Your all time favorite guitar solo is?? (1 Viewer)

[Alf S]

I find myself wanting to jam on my air guitar every single time this awesome solo comes on the radio/Spotify.

My Sharona guitar solo:

 

[Aaron Silverman]

Impossible question.

I'd have to go with Crazy Train, partly because it was playing in the OR when my son was born.



I'll offer one example just slightly off the beaten path, though (the solo runs from around 4:20-8:20 in this rendition):



Especially the guitar/keyboard unison section at 5:54. And, OK, there's a mini bass solo in there too. So sue me.

 

[Virgoan]

Mine is Mason Williams' "Classical Gas".

 

[TravisR]

Off the top of my head, I'd say Eddie Van Halen's Eruption/You Really Got Me.

 

[Walter Kittel]

I could list quite a few favorites, but if I had to pick just one, it might be...

Mark Knopfler - Sultans of Swing

- Walter.

 

[LouA]

Anything by Duane Eddy.

 

[Josh Steinberg]

Tough to pick only one, but if I had to, the guitar solo by The Edge in the U2 song "The Fly" - the combination of his uniquely expressive playing and guitar effects is truly something. The best way I can describe it is that I almost hear colors when I listen to it.

For more traditional solos, I'd pick Lindsey Buckingham's from the Fleetwood Mac song "I'm So Aftaid" - somehow you can just hear every emotion and thought in the playing.

 

[Oliver Ravencrest]

Off the top of my head, I'd say Eddie Van Halen's Eruption/You Really Got Me.

This was the first thing to pop into my head. This is my second choice:

 

[nara]

Contained herein...along with a pretty stonking piano solo also.

 

[Keith Cobby]

Mine is Mason Williams' "Classical Gas".

Played by Glen Campbell.

 

[Keith Cobby]

Genesis - Firth of Fifth

 

[Winston T. Boogie]

Hard to pick one solo as there are so many great guitar players that bring different things to the table. Here's a song that is basically all solo and unique for the way he plays...

 

[Brett_B]

David Gilmour - Comfortably Numb

 

[Sam Posten]

The Bass solo in "You can call me Al" =)



And Stu Hamm playing Linus and Lucy 3 part harmony on bass =)

 

[Johnny Angell]

It's not exactly a solo but Charlie Byrd and Laurendo Almeida have this wonderful acoustic version of "Don't Cry for Me Argentina."

 

[Mike Butler]

David Gilmour - Comfortably Numb

One of the best to be sure. Check out David here on Fat Old Sun. Jump to 3:20 where he takes off the acoustic and straps on his Telecaster and the tempo picks up.

 

[Race Bannon]

I could list quite a few favorites, but if I had to pick just one, it might be...

Mark Knopfler - Sultans of Swing

- Walter.

Wow. I dropped into this thread to post this one. Great minds.

And the lyrics set it up so well.

 

[Race Bannon]

David Gilmour - Comfortably Numb

this would be my second pick.

 

[Jeff Whitford]

UFO's Michael Schenker .

 

[questrider]

Guitar solo is 2:38-3:20. It's not flashy or technically virtuosic but it has soul and groove and texture and mood and all of the phrasing in between that makes for a good solo!