# Ain't That a Shame guitar solo > The guitar solo on Ain't That a Shame by Cheap Trick (1978) starts at about 2:35. From the album Cheap Trick at Budokan. A hard rock classic from the 1970s. Canonical URL: Cheap Trick, 1978, from *Cheap Trick at Budokan*. Solo by *Rick Nielsen*. The Fats Domino cover is reborn as a heavy, slow-burning live jam, with Nielsen trading raw, crowd-fired licks before the band crashes in. Ain't That a Shame by Cheap Trick is #3 in our ranking of the best Cheap Trick guitar solos. The solo is played by Rick Nielsen and the song was released in 1978. ## In our lists - [The Best Cheap Trick Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/cheap-trick-guitar-solos/) — #3 ## Sources ### Who played the guitar solo on Ain't That a Shame? Rick Nielsen played the solo on Cheap Trick's Ain't That a Shame (1978). --- GreatestSolos ranks the greatest guitar solos by consensus across published lists. Agent guide: [llms.txt](https://greatestsolos.com/llms.txt) · [Sitemap](https://greatestsolos.com/sitemap.xml) · [Dataset (CSV)](https://greatestsolos.com/data/greatest-guitar-solos.csv) · [How we rank](https://greatestsolos.com/method/)