Some moments in music don't just play - they hit you somewhere deep and don't let go. A truly great guitar solo is like that.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Guitar music is a ubiquitous feature of popular music, ...

There aren’t enough guitar solos anymore. I mean, there are guitar solos still happening—in the metalspheres of the world, most explicitly—but rock and roll’s got a serious solo deficiency going on.

If there's one topic classic rock fans love to debate, it would probably be which guitarist is the "best" ever, and which licks and riffs are the most impressive. So it's no surprise that when Guitar ...

A killer guitar solo is what separates good hair metal songs from the great ones. That's why Ultimate Classic Rock decided to compile a list of the Top 20 Best Hair Metal Guitar Solos of all time in ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If there's one topic classic rock fans love to debate, it would probably be which guitarist is the "best" ever, and which licks ...

Back in 2004, Prince pulled off one of the greatest guitar solos of all time — and it turns out he was inspired not by love, ...

I first heard Brian Eno’s surrealist masterpiece “Baby’s on Fire” as an actual baby, more or less: it was one of my parents’ household staples. For years I moved through life under the very confident ...

Vince Gill didn’t have to think long before he pointed to his favorite guitar solo of all time. During an appearance on Rolling Stone’s Nashville Now, Gill named Albert Lee’s guitar solo on Emmylou ...

These solos, pulled from a decade of live performances, are a reminder that Vince Gill is one of the best guitarists ...