# Midnight guitar solo > The guitar solo on Midnight by Joe Satriani (1987). From the album Surfing with the Alien. Ranked #581 of all time across 80 lists. Canonical URL: Joe Satriani, 1987, from *Surfing with the Alien*. Solo by *Joe Satriani*. A brief solo-guitar piece built entirely on two-handed tapping, a dazzling technical vignette. Midnight by Joe Satriani is ranked #581 in our consensus of 80 guitar-solo lists. The solo is played by Joe Satriani and the song was released in 1987. It appears on 1 lists, placing as high as #160 (Digital Dream Door). ## In our lists - [The Best Joe Satriani Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/joe-satriani-guitar-solos/) — #13 ## Sources - [Digital Dream Door: 250 Greatest Rock Guitar Solos](https://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_guitarsolo.html) — #160 ### Who played the guitar solo on Midnight? Joe Satriani played the solo on Joe Satriani's Midnight (1987). ### Where does Midnight rank among the greatest guitar solos? #581 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/)