10 Greatest Rock Guitar Solos Of The 90s
4. Cliffs of Dover - Eric Johnson
No matter how good a guitar solo is, it's always about trying to serve the song. Even if you're one of the greatest guitarists who've ever lived, it's always going to be tricky trying to make just the right solo for a song and not trying to go too over the top. Once you've been around the block a couple of times though, you can practically make an entire song one big guitar solo.
Out of all the great guitar solos to come out of this era, Cliffs of Dover still belongs in a class by itself, having the same type of accolades that we would reserve for something like Eruption by Eddie Van Halen. Having one of the single greatest guitar tones known to man, Eric Johnson gives you a lesson in how to make melodic guitar passages, setting the mood with a few solo runs before getting a healthy amount of boogie into the mix with the main riffs.
While you might not be able to sing along to the words of this song, you can practically hum along to every single part of this tune, whether it's the "chorus" of the song that sounds like the guitar is trying to speak to the great solo runs that compliment the more melody driven passages in just the right way. Though you can practice for years trying to measure up to a this song there's no way to teach tasteful guitar playing like this.