Favorite guitar solo ever

[Gawain of Orkeny]

Well mine hands down is Comfortably Numb by Floyd. Gilmores best and my favorite solo of all time. If that comes on the radio I wont get out of my car untill its over

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

Yep, Comfortably Numb is my favourite, although I also love Gilmour's solo from Time.

And I know it's a cliche, but the Stairway solo is fantastic. As is the freetime solo from Heartbreaker-something of an acquired taste, that.

[Quietus]

Does it have to be a guitar? Oh well...the short guitar solo on the live version of Peter Tosh's "Coming In Hot" comes to mind, from the Complete Captured Live album.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

Pot head

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

Ooh, another good one-Alex Lifeson's solo from the fourth movement of Rush's 2112.

[Big_John]

gilmour at the end of pigs, probably.

[Beirut]

Probably Comfortable Numb.

All Along the Watchtower is another great one.

[IrishMike]

The long one in "What goes on" by the Velvet Underground.

[PanzerJaeger]

Gotta be the live version of Heartbreaker on "How the West Was Won" from Zep.

Listen to it(the whole song!) here and prove me wrong.. My favorite song ever btw..

http://www.ledzeppelin.com/site_flash/fs_audio.html

[Gladius of Germania]

The solo in Adios, by Rammstein

[Zalmoxis]

The solo in Adios, by Rammstein

Do you have a link to it? (if yes, make sure it is free)

[Kongamato]

I'm drawing a blank on this... Comfortably Numb is a good one, but too melancholy for my tastes.

I'll go with a sleeper candidate here. The many covers of "Who Do You Love"... That song's guitar can get stuck in my head for days on end.

[Togakure]

Gah ... when I think guitar solo I think Page, Gilmour, Beck, May, Schon, Montrose, Travers, Lukather, Schenker, to name a few. There's just no way I could say one was my fave over another cuz they've all had their place in my life.

The solo in Killer Queen is prety damn cool. Yeah, Heartbreaker. I like the solo in Dazed and Confused a lot. Montrose rips all over Gamma III (with Mitchell Froom, a smokin' keyboardist). Comfortably Numb is a real emotion invoker; I have to be careful listening to that album cuz I have depression and it's a bit too close to home. Pack it Up and Go rocks (Schenker with UFO). Lukather's melodies sing and cry me in a big way, all the way back to the original Toto album. Beck--this guy is just magnificent. If I had to pick a favorite soloist, he would be at least tied for 1st. His work on Guitar Shop was just badass. Pat Travers was a high school favorite. Burned one with him once. He rocks, a fairly unsung rock 'n roll hero if you ask me.

[Craterus]

Layla - Derek and the Dominoes takes it for me..

[MoROmeTe]

All of the above are good but Kirk Hammet's guitar solo on Orion is pretty much gratest in my book. The whole song is pretty much a set of guitar solos all rolled into one.

[jimmyM]

hmm...I like the Floyd solos, not quit my thing, bit sparse (though he put exactly the right notes in and used them with ruthless effeciency)...quite like the solo to since i've been loving you - I think the one that's my favourite, always making hair on the back of the neck etc - is the solo to Cherub Rock by SP, but there we are, very subjective...

[IrishMike]

I take my earlier post back. Its defently at the end of Queen's, We will rock you. That solo rocks.

[Quietus]

Pot head

Peter Tosh? It made his music supernatural (very likely not his personal well-being and health though). Complete Captured Live (pity, the guitar solo on "Coming In Hot" was not on the sample) & Live At the One Love Peace Concert (check out "Igziabeher").

[ichi]

Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, and Carlos Santana.

Anything by them. Prolly Voodoo Child by Jimi

ichi

[JAG]

My specific favorite is two fold and it depends on my mood.

It is either the solo in The Prisoner by Adrian Smith - deffo my fav Maiden solo.

Or

The solo in Fade to black by Kirk Hammett - just awesome and mind bogglingly good.

[Steppe Merc]

Freebird. Sure it's cliched, but it's just awesome. I also love the the insane guitar work on The Allman Brother's stuff, especially the Live From Fillmore East's Whipping Post. But I can't really say I have a favorite, since I love so many guitarists, and I love jams a whole lot.

[IrishMike]

Jag you mention Maiden and dare leave out the solo in 2 Minutes to Midnight. That whole song was brilliant.

[Colovion]

Though I love classic rock, and I believe the best solos were composed back then (technically speaking), my favourite solo is the last song of the Matthew Good Band's Underdogs: "Change of Season".

[Kaiser of Arabia]

Freebird, or Stairway, or Layla, or Adios, or Comfortably Numb, or Mr. Banker (begginning)

[JAG]

Jag you mention Maiden and dare leave out the solo in 2 Minutes to Midnight. That whole song was brilliant.

As I said The Prisoner is my fav - middle to end solo - it is awesome.

But that does not mean I love other Maiden solos, but here it was just for fav's. The Trooper solo by Dave Murray - I believe - is awesome as well, and yes, of course 2 minutes to midnight.

[ah_dut]

Comfortably Numb I think we all agree

[IrishMike]

Ah Jag I was just messing with you. I know that your the biggest Maiden fan here. And I don't know Comfortably Numb is just a bit to mellow for me.

[Kaiser of Arabia]

Well get more mellower!
GAH!

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

Comfortably Numb is just a bit to mellow for me.

Mellow?! I'll admit he's not playing 500 notes pre second, but his guitar is screaming. SCREAMING! Gilmour really pours his heart and soul into the piece, which is rare nowadays, and I feel that that is what is so appealling about it.

[IrishMike]

I didn't mean the solo, I meant the whole build up and the rest of the song.