Best Guitar Solos

[Movemout]

just about anything by eric clapton.

[generally]

Classical Gas

Almost anything played by Christopher Parkening.

[library user]

Best guitar solo ever:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ5SVDYBNrY

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

Tal Farlow - Stella By Starlight
Bruce Anderson (MX-80 Sound) - Tidal Wave
Anything by Snakefinger
Ted Nugent - Stranglehold
Pete Townsend - I Can See for Miles (Just one note - but what a note!)
Bob Quine (Richard Hell & the Voidoids) - Love Comes In Spurts
Jeff Beck - the opening riff to Over Under Sideways Down

And now for something completely different - since I always thought that in jazz trumpets were the lead guitar, I nominate Clifford Brown's solo on Cherokee!

[library user]

OK, maybe not best guitar solo ever, but definitely best guitar solo from 1988. :O)

[Cheapskate]

I’m gonna go with Tommy Bolin-Post Toastie- Private Eyes

[MrLee]

George Harrison- very underrated.
Mick Taylor- best lead the Stones have had.

[waxer1]

Don Felder with Joe Walsh-Hotel California

Eric Clapton: Layla

[RoadKingSE]

Stevie Ray Vaughn has a long version (9:30) of Texas Flood that kills.

[Mustng959]

As some others have mentioned ....

Alex Lifeson - La Villa Strangiato
Martin Barre’ - Aqualung
David Gilmour - Money
Jimi Hendrix - Watchtower
and a guy you probably never heard of; Chris Wormer of the Charlie Daniels Band. He compiled a guitar version of “William Tell Overture” that’s on the CDB LIVE dvd that is terrific! I’ve seen him do it live twice. Also has composed a guitar version of “Flight of the Bumblebee” that I hear rocks but haven’t heard it yet. Nice guy (my teenage daughters love him as they’ve had pics taken with him twice).

[Wavrnr10]

Nugent...

Great WHite Buffalo

[LeavingNewYork]

Jimmy McCulloch (sp) Thunderclap Newman “Accidents”
Bill Nelson—BeBop Deluxe..any and everyhing from Sunburst Finshi

????-—Eddie Money’s “Two Tickets to Paradise”
???——Jim Carroll Band, “Gravity”

[gate2wire]

“Steve Hunter, intro To “Sweet Jane” from Lou Reed’s Rock n Roll Animal”

I swear I just listened to that. Great intro to a great song.

[Thermalseeker]

Stevie Ray Vaughan, “Crossfire”

I cannot believe it took to post 97 for somebody to list Stevie Ray Vaughn. I've also not seen Steve Morse mentioned. IIRC, he was 10 time guitar player of the year as listed by Guitar Magazine.

Here's one I would suggest for those blues lovers among us: Kenny Neal's Neal and Pray with Ken Johnson (RIP) on drums....those two were magical when they played together.

[dartuser]

Ted Nugent ... Hibernation.

[BibChr]

Good grief. I can't believe, first fifty, no one mentioned:

Terry Kath, "25 or 6 to 4"

Duh!

[Dysart]

Pete Carr on Mainstreet, but really anything by Pete Carr.

[mad_as_he$$]

Yikes took 30 posts to get to Clapton. I swear he has extra joints in his fingers. IMHO Clapton on any solo is the best but hey I am from that era.

[Proud_texan]

Hard for me to pick a best, I'd go with just about everybody/everything already listed but I was surprised to see that Peter Green wasn't mentioned so I'll toss him into the mix.

Might have missed it but in case they haven't been mentioned I'll also throw in early ZZ Top Billy Gibbons and Angus Young.

[fuente]

Nicely done! I also like the solo in Aqua Lung by Jethro Tull