# Ohio / Machine Gun guitar solo > The guitar solo on Ohio / Machine Gun by The Isley Brothers (1971) starts at about 3:00. From the album Givin' It Back. A funk/soul classic from the 1970s. Canonical URL: The Isley Brothers, 1971, from *Givin' It Back*. Solo by *Ernie Isley*. A nine-minute medley of Neil Young and Hendrix songs where young Ernie channels his former housemate Hendrix in a howling protest jam. Ohio / Machine Gun by The Isley Brothers is #7 in our ranking of the best The Isley Brothers guitar solos. The solo is played by Ernie Isley and the song was released in 1971. ## In our lists - [The Best The Isley Brothers Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/the-isley-brothers-guitar-solos/) — #7 ## Sources ### Who played the guitar solo on Ohio / Machine Gun? Ernie Isley played the solo on The Isley Brothers's Ohio / Machine Gun (1971). --- 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/)