Favorite Guitar Solo

Jeff Beck
”Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers”
not really a solo, just the entire song. 

Good lord. I do feel for you people. There is a world outside Top of the Pops,  mashed potatoes and classic rock, I promise.
Allow me... But be careful with this.

Duk Koo Kim - YouTube

Jerry Garcia, "Dancing in the Streets" from the Cornell show, 5-8-77.

Most any song from Danny Gatton on Crusin' Deuces
Most any solo by Duane and Dickey on Fillmore Live
Dickey Betts Blue Sky - Jelly Jelly Jelly
Plenty of solos on Steely Dan  Ozzy already nailed one
Clapton While my guitar gently weeps
Clapton Nobody knows you when you're down and out
Most any song from Layla
Gary Moore still got the blues
George Harrison Something
Peg Jay Graydon
Santana Europa, Samba Pa Ti - plus others
Santana 3 with Neil Schon
Eric Johnson Cliffs of Dover - Cover of Becks Bolero
Jeff Beck Cause we ended as lovers - many more
Focus Jan Ackerman
Al Di Meola - Mediterranean Sundance etc.
George Benson - Bad Benson just pick one
Ronnie Earl anything off of the Colour of love
SRV too many to list
Gino Vannelli Brother to Brother - plenty on that recording
Gino Vannelli - Jay Graydon Where am I going
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty Guitar Solo
Minnie Riperton - Midnight at the Oasis -  Amos Garrett
Highway Star - R Blackmore
Leslie West - Miss Queen
First Bad Co record a few there also
Eddie on Beat It
Georgia Satellites - Milk & Cow fun solo to play
Black Crows - Hard to Handle
Kenny Wayne Shepperd - Rudolf the red nose reindeer
Steve Vai - Christmas Time Is Here
Joe Satriani - Summer Song
Johnny Winter - Second winter especially Memory Pain the entire song
Johnny Winter Stranger
Rick Derringer Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo
Free Alright now
Bad Finger some nice solos there
Heart Magic Man
Jethro Tull Aqualung
Pink Floyd - Money
Rocky Mountain Way
Elton John   Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
 Procol Harum - Conquistador
Chicago -  Questions 67 and 68
Chicago -  Poem 58
Chicago - 25 Or 6 To 4
HUMBLE PIE - I DON'T NEED NO DOCTOR
Frankenstein . Edgar Winters Group
The Faces - Stay With Me
The Ventures "Walk Don't Run"
Elliott Easton from the Cars
The Ventures - PIPELINE
Bill Doggett -- Honky Tonk
ROY BUCHANAN - SWEET DREAMS
BB King the Thrill is gone
ROY BUCHANAN - THE MESSIAH WILL COME AGAIN


Sorry People I have to stop now  way too many sorry

Happy Listening

Midnight At the Oasis - Maria Muldaur  Amos Garrett 

Billy Zoom -X- Devil Doll

Duane Allman playing at the 6:30 of You Don't Love Me from the Live at the Fillmore album.  It is a soulful lyrical solo, no fast, but one that touches your soul.

I experienced it live at the Syria Mosque in Pgh on that tour.  I still touches me 50 years later!!!

Freddie King;  Can’t Trust Your Neighbor.

Paul Jackson Jr. - It's A Shame

Kid Charlemagne - Larry Carlton in the studio with Steely Dan

Everything by David Gilmour

Everything by David Gilmour

Jerry Garcia on New Minglewood Blues from Ladies & Gentlemen...The Grateful Dead recorded April 25-29, 1971.  Absolutely incredible.  Mid-song, about a minute of absolute genius.

There's so many that it would be hard for me to pick. But favorite "Intro's" I only think of one ... Lou Reeds Sweet Jane Live 

There are too many to name, but one that really jumps out for me is Jeff "Skunk" Baxter on "My Old School" by Steely Dan.

Still Got the Blues-Gary Moore

David Gilmour’s solos in “Time” and “Comfortably Numb”

Second Watermelon in Easter Hay.

Jimmy Hendrix Star spangled Banner, VooDoo Child. Van Halen Eruption. Eric Clapton

Frank Zappa on the album "Bongo Fury" the song "Muffin Man". Live track, No overdub no messing with the mix, just pure ART FROM THE HEART! 

Bold As Love. And it’s not close. 

Way too many, but one that comes to mind is Robin Trower's solo on "Whaling Stories" from Procol Harum's "Home" lp.

Fripp's solo on "Starless" too

Bodhisattva solo by Denny Dias on Steely Dan's Countdown to Ecstasy...lt just never ends!

Alvin Lee with Ten Years After in the song “I’d Love To Change The World.”

Elvin Bishop on “Fooled Around and Fell in Love.” I learned it and played it with the band at my second daughter’s wedding reception. Such fun!

Roll with the Changes (REO Speedwagon)  or Hitch a Ride (Boston). Roll down the windows and turn the volume up to 11!

Oh boy, always a fun topic. 
I’ll throw out a hidden gem. 
Jimi Hendrix on “Old Times Good Times”
from Stephen Stills’ first solo album, “Stephen Stills.”
And don’t forget Duane’s screaming slide on “One Way Out” from “Eat A Peach.”
Now I’m going to listen to “Orange County Lumber Truck” again. 

@edcyn - "Dark Star" is the ultimate "Afterward" jam, got to admit.
Close is Jerry Garcia’s work on Jefferson Starship’s "Blows Against the Empire" album "Have You Seen the Stars Tonight"/Starship".

Lynyrd Skynyrd - I Never Dreamed (Steve Gaines)
Wilco - Impossible Germany (Nels Cline)

My favorite guitar solos are by billy gibbons of zz top he just makes me forget about the world when he plays.

I can't remember which one it was, but the Moabs fired it right straight through my cerebral cortex just before the tube blew. In terms of one the amp survived, Money.

I'll break my own rule.  Jerry Garcia's solo on Dark Star in the Live Dead LP.

This topic was been raised many times before, and I have before nominated the following examples. For you who have seen them, I apologize, but I think it’s important to counter the sometimes-technically superior examples posited by others (just my opinion ;-) with more, shall we say, musical examples.

- Ry Cooder in John Hiatt’s "Lipstick Sunset".

- George Harrison in The Beatles "Nowhere Man".

- Just about anything by Albert Lee, including his signature solo in "Country Boy".

- Dave Edmunds in "I Hear You Knocking". The most intense example of "tension & release" guitar playing I’ve ever heard.

What makes each of these solos "musical" is that the solo is not separate from the song itself, but is as much a part of the song as is the song’s melody: a musical element.

The same can be said of musical drummers such as Jim Gordon, Jim Keltner, Roger Hawkins, Kenny Buttrey, and Levon Helm. Each player creates parts that act in service to the song itself, not in an attempt to bring attention to one’s own talent (listen to THAT! Aren’t I great? ;-). It can be argued that the distinction between those two playing styles is a matter of musical perception and taste. Well yeah, of course.

Something very moving about Garcia's solo on "Cold Rain and Snow" off the Steal Your Face LP. Simple, brief, yet beautiful. My favorite for this moment but ask me tomorrow and I'll have something else in mind.

Reelin' In The Years"

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Two that come to mind are Mick Taylor’s solo in the Rolling Stones song "Sway", and Rick Derringer’s solo on "Livin’ in the USA" on the Edgar Winter’s White Trash live disc.

Hodu - Love that "Babies on Fire". Haven't heard it in a while.

Thanks. A lot of excellent choices here.  And I was hoping most of you would ignore my request to only choose one. It was just a feeble attempt on my part to focus you guys a bit.

I've always been partial to Robert Fripp's out-of-control solo on Eno's "Baby's on Fire." It's the solo that refuses to end.

-- Howard

I forgot the king of all solos:
Hendrix@ Woodstock
VillaNova Junction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQwwxiBjLzI


For riffs Eddie was unsurpassed
https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZapknXZ54ryjWcfJyYgryKAuFhOvjs3KYvy

Mark Knopfler - Telegraph road and it never rains on love over gold. 

Jimi Hendrix live Machine Gun

Jimmy McCulloch's "Maybe I'm Amazed" solo with Wings.

Love the tone (SG through some type of Fender amp with the bass pot and/or neck PU dialed down) and a first rate player who improved upon PM's original solo.

DeKay

E. Clapton:
Spoonful on "Wheels of Fire"
Had to Cry Today on "Blind Faith"
Do What You Like on "Blind Faith"
Unsurpassed work...

Actually it was a ukulele and it was my 6 year old grandson.

The best, most heart felt solo I ever heard, it was for "HIS GRANDPA".

Yup thing to remember, LOL while I still can..

I wish I had 50 Grandkids.. ONE will do.. :-)

He did kinda BB King it. The one string thing and the ol face shake, pretty good...

Regards

I agree not a fair question, like picking your favorite pistachio in a 10 lb bag. But for homesickness played thru a guitar, Son Seals 'going back home'

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=son+seals+going+back+home

 David Gilmour's solo in Pink Floyd's No turning away live version

Agree that there are too many to choose one, but two that come to mind to me are David Gilmour's solo in Pimk Floyd's Comfortably Numb and Jeff Beck in People Get Ready with Rod Stewart..

Duane Allman on Boz Scaggs’ “Loan Me a Dime”.

Alex Lifeson-  La Villa Strangiato

Period, Exclamation Point

Roger Waters - Dogs (with Snowy White and Doyle Bramhall ll)
https://youtu.be/_wMDb7ddSeY
4:40