15 Greatest Guitar Solos of All Time 

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No Steve Vai, Satriani, Petrucci or Gilbert. No Mark Knopfler, no Tommy Emanuelle. The fact of the matter is that there are just too many great guitarists out there. That's a problem I can live with :)

And Justice for Dime… This man deserves a whole list just for himself (him and rhoads)

Revelation Mother Earth is my favorite solo of all time. Randy was just a god

Loudwire is not wrong, but come on Shred! Do your own evil list.

I have always loved that solo in The Final Countdown, by Europe.

Evh is great and all but... Dimebag's Domintaion solo in Moscow 1991 is legendary

Comfortably numb might be the least hard from a technical stand point but I swear it has the most powerful feel.

Eruption, Beat It, Highway Star, Sweet Child O’ Mine, Out In The Fields, Bark At The Moon, Crazy Train, Mr Crowley, One, Rock Bottom, Rock You Like a Hurricane, Freebird…Loads of great solos out there! 🎸

Eddie's solo from Beat It (Imo) is even better than Eruption I'd say. Extremely technical but still keeps it musical.

Vito Bratta (White Lion) - Wait Ian Thornley (Big Wreck) - Ghosts The entirety of Cliffs of Dover

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I like EVH's solo on Beat It and Slash's solo on November Rain better, but that was a decent list.

OK, my top five. Apart from the songs in the video, and in no particular order: Accept - The Princess of the Dawn Rainbow - The Temple of the King Helloween - Future World Manowar - Hail and Kill Deep Purple - Child in Time

Steve Vai's solo on 'Ladies' Nite in Buffalo' is a masterpiece... shame also that Jake E Lee is never featured in lists like this one. 'Killer of Giants' solo could have fitted perfectly in the top 10. Also the live 'Suicide Solution' solo from 1984 was something else!

Great list and all But One should have been higher imo Also finally someone acknowledged Beyond the Realms of Death, freaking beautiful and perhaps my favorite solo.

I think the painkiller solo is more iconic than beyond the realms of death

Comfortably numb is my favorite guitar solo of all time

I think my fave is the solos on A Moment Of Clarity by Death. So underrated.

The solo of tornado of souls by Marty Friedman for me, one of the greatest 🙏

I’m a metal guy but wtf no SRV Stevie Ray was a god!

5. Fade to Black 4. The Writing on the Wall 3. Tornado of Souls 2. Lonely is the Word 1. The Wicker Man Yes, two Maiden Solos and i was struggling putting Powerslave also in the List.

Tornado of souls should be a bit further up the list I reckon

Some cool solos: - Mr. Crowley - November rain - Nova Era (Angra) - Hotel California - For The Love Of God

My personal favorites are 1- Jimmy Page (Stairway To Heaven) 2- David Gilmour (Comfortably Numb) 3- Alvin Lee (The Bluest Blues) 4- Jimi Hendrix (Hear My Train A Comin' 5- Tony Iommi (Lonely Is The Word) 6- Ritchie Blackmore (Child In Time) 7- Slash (November Rain) 8- Carlos Santana (Smooth) 9- Steve Vai ( For The Love Of God) 10- Mark Knopfler (sultans of swing) Megadeth, Metallica and Iron Maiden have lots of wonderful solos. And of course the best one is Shred (hahahahaha by Shred's Voice). Seriously you are a great guitar player and your videos are amazing.

UFO - Rock Bottom is one of my favourites!

Steve howe is the most criminally underrated guitarist ever😞. Never seen him mentioned in such lists

I'll give my top five favourite that I can think of now. I'm no longer pretentious enough to give a five greatest solos. These do the most for me whenever I listen to them. 5. What Is and What Should Never Be, Jimmy Page 4. Crossroads, Eric Clapton 3. Thrill is Gone, B.B. King 2. Midnight in Harlem, Derek Trucks 1. Texas Flood, Stevie Ray Vaughan

Here’s a real abstract one! Frank Marion’s solo on Runnin’ Wild? Or any Frank Marino solo for that matter 😀

,Beyond the realms of death was cutt short. The minor 3rd (D) note. Sustains and rises into piercing feedback. Although I don't know if tipton made it scream playin live.

According to turd wire

I would pick Powerslave over Aces High and The Unforgiven (the one where Bob Rock gets mad at Kirk) over One. Sidenote: Beyond The Realms of Death was released one year before Comfortably Numb.

My top 5 1. Stairway..... 2. Spanish fly... 3. Tornado.... 4. SRV Little Wing 5. Eruption This took an hour to choose.

My two cents here (5 if you will): 1. For The Love of God - Steve Vai 2. Stream of Consciousness - Dream Theater 3. Tornado of Souls - Megadeth 4. Technical Difficulties - Paul Gilbert 5. Far Beyond the Sun - Yngwie Malmsteen

I really like the Petrucci solo in the song: "Under A Glass Moon".

My top 5 1. Tornado of souls 2. Sweet Child O'mine 3. Cemetery Gates 4. Wherever I may roam 5. Sails of Charon

November Rain, Sultans of Swing, second solo in Comfortably Numb, Dominate, Highway Star, Bohemian Rhapsody, Little Wing, Freebird, Darkest Hour.

Gary Moore in always gonna love you, Eddie Van Halen in beat it, Tim Renwick in Year of the Cat, George Linch in Into the fire, Steve Vai in Deeper of love, Randy Rhoads in Crazy Train, Jake E, Lee in Bark at the Moon, Steve Linch in Turn Up the radio, Vito Bratta in Wait.

First of all I would take off all the metal bands of the list. I would add these five songs: "Dark Rose" - Brainbox with Jan Akkerman on guitar. 'Walk On Hot Coals - Rory Gallagher "Do You Feel Like We Do'" - Peter Frampton "Oh Well" - Fleetwood Mac with Peter Green on guitar "Too Rolling Stoned" (Live Version) - Robin Trower

I'd easily put Comfortably Numb in first. Live at Pompeii is so fucking insane. Everything about this solo is perfect. I'd put Tornado of souls wayyyy above eruption too. Actually, I'd put a lot of solos before eruption

1 Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb 2 Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody 3 Eagles - Hotel California 4 Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven 5 Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall 6 GNR - Sweet Child O Mine 7 Ozzy - Crazy Train 8 AC/DC - Back In Black 9 EVH - Beat It 10 Bon Jovi - Runaway 11 Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing 12 Metallica - Unforgiven 1 13 White Lion - Wait 14 Megadeth - Tornado Of Souls 15 Extreme - Get The Funk Out Honorable Mentions Night Ranger - Sister Christian Night Ranger - Don't Tell Me You Love Me Ozzy - Suicide Solution Ozzy - I Don't Know Ozzy - Mama I'm Comin Home Pantera - Cemetary Gates Def Leppard - Bringing on The Heart break Def Leppard - Foolin Skid Row - I Remember You Metallica - Nothing Else Matters Dio - Holy Diver Metallica - One Van Halen - Hot For Teacher Ratt - Nobody Rides For Free Quiet Riot - Cum On Feel The Noize

List is missing: Dream Theater - Voices, Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing Testament - Return To Serenity

Would liked to have seen Uli John Roth- Sails of Charon

My top fav 5 Guitar Solos: 1. Comfortably Numb (Gilmour) 2. Stairway to heaven (Page) 3. Sultan of Swings (Knopler) 4. November Rain (Slash) 5. Soothsayer (Guy with KFC Hat)

Got tired of saying can I really play. SOOO drank couple pots of coffee. Tornado and Lucretia. Learned. Every time u learn a solo u gain so much more about the mindset of guitarist

In terms of iconic top ten solos I do (more or less) agree with loudwire... Anyway It would be very interesting a list of the top ten HARDEST solos of all time, regardless how famous or unknown the guitarist is ;-)

EVH...oh hell yeah!!!! 🎸🎶❤🤘

Never realised Kirk Hammett had a Sisters of Mercy T-Shirt in the videoclip of "one". 30+ years to discover this 😝

Watch the video Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsys Machine Gun.Jimis Woodstock performance of Star Spangled Banner or Voodoo Child

Agreed on EvH being #1. May he rest in peace. my #2 Joe Satriani - surfing with the alien

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Very nice list! Would ya check out Steve Lukather's solo on Lionel Richie's Runnin With The Night? John Sykes' solo on Blue Murder's We All Fall Down? George Lynch on Dokken's Heaven Sent? Vivian Campbell's solo on Dio's Rainbow In The Dark? Tom Scholz' solo on Boston's Peace Of Mind? Zakk Wylde on Ozzy's No More Tears?

Eruption wasn't Eddie's best solo, but it was the most influential solo of all time. And I'm 52 and was there when it came out. There was NOOOOOOOBODY who sounded like Eddie (then or ever). But it was like a completely different form of music, it was so amazing. I can't imagine anyone afterwards who plays hard rock or metal who wasn't influenced by EVH, or at the very least, influenced by someone influenced by EVH.

Eruption is just perfection

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Vinnie Vincent Invasion - Ashes to ashes solo smokes them all.

As good as the Comfortably solo is, I think his best is Coming Back to Life on the Pulse DVD.

I think the term, "greatest," needs to be defined. Not only does, "greatest," mean complexity and difficulty, but it also means level of recognition. Eruption fits the bill of any way you can define the term. It's legendary in the sense it was an entirely new way of playing the instrument at the level he played. For the time, and still to this day, it is extremely difficult and complex to nail as Eddie did. Van Halen was and is a mainstream band but were able to pull things off such as Eruption and still remain in the mainstream versus a pre-self titled or ...And Justice for All Metallica, Megadeth, etc... Now when I say mainstream that can be an entirely different conversation, but you may get my point. Every facet of Eruption makes it the greatest guitar solo of all time.

shred just gets better every day.. that got me. Ha! Great video

Just randomly, 2 KILLER solos on song released just recently are 'Roots Below' by As I Lay Dying, and 'Set you free' by Black Label Society (always loved Zack's solos). You're welcome.

EVH as #1 is 100% correct. I had been playing guitar for about 2 years when that album came out and when I heard that it blew all of us away and I mean all of us. Glad Jason Becker made the list as he was a true virtuoso.

1) Hotel California 2) Free Bird 3) stairway to heaven

My top 5 Solos 5. WAP 4. WAP 3. WAP 2. WAP 1. Chinese Food Facemelting stuff.

My personal favorites are these (no particular order): Holy Wars (both of Marty's solos) Disposable Heroes Ride the Lightning M.I.A. and Coming Home (both are A7X songs) Keeper of the Seven Keys The Seven Angels (2nd solo) Angels and Demons (Angra) It Doesn't Matter (Crush 40) The Count of Tuscany (the intro and the outro) I tried to pick only 5 and ended up picking 10 lol 😂😂

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I want to see Shred do a video like this and give us his renditions of the solos listed

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No disputing Eruption at number 1. It changed guitar rock forever. My top 5 would also include Sultans of Swing and Kashmir. Comfortably Numb and Voodoo Chile are no brainers.

I seen many of those artist live but I remember seeing Van Halen in 82 , 17000 or so in Toronto Maple Leaf Gardens you could hear jaws dropping when he was doing his solo , David Gilmour in 2016 was amazing , I agree with others there is many that are not on the list, Tony Ionmi , Mark Tremonti Alter Bridge just to name a few

That an easy one for me: John Petruccis Solo in Voices (begins at 7:23), perfect balance of

Great list, every guitar player here is truly a master and I don't think there's any denying of that. Tastes are tastes but legends are legends for a reason.

Highway Song by Blackfoot, Stone Blue by Foghat, I give up, head is spinning from all the choices

The trooper is my fave solo of all time.

John Mclaughlin. Lila's Dance Pat Metheny Airstream Michael Schenker Love to Love Al Dimeola & Paco DeLucia. Mediterranean Sundance Steve Hackett. Firth of Fifth Duane Allman & Dickey Betts Blue Sky Allan Holdsworth. City Nights Mark Knopfler. Brothers in Arms Carlos Santana. Europa Eddie Van Halen. Ice Cream Man Steve Morse. The Here After Joe Pass. Pretty much anything he plays Robert Fripp 21st Century Schizoid Man This is in no particular order and tommorrow I might come up with a list with 15 totally different choices. So many great ones out there

soldiers of wastland - dragon force love that one!!

Dimebag Darrell The Sleep is so fuckin epic...

The solo in Something to Believe In by Poison right before the last verse!

Agreed

Under a glass moon by DT was life changing for me!

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Alter Bridge - Blackbird all the way!

This video had me polishing my guitar technique and my horns with an evil grin on my face the entire time !

Top 5 solos for me has gotta be 1. Hotel California 2. Eruption 3. Cliffs of Dover 4. Crazy Train 5. One

I think they should have chosen The Trooper rather than Aces High (although I do love the absolute crap out of it and the solo), but it was a good list.

1 Richie Blackmoore Highway Star, 2 Uli Roth Sails of Charon, 3 Angus Young Thunderstruck c'mon ACDC is always overlooked in every top list.

The guitar solo at the end of "Sometime World" by Andy Powell of Wishbone Ash will blow your mind.

Right on

The solo at 1min 25sec in December Flower by In Flames. Gotta be my favorites. I think it’s a bit overlooked.

Nice reaction video!

Fade to black should be there

These Devils Laughs are just awesomeeeeee

eruption is so hard to play, but comfortably numb is powerful

love the shred

Numb is such an amazing song

David Gilmour, second solo on Comfortably Numb. Greatest of all time.

I know slash hates sweet child of mine but the guitar solo in the song is probably my favorite of all time

Um No Over the Mountain, Flying High again, Revelation Mother Earth? Randy was just out of this world.

Cream literally sounds like when I first started trying to solo and would put on backing tracks and flop between two notes haha