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Favorite Guitar Solo

What is your favorite guitar solo? The one that bypasses your cerebral cortex? The one that best hits your emotional center? Any genre. Any period. Any length. A million notes. Or just one note. Obscure or famous. You can make any excuse as to why you choose it, but explanations are optional. But you gotta choose just one.

My choice? Eric Clapton’s solo in "Sleepy Time Time" from the Fresh Cream album. Simplicity. Emotional ecstasy. Tone.
edcyn
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dekay
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Jimmy McCulloch's "Maybe I'm Amazed" solo with Wings.

Love the tone (SG through some type of Fender amp with the bass pot and/or neck PU dialed down) and a first rate player who improved upon PM's original solo.

DeKay
tuberist
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Jimi Hendrix live Machine Gun
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zardozz
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Mark Knopfler - Telegraph road and it never rains on love over gold. 
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fuzztone
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I forgot the king of all solos:
Hendrix@ Woodstock
VillaNova Junction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQwwxiBjLzI


For riffs Eddie was unsurpassed
https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZapknXZ54ryjWcfJyYgryKAuFhOvjs3KYvy
hodu
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I've always been partial to Robert Fripp's out-of-control solo on Eno's "Baby's on Fire." It's the solo that refuses to end.

-- Howard
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