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The Greatest Guitar Solo Of All Time.

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(1) Duane and Dickie trading licks on Allman Brothers' "Blue Sky." One wouldn't think a several minute guitar solo would be good, but this one is. You get this when guitarists are happy.



Great choice -- a friend of mine showed me that solo for the first time just a couple of months ago.

This is one of my favorites -- Hendrix's Axis: Bold As Love. 2:53

And then there's Funkadelic's Eddie Hazel in Houston 1979

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Whoever played the guitars on Wynonna Judd's cover of Freebird just knocks it out of the park on the intro at 17 seconds in.

I'm also a fan of the guitar work on Skid Row's cover of Little Wing. It takes a classic and while being respectful to the soutce material updates it to more modern sounds.

Still, I've got to give a +1 to whovever mentioned Jimmi and Vodoo Chile. You just hear that intro and you just know something's getting ready to go down.

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Not exactly a "solo" in the strictest sense but Charlie McCoy's acoustic lead threading through the album version of "Desolation Row" is mesmerizing. ....but, except for a couple of "alternate-speed versions", it seems to be blocked on youtube :(

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Bar was set high early with David Gilmore and BB King.

I liked the top comment on “Comfortably Numb” video
... I've been a musician for 40 years. There are few songs I can listen to 20 times IN A ROW - this is one of them!

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Oh yeah, don't click the link unless you have 9 minutes to kill

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWLw7nozO_U



Agreed, starting at 3:45 is, IMO, the most powerful 5 minutes of guitar playing I have ever seen.
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As Jackwallace mentioned, Jimmi's Star Spangled Banner, also Santana"s solo in Black Magic Woman.
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Did the work to post these solos.
(1) Duane and Dickie trading licks on Allman Brothers' "Blue Sky." One wouldn't think a several minute guitar solo would be good, but this one is. You get this when guitarists are happy. (at 1:07) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEC5s3nzVzo
(2) Mark Knopfler in "Sultans of Swing." The tone. The solo. And those killer fills. Mind blowing! Shows where fingerpicking has some advantages. Been posted.
(3) Jimmy Page in Ten Years Gone. Check out what he can do when he isn't shredding. :o (at 2:30 and 3:33 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYpydtdlWxA
(4) Elliott Randall in "Reelin' in the Years." Guitar solos aren't supposed to define a song. This one does. Without this solo the song is merely good. (intro, 1:57 and outro at 3:38 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBllejn5fVA)
(5) Ace Frehley in "100,000 Years." Simple. Effective. Sinister. Melodic. Lyrical. (at 1:44 and again at 2:40 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwnUFm4Kito)
(6) Eric Clapton in "Badge." It's about the only time I can recall him playing a melodic solo. (1:38 in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7rHCYtbZRo )
(7) Adam Levy in "Give Me One Reason." Nobody's ever heard of him, but everybody knows this Tracy Chapman song. I know it as a guitar gem. Just an amazing bit of guitar work through the whole song. (2:30 in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym1eDeOxq14)
(8) Tom Sholtz and Barry Goudreau's call and answer solo at the end of Boston's "Hitch a Ride." Goudreau goes. Then Sholtz. Then Both. Then Goudreau. Then Sholtz. Then Both. Gorgeous tone. Great technique. When guitarists mix harmony and melody like this... (2:22 in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSMQh7rmDgg =)
(9) James Calvin Wisley's guitar solo in "Wicked Game." Guitar solo that adds texture? Yep. (2:07 in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtfHk2hSlqA )



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Three of the best players on the planet, just having a blast.

John McLaughlin, Paco de Lucia, and Al Dimeola,
"Mediterranean Sundance."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cadbYIzhqQ



Saw them live in a very small venue in Dallas late 70s. Just another one of those musical experiences that makes you feel like either burning every guitar you have or cutting off fingertips so you have an excuse. :D
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Saw them live in a very small venue in Dallas late 70s. Just another one of those musical experiences that makes you feel like either burning every guitar you have or cutting off fingertips so you have an excuse.



I pretty much feel that way every time I listen to Jeff Beck, so I just won't go there. ;)
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For me, great guitar work isn't always about fretboard pyrotechnics, but more about tone & how it fits the song and hits my "inner chord".

To name a few:
David Gilmour's "Comfortably Numb"
Don Felder & Joe Walsh on "Hotel California"
George Harrison on "Let it Be" (Let it Be non-Leslie album version)
Eric Clapton on "Have You Ever Loved A Woman"
Roger McGuinn's 12 string Rickenbacker on "My Back Pages"

For slide guitar: Gary Rossington on "Ballad of Curtis Loewe", & whoever is playing slide on Bob Seger's "Like A Rock"

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