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20 Greatest Guitar Solos


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Doesn't have Cippolina/Duncan's work on "Who Do You Love" (LP: Happy Trails). Jesus, how could that be left out?

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so i guess guitar world is full of sh*t?

 

at least they got eric johnson's cliffs of dover.

 

this is pretty heavy on the stuff the over 30 crowd grew up with on the radio and it's obvious that not a lot of thought was put into it.

 

why is there no steve morse on this list?

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perhaps the list should have been called "20 best known guitar solos"

 

comfortably numb deserves to be on there. the rest are a crapshoot. stairway is the most overrated song of all time, so i guess it's about right to have GW put that at the top of the list. i was surprised to see one of my favorites actually made the list (honky tonk women at #96).

 

no iron maiden? they practically invented melodic dueling solos.

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A few that crossed my mind as being 'favorites':

Steve Howe--Siberian Khatru

Robert Fripp--Fracture

Zappa--Black Napkins

Santana--Europa

Keef--Sympathy for the Devil

Beck--Cause We've Ended As Lovers

Page--Dazed & Confused

Knopfler--Telegraph Road

Clapton--Sweet Wine (Live)

Betts/Allman---Elizabeth Reed (Live)

 

And esp. Gilmour--Time

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Marquee Moon. nough said. It's a solo that's done for the song, yet it also manages to be epic as hell at the same time.

 

I'll second that. I love Tom Verlaine on that solo. Its killer.

 

But that whole list is crapt, the only thing good in the top twenty is Chuck Berry and Layla solo, but only because Duane Allman is in the solo.

 

I mean Eddie Van Halen is crapt, he needs to learn the meaning of less is more.

 

What about Neil Young's solo on "Powderfinger" or something by Lee Ranalado and Thurston Moore. or what I think is greatly underated is Ira Kaplan's solo on "I Heard You Looking" from Yo La Tengo's "Painful." Every time I hear him insert chaos and noise into his solo, it sends shivers down my spine. Finally, add in Sterling Morrison and Lou Reed's solos on "Sister Ray".

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