# A new guitar hero every day

> Guitar hero of the day: a different great guitarist every day, with their ten greatest solos, the story, the guitars and amps they used, famous covers and a quiz.

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- [Jimi Hendrix](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/jimi-hendrix/) — The man who turned feedback and fuzz into a new language
- [Eric Clapton](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/eric-clapton/) — The blues purist who carried Chicago tone into rock's mainstream
- [Jimmy Page](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/jimmy-page/) — Riff architect and studio wizard who built Led Zeppelin's hammer
- [Jeff Beck](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/jeff-beck/) — The guitarist's guitarist who made the Stratocaster sing like a voice
- [David Gilmour](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/david-gilmour/) — Master of tone and space whose every bend tells a story
- [Eddie Van Halen](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/eddie-van-halen/) — The tinkerer who turned the fretboard into a two-handed launchpad
- [Stevie Ray Vaughan](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/stevie-ray-vaughan/) — The Texas storm who put the blues back on the charts
- [B.B. King](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/b-b-king/) — The king who proved one perfectly bent note can say everything
- [Chuck Berry](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/chuck-berry/) — The architect whose double-stop intros became rock and roll's alphabet
- [Keith Richards](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/keith-richards/) — The riff master who made five strings and open G roll
- [Pete Townshend](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/pete-townshend/) — The windmilling visionary who turned volume, feedback and story into rock art
- [Brian May](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/brian-may/) — A homemade guitar, a sixpence and orchestras of layered melody
- [Tony Iommi](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/tony-iommi/) — The riff master who forged heavy metal from injury and invention
- [Slash](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/slash/) — Top hat, Les Paul and melodies that made hard rock sing again
- [Angus Young](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/angus-young/) — The schoolboy dynamo who made rock and roll loud, lean and electric
- [Randy Rhoads](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/randy-rhoads/) — The classical-minded prodigy who gave heavy metal a conservatory education
- [Duane Allman](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/duane-allman/) — Slide guitar that sang like a voice and soared like jazz
- [Carlos Santana](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/carlos-santana/) — Latin rhythm, blues fire and spiritual yearning in every sustained note
- [Mark Knopfler](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/mark-knopfler/) — Fingerpicked storytelling that made every note count
- [Prince](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/prince/) — A funk genius whose guitar could out-burn any rock hero
- [Kirk Hammett](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/kirk-hammett/) — The wah-soaked lead voice of the world's biggest metal band
- [Dimebag Darrell](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/dimebag-darrell/) — The Texas groove-metal wildman who rebuilt heavy guitar's swagger
- [Yngwie Malmsteen](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/yngwie-malmsteen/) — The Swedish virtuoso who fused Paganini's fire with heavy metal
- [Steve Vai](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/steve-vai/) — Guitar's otherworldly visionary, equal parts virtuoso, composer and inventor
- [Joe Satriani](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/joe-satriani/) — The teacher turned superstar who made instrumental rock guitar sing
- [John Petrucci](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/john-petrucci/) — Progressive metal's master architect of precision, melody and endurance
- [Zakk Wylde](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/zakk-wylde/) — Bullseye Les Paul, pinch harmonics and southern-fried heavy metal muscle
- [Ritchie Blackmore](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/ritchie-blackmore/) — Hard rock's dark wizard, who fused Bach with blistering riffs
- [Gary Moore](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/gary-moore/) — Belfast's fiery virtuoso who made every note cry, from metal to blues
- [Peter Green](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/peter-green/) — The Green God, whose silence spoke louder than any shredder
- [Rory Gallagher](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/rory-gallagher/) — A battered Strat, a plaid shirt, and no rock-star pretence whatsoever
- [Johnny Winter](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/johnny-winter/) — Texas lightning: the fastest, fiercest slide in blues rock
- [Albert King](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/albert-king/) — The Velvet Bulldozer whose bends could flatten a room
- [Freddie King](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/freddie-king/) — The Texas Cannonball who taught British blues rock to roar
- [Buddy Guy](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/buddy-guy/) — Chicago blues' wildest showman and its last great living link
- [Muddy Waters](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/muddy-waters/) — The man who plugged the Delta into Chicago and electrified the blues
- [Robert Johnson](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/robert-johnson/) — Twenty-nine songs that became the foundation stone of rock guitar
- [Django Reinhardt](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/django-reinhardt/) — Two working fingers, one fearless imagination, and European jazz was born
- [Wes Montgomery](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/wes-montgomery/) — A bare thumb and blazing octaves that redefined jazz guitar
- [Les Paul](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/les-paul/) — The guitarist-inventor who built the tools modern music is made with
- [Chet Atkins](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/chet-atkins/) — Mister Guitar, who made one pair of hands sound like two
- [Pat Metheny](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/pat-metheny/) — The jazz guitarist who made improvisation sound like wide-open landscapes
- [John McLaughlin](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/john-mclaughlin/) — The fusion firebrand who fused rock volume, jazz harmony and Indian rhythm
- [Allan Holdsworth](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/allan-holdsworth/) — The guitarist who made the guitar sound like a saxophone
- [Paco de Lucía](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/paco-de-lucia/) — The man who split flamenco history into before and after
- [Tom Morello](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/tom-morello/) — The guitarist who made six strings sound like a turntable
- [Jack White](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/jack-white/) — Raw Delta blues rewired through Detroit garage-rock fuzz
- [John Frusciante](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/john-frusciante/) — Melody, restraint and feeling at the heart of funk rock
- [Jerry Garcia](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/jerry-garcia/) — The improviser who turned every concert into a journey
- [Neil Young](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/neil-young/) — Feedback, fury and feeling from rock's most restless songwriter
- [Mick Ronson](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/mick-ronson/) — The glam-rock guitar hero who made Ziggy Stardust soar
- [Alex Lifeson](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/alex-lifeson/) — Rush's architect of ringing chords and exotic, effects-drenched solos
- [Steve Howe](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/steve-howe/) — Progressive rock's great guitar polymath, fluent in every style
- [Robert Fripp](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/robert-fripp/) — King Crimson's relentless innovator of precision, loops and sustain
- [Frank Zappa](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/frank-zappa/) — The composer-satirist whose solos were spontaneous symphonies
- [George Benson](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/george-benson/) — The bebop virtuoso who carried jazz guitar onto pop radio
- [Joe Pass](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/joe-pass/) — The man who made one jazz guitar sound like an orchestra
- [Al Di Meola](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/al-di-meola/) — Jazz-rock's speed king who fell in love with Mediterranean rhythm
- [Adrian Belew](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/adrian-belew/) — The guitarist who taught his instrument to roar, squeal and sing
- [Nuno Bettencourt](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/nuno-bettencourt/) — Funk-metal firepower with a pop songwriter's heart
- [Paul Gilbert](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/paul-gilbert/) — The joyful shredder who made blinding speed sound playful and melodic
- [Marty Friedman](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/marty-friedman/) — Exotic scales and fearless bends that reshaped thrash metal soloing
- [Dave Mustaine](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/dave-mustaine/) — Thrash metal's sharpest riff architect and its most relentless survivor
- [Derek Trucks](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/derek-trucks/) — The modern master of slide guitar, fusing blues, soul and raga
- [Warren Haynes](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/warren-haynes/) — Southern rock's tireless workhorse, equally at home with blues, soul and jams
- [Joe Bonamassa](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/joe-bonamassa/) — The tireless torchbearer who carried British blues-rock into a new century
- [John Mayer](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/john-mayer/) — The pop star who smuggled real blues guitar into the charts
- [Gary Clark Jr.](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/gary-clark-jr/) — Austin's fuzz-soaked bridge between old blues and modern soul
- [Eric Johnson](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/eric-johnson/) — The tone perfectionist whose violin-like leads redefined instrumental rock
- [Guthrie Govan](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/guthrie-govan/) — The musician's musician who can play anything, in any style, flawlessly
- [Billy Gibbons](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/billy-gibbons/) — Texas boogie, fat tone and the sly art of leaving space
- [Joe Walsh](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/joe-walsh/) — Rock's funniest guitar hero, with riffs as serious as they come
- [Dickey Betts](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/dickey-betts/) — The melodic heart of Southern rock's greatest twin-guitar band
- [Lindsey Buckingham](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/lindsey-buckingham/) — A pickless fingerstyle wizard who turned pop into sonic architecture
- [Brian Setzer](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/brian-setzer/) — The Gretsch-slinging cat who revived rockabilly and swing twice
- [Link Wray](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/link-wray/) — The man who turned one menacing chord into rock's blueprint
- [Dick Dale](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/dick-dale/) — The King of the Surf Guitar, who played like a crashing wave
- [Scotty Moore](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/scotty-moore/) — The guitarist who gave Elvis Presley's rock and roll its spark
- [Sister Rosetta Tharpe](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/sister-rosetta-tharpe/) — The Godmother of Rock and Roll, who electrified gospel
- [Bonnie Raitt](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/bonnie-raitt/) — Slide guitar's most soulful voice, singing blues with grace and grit
- [Nita Strauss](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/nita-strauss/) — Arena-sized shred with a showwoman's instinct for the big moment
- [St. Vincent](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/st-vincent/) — Art-rock auteur who made the guitar sound alien and exciting again
- [Mdou Moctar](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/mdou-moctar/) — Tuareg psych-rock firebrand who carried desert guitar onto the world's stages
- [Ali Farka Touré](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/ali-farka-toure/) — The Niger River bluesman who revealed the African roots of the blues
- [Tosin Abasi](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/tosin-abasi/) — Eight-string visionary who turned slap-guitar and polyrhythm into progressive art
- [Tim Henson](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/tim-henson/) — The nylon-string virtuoso who fused shred guitar with trap-era production
- [Mike McCready](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/mike-mccready/) — Grunge's great lead guitarist, channeling Hendrix fire into anthems
- [Jerry Cantrell](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/jerry-cantrell/) — Architect of Alice in Chains' dark riffs and eerie harmonies
- [Johnny Marr](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/johnny-marr/) — Indie guitar's master of shimmering arpeggios and layered melody
- [The Edge](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/the-edge/) — The delay-drenched sound painter behind U2's soaring anthems
- [Richie Sambora](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/richie-sambora/) — The arena-rock melodist whose talk box and hooks powered Bon Jovi
- [Neal Schon](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/neal-schon/) — The teenage prodigy who became Journey's soaring melodic voice
- [Ace Frehley](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/ace-frehley/) — Kiss's Spaceman, who made rock guitar a smoking spectacle
- [Michael Schenker](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/michael-schenker/) — The Flying V virtuoso who wrote hard rock's most melodic solos
- [Uli Jon Roth](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/uli-jon-roth/) — The Hendrix disciple who pioneered neoclassical rock guitar
- [Tommy Emmanuel](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/tommy-emmanuel/) — One acoustic guitar that sounds like a whole band
- [Billy Strings](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/billy-strings/) — Bluegrass flatpicking with the volume and daring of a rock show
- [Molly Tuttle](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/molly-tuttle/) — The flatpicker who rewrote who wins bluegrass guitar awards
- [Albert Collins](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/albert-collins/) — The Iceman, whose Telecaster cut like a blade
- [T-Bone Walker](https://greatestsolos.com/hero/t-bone-walker/) — The man who made electric guitar the star of the blues

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