100 Greatest 'Rock' Guitar Solos

[Beco]

Here is the top 20: http://www.digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_guitarsolo.html


1. Comfortably Numb - David Gilmour (Pink Floyd)
2. Stairway To Heaven - Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin)
3. All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
4. Freebird - Allen Collins (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
5. Maggot Brain - Edie Hazel (Funkadelic)
6. Texas Flood - Stevie Ray Vaughan
7. Eruption - Eddie Van Halen (Van Halen)
8. Highway Star - Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple)
9. Cause We've Ended As Lovers - Jeff Beck
10. Hotel California - Don Felder/Joe Walsh (Eagles)
11. Mr Crowley - Randy Rhoads (Ozzy)
12. Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix
13. Time - David Gilmour (Pink Floyd)
14. Layla - Eric Clapton/Duane Allman (Derek & The Dominos)
15. Sweet Child O' Mine - Slash (Guns N Roses)
16. Cliffs Of Dover - Eric Johnson
17. Nottingham Lace - Buckethead
18. For The Love Of God - Steve Vai
19. Voodoo Child (slight return) - Jimi Hendrix
20. November Rain - Slash (Guns N Roses)

 

[cjh]

i'm telling you, if you have not listened to maggot brain, you need to. the alternative full-instrument version is amazing.

 

[Fata Morgana]

Voodoo Child has the best intro ever.

 

[Liontamr]

Yeah.. I'm failing to see how Voodoo Child isn't higher.. I don't have much of a problem with the top five though..

 

[ezlay_2nite]

Here is the top 20: http://www.digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_guitarsolo.html


1. Comfortably Numb - David Gilmour (Pink Floyd)
2. Stairway To Heaven - Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin)
3. All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
4. Freebird - Allen Collins (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
5. Maggot Brain - Edie Hazel (Funkadelic)
6. Texas Flood - Stevie Ray Vaughan
7. Eruption - Eddie Van Halen (Van Halen)
8. Highway Star - Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple)
9. Cause We've Ended As Lovers - Jeff Beck
10. Hotel California - Don Felder/Joe Walsh (Eagles)
11. Mr Crowley - Randy Rhoads (Ozzy)
12. Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix
13. Time - David Gilmour (Pink Floyd)
14. Layla - Eric Clapton/Duane Allman (Derek & The Dominos)
15. Sweet Child O' Mine - Slash (Guns N Roses)
16. Cliffs Of Dover - Eric Johnson
17. Nottingham Lace - Buckethead
18. For The Love Of God - Steve Vai
19. Voodoo Child (slight return) - Jimi Hendrix
20. November Rain - Slash (Guns N Roses)

"Green Grass and High Tides" - by The Outlaws blow half of this list away.

 

[Bluesboy2]

"Green Grass and High Tides" - by The Outlaws blow half of this list away.

You are correct in my eyes.

 

[Bluesboy2]

Edited to add Hotel California doesn't even belong in the top 100.

 

[ezlay_2nite]

You are correct in my eyes.

That works, because your yummy in my eyes...

How have you been ???

 

[hobbit.]

no gary moore, albert collins, albert king ? some list (er what about bill nelson?)

 

[Bluesboy2]

That works, because your yummy in my eyes...

How have you been ???

Busy. But good overall. How about you?

Oh, aand I am hurt that my name isn't on that list.

 

[ezlay_2nite]

Busy. But good overall. How about you?

Oh, aand I am hurt that my name isn't on that list.

Keep stroken it, um I mean strummen it and you'll make it...

 

[Wrong Element]

I was wondering how they could have left "Crossroads" off; then I saw it was on a separate list.

They did a decent job.

 

[lightning1]

Somebody Loan me a Dime. Boz Scaggs. Duane Allman on guitar.

 

[beetlebum]

john lennon & george harrison of the beatles on "taxman"

 

[gravyrug]

I'm a tad disappointed that Zappa didn't make the list. He certainly had several that would be eligible. Not really any on the list that I think are unworthy, although there are a few I haven't heard.

 

[alisonwunderlnd]

I FREAKING LOVE funkadelic!!!!

 

[Bluesboy2]

I FREAKING LOVE funkadelic!!!!

Then you prolly get into "Red Hot Mama". THAT has a killer guitar part!

 

[Luv2PleasureF]

As soon as I saw the title to this thread I thought of Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb".

As soon as I saw it atop the list at # 1, the rest didn't matter. Job well done.

Although, I would probably have moved Jimi Hendrix's solo in "Red House" up the list from wherever it is...

 

[Luv2PleasureF]

I'm a tad disappointed that Zappa didn't make the list. He certainly had several that would be eligible. Not really any on the list that I think are unworthy, although there are a few I haven't heard.

Zappa's solo in "Muffin Man" comes to mind, certainly.

 

[gregor_16]

Steve Vai on Zappas "my guitar wants to kill your momma" smokes that list.
Green Onions by Roy buchanan
Goin home by Ten Years After
almost anything Joe Bonamassa does
Joe Satriani Surfing With The Aliens

 

[ezlay_2nite]

Uncle Ted ... A true Master... Never made the list...

 

[Drinking Cap]

Change the name to "Top 100 instances of a Lead Guitarist wanking all over a song" and it's bang on.

 

[rosco rathbone]

^^^

yeah. Who gives a fuck about the top solos. GImme the top riffs.

 

[Drinking Cap]

^^^

yeah. Who gives a fuck about the top solos. GImme the top riffs.

Or, you know, maybe a nice understated solo that added something to the melodic sense of the song. Any list that puts Steve Vai and Eddie Van Halen over George Harrison says all that you need to know.

 

[Lost Cause]

Ted Nugent~ "Stranglehold"

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