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Guitar Solos

As a serious music listener and a musician,(although I am a drummer) nothing makes me shiver like a good guitar solo. It's seems to be a dying art,at least in popular music. Still lots of good guitar in blues and jazz. Some of my favs : Dear John by Jack Semple ,La Grange By Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top, Aqualung By Martin Barre with Jethro Tull and Bluest Blues by Alvin Lee. I'd love to check out some other peoples favs, a couple old and maybe a couple new??
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bigkidz
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As a geetarist, my favorite guitar solo was by George Harrison on Something. Clapton on While my guitar gently weeps. I also really like Steely Dan, Reelin' in the years - Elliott Randall and all of the solos that Elliot Easton did for the Cars, plus most of all of the above.
martykl
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A recent addition for blues-rock types is the CD called "Todd Rundgren's Johnson". It's a disc of Robert Johnson covers and Todd simply smokes on this one. He hasn't been doing this kind of stuff since The Nazz and the long lay off seems to have really stoked the intensity. He plays it reasonably straight (other than a very modern lead tone) but makes the familiar material entirely his own.

Marty
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mapman
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Peter Green, Fleetwood Mac, Oh Well Pt. 2.
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jafant
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Eruption - Edward Van Halen.
harold-not-the-barrel
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Mick Box on "Salisbury" - simply the best wah-wah sound
Buck Dharma on "Then Came the Last Days of May" both studio and live ´cos the sounds are way different, both brilliant anyway
Mick Box on "The Magician´s Birthday" terrific wah-wah and so many
Buck Dharma on "Dominance and Submission" the best clean and "The Reaper" and so many
Clem Clempson on "Skelington" live terrific wah-wah work
Jimi Hendrix on "All Along the Watchtower" his finest
David Gilmour on "One of the Days"
Martin Barre on "Aqualung"
Steve Hackett on "Firth of Fifth" + all early Genesis all sublime work really, and he´s still performing old Genesis stuff (have seen and heard)
Steve Howe on "America"
Jimmy Page on "Since I've Been Loving You" and "Stairway to Heaven" 
Leslie West especially when with other guitarist as heard on "Twin Peaks"
Carlos Santana so many say "Europa"
Ritchie Blackmore on "Made in Japan"
Frank Marino on "It´s Begun to Rain"
Albert Järvinen on "Roadrunner" and "High"
Bill Nelson of Be-Bop Deluxe so many just sublime work
Alex Lifeson on "La Villa Strangiato"
Michael Schenker on "Into the Arena"
Andrew Latimer on "Ice"
Joe Satriani on "Surfing with Alien" + so many
Django Reinhardt
Bela Fleck (actually his playing mandolin ; )
Al di Meola, John McLaughlin & Paco de Lucia on "Friday Night in San Francisco" the Masters at work
Rodolfo Maltese on "Moby Dick live " RIP
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