Favourite solo of all time...

Kittyfrisk

And a classic (cliched now, but still great)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaH25Sghoqc

viz

We’ve been through this before and the right answer, from memory, was Gary Moore on I can’t wait until tomorrow. Solo starts at 3:10

https://youtu.be/QP9HlZ2MhtM

stephen.wood125

Today I are been mostly enjoying Silver Giver by Virgil and the Accelerators, but that Peter Green one is a true thing of beauty. Mine changes regularly from soulful to widdly widdly.

Sassafras

Too many to name but I never tire of Can't You Hear Me Knocking by Mick Taylor. Light My Fire by Robbie Krieger's another good one.
And of course most Jimi Hendrix solos.

Fortheloveofguitar

Aerosmith-Amazing 

abw1989

Alter Bridges's Blackbird solo for me (technically two solos but one follows the other...)

kswilson89

Anything by Derek Trucks. Although the solo in EJs Desert Rose is pretty spectacular.

HAL9000

Today it's the 'one note' solo from EC's Holy Mother.

Winny_Pooh

kswilson89 said:

Anything by Derek Trucks. Although the solo in EJs Desert Rose is pretty spectacular.

Desert Rose is my fav. Up there with Comfortably numb yet also incredibly virtuosic. 

Lesgrandepotato

Made of Stone - by John Squire a master class in building tension and playing for the song.

JezWynd

Let it grow, off 461 Ocean Boulevard. Not sure it would be classed as a solo but whatever it is I love it. Let it loose off Exile is also v cool.

axisus

Plenty of interesting stuff here to look into!

i couldn't possible name a favourite, there are so many, but I will name a great solo that I think is under appreciated: Steve Stevens on Billy Idols Man for all seasons. There's a divine low-to-high clean run.

Bellycaster

So difficult! Most people on here (including me) probably have 50 favourites that vary in order day to day, but here's some of mine.

Steely Dan - Kid Charlemagne

Steely Dan - Bodhisattva

Steely Dan - Don't Take Me Alive

Steely Dan - Green Earrings

Steve Wilson - Drive Home (Guthrie Govan)

Toto - Rosanna

Ian Dury - Reasons to be Cheerful pt3 (Chaz Jankel)


and the best ever Guitar Solo in a "Pop Song" is...... and shall always remain so is:

Chesney Hawkes - The One and Only (Nik Kershaw..............I think?)

2:34

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVEohM8BOQQ

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koss59

No Woman No Cry or Everything I do, I do it for you.

Grumpyrocker

Adrian Smith - Stranger In A Strange Land.

lysander

koss59 said:

No Woman No Cry or Everything I do, I do it for you.

No woman no cry is a good call, had forgotten about that solo but it’s sublime.

richardhomer

HAL9000 said:

Today it's the 'one note' solo from EC's Holy Mother.

Wis’d. Probably mine too - is it twelve bars he’s essentially plays one note over? Proof it’s not what you play, it’s the way that you play it. An exceptional piece of guitar playing....

darius

richardhomer said:

HAL9000 said:

Today it's the 'one note' solo from EC's Holy Mother.

Wis’d. Probably mine too - is it twelve bars he’s essentially plays one note over? Proof it’s not what you play, it’s the way that you play it. An exceptional piece of guitar playing....

Next song. NEXT song.
Dude i told you to do the bendy.
One to nothing.

chris78

Wet Sand by the chillis is a wonderful solo at the end.

For sheer guitar playing passion, not a technical solo, this Is Springsteen as a guitar player at his finest 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWos8TS9yaE

corona55

Sugar Mice,  Marillion- Steve Rothery