Gibson top 50 guitar solos

fretfinder

Well, waddaya think? http://www2.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle/Features/en-us/Top-50-Guitar-Solos-924.aspx

Iamnobody

Are we making suggestions or should there be a link?!

Dave_Mc

^ )

Iamnobody

It must be the Emperor's New Top 50 Solos...

ESchap

This ?

Bucket

For fuck's sake, people who say that Stairway is the greatest solo ever just piss me off. It's the default answer, isn't it?

Same tired old top ten everyone's seen a billion times. The only ones I actually agree should be in a top ten of guitar solos are Bohemian Rhapsody, Comfortably Numb and Hotel California.

Check this out, at 1:50. Jimmy Page can eat his fucking heart out, this is just stunning playing. But it's never been in a top ten.

breakstuff

Stairway to Heaven.

No contest.

>:D<

Gassage

breakstuff said:

Stairway to Heaven.

No contest.

>:D<

Recorded on a Telecaster...

equalsql

Parisian Walkways  B-)

Octahedron

All the usual culprits in there then - Van Halen, Slash, Angus Young, Randy Rhoads, Knopfler, Neil Young, Walsh, Hendrix, Page... yawn!

Not yawn 'cos they're not good (they're all bloody brilliant), but yawn 'cos the list has been done to death. It's the same bloody list every time. Yeah some of the songs are different (nice to see Whole Lotta Rosie, ...Watchtower and others in there) but it's none special is it (the list)?

They're just putting in all the "everyone expects this in there 'cos it was voted classic 20 years ago" solos. 

And quite a number of them aren't even Gibson players - which is what I was expecting. Something like a "Gibson.com's Top 50 Gibson Guitar Solos"

Therefore, I vote we build our own forum list of "The Top 50 Hottest fk'in Guitar Solos Played on a Gibson Les Paul" and attempt to oust the content monkeys of Gibson.com

What say ye?

Who looks at a Hendrix solo and goes "I wanna buy a fkin' Les Paul now"?!

Neil

It will always be the same solos in lists like that because they are classics and pretty much the best of what people know.

I daresay some fairly unknown or niche players have pulled off fantastic solos in tracks no one has heard. 

My vote would be for Johnny B. Goode.....wonderful and no silly effects.

knuckleberryfinn

How about 'The Top 50 Solos Played On A Hondo'? Now that would be interesting.

Bidley

I don't know what people expect, really. What does it matter what's on there? I don't see the appeal of lists of solos/songs/artists.

jaygtr

Why does "Layla" get into these top solo lists?
Ok it's a great riff , but the awful screeching banshee solo is just downright unpleasant.

Phil_aka_Pip

Octahedron said:

Therefore, I vote we build our own forum list of "The Top 50 Hottest fk'in Guitar Solos Played on a Gibson Les Paul" and attempt to oust the content monkeys of Gibson.com

What say ye?

I'm up for that. And favourite Strat solos. And 335 solos. And SG solos. And Tele solos.

Off the cuff:

LP: Bird of Paradise (Snowy White), Lady Fantasy (Andy Latimer)
LP Jnr(?): Living Proof (Laurie Wisefield)
Strat: Comfortably Numb (David Gilmour), Knocking At Your Back Door (Ritchie Blackmore)
Tele: Sweet Dreams (Roy Buchanan)
SG, 335: not sure, I'd have to check my record collection to see if the relevant titles were done with these guitars.

mudslide73

Didn't Lukather do all the Toto stuff on his 'burst?

breakstuff

Bucket said:

For fuck's sake, people who say that Stairway is the greatest solo ever just piss me off. It's the default answer, isn't it?

Same tired old top ten everyone's seen a billion times. The only ones I actually agree should be in a top ten of guitar solos are Bohemian Rhapsody, Comfortably Numb and Hotel California.

Check this out, at 1:50. Jimmy Page can eat his fucking heart out, this is just stunning playing. But it's never been in a top ten.

@Bucket.,Not heard that before but it's a bloody brilliant solo.Thanks for posting.

Bucket

It is, isn't it? 

Played by Dave Flett, who doesn't ever seem to get the recognition he deserves, he's a wonderful player.

I think he was in Thin Lizzy for a brief while.

impmann

How High the Moon. 

End of.

impmann

Oh and while we're on the subject of Manfred Mann @Bucket - personally, this does it for me... and the whole of this album is utterly fabulous, with staggeringly good guitar work and wonderful synth/organ tones too... And all played on Mick Rogers' LP Custom IIRC

fretfinder

ESchap said:

This ?

Actually it should have been this

http://www2.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle/Features/en-us/Top-50-Guitar-Solos-924.aspx

But I was a bit piddled when I made the first post and forgot to add the link!