Favorite guitar solo of all time

[Jacksons Shred]

I forgot to throw this one in. Bruce Bouillet with a solo from "The Scream"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XZVagWRg5k

Fucking awesome. Check it out.

[tomanyjacksons]

White Lions, When the children cry, is one of the most beautiful solos I can think of. Simple, fits the song and keeps the feel going through it to me.

[tonemonster]

man this is tuff.......I am thinking for me it would be

so many good ones to pick from, like Eddie's solo in "Beat it"

night Rangers "sister christian"

Autograph's "turn up the radio"

Dokken's "Into the fire"

white lion's "when the children cry"

[AlexL]

The intro to this (the entire song is an exercise in awesomeness, drumming especially, but the guitar work at the start is just fucking amazing, from about 2:18):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ljy6PTbX9I

Not a big fan of the solo, but the guitar riff at 4:00, and when the flute comes in to double riff, is one of my favorite Tull moments.

- E.

[Jayster]

I like all the Dio solos. The first solo that really stuck out to me was Highway Star. Kinda cheesy but it was cool at the time.

Wow, This kind of floors me as he's had several guitar players all with different styles.
Especially if you consider he was with Rainbow, Sabbath, Dio ~ and in Dio he must have had at least 6 different guys playing guitar.

Great feedback and it's been fun reminiscing on some stuff and listening to some new stuff.

[Snoogans]

God, there's loads!
But these are the ones that are always in my "Top Ten"

Yngwie - Dreaming (Tell Me)
Vito Bratta - Wait
Jeff Beck - Jon Bon Jovi's Blaze Of Glory
Vernon Reid - Cult Of Personality
There's a killer solo in the playout of Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street. No idea who played it, and it usually gets faded-out by the radio stations...

[mab8485]

^^^ One of my favourites. Jerry Donahue.

[tonemonster]

God, there's loads!
But these are the ones that are always in my "Top Ten"

Yngwie - Dreaming (Tell Me)
Vito Bratta - Wait
Jeff Beck - Jon Bon Jovi's Blaze Of Glory
Vernon Reid - Cult Of Personality
There's a killer solo in the playout of Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street. No idea who played it, and it usually gets faded-out by the radio stations...

Ooooo. I forgot about that Yngwie solo. good stuff.

[Larz]

Mr. Crowley - gives two great solos for the price of one.

[Endrik]

I already mentioned Gilmour as it's hard to pick just one solo but I also gotta mention Keith Scott, a Canadian session player/songwriter, has played with Bryan Adams like forever. Absolutely perfect note choice and execution. Very tasty, great tone, feel etc. Everything is there. Criminally underrated.

[Sinistas]

Pink Floyd - High Hopes (Pulse):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-sHnU3tVqc

Dream Theater - The Spirit Carries On:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDIN1dYW0I4

[Carbuff]

Wow, This kind of floors me as he's had several guitar players all with different styles.
Especially if you consider he was with Rainbow, Sabbath, Dio ~ and in Dio he must have had at least 6 different guys playing guitar.

Great feedback and it's been fun reminiscing on some stuff and listening to some new stuff.

Well, I meant Dio solo stuff. Last in line, Rainbow in the dark, Mystery, etc. Viv Campbell stuff mainly. But I loves me some Iommi or Blackmore too.

[JacksoNeal]

Ozz/Randy Tribute. That album is basically a guitar solo.

[Marc Snow]

Well, Ace Frehley was the guy who made me play guitar. So there's a lot of solos of him I like. 100.000 years in Alive! version is one of them.
Today I'm into Steve Stevens style and I really love the solo of Look in her Eyes of Vince Neil's exposed album

[wr3k3d]

I've always liked the first bark at the moon solo, and zakk wyldes farewell ballad