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Original message:471 days 17 hours 16 minutes ago

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Member: Jason

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The 25 Coolest Guitar Solos

According to Rolling Stone:

1. “Sweet Child O’ Mine,” Guns N’ Roses
2. “Freebird,” Lynyrd Skynyrd
3. “One,” Metallica
4. “Comfortably Numb,” Pink Floyd
5. “Marquee Moon,” Television
6. “Crossroads,” Cream
7. “Purple Rain,” Prince
8. “Machine Gun,” Jimi Hendrix
9. “Ball and Biscuit,” The White Stripes
10. “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” The Beatles
11. “Stairway to Heaven,” Led Zeppelin
12. “Eruption,” Van Halen
13. “November Rain,” Guns N’ Roses
14. “Alive,” Pearl Jam
15. “Paranoid Android,” Radiohead
16. “Maggot Brain,” Funkadelic
17. “Fortunate Son,” Creedence Clearwater Revival
18. “Time,” Pink Floyd
19. “Hotel California,” Eagles
20. “Cinnamon Girl,” Neil Young
21. “Yellow Ledbetter,” Pearl Jam
22. “Telegraph Road,” Dire Straits
23. “In Memory of Elizabeth Reed,” Allman Brothers
24. “Soma,” Smashing Pumpkins
25. “Scar Tissue,” Red Hot Chili Peppers

Source:http://www.rollingstone.com

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Reply:471 days 14 hours 17 minutes ago
Member: Joe Chaney

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i agree with ball and biscuit, paranoid android, crossroads, and stairway to heaven, but think they should be higher

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Reply:471 days 12 hours 8 minutes ago
Member: ibzRG

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Based on what criteria? Technical skill? Structure complexity? Emotional load? Or plain band/song popularity?

I really don't think any objective rating can be done. And subjective contests carry no useful information as far as I am concerned.

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Reply:471 days 11 hours 11 minutes ago
Member: Jason

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Just best :)

I know exactly what you mean, according to who and what? Perhaps it's a poll but more than likely it's not. It's just the best because some guy says so. Perhaps someone on guitar.com should start a more accurate list? Something that breaks it down into categories like you mentioned.

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Reply:471 days 10 hours 36 minutes ago
Member: shanejohnson2002

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There should probably be more than one list:

The 25 coolest guitar solos:
-According to some editor at the Rolling Stone
-According to real guitar players
-by poll
-by popularity
-by how it affected the industry

Some of those, IMO, don't belong on a top 25...or even a top 100. but whatever.

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Reply:471 days 7 hours 3 minutes ago
Member: Kenny Baccus

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Those solo's are cool and everything, but I would have to include Advanced Corpse Tumor solo by Necrophagist in there. The solo has it's own name too: Hymn For An Angel.

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Reply:471 days 2 hours 46 minutes ago
Member: Grensley

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uh...none of them have listened to rage. Does Jessica count?

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