Here Today... Gone To Hell!

I find it amusing that Slash gets high praise and I have yet to see it on this board.

It says Guns N Roses but Slash is the guitar soloing genius responsible for being on the list.


British radio station Planet Rock asked listeners to come up with a top 40 Best Guitar Solos Of All Time and GN'R had three songs in the top 20.
Top 20
1 Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
2 Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine
3 Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird
4 Van Halen - Eruption
5 Guns N' Roses - November Rain
6 Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
7 Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing
8 Jethro Tull - Aqualung
9 The Eagles - Hotel California
10 Deep Purple - Child In Time
11 Queen - Brighton Rock
12 Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
13 Deep Purple - Highway Star
14 Wishbone Ash - Throw Down The Sword
15 Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears
16 Cream - Crossroads
17 Guns N' Roses - Paradise City
18 Led Zeppelin - Since I've Been Loving You
19 Ten Years After - I'm Going Home (Woodstock)
20 Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile
 


So Congrats Slash for being the greatest ever! : ok:

All three are great timeless songs, very cool... Lists suck but it's nice to see what is though of..

Well the #1 spot is no suprise. I think Estranged belonged there instead of PC but its nice that GNR got 3 solos on the list.  :beer:

sure as hell doesn't shock me on these "gnr " forums..

Congratulations to Slash, my god  8) ;D

Yeah man, great topic.

Congrats Mr. Slash!  :beer:

''...you in the jungle baby!!''  :drool:

It is so amazing how big of a bad ass Slash is, yet, still gets shit all the time about how he is not very fast or "technical".....  Ha!

Funny, I don't see BH or Finck on that list and yet from reading all the gnr forums Finck and BH are both ten times better than the "technically-challenged" Slash.

Way to go slash, hope to see more great top-hated solos in the near future.

Pretty incredible when u think about it....2 songs in the top 5 even, extremely impressive and extremely telling....Slash is one of the best guitarists, the whole package...of all time!

Agreed  :beer:

Although Slash has at least 10 masterpieces on my list of the best 20 solos. Including Snakepit gems like Neither Can I, Back and Forth Again or Serial Killer!  :yes:

DO NOT go there on this thread.

Understood?

 :beer:

I don't think most people who support the "new" GN'R have any problems crediting Slash for all the amazing music he has created or had part in creating.

But at the same time, without Axl's "November Rain", there'd be no place for Slash's solo....


What's also interresting is that GN'R is the youngest band of those listed. There's no other bands from that era in the top 20.


/jarmo

Yet it was Slash SCOM (musically) that got them to their highest spot not November Rain.

I've never had a problem with the new band.

I only have a problem with people who try and discredit the original band's contributions. : ok:

I remember a year ago or so there was a poster who even suggested that Axl sang the guitar solos to Slash he composed them based on Axl's humming. :hihi: :hihi:

Hey, I like and support the new band. That's why I'm here. I think Finck and BH are talented. But people try to discredit Slash and say that Finck and Bucket are better. I don't agree with that since it was Slash's guitar parts that I fell in love with, and everyone else here did as well. I'm not bashing them really, just pointing out that most of the world agrees that Slash is a superior player.

Slash is a guitar god  no doubt about it :yes:

There's absolutely no reason to even bring Finck or BH into this thread, it promotes the same old arguments that have been discussed ad nauseum for years.?

If you want to compare/contrast or make blanket statements of who is the "superior player", do so in the Dead Horse section.? Plenty of threads there discussing just that...

Duh, it's OBVIOUS that when they listed those three songs, they are talking about the live versions from the '02, '06 tours with Finck, BH, and Ron. Get a clue.

A song which he hated at first, a song which he wrote as a joke and others in the band thought sounded good enough to work on.

So you see, it takes more than a guitar solo to get a song noticed.




Anybody who tries to discredit what they managed to do in that short time just makes themself look kinda stupid.

Some people might discredit the importance of certain band members input, not what the band as an unit achieved.

There's a difference.





/jarmo

You honestly think Buckethead is gonna end up on list like this? This is not comprehensive, it's only popular artists. Plus, it's from Britain. BH doesn't tour Britain, and his CDs are scarce there. Why must you feel like you have to prop up Slash by bringing up Bucket or Finck. Didn't notice any Velvet Revolver or Snakepit songs on that list.

I still keep an open mind with the New GNR guitarists cause the truth is,  until CD is released they still will kind of grade as an incomplete to the Critics and music journalist.

The demos though show great promise.

This isnt about new vs old however.

I just think its weird that Slash somehow didnt make Rolling Stones top 100 guitarists but yet in another poll has 3 of the greatest solos of all time. That doesn't really add up.

Rolling Stone fucked up....



/jarmo

Well if it wasn't for Slash, none of us would be here lets face it.

Actually if it wasnt for the entire band, we wouldn't be here. It was them as a unit that created that great music that we all love, they all had diffrent imput and help shaped eachothers music into what we now love. Axl, Slash, Duff, Izzy, and Steven to a lesser extint, made these great songs, not just slash. So I say congrats to Guns N Roses for having the 3 Greatest solos, and Congrats to Slash for playing them so damn well.  :smoking:

Well said. Amen!

Fink is a lame solo'er, good rythem, not for solos, the other 2 new guys, ron and *forgets name* are great though!

buckethead.....please, do i really think people could take a band with a man who wears a kfc bucket on his head seriously.

slash has got the image, and hes got the feeling in his solos, sure, not technically super, but his solos sound great, cause there blues styled ones.

--------------------------------

sort of off topic, why isnt lizzy in the list?

On the flip side, does November Rain really ever become "November Rain" without that guitar work? I would bet that if you polled 100 random music fans about the best part of the song, more than half would mention the guitars.


That is definitely true, but it is alot easier to pick out genius work than it is to be the genius that comes up with it. The fact that we have heard nothing in the almost 20 years since SCOM that resembles or surpasses that intro is a testament to it's brilliance.

The question one needs to ask about that sort of situation is whether it took more talent/skill for Da Vinci to paint the Mona Lisa, or the general public and fellow painters to realize it was any good?

And Jack White was #17... :hihi:

Wow, what a great way to look at it Naupis!  Slash is a fucking Genius!!  He truly gets it on the guitar!

True. But without Slash's solos, there would be no "Estranged".

I guess if u look at a song in its entirety , everybody contributes. But he did come up with the solos. As for SCOM, joke or not, Slash did create that riff. Perhaps without Axl, it might have not made it on SCOM, but surely on some other song.

One more Finck/BH reference in this thread and we're headed to Dead Horse.

I agree I'm sick of all the three way fights.. Everyone knowns who sides with who or who is their fav..

This thread wasnt intended for a new vs old debate.... So lets praise Slash and GNR and really stick it to the dumbfucks at Rolling Stone.

Damn Straight!

I agree... but also, I hope people who say Axl is the heart and soul and the main guy in old GnR can remember, there'd also be no place for Axl's lyrics in say, Jungle... without Slash writing all the music.

It swings both ways.  People should just take each player and each song for it's own... already people are comparing Slash to the new guys.  Which is pointless in this thread.

:(

Slash is the coolest tho :D

Is it just me or can you tell with each poster who the faveourite guitarist is, whether they prefer old or new gnr, and whether or not they think Slash is an asshole, just by looking at what they've written?

Don't say that without the other band members telling Slash what's good and what isn't about what he plays, or persuading him to try a new direction there would be no Sweet Child or Nov rain.

And don't say that without the rest of the guys there wouldn't be those songs either.

These things things are obvious, theres no need to keep saying them.

Nobody ever says, without Izzy Stradlin there would be no Double Talkin Jive or Don't Cry,
and no one ever says without Duff (and West) there would be no It's So easy. And possibly without Steven Adler you have no Brownstone Riff. Not to mention all the other brilliant contributions the original people made to GNR.

It shows how crap of an attention span you have if all you can hear in Appetite, GNR Lies, and the Illusions is fucking Slash's Solos and Axl's singing

If Slash and Axl reformed GNR 2moro with no other of those original guys,would they have the same brilliant sound that we al know and love? NO!

As you can tell i'm not a fan of the new GNR but that's irrelevant right?

(Delete post as you see fit mods)

i do take notice of other things, duffs bass playing for example, he does alot of awesome fill ins which make the music so much more fun.

anyway you could say on your arguement, get all gnr back, but without slash and put....*shudders*....buckethead in.

*this is in a alternative universe where slash didnt get in gnr*

sweet child o mine intro becomes

*shredding...lots of shredding*

so i think slash was just as importent

LMFAO :rofl:

Nighty night.

its because he's no longer in the band, he has nothing to do with the band, and talking about the past has gotten lame these last 15 years.

there is no doubt in my mind that wttj pc or nr would not be nearly as good without either axl or slash, both needed eachother to achieve those great songs..

yet gh's sells big time ,and bands like the beatles or people like elvis who have been apart or dead forever have a huge following..

yes but when it comes to GNR, its already been talked about.   Most of us don't give a shit about Slash, because he's not part of whats going on now.   If it was up to me, he wouldn't even be mentioned.   I have no desire to talk about the past.   I'm all about now.

We this thread was in the VR section so it has nothink to do with or any of the other stuff you want to bitch on about.