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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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.

Maybe obscure, but Pablo Cruise’s Ocean Breeze on the self titled album (not the live version). It starts with Cory Lerios getting it on piano and later David Jenkins lights it up a bit on guitar.