Best Guitar Solo

[Sutty]

OK, yet another favourite thread

What in your opinion is the best guitar solo ever? There were/are so many great guitarists in the rock world, so would be hard to choose one.

I would have to go for Freebird by Lynard Skynard. It's such a fantastic piece of guitar playing.

1. Freebird - Lynard Skynard
2. Hotel California - The Eagles
3. November Rain - Guns n Roses
4. The Chain - Fleetwood Mac
5. Stagefright - Def Leppard

 

[WankerCounty]

Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock playing Star Spangled Banner :bowdown:

 

[member006]

Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock playing Star Spangled Banner :bowdown:

This was wthout a doub't # 1 with a bullet . :glugglug:

 

[The Dave]

I can't really think of a number 1. it all depends on what mood I'm in. sometimes even the most simple solo could be the best, it all depends on how it fits into the song.

 

[lightning]

Some of lightning's Favs.

Blue Sky, Jessica, Melissa, Ramblin Man: Allman Brothers.
Cocaine, Wonderful Tonight, Layla, Bell Bottom Blues, Badge! Mr Eric Clapton (some with Duane Allman)
Teach Your Children CSNY Slide by Jerry Garcia
Dark Star, Casey Jones, Playing in the Band Space, Franklins Tower, Fire on the Mountain ...Grateful Dead
Soulshine Warren Haynes
No Woman no Cry, Jammin, Stir it Up, Three Little Birds. Bob Marley
Keep on Rockin Steve Miller
Bad, Sunday Bloody SundayU2
Who are you, Won't Get Fooled Again. The Who
Crystal Flame Blues Traveler

 

[Dice]

Deep Purple -Child in time-----Live

 

[JimmyDook]

An old favorite of mine would be ...

Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb


Love that solo.

 

[Mr Miyagi]

Deep Purple -Child in time-----Live

Great choice and hard to beat altho Jimmy Page's LIVE ONLY solo on stairway to heaven off the Song Remains The same album. It is cliched and it is my most hated Zep song but nevertheless a very good solo.

Also some very nice work from Randy Rhodes on his tribute album from Ozzy.

HOWEVER, my favourite guitar solo was Mark Knopfler live on Telegraph Road from Alchemy album!!!!

 

[member2686]

Any solo by David Gilmour of Pink Floyd, Eddie Van Halen ("Eruption," for example), or Robert Smith of The Cure does it for me (of course there are others as well). All different styles, I know. I'm not a big guitar rock fan, but those solos and the music styles are cool. Rock on, Beavis! LOL :banger:

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Here are my five favourite guitar solos (in no particular order)

The Final Cut - Pink Floyd
Kill The King - Rainbow
AC/DC - What Do You Do For Money Honey
Guns N' Roses - Locomotive
Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile

 

[tdwatcher]

George Harrison- the original album version of Let It Be

 

[Jacksson_77]

I can't really think of a number 1. it all depends on what mood I'm in. sometimes even the most simple solo could be the best, it all depends on how it fits into the song.

That's exactly what I'm thinking, too.
My favourite right at the moment:

Santana - Samba Pa Ti

:hatsoff: Jackson

 

[sky]

L.a, Guns Tracii Guns Im Addicted

 

[thx_0125]

Like a stone - Audioslave

Layla - Eric Clapton

 

[koZmiQ]

Pink Floyd - Time, and really alot of David Gilmour solos.
Queen - Brighton Rock, Brian May is an awesome player.

 

[lordmerchant]

IMo the best guitar solos dont have to be the most technical,

eg, paint it black - the rolling stones
boys dont cry - the cure


then there are the technical masters of course

guns n roses - welcome to the jungle
and anything by dave gilmour or hendrix

 

[parker]

Hard to argue against the likes of Hendrix or Gilmour, many of whose solos are rock classics. My all time fav, however, is by Eric Clapton on the Beatles' While My Guitar Gently Weeps. I think his guitar actually does weep in that song.

 

[ckjedi66]

George Harrison- the original album version of Let It Be

Good call there, GH was a guitar genius

I love the solo in "Photograph" by Def Leppard, which also happens to be my all time favorite song.

 

[Sutty]

I love the solo in "Photograph" by Def Leppard, which also happens to be my all time favorite song.

Good call mate, Photograph is a quality song. In fact the album Pyromania is superb.

Def Leppard have got to be one of my favourite groups ever.

 

[lightning]

I thought about this over the weekend
Badge Eric Clapton
Loan me a Dime Duane Allman guitar Boz Scaggs vocals