Not to mention Hendrix ... but all three are or were known for their fantastic powers of improvisation, while this list seems to be more about studio set pieces - but even then there are better examples to be found.
@user-co7fb6qe5w Guitar World... the K-Mart of musicians. I flew with Jimmy Lyon for about 8 months CAP in Georgia 2001.... 2 Tickets for Paradise. He always wanted to be a pilot. Great guy, great solo.
Brian May (Queen) - These Are the Days of Our Lives Ritchie Blackmore (Blackmore's Night) - Wish You Where Here Slash (G-n-R) - November Rain John Norum (Europe) - The Final Countdown Rudolf Schenker (Scorpions) - Still Loving You
Only if some real shit is included - there are about 20 outstanding solos in the last 40 years, and it is a question of taste really which order they are placed in.
The craziest thing is Van Halen eruption was a warm-up exercise Eddie used to do before they started recording, and the producer recorded it and put it on the album the way it was!!!!!
@@keep_walking_on_grass actually sir Brian may's guitar was made by trash and things form his own house. Also back then they didn't have the best equipment. This was a huge hit for a reason. Thank you very much
Chicago-“25 or 6 to 4”; Prince’s solo on “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”; Bread- “The Guitar Man”; Santana- “Black Magic Woman”; Jimi Hendrix-“Star Spangled Banner”, to name a few more. I don’t think you can limit it to “Five”!
I usually don't cry because of solos, but when I heard THAT, or more specifically the 1994 Pulse version of the solo, my eyes definitely started watering.
@@TheTurkishKebabExperience Yeah becasue in teh 70s many bands were still doing improv, non melodic solos but Eagles Hotel Cal, Queen and some other bands started doing composed solos more adn Queen have many memorable singable/melodic solos
Green Grass & High Tides Forever too. Wooden Ships (Airplane version), Hendrix doesn't crack the top five here? I means, to me, that 5 is far to small a number, and eras or sub-genras need to be isolated.
@@schaltgetriebe6726Absolutely! The Made In Japan Versions of Highway Star and Child In Time are the greatest live solos ever recorded. Hands Down!! Lazy and Strange Kind of Woman are fantastic also.
You dont need to be a musician to have an opinion about music. Art should not be gatekept from people who dont make the art. That being said, magazine lists like these are really dumb
My Personal Top 5 1. Comfortably Numb 2. Hotel California 3. Stairway to Heaven 4. Tornado of souls 5. Bohemian Rhapsody (Might change based on my mood lol)
1 Comfortably Numb 2 Stairway To Heaven 3 Hotel California 4 Sweet Child O Mine 5 Bohemian Rhapsody 6 Sultans Of Swing 7 Another Brick In The Wall 8 Eruption 9 Beat It 10 Back In Black
I know a guy who had the chops to play it and then some. Starts with a P and ends in an E. The same guy who Ritchie said him himself he can't play as fast as, in the 70s.
@@promark5317 I was saying more than that. Anyone can play fast scales. The whole dynamics, pace, structure and style came from Ritchie and is unique to him. The writing/playing genius behind 2 of the most influential bands of the 70’s Once a solo is done anyone could come along and say .. “well I could have come up with that”.. but they didn’t! 🙄 Another great example is Ritchie’s long wholly improvised solo in the first movement of the Concerto for group and orchestra 1969. Just picture what any other top guitarist of the time would have done there .. say Clapton/Beck/Page/Albert Lee. It would have been the usual straight ahead blues/rock. You are proving my point … no one rates Blackmore/have memory issues when he was clearly the best hard rock guitarist of his generation. Case in point Eddie Van Halen never named him as an influence (Old Slow Hand Clapton was top of Eddie’s list though .. Yeah right! ) First time I heard Van Halen I could hear Ritchie in his playing. Its only recently that Yngwie Malmsteen has acknowledged his dept to Blackmore. “What could have been more obvious” … we all said with one voice. PS … just realised you were referring to Jimmy Page . (the last person I would think of) You don’t know that Jimmy acknowledged that Ritchie was a much better player than him. I love Jimmy for more reasons than just his playing , which I’ve always enjoyed … but Van Halen said he played as if he had broken fingers. Just to be clear … there is absolutely NO WAY that Jimmy Page could copy the studio solo for Child in Time. He doesn’t have the picking technique, speed or articulation .. that is a fact.
I hadn't heard that song in years, then someone referenced "he can play the honkey tonk like anything" - and now it has been stuck in my head all week. Now I see it referenced here too 😆
Seriously,? Have you heard black Sabbaths solos in almost every song bests your top,5. I'm sorry have you heard of Randy Rhodes? I will give you eruption definitely queen good but don't know bout top 5. Stairway to heaven I'll go e you, but if you don't have Randy Rhodes or Toni iomi on this list then it nots complete, that simple! Plus, what about about mahogany Rush, that guitarist blows all these guys away. Ever heard them play talking bout a feeling?
@@kennethritch1360 Well some of my best aren't there but Deep Purples "Highway Star", Robin Trowers "Too Rolling Stoned" and Jimi Hendrix's "Band of Gypsies" 9Forgot the name of the song. Just some I admire but I don't like picking number one. They're all greats.
As much as I like these songs, I'd only give Comfortably Numb credit as a top tier solo. Queen is an amazing band, and Brian May is great, but no well researched best solos list is going to include any of their songs. But solos are personal preference, and even how you feel on the day. One by Metallica would probably be my favourite, if I was pushed to give an answer.
Love Gary Moore,and his playing on that cut is unbelievable,very underrated guitarist.That whole album(SGTB) has great playing on it...OH PRETTY WOMEN comes to mind.
Holy shit you are right , its anpther level , also dwezil zappa in sharleena , he was 18 years old , and ween song lmp the solo at the end is incredible , but also from the band steeler , yngwie malmsteen makes a solo of another world , jimi hendrix the star spangled banner , or voodoo child electric lady land
Cliffs of Dover - Eric Johnson Voodoo Child - Jimi Hendrix Lenny - Stevie Ray Vaughan While My Guitar Gently Weeps - Prince (R&R Hall of Fame solo w/ Tom Petty) Whipping Post - Duane Allman/Dickey Betts (Live at the Fillmore
Brian May is a Killer Queen on all guitar solos… He is amazing on so many especially Bohemian Rhapsody and Somebody to Love and probably every song he ever plays on!... yea Brian... yea Queen!👑👑👑👑
Green Grass & High Tides-Outlaws/Burn- Deep Purple/Led Zeppelin-Dazed and Cofused/Santana-Shes"s Not There/Joe Walsh-Rocky Mountain Way/Hendrix- Machine Gun/Eagles-One Of These Nights.
The first time I heard the lead guitar in "stairway", I was launched into the fifth dimension for the first time, it was the most epic musical experience of my life!
I’m a bit partial to Angus Young’s live performance of Let There Be Rock…. The intensity,athleticism and energy to play that way without missing a beat has to be one of the great solos of rock!
@@strochinger ig they haven’t heard of a niche genre called Metal (Even though Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Judas Priest, and many others were making their rise at that time)
Terry Kath on Chicago's "25 or 6 to 4" is better than all 5 of these. And even Jimi Hendrix was objective enough to recognize Terry Kath's technical brilliance.
God that Terry Kath Jimi Hendrix quote it’s just so overused he said the same thing about Rory Gallagher he said the same thing about Leslie West and others
@@gregschafer1112 Talking to me? I've only been playing guitar since 1963; played semiprofessionally on and off in a wide variety of musical genres with a variety of string and blown instruments up till Covid. My ear for music has been developed over 65 odd years. How's yours? Or were you addressing Mr Duck-Billed Platypus/ Spiny Echidna2202? In which case ignore the above, and sorry.
No desire to dunk on Kath, but like others point out, Jimi said the same about many players...whoever he was listening to most recently. And Jimi was far too humble to say when asked that he was the best, even though he absolutely was.
This might be an unpopular opinion for best solo ever, but I really do think that the outro solo to "The Best Of Times" by Dream Theater is THE perfect solo
My personal Top 5: 1- Sweet child o´mine, Guns and Roses 2- Still loving you, Scorpions 3- Wish you were here, Pink Floyd 4- Hotel California, Eagles 5- Bohemian rapsody, Queen
@@kave9482I agree. The fact that most of Sultans of Swing was made up of riffs and mini-solos meant that it was not as iconic for it's solos as it was as a song. From a purely solo perspective, I don't even think it was the best Dire Straits song.
In my opinion, David Gilmour/Pink Floyd and Comfortably Numb must be at the top of the list. By the way, how about the guitar solo in "November Rain" ?
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I came to the comments to say the exact same thing. It's a no doubter. Bohemian Rhapsody? It's gotta be the most overrated song ever. I absolutely can't stand it and never could. It's pretentious crap.
I learned those solos, Mr. Crowley was by far the more technical, but I think this is based more on how melodic they are vs technical. I would argue that Steve Lukather in hold the line or anything by SRV should have been on this list. It's a guitar magazine. I'm sure there was some pay to play involved.
Purrsonal top 5 guitar solo 1. Sweet child o mine (I'm a sucker for this one) 2. Sweet Emotion (also a sucker for dis wan) 3. Hotel California (solid, solid) 4. Crazy Train (love the absolute madness in the solo) 5. Another Brick On The Wall (love the chill solo for no reason) Top 5 guitar riff 1. Sweet child o mine (i already said I'm a sucker for this one) 2. Crazy Train (that good ole' crazy riff makes 7 out of my 7 dreams every week) 3. Dirty Deems Done Dirt Cheap - ACϟDC (Dirty Riffs Done Dirt Cheap went well) 4. Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana (i swear, i swear if someone says Nirvana is metal, specially this song, I'm fking ending my misery, anyway, love the alternativey rock riff -?-) 5. The House Of The Rising Sun - The Animals (the riff became a meme and I love it)
Real top 5: 5. Sweet Child O Mine 4. All Along The Watchtower 3. Sultans of Swing 2. Stairway To Heaven 1. Comfortably Numb Honorable mention to Wilco - At Least That's What You Said for keeping the impassioned solo alive in the 21st century.
@davemarriner8128 I mean, in terms of technique, yes, absolutely. But never once have I listened to Eruption and got the chills I get from that Wilco solo, the second solo in Like A Hurricane by Neil Young or Comfortably Numb. Comfortably Numb isn't even SUPER hard to play but it has so much feel and heart. Eddie came across a bit too mechanical for my taste. That's just my opinion, I know some people love the Yngwies of the world, and I respect it, but for me, it's the solos that you can listen to and understand the song even if you don't understand the lyrics. It's the same reason that when I think of George Harrison, I don't think of the Drive My Car solo, I think of the fills in Octopuses Garden.
And if you're wondering "how do you get from Comfortably Numb to Octopuses Garden?", it's because those fills and licks are just pure joy, the same way the harmonies are, and that's all the song is about-- finding a happy place. A lot of that was lost in 80s rock. We got some of it back in the 90s with guys like Jerry Cantrell, Doug Martsch, etc, but the only style in that EVH style that I think conveys the song in the way something like those other solos do would be Crazy Train by Randy Rhodes. You can hear that solo and go "it sounds like a man losing stablility", again, even if you only spoke Swahili and didn't understand one lyric
Ok..i was brought here by a comment under While my guitar gently weeps, a commenter just casually dropped his name. I am grateful. This was a delight to the senses
This is a pretty good top five for rock but it excludes a few personal favorites. Good list though. It would make the beginning of a great road trip playlist! 🎸🚗
@jimvin21 yes you are correct...it still is one of the best guitar events ever..in the history of ever. Said everyone we had a meeting and voted on it.
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I'll never gonna understand how Knopfler and Santana are somehow always out of those lists 🤦♂️
They both could DOMINATE with 5 of their BEST!
Not to mention Hendrix ... but all three are or were known for their fantastic powers of improvisation, while this list seems to be more about studio set pieces - but even then there are better examples to be found.
AGREED dire straits are so underrated
EXACTLY what I was thinking!
Marty Friedman, Adrian Smith.
Me
Basically ever guitarist in the world can play a better Solo than them.
There are so many extraordinary solos that making a list of 5 is a bit silly. Leaving out Jimi Hendrix or Stevie Ray Vaughn? Right...
Well it’s not like they are saying the only good solos are these five and all the rest sucks.
Or Angus Young's Thunderstruck riff. Who on this planet doesn't know that?
Yeah and Lifeson
I listen to the rest of the list there was 10 total and the last five were just as bad if not worse😮
or Joe bonamassa
Fortunately, not everyone reads Guitar World.
And this confirms why .😂
Run Spot Run! BS...
@user-co7fb6qe5w Guitar World... the K-Mart of musicians. I flew with Jimmy Lyon for about 8 months CAP in Georgia 2001.... 2 Tickets for Paradise. He always wanted to be a pilot. Great guy, great solo.
Have a friend from highschool who owns Guitar World magazine.
@@Ronald-eh2dv I'm sorry to hear that ..🤣🤣
Brian May (Queen) - These Are the Days of Our Lives
Ritchie Blackmore (Blackmore's Night) - Wish You Where Here
Slash (G-n-R) - November Rain
John Norum (Europe) - The Final Countdown
Rudolf Schenker (Scorpions) - Still Loving You
top 5 most mainstream solo of all time
A very good point.
Eagles is a good one.
@@calvinbaldwin4202
Chaque époque a ses héros...
Fr, but comfortably numb solo is easily the best ever
or pop solos?
Best not to pay much attention to these lists, they just annoy everybody.
Only if some real shit is included - there are about 20 outstanding solos in the last 40 years, and it is a question of taste really which order they are placed in.
@@edeledeledel5490agreed
That's like the most commercial classic rock guitar solo list ever. 😂
No,no,noo.,led zeppelin,ok,pink,ok, but qween,never the best, rhitchi blackmore, the best player, sololo,,
@@Robert-v8t9n LOL are you high ?
The craziest thing is Van Halen eruption was a warm-up exercise Eddie used to do before they started recording, and the producer recorded it and put it on the album the way it was!!!!!
Sweet child of mine as well
Wow that’s super neat to know thanks for sharing!!!
I loved Eddie,just didnt get eruption at all.
@@lgregory1758 cap
It was a warm up exercise for his fingers.
Say what ya want but this is a strong top 5. Each one of those solos change my mood so quick.
ALL ARE from the70s
Ok I got it. Never read Guitar World Magazine. Thanks
I have to agree. although, I love Eddie and Pink Floyd. Brian May's guitar in Annoying Rhapsody sounds like a 80 Dollars guitar on a transitor radio.
I wish that I could "super" like this comment
What magazine? Never heard of it! Don't care either. Pretty mainstream and predictable.
@@daviedmx38 😂❤️
@@keep_walking_on_grass actually sir Brian may's guitar was made by trash and things form his own house. Also back then they didn't have the best equipment. This was a huge hit for a reason. Thank you very much
Chicago-“25 or 6 to 4”; Prince’s solo on “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”; Bread- “The Guitar Man”; Santana- “Black Magic Woman”; Jimi Hendrix-“Star Spangled Banner”, to name a few more.
I don’t think you can limit it to “Five”!
Prince he magical
@@chuckbass7755disappearing guitar.🎸🎈
no TV in my house.
Even if you were to limit it to five, your list is better than Guitar World's
@@michaelwade5264 probably would need to do the top 5 for #10 spot, top 5 for #9 spot, etc. Way too many to try to do just top 5.
Apparently the experts at Guitar World never heard of that cat named Jimi Hendrix.
Wasn't that a dog
I thought the same thing, brother.
Or some other hack named Steve Ray Vaughn!
Duane Allman
Good. Hendrix sucked
Great list. So, many other great possibilities too.
Comfortably Numb is such a beautiful solo that I literally cried the first time I heard it
I usually don't cry because of solos, but when I heard THAT, or more specifically the 1994 Pulse version of the solo, my eyes definitely started watering.
@@klausschlobluvsmesometwood4679 I myself don't like Queen very much, but they definitely deserve some respect to be put on their name.
I felt the opposite way ,and still.... I still don't understand why it's on a list .
4 others are legendary
@@TheTurkishKebabExperience Yeah becasue in teh 70s many bands were still doing improv, non melodic solos but Eagles Hotel Cal, Queen and some other bands started doing composed solos more adn Queen have many memorable singable/melodic solos
I agree!
The fact sultans of swing and free bird wasn’t there instantly proved you have no idea.
Yes of course!! Without FREE BIRD no solo list!!!
Hell Yee sultans of swing is one of my all time favorite solos too lol
@@James_Beckman youre absolutly right sir
@@James_Beckman so real
free bird is overrated as hell
Highway Star, Freebird and Ramblin' Man, are some that come to mind
Child in Time live in Japan the over 4min Solo is the best in the world
Rambling man by Dicky Betts
Green Grass & High Tides Forever too.
Wooden Ships (Airplane version),
Hendrix doesn't crack the top five here? I means, to me, that 5 is far to small a number, and eras or sub-genras need to be isolated.
@@schaltgetriebe6726Absolutely! The Made In Japan Versions of Highway Star and Child In Time are the greatest live solos ever recorded. Hands Down!! Lazy and Strange Kind of Woman are fantastic also.
No, no, no! Green Grass and High Tides Forever, is on a totally different planet! That's by itself!
My favourite is definitely Hotel California it's so touching ✊🔥💝🔥✊
Also 2 guitars going back and forth so you can’t really call it a solo
@@sonicrose8430it’s a guitar solo. NOT a one man solo
how about the end of "Sultans of Swing" by Dire Straits? that 'pik-a-da pik-a-da' et al is amazing!
I was about to say the same
Same thoughts
IIRC, it's in their top 25 or something.
That's preposterous sultans of swings is a corney song
Ride across the river
"What song is it you wanna hear?"
"FREEBIRD!"
That is yelled at concerts by all bands, not just Skynrd. Well, used to be. I doubt anyone yelks that at a Taylor Swift gathering.
NO FREEBIRD! PLEASE NOOO!!!
That 2 guitar "solo" should have gotten an honorable mention.
Cannot believe that was not on the list! LS forever! ❤
Free bird!
I would have chosen Comfortably Numb (Pulse) and Free Bird (live in Oakland) as the top 2 solos. Both deserve to be number one.
Freebird? hahahahahahahahahahaha what a laugh
@@Shantiante No laughing. It is a lesson in pure rock guitar. You have no idea what you are talking about.
@@keyrat1753 spot on bro
Nah can't put it above eruption eargasm seriously
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This is what happens when non musicians attempt "lists".
But not only musicians listen to music...
I find grading music a stupid deed in general
This is what happens when technical musicians try to compare to artistical musicians.
You dont need to be a musician to have an opinion about music. Art should not be gatekept from people who dont make the art. That being said, magazine lists like these are really dumb
What is a non
Or musicians that are just way too biased to even get the full picture of their favourite bands.
My Personal Top 5
1. Comfortably Numb
2. Hotel California
3. Stairway to Heaven
4. Tornado of souls
5. Bohemian Rhapsody
(Might change based on my mood lol)
eruption has to be in there
@@KiranKumarYT Nice choice with the Megadeth track in there, it would be on my list also.
Sweet Child o mine is better than Bohemian Rhapsody
@@ognam1 fr fr
and cemetery gates?
You forget Mark knofler (Dire strait, Sultans of the swing) and Deep Purple with Richie Blackmore with Highway star.
Neither have solos in them.
@@jimvin21Highway Star does have a solo though. And it’s brilliant.
@@jimvin21 huh
@@davenotstaine5646 ?
@@jimvin21 sultans of swing does
1 Comfortably Numb
2 Stairway To Heaven
3 Hotel California
4 Sweet Child O Mine
5 Bohemian Rhapsody
6 Sultans Of Swing
7 Another Brick In The Wall
8 Eruption
9 Beat It
10 Back In Black
Ritchie Blackmore - “Child in time” solo from Deep Purple in Rock. No one had the chops to play that back then but Ritchie.
Thank you. Just wanted to write that i cant take a list without Child in time seriously.
Maybe not in the TOP 5 ,,, but definately in the TOP 1 !!! ((( MADE-IN-JAPAN version )))
And Lazy, place in Line, démons eyes,
I know a guy who had the chops to play it and then some. Starts with a P and ends in an E. The same guy who Ritchie said him himself he can't play as fast as, in the 70s.
@@promark5317 I was saying more than that. Anyone can play fast scales. The whole dynamics, pace, structure and style came from Ritchie and is unique to him. The writing/playing genius behind 2 of the most influential bands of the 70’s
Once a solo is done anyone could come along and say .. “well I could have come up with that”.. but they didn’t! 🙄
Another great example is Ritchie’s long wholly improvised solo in the first movement of the Concerto for group and orchestra 1969. Just picture what any other top guitarist of the time would have done there .. say Clapton/Beck/Page/Albert Lee. It would have been the usual straight ahead blues/rock.
You are proving my point … no one rates Blackmore/have memory issues when he was clearly the best hard rock guitarist of his generation.
Case in point Eddie Van Halen never named him as an influence (Old Slow Hand Clapton was top of Eddie’s list though .. Yeah right! )
First time I heard Van Halen I could hear Ritchie in his playing. Its only recently that Yngwie Malmsteen has acknowledged his dept to Blackmore.
“What could have been more obvious” … we all said with one voice.
PS … just realised you were referring to Jimmy Page . (the last person I would think of) You don’t know that Jimmy acknowledged that Ritchie was a much better player than him. I love Jimmy for more reasons than just his playing , which I’ve always enjoyed … but Van Halen said he played as if he had broken fingers.
Just to be clear … there is absolutely NO WAY that Jimmy Page could copy the studio solo for Child in Time. He doesn’t have the picking technique, speed or articulation .. that is a fact.
Where is Dire Straits "sultans of swing" It should be on this list. As nr 3 st least?
WHAT ABOUT SMOKE ON THE WATER ?
I hadn't heard that song in years, then someone referenced "he can play the honkey tonk like anything" - and now it has been stuck in my head all week. Now I see it referenced here too 😆
i agree. absolutely iconic solo. unique sound. knopfler is a genius
@@waybrighter Telegraph Road?
These are Americans. What do you expect?
Well Eruption is not just a solo : it is its whole musical masterpiece.
@@enpi-me Amen to that Amen 🙏👍👍
Eruption is in a class all by itself- And we can all agree that it's #1 at the top of the list!!!
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@@Grünabfuhrhater like you are crap man
It's impossible to tell who's better. They all have their own style. I can't choose 🥰
LET EVERYONE MAKE THEIR TOP AND BE HAPPY.
No!!! That’s not the way it works around here!!! 😑 😂…. Just kidding you’re right 👍….
MY FAV SMOKE ON THE WATER MORE 70s GOLD
There is Keeeeef... and everybody else
@@theodoreritola7641 Oui, incontestablement Ritchie !
5. TIME - Pink Floyd
4. STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN-Zeppelin
3. FREE BIRD -Skynyrd
2. SULTANS OF SWING - Dire Straits
1. COMFORTABLY NUMB- Floyd
Its hard to pick number one. They're all damn bloody fantastic.
Led zeppelin what a whole lot of love 💕
Seriously,? Have you heard black Sabbaths solos in almost every song bests your top,5. I'm sorry have you heard of Randy Rhodes? I will give you eruption definitely queen good but don't know bout top 5. Stairway to heaven I'll go e you, but if you don't have Randy Rhodes or Toni iomi on this list then it nots complete, that simple! Plus, what about about mahogany Rush, that guitarist blows all these guys away. Ever heard them play talking bout a feeling?
@@kennethritch1360 Well some of my best aren't there but Deep Purples "Highway Star", Robin Trowers "Too Rolling Stoned" and Jimi Hendrix's "Band of Gypsies" 9Forgot the name of the song. Just some I admire but I don't like picking number one. They're all greats.
Thats an easy pick. None of them are number one
My favorite solo is Fade to Black, the real issue is picking second place
This guy only heard 5 solos all of his life? Get real, dude. Musicians of the industry.
As much as I like these songs, I'd only give Comfortably Numb credit as a top tier solo. Queen is an amazing band, and Brian May is great, but no well researched best solos list is going to include any of their songs. But solos are personal preference, and even how you feel on the day. One by Metallica would probably be my favourite, if I was pushed to give an answer.
He said, TWICE, as compiled by guitar world world magazine, the second time was to clarify for people like you, that he doesnt agree either.
@@ghaznavid For my 2 cents you have to include some of Leonard S. bands guys in there. They played awesome.
@Mr.HotRod that's exactly my point, if 100 of us made a list, we'd have 100 different lists. And that's not a bad thing, music is personal.
@@ghaznavid 👍
This was a great list. I would not change any of them.
Technically Hotel California isn't a solo, it's a duet.
People don’t think about the definitions of the words they use anymore.
which makes it even more justified to be on this list
still a solo
@@Chuckles.. No. A solo is one instrument/ singer. This is a duet between a Gibson SG double neck and a Fender telecaster.
@@darkiee69it's still structurally the guitar solo segment of the song. Some of it dual playing, most of it is traded solos.
Deep Purple's Highway Star was also no.1 to me.
Well said that,man!
You read my mind
One of the best no doubt
And Child in time, from the Made in Japan.
@@karl-heinzfrank1887yes!
Gary Moore’s solo in “Still Got The Blues..”
When we talk about guitar solos, no list is complete without Gary Moore
I agree 💯 with you.
Love Gary Moore,and his playing on that cut is unbelievable,very underrated guitarist.That whole album(SGTB) has great playing on it...OH PRETTY WOMEN comes to mind.
Absolutely, I'd forgotten about that. Give 'once we're Warrior's (movie sound track) a go. There is a guitar lead in that is next level
Holy shit you are right , its anpther level , also dwezil zappa in sharleena , he was 18 years old , and ween song lmp the solo at the end is incredible , but also from the band steeler , yngwie malmsteen makes a solo of another world , jimi hendrix the star spangled banner , or voodoo child electric lady land
You got the list perfectly in my opinion!!!! Love queen and Zeppelin!!!❤
Bohemian rhapsody Number 1 ????? No way.
No way..is this the best
@@WilsonLinderman Certainly isn't better than Eruption. Oof
IT IS SOO GOOD
I wouldn’t say it’s the best solo but you do have to admit it is an amazing solo
Its a soulless solo. Not even top 100 really.
Almost impossible to make a list like this but it does make me miss rock and roll😢
Sultans of swing left the chat
u dont like?
Good
I recon that Telegraph Road was Knopfler's best.
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So did money for nothing..
Yes great guitarsolo's from great guitarplayers👍
Hotel California is technically a duet. The video even shows Don Felder and Joe Walsh playing together
by "solo" it doesn't mean one dude playing the guitar. it means the guitar or whatever instrument is being the lead melody temporarily.
@@jasperr3 No. Even the folks making the lists say is a duo
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They are playing harmonies between intervals from 3rds to 6ths - that is what makes it so great!!!!
They just want us to argue amongst each other about these choices.
Yeah....👍 Great comment. It helps the video gain more viewership.
1 COMFORTABLY NUMB
2 SULTONS OF SWING
3 STARWAY TO HEAVEN
Real ones know that the Shine On You Crazy Diamond (I-V) solo (the one that comes before the lyrics) is the best Gilmour solo
0- Free Bird
eruption and free bird are top notch, comfortably numb solos
64 to 63 Chicago missing
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You are right ! Comfortably Numb smashes all of them
MAN. .. .*Hotel California IS indeed ABSOLUTELY AMAZING~!*
Cliffs of Dover - Eric Johnson
Voodoo Child - Jimi Hendrix
Lenny - Stevie Ray Vaughan
While My Guitar Gently Weeps - Prince (R&R Hall of Fame solo w/ Tom Petty)
Whipping Post - Duane Allman/Dickey Betts (Live at the Fillmore
Cliff of Dover is amazing.
Cliffs of Dover is just a very very difficult music,even experienced guitarrist cant even play this correctly so guess no.
I agree with: Prince: While my guitar gently weeps!
Another favorite: Mark Knopfler: sultans of swing
Maggot Brain live Mike Hampton funkadelic
They forgot Alex Lifeson's solo in Rush's Working Man!
Brian May is a Killer Queen on all guitar solos… He is amazing on so many especially Bohemian Rhapsody and Somebody to Love and probably every song he ever plays on!... yea Brian... yea Queen!👑👑👑👑
@@margaretsandberg9071 White Queen too...live
Green Grass & High Tides-Outlaws/Burn- Deep Purple/Led Zeppelin-Dazed and Cofused/Santana-Shes"s Not There/Joe Walsh-Rocky Mountain Way/Hendrix- Machine Gun/Eagles-One Of These Nights.
The first time I heard the lead guitar in "stairway", I was launched into the fifth dimension for the first time, it was the most epic musical experience of my life!
Solo in Reelin' In The Years is a good one by Steely Dan.
agree...
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Any Steely Dan song that Larry Carlton played on.
also peg
Stairway at 4? Are you crazy?
Nope. Even in the studio version, overated Jimmy page can't even keep the tempo and completely loses place twice. Pathetic.
No Stairway? Denied!
Hotel Cali #1
All from the 1970s
More like 40! Overrated like vanilla icecream.
I’m a bit partial to Angus Young’s live performance of Let There Be Rock….
The intensity,athleticism and energy to play that way without missing a beat has to be one of the great solos of rock!
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What a great list!
Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Alvin Lee.
Eric Clapton.
Prince.
Ritchie Blackmore.
Joe Walsh.
Ted Nugent.
The list is endless!!
Yes. Eric Clapton Crossroads.
Terry Kath, Jimmy Hendrix, Glenn Campbell and Roy Clark.
Purple Haze jimi Hendrix
@@gregorylensegrav208free bird ain’t a solo. They got 3 guitars playing
Hotel California come from "We used to know" by Martin Barre from Jethro Tull.
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Heaven & Hell is an often overlooked
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I agree with Tony Iommi however instead of Heaven and Hell how about the song Black Sabbath or Wicked World?😮
Vandenberg ..Wait...is killer
All from the 70's.
Yeah!!! the 70's ROCK.
But the list is ass
That's probably the jury was a bunch of old rock guys
@@strochinger ig they haven’t heard of a niche genre called Metal (Even though Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Judas Priest, and many others were making their rise at that time)
@@WhoDaF0ok1sThatGuy agreed!
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Awesome list. My personal favorite must be hotel California but really they’re all great picks
Nice. Wish they still made music like this.
Terry Kath on Chicago's "25 or 6 to 4" is better than all 5 of these. And even Jimi Hendrix was objective enough to recognize Terry Kath's technical brilliance.
Not really; it's fastish but doesn't show much musicality, and is fairly repetitive.
You have no ear for music.
God that Terry Kath Jimi Hendrix quote it’s just so overused he said the same thing about Rory Gallagher he said the same thing about Leslie West and others
@@gregschafer1112 Talking to me? I've only been playing guitar since 1963; played semiprofessionally on and off in a wide variety of musical genres with a variety of string and blown instruments up till Covid. My ear for music has been developed over 65 odd years. How's yours?
Or were you addressing Mr Duck-Billed Platypus/ Spiny Echidna2202? In which case ignore the above, and sorry.
No desire to dunk on Kath, but like others point out, Jimi said the same about many players...whoever he was listening to most recently. And Jimi was far too humble to say when asked that he was the best, even though he absolutely was.
This might be an unpopular opinion for best solo ever, but I really do think that the outro solo to "The Best Of Times" by Dream Theater is THE perfect solo
My personal Top 5:
1- Sweet child o´mine, Guns and Roses
2- Still loving you, Scorpions
3- Wish you were here, Pink Floyd
4- Hotel California, Eagles
5- Bohemian rapsody, Queen
Sultans of Swing, Dire Straits
When I saw Eruption was at #2 and trying to figure out what might be ahead of it, that was my guess
Which one?
@@kave9482I agree. The fact that most of Sultans of Swing was made up of riffs and mini-solos meant that it was not as iconic for it's solos as it was as a song. From a purely solo perspective, I don't even think it was the best Dire Straits song.
@@Karma-qt4jithink he means the alchemy version.
I still wouldnt put it yp there, but it definatley rocks.
That is a great one
Guitar solo by Ritchie Blackmore in Rainbow's Stargazer is my number 1.
That one is totally amazing.😮
@@michaelwirth6843 Stargazer is my number one favorite song of all time.
Please add Dire Straits Sultans of swing
I smell payoff here..!
I agree
yes that one shuold be on that list to
Live version.
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Comfortably numb wasn’t one
Well, for one thing... the Hotel California solo isn't! It's a duet!
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Horribly wrong
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Eruption above comfortably numb is absolutely buck wild
Super Always inspired by classical music
In my opinion, David Gilmour/Pink Floyd and Comfortably Numb must be at the top of the list. By the way, how about the guitar solo in "November Rain" ?
yes. november rain
I always have November Rain in my top 3.
Sweet Child of Mine is even better ….
2nd Mark Knophler
Nightrain would be good
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We are very fortunate to have ALL these amazing people. They are definitely SUPER GUITARIST 🎸 ‼️🎶
@@dianejones7673 they didn’t forget David Gilmour - he’s the one playing the Comfortably Numb solo.
@michelle2671 And its Joe Walsh on hotel california.
Randy Rhodes....Mr Crowley top 5......
I agree
Crazy train had a awesome lead too. Beats everything they named
I came to the comments to say the exact same thing. It's a no doubter. Bohemian Rhapsody? It's gotta be the most overrated song ever. I absolutely can't stand it and never could. It's pretentious crap.
I learned those solos, Mr. Crowley was by far the more technical, but I think this is based more on how melodic they are vs technical. I would argue that Steve Lukather in hold the line or anything by SRV should have been on this list. It's a guitar magazine. I'm sure there was some pay to play involved.
I will put highway star
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Prince in Purple Rain
Joe Perry Walk this way
Are both iconic too
It’s joe
@@saucyjk6453 sorry
@@lancemanyon7645 SMH
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I was thinking about purple rain as well
There's so many more besides these 5, I just love them all.
5. Money
4. Wish you were here
3. Time
2. 2nd dogs solo
1. 2nd comfortably numb solo (extended version)
2nd dogs solo all day
Pigs outro solo
This is a fine list.❤
Just do not forget about the solo in High Hopes, this one is fucking awesome.
Thank you for giving David Gilmour his rightful due.
Purrsonal top 5 guitar solo
1. Sweet child o mine (I'm a sucker for this one)
2. Sweet Emotion (also a sucker for dis wan)
3. Hotel California (solid, solid)
4. Crazy Train (love the absolute madness in the solo)
5. Another Brick On The Wall (love the chill solo for no reason)
Top 5 guitar riff
1. Sweet child o mine (i already said I'm a sucker for this one)
2. Crazy Train (that good ole' crazy riff makes 7 out of my 7 dreams every week)
3. Dirty Deems Done Dirt Cheap - ACϟDC (Dirty Riffs Done Dirt Cheap went well)
4. Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana (i swear, i swear if someone says Nirvana is metal, specially this song, I'm fking ending my misery, anyway, love the alternativey rock riff -?-)
5. The House Of The Rising Sun - The Animals (the riff became a meme and I love it)
Thanks for letting us listen to 1 second of each solo
It’s a 60 second video cry about it 🤷
Real top 5:
5. Sweet Child O Mine
4. All Along The Watchtower
3. Sultans of Swing
2. Stairway To Heaven
1. Comfortably Numb
Honorable mention to Wilco - At Least That's What You Said for keeping the impassioned solo alive in the 21st century.
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surely some of eddies work needs to appear.
@davemarriner8128 I mean, in terms of technique, yes, absolutely. But never once have I listened to Eruption and got the chills I get from that Wilco solo, the second solo in Like A Hurricane by Neil Young or Comfortably Numb. Comfortably Numb isn't even SUPER hard to play but it has so much feel and heart. Eddie came across a bit too mechanical for my taste. That's just my opinion, I know some people love the Yngwies of the world, and I respect it, but for me, it's the solos that you can listen to and understand the song even if you don't understand the lyrics. It's the same reason that when I think of George Harrison, I don't think of the Drive My Car solo, I think of the fills in Octopuses Garden.
And if you're wondering "how do you get from Comfortably Numb to Octopuses Garden?", it's because those fills and licks are just pure joy, the same way the harmonies are, and that's all the song is about-- finding a happy place.
A lot of that was lost in 80s rock. We got some of it back in the 90s with guys like Jerry Cantrell, Doug Martsch, etc, but the only style in that EVH style that I think conveys the song in the way something like those other solos do would be Crazy Train by Randy Rhodes. You can hear that solo and go "it sounds like a man losing stablility", again, even if you only spoke Swahili and didn't understand one lyric
Not one of your top 5 has a single guitar solo in it at all.
The 70's rocked!
Ok..i was brought here by a comment under While my guitar gently weeps, a commenter just casually dropped his name. I am grateful. This was a delight to the senses
No Quarter with the full solo on the The Song Remains The Same is exquisite
Just shows we all have separate views and music impacts us all in intimate ways.❤
David Gilmour's Comfortably Numb solo at the Pulse concert, hands down the best.
It's up there, but I would go with the Stairway to Heaven version on Song Remains the Same.
totally a fan since 1972.
TBH I like his live at Pompei version better for some reason.
I love that solo but filming on video kinda ruined it for me
Gaaaaaaay
keep going men nice video LİKE
No Skynard-freebird?
No Outlaws-Green grass and high tides?!?
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I’m working on part 2,3 and 4!
I was thinking exactly this. High Tides and Green Grass. So many have no idea this masterpiece exists.
No kidding!
Free bird, sweet child in time, whole Lotta love., Theres a Lot...❤who can Tell...love them all
Skynard - Freebird live in Oakland. Most amazing live solo ever.
There is no way comfortably numb was 3. That solo is genius and most musicians agree the best ever.
Yep, I think this the first time ive seen comfortably numbs second solo not at number 1
The people severely addicted to Drugs will agree with you l; the rest of the world, we’re not in a coma.
@@steveperreira5850 how do you live without a soul?
Stop whining
@@lucylovic oh, Karen. not again
No one can agree what number 1 should be, but I think we can all agree that it’s not Bohemian Rhapsody
No. Because many people do agree it's the best
I love those double riff guitars. They are so kool looking
I love the dueling guitars in Hotel California, all these are awesome ❤
This is a pretty good top five for rock but it excludes a few personal favorites. Good list though. It would make the beginning of a great road trip playlist! 🎸🚗
Left out ‘November Rain’ and Prince doing ‘My Guitar Gently weeps.’
🤦🏻♂️… Really?!!! 😮….
Ooohhh good one, Slash!!👍 Love that song so much & it actually has a energy that none of these other songs have
there are no solos in November Rain. Not sure Slash even does guitar solos live let alone on any recording on a GnR album.
@@jimvin21 it is two of them
Excellent choices. Prince’s guitar solo at rorhof ceremony on guitar gently weeps was out of this world.
My Top 5
1 - Comfortably Numb
2 - Free Bird
3 - Hotel California
4 - November Rain
5 - Stairway to Heaven
I completely understand those who want to debate this list. Me being one of them.
Well let's not forget freebird...awesome guitar solo
There is no guitar "solo" in Freebird.
@jimvin21 yes you are correct...it still is one of the best guitar events ever..in the history of ever. Said everyone we had a meeting and voted on it.
@@dougieB1968II it's absolutely a work of art. I totally agree. All members of the band contributed to this masterpiece.
All great solos!
Sim!!! Concordo plenamente! Muito talentosos!!!
No 1. Jimi Hendrix/Stevie Ray Vaughan Voodoo Chile🤘🏻
“25 or 6 to 4” by Chicago (Terry Kath)
1970 at Tanglewood
The best solo ever
yes yes yes
Great 👍🏼 solos, but it’s a CRIME to not list Hendrix or SRV in the top 5 - at least you got Page…
STEVIE RAY, OH YES, MY GOD. DEFINITELY ! ❤
@@edwinkitowski5178 and SRV’s hero was Hendrix
Eruption is my personal favorite. It sounds so heavenly and it’s one of the hardest solos ever.