Best guitar explosion of all time

Mahavishnu John McLaughlin - Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Mounting Flame. Being a devout fan (then and now). Jimi's death hit me very hard emotionally and left me feeling a huge void would be left unfilled. The MO album came out and I honestly picked it up 'cause I was becomng a rabid Billy Cobham fan due to his earlier work with Dreams. Imagine my surprise!!! Mclaughlin's not Hendrix, but his guitar intensity and music just felt right and left me feeling the void was beginning to be filled. I so wish Johnny Mac would just get his hands back on a Gibson Les Paul! An interesting story I read about 'Voodoo Chile...', some cameramen were in the studio and asked Jimi to just let it all hang out and do his 'Wild Man' thing while they filmed it, so he did. On his knees, behind the back, tounging the geetar, humping microphone stands and amps, totally improvised! Now THAT is virtuoso genius, and wouldn't ya love to see that video clip!

Try "baby's on fire" By Brian Eno on "Here come the warm jets"
Its Killer and Directly compares with hendrix voodoo Chile.
Its a Killer Extended Guitar solo that will rock the house.

Many cuts off Joe Satriani's various albums...excellent guitar
'shredder' action throughout...

Robert Fripp did a good job in "Baby's on Fire" so i second Hiend2 opinion.

First off there are way to many "explosions" as you call them to list & it is completely unfair to limit this response to a single event as you call for.

In my humble opinion this is not even remotely possible as an exercise to list just one "Best Guitar Explosion of all Time".

There have been so many great performances over the years, none better than the next just different, unique and/or magical in and of themself.

If we could narrow down the pool of choices by using some variables of sorts it would give us at least a fighting chance at "the Best".

FOR EXAMPLE:

1.) Using a particular "genre" of music
2.) Picking a specific period in time
(i.e. 60's, 70's, 80's...etc)
3.) Having some other sort of other classification or label that would narrow down the field
(i.e. artist vs. band, dead vs. alive, live vs. studio…etc)

As a guitar player & connoisseur of all types of music my experiences go back now almost 40 years so I would like to think I have a little of a track record and personal experiences to pull from.

OK, now that I have that off my chest and was able to throw in my 2 cents I will give at least my Sunday 05.13.07 “Explosion”.

This is a selection that has always been up there for me personally as one of those "magical moments" that over the years seems to be often imitated but never duplicated.

This from the current "hardest working guitarist in the biz":

Mr. Warren Haynes of Gov't Mule

We will be choosing the following event (Warren has had countless nights that have brought grown men to tears so the “explosion” selection I am going after could be anyone of many he has thrown down with);

song: TEMPORARY SAINT > THORAZINE SHUFFLE
5th track of the evening ~ Set #1 (depending on how your copies tracking is)

where: 4:35 +/- of Temporary Saint is where the "Explosion" as you so eloquently put it is beginning “to erupt”, this then continues on for several more minutes………)

date: 08.30.1997
venue: The Fillmore
city / state: San Francisco, California