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What Is The Greatest Guitar Solo Of All Time? Vote Now!
The shortlist has been compiled, now it's up to you to decide who wins…
Josh Gardner, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:01 am UTC
The results are in – after polling your suggestions on Facebook, Twitter and on Guitarist.co.uk, we've totted up the votes and drawn up a shortlist from which YOU will decide the greatest guitar solo of all time.
When we last conducted this poll in 1998, you told that the definitive guitar solo was played by Joe Walsh and Don Felder on The Eagles' Hotel California. This time? Well, things are looking pretty different.
It's no surprise that the classics are still present and correct – where would this poll be without the classic solos in Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb, Hendrix's All Along The Watchtower or Dire Straits' Sultans Of Swing?
But in the last 13 years, new acts have come to the fore, with the likes of Alter Bridge and Dream Theater firmly establishing themselves in the guitar solo pantheon this time round – who could have predicted John Petrucci would go from nowhere last time, to occupying two of the 20 in 2011?
And then there are the artists who, with the benefit of hindsight, have come to be rightly appreciated for their soloing prowess. How hard is it to believe that in 1998, Slash was nowhere to be found on this list? Unsurprisingly then, he's roared back this time round with the Guns N' Roses classics Sweet Child 'O Mine and November Rain.
There's renewed recognition for the likes of Megadeth's Marty Friedman and Martin Barre of Jethro Tull, not to mention the man we described as "The best British rock guitarist of his generation", Manic Street Preachers' James Dean Bradfield.
Contrast the music of Barre and Bradfield with the likes of Eddie Van Halen and Steve Vai, flying the flag for the shredders, and it's clear that the guitar solo is as broad and diverse a church as ever.
But who will emerge victorious? Can Petrucci complete a remarkable rise to prominence with a win? Will Slash prove he's the rock soloist for the ages? Can Gilmour push on from his third place finish last time to take the prize, or will Felder and co hang on to the top spot again?
It's up to YOU – vote below for your favourite. Vote, then vote again, then tell your friends to vote too! Spread the word, Guitarist is going to find out what the best guitar solo of all time is, and you're going to tell us.
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You've chosen the shortlist, now Guitarist need you to pick a winner: what is the greatest guitar solo of all time?
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Steve Vai - For the Love Of God
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Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb (David Gilmour, Pulse: Live)
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Manic Street Preachers - Motorcycle Emptiness (James Dean Bradfield)
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Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing (Mark Knopfler)
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Jethro Tull - Aqualung (Martin Barre)
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Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven (Jimmy Page)
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Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
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Dream Theater - Hollow Years (John Petrucci, Live At Budokan)
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The Eagles - Hotel California (Joe Walsh/Don Felder)
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Led Zeppelin - Since I’ve Been Loving You (Jimmy Page)
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Michael Jackson - Beat It (Eddie Van Halen)
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Gary Moore - Still Got The Blues
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Alter Bridge - Blackbird (Mark Tremonti/Myles Kennedy)
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Guns N’ Roses - November Rain (Slash)
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Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird (Gary Rossington/Allen Collins)
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Dream Theater - Under A Glass Moon (John Petrucci)
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Megadeth - Tornado Of Souls (Marty Friedman)
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Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
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Guns N’ Roses - Sweet Child O’ Mine (Slash)
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Van Halen - Eruption (Eddie Van Halen)
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- monkeychow
- Rep: 661
Re: Slash wants your vote! What Is The Greatest Guitar Solo Of All Time?
Jesus there's some good solos in that list...although it's a bit odd the way instrumentals are included...hardly fair....like to compare a 20 second solo grab in a song with an entire piece deticated to shredding....
- monkeychow
- Rep: 661
Re: Slash wants your vote! What Is The Greatest Guitar Solo Of All Time?
It's kinda impossible to choose for me.
Tornado of Souls must be one of the best ever in terms of "how do you pull that off correctly" and really adding something to the song.....but then a lot of the others are all time classics too.
- monkeychow
- Rep: 661
Re: Slash wants your vote! What Is The Greatest Guitar Solo Of All Time?
I agree overall that it takes soul....although that freindman solo is one of the most beautiful solos overall i think cos of the way marty plays...it's not just shred etc...he puts a feel and emotion into his crazy playing that's quite unusual.
Interesting to see Blackbird get some props...I was thinking the other week that that solo really is very beautiful in that song. Not sure it's up there with these others...but it's definately a great moment.
- Intercourse
- Rep: 212
Re: Slash wants your vote! What Is The Greatest Guitar Solo Of All Time?
The Solo on 'The Sleep' on Pantera's album Cowboys from Hell is a thing of beauty.
In fact, where is Dime in this list?
Re: Slash wants your vote! What Is The Greatest Guitar Solo Of All Time?
I have always, for, what, 25 years now, thought Gary Moore's solo in Still Got the Blues is one of the most emotional I've ever heard. Weird I just linked to that in the Gary Moore RIP thread. I'd go with that from that list.
