re: Best guitar solo in your opinion

honorable mention for Terry Kath on 25 or 6 to24

SRV continues effortlessly when he breaks a string during Look at Little Sister.

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But by no means is Prince in the top 100 guitarists or does that solo make the top 500.

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I'm with you. He was an exceptional all around musician, but I remember when he died, many people on this board were saying he was considered a guitar God. With all due respect, I just don't see it.

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Name me 99 better guitarist

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My main point was him being referenced as a guitar God. I consider him an exceptional musician as I stated above. I guess I didn't make myself clear. Would you consider him a guitar God?

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If you took a poll of your top 100 guitarist, I'd almost be willing to bet they would put Prince in their top 100.

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Highly doubtful. Prince was a great musician, but not in the top 100 guitar players and his solo on My Guitar Gently Weeps was not great at all. The guy said himself he had never even heard the song before being asked to play for that special.

If you ever get the chance to meet Eric Clapton (not that I have), ask him how great of a guitar player Prince was. Just don't expect a short and sweet answer from him.

I kinda figure Joe Bonamassa deserves a kudo or two, the lead guitarist from Jethro Tull and perhaps Blackmore and the cat from Mahogany Rush. Lots and lots of virtuoso guitarists.

I remember watching a special on mtv 20-25 yrs ago, top 100 musicians of all time (prince was 6th) and robert plant and clapton
both said he was the best guitarist alive at the time.

This is all opinion and personal taste, but prince has a few things working against him as far as his legacy goes, and some are self inflicted. 1) he was black, and if your last name ain't hendrix that is 2 strikes out of the chute. 2) he was an absolute control freak about his videos and live performances being kept offline. 3) his flamboyant personality and "weirdness" worked against him with the general public. He's the only straight male who could pull off the clothes/hairstyles he had, and still look cool. You never heard about prince in jeans and a t shirt. Everyone that knew him said he was 24/7 prince. That negatively effects public perception. It's almost like he was trying to sabatoge his own success. 4) he gets lumped together with michael jackson because of their same age and domination of the 80's, but mike wasn't a pimple on prince's arse musically, and they both knew it.

The special I referenced above was based on a poll of musicians that mtv took at the time, and they voted prince 6th. The beatles were one, and I don't remember much else. That alone is high praise from his peers though.

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For me it's not just about the playing but the style that those guys develop. Jon Harrington is an incredible guitarist, but he gets paid to play what others recorded years before.

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That's certainly true but what impresses me about Harrington is that when doing a solo for Steely Dan, it begins along the same lines as the original solo but then it starts to deviate and puts his own spin on it. And he did learn that solo in Reeling In the Years that nobody else seemed to be able to figure out.

I do think he's a pretty good guitarist in his own right but I agree that he's not Guitar God material. Maybe some day.