Favorite Guitar Solo

@oldaudiophile -- 

Bert Jansch, John Renbourn and Doc Watson are among my greatest acoustic guitar influences, along with my two top influences John Fahey and Paul Simon.  Whenever I pick up one of my acoustics, my fingers instinctively do tunes by them. I've seen all of them at various venues. I actually saw Pentangle at the Troubadour.  It might have been my last date with my high school girlfriend who, among other things, taught me how to finger pick, Merle Travis style.

And how could I forget? Mississippi John Hurt.

I do have to echo millercarbon. Roy Clark was amazing, especially that Youtube clip where he's in a duet with Glenn Campbell.

I love many of the guitarists listed here, and it’s like a Sophie’s Choice situation to pick a favorite guitar solo.

That said, if I was threatened with execution for not picking the best solos of all time, it would be a coin toss between:

Kid Charlemagne by Larry Carlton
or
Comfortably Numb by David Gilmour.

These would be my objective save-my-skin guesses.

Then, as they haul out the gallows and I realize I’ve muffed it, I’d say, Oh crap, it was:

Sultans of Swing by Mark Knopfler
Statesboro Blues by Duane Allman
Bohemian Rhapsody by Brian May
Chain Lightening by Denny Dias
My Old School by Skunk Baxter
Crossroads live by Eric Clapton

Then they’d kick away the chair. "It was Stairway to Heaven, you fool."

Since @dadork already said what I would have...Alex Lifeson - La Villa Strangiato...

I'll suggest Randy Rhodes - Diary of a Madman.