100 greatest Guitar Solos!

[Bennyboy]

http://www.francesfarmersrevenge.com/stuff/archive/oldnews6/guitar.htm

This should get some people going!

[Turbineguy]

1. Loan Me A Dime

Boz Scaggs

Dwayne Allman

[Bennyboy]

2. One of my favorites...

Along with In Memory of Elizabeth Reed....

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. Who compiled this pig-ignorant list?

Not ONE by Ronnie Montrose? :wtf:

[NoGOPZone]

9. It's the results of a poll done by readers of Guitar World magazine

You're right, the list has serious shortcomings.

[hellbound-liberal]

10. Where the hell is Buck Dharma?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnhY2gyJU7A

[Amerigo Vespucci]

15. E.T.I.

...SCREW "Don't Fear The Reaper."

E.T.I. has the all-time greatest Buck solo.

:toast:

[hellbound-liberal]

17. Not to mention, Buck's Boogie and Astronomy. Buck and BOC were way underrated

I'm really surprised he didn't make the list!:wtf:

[hellbound-liberal]

18. Delete

Dupe

[hellbound-liberal]

11. I guess they never heard Town Without Pity!

I'm a big Ronnie Montrose fan!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EnEV8CF0YE

[Oeditpus Rex]

12. That was the one that made me realize he's a virtuoso

and not just a thrasher, like the early stuff with Sammy Hagar, Bill Church/Alan Fitzgerald and Denny Carmassi. There were some earlier examples of his genius, like "One and a Half" on "Warner Brothers Presents Montrose," but I was a balls-out rocker in those days and didn't pay much attention to anything else. :blush:



I just noticed another glaring oversight: Rik Emmett. Anyone who's heard him shred on "Nature's Child," then turn around and play oh-so-sweetly on "Suitcase Blues" can't deny his virtuosity.

[hellbound-liberal]

16. Thanks, I'll have to check those out. I always think of Montrose when guitarist threads come up!

I don't know Rik Emmett, I'll have to see if I can find him on YouTube. The main omission that I noticed, besides Buck Dharma was Rory Gallagher, who has been my favorite guitarist since I saw him in the 70s. I am compiling a list of the others right now!

[Oeditpus Rex]

19. Emmett was with Triumph

A Canadian hard rock band in the '80s. Had hits like "Fight the Good Fight," "Hold On" and "Lay It On the Line."

Oh, dog, they could tear it up. :headbang:

There's a YouTube video of Emmett doing "Suitcase Blues," but it isn't near as sweet as the album version ("Just a Game").

[driver8]

34. Triumph rocked!! I grew up on the Canadian border in upstate NY and saw

Triumph four times while in high school and college.

Rik Emmett is an amazing guitar player.

[abq e streeter]

4. Garcia on " Lovelight" from 1st Live Dead, Steve Cropper - Blues Bros. version of Rawhide

[Bennyboy]

5. I think they are just talking about studio albums....

I don't see a live recording on the list. And for Jerry I would take Viola Lee Blues from their first album over Truckin anyday.

[abq e streeter]

7. Yeah, guess it is just supposed to be studio stuff,

but love that Turn on Your Lovelight solo so much, I had to mention it. And Cropper's is probably shorter than anything on that list, but its so damn soulful, tasty, and to the point... ( what I've always loved about Cropper's playing).

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

6. Lol, Voodoo Child is basically one big solo.

[qwertyMike]

8. Kurt Cobain

on the unplugged version

[pokerfan]

13. Is Freebird really a solo?

Solo
–noun
1. a musical composition or a passage or section in a musical composition written for performance by one singer or instrumentalist, with or without accompaniment:

I count three guitars: Collins, Rossington and King/Gaines.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

14. "Truckin'" seemsl like a cop-out, almost an obligatory Jerry pick to shut up the Deadheads

When I think of the words "greatest guitar solos" and then think of Garcia, I immediately think of "Bird Song," which unquestionably has some of his best all-time studio playing,



OR the snaky, distorted, climbing solo from "Help On The Way...



But "Truckin'" would never be my first choice. Unless I were a "rock journalist" tasked with a 100 Greatest Solos list and didn't know Dick about Jerry.

:toast:

[Bennyboy]

20. I am thinking that too...but my fave JG solos

(studio wise)are from ACE (Bob Weir's solo album), the Playing In the Band is just incredible and
Blows Against The Empire from Jefferson Starship on the song "Starship".


Also the steel guitar solo on "Dirty Business' off the NRPS album and the steel guitar solo on "Teach your Children" CSN&Y.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

22. David Crosby's "If I Could Only Remember My Name"...holy CRAP

That's the logical progression out of "Bird Song" and the Gracia of that era...

...the pedal steel on "Laughing"...WOW.

The album's lineup, for those not familiar with it:

Crosby, Nash & Young (no Stills)

Jefferson Airplane 1971 Edition (Kantner, Slick, Kaukonen, Casady, "new" member David Frieberg from Quicksilver, "new" drummer Joey Covington missing in action)

Jerry, Bill, Mickey & Phil from The Dead

Joni Mitchell

Greg Rolie & Michael Shrieve from Santana

It was recently re-released by Rhino & Atlantic as a 2-disc set (one CD, one DVD Audio). As freakin' ESSENTIAL as essential GETS.



:toast:

[Bennyboy]

24. Yeah that album is great.......

The Planet Earth Rock and Roll Orchestra if I remember their name.....

[Amerigo Vespucci]

27. Yep...Kantner refers to his own version of the project as PERRO...

...and has been promising a grand CD reissue for the last couple of years on the Jefferson Starship Web Site. So far, an unfulfilled promise.

The best Kantner side projects tend to be the ones in which he is participating, not leading, like the Crosby album.



:toast:

[Bennyboy]

25. Jerry with Sting's band......

He owns the song in about one minute http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l5sx4zO6E8

[Amerigo Vespucci]

30. That WAS pretty sweet...thanks for posting.

:toast:

[Dr. Strange]

21. Um, EXCUSE ME??!!!??!ELEVEN!!?

[Tikki]

23. This video contains the song with the....

most amazing guitar solo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBBWt2aZt_w


Tikki

[Droopy]

26. Cool song and cool video, but I don't agree about the guitar solo part

It was good and it fight, but it didn't seem that exceptional to me.

[Tikki]

33. Another amazing rock and roll guitar solo...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLyRZBspz8Y


Tikki

[abq e streeter]

28. Another one: Mike Bloomfield with the Electric Flag---

having another senior moment (of fuzzy memory)---I think the song was Another Country...Just heard Starship's Runaway on the radio yesterday--another damn nice solo---Craig Chaquico, I assume....... written by the way, by a friend I haven't seen in several years, not even sure he's still in New Mexico, by the name of Nick Dewey. Nick's brother Greg, or Duke as everyone knows him, used to play drums with Country Joe among others. Ever know those guys back in the day in S.F. , Bennyboy ? Your fellow Du rock and roller abq e streeter

[Bennyboy]

31. I used to buy pot from Craig Chaquico.....

back in High School. He used to be in a band called SteelWind that was made up of kids from his school along with a teacher. (They did one incredible song on the album tehy made, "Caveat emptor"). We used to see them in the bars and they had to play with their parents present.

Then The Starship opened a tour at Winterland behind Blows. And on the bill was SteelWind. Along with Papa Johns band Zulu. Craig and Papa John played with all three bands and became the Starship's permanent guys that night.

BTW< everyone that was there will tell you that Winterland actually took off the ground, hurtled around space for a couple of hours and somehow miraculously landed back on the corner of Post and Steiner Streets during the XM segment of the Blows suite. One of the all timers!

[Paladin]

29. AWRIGHT! Neil Young's Single-Note Solo, "Cinnamon Girl"

It ought to be higher than #76, and it certainly ought to be ahead of anything that no-talent dipshit Ted Nugent ever did, but I'm glad it made the cut......

[mokawanis]

32. I gotta say

Tommy Bolin's song Post Toastie still rocks my world.

[hellbound-liberal]

35. Three more GLARING omissions, IMO. Rory Gallagher, Johnny Winter and Robin Trower

I suppose you could argue that they might be a bit too "bluesy" but there wouldn't be any rock and roll if it wasn't for the blues! Here are three clips that I found on You Tube. They are all live but, as anyone who owns one of their albums knows, their studio albums were as hot as most people's live stuff. Rnjoy!

Rory Gallagher- Wayward Child/Last of the Independents

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

Johnny Winter-Highway 61

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8siLZ4zNbY

Robin Trower-Bridge of Sighs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl16DLJ1d6Y

[SoxFan]

36. Solitary Man

No, not the Neil Diamond version...

The Sidewinder's cover version from 1990's "Witchdoctor" album. A blast of grungy, feedbacky goodness from Rich Hopkins!

[steelemagnolia]

37. Prince in Purple Rain had an awesome guitar solor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuMjSMjo-yo Forward 4 minutes and 49 seconds into the song. Some may laugh at me, but I stand behind it.

[NewJeffCT]

38. I love Black Sabbath, but Tony Iommi ain't a great guitar player

he's mediocre. I don't recall Slash being anything special, either.

[hellbound-liberal]

39. Even though he wasn't as flashy as some, I learned to respect Tony Iommi because

he played all those years with Sabbath after losing the tips of two of his fingers on his right hand. Here's the info from Wikipedia:

<snip>

Tony Iommi picked up the guitar as a teenager, after being inspired by the likes of Hank Marvin and The Shadows. In an industrial accident at the age of 17 on his last day of work in a sheet metal factory, he lost the tips of the middle and ring finger of his right hand. Being left-handed, he used his right hand to fret the strings of a guitar. He initially thought that his days of playing guitar were over, but his boss (who knew of his "night job" as a pub band guitar player) paid him a visit during his recovery and encouraged him to reconsider by playing a Django Reinhardt record, because Reinhardt lost mobility in the third and fourth fingers of his fretting hand in a fire. After attempting to learn to play right-handed, Iommi strung his guitars with extra-light strings (using banjo strings, which were a lighter gauge than even the lightest guitar-strings of the time) and wore plastic covers over the two damaged fingers. He fashioned the latter himself, by melting washing-up liquid bottles into a ball and then using a soldering iron to make holes into this ball, putting his fingers in while the plastic was still soft enough to be shaped. He then trimmed and sanded away the excess plastic to leave himself with two thimbles, which he then covered with leather, to provide better grip on the strings. Subsequent tips have been custom-made.

That plus the fact that Paranoid was one of my favorite albums growing up and the music is forever embedded in my brain!

[steelemagnolia]

40. One of my all-time favorites: Layla Eric Clapton

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4324hOvwsA AWESOME!!!!!

[enigmatic]

41. Eddie Hazel/"Maggot Brain" is #71???????????

Fuck that shit; this list is worthless.

[Kat45]

42. They didn't get to Jeff Beck until number 99????!!!!!

I'll refrain from saying anything more.

[Skittles]

43. no Terry Kath?

:thumbsdown:

[meegbear]

44. I think this is a good list ...

the solo has to MAKE the song

Something as wild as 'Eruption' or, as a poster said, Neil Young's one note in 'Cinnamon Girl', if it captures to spirit of the song, then, by gum, you've succeeded.

[EstimatedProphet]

45. Garcia on Estimated Prophet - 4/16/78, Huntington WV

Look it up on the internet archive if you haven't heard it here:
http://www.archive.org/details/gd78-04-16.sbd.lai.292.sbeok.shnf

[LynneSin]

46. Any pole that gives the Stairway solo #1 and puts Whole Lotta Love at #38

Is to be held at great suspect!