Best guitar solos of all time?

[Pantera_]

Hendrix classic with the Isley Brothers has to be my favorite.

[markusmod]

Hendrix classic with the Isley Brothers has to be my favorite.

Never heard this one before, good stuff.

[Slugfester]

Everybody has strong opinions on music. I like every kind of music except rap. I would rather listen to Iranian wedding music than rap. Goddamned rap destroyed the beautiful tradition of guitar solos in popular music.

[BodyBagz]

1;22....

3;05...

3 min....

[markusmod]

Everybody has strong opinions on music. I like every kind of music except rap. I would rather listen to Iranian wedding music than rap. Goddamned rap destroyed the beautiful tradition of guitar solos in popular music.

[Slugfester]

Everything below is just my opinion.

I don't have too much trouble saying Tommy Emmanuel is the world's best all around guitarist. He brought unaccompanied soloing on electric acoustic guitar to a new level. The unchallenged best at unaccompanied guitar, in my opinion and many others. He played with one of the top Australian rock bands for some time before he broke out.

Chet Atkins was one of the best guitarists ever, especially at creating harmonies, and very famous. Tommy wrote him a fan letter from Australia when he was about nine years old. Chet had a nose for talent, so he followed this kid's activities for years from across the ocean, looking for notices of him. Emmanuel did not know that.

Some judges of guitar playes (most) are stuck on a genre from which they judge everything. I am stuck on most genres. I play jazz and classical guitar but love country too. If you want to judge the guitar playing of a particular genre and its players, to see how they stand up, you have to go to that genre and listen to those guitarists do what they do.

Two other styles Emmanuel excels at are Gypsy jazz and hot Bakersfield telecaster, at the latter being again probably the world's best or tied with Bret Mason, and at the former style maybe about #10 or so to my judgement.

Merle Haggard's Workin' Man Blues is a song all hot country players love to riff over. Tommy can stand with other greats in guitar duels, can not only hold his own but usually comes out on top. He is also likely the world's premier rhythm guitarist. See some for yourself.

On hot telecaster:



Unaccompanied solo:



And this:



Gypsy jazz, no one stands above Joscho. But who does he want to play with:



Rock power ballad with Dragon



What do you think? Is this guy any good? One more.

[BodyBagz]

Everything below is just my opinion.

I don't have too much trouble saying Tommy Emmanuel is the world's best all around guitarist. He brought unaccompanied soloing on electric acoustic guitar to a new level. The unchallenged best at unaccompanied guitar, in my opinion and many others. He played with one of the top Australian rock bands for some time before he broke out.

Chet Atkins was one of the best guitarists ever, especially at creating harmonies, and very famous. Tommy wrote him a fan letter from Australia when he was about nine years old. Chet had a nose for talent, so he followed this kid's activities for years from across the ocean, looking for notices of him. Emmanuel did not know that.

Some judges of guitar playes (most) are stuck on a genre from which they judge everything. I am stuck on most genres. I play jazz and classical guitar but love country too. If you want to judge the guitar playing of a particular genre and its players, to see how they stand up, you have to go to that genre and listen to those guitarists do what they do.

Two other styles Emmanuel excels at are Gypsy jazz and hot Bakersfield telecaster, at the latter being again probably the world's best or tied with Bret Mason, and at the former style maybe about #10 or so to my judgement.

Merle Haggard's Workin' Man Blues is a song all hot country players love to riff over. Tommy can stand with other greats in guitar duels, can not only hold his own but usually comes out on top. He is also likely the world's premier rhythm guitarist. See some for yourself.

On hot telecaster:



Unaccompanied solo:



And this:



Gypsy jazz, no one stands above Joscho. But who does he want to play with:



Rock power ballad with Dragon



What do you think? Is this guy any good? One more.

Guitar faces

I'm not in the know but that Tommy Emmanuel guy has to be in some HOF.

[deathofaclown]

I'll start with this masterpiece.

It starts at 3.27

I once went the house of Jethro Tull's drummer, a fella called Barriemore. He is/was a producer and had this massive house with a studio.

Nice bloke and great drummer. Never really got into Jethro Tull though.

[Slugfester]

I was always annoyed by Tull's jerky music with too many heavy accents and inexplicable sudden Velcro stops throughout. They were trying to showoff, but it was all technique with no heart, way too frantic with too much movement. Harmonically they were underdeveloped, with no good chord structures and no vocal harmonies of interest. As far as I know they tried hard to be ugly and were very successful. If the guitarist here ever had to duel with Tommy Emmanuel, the smartest thing he could do is throw his guitar down and run.

But I think you were being facetious when you called it a masterpiece. Right?

[markusmod]

No love for Slash?