Glen Campbell - Best Guitar Solos 1960 to 2000s

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#GlenCampbell is an American rock and country music singer, guitarist, songwriter, television host, and actor. Most people know him as a singer and aren't aware of what an influential guitar player he was. I have compiled examples of Glens playing through the years to show how this guitar legend developed through his early days in the 60s to the 2000s. I hope you find some inspiration in this, and please feel free to like and share.

[tonyjones]

Glen Campbell. Jerry Reed. Roy Clark. If you're a guitar player and you don't know these men, *get* to know them...three of the great players, regardless of genre. RIP

[Sheepleton]

Telling you right now, playing that clear and precise on a 12 string acoustic is brutal stuff. Glen is the definition of a musical legend.

[larrysmith]

Merle Haggard said if God gave one man too much talent it was Glen Campbell. I agree.

[kanealson]

Well I guess it's time to finally recognize the fact that Glenn Campbell was indeed one of the greatest masters of guitar EVER. Not just capable of the technical aspects of great speed and accuracy but tasteful and inventive. He makes the most complex runs look easy and natural. The guy was incredible.

[derricknichols]

This man doesn’t get even close to the recognition he deserves for his guitar playing

[Tenkvandool]

when I was a kid My Grandpa said " someday you'll play guitar like Glen Campbell. I was thinking ( no. I want to play like Jimmy Page!). Grandpa knew what he was talking about!

[stevenspeckmann]

Short Story but really is True; I Started taking guitar lessons in Albuquerque, New Mexico when I was about 9 yrs old....the school was co owned by a local TV personality named Dick Bills who also was part owner or the NBC affiliate and also owned or part owner of a local night club. Well when I was in 5th grade in Nov 1965 I walked into the lesson the evening before Thanksgiving and they told me I was going to have a substitute teacher. It turned out to be Glen I actually had him for three weeks. He told me he had just come off the road touring with the Beach boys
The school performed a Christmas songs (mostly Accordian students) but Apparently Glen was Mr Bills Nephew which I knew nothing about but Glen taught me three songs two for the show and one for my first lesson. Believe it or not I've got a Kalamazoo Gibson guitar that Kalamazoo gave to Carl Wilson as a Demo who in turn gave it to Glen and Glen ended up giving it to me... Still play it once in a while

[BigMamou]

Seriously I had no frickin idea how great his guitar playing was. Usually you only saw him singing a hit song. Now I look at him in a different light. He was and is great.

[marcushammond]

I assume if you watched this you are a Glen and or guitar fan. How can anyone vote this a thumb down? He was the master!

[ssgoifvet]

Criminally underrated guitar player...tasty licks and those chops are a force to reckoned with

[stringflogger]

To those who didn't know what an amazing guitarist Glen was - he started out professionally as a guitar session player with The Wrecking Crew. The Wrecking Crew was a legendary group of musicians who were engaged to play on generally - other peoples' recordings. The singing came later. He was renowned in the music industry for his guitar skills before the singing ever got hot for him.

[justincase]

This man was so talented, yet so underrated and actually mocked by the hipsters of the 60s and 70s. But when you see what he was capable of, as a player and a singer, he put most of his rock and pop contemporaries to shame. R.I.P. Glen!🙏✝️❤️

[MrDuds]

When Eddie Van Halen asks for lessons from Glen Campbell you know he must be something special

[chrisoreo]

A truly unique artist, I’m glad I’m old enough to remember and appreciate him 👌👌

[markvaz]

When people talk about the greatest guitarists of all time you hear Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, etc, but Glen Campbell really needs to be included in that exclusive group.

[samuelmiller]

Prince knew the music industry so well and had tons of influence in it. When someone asked him who he believed the best guitarist ever was..he said Glen Campbell without hesitation. That says alot.

[JacksPlace-AusMusic]

The solo at 4.41 was when Glen was in advanced illness - the man was incredibly gifted. A real artist.

[tamadoer]

I'm seventy seven and i listen to a lot of music and watch a lot of videos of great guitarists; Glen Campbell, in my opinion, is among the best I have ever heard and seen.
Fabulous both as a composer of great hits and as a brilliant performer and singer. 
An icon of world music. 
RIP.

[ronpippin]

It’s hard to say anybody is the absolute best because of all the genres (classical, flamenco, jazz, r&b, country, swing, rock and so on), but overall as a guitarist myself for going on 60 years, I’d have to say he is AMONG the best in any genre he ever attempted. The boy could pick.

[nickhuber]

Most underrated guitarist of all time.