Recording King from Gibson - 1939
Posted on 10/03/2010 7:23:12 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
With today’s announcement of the Top 10 Guitar Solos of All Time, another Gibson.com Top 50 list is in the books. Below, check out the full rundown of all 50 solos that made the list. (You can get more information on each of the entries here: #50-41, #40-31, #30-21, #20-11 and #10-1.)
Plus, take a look at the readers poll and the guitarists who scored multiple entries further down the page.
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How about “Johnny McLaughlin, Electric Guitarist”?
And how about them funky guitars from Miles Davis’ “On the Corner”?
Any list that does not contain at least ONE solo by Joe Bonamassa is incomplete.
Here’s one of Santana’s influences: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0uS0IhXYLA
What about any of Dave Murray’s work on Fear of the Dark?
The Layla solo by Derek Trucks in 2003 at the Beacon Theater is light years ahead of what Clapton played.
New Year’s Day is my favorite Edge solo. Here’s a forgotten gem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSP_V2eAz9k
Recording King from Gibson - 1939
How about Lindsey Buckingham playing “Big Love?”
Voodoo Chile (slight return} is a guitar solo from start to finish and should have been up at the top. Just like Page’s solo in Stairway to Heaven, it seems to come outside normal consciousness. Sort of like written in Music Space, then transcribed back down here in ordinary reality.
Hearing track just made me dig out my copy of Montreux Summit on vinyl to listen to “Blues March” (Stan has a monster solo on this track)...what a line-up, Stan, George Duke, Billy Cobham, Alphonso Johnson and more; a bunch of late 60’s to 70’s heavies.
Cool thread but that list is woeful IMHO
The best version of Sultans of Swing I’ve heard was unfortunately from the concert for Nelson Mandela.
Totally agree.
Would like to see a list of the “50 most technically difficult to play” guitar leads. Very different list. True, difficult to play doesn’t = best, but it does say something about the technical prowess of the musicians.
Whoa! Now there's a blast from the past!! I love that song!
The first time I heard "Smooth" on the radio, I told my then teenaged son that it was Santana. He said, no, it was Rob Thomas, of Matchbox 20. I said that might be Rob Thomas SINGING, but there was no mistaking that it was Carlos Santana on that guitar! I was right, and went out and bought the CD!
Very nice. I have a GVR guitar that’s worth more than the rest of my guitars. I haven’t play any of my other guitars in years.
None would be Rock and Roll, unless classical guitar was excluded.
“None would be Rock and Roll, unless classical guitar was excluded.”
Fair enough. Then let’s make it the 50 most technically difficult to play rock leads.
Weird way to play a guitar. I’m a lefty, so my strap is over my right shoulder; rightys, their strap is over their left shoulder. Never seen someone play righty with the strap over their right shoulder.
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