# Nightrain guitar solo > Slash's guitar solo on Nightrain by Guns N' Roses (1987) starts at about 2:14. From the album Appetite for Destruction. A hard rock classic from the 1980s. Canonical URL: Guns N' Roses, 1987, from *Appetite for Destruction*. Solo by *Slash*. A furious, sloppy-in-the-best-way barrage over the outro that captures the band's street-level energy. Nightrain by Guns N' Roses is #6 in our ranking of the best Guns N' Roses guitar solos. The solo is played by Slash and the song was released in 1987. ## In our lists - [The Best Guns N' Roses Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/guns-n-roses-guitar-solos/) — #6 - [The Best Slash Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/slash-guitar-solos/) — #6 ## Sources ### Who played the guitar solo on Nightrain? Slash played the solo on Guns N' Roses's Nightrain (1987). ### What guitar was used on the Nightrain solo? A gibson les paul (kris derrig replica) through a Marshall amp, according to widely reported accounts. --- 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/)