# The Bomber guitar solo > Joe Walsh's guitar solo on The Bomber by James Gang (1971) starts at about 0:59. From the album James Gang Rides Again. A hard rock classic from the 1970s. Canonical URL: James Gang, 1971, from *James Gang Rides Again*. Solo by *Joe Walsh*. This multi-part suite includes a cheeky passage based on Ravel's Bolero. Walsh piles on slide and heavy lead playing in true power-trio style. The Bomber by James Gang is ranked #468 in our consensus of 80 guitar-solo lists. The solo is played by Joe Walsh and the song was released in 1971. It appears on 1 lists, placing as high as #92 (uDiscover Music). ## In our lists - [The Best Joe Walsh Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/joe-walsh-guitar-solos/) — #7 - [Top 20 Guitar Solos of 1971](https://greatestsolos.com/list/best-guitar-solos-1971/) — #14 ## Sources - [uDiscover Music: The Best Guitar Solos Of All Time: 108 Amazing Moments](https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/best-guitar-solos-ever/) — #92 ### Who played the guitar solo on The Bomber? Joe Walsh played the solo on James Gang's The Bomber (1971). ### Where does The Bomber rank among the greatest guitar solos? #468 in the GreatestSolos consensus of 80 published lists; it appears on 1 of them. --- 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/)