Guitar World: 100 best solos

Absolutely. And maybe I'm alone here, but I really like the track before "Chain Lightning."

"The Pass," the whole track as opposed to just Alex's solo, is simple but very beautiful. Telling, heartfelt and insightful.

 

You can make a strong case for "The Pass" being Rush's best song overall.

 

I wouldn't go that far. To those who either can't stand Geddy's voice or think Neil Peart's lyrics are pretentious, there are quality offerings such as "La Villa Strangiato," "YYZ," "Leave That Thing Alone" and most of "2112."

 

"Leave That Thing Alone" is very underappreciated. As is that entire album.

 

In fact, I'm listening to it right now. All three elements of the band (Lifeson's guitar, Peart's lyrics and Lee's singing) are about as good as they've ever been.

 

How dare they leave out the glam rock standards of Poison, Warrant, Bon Jovi, LA Guns, Motley Crue and Great White!

 

Just went through the list again and Billy Gibbons is on there for fucking "Sharp Dressed Man"? In the Top's glory days (in my opinion before MTV discovered them) Gibbons was a genuine, 100%, Grade A bad-ass Texas blues guitarist. ZZ Top's albums up through El Loco are littered with terrific blues solos (this whole rant was brought on by "Blue Jean Blues" on the iPod this morning) and really dirty blues-rock runs.

Good to see "Cult Of Personality" on there. Vernon Reid is a shit-hot axe guy. Anyone know what he's doing these days? Is Living Colour on the casino circuit?

 

What, no Andres Segovia?

 

anything david gilmore works as does november rain.

yet, i was disappointed the guitar solo from the scorpians lady starlight, i believe by Matthias Jabs, was missing. i think some of the selections on the list were chosen by name alone.

 

as a hardcore P-Funk fan, I'm happy to see Eddie Hazel's amazing solo that was "Maggot Brain" made the list. Apparently, crazy ass George Clinton told Eddie to play the first half of the solo like his mother died, and then the last half like he just found out she was alive. Whatever the case, that's definitely top 100-worthy stuff.

 

Clever --

I plead a sticky "c" key, and throw myself on the mercy of the cccccourt.

 

That's because most of the guitar players for those bands were/are shitty. OK, maybe Mick Mars isn't half bad.