Favorite guitar solo?

[andrew]

What is your favorite guitar solo?

[Dr-Joned]

Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty..............at the moment.

[andrew]

That solo was put together well. Who was playing on that?

[rdjones]

"Can't You Hear Me Knocking" by The Stones.
Love that tone.

rd

[sliberty]

Beatles w/Clapton - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Blind Faith w/Clapton and Winwood - Had To Cry Today
Hendrix - That bluesy jam from Woodstock
Jeff Beck - every single thing he does

[mlp-mx6]

That solo was put together well. Who was playing on that?

Hugh Burns, session musician.

That was the first time I can recall not just noticing the notes, but the tone. Just wonderful.

[Cliff Schecht]

SRV - Crossfire (he has a lot of course but the album version is such a well composed solo)

Hendrix - Born Under a Bad Sign (7 minutes of Jimi soloing)

Anybody here a Jason Becker fan? His entire Perpetual Burn album is my favorite shred album ever. I'm not a huge fan of that style but Becker composes some amazing solos on this album.

[paulster]

SRV's live version of Life Without You from In Step. The solo after the monologue (that John Mayer rather embarrassingly borrowed on his Where The Light Is DVD) is electric guitar tone defined. It's 4 minutes long but sounds effortless rather than remotely self-indulgent.

Second would of course be Comfortably Numb. The tone and phrasing is almost without peer.

[Bob S]

Have to agree with Comfortably Numb.
Maybe Beck - Brush with the blues.
Once saw Mick Ronson do Moonage Daydream - left me speechless.
SRV - Little Wing & Buchanan - Hey Joe
Early ZZ stuff has great tone.
So many ...

[Dr-Joned]

Baker Street- yea Hugh Burns

Robin Trower --Live !

[mcrracer]

Maggot Brain by The Funkadelic. Eddie Hazel played guitar on that one. 1971

[dano-rator]

As much as I love Gilmour, Anastasio and of course Hendrix, I'd have to say :
Ryan Adams - The Shadowlands. That one really gets me.

[andrew]

I'm stuck in the stone age: Jimi's "Are You Experienced?" I will have to check out some of the players you mentioned!

[HeeBGB]

Page- No Quarter from TSRTS
Van Halen-Eruption Surprised no one else has listed this already
Jimi-Machine Gun From BOG Are ya kidding?!!!!
Hunter/Wagner Sweet Jane from LR's R-N-R Aminal (intentionally spelled incorrectly)

There's plenty more but I will have to stop here for now.

[Dr-Joned]

Sweet Jane A+++++++