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Top 5 Rock Guitar Solos Of All Time


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Nice.

 

Sounds like there's some Django Reinhardt in Atkins playing ... who knew!

 

 

I'm a huge Chet Atkins fan. And his followers are some of the best pickers in the biz:

 

Chet and Mark O'Connor:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch#playnext=1&am...p;v=absuj8MRTYw

 

Chet and Tony Rice (with some other all time greats including David Grisman on mando, Bela Fleck on banjo, Rob Wasserman on bass and Mark O'Connor on fiddle):

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch#playnext=1&am...p;v=YrNS54hBTdo

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Dean,

I have to say I think your contempt for EVH as a soloist is unfounded. He has a lot of memorable offerings like "Eruption", "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love" and "Little Dreamer."

 

He'll never the emotive soloist like Gilmore, but he's not purely a shredder like Mahlsteem, who bores me to tears after the 1st minute.

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Dean,

I have to say I think your contempt for EVH as a soloist is unfounded. He has a lot of memorable offerings like "Eruption", "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love" and "Little Dreamer."

 

He'll never the emotive soloist like Gilmore, but he's not purely a shredder like Mahlsteem, who bores me to tears after the 1st minute.

 

Yes, my dislike of Eddie goes way back. He was horrible when I saw him in concert (way back at their start) and he has never impressed me as a guitarist. Extremely overrated, IMO.

 

But, to each his/her own.

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Dean,

I have to say I think your contempt for EVH as a soloist is unfounded. He has a lot of memorable offerings like "Eruption", "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love" and "Little Dreamer."

 

He'll never the emotive soloist like Gilmore, but he's not purely a shredder like Mahlsteem, who bores me to tears after the 1st minute.

 

EVH rips on Fair Warning.

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what do you think of an Al Dimeola? is he a soulless shredder too?

well he's got an immaculate right hand, no doubt.

 

but i'd say he all too often falls into patterns.

 

and many times will play a riff just to show how fast he is.

 

so in some sense, yes, he shreds

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Comfortably Numb or Money...

 

Knopfler is oft forgot about, but an excellent player and a little underrated

I love Gilmour's style.

 

Knopfler's work on Sultans of Swing is amazing ... he has some of the juiciest fills ever.

 

I always liked Martin Barre's solo on Aqualung too.

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-- always liked Brian May on "Tie Your Mother Down."

-- very under-rated solo is Lindsey Buckingham at the end of "Go Your Own Way." it's a solo that brilliantly catches the theme of the song.

-- John Hiatt's solo on the ultra-great song "Ethylene" kicks butt, which is why it ranks as one of my all-time go-to songs.

-- whoever does the solo on Black Crowes' "Hotel Illness."

-- and having difficulty choosing one Pete Townsend solo.

 

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-- always liked Brian May on "Tie Your Mother Down."

-- very under-rated solo is Lindsey Buckingham at the end of "Go Your Own Way." it's a solo that brilliantly catches the theme of the song.

-- John Hiatt's solo on the ultra-great song "Ethylene" kicks butt, which is why it ranks as one of my all-time go-to songs.

-- whoever does the solo on Black Crowes' "Hotel Illness."

-- and having difficulty choosing one Pete Townsend solo.

 

jw

Mmmm. As a child of the late '70s, the first two of those are right in my wheelhouse. I do wish LiddyBuck hadn't started doing the random string-shredding thing at the end of multiple songs on the Say You Will tour, though. I could live with it on "I'm So Afraid," but I liked the ending of GYOW just the way it was.

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-- always liked Brian May on "Tie Your Mother Down."

-- very under-rated solo is Lindsey Buckingham at the end of "Go Your Own Way." it's a solo that brilliantly catches the theme of the song.

-- John Hiatt's solo on the ultra-great song "Ethylene" kicks butt, which is why it ranks as one of my all-time go-to songs.

-- whoever does the solo on Black Crowes' "Hotel Illness."

-- and having difficulty choosing one Pete Townsend solo.

 

jw

I really dont think he has any. The work at the beginning of Eminence Front is good but nothing epic. Heck, the most memorable soloing from a stringed instrument in that band is Entwhistle's in "My Generation"

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