What Are Your Top 10 Favorite Guitar Solos?

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I'll start and in no particular order.

1. All Along The Watchtower - Hendrix
2. Crossroads - Cream
3. Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
4. Hotel California - The Eagles
5. Cat's Squirrel - Jethro Tull (With Mick Abrahams)
6. Shapes Of Things - Garry Moore
7. Still Got The Blues - Garry Moore
8. You Shook Me - Jeff Beck
9. Capitain Senor Mouse - Chick Corea, Hymn Of the 7th Galaxy - With Bill Connors*
10. Mountain - Theme From An Imaginary Western - Leslie West.
Honorable mention - Highway Star - Richie Blackmore
*If you've never heard of Bill Connors, Here's the link to the tune. It's from the 70s and classified as Jazz Fusion.

 
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I've chosen my top 10 based on artistic composition, creativity and how well it fits the song, so a less "shreddy" solo may even be more engaging to me as a listener.

1. Hotel California

2. Out In The Fields

3. Crossfire

4. Watchtower

5. You Shook Me All Night Long

6. Still Of The Night

7. Die Hard The Hunter

8. Ace Of Spades

9. Mr. Crowley

10. No More Tears

The toughest solo of all of these to get right is Hotel California, largely due to the number of and frequency of the bends involved.

Out in the Fields is the fastest tempo solo and really takes concentration to hit the notes properly.

Hendrix's Watchtower is another difficult solo.
 
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Robert Herndon said:
I've chosen my top 10 based on artistic composition, creativity and how well it fits the song, so a less "shreddy" solo may even be more engaging to me as a listener.

1. Hotel California

2. Out In The Fields

3. Crossfire

4. Watchtower

5. You Shook Me All Night Long

6. Still Of The Night

7. Die Hard The Hunter

8. Ace Of Spades

9. Mr. Crowley

10. No More Tears

The toughest solo of all of these to get right is Hotel California, largely due to the number of and frequency of the bends involved.

Out in the Fields is the fastest tempo solo and really takes concentration to hit the notes properly.

Hendrix's Watchtower is another difficult solo.
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Still of the Night. I agree. It's amazing...not only because of the talent, but the sound!!!
 
Goldmember said:
Still of the Night. I agree. It's amazing...not only because of the talent, but the sound!!!
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1. Comfortably Numb

2. Here I Go Again

3. Comfortably Numb

3. Another Brick in the Wall

4. Comfortably Numb

5. Alone

6. Crossfire

7. Comfortably Numb

8. Paranoid

9. Smoke on the Water

10. Comfortably Numb

Runner Up: Comfortably Numb

Honorable Mention: Comfortably Numb

Participation Trophy: Comfortably Numb

Winner of the category, “Solos Sucky Shredders Wish They Could Have Created”: Comfortably Numb
 
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I love lists like this! They are totally pointless, but great. To name my 10 favorite solos is really impossible, but a few should be mentioned. I can't put them in any particular order, though. But these have inspired me greatly:

Peter Green's solos in "Someday After a While" from "A Hard Road" by John Mayall, "Stop Messin' Around" from "Mr. Wonderful" and "Jumping at Shadows" from "Live in Boston" by Fleetwood Mac, .
Eddie Van Halen's "Eruption".
Duane Allman's slide in "Statesboro Blues" from Fillmore.
Eric Clapton in "Ramblin' on My Mind" and "Little Girl" from the Beano album
B. B. King's "How Blue Can You Get" from "Live in Cook County Jail".
J. Geils in "Looking for A Love" from "The Morning After", the second J. Geils Band Album.
Angus Young in "Ride On".

Those are just 10 examples of solos that have inspired and continue to inspire me. There are just so many.
 
One more that deserves recognition - and if you think some of Randy Rhoad's solos are tough (Randy's solos are fast, but not that hard to replicate) try replicating Vernon Reid's solo in 'Cult of Personality.'

 
smitty_p said:
I think the song title you’re searching for is, “Comfortably Numb.”
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Don't get me wrong, I love David Gilmour. In fact, the first band I ever listened to was Pink Floyd, and the first music I owned was a cassette of Pink Floyd's "The Wall". My favorite is song "Echoes", though. And "Meddle" is my favorite Floyd album. What I love the most about Gilmour is his sense of melody, his variety of tones and the fact that he never overplays anything. He is an amazing guitar player.
 
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