Guitar Tournament - Round 3 - Round of 64

The third round of the Guitar Solo Tournament is up. You can access the survey now.

This round will continue through Saturday, May 4 (sometime in the late afternoon). We're down to 64 songs in total; but you can always do some of the survey and save your work, and come back to it later.

From here, it just gets easier (in terms of time) - we'll be halving the number of songs each round. On the other hand, the choices, almost certainly, will become more difficult.

For comparison sake - remember that in the first round, there were 28 bands with three or more songs. Here's the current list of bands with 2+ songs:

5: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Van Halen
3: Eric Clapton
2: Def Leppard, Pink Floyd, The Beatles

ZZ Top - went from 5 songs to just 1. The Black Crowes went from 4 songs to just 1. And a whole lot of surprises happened in the last round.

One of my *favorites* to win the tournament was bumped (Pink Floyd's "On The Turning Away" -- in fact, it got only ONE vote (mine!)). Other surprising eliminations included No Rain (Blind Melon), Be Yourself (Audioslave), Let's Go Crazy (Prince) and Rest in Peace (Extreme), as well as Kenny Wayne Shepherd's "Blue on Black."

But, ultimately, they all would have fallen at some point. Only one can be the champion, and now, we have one bracket to track.

I'd be lying if I told you it was getting easier.

Remember - this round ends this Saturday!