This thread isn't about the best solos.

Agreed....Keith Richards is a fantastic lead guitarist. Even when master blues guitarist Mick Taylor was in the Stones, Keith still played all of the lead guitar with the band.

I think quite a few people think Keith is a rhythm guitarist because he incorporates quite a few Chuck Berry riffs into his guitar style. Nearly all of Berry's playing was based on chord riffs, even when he was playing lead guitar.

I always found Slash's solos to be over-long, self involved and boring...there...I said it

Maybe not known for being a great guitarist but, to me, some of Neil Youngs solo's are like a cheese grater to the ear.

Cortez the Killer is one of the best solos I've heard.

Well Chuck Berry playing can be broken basically two parts. He does a shuffle on lower strings of Root-5th, Root-6th, & Root-7th, and 2 he does leads and licks like a horn section on the top strings. T-Bone Walker and Louis Jordan were major influences for Chuck Berry. Besides borrowing from Chuck Berry bag of tricks, Keith Richards learn every song by Robert Johnson on guitar. So imo Keith had pretty good foundation for Blues guitar.

I think Bo Diddley would be a good example of a great guitarist who didn't solo much at all. The opposite of Bo would be B.B. King who rather solo and not play rhythm at all.


I think if you could mellow out Neils solos out with delay and reverb and you would have shoegaze.

I understand the significance of some of his work, and the emotion behind it, but I can't listen to his soloing without cringing. A good example would be "Southern Man".

Had to look that one up. You're probably right.

Musicbanter fail.

What? I don't have the need to categorize everything to the nth freakin degree, so I've never heard that term.

So shut up.

Absolutely!
Let's add "Like a Hurricane" while we're on the subject:)