Best guitar explosion of all time

Fortunately there are dozens of great scorching guitar moments available for hungry consumers. Can't pick a best, but McLaughlin Inner Mounting Flame is *#*&**!!! brilliant. "Purpose of When" from his Devotion record kills too. Sonny Sharrock "Dick Dogs", Reeves Gabrels "Heavens In Here", Ollie Halsall "Money Bag", Peter Wolbrandt "Holiday in Martenhorn" John Etheridge on "Saturation Point", Zappa "Muffin Man", Michael Karoli "Vernal Equinox"... Checking out David Fiuczynski, David Torn, Toto Blanke (Spider Dance) and Ron Thal (Bumblefoot) should pay off too. There's a not too bad Banyan "Maggotbrain" clip on Youtube where Nels Cline tears it up pretty good. Gotta agree there was only one J. H. the Ax Generich stuff on early Guru Guru records nails the LSD Hendrix thing.

My vote nowadays leans to Vernon Reid's absolutely frenetic solo on "cult of personality" from Living Colour's first album, Vivid. When i first heard this one i stood straight up in my chair and muttered...holy sh*t!

regards,
Paul

Like others above, I give Fripp some serious credit for the stuff he's done with Eno. Many nights I've listened to those solos and been amazed. Funny enough, I sat next to him at a show in town a few years back where a friend of mine was playing. He was asking me questions about my friend and it was all I could do to answer calmly and not blurt out something stupid like "You're a freakin' god, man!"

"Eddie van Halen" Eruption
I can already see the negative post on this one, but I think it's awesome

@ Btstrg: you've beat me to it. I have seen and heard many wonderfull guitarists, but there's something magical about Eruption. Maybe it's because it was the first proper guitarsolo I heard when I was a teenager, or that it inspired me to play guitar myself... Every time I hear the first notes, I get this happy feeling inside. And that's what's music is about!