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.
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Hendrix: Message To Love, Voodoo Child
Mick Taylor (Stones): Can't You Hear Me Knocking
Clapton(Cream): Badge, White Room
Page: Dazed and Confused, Heartbreaker
Funkadelic (Eddie Hazel): Maggot Brain
The Guess Who: Rain Dance
Chuck Berry: (you choose)
The Beatles: Revolution (single)
Robin Trower/Procol Harum: Whiskey Train
Steely Dan: Reelin in the Years
Donovan: Hurdy Gurdy Man (Jimmy Page lead guitar)
Pink Floyd/Gilmour: Comfortably Numb, Wish You Were Here
Zappa: Willie the Pimp
Apologies to the hundreds I've overlooked.....
In terms of pure emotion, nothing has quite hit me like Neil Young's Like a Hurricane (live version).
Jeff Beck, playing on Roger Waters "Amused to Death"

"What God wants, God gets - Part III"

In fact, think I may put it on right now.



Robin Trower has so many great solo's, including 'I can't wait much longer'.

Mark Knopfler...also a lot of awesome solo's, including "you and your friend'.
Tuesday's Gone - Lynyrd Skynyrd

Telegraph Road - Mark Knopfler

November Rain - GnR