th best guitarist of all time, right before Joni Mitchell. I’d be willing to bet if they asked the players in front of EVH they’d all say, “hell no, no way I’m better or more influential then Eddie.”

The Fly–U2

WTF happened to Rock? There are songs that belong on this list, we all know them. But Marquee Moon? WTF is that?

Try this on for size:

Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii. Solo starts at 5:30.

http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=hy_n4pzWbvc

let us not forget robert fripp’s blistering solo on eno’s “baby’s on fire”

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NO SANTANA OR JEFF BECK - What are you guys listening with earmuffs on !!!

Any list with Rage Against the Machine and Tommy Morello is void.

The Beatles’ best guitar work was on “And Your Bird Can Sing”.

Rolling Stone is run by a bunch of sissies. Angel of Death by Slayer has to be the best and most intense guitar solos.

Give it up Rolling Stone. No one cares about your opinion… except maybe the aging hippie crowd.

1) Anything by John Petrucci

So are you trying to say that GNR “isn’t” the same old sh&t, as opposed to some of the other bands on the list?

I agree that Freebird is noise after 2 minutes,I turn it off! Having one solo on there from John Frusciante,whom your magazine featured as a guitar god? Something is not right there!

Killing Fields by Howlin Wolf, solo by Hubert Sumlin. His licks define rock and roll.

Most of you guys have a hard-on for one or two bands and it’s the same ol’ shit. “Pearl Jam should be higher”, “no, Radiohead should be higher”, blah, blah, blah. Bottom line: this list just shows that more people who visit this site have a boner for G’n'R than other bands/guitarists on the list. That’s all it means. Calm down. And the first post by “Kinda Ready”…anyone who thinks that there’s “too much distortion” on a guitar solo hasn’t followed rock music since the ’70s. Big rock guitar solos are all about the high gain. Were you deprived of Spinal Tap as a kid? And as for laughing off the solo for “Soma” by SP…you just sound like a washed-up blues guitarist who’s never played outside of his local neighborhood watering hole in front of his wife and, lately, his kids.

as far as Clapton, i would’ve opted for Badge and not Crossroads….personally

Your Song Is Mine by The Raisins,
now known as the Bears, has a fantastic solo

Metallica -

Shortest Straw
Dyers Eve
Seek and Destroy
Fight Fire with Fire
Wherever I May Roam

and more I’m sure,

By contrast, Sweet Child O’ Mine ranks at #37 on “Guitar World’s” best guitar solo list.

After looking at this Rolling Stone list, something doesn’t seem right about it. Voting and preference is all subjective, but I think the #1 guitar solo should deservedly go to Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, David Gilmour, or Eddie Van Halen.

I’m in agreement with Andrea - Santana should have also been included on this list.

The list is decent, a little predictable but ok. Megadeth and Santana were overlooked, among others

boo to this list.

Nels Cline’s solo in Impossible Germany by Wilco!!!

NO Santan or Who?

You guys suck!

in a few years, ball & biscuit will be even higher up on the list, but its too soon for it to be that high up, but it is better than a lot of those ahead of it now. the only disappointment with jack’s latest album is that there wasn’t a long song with a guitar solo like ball & biscuit again.

come on jack, we’ve seen you do it before all the time live.

lay another one like this on us.

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…and the solo credit for “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” goes to Eric Clapton, specifically (the White Album version)

It’s nice to see that Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, Neil Young and Radiohead made this top 25 RS list (they are among my personal favorites).

However…not surprisingly, in my opinion (and don’t attack me for this), #1 on this compiled RS results list could now possibly be the most overrated guitar solo of all time, and as I had predicted (and where is All Along the Watchtower on this top 25 results list?!!). You guys might be interested in checking this out instead, as voted by Guitar World magazine readers (which makes a lot more sense in my opinion):
Google:
guitar world 100 greatest guitar solos

no who? fuck you.

eh,hated the list.ay=t least U mentioned the smashing pumpkins,even tho the solo in soma aint that great and they have a betta solo in Geek USA.also i dont like the solo in paranoid androud by radiohead and they have a bettah solo in Just

hello? Aerosmith’s Nobody’s Fault kicks with attitude and swagger… Bowies moonage day dream Mick Ronson’s outstanding! Ace Frehley’s performance on “She”….The Rolling Sones, “Sympathy for the devil”, keith”s dripping evil. Cheap Trick’s “The Balllad of TV Violence”.. Rick rocks!

This is a pretty good list, but “Fortunate Son” must be a mistake. John Fogerty rocks, but he is no great guitar soloist, and that song doesn’t even showcase his best work.

Just to name a few solos off the top of my head that beat “Fortunate Son” (and a few more on this list):
1. “Starla” - Smashing Pumpkins
2. “Torture Me” - Red Hot Chili Peppers
3. “Aqualung” - Jethro Tull
4. “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking” - The Rolling Stones
5. “Vision of Division” - The Strokes
6. “Maze” - Phish

As a guitarist, these 6 solos are much harder to play than several of those listed. And I know it’s not always about the technical skill, but these still rock and fit with the song just as much as the original 25.

-Bitter, long-winded axe-man

1. “Sweet Child O’ Mine,” Guns N’ Roses lower
2. “Freebird,” Lynyrd Skynyrd noise after 2 minutes
3. “One,” Metallica too much distortion
4. “Comfortably Numb,” Pink Floyd boring
5. “Marquee Moon,” Televisionawsome
6. “Crossroads,” Cream great
7. “Purple Rain,” Prince funktastic
8. “Machine Gun,” Jimi Hendrix perfect
9. “Ball and Biscuit,” The White Stripes best guitarist of contemparary music
10. “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” The Beatles great and but not even their solo
11. “Stairway to Heaven,” Led Zeppelin rip off
12. “Eruption,” Van Halen too much distortion
13. “November Rain,” Guns N’ Roses just like sweet child of mine
14. “Alive,” Pearl Jam best grunge solo
15. “Paranoid Android,” Radiohead Greatest solo of all time
16. “Maggot Brain,” Funkadelic perfect
17. “Fortunate Son,” Creedence Clearwater Revival awsome
18. “Time,” Pink Floyd I guess
it good
19. “Hotel California,” Eagles sure
20. “Cinnamon Girl,” Neil Young yeah this belongs
21. “Yellow Ledbetter,” Pearl Jam best B side ever
22. “Telegraph Road,” Dire Straits not a fan
23. “In Memory of Elizabeth Reed,” Allman Brothers best souther rock band
24. “Soma,” Smashing Pumpkins hahaha
25. “Scar Tissue,” Red Hot Chili Peppers awsome