re: Top 10 guitar solos of all time

Going the virtuoso versus band route always stirs up conversation in solo talks since there's a usually different focus in the goal or audience of the music.

My favorites.

Lonely in the Night - Eric Johnson
Fade to Black - Metallica
Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits
Blackbird - Alter Bridge
FreeBird
Mr Crowley

I prefer Jump to Eruption for melody and emotion

I'm not wandering down the whole subject path of 10 greatest, but for the last 6 months or so, I've been calling the outro solo to Ryan Adam's "The Shadowlands", played buy Greg Lesiz, my favorite solo. The phrasing and the tone are spot on perfect, in my opinion. Sick player. Solo begins at about 3:35, though it's best heard in context.

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John Frusciante - Wayne

Basically one big long guitar solo that John recorded for a dying friend who loved long guitar solos.

Yeah to me it could be any number of things that Jimmy Page did. I get amused by people who get all bent out of shape by Page's arguably sloppy way of playing but that stuff always hit me just right.

To me he was one of the originators of playing guitar to achieve sound and create excitement as opposed to trying to play all neat and tidy and by-the-book.

His stuff always sounded kind of demented to me. Kind of evokes images of dancing in a way that seems like stumbling and falling but with a strange sense of grace.

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I get amused by people who get all bent out of shape by Page's arguably sloppy way of playing but that stuff always hit me just right.

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It's a controlled sloppy. It takes a lot of skill to play that sloppily.

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While my guitar gently weeps

Monte Montgomery, in my opinion, is one of the best to date!

La villa Strangiato - Alex Lifeson

I was going through the thread to see if this one was mentioned yet. One of my favorites!