# Ice Cream Man guitar solo > The guitar solo on Ice Cream Man by Van Halen (1978). Ranked #218 of all time across 80 lists. Watch from the solo, plus the story and gear. Canonical URL: Van Halen, 1978. Solo by *Eddie Van Halen*. A John Brim acoustic blues cover that detonates into full-band boogie, with two short Eddie Van Halen solos full of tapping flourishes. Ice Cream Man by Van Halen is ranked #218 in our consensus of 80 guitar-solo lists. The solo is played by Eddie Van Halen and the song was released in 1978. It appears on 2 lists, placing as high as #7 (Rick Beato (YouTube)). ## In our lists - [Best of Eddie Van Halen](https://greatestsolos.com/list/evh/) — #6 - [Top 20 Guitar Solos of 1978](https://greatestsolos.com/list/best-guitar-solos-1978/) — #7 ## Sources - [Rick Beato (YouTube): Top 20 Rock Guitar Solos of All Time](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV-y91BZonY) — #7 - [Digital Dream Door: 250 Greatest Rock Guitar Solos](https://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_guitarsolo.html) — #158 ### Who played the guitar solo on Ice Cream Man? Eddie Van Halen played the solo on Van Halen's Ice Cream Man (1978). ### Where does Ice Cream Man rank among the greatest guitar solos? #218 in the GreatestSolos consensus of 80 published lists; it appears on 2 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/)