# Bad Horsie guitar solo > The guitar solo on Bad Horsie by Steve Vai (1995). From the album Alien Love Secrets. Ranked #582 of all time across 80 lists. Played on an Ibanez JEM. Canonical URL: Steve Vai, 1995, from *Alien Love Secrets*. Solo by *Steve Vai*. Vai uses a wah pedal to make his guitar neigh and whinny over a crushing drop-tuned riff, a humorous display of sound design. Bad Horsie by Steve Vai is ranked #582 in our consensus of 80 guitar-solo lists. The solo is played by Steve Vai and the song was released in 1995. It appears on 1 lists, placing as high as #114 (Guitar Tricks). ## In our lists - [The Best Steve Vai Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/steve-vai-guitar-solos/) — #4 - [Top 20 Guitar Solos of 1995](https://greatestsolos.com/list/best-guitar-solos-1995/) — #6 ## Sources - [Guitar Tricks: 200 Best Guitar Solos of All Time](https://www.guitartricks.com/blog/200-Best-Guitar-Solos-of-All-Time) — #114 ### Who played the guitar solo on Bad Horsie? Steve Vai played the solo on Steve Vai's Bad Horsie (1995). ### What guitar was used on the Bad Horsie solo? An ibanez jem, according to widely reported accounts. ### Where does Bad Horsie rank among the greatest guitar solos? #582 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/)