Best Solo

[colorado]

Clapton

The outro solo in Let It Rain
Nobody Knows You intro
The main solo in Have you ever loved a Woman

[bignote]

"I Can't Tell You Why" Actually played by Glenn Frey.

[big jimmy]

Exactly what a rock and roll guitar should sound like!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnKl52bu1G0

[ehawley]

My favorite solo is Gary Moore's ...Still got the blues for you....actually...anything by Gary is great!

[Drubbing]

[JamesL]

Anything by David Gilmour
Reeling in the Years
Limelight by Rush

[rokdog49]

Comfortably Numb
Reelin' in the Years and this;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le-48...eature=related from
3:05 to 3:50

[Wrong-Note Rod]

Originally Posted by bigben55

(10 Years Gone)Thats up there for me. I'm Gonna Crawl as well.

both of those are brilliant, there are a few by Gilmour too, Elliott Easton was already mentioned, Brian May has played some jaw-droppers.. theres just too many to list

some of my all time faves
Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower, the wah wah solo
Blackmore - Burn
Lyle Lovett - Friend of the Devil, I dont know who played that but its brilliant
Jeff Beck - Come Dancin
Brian Setzer - Stray Cat Strut
Albert Lee - Luxury Liner
James Burton - Hello Mary Lou
Danny gatton - anything from the Humbler

[blues dues]

Eddie Hazel-Maggot Brain

[rockabilly96]

Brian Setzer's rendition of Sleepwalk

[sixtiesreject]

Hello Hello

Tommy Biggs - It's Bremner singing and playing the solo.

One of my fave solos is Chris Spedding on "Hurt".

[Slickster]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR2JtsVumFA

start at 2:40 ... hands down my favorite solo. all time.

I couldn't find a video with the long solo ... not sure what this video is about. But the long solo is there

[bargoedboy]

Well for me the one solo that still gets my attention for sheer tone and taste is the 2nd James burton solo off Mystery train/tiger man medley from the 69 live in vegas album. The first is his take on Scottys original solo, then the 2nd he just makes the tele scream, honest to god that Tele sounds angry

this is the tamer 1970 version on the Paisley tele. starts at 2mins


The one other solo that just makes me smile is Gary moore`s version of Key to love, its outrageous starts at 55 secs, makes me laugh out loud.

[thorton077]

Jimmy page- whole lotta love

[Johmo]

Some more great ones.

Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Free Bird
New Years Day
One bourbon one scotch one beer
Eruption!!!
Layla
Johnny B Goode
Hotel California
Heartbreaker
Stranglehold
Sympathy for the Devil
Whole Lotta Love
You Really Got Me (Kinks)
Sweet Child of Mine
Foxy Lady
You Shook Me All Night Long

[fezz parka]

This:


Or this:

[Fussel62]

Some of my favs:

The Wind Cries Mary - Jimi
Dead Flowers - Stones
Paranoid - Black Sabbath
Something - Beatles
Tattooed Lady - Rory Gallagher

[Bruxist]

Great list!

Cold Shot: SRV
Superstition: SRV
Hotel California: Eagles
Money: Pink Floyd
Wish You Were Here: Pink Floyd (if you can call it a solo)
Heard it Through the Grapevine: CCR

[Televised]

Originally Posted by bigmuff113

Comfortably Numb

+2 or +3, (I lost track....but Mr. Gilmour is certainly getting appropriate recognition. I use his GHS guitar strings but for some reason I just don't sound like he does...)

[mr natural]

Lots of great ones already listed. I'll add:
Zep - Fool in the Rain
Blind Faith (Clapton) - Presence of the Lord
Zappa - Black Napkins
King Crimson (Fripp) - Larks Tongues Part 1 (the really chromatic distorted solo) Also the first solo from Exiles on the USA album.
Hendrix - Machine Gun
Richard Thompson - Jealous Words ( and so many other ones)
Jim Hall - Hi Lili Hi Lo
Crikey, there are so many great ones, I think the whole concept of picking one favorite is crazy.
-Mr. N.