Your favourite Guitar-Solo

[René]

What's your favourite guitar-solo? (It could be in Jazz or classical music too!)

Anyone know the Randy Rhoads Solo after Suicide Solution on the "Tribute"-LP? That's my favourite!
Randy just knew how to play very fast and (what more important is): How to bring feeling in his guitar playing! When hearing Randy playin' you feel his devotion for guitar playing and music!

[Endrik]

Comfortably Numb
Stairway To Heaven
All Along The Watchtower
Freebird

[AfterForever]

CoB - Downfall

[Super_shredder]

Symphony of Destruction
Heartbreaker
Air (jason becker)

[RR_YJMFAN]

Beyond the Realms of Death(1st solo)
Crazy Train
ending solo of Tonight
You Don't Remember, I'll Never Forget
Mr. Scary

[Norton]

Tornado Of Souls

[Predator1]

1) George Lynch/Dokken-Night by Night
2)Ed VanHalen-Eruption
3) Michael Schenker- Love to Love

[bibz]

Pantera - Floods, lead, and outro. Thats the height of the instrument for me right there.

[Alvin_Wilson]

Stairway to Heaven - I get chills everytime I hear it.

[Spivonious]

There are so many!

Just a few off the top of my head:
Dream Theater - Under a Glass Moon
Ozzy - Mr. Crowley
Megadeth - Lucretia
Nevermore - The River Dragon Has Come

[thetroy]

Crying in the Rain
Mr. Crowley
Altitudes
Far Beyond the Sun
Speed Metal Symphony

[CharvelRocker]

My 5 favorite:

Van Halen - Humans Being
Guns N Roses - Sweet Child o Mine
Queen - We Will Rock You
Ratt - Round and Round
Velvet Revolver - Slither

[jackson1]

Any early Neal Schon solo.

[shreddermon]

Way too many to list, but a few that pop in my head as giving me the shivers every time I hear them....

Randy - Goodbye to Romance
Scorps - Rock you like a hurricane
Scorps - Winds of change
Journey - I'll be alright without you
VH - Hot for teacher

I guess the ones that always stick with me the most are those where you can really feel the emotion of the song and lyrics in the guitarist's solo. If the solo adds to the emotion of the song, and makes me feel the emotions of the performers, as they were playing and intending it, there's something magic there. It's also something you get to feel in your gut the very first time you hear a solo. Or it just ain't there. And, if it is there, it remains with you every time you hear it, no matter how many years later.

[5074charvel]

I was blown away - again - just today by the tapping solo of Steve Vai on the G3 CD (forgot the song title). Unbelievable!