Some guitar solos are remembered because they fit perfectly into a song. Others become the song. Megadeth’s “Hangar 18” falls ...

With new solo album Steel Burner out now, Gus G checks in to talk about his August 2010 GW cover shoot and all the madness ...

Whether it was fun, frustrating, or forced us to think differently, these are the 12 pedals that GW staffers say have ...

The guitar solo has been part of popular culture for decades at this point. Guitarists such as Slash, Zakk Wylde and Tony ...

"I always thought that the guitar solo was probably amazing, but you literally can't hear it," Beato said. "It's on the ...

A good guitar solo, be it in rock or any other genre, can be a beautiful example of romanticism within music. While he may have been a classical musician, Johann Sebastian Bach put the importance of ...

Choosing the Big 4 of guitar solos? Provocative is one word for the task. Thankless is another. As we know, most any rock song worth its salt has a guitar solo. That means there are hundreds of ...

The '70s were a pretty great decade for amazing guitar solos, obviously: With legends like Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix and Brian May at the heights of their careers, how could it not have been? But ...

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I remember hearing Jimi Hendrix for the first time. I was around 10, and it was before I started playing guitar, and he blew my hair back. I thought: What is this fire, and how can I lunge into it?

It’s time to argue about — well, make that debate and discuss — the greatest guitar solos of all time. Music history is filled with such moments, when an ultra-talented player starts to shred on six ...