Favorite guitar solo of all time

[Hellbat]

The first thing that came to my mind was this. 2:15 (maybe 2:25 I wrote it on a paper towel with a sharpie...) to 3:15 is a nice build up and then shit hits the fan until 3:40.

Jeff Loomis - Miles of Machines

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nY-XDF_Ask

Then I thought about it and realized it didn't for me really surpass the maestro. So my favorite all-time solo would have to still be from 3:15-4:30. Yngwie pulls every trick from the six demon bag in this one. Wind, Fire, all that stuff!

Yngwie J. Malmsteens Rising Force - Soldier Without Faith.

Unfortunately it looks like youtube has been raped of any versions of this song so you will have to find it yourselves. Go buy Marching Out if you have to. It's a killer album anyways.

Until you can find the original, this cover attempt (of basically just the solo) is pretty solid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCjJXXgrT3g

[Phantom Hawk]

Randy's solo in Over the Mountain will always be my #1.

[Axewielder]

"Three Days" by Jane's Addiction
"Dogs" by Pink Floyd
"Hitch a Ride" by Boston
"Crushing Day" by Satch

[ToneZone]

My favorite guitarsolos:

3. place

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6k1VdgNeKE

The build-up is amazing. Not so fan of the ultra-fast-picking-thingy as it doesn't fit the song, but everything else is fantastic!!!

2. Place

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_IKcMl_a9A

It's a classic solo!!!

1. Place

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

I still remember everything from the moment I first heard it. It was magic. It was soulfull and extreme all at once. It's the perfect solo!!

[sully]

"Three Days" by Jane's Addiction

...three days is amazing. fucking LOVE that song. it's just perfect. so dynamic and powerful. i tell ya, while i know it's not the same album, nothing's shocking is one of the most powerful sounding albums i've ever heard. man, going from up the beach to ocean size...it's just....massive.

that said, my favorite guitar things ever are:

1. the first note of the solo in larger than life, by kiss (studio side of alive II, solo played by rick derringer). that note just TEARS your face off. bums me out that it wasn't ace, but whatever, it rules.

2. this wahwah toucan sound that dave navarro plays in the mountain song solo. it's just awesome

3. johnny marr's delayed G chord that makes up "how soon is now?" by the smiths. just rules.

favorite solos? hm. probably the 2nd solo in crowley, the solo for shock me, the over the mountain solo, the SATO solo, zakk's no more tears solo, all of the guitar work in the song "brothers in arms" by dire straits, the solo in aerosmith's seasons of wither (as tommy says "the most perfect seven notes ever played" by brad whitford, no less), the solo in the black crowes "sometimes salvation" slash's guitar work in "estranged," damn near anything that lindsey buckingham plays, oh hell, there's plenty of awesomeness to find.

sully

[sully]

100.000 years in Alive! version is one of them.

Nice. Being in a trib band, I felt like Ace did when we played that song. When it was solo time, I planted my feet and wasn't going anywhere. Weird as hell, but great.

oooooh, firehouse! great solo, and fun as hell to play live.

sully

[sully]

who played it, and it usually gets faded-out by the radio stations...

TRUE STORY!!!!! fucking loved that when i was a kid. good call!!!

[wilkinsi]

That solo on Iron Maiden's Sheffield 1986 bootleg. The song never had a name.

[Bri]

I can't pick just one and this short list is too short. In no real order
Petrucci - Under a Glass Moon
Rhoads - Revelation (Mother Earth)
Yngwie - I'm A Viking
Vai - Juice

[jsuttjackson]

The one that always pop's into my head when this question comes up is the Ride the Lightning solo.I did like Kirk Hammett at one time(pre wah)and that song I think was his best.

[jgcable]

25 or 6 to 4 Chicago

I'd Love to Change the World 10 Years After

[jgcable]

Nice. Being in a trib band, I felt like Ace did when we played that song. When it was solo time, I planted my feet and wasn't going anywhere. Weird as hell, but great.

oooooh, firehouse! great solo, and fun as hell to play live.

sully

Ace's guitar solo's are the most fun to play of any guitar player IMHO. They are perfect.

[VitaminG]

Yngwie J. Malmsteens Rising Force - Soldier Without Faith.

good call! That is always amongst my faves. YJM got it totally right on that one.

Gary Moore - Shapes of Things To Come
Mark Knopfler/Jeff Healey - I think I love you too much
The Eagles dudes (Walsh/Felder) - Hotel Cali
Mark Knopfler - Sultans of Swing
Muzz Skillings/Vernon Reid - Broken Hearts
Adrian Smith - 22 Acacia Avenue
John Sykes - Crying In The Rain
SRV - Tightrope, Crossfire

[Hellbat]

Oh yeah, Gary Moore doing Shapes of Things on We Want Moore is devastating. I totally forgot about that one.

Nobody caught my Big Trouble in Little China quote.

[Snoogans]

Today I'm into Steve Stevens style and I really love the solo of Look in her Eyes of Vince Neil's exposed album

That's a killer solo, total raygun madness!
But the whole album is brilliant anyway.