# Hey Hey My My guitar solo > The guitar solo on Hey Hey My My by Neil Young (1979) starts at about 2:30. From the album Rust Never Sleeps. Ranked #242 of all time across 80 lists. Canonical URL: Neil Young, 1979, from *Rust Never Sleeps*. Solo by *Neil Young*. Hey Hey My My is Neil Young and Crazy Horse at their loudest, and the solo is a storm of distortion and feedback. Young stays near a few notes, hammering and bending them while the amp roars and squeals around him. The raw, messy sound was a deliberate rejection of polished late-1970s rock, and it pointed toward the noisy guitar sound of later alternative and grunge bands. Old Black's tone here is thick, overdriven and on the edge of collapse. The solo is less about melody than about sheer force and texture. Listen for the moments where feedback takes over and Young seems to wrestle with the sound rather than play notes, letting the guitar's own noise become part of the music. Hey Hey My My by Neil Young is ranked #242 in our consensus of 80 guitar-solo lists. The solo is played by Neil Young and the song was released in 1979. It appears on 1 lists, placing as high as #12 (NME). ## In our lists - [The 25 Greatest Grunge Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/grunge/) — #9 - [The Best Neil Young Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/neil-young-guitar-solos/) — #5 - [Top 20 Guitar Solos of 1979](https://greatestsolos.com/list/best-guitar-solos-1979/) — #6 ## Sources - [NME: 50 Greatest Guitar Solos of All Time](https://www.nme.com/lists/50-greatest-guitar-solos-1255) — #12 ### Who played the guitar solo on Hey Hey My My? Neil Young played the solo on Neil Young's Hey Hey My My (1979). ### What guitar was used on the Hey Hey My My solo? A gibson les paul (old black), according to widely reported accounts. ### Where does Hey Hey My My rank among the greatest guitar solos? #242 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/)