Best Guitar Solo Ever

[WATFORD zero]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0ncHXNPEXU

Not the best solo ever, but an interesting example of a technically gifted guitarist peaking quite early in his career before plummeting into complete and utter tosh

 

[Gwylan]

Lou Reed's in I heard her call my name. No other comes close for me.

 

[Perry Milkins]

Hotel California - Eagles
Goodbye to Love - Carpenters
Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Terry Kath of Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4. Vastly underrated guitarist who died 3 months after this Video was taken. The solo starts at about 2:05 mins

 

[crasher]

Guitar solos are self-indulgent hippy shit.

No song should be longer than 2 minutes 30. Punk's not dead.

 

[Stinky Kat]

voodoo child by hendrix - songs only about 3 mins so almost meets the punk criteria which is a good point well made

 

[Leekbrookgull]

Sony Landreth, Cannibals. With Mark Knopfler.

 

[seagullsslimjim]

Anything by Andrew Ridgeley - Wham !!

 

[jakarta]

Anything by Vini Reilly of the wonderful Durutti Column - the worlds most unsung guitar hero so don't suppose anyone on here has heard of him......

 

[Kosh]

1= Ritchie Blackmore - Mistreated.
2= Ted Turner and Andy Powell - Phoenix.
3= Ritchie Blackmore - Burn.
4= Ritchie Blackmore - Kill the King.
5= Ritchie Blackmore - The Gates of Babylon.
6= Ritchie Blackmore - Child in Time.
7= Ritchie Blackmore - Stargazer.
8= Rhino - Mesmerisation Eclipse.

 

[Tom Bombadil]

My favourite guitar solo is Neil Youngs from On the Beach.

I'm also partial to Dave Gilmours work on the Wish You Were Here and the guitar solo on Marque Moon.

 

[blue'n'white]

1 Virtually anything by Sonny Landreth
2 Maggot Brain by Funkadelic (guitarist Eddie Hazel) - listen to this even if you don't like Funkadelic (or even funk which it ain't)
3 Hendrix - Voodoo chile (long version), Electric church redhouse
4 Neil Young - Like a hurricane

Bliss