Guitar World: 100 best solos

The whole "Marquee Moon" album is some of the most incredible guitar playing you'll ever hear. As an aside, I find it no coincidence that when Richard Lloyd (and Robert Quine) played guitar for Matthew Sweet, his songs sounded great and sold like crazy, and that when they weren't there, he sucked and nobody listened to him.

 

One glaring omission, Heaven Sent solo by George Lynch when he was with Dokken. The guy absolutely rocks.

 

It's disappointing that they included "You Really Got Me" by Dave Davies and the Kinks but not Mike Mitchell's solo on "Louie Louie" by the Kingsmen. All Dave Davies did was speed up the "Louie Louie" solo. You'd think somebody at Guitar World would know that.

I didn't see Scotty Moore (responsible for "Hound Dog," among others) anywhere on that list. And it's a crying shame that Danny Cedrone's solo on "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley and the Comets was also excluded -- it should be Top 5, at least. What a garbage list.

 

Good point, JJ. Scotty Moore and James Burton, who played with Elvis and Rick Nelson among many others, are two early rock guitar giants who deserve inclusion on any kind of comprehensive list.

 

How DARE you besmirch the good name of C.C. DeVille/Richie Sambora/Tracii Guns/whoever played lead for Warrant!

 

pick any of the springsteen live songs on youtube and tell me he has any live equal.

check out "waiting on a sunny day." wow.

 

I used to think Bruce got caught up in the music and couldn't help himself, but it's an act, according to Clive Davis in January's Esquire:


Bruce didn't explode. He sold thirty-two thousand of the first album, sixty thousand of the second. That was a period when Bill Graham had closed the Fillmore West and the Fillmore East, and "Is rock dying?" was everywhere. So I took over the Ahmanson Theatre for seven consecutive nights to show that music was vital, alive, and one of the artists on this huge Radio City–like stage was Springsteen. He had never been on a stage of this size, so he stayed there, and he didn't know where to go. I went up and said, "Look, I love your words and I love your lyrics and I love what you're saying, but you've got to make use of the stage. Otherwise, you're a small figure standing behind the monitor." Fast-forward to right before Born to Run comes out, he calls me up, "I'm playing the Bottom Line, you gotta come down to see me." I was totally unprepared. In this period—nine months, a year—Bruce Springsteen had become Bruce Springsteen. He came out with an energy level that was unrecognizable, hopping from one table to another table! It was unbelievable, it was mesmerizing, and I go backstage and he says, "Remember the Ahmanson Theatre?"

http://www.esquire.com/features/articles/2006/061207_mfe_January_07_davis.html

 

clive is full of crap, as anyone who saw springsteen pre-"born to run" would attest. 8) 8) 8)

 

could not seem to find either but you cannot have a list like this without

Alvin Lee's I wanna Change the World or The Outlaws two lead guitarists Huey Thomasson and Billy Jones playing Green Grass and High Tides.

 

I haven't gotten through all the list yet, but did Robby Krieger's solo in The Doors' "Light My Fire" at least crack 100? If not, that's OK. But as a fan, it would be nice.

 

It's on there. As it should be.

 

So, Clive Davis is taking credit for Springsteen's concert persona?

I call bullshit.