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100 Greatest Guitar Solos
« on: February 25, 2008, 10:52:53 AM »
100 Greatest Guitar Solos
 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
 
 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 
 21.
song: Time
guitarist: David Gilmour
band: Pink Floyd
album: Dark Side of the Moon
 
 22.
song: Sultans of Swing
guitarist: Mark Knopfler
band: Dire Straits
album: Dire Straits
 
 23.
song: Bulls on Parade
guitarist: Tom Morello
band: Rage Against the Machine
album: Evil Empire
 
 24.
song: Fade to Black
guitarist: Kirk Hammet
band: Metallica
album: Ride the Lightning
 
 25.
song: Aqualung
guitarist: Martin Barre
band: Jethro Tull
album: Aqualung
 
 26.
song: Smells Like Teen Spirit
guitarist: Kurt Cobain
band: Nirvana
album: Nevermind
 
 27.
song: Pride and Joy
guitarist: Stevie Ray Vaughan
band: Stevie Ray Vaughan
album: Texas Flood
 
 28.
song: Mr. Crowley
guitarist: Randy Rhoads
band: Ozzy Ozbourne
album: Blizzard of Oz
 
 29.
song: For the Love of God
guitarist: Steve Vai
band: Steve Vai
album: Passion and Warfare
 
 30.
song: Surfing With the Alien
guitarist: Joe Satriani
band: Joe Satriani
album: Surfing With the Alien
  31.
song: Stranglehold
guitarist: Ted Nugent
band: Ted Nugent
album: Ted Nugent
 
 32.
song: Machine Gun
guitarist: Jimi Hendrix
band: Jimi Hendrix
album: Band of Gypsies
 
 33.
song: The Thrill is Gone
guitarist: B.B. King
band: B.B. King
album: Completely Well
 
 34.
song: Paranoid Android
guitarist: Jonny Greenwood
band: Radiohead
album: OK Computer
 
 35.
song: Cemetery Gates
guitarist: Dimebag Darrel
band: Pantera
album: Cowboys From Hell
 
 36.
song: Black Star
guitarist: Yngwie Malmsteen
band: Yngwie Malmsteen
album: Rising Force
 
 37.
song: Sweet Child O' Mine
guitarist: Slash
band: Guns n' Roses
album: Appetite for Destruction
 
 38.
song: Whole Lotta Love
guitarist: Jimmy Page
band: Led Zeppelin
album: Led Zeppelin II
 
 39.
song: Cortez the Killer
guitarist: Neil Young
band: Neil Young
album: Zuma
 
 40.
song: Reelin' In the Years
guitarist: Elliot Randall
band: Steely Dan
album: Can't Buy a Thrill
 41.
song: Brighton Rock
guitarist: Brian May
band:Queen
album: Sheer Heart Attack
 
 42.
song: While My Guitar Gently Weeps
guitarist: Eric Clapton
band: The Beatles
album: The White Album
 
 43.
song: Sharp Dressed Man
guitarist: Billy Gibbons
band: ZZ Top
album: Eliminator
 
 44.
song: Alive
guitarist: Mike McCready
band: Pearl Jam
album: Ten
 
 45.
song: Light My Fire
guitarist: Robby Krieger
band: The Doors
album: Doors
 
 46.
song: Hot For Teacher
guitarist: Eddie Van Halen
band: Van Halen
album: 1984
 
 47.
song: Jessica
guitarist: Dickey Betts
band: The Allman Brothers
album: Brothers and Sisters
 
 48.
song: Sympathy for the Devil
guitarist: Keith Richards
band: The Rolling Stones
album: Beggar's Banquet
 
 49.
song: Europa
guitarist: Carlos Santana
band: Santana
album: Amigos
 
 50.
song: Shock Me
guitarist: Ace Frehley
band: Kiss
album: Love Gun
 51.
song: Master of Puppets
guitarist: Kirk Hammet
band: Metallica
album: Master of Puppets
 
 52.
song: Star Spangled Banner
guitarist: Jimi Hendrix
band: Jimi Hendrix
album: Jimi Hendrix: Woodstock
 
 53.
song: Since I've Been Loving You
guitarist: Jimmy Page
band: Led Zeppelin
album: Led Zeppelin III
 
 54.
song: Geek USA
guitarist: Billy Corgan
band: Smashing Pumpkins
album: Siamese Dream
 
 55.
song: Satch Boogie
guitarist: Joe Satriani
band: Joe Satriani
album: Surfing With the Alien
 
 56.
song: War Pigs
guitarist: Tony Iommi
band: Black Sabbath
album: Paranoid
 
 57.
song: Walk
guitarist: Dimebag Darrel
band: Pantera
album: Vulgar Display of Power
 
 58.
song: Cocaine
guitarist: Eric Clapton
band: Eric Clapton
album: Slowhand
 
 59.
song: You Really Got Me
guitarist: Dave Davies
band: The Kinks
album: Kinks
 
 60.
song: Zoot Allures
guitarist: Frank Zappa
band: Frank Zappa
album: Zoot Allures
 61.
song: No More Tears
guitarist: Zakk Wylde
band: Ozzy Osbourne
album: No More Tears
 
 62.
song: Money
guitarist: David Gilmour
band: Pink Floyd
album: Dark Side of the Moon
 
 63.
song: Black Hole Sun
guitarist: Kim Thayil
band: Soundgarden
album: Superunknown
 
 64.
song: Little Red Corvette
guitarist: Prince
band: Prince
album: 1999
 
 65.
song: In Bloom
guitarist: Kurt Cobain
band: Nirvana
album: Nevermind
 
 66.
song: Blue Sky
guitarist: Allman/Betts
band: The Allman Brothers
album: Eat a Peach
 
 67.
song: Beat It
guitarist: Eddie Van Halen
band: Michael Jackson
album: Thriller
 
 68.
song: Starship Trooper
guitarist: Steve Howe
band: Yes
album: The Yes Album
 
 69.
song: And Your Bird Can Sing
guitarist: George Harrison
band: The Beatles
album: Revolver
 
 70.
song: Purple Haze
guitarist: Jimi Hendrix
band: The Jimi Hendrix Experience
album: Are You Experienced?
 71.
song: Maggot Brain
guitarist: Eddie Hazel
band: Funkadelic
album: Maggot Brain
 
 72.
song: Walk This Way
guitarist: Joe Perry
band: Aeorosmith
album: Toys in the Attic
 
 73.
song: Stash
guitarist: Trey Anastasio
band: Phish
album: A Picture of Nectar
 
 74.
song: Lazy
guitarist: Ritchie Blackmore
band: Deep Purple
album: Machine Head
 
 75.
song: Won't Get Fooled Again
guitarist: Pete Townsend
band: The Who
album: Who's Next
 
 76.
song: Cinnamon Girl
guitarist: Neil Young
band: Neil Young and Crazy Horse
album: Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
 
 77.
song: Man in the Box
guitarist: Jerry Cantrell
band: Alice in Chains
album: Face Lift
 
 78.
song: Truckin'
guitarist: Jerry Garcia
band: The Grateful Dead
album: American Beauty
 
 79.
song: Mean Street
guitarist: Eddie Van Halen
band: Van Halen
album: Fair Warning
 
 80.
song: You Shook Me All Night Long
guitarist: Angus Young
band: AC/DC
album: Back in Black
 81.
song: Sweet Jane
guitarist: Hunter/Wagner
band: The Velvet Underground
album: Loaded
 82.
song: 21st Century Schizoid Man
guitarist: Robert Fripp
band: King Crimson
album: In the Court of the Crimson King
 
 83.
song: Scuttle Buttin'
guitarist: Stevie Ray Vaughan
band: Stevie Ray Vaughan
album: Couldn't Stand the Weather
 
 84.
song: Santeria
guitarist: Brad Nowell
band: Sublime
album: Sublime
 
 85.
song: Moonage Daydream
guitarist: Mick Ronson
band: David Bowie
album: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
 
 86.
song: Whipping Post
guitarist: Allman/Betts
band: The Allman Brothers
album: The Allman Brothers Band
 
 87.
song: Cult of Personality
guitarist: Vernon Reid
band: Living Color
album: Vivid
 
 88.
song: Kid Charlemagne
guitarist: Larry Carlton
band: Steely Dan
album: The Royal Scam
 
 89.
song: Killing in the Name
guitarist: Tom Morello
band: Rage Against the Machine
album: Rage Against the Machine
 
 90.
song: Let it Rain
guitarist: Eric Clapton
band: Eric Clapton
album: Eric Clapton
  91.
song: Heard It Thu Grapevine
guitarist: John Fogerty
band: CCR
album: Cosmo's Factory
 
 92.
song: Stray Cat Strut
guitarist: Brian Setzer
band: Stray Cats
album: Built for Speed
 
 93.
song: The End
guitarist: Robbie Krieger
band: The Doors
album: The Doors
 
 94.
song: Working Man
guitarist: Alex Lifeson
band: Rush
album: Rush
 
 95.
song: Yellow Ledbetter
guitarist: Mike McCready
band: Pearl Jam
album: Jeremy
 
 96.
song: Honky Tonk Women
guitarist: Keith Richards
band: The Rolling Stones
album: Let it Bleed
 
 97.
song: Cherub Rock
guitarist: Billy Corgan
band: Smashing Pumpkins
album: Siamese Dream
 
 98.
song: Under a Glass Moon
guitarist: John Petrucci
band: Dream Theater
album: Images & Words 
 99.
song: Cause We've Ended as Lovers
guitarist: Jeff Beck
band: Jeff Beck
album: Blow by Blow
 
 100.
song: Three Days
guitarist: Dave Navarro
band: Jane's Addiction
album: Ritual de lo Habitual 

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Re: 100 Greatest Guitar Solos
« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2008, 10:54:26 AM »
No Mark Farner?

Sorry, not a legitimate list.
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Re: 100 Greatest Guitar Solos
« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2008, 11:01:32 AM »
No Mark Farner?

Sorry, not a legitimate list.

Personally, I'd have Freebird at the top.  And One should be alot higher.
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Re: 100 Greatest Guitar Solos
« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2008, 11:01:41 AM »
Are these guitar solos based on skill, or solos based on popularity? I see nothing by Steve Vai, Satch and Yngie Malmsteen are almost at the bottom... and nothing by any of these guys on it.

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at 3:02, one of best solos I've ever heard.

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Re: 100 Greatest Guitar Solos
« Reply #4 on: February 25, 2008, 11:51:53 AM »
I can think of several RUSH songs that are better than Working Man, among which are YYZ, Limelight, Tom Sawyer (on Moving Pictures alone), Temples of Syrinx, La Villa Strangatio, The Trees...need I go on?

And if they wanted, there's other stuff by Satriani that's better as well.

Finally, what, no "Believe" or "Are You Gonna Go My Way" by Lenny Kravitz?

No Stevie Ray Vaughn on "Let's Dance"?  No "China Girl" or "Modern Love"?

Meh...damn lists.
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Re: 100 Greatest Guitar Solos
« Reply #5 on: February 25, 2008, 12:18:22 PM »
No Mark Farner?

Sorry, not a legitimate list.

Personally, I'd have Freebird at the top.  And One should be alot higher.

They also missed "Rock around the Clock" -- the solo on that was ground-breaking for its day and, if you listen to it as a solo (and not the opening of "Happy Days" you realize it is extraordinary.
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Re: 100 Greatest Guitar Solos
« Reply #6 on: February 25, 2008, 12:19:53 PM »
I can think of several RUSH songs that are better than Working Man, among which are YYZ, Limelight, Tom Sawyer (on Moving Pictures alone), Temples of Syrinx, La Villa Strangatio, The Trees...need I go on?

And if they wanted, there's other stuff by Satriani that's better as well.

Finally, what, no "Believe" or "Are You Gonna Go My Way" by Lenny Kravitz?

No Stevie Ray Vaughn on "Let's Dance"?  No "China Girl" or "Modern Love"?

Meh...damn lists.

Drifting the thread a little, I was listening to the radio and a set of Journey, Rush, etc. came on and that got me to thinking -- how do we define a "Rock Anthem?"  I certainly think of Tom Sawyer as one...
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Re: 100 Greatest Guitar Solos
« Reply #7 on: February 25, 2008, 01:00:53 PM »
No Neil Schon, Gary Moore..............hell no Brad Paisley is a travesty.

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Re: 100 Greatest Guitar Solos
« Reply #8 on: February 25, 2008, 01:18:07 PM »
Meh, they missed as much as they got and the order is wrong too.

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Re: 100 Greatest Guitar Solos
« Reply #9 on: February 25, 2008, 01:55:35 PM »
One of David Gilmour's best guitar solo's ever came at the end of Berlin's 'Pink and Velvet' off the Count Three and Pray CD. I'd hate to think that I'm the only one who's ever heard it. Also, although I'm a Kiss fan, no Ace Frehley solo should be anywhere near the top 100.
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Re: 100 Greatest Guitar Solos
« Reply #10 on: February 25, 2008, 06:11:13 PM »
Michael Schenker, "Lights Out", UFO, Live Version.
Michael has killer guitar tone and is just roaring on that cut!
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Re: 100 Greatest Guitar Solos
« Reply #11 on: February 27, 2008, 03:52:38 PM »
No Richie Ranno, Frank Marino, or Mark Chatfield from The Godz ?


On Edit : And no freaking Steve Morse ?
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Re: 100 Greatest Guitar Solos
« Reply #12 on: February 28, 2008, 10:20:28 AM »
No Richie Ranno, Frank Marino, or Mark Chatfield from The Godz ?


On Edit : And no freaking Steve Morse ?


I didn't catch the missing Frank Marino. With no Mahogany Rush in the top 100 then the list is completely invalid. Guitwar was incredible.
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Re: 100 Greatest Guitar Solos
« Reply #13 on: February 28, 2008, 07:17:37 PM »
[youtube=425,350]4VKwMEOIoyc[/youtube]


1:39 in, EVH's "Cathedral". Ordinarily, it'd be relatively simple to an above novice guitarist, but Eddie has the right about of delay and echo on his amp, plus the volume tuning is hard as hell to do that fast.... well, for me it is.

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Re: 100 Greatest Guitar Solos
« Reply #14 on: February 28, 2008, 07:20:36 PM »
I forgot another one, John Petrucci of Dream Theater. This guy is just amazing.

[youtube=425,350]8h81PggfE8I[/youtube]

2 minutes in is where the first solo is on here.

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Re: 100 Greatest Guitar Solos
« Reply #15 on: February 28, 2008, 08:53:11 PM »
They got the wrong Mark Knopfler solo.

Telegraph Road from Brothers in Arms.
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Re: 100 Greatest Guitar Solos
« Reply #16 on: February 29, 2008, 05:04:21 PM »
[youtube=425,350]sRtAJy2nFVM[/youtube]

3:00 in

Classic solo, didn't make the list.