Later in the song, Rick Nielsen leads the band into a few minutes of jamming and riff-slinging for the pure fun of it.Ĩ6: Ten Years After: I’m Goin’ Home (Solo: Alvin Lee) The most guitar-slinging tune in the Cheap Trick catalog, “Need Your Love” features a concise killer of a power-chord solo about three minutes in. He revisited those days with a 90s comeback album the title tune finds his powers intact and gives him more time to solo than the early singles did.Ĩ7: Cheap Trick: Need Your Love (Solo: Rick Nielsen) Known as the master of the Telecaster, the Texas guitarist made his name with a string of 60s singles that featured stinging solos and “icy” song titles. No wonder so many punk rockers love these guys.Ĩ8: Albert Collins: Iceman (Solo: Albert Collins)
Tony Iommi got plenty of chances to solo at length on the Black Sabbath classics, but this concise solo in a three-minute song says it all once Iommi starts riffing, it’s nothing but frustration and release. 89: Black Sabbath: Paranoid (Solo: Tony Iommi) It’s especially effective when he un-mutes for the final lick, setting you up for the next chorus. The one here (played by Partridge rather than regular lead player Dave Gregory) is as catchy as the song itself, with Partridge muting the strings to give it a Hank Marvin sound and a 60s sock-hop feel that matches the lyrics. You can even hear singer Pat DiNizio yelling “Go!” to kick it off.ĩ0: XTC: Life Begins At The Hop (Solo: Andy Partridge)Īt its best, English New Wave was a treasure trove of short, memorable solos. One of the hottest solos ever to appear in a power-pop song, this is simply a blast with its opening hit of power chords and the string-bending at the peak.
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This begins as a heavy rock song, but during the solo Joe Walsh gets good and spacey with a solo full of slide and echo effects, flowing into a wah-wah take on Ravel’s “Bolero.” His later work with The Eagles was solid, but this is the real deal.ĩ1: The Smithereens: A Girl Like You (Solo: Jim Babjak) Here he has great fun with that chicken effect beloved by country pickers, even building a catchy tune around it.ĩ2: The James Gang: The Bomber (Solo: Joe Walsh) They may well have been right.ĩ3: The Buckaroos: Chicken Pickin (Solo: Don Rich)īuck Owens’ axeman was one of the tastiest players country music ever had, and the Buckaroos had a sideline in instrumental hits. “Rumble” was famously the first instrumental to be banned on AM radio, since parents feared that Link Wray’s switchblade guitar sound would inspire some real street fights.
No flash here, just some of the most threatening chord strums you’ll ever hear.
The Velvet Underground was never a band for guitar heroics, but Lou Reed rises to the occasion about seven minutes in, with a solo that crosses an Eastern raga feel with punkish anarchy. Less a traditional guitar solo than a sonic orgy, which is of course appropriate to the lyric. The story goes that the guitarist was having amplifier trouble and started distorting at key points, so the producer decided the only solution was to turn it up and let it fully distort.ĩ5: The Velvet Underground: Sister Ray (Solo: Lou Reed) On this early single by the future Meter and Neville Brother, the studio guitarist plays some wild stuff that would have made Jeff Beck proud a decade later. 96: Art Neville: Cha-Dooky Doo (Solo: Justin Adams)įuzz guitar in 1958? Sure enough. You wouldn’t think so much confident swagger could fit into a song called “So Lonely.” When he did play flashy, he made it count, calling on his blues roots. The most surprising one came on the finale of bandmate Rick Davies’ smooth pop song, where he cranked up the wah-wah and turned the song into a potent rocker.ĩ7: The Police: So Lonely (Solo: Andy Summers)Īndy Summers was generally a model of taste with The Police, usually avoiding flashy solos when some textural chords would do the job better. It’s the sort of terrible solo that only a really good player could have dreamed up.ĩ8: Supertramp: Goodbye Stranger (Solo: Roger Hodgson)Įven though Supertramp wasn’t a guitar band, Roger Hodgson grabbed himself some standout moments. On this lounge-ballad sendup, Innes – later the songwriter of the immortal “Camelot Song” and other great Monty Python moments – plays a solo of (purposely) exquisite awfulness. Most of the guitar solos here will make your jaw drop only this one will make you laugh out loud. 99: The Bonzo Dog Band: Canyons of Your Mind (Solo: Neil Innes)
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