What Are Your Top 10 Favorite Guitar Solos?

My top favs depend on what mood I'm in. If I'm in the mood for blues, I might throw some Albert Collins in the CD player. If I'm in the mood for something harder, Black Sabbath will do fine. I have sort of fickled musical interests.
 
Off the top of my head, and still on my first cup of coffee:

Page - The Lemon Song
Arthur Say - Justify
Iommi - Symptom Of The Universe
Lifeson - The Way The Wind Blows
Wylde - Stillborn
Keith Gibbs - What Have You Done
Brent Hinds - The Motherload
John Petrucci - In The Name Of God
Michael Romeo - Revelation
Kim Thayill - Tighter And Tighter

If you asked me later or tomorrow this would likely change some but half would prolly remain.
 
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In no real order and it'd probably change if I had to pick again a couple of months from now - there are just way too many lead guitar solo's I like:
Purple Haze (jimi h.)
All Along The Watch Tower (jimi h.)
The Ocean (led zep)
Heartbreaker (led zep)
Iron Man (black sabbath)
Lazy (deep purple)
Freebird (lynyrd skynyrd)
Sweet Home Alabama (lynyrd skynyrd)
My Stars (alice cooper)
Blue Turk (alice cooper)
 
smitty_p said:
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 have recently reevaluated my entries and I have decided…

….to change nothing!
 
1. Cut You Loose - Robben Ford (from A Day in Nashville)
2. Third World Man - Larry Carlton (Steely Dan)
3. Peg - Jay Graydon (Steely Dan)
4. Joey - James Mankey (Concrete Blonde)
5. Maniac - Michael Sembello
6. Doctor My Eyes - Jesse Ed Davis (Jackson Browne)
7. Learning to Fly - David Gilmour (Pink Floyd)
8. Mississippi Queen - Leslie West (Mountain)
9. Help the Poor - Robben Ford
10. Reelin’ in the Years - Elliot Randall (Steely Dan)
 
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Is it a guitar solo if it's more than one guitarist? Hotel California is a guitar duo, not really a solo. It's amazing, but it's two guitars.

Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Little Wing (Hendrix)
War Pigs (Sabbath)
Ready or Not (Hedges)
Spoonful (cream)
Comfortably Numb
Statesboro Blues (Allmans)
Black Magic Woman (Santana)
Memory Pain (Winters)
 
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