Books, Movies, Music & Entertainment - 101 Greatest Guitar Solos

^^^ I saw Television at the Irving Plaza in NY a while back.
It was incredible !!! The interchange between Lloyd and Verlaine
was beyond description. Mick Taylor syndrome....how these guys
never make it to any stupid 'Top Ten' type lists is beyond me !

Are we up to 101 yet?

Where's Eddie Hazel's guitar on "Maggot Brain"?

George Clinton told him to play like your momma just died.

Stop what you're doing and get a copy of the song and the album

John Renbourn......"When I Get Home"
Anything by Michael Hedges.......http://youtube.com/watch?v=8EMRB6BE2iI

Great one, I forgot about that one.
Rented Woodstock...I had forgotten how good Ten Years After were. Or he was.

Mick Taylor syndrome....how these guys
never make it to any stupid 'Top Ten' type lists is beyond me !
Mick Taylor...fantastic.

I'm pretty sure he didn't play the solo on that one. Becker sat out most of the good solos.

*Edit

It was Baxter.

http://www.steelydanarchive.com/album/countdown.htm#6

As long as i got SD on the mind heres two more...

Elliot Randall - Reelin' in the Years (Cant Buy A Thrill)

Larry Carlton - Kid Charlemegne and Dont Take Me Alive (Both on the the Royal Scam recording. Arugably the best SD recording ever)

Some of my favorites

Jimi Hendrix - Red House, Third Stone from the Sun
SRV - Rivera Paridise, cover of Little Wing (i like it more than Hendrix's)
Dickey Betts - In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
Garry Moore - his solo version of Shape Of Things
Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs
Duane Allman - Dreams, Layla
David Gilmour - Dogs
Warren Haynes - Silent Scream, Dolphineus
Martin Barr - Aqua Lung
Alex Lifeson - Trees
The Edge - Electric Co. (live version), Bullet the Blue Sky
Billy Gibbons - Waitin For The Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago

Too many more...

Billy Gibbons - Waitin For The Bus/Jesus Left Chicago


Did we mention Cheap Sunglasses yet? What a phenomonel solo (two solos actually), combined with an awesome guitar tone.

The underrated lead guitarist from the Most Famous Band In The World. In I'm Only Sleeping, George Harrison writes a guitar solo (http://marathonpacks.com/Files/sleeping_1-2.mp3)for the purpose of recording it backwards and makes it fit the rhythm of the song perfectly.

Jeff Beck - Beck's Bolero
Eric Clapton - Crossroads (live version "Wheels of Fire")
Link Wray - Rumble

anything by Karl Logan of Manowar.

I give a second nomination for Mark Knopfler on romeo and julet........

Jimmy Page- Stairway to heaven, The rain song , Black dog
Rush- 2112 Album
Stevie Ray Vaughn- Texas Flood Album
Hendrix- Little Wing, Castles Made of Sand
Slash- most of Guns and Roses hits
Joe Walsh and Don Felder- Hotel California
And last but not least, not for the complexity, but just cuz it ROCKS- Lynyrd Skynyrd -Free Bird!!

Alex Lifeson - Chemistry , and Limelight from - Rush's 'Subdivisions' and 'Moving Pictures' respectively
Steve Hackett - Spectral Mornings

Jimmy Page- Stairway to heaven, The rain song , Black dog
Rush- 2112 Album
Stevie Ray Vaughn- Texas Flood Album
Hendrix- Little Wing, Castles Made of Sand
Slash- most of Guns and Roses hits
Joe Walsh and Don Felder- Hotel California
And last but not least, not for the complexity, but just cuz it ROCKS- Lynyrd Skynyrd -Free Bird!!


Forgot about joe walsh--rocky mountain way!

Forgot about joe walsh--rocky mountain way!
Yes and we both forgot "Funk 49" lol!

The underrated lead guitarist from the Most Famous Band In The World. In I'm Only Sleeping, George Harrison writes a guitar solo (http://marathonpacks.com/Files/sleeping_1-2.mp3)for the purpose of recording it backwards and makes it fit the rhythm of the song perfectly.
I heard "Badge" on the radio this afternoon. While George's part isn't technically a "solo" (more of a "riff"), it absolutely makes the song. George was the master of doing a four or eight bar solo and then handing it off to Paul or John for verse three.

I like Jimmy Page's solo at the end of "the ocean" a lot
Same goes for jimi's at the end of "axis bold as love"
the tiny little lick at the beginning of "fat cat" by nofx is cool