Best guitar explosion of all time

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!

"Btstrg" and "Satch" - Another great choice and Eddie is another of my huge favorites! "Pje" is getting way too serious about this! It's supposed to be fun. We are not analyzing the notes, but how you were just blown away by a certain guitar solo. It's all a matter of personal fav's and nobody is wrong. I just like to have others help me explore music I haven't experienced and the electric guitar solos are the most emotionally exciting for me.

Speaking from a rock guitarist's point of view these are are not the most technical lead breaks, but they are (in my opinion) brilliant and 2 that everyone born after 1960 and before 1980 can say "hey, I know that from somewhere":

1) Eruption - Van Halen
2) We Will Rock You - Queen