Swag Saturday: Power Gig: Rise of the Six String guitar and game

Listen, we wanna give you this Power Gig: Rise of the Six String guitar kit as much as you wanna own it. But we've got to make sure you're ready. So hop on down to the comments and let us know your favorite guitar solo of all time, so we can make sure we're not giving this beaut away to some know-nothing schlub. (Full disclosure: We'll pick two winners at random, so you could get away with calling just about anything your fave, oy.)

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Leave a comment Informing us of the greatest guitar solo of all time.
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This entry period ends at 12:00PM ET on Monday, October 25.
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Reader Comments (1078)

Any solo from the Strokes works for me. But to be honest there are too many great solos out there to name any single one as the greatest.

Any Zakk Wylde.

@Poor Tom I love the solo to The Modern Age. While it's not the greatest, it's still pretty good. But yeah it's pretty hard to choose the greatest solo because there's so many amazing ones.

The Strokes - The Modern Age (solo at 2:05)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzO7IGWGxu8&ob

@Poor Tom

How about Dimebag Darrel? Any solo from Pantera or Damageplan. Dude does not get the respect he deserves for what he did for metal.

Achilles: Agony & Ecstasy in Eight Parts by Manowar.

Anything by Santana

The solo in Green Grass & High Tides. Er, one of the solos.

The solo from Stairway to Heaven.

Personally, I would pick any number of songs by Joe Satriani that just have him playing by himself.

Anything performed by White Snake, and empowered by Mr. David Coverdale. :P

Flight of the Bumblebee, of course. C'mon Joystiq, I only have a ukulele.

"Over the Mountain" played by Randy Rhoads (Ozzy)

I'd say my favorite guitar solo of all time is definitely Coheed and Cambria's Welcome Home. It's amazing on the record and awesome to see played live... Claudio Sanchez plays it behind his head!

Syn's solo during The Beast and the Harlot.

Beethoven's 9th Symphony.

FREE BIRD! Probably not. But it's the first thing I could think of.

Satchel's guitar solo!!

Dramamine By Modest Mouse

I personally like the solo in "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" by Creedence Clearwater Revival, but its hard to name just one.

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - "Lenny". Not all guitar solos have to be shredfests~

Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower

Yeah!! Freebird'!!

Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb."

@Xcrucio

I honestly thought I'd be the only person to say David Gilmours Comfortably Numb but you hit it on the first page! Nice one!

anything from dimebag darrell. rip.

Gorod's Disavow Your God

Highway Star by Deep Purple

"Surfing with the Alien" by Joe Satriani. Any segment.

Peter Frampton's "Do You Feel Like We Do?" And he even makes the guitar talk!

In the Fallout Boy cover of Michael Jackson's "Beat It", John Mayer's take on Eddie Van Halen's solo could be considered the best "pop" guitar solo of our generation.

The best guitar solo of all-time is in Jimi Hendrix's "Little Wing".