top 100 solos...

[erogenousjones17]

Brian Setzer is the man. Saw him in concert with the BSO and it was jaw-dropping.

 

[bagman67]

Elliott Easton, an also-ran... which is ridiculous, because he's a tremendously bad-ass and tasteful player.  His solos with The Cars are models of economy and precision - his solos serve the songs, but they bring the fire, for sure.

Bagman

 

[Jusatele]

and in the living for the song category, those who played great guitar, blending with the song and never over riding it,
Fleetwood Macs very own Lindsey Buckingham. Songs like Rhianna that show his ability to compose songs around diads of a chord. But this is a solo list not a song list

 

[Jusatele]

for those who do not have it in their liabrary

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgaRjKe2Hkg[/youtube]

for those who are not Jazz guys, drop in about the 4 minute mark for the solo and play it to the end

 

[AGWAN]

So According to this list. people stopped playing guitar around... 1991?

if they think that some phenomenal artists haven't done some amazing things in the last decade...

they need to clean out their old man ears.

cleaning ears has nothing to do with it, we are just bringing up artist that soared way beyond the rest and innovated a lot of what you hear today. You hear so much today that is rehash of a lot of this stuff. Open your ears to the influences of the greats of today and these are the guys that it trace back to.

I remember watching Brian Setzer Blow Dickey Betts off the stage one night (right after the demise of the stray cats) and was in denial that some rock a billy could out play a favorite of mine. I listen to what he does with his big band stuff now and just am amazed with how he can combine the styles and have a extremely fluid format.

Music lives forever, in the minds of those who enjoy it, so those long past players that are recorded will be brought up every time a discussion like this comes around. Because they were that good.

When cleaning your Ears is an obvious metaphor for opening your crusty, opinionated old man minds. it has EVERYTHING to do with it. in a list of 50 people. I would EXPECT Eddie Van Halen and BB King I expect a lot of these guys, I LISTEN to a lot of those guys. BUT its still stupid, if someone considers themselves a musical expert. to stop listening to new music once the hairs start to grey. there is 20 freaking years of intelligent hard working artists ommited from that list. some of whom are incredibly creative. its a joke to think that music stopped being good as soon as you got old.

I pray that once I get old, I don't lose an open mind to music. but it seems everyone does at some point.

 

[Jusatele]

I think you are over reading some of the post
I think a lot of guys here are pointing out older influences not because they no longer listen to modern music, but because a lot of what is modern they have heard before
Take Slash, and his style of melding Page and Perry together, a great player I will agree, and rocks the crap out of hard rock, but I find that after Appetite that he stagnated.
I love The guy from Buck Cherry, but cannot find a solo of his I will pick as top 100, Plus so many of these polls do not include Jazz or country players who normally can play the fingers off the average rock player.
I was raised on hard rock, did the entire guitar eating bing of repeitive riffs of southern rock, played through the hair metal days and continue
I cut my teeth on stage playing C&W bands in the south learning the influences of that, My father sent me to music school at 6 years old to learn classical music, He played Jazz all day long around the house. My influences are very wide and varried. I own over 2000 cds, have a vynil collection dating back to the 60s.
I do not sherk from new music but embrace it, as I would expect any musician to. Rap, rock, blues Jazz, punk, classical, country, ska, carribian, flaminco, I have it all. I have never closed my mind, but remember, when a OLD PERSON gives his spin on the top 100 solos, he has 20 to 30 years on the average Guitar World reader. And in those years are so many great solos he can rip the POLITCALLY CORRECT version to pieces.

I do not think your opinion is wrong, and respect your picks, I ask you to respect ours also
how many guitarist do you know who could play the last 2 minutes of the Al Di Moela video I posted?

 

[AGWAN]

It would make sense you don't think my opinions are wrong. since a lot of them are the same as yours.

but when people think Motley Crue and Buckcherry are relevant, or important or near the top of the skill pool for the last 20 years. that worries me.

maybe the real issue here is that the radio stopped playing the good music. and no one thought to take 5 minutes to go look for good NEW music.

I mean okay, if we want to talk about ONLY bands that can be spoon-fed to you through the radio. I would be more agreeable with that list. it seems since the advent of MTV that intelligent music is Rare on the airwaves.

But the guy from TOOL is a prime example of amazing solo work, Wes Borland of Limp Bizket even got his moments. the last decade of Progressive metal, particularly the European stuff. has just... mind blowing artists in it.

and If it wasn't so weird. I'd point out that Japans Dir En Grey has got to be one of the most all around talented bands working today. though I honestly have little clue whats going on when they play.but the guitarist is a genius.

try to get to 1:50 in this song. see what I mean... he does something familiar the whole time... but in a way I never thought about.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9aTACnWSlQ[/youtube]

 

[Jusatele]

I think that in the last 30 years radio stations got into the format thing, play only songs like this or that an build an audience of guys who only want it.
That really limits your influences
then along came XM and it narrowed even more
MTV has fractured in to many formats but does not play much music on any, strange how a channel that got big playing videos now shuns them
and so you are left to the internet for new music, unless you want to muddy through 100 blink clones on the local punk station, or Britney clones on the pop station.
I find a suprisingly large amount of new artist on teh net now

 

[AGWAN]

I find EVERY new artist on the net.

which is funny, as it makes me totally clueless to what people my age listened to on the radio... but they  tend to like the music I show them more... so it works out.

I don't really regret finding out about avenged sevenfold just a few months ago.

because despite their talent, like you said... they're just rehashing. albeit WELL.

 

[jackthehack]

for those who do not have it in their liabrary

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgaRjKe2Hkg[/youtube]

for those who are not Jazz guys, drop in about the 4 minute mark for the solo and play it to the end

Actually you should download the entire "Land of the Midnight Sun" debut solo album...

 

[lafromla1]

I think that in the last 30 years radio stations got into the format thing, play only songs like this or that an build an audience of guys who only want it.
That really limits your influences
then along came XM and it narrowed even more

I have to disagree with this.  Having had XM for near 5 years now, and liking many different genres of music, I have found that XM plays so many different types of music and covers a great many artists, even obscure ones.

 

[AGWAN]

I'd agree, but I don't have XM

...XD!

 

[Superlizard]

Buck Cherry?

:icon_scratch:

Is that like Chuck Berry's secret alter-ego?

 

[Superlizard]

Elliott Easton, an also-ran... which is ridiculous, because he's a tremendously bad-ass and tasteful player.  His solos with The Cars are models of economy and precision - his solos serve the songs, but they bring the fire, for sure.

Bagman

:icon_thumright:

 

[Jusatele]

I think that in the last 30 years radio stations got into the format thing, play only songs like this or that an build an audience of guys who only want it.
That really limits your influences
then along came XM and it narrowed even more

I have to disagree with this.  Having had XM for near 5 years now, and liking many different genres of music, I have found that XM plays so many different types of music and covers a great many artists, even obscure ones.

thats cool, but most guys I know only use one channel on XM, so they really narrow things up

 

[Jusatele]

for those who do not have it in their liabrary

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgaRjKe2Hkg[/youtube]

for those who are not Jazz guys, drop in about the 4 minute mark for the solo and play it to the end

Actually you should download the entire "Land of the Midnight Sun" debut solo album...

I posted it as an example of what kind of stuff is not on that list that blows many of the things on it away, I found that with a simple goggle search

 

[stubhead]

Guitar Goggles? ooooh sorry... I find most of the new stuff through reading and recommendations. There's way too much great new music out there, especially for me, because I don't listen to genres at all - just individuals and bands. I still get pretty solid info from Guitar Player (Oz Noy!) & Premier Guitar magazines, and it only takes a few minutes to check up on anyway. The people over at the Steel Guitar Forum have some really wide and varied tastes. Just on my own I dug through the 50's and 60's jazz, and everything Milesian & Mahavishnuesque. And I've been listening to Indian music & playing classical since an early age. I certainly have no time or patience to listen to shiteety music just to have something to bitch about.

http://www.myspace.com/makajodama

http://www.pandora.com/

http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/

http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/JohnMcLaughlinAndRememberShakti2000-11-10ChicagoTheatreIL.asx

I pray that once I get old, I don't lose an open mind to music. but it seems everyone does at some point.

I read one of those silly, unprovable statistics which claimed that 94% of people had their musical preferences completely set by the time they were 25 years old. Of course there's some kind of continuum, but I do know people who are perfectly happy to listen to the same things they were listening to in high school, 40 years ago. And if you ask them why they don't listen to anything new, they'll point out their copy of Tom Petty or Bruce Springsteen's latest, or some rehash like Chickenfoot or the Black Crowes. Clearly for many many many people it IS all about your first whiff of nookie & whatever would piss off mommy & daddy if you played it loud enough.

 

[Jusatele]

I guess I am stuck then, I have had Ry Cooder's cd, ahhh, sheesh, the Cuban music one hhe did a year of 2 ago, in my cars cd player for a few weeks, I just can't get over the sound of that plate reverb he is using, I want so bad to build a plate reverb for to run my strat through when I am doing lap steel work. So full and natural it is haunting.
Yep, bought a Ry Cooder disc, I am stuck right?

 

[jackthehack]

How about all the guys on nobody's list, cause nobody much ever heard of them?

Steve Hillage:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyrxtVnc-28&feature=related

Check out other vids from him on that page.


Bugs Henderson:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP_bt41p09k

Frankie Marino and Mahogany Rush:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9KzU-UiT7A&feature=related

Pat Travers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUEgeXqD-8I


Uli Roth (original guitarist for the Scorpions)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e5072S-hBg

John Sprott - Elvis T. Busboy and the Texas Blues Butchers

No YouTube videos, check the Facebook page for music: http://www.facebook.com/ElvisTBusboy

Jim Shuler (with my old buddy Shawn playing keyboards):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqrpgyF4TfI&feature=related

I could go on for days....

 

[erogenousjones17]

Buck Cherry?

:icon_scratch:

Is that like Chuck Berry's secret alter-ego?

Buckcherry is an American rock outfit famous for their obscenity-laden dude-rock anthems and for stealing song titles from the Dead Kennedys. [citation needed]