Billy Corgan is an underrated guitar soloist – and he knows it. His tortured leads on vintage Smashing Pumpkins cuts like ...
Kayla Kent is a blistering lead guitarist who shares her talent on YouTube. Over the last year, her performance videos of Pantera guitar solos originally played by the influential metal band's late ...
This unreleased video from 1995 shows Prince playing one of his earliest songs, “Bambi.” After getting a few vocals out of the way, Prince starts putting on a guitar clinic, using every technique many ...
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Top 20 Hair Metal Guitar Solos

You’re probably reading this list of the Top 20 Hair Metal Guitar Solos for one of two reasons. You might be an ’80s hard ...
These memorable pop songs boast absolutely killer guitar solos that would impress even the hardest glam metal or classic rock ...
The guitar solo isn’t an endangered species; it’s one that’s evolving to survive in a rapidly changing climate. Guitar gods of the 20th century, like Slash and Eddie Van Halen (or their modern-day ...
The Smashing Pumpkins frontman sees virtuosos everywhere but he would like to see these talents being applied in the next generation of great alt-rock and metal bands ...
With their striped catsuits and over-the-top songs that hearkened back to Thin Lizzy, Iron Maiden and all manner of ’80s hard rock, The Darkness were a surprise success when they released their debut ...
Page’s best guitar solos from Led Zeppelin albums remain among the greatest of the classic rock era. Yet when the band performed live — which they did extensively from 1968 through 1973 — those solos ...
Randy Rhoads was quite simply one of the most groundbreaking guitarists the rock idiom has ever known. His mother was a music teacher, and young Randy received a proper musical education before ...
What are the best metalcore guitar solos? It's something fans are hotly debating. With its emphasis on down-tuned chugs and crushing breakdowns, metalcore is not necessarily a subgenre commonly ...
Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi is arguably the most important player in the history of heavy metal. His awesomely heavy riffs served as the basic blueprint for subsequent bands, and of course, ...