Brian May's Bohemian Rhapsody Guitar Solo Voted Greatest Of All Time
 

Two days ago, Total Guitar's readers chose Bohemian Rhapsody as the best solo of all time, even beating great solos like Stairway To Heaven, Eruption, Hotel California and Comfortably Numb. Some moths ago, Brian May was also chosen as greatest guitarist of all time.
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Well, for me it would be difficult to chose just one solo, and although I love Queen and Bohemian Rhapsody and I do consider it as one of the best solos, I wouldn't include it the top solos podium.
What do you think?

These magazines and polls are akin to Fast Food Magazine crowning the Big Mac "Best Cheeseburger of All Time".

I think it's garbage. Don't may no mind.

The guitar solo on We Will Rock You is the greatest thing he ever did and one of the greatest moments in the history of recorded music. I’m surprised the universe didn’t collapse the first time he played it.

If it ain't Slayer it ain't got a prayer.

I'm no guitar connoisseur (far from it), but definitely not Brain May for me. Two of my favourite solos are by Jimi Hendrix: the solo bit in All Along the Watchtower and the one in Message to Love (from Band of Gypsies, I mean that one funky solo). And I agree with what Elph once pointed out about the solo in Can't Stand Myself by James Chance and the Contortions, that would be my third favourite

Here's two black and white...literally...guitar solos for OP.



First we have the most sublime and buttery slide guitar solo from a boring ass white dude (starts at 4:00). Boring ass white people music with a beautiful solo. The Allman brothers made an entire career out of doing it and Trucks will be doing it for 30 more years.



Then we have a funky screeching facemelter by the f*cking legend Sonny Sharrock who is cooler than the other side of the pillow. Nobody is doing this anymore because Sonny Sharrock is f*cking dead.

...

Hence, the poll for best guitarist of all time is really a list for the best "boring ass white dude who can wail on guitar of all time" and they didn't even get it right.

As far as being a contender to actually win the popular vote this is the obvious and correct choice.

It’s so astonishing when after he says hey the second time good god almighty

I’m pretty sure the universe did collapse and this is a simulation

For me Bohemian Rhapsody>We Will Rock You, but I think the greatest thing Brian May ever did was The Show Must Go On.
Yeah, I'm very far, too, in the end I value more the feeling.
That one is freakin' amazing. When I listened to it for the first time on the radio thinking that it was a song by Cream, I was like "ohhhhhh my, ohhh my I can't believe it". That may sound a bit exaggerated but it's true.

And the best solo of all time apart from that one imo would be Still Got The Blues, Since I've Been Loving You, Hotel California, Heartbreaker or Voodoo Child (Slight Return).

Man that clip. Holy **** - to go that far into the avant-garde and still have that much control - that’s some beyond all comprehension **** right there

Yikes

That’s a good choice for a realistic contender

As I told in another thread it wasn't my fault, the broadcaster said it was a wonderful song by Eric Clacton from Cream. And yeah, he always says Clacton.
And yes, Heartbreaker is the only reason why I'd start learning how to play the guitar. But I guess it's too late.

Stop making excuses, Ms. Rigby.

Why? I'm not making excuses.

Zip up that sass young lady

Too late? 14 is a perfect age.

No, my hard-rocker friend has been learning since 7, I gave him 2 months to learn A Hard Day's Night without the solo, and he couldn't play it the day we had to, we ended up being in the last place of a competition.
And I can't play the guitar without having a guitar.
No, cause this is my thread.

That's not how **** works, wuss. If you want to play guitar then get a guitar and see what happens.

A.) You don't have to be Jimi Hendrix to play good ****.

B.) Music doesn't have to be about how "skilled" you are, it can just be about having fun.

C.) Maybe your friend is just a hack.

Yaaaas tell him girl!

And it's definitely not too late to learn guitar. I know quite a lot of people who learned at your age and they're good. Guitars can be cheap too if you buy second hand. Also what Bat says. You don't even have to get super good, as long as you have fun

Yes.
Hahaha yeah, but I'm replying to you while I'm drawing a political and physical map of Africa and I gotta learn all African capitals, countries and their locations for an exam. And I have enough with playing the piano, imagine if I started with the guitar, I would have to quit eating to have enough time to do everything.

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Lmao

I don’t see anything funny about an obstinate child who refuses to learn.

I bet she hasn’t even watched Exo’s clips yet.

Is a hack like a bad thing or something? And I'm not obstinate, I can't listen to music right now, my parents are listening to Italian music. I'll watch them when I have enough time, that has nothing to do with being sassy or obstinate. Don't know what time it is in America, but here it's 23:44 and I'm doing lots of boring homeowork, so as you see my free time's not infinite, I can coment in this thread oftenly, but I don't have much time to listen to music, when I have, you've already seen that I listen to your suggestions and say what do I think about them.
I'm just the opposite of that, believe me.

Dude you're an obstinate child

Heh.

Dude, f@ck that sh!t, piano is awesome but you can crack somebody in the crowd right over the head with a guitar and that sh!t is lit.

It means your friend sucks.

If you're gonna play guitar you gotta learn to tell your parents to suck your dick.

Damn I didn't know that.
I'm just gonna pretend I haven't read the last sentence.

I thought you were deliberately dissing him :laughing:
Also, Bat may have his own original way of phrasing things, but if you read through that it's excellent advice. Especially the hitting people in the head part ;)

I see...I guess I'll have to get used to it.

As you can see, Marie and Bat are very negative influences and quite honestly the type of people you might want to avoid. Life is about making the right decisions, Ms. Rigby.

Did you go back for your second listen to the Velvet Underground?

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F@ckin hell yeah biatch get crunk in the hizzy.

Yes, and I'm sorry but I still think the same about it, with the exception that now I like Nico's voice more.

I didn't think I was going to say this, but...both solos were way much better than Bohemian Rhapsody lol
I love B. R. as a song, I think it's amazing and original, but the solo is very far from being the best one imo. I think that even Killer Queen's solo is better.

quite.

Ok, I'm actually going to engage in this ridiculousness. Maybe I've mised something all these years...

Now, I'm putting that up against one of my favorite solos from Stevie Ray Vaughan taken from the commercial release, Live at the El Mocambo: Texas Flood.



3:49 starts the solo

Now let me go back to Lady May.



:cool: Really?

against my 2nd favorite by Prince (for a short segment comparison).



And, in all honesty, I never heard Prince better this ending of Let's Go Crazy LIVE or otherwise.

Well, I think people have chosen it becasue it's very popular, it becomes more famous every year, specially after the movie in 2018, so I think it's normal that readers have voted for Brian May as the best guitarist, but I don't really understand Bohemian Rhaposdy having the best solo. Stairway To Heaven usually wins this, and it's surprising that being such a famous song it hasn't won this time. I don't think Stairway has the best solo either, but I think that it is not only better than Bohemian Rhapsody's, but also more iconic and legendary. So now I was quite surprised when I saw this. And Bohemian Rhaposdy is a marvellous composition, one of rock music's best songs and one of the most representative ones, too. But it doesn't shine thanks to the solo, I'm sorry.

Bolded one: Gary Moore?
Bolded two: Hotel California's ending is not a solo; there are about five guitars going. At best it's a guitar chorus outro. Maybe.

Best, certainly most unexpected wtf solo...

(from 2:48)

from wiki

While the Carpenters were working on the song, Carpenter decided that a fuzz guitar solo should be included. Karen Carpenter called guitarist Tony Peluso and asked him to play on the record. Tony remembers: "At first I didn't believe that it was actually Karen Carpenter on the phone but she repeated her name again. ... It was at this point that I realized it was really her and that I was speaking to one of my idols." She told him that she and Richard were working on a song called "Goodbye to Love", that they were familiar with Tony's work with a band called Instant Joy, and that he would be perfect for the sound they were looking for.[3] Peluso first played something soft and sweet, but then Richard Carpenter said:

"No, no, no! Play the melody for five bars and then burn it up! Soar off into the stratosphere! Go ahead! It'll be great!"[4]

John Bettis has said that Richard Carpenter kept calling him, raving about the guitar solo. He was wondering why Richard was going on about the solo until he heard it. The lyricist said he cried when he first heard the song because he had never heard an electric guitar sound like that. He said Tony Peluso "had a certain almost cello sounding guitar growl that worked against the wonderful melancholia of that song". He went on to say the "way it growls at you, especially at the end" was unbelievable.[5]

Yes, I'm talking about Still Got The Blues by Gary Moore.
And people refer to Hotel California's ending as a guitar solo. I'm not an expert on this, but it always appears on the top guitar solos lists.
P.S. Thanks for posting the video, right now I can't listen to it because I'm connected to an online German lesson, but I'll listen to it.

If I made a list of my top 50 favorite guitarists, Brian May wouldn't even make the list.
If I made a list of my top 50 favorite guitar solos, the solo in Bohemian Rhapsody wouldn't even make the list.
If I made a list of my top 50 favorite rock groups, Queen wouldn't even make the list.

I’m pretty sure you could go much higher than 50 in all those categories. I’m thinking not even top 200 and that’s probably too generous.