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Top 10 Guitar Solos by the Greatest
Rock Guitarists

Criteria: Top 10 Guitar Solos by the Greatest Rock Guitarists are based on Creativity, Skill, Popularity, Influence, and Musical Impact. The lists may include guest performances with other artists, and solo projects.

Last Updated: 2006-12-07
Top 10 Guitar Solos by the Greatest Rock Guitarists
rock guitarist Brian May
Brian May
rock guitarist Jeff Beck
Jeff Beck
rock guitarist Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa
rock guitarist Carlos Santana
Carlos Santana
rock guitarist Steve Vai
Steve Vai
rock guitarist Eddie Van Halen
Eddie Van Halen
Adrian Smith
1. Powerslave
2. Stranger In A Strange Land
3. Omega
4. Alexander The Great
5. Caught Somewhere In Time
6. King in Crimson
7. Two Minutes To Midnight
8. Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
9. Jerusalem
10. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

Alex Lifeson
1. La Villa Strangiato
2. 2112
3. Working Man
4. YYZ
5. Xanadu
6. Freewill
7. By-Tor and the Snow Dog
8. Limelight
9. Tom Sawyer
10. The Necromancer

Brian May
1. Bohemian Rhapsody
2. Killer Queen
3. Brighton Rock
4. Bijou
5. The Prophet's Song
6. Chinese Torture
7. We Will Rock You
8. The Invisible Man
9. Last Horizon
10. Love Of My Life

Buckethead
1. Unrestrained Growth
2. Padmasana
3. Machete
4. Too Many Humans
5. Big Sur Moon
6. Earth Heals Herself
7. Animal Behavior (Praxis)
8. Nottingham Lace
9. Electric Tears
10. Destroyer

Carlos Santana
1. Samba Pa Ti
2. Europa
3. Soul Sacrifice
4. Song Of The Wind
5. Oye Como Va
6. Jingo
7. Blues For Salvador
8. Toussaint L'overture
9. Incident at Nehsabur
10. Black Magic Woman

Chris Impellitteri
1. Propaganda Minds
2. Kingdom of the Light
3. Over the Rainbow
4. Screaming Symphony
5. 17th Century Chiken Picking
6. Kingdom of Titus
7. Perfect Crime
8. Rat Race
9. Stand In Line
10. Answer To Master

Dave Murray
1. Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
2. 2 Minutes To Midnight
3. Alexander The Great
4. Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
5. To Tame A Land
6. Paschendale
7. Heaven Can Wait
8. Phantom Of The Opera
9. Brave New World
10. The Trooper

David Gilmour
1. Comfortably Numb
2. Time
3. Money
4. Shine On You Crazy Diamond
5. Another Brick In the Wall pt. 2
6. Dogs
7. Pigs (3 different ones)
8. Have a Cigar
9. Hey You
10. Echoes

Dimebag Darrell
1. Floods
2. The Sleep
3. Cemetary Gates
4. Revolution Is My Name
5. Message In Blood
6. This Love
7. Walk
8. Drag The Waters
9. The Great Southern Trendkill
10. 10s

Duane Allman
1. Blue Sky
2. Layla
3. Dreams
4. Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad
5. Don't Keep Me Wondering
6. Whipping Post
7. Key to the Highway
8. Anyday
9. Hey Jude
10. Duane's Tune

Eddie Van Halen
1. Eruption
2. Beat It
3. Dreams
4. Mean Street
5. Spanish Fly
6. Ice Cream Man
7. Hot For Teacher
8. Humans Being
9 Push Comes to Shove
10. Jump

Eric Clapton
1. White Room
2. Those Were The Days
3. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
4. Tales Of Brave Ulysses
5. Sunshine Of Your Love
6. Badge
7. Presence Of The Lord
8. Cocaine
9. Have You Ever Loved A Woman
10. Stormy Monday

Eric Johnson
1. Cliffs Of Dover
2. Desert Rose
3. Lonely in the Night
4. Zap
5. Camels Night Out
6. Righteous
7. Trail Of Tears
8. Emerald Eyes
9. East Wes
10. Song For George

Frank Zappa
1. Watermelon in Easter Hay
2. Zoot Allures
3. Fifty-Fifty
4. My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama
5. Shut Up 'n Play Your Guitar
6. King Kong
7. Willie the Pimp
8. The Torture Never Stops
9. Pink Napkins
10. Gumbo Variations

George Harrison
1. Let it Be
2. The End
3. Carry That Weight
4. And Your Bird Can Sing
5. Something
6. Yer Blues
7. Octopus's Garden
8. Day Tripper
9. She's A Woman
10. All My Loving

Jason Becker
1. Altitudes
2. Speed Metal Symphony
3. Mable Fatal Fables
4. Air
5. The Ninja
6. Eleven Blue Egyptians
7. Black Cat
8. Concerto
9. Dweller in the Cellar
10. Perpetual Burn

Jeff Beck
1. 'Cause We've Ended as Lovers
2. Goodbye Porkpie Hat
3. Nadia
4. Beck's Bolero
5. Shapes of Things
6. Where Were You
7. Jeff's Boogie
8. Declan
9. Freeway Jam
10. Led Boots

Jeff Hannemann
1. Seasons In The Abyss
2. Serenity In Murder
3. Dittohead
4. Payback!
5. Angel Of Death
6. War Ensemble
7. Disicple
8. Dead Skin Mask
9 God Hates Us All
10. I Hate You

Jeff Loomis
1. The River Dragon has Come
2. The Heart Collector
3. This Godless Endevor
4. Psalms of Lydia
5. Tommorow Turned into Yesterday
6. Enemies of Reality
7. Believe in Nothing
8. Never Purify
9. Born
10. Ambiavent
Jimi Hendrix
1. All Along the Watchtower
2. Little Wing
3. Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
4. Bold as Love
5. Purple Haze
6. Foxey Lady
7. Freedom
8. The Wind Cries Mary
9. Rainy Day, Dream Away
10. If 6 Was 9

Jimmy Page
1. Stairway to Heaven
2. Since I've Been Loving You
3. Achilles Last Stand
4. Ten Years Gone
5. White Summer/Black Mountain Side
6. Dazed and Confused
7. In My Time of Dying
8. Heartbreaker
9. No Quarter
10. Whole Lotta Love

Joe Satriani
1. Surfing With The Alien
2. The Extremist
3. Flying In A Blue Dream
4. Satch Boogie
5. Midnight
6. Tears In The Rain
7. Always With Me, Always With You
8. Circles
9. Starry Night
10. Friends

Kirk Hammett
1. Fade to Black
2. One
3. Master of Puppets
4. Ride the Lightning
5. The Four Horsemen
6. The Unforgiven
7. To Live is to Die
8. Orion
9. Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
10. Blackened

Leslie West
1. Traveling in the Dark (To EMP)
2. Theme for an Imaginary Western
3. Nauntucket Sleighride
4. My Lady
5. Silver Paper
6. Blood of Sun
7. Flowers of Evil
8. Blind Man
9. Dreams of Milk and Honey
10. Don't Look Around

Marty Friedman
1. Valley Of Eternity
2. Tornado Of Souls
3. Hangar 18
4. Lovesorrow
5. The Ninja
6. Lucretia
7. Speed Metal Symphony
8. Glowing Path
9. Forbidden City
10. Jewel

Michael Romeo
1. Communion and the Oracle
2. Candlelight Fantasia
3. Fallen
4. Awakening
5. Sea of Lies
6. King of Terrors
7. Dragons Den
8. Of Sins and Shadows
9. The Accolade
10. Witching Hour

Nuno Bettencourt
1. Its a Monster
2. Mutha (don't wanna go to school today)
3. Flight of the Wounded Bumblebee
4. Play With Me
5. Get the Funk Out
6. No Respect
7. Pornograffitti
8. Kid Ego
9. He-Man Woman Hater
10. Rockabye Baby

Paul Gilbert
1. Scarified
2. Technical Difficulties
3. Attitude Boy Will Overcome
4. Tell The Truth
5. Let The Computer Decide
6. 2nd Loudest Guitar In The World
7. I'm Not Afraid Of The Police
8. Snakebite
9. Frenzy
10. Fuji Christmas

Pete Townshend
1. Eminence Front
2. Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
3. Who Are You
4. Overture
5. Love, Reign O'er Me
6. English Boy
7. Going Mobile
8. Heaven and Hell
9. Naked Eye
10. The Rock

Randy Rhoads
1. Mr. Crowley
2. Crazy Train
3. Dee
4. Flying High Again
5. Goodbye to Romance
6. Over the Mountain
7. Laughing Gas
8. Tonight
9. Revelation (Mother Earth)
10. Diary Of A Madman

Ritchie Blackmore
1. Highway Star
2. Child in Time
3. Lazy
4. Smoke on the Water
5. Gates of Babylon
6. Stargazer
7. Burn
8. Kill the King
9. Man on the Silver Mountain
10. Knockin' at Your Back Door

Slash
1. Sweet Child O' Mine
2. November Rain
3. Paradise City
4. Don't Cry
5. You Could Be Mine
6. Nightrain
7. Mr. Brownstone
8. Breakdown
9. Knockin On Heavens Door
10. Estranged

Steve Howe
1. Sound Chaser
2. Mood For A Day
3. The Clap
4. Innuendo
5. Montreux's Theme
6. Roundabout
7. Startship Trooper
8. Long Distance Runaround
9. I've Seen All good People
10. Walk don't Run

Steve Vai
1. For the Love of God
2. Tender Surrender
3. Boston Rain Melody
4. Whispering a Prayer
5. Windows to the Soul
6. Hand on Heart
7. Sisters
8. Jiboom
9. Lotus Feet
10. The Crying Machine

Stevie Ray Vaughan
1. Texas Flood
2. Riviera Paradise
3. Little Wing
4. Lenny
5. Could't stand the Weather
6. Scuttle Buttin'
7. Pride And Joy
8. Rude Mood
9. Cold Shot
10. Stang's Swang

Tony Iommi
1. Kill In The Spirit World
2. War Pigs
3. Heaven and Hell
4. Wicked World
5. Children of the Grave
6. Warning
7. Lonely Is the World
8. Symptom of the Universe
9. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
10. Fairies Wear Boots

Vinnie Moore
1. In The Healing Garden
2. Rain
3. Shadows Of Yesterday
4. Message In A Dream
5. King Of Kings
6. Race With Destiny
7. Never Been To Barcelona
8. Move That Thang!
9. N.N.Y.
10. The Maze

Yngwie Malmsteen
1. Black Star
2. Blitzkrieg
3. Far Beyond The Sun
4. Icarus' Dream Suite Opus 4
5. Pyramid Of Cheops
6. Rising Force
7. Amberdawn
8. Brothers
9. Leviathan
10. Overture 1622




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