# Rusty Cage guitar solo > Kim Thayil's guitar solo on Rusty Cage by Soundgarden (1991) starts at about 1:58. From the album Badmotorfinger. Played on a Guild S-100 Polara. Canonical URL: Soundgarden, 1991, from *Badmotorfinger*. Solo by *Kim Thayil*. Thayil's frenzied, noise-edged solo erupts before the song collapses into its crushing half-time outro. Rusty Cage by Soundgarden is #5 in our ranking of the best Chris Cornell guitar solos. The solo is played by Kim Thayil and the song was released in 1991. ## In our lists - [The Best Chris Cornell Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/chris-cornell-guitar-solos/) — #5 - [The Best Soundgarden Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/soundgarden-guitar-solos/) — #3 ## Sources ### Who played the guitar solo on Rusty Cage? Kim Thayil played the solo on Soundgarden's Rusty Cage (1991). ### What guitar was used on the Rusty Cage solo? A guild s-100 polara, 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/)