Obvious and safe choices, but my favourites
Steve Howe Yours is no Disgrace
Eric Clapton Crossroads
Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Child
Jimmy Page The Song Remains the Same
George Harrison While My Guitar Gently Weeps ( did he actually play it?)
Manfred Mann Blinded By the light (who's the guitar player?)
Peter Frampton Do you feel like I do?
Van Halen Spanish Fly
We Are the Champions Brian May
Wish You Were Here David Gilmore
Ernie Isley: "Who's that Lady?" - and heaps of others. So criminally underrated
Curtis Mayfield: "Move On Up" and "Superfly"
Jeff "Skunk" Baxter: "Reelin' in the Years" and "My Old School"
Prince: "Purple Rain" (GUILTY PLEASURE!)
Bradley Nowell - Badfish
David Gilmour - Comfortably Numb
David Gilmour - Time
The Edge - Miracle Drug
Frank Zappa - Uncle Remus
Frank Zappa - Watermelon in Easter Hay
Graham Coxon - Country Sad Ballad Man
Graham Coxon - You're So Great
Jimi Hendrix - May this Be Love
Jimi Hendrix - Bold as Love
Jimmy Page - The Rain Song
Jimmy Page - Ten Years Gone
Martin Barre - Minstrel in the Gallery
Mike Oldfield - Hergest Ridge Part 1
Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn Part 1
Trent Reznor - Ruiner
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Coldshot, give it until around 3 mins
Tony Iommi, with Black Sabbath
From around 3.20
A bit left field, but Tony Levin on bass on this masterpiece
Best played on a good hifi, it's a great test to see if your setup handles BASS, with a capital B
Here's Tony again, this time playing the "Chapman Stick" with Goatika
I think the solo in Nutshell from Alice In Chains is my favorite from Jerry Cantrell. Not a particularly pyrotechnic solo, I just think it ends a really good song really well. Starts about 1:40.
Jimmy Page - Stairway to Heaven
Slash - Sweet Child O' Mine'
Kirk Hammett - Shortest Straw
Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
Don Felder, Glen Frey and Joe Walsh - Hotel California
Eddie van Halen - Eruption
Steve Vai - Blue Powder
David Gilmore - Dogs
Jerry Garcia - Let It Grow
Vito Bratta - Little Fighter
Santana - Europa
Dickey Betts - Jessica
Robbie Krieger - Light My Fire
Brian May - Bohemian Rhapsody
Yngwie Malmsteen - Black Star
B.B. King - Thrill Is Gone
Joe Satriani - The Crush of Love
Randy Rhoads - Crazy Train
Stevie Ray Vaughn - Pride and Joy
Mark Knopfler - Sultans of Swing
Allen Collins and Gary Rossington - Freebird
So many solos, so many players...these are just a few that came to mind.
Santana - Europa (from 'Amigos') and the full solo from She's Not There (from 'Moonflower')
Hendrix - Star-Spangled Banner (from 'Woodstock' film) and Machine Gun (from 'Band of Gypsies')
Clapton - Spoonful (from 'Fresh Cream') and the second solo from Crossroads (from 'Wheels of Fire')
Steve Howe - Clap (from 'The Yes Album')
Maggot Brain's an excellent suggestion. Michael Hampton also did a great live version (bonus track on 'One Nation Under a Groove').
I don't think anyone has mentioned Chuck Berry yet. I don't know if he holds up as the best technically (his acrobatics probably made his solos harder to play than they normally would have been), but he's still just about the best all around performer ever.
My favorite is J. Mascis - "Get Me" by Dinosaur Jr. The 2nd solo. Usually when discussing guitar solos with "Guitar Guy" friends, they start talking about chords and speed and difficulty and blah blah blah. That's usually where I turn around and walk in the other direction, whether they've finished or not.
Another vote for Hendrix's "Machine Gun." Also, the solo that Ritchie Blackmore played in "A Light in the Black" when I saw Rainbow in 1975/76...just jaw-dropping. As good as the studio version is, it pales next to that one--he was just on fire that night.
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