Rolling Stone's best 100 guitar solos

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Originally Posted by Villavic

I don’t know if the list is made of musician opinions, RS journalists or people’s vote, but in any case I never take them as absolute truth. Maybe tomorrow Billboard or other source post a complete different one. And yes, I find some of the positions nonsensical, too. Beat It much higher than Sultans of Swing? Though I don’t take them so seriously, it’s fun to read those lists, anyway.

By the way, in the video that the “Discovering Tango in the Night with fresh ears” thread is about (Rumours forum), one of the guys said the TITN song is “Lindsey's Comfortably Numb”. Interesting that beautiful song is #4, and yes I love that guitar solo.

If I think of Lindsey, I’d had included TITN, or I’m So Afraid.

Many guitarists say Beat It is Eddie's best guitar solo. I believe Eruption is more of a showcase of a guitar solo. The whole song is the solo. The Beat It solo almost split up Van Halen. Michael Jackson called Eddie on the phone but Eddie thought it was a prank call and hung up. Several days later Quincy Jones called Eddie and told them that it was Michael that really called him and they wanted him to work on a song. Eddie was clueless about Michael Jackson and thought he was being to asked to play on a children's record. He never told his bandmates he did it thinking no one would hear it anyway. When the song became a huge hit the members of Van Halen were outraged. David Lee Roth's exact quote was that Eddie gave away his best guitar solo for free. Quincy Jones also said that Eddie changed another part of the song which Quincy thought Michael would protest. But when Eddie told Michael what he did Michael really liked it. You know what they say about geniuses that they dont always know the talent they have. Eddie just goes over there quickly spontaneously does a guitar solo and leaves thinking no one would know or care. Makes it look simple and easy.