# Slip Kid guitar solo

> Pete Townshend's guitar solo on Slip Kid by The Who (1975) starts at about 2:30. From the album The Who by Numbers. A classic rock classic from the 1970s.

Canonical URL: <https://greatestsolos.com/song/the-who-slip-kid/>

The Who, 1975, from *The Who by Numbers*. Solo by *Pete Townshend*.

A tight, economical song where Townshend's guitar breaks add bite to a mid-'70s highlight.

Slip Kid by The Who is #16 in our ranking of the best The Who guitar solos. The solo is played by Pete Townshend and the song was released in 1975.

## In our lists

- [The Best The Who Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/the-who-guitar-solos/) — #16

## Sources

### Who played the guitar solo on Slip Kid?

Pete Townshend played the solo on The Who's Slip Kid (1975).

---

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/)