100 Greatest Guitar Solos

[BeBMan]

Me playing air guitar as a child

[boann]

Originally posted by self biased
no tony iommi solos? tosh.

oh, and while my ukelele gently weeps

wow.. ive never heard this before..
quite amazing solo of george's famous piece.

[Ninot]

Originally posted by Sikander
Yeesh! While not exactly terrible few of the Top 20 would be anywhere on my list.

A few artists who should be on there:
...
Pete Townsend
...

I enjoy few guitarists as much as I enjoy him. Thanks for naming him.

[molly bloom]

Couldn't see McGuinn's solo from 'Eight Miles High', couldn't see many, many blues guitarists- and Fripp gets in for a King Crimson piece, not his solo work or work with Eno or Sylvian. Figures.

Gah- the list seems to be drawn up by people who've hardly heard any jazz or traditional blues or anything remotely experimental, and with just a polite dusting of folk-rock to let in Neil Young.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by molly bloom
Couldn't see McGuinn's solo from 'Eight Miles High', couldn't see many, many blues guitarists- and Fripp gets in for a King Crimson piece, not his solo work or work with Eno or Sylvian. Figures.

Gah- the list seems to be drawn up by people who've hardly heard any jazz or traditional blues or anything remotely experimental, and with just a polite dusting of folk-rock to let in Neil Young.

Yea, it seems to gave been drawn almost exclusively from the Classic Rock playlist.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Sikander


Yea, it seems to gave been drawn almost exclusively from the Classic Rock playlist.

It made me feel very old- I kept thinking, 'well, someone along the line there's going to be a mention of Robert Johnson, and Son House, and Leadbelly, or Memphis Minnie, maybe some jazz guitar will sneak in, perhaps a mention in passing of maybe one classical guitar player, perhaps some Lightnin' Hopkins, Big Joe Williams...'

...but no.

And to have ignored Fripp's work on 'No Pussyfooting'...

[Tingkai]

What the **** is it with Stairway to Heaven?????

And Clapton's Crossroads at #10. WTF????

[OzzyKP]

Green Grass and High Tides by the Outlaws

[Tingkai]

One of the greatest guitar players I have ever seen is a guy name Mike MacDonald at Grossman's Tavern in Toronto. He's one of these guys who will never be famours, but man can he play.

He does a great version of Cotton Fields that start of slow with just vocals:

When I was a little bitty baby
My momma woudl rock me in my cradle
In those old cotton fields back home

It was down in Louisiana,
Just about a mile from Texarkana,
In them old cotton fields back home.

Oh, when them cotton bolls get rotten
You can’t pick very much cotton,
In them old cotton fields back home.

It was down in louisiana,
Just about a mile from texarkana,
In them old cotton fields back home.

One-two-three-four

And then he starts wailing on the guitar so fast that his fingers are burning. Man, it's incredible

[SlowwHand]

Re: 100 Greatest Guitar Solos

Originally posted by boann
heres the top 20 from that list..
what would be your number one choice?

http://guitar.about.com/library/bl100greatest.htm

the editors of Guitar World magazine put together a reader's poll, to find out what their readers considered to be the best guitar solos of all time.


1.
song: Stairway to Heaven
guitarist: Jimmy Page
band: Led Zeppelin
album: Led Zeppelin IV



2.
song: Eruption
guitarist: Eddie Van Halen
band: Van Halen
album: Van Halen



3.
song: Freebird
guitarist: Collins/Rossington
band: Lynyrd Skynyrd
album: Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd



4.
song: Comfortably Numb
guitarist: David Gilmour
band: Pink Floyd
album: The Wall



5.
song: All Along the Watchtower
guitarist: Jimi Hendrix
band: Jimi Hendrix Experience
album: Electric Ladyland



6.
song: November Rain
guitarist: Slash
band: Guns n' Roses
album: Use Your Illusion I



7.
song: One
guitarist: Kirk Hammet
band: Metallica
album: And Justice for All


8.
song: Hotel California
guitarist: Don Felder/Joe Walsh
band: The Eagles
album: Hotel California



9.
song: Crazy Train
guitarist: Randy Rhoads
band: Ozzy Ozbourne
album: Blizzard of Ozz



10.
song: Crossroads
guitarist: Eric Clapton
band: Cream
album: Wheels of Fire

11.
song: Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
guitarist: Jimi Hendrix
band: Jimi Hendrix
album: Electric Ladyland



12.
song: Johnny B. Goode
guitarist: Chuck Berry
band: Chuck Berry
album: Chuck Berry Is On Top
mo


13.
song: Texas Flood
guitarist: Stevie Ray Vaughan
band: Stevie Ray Vaughan
album: Texas Flood



14.
song: Layla
guitarist: Clapton/Allman
band: Derek and the Dominoes
album: Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs



15.
song: Floods
guitarist: Dimebag Darrel
band: Pantera
album: The Great Southern Trendkill



16.
song: Heartbreaker
guitarist: Jimmy Page
band: Led Zeppelin
album: Led Zeppelin II



17.
song: Cliffs of Dover
guitarist: Eric Johnson
band: Eric Johnson
album: Ah Via Musicom



18.
song: Little Wing
guitarist: Jimi Hendrix
band: Jimi Hendrix Experience
album: Axis: Bold as Love



19.
song: Highway Star
guitarist: Ritchie Blackmore
band: Deep Purple
album: Machine Head



20.
song: Bohemian Rhapsody
guitarist: Brian May
band: Queen
album: A Night at the Opera

If prettiest counts, then Carlos Santana - Europa is it,
Even though "Clapton is God".

[Saras]

WHERE THE

F U C K

IS JEFF BECK???

[Chemical Ollie]

To Americentric. Ireland

[Saras]

Page, Beck, Fripp, Blackmore, Iommi. Yea, too americentric

[Dr Strangelove]

Come to think of it, where is Segovia?

Seriously, give Leo Kottke a listen to. His style is truly unique.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Tingkai
What the **** is it with Stairway to Heaven?????

It's a great song?

And glad to see Slash get some love. One of the best guitarist of the 80s finally getting some love.