Your Favorite, Most Outstanding Guitar Solo

Brian May from Queen's "We Will Rock You".
Brian May from Queen's "Crazy little thing called love".
Both fit the songs perfectly, both played well. To my mind Brian May is one of the most underrated guitarists in fusing technical ability with a great musical ear, songwriting talent, and an ability to play almost any style from metal to jazz.

I've seen these guys live and was in awe:

Frank & Dweezil Zappa covering "Whipping Post" on the live release "Does Humour Belong in Music"?. Unreal. Still my favourite of all time. Frank was recognized more as a writer/composer than a guitarist, but believe you me (I saw him 8 times) he could play. I marvel at his genius.

Stevie Ray Vaughn covering VooDoo Child... to hell with it.... SRV playing anything! You don't just play the blues, you FEEL the blues! Saw him many times, most memorable was when he opened for the The Police's "Synchronicity" tour.

Eddie Van Halen: playing, doesn't matter what. The most natural guitar player ever. He was born to play guitar and has spent pretty well every waking hour re-inventing his skill and style. He really ought to play the blues IMHO.

Martin Barre from Jethro Tull: intense, and yet subtle chord changes that flow naturally. An artist with an artist's disposition.

Mark Knopfler: Yeah I know you see him as a rythym guitarist, he can wail in his own way. Day in and day out my favorite guitarist to listen to.

Larry Carlton's solo on "Hill street blues".

Alvin Lee, Ten Years After, Cricklewood Green
"Love Like a Man"

Buck Dharma, Blue Oyster Cult, Secret Treaties,
"Dominance and Submission"

Jeff Beck, Jeff Beck Group
"Goin' Down", "Highways", "Definitely Maybe"

Skunk Baxter, Steely Dan, Countdown to Ecstacy
"My Old School"

David Sancious, Transformation, the Speed of Love
"Piktor's Metamorphosis", "Sky Church Hymn #9"

Martin Barr, Jethro Tull, Aqualung
"Aqualung"

Just a few off the top of my head.

Any solo performed by native New Orleans guitarist Robby Longley. A great blend of modern guitar with Flamenco, and New Orleans gumbo.

I also like Jeff Beck's performances on There And Back, but my favorite is "The Final Peace".

I'll go along with Dekay on "Green Onions". When I first saw Amercian Grafitti back in the early seventies in a damp deserted movie theater somewhere on Oahu, "Green Onions" seemed so incongruous with the rest of that fantastic soundtrack, but it also was so "right " for the final drag race at the end of the movie. A really nice piece.

Ritchie Blackmore's solo on "Space Truckin'" from Made in Japan.

Neil Schon's solo at the end of "Stone in Love" from the Journey album Escape.

Dave Gilmore's solo at the end of "Comfortably Numb" on The Wall album.

Eric Clapton's solo on "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" from The Beatles White Album.

Tim Heintz' guitar solo on "Dear Jacqui" from his no longer available debut album.

James Taylor's solo on "Fire and Rain" is pretty damn moving, especially if you see it context of the film "Running on Empty".

Steve Denny has some guitar solo with great pathos on his own album "Oscuro" and in his collaboration with Tom Maxwell on "Magic Box".

And my first ever favorite guitar solo is by Chet Atkins from the In Hollywood album, the fourth song entitled "Theme From A Dream". Chet made two versions of this album, so make sure you get the older, less orchestrated one. So simple, so sad, so good.

Lots of good stuff and damn near impossible for me to choose just one.