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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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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
edcyn OP
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Thanks. A lot of excellent choices here.  And I was hoping most of you would ignore my request to only choose one. It was just a feeble attempt on my part to focus you guys a bit.
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roxy54
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Two that come to mind are Mick Taylor’s solo in the Rolling Stones song "Sway", and Rick Derringer’s solo on "Livin’ in the USA" on the Edgar Winter’s White Trash live disc.

Hodu - Love that "Babies on Fire". Haven't heard it in a while.
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ozzy
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Reelin' In The Years"

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