http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1bFr2SWP1I
Posted on 04/13/2011 5:38:31 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch
Our Greatest Guitar Solo Of All Time poll certainly caused some fierce debate amongst guitarists… and that was just in our office. Choosing the 'greatest' guitar solo is obviously subjective in the extreme. But Guitarist had other motivations too – we were eager to see how many modern solos have impressed you all in the thirteen years since our last solo poll. The results were suprising. After asking for your nominations, we took the 20 most popular and asked for you vote on which your though was most deserving here and at MusicRadar. You voted in your thousands, fanbases were motivated and old favourites suffered.
That’s very cool. + Andy Summers
Yep.
Try the “Abraxas” album
no mention of Smoke on the Water off of Made in Japan?
Oh man. Hard choices.
Mahavisnu Orchestra - John McLaughlin - Dance of the Maya circa 4:00
Wes Montgomery - West Coast Blues - an orchestral version from the otherwise odious CTI era which I can’t find
2 or 3 by Jimmy Page w/Led Zeppelin
Geo Benson - So What? (Miles Davis cover) & The Gentle Rain (corny tune, smokin’ solo) from Beyond the Blue Horizon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuLlC0HVyh8
McLaughlin & Paco de Lucia - amazing stuff
Plenty from McLaughlin “Thieves and Poets” (Great album!)
Jump - Van Halen (no question about it!)
Lots by Scott Henderson and Pat Metheny!
Plenty of good ones by Rush, Steve Vai
I call BS on this list....
Has the editor of “Guitarist” ever listened to anything on “Layla and Assorted Love Songs”, in my opinion the single best overall guitar album ever recorded. Anything on that album, excluding the last cut (sorry Mr. Whitlock), would put 80% of that list to shame. Or what about something from The Allman Brothers Band? Dwayne Allman? He REVOLUTIONIZED the art of playing rock guitar to a point exceeded only by Hendrix and Clapton.... and nary a mention.
If anyone in here has ever wondered into a Guitar Center on any given Saturday you can see the demographic that constitutes the majority of those who voted in this “poll”... The mid teen wannabe hipsters plunking out the latest bilge force fed to them by the music industry in sausage like fashion reminiscent of those hapless school children in The Wall. Or those twenty somethings on their lunch break from somewhere in the food court who feel like because they can play a few chords everyone in the store is obligated to stop what they are doing and focus their attention on their singing some drivel they “wrote” in their mom’s basement over the past weekend. Ya, Ive been in there and seen who voted in this poll first hand. Most have no real appreciation for music as a art and only see it as entertainment, a distinction made for the benefit of acceptance at the expense of the soul. Sorry for the rant...
The A.C.
P.s. Big Floyd head here as well... although I’m partial to the solo in “Time”....
Yeah...but how about without drugs involved?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1bFr2SWP1I
Ritchie and Ronnie James—Stargazer
Keith Urban did a Leonard Skynard duet with Leonard Skynard’s lead guitarist a few years ago on either an awards show or a tribute show - I don’t remember which - and he was awesome. I also like what he’s done to support young guitarists and musicians.
I'll second that...
ok
Greatest guitar solo, not Greatest air-guitar solo...
Maybe you can answer this question for me then. During the buildup in Echoes there is, what sounds like a computer enhanced voice, saying “one of these days...” and I never have been able to understand the rest. Do you know what he says?
I’m very partial to Echoes and Dark Side of the Moon myself. Absolutely brilliant...that album is still one of the best sellers of all time and is still selling well. The Wall is ok.
It’s a shame...it would be great if Floyd reunited but, probably will never happen.
I think Dickey Betts on the Allman Brothers classic "Blue Sky" is one of the best guitar solos I've ever heard.
He is an American Icon
He is an American Icon
We all miss Merle
That list blows. Not one mention of Steve Howe of Yes.
Nothing from Steve Hackett of Genesis like Firth of Fifth, Lamia and ten other solos. He was doing tapping way before Eddie Van Halen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW_7YyKawbw&feature=related
Martin Barre - very tasteful guitarist too. The early JT stuff had some nice bluesy stuff too. Fantastic track.
Like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0mxuJiOEaQ
Oh and no Dave Davies “You Really Got Me” which started it all! NO it was not session musician Jimmy Page who played on that ground breaking #1 by The Kinks. The song stunned The Beatles.
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