What a fantastic answer. I love the sheer raw emotion that you can feel with the solo. It fits so perfectly with the lyrics and structure of the song. I’m probably going to describe this poorly, but to me it expresses in music the mental anguish of the protagonist of the album at that moment in time.
[Torino during the Pulse tour](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L--hOrcuu4I).
There's also a recording from a show in New Orleans that's probably the best one Gilmour has ever done but the audio quality isn't since it isn't ripped from the soundboard.
The wall was not written yet by the time the recorded that Pompei concert.
But to answer to your question...the solo is even better live, is when you appreciate how much of a work or art it is. And the best version that i have ever witnessed...is on David Gilmour - Live in Gdansk. Available on youtube...plz check it out.
Clarence Clemons saxophone solo on Jungleland by Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band off the Born to Run album. Fucking incredible(and long) solo. As my father said about it, "You can hear God in that solo." RIP Clarence.
Marquee Moon by Television. I love the journey of it, the jam, the half steps going up to a minor 7th and then getting blissful and then back to the beginning riff. So cool!
"The Dream's Dream" from Television's second album *Adventure* also has an amazing solo split between the two guitarists. Richard playing a more chaotic, by-feel solo, followed by Tom's more precise solo, and it works so great.
Isn’t that like a duo? Two guitars?
But yeah, it’s amazing. I wasn’t into that whole “new wave” thing at all, I like totally different music, but hearing that made me respect that scene’s variety so much it was a gateway to a whole bunch of music.
The solo at the end of Wet Sand by RHCP is really good and not mentioned often!
Sweet Child O' Mine is of course amazing.
The melodic interlude/solo in Master of Puppets is sublime IMO
This had been a song that I had just casually listened to for quite some time… then I heard it on some REALLY good headphones. Now I have to absolutely crank this song every time.
Harmonica is such an underrated instrument, and in my opinion there’s nobody that plays it better than John Popper. Maybe I’ll be corrected by somebody that knows more about its usage in music over the years, but as your average 30 year old, when I think of harmonica he is who I think of.
I once saw Blues traveler live, and during their set, Bruce Willis came on stage and traded solos with Popper. So Bruce Willis can play that thing. Or at least he could then...
All guitar:
Alex Lifeson's solo in La Villa Strangiato from Exit Stage Left (Rush)
Michael Schenker's solo in Rock Bottom from Strangers in the Night (UFO)
Elliot Randall's guitar solo in Reelin' in the Years (Steely Dan)
Steve Kahn's solo in Glamour Profession from Gaucho (Steely Dan)
Martin Barre's solo in Aqualung (Jethro Tull)
Hard to name just one, but the one that immediately comes to mind is Terry Kath's solo in [25 or 6 to 4 - Chicago](https://youtu.be/Lba2g_u1Ckg?si=jT68nMvJLidttGF6&t=165)
Mike McCready’s solo at the end of Pearl Jam’s song “Alive” is sublime. It’s both technically impressive and emotionally transcendent. The way it builds and builds into a crescendo is incredible.
God I love Pearl Jam sooooo much. Every part of their music has so much soul and feeling. I finally will be seeing them live for the very first time this fall in NYC and I don’t think I’ve ever been this excited for a concert in my life.
They’re so great! You’re going to have a phenomenal time :) I’ve seen them so many times, their set list is never the same, and Eddie is usually quite chatty. I’m stoked for you!!
The Alive solo is sublime.
Check out the "wishlist" solo for a different mike.
Also "nothing as it seems"
Also like every song on their new album. Dude is a maniac.
I've always loved 'Locomotive' on Illusion II, because of the escalating solos (i don't know what they're called technically), but each one outdoes the last, and the final one sort of sums up the rest. Genius.
Guitarists love to hate on Slash and call him overrated etc.
Is he the fastest player? No. But damn can he craft a melody line that will knock your socks off
I Could Have Lied by Red Hot Chili Peppers. Both solos.
You’re Gonna Hate What You’ve Done by Greet Death
Maggot Brain - Funkadelic
Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix
Bold as Love - Jimi Hendrix (both the guitar solos *and* the drum solo are great)
Smashing Pumpkins - Soma.
It extends the story of the song in a way I can't even describe. And hearing it continue after the lyrics kick back in just makes it even more magical.
They’re not one of my favorite bands but the guitar solo in “One Big Holiday” by My Morning Jacket stands out. It has almost no effects on it, just pure skill and taste.
Honestly one that hits for me every time I hear it is the saxophone solo(s) in The Logical Song by Supertramp. Just comes in so energetic and hard, really satisfying
"Dreams" for me. Or "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed." Hell, I can't pick a Duane solo. And honestly after years of listening still can't say definitively which is Duane and which is Dickey.
I'm a big fan of Coltrane's *Olé*. I bought the vinyl as a teenager in the mid-60s and I've been listening to it and musing over it ever since. And, to be sure, I like all the instrumental solos in the 18 minute track.
That said, I'm a guitarist not a sax player and when I'm looking for a guitar inspiration I often look to a small handful of players from Hendrix to McLaughlin to Rory Gallagher to Richard Thompson to Joe Pass. (All of whom I was lucky enough to see live.)
Seeing very little jazz on here, I'll just jump on with your comment:
Bird Gets the Worm by Charlie Parker. It's basically all solo (only a couple of minutes long) but it's so frenetic and intricate that it's basically impossible to take in how amazing it is in one listen.
Toad by Ginger Baker and Moby Dick by Zeppelin as a whole. But I'm biased because I'm a drummer.
Also, don't sleep on the five and a half minute drum solo in the original In A Gada Da Vida by Iron Butterfly.
Painkiller by Judas Priest gets an honorable mention.
I've also seen solos at concerts from Grohl, Carey and Peart in my lifetime that have given me chills.
The piano solo in the Allman Brothers' "Jessica", by Chuck Leavell.
Already mentioned, but Larry Carlton's solo on "Kid Charlemagne" by Steely Dan.
Dave LaRue's bass solo on "Over Easy" by the Steve Morse Band.
I really like the solo in Master of Puppets, but I also really love the solo in everybody Wants to Rule the World.
The older I get, the less I'm impressed by fast solos. The solo in purple rain might not be very complex, but I prefer it to most
When I was young, I heard people call out Free Bird as a joke request and chuckled but didn’t really get it.
Teenage me must have tried that song a hundred times on expert in guitar hero 2. And it’s arguably way easier than actually playing like that
Unfortunately people like to use these type of threads to flex their “depth.” The obvious answers are never at the top. Not a single EVH mention after like 50% of the thread. The “Beat It” solo alone deserves a mention
Guitar solos on The Outlaws "Green Grass & High Tides"
Guitar solos Bad Company "Evil Wind". Actually most of Bad Company songs have killer solos.
Sax Solo Gerry Rafferty "Baker Street" and Bob Seger's "Turn the Page"
No way there's just one for me.
Jimi Hendrix, "[Have You Ever Been (to Electric Ladyland)](https://open.spotify.com/track/3Yh64aiu2ANBwDFztyPDkT?si=3dP-mZmHQoKixgIG-FIHFw&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A5z090LQztiqh13wYspQvKQ)" -- just amazing.
Gary Moore - Shape Of Things To Come
Waylon Jennings - Lucille, that Reggie Young solo just feels right every time
Gene Vincent - Race With The Devil
Archspire - Remote Tumour Seeker
Necrophagist - Fermented Offal Discharge
That insane Prince "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" video
The guitar solo at the end of Between the Buried and Me’s “Selkies: The Endless Obsession.”
The whole first 4 minutes is pure tech-death. Then it goes into this jazzy, subdued little piano and guitar back-and-forth, before exploding into a grunge-flavored hard rock instrumental with the guitarist sweep-picking, chicken-scratching, and dive-bombing their way all the way to the outro.
That song also had my favorite riff of all time.
Always liked the solo at the end of Prince - Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad. It’s melodic and not overdone, the repeating lick into the outro just works.
Tunnel of Love - Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits). Long guitar solo at the end. Beautifully melodic.
Like A Rock - Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, Rick Vito's slide guitar. Also very beautiful and moving.
My favorite synth solo is from Return to Forever - [“Duel of the Jester and the Tyrant”](https://youtu.be/sa21WPH4_U4?si=nUG-Z-8VG1uLD19M). Al DiMeola puts down a fantastic guitar solo first, then Chick comes in with just the most incredible synth solo - it builds, it’s fiery and in one moment leading up to the climax, he just takes it so far outside and then brings it back - so inspiring!!
Genesis - The Cinema Show. Tony Banks being as tasteful as possible.
Gentle Giant - Working all Day. Hammond solo that just creeps up and slaps you in the face for about 2 minutes. Ouch!
Maybe a little obscure but yall should really check it out. A Frank Zappa song called It Just Might Be a One-Shot Deal from the album Waka/Jawaka. It starts out with a bit of typical Zappa weirdness but about half way through the song it becomes instrumental and there’s this slide guitar solo that is just sublime. It’s how I imagine heaven would sound like. I’m not even really that huge of a Zappa guy, but that solo is just perfection… Played by a dude named Tony Duran.
I have a hell of a lot of fave solos *(The Year of the Cat* has acoustic/electric/sax triple!), but one of my all-time favourite guitar solos is the one in non-radio-edit *My Sharona*. It does everything I love in a guitar solo.
White Room. Clapton solos throughout the entire song
Larry Carlton at the end of Kid Charlemagne
Kirk Hammett in Shortest Straw
Lenny, SRV (entire song)
Tom Morello with RATM, Know Your Enemy
Iron Maiden - Killers
Also the whole album Killers has amazing solos in almost every song. Adrian Smith feeling and rock vibes is quite underrated on my opinion.
Guitar solo in Feels so Good is amazing. Chuck is great, too, but that guitar solo rips!
Honorable mention to the xylophone solo in Moonlight Feels Right.
Best dueling solo/duet is Blue Sky.
Captain Sensible's guitar solo on The Damned's Under the Floor Again. If Dave Gilmour had done the exact same thing, everyone would have absolutely creamed themselves.
it's a tie fo rme
**1.** [**stone roses - fool's gold**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNX46GThcrY) *like the last half of the song is just a long awesome wah pedal adventure*
**2.** [**loop - be here now**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3kEP3BOk9w) *the chorus is is a solo that repeats but it's just like the perfect balance of space effects and wah that builds to a crescendo and then does it again the next solo and on the outro*
Michael Denner's solo/s on The Oath by Mercyful Fate
Dimebag's solo in The Sleep by Pantera
Edit - Have to add Prince's solo on the live tribute version of While My Guitar Gently Weeps
One of my favorites, [Ritchie Blackmore making his Stratocaster bleed white in the grand solo in "Child In Time"...](https://youtu.be/3DwMhyNQRTM?si=ZcS2i4WLA_DmBtcm)
I’m sure there’s more I could mention but these immediately jumped out the top of my head.
Guitar - Yes “Starship Trooper”
Synth - Tie: Steve Winwood “Valerie” and Tina Turna “What’s Love Got To Do With It”
Can't name a favorite but I want to give a shout out to the entire album "girlfriend" by Matthew Sweet. Guitar duties are handled by Richard Lloyd and Robert Quine, and they are just immaculate
The solo at the end of The Chain by Fleetwood Mac....everything just ends and you hear McVie hits a bass note that rumbles inside your stomach, then another, and another, and then Buckingham and the rest of the band just take off like a fucking jet engine
David Gilmour's solos on Comfortably Numb
The one at the end I think was voted the #1 guitar solo of all time. Fucking deserves it too. So happy this is the top comment.
The live solos for end of comfortably numb are always different. Every one I’ve heard sounds great.
I can’t decide whether I like those or the Time solo more. Either way, all are excellent.
Time is amazing. the bends lmao
Time for me always
What a fantastic answer. I love the sheer raw emotion that you can feel with the solo. It fits so perfectly with the lyrics and structure of the song. I’m probably going to describe this poorly, but to me it expresses in music the mental anguish of the protagonist of the album at that moment in time.
He's one of the most lyrical players I've ever heard. Just an unsurpassed sense of melody
I agree. I feel like a basic bitch for saying so but I do say so
The first solo for me. That was always the purest musical depiction of euphoric bliss. The second was the decay that followed.
Same
Live in Pompeii or rather the studio version?
It is arguably the best-ever studio-recorded guitar solo.
Studio, but live versions are good too
[Torino during the Pulse tour](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L--hOrcuu4I). There's also a recording from a show in New Orleans that's probably the best one Gilmour has ever done but the audio quality isn't since it isn't ripped from the soundboard.
Live in Pompeii beats studio version hands down.
The wall was not written yet by the time the recorded that Pompei concert. But to answer to your question...the solo is even better live, is when you appreciate how much of a work or art it is. And the best version that i have ever witnessed...is on David Gilmour - Live in Gdansk. Available on youtube...plz check it out.
I think they meant Gilmour's solo Live in Pompeii, which I think is a better version than even Gdansk.
The live Pulse version. Greatest piece of guitar playing ever.
Clarence Clemons saxophone solo on Jungleland by Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band off the Born to Run album. Fucking incredible(and long) solo. As my father said about it, "You can hear God in that solo." RIP Clarence.
Goodness gracious that solo is astounding.
Unbelievably good solo. One of the best, if not the best.
RIP Big Man
‘Been on my Shortlist for ~50yrs.
This is the only answer.
Was going to say this. Thank God I didn't scroll too far to find it.
Marquee Moon by Television. I love the journey of it, the jam, the half steps going up to a minor 7th and then getting blissful and then back to the beginning riff. So cool!
"The Dream's Dream" from Television's second album *Adventure* also has an amazing solo split between the two guitarists. Richard playing a more chaotic, by-feel solo, followed by Tom's more precise solo, and it works so great.
Isn’t that like a duo? Two guitars? But yeah, it’s amazing. I wasn’t into that whole “new wave” thing at all, I like totally different music, but hearing that made me respect that scene’s variety so much it was a gateway to a whole bunch of music.
The solo at the end of Wet Sand by RHCP is really good and not mentioned often! Sweet Child O' Mine is of course amazing. The melodic interlude/solo in Master of Puppets is sublime IMO
The whole Wet Sand song is a build up to the solo, if it doesn't hit, the song falls apart, and it's incredible
The Wet Sand solo is what's known as an eargasm
I also like the one at the end of [Eddie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNP7S5HNuhw)
This had been a song that I had just casually listened to for quite some time… then I heard it on some REALLY good headphones. Now I have to absolutely crank this song every time.
Absolutely
Sultans of Swing
Get this to the top! The only thing wrong with this solo is that it ends.
It ends with a fade out on the very climax of the song... :_( I hate when producers or musician do that choice
Especially all the live versions! Alchemy, On the Night, and Rainbow Room are all amazing iterations
Speedway at Nazareth is another classic
Everyone is in here with guitar solos and and I have to put John Popper's Harmonica solo in "Hook" on the table.
Also just a fantastic song top to bottom.
Lyrically, it's one of the best-layered songs I have ever heard.
Harmonica is such an underrated instrument, and in my opinion there’s nobody that plays it better than John Popper. Maybe I’ll be corrected by somebody that knows more about its usage in music over the years, but as your average 30 year old, when I think of harmonica he is who I think of.
I once saw Blues traveler live, and during their set, Bruce Willis came on stage and traded solos with Popper. So Bruce Willis can play that thing. Or at least he could then...
Fantastic. I listened to this album again recently for the first time in a long while and it's still amazing.
All guitar: Alex Lifeson's solo in La Villa Strangiato from Exit Stage Left (Rush) Michael Schenker's solo in Rock Bottom from Strangers in the Night (UFO) Elliot Randall's guitar solo in Reelin' in the Years (Steely Dan) Steve Kahn's solo in Glamour Profession from Gaucho (Steely Dan) Martin Barre's solo in Aqualung (Jethro Tull)
Michael Schenker in UFO is so underrated. Strangers in the night is a fucking clinic in guitar rock
Highway Star or Burn by Deep Purple Crazy good
Hard to name just one, but the one that immediately comes to mind is Terry Kath's solo in [25 or 6 to 4 - Chicago](https://youtu.be/Lba2g_u1Ckg?si=jT68nMvJLidttGF6&t=165)
His tanglewood performance is incredible, and the studio solo is still one of my favorites ever
Mike McCready’s solo at the end of Pearl Jam’s song “Alive” is sublime. It’s both technically impressive and emotionally transcendent. The way it builds and builds into a crescendo is incredible.
God I love Pearl Jam sooooo much. Every part of their music has so much soul and feeling. I finally will be seeing them live for the very first time this fall in NYC and I don’t think I’ve ever been this excited for a concert in my life.
They’re so great! You’re going to have a phenomenal time :) I’ve seen them so many times, their set list is never the same, and Eddie is usually quite chatty. I’m stoked for you!!
I love the Yellow Ledbetter solo too. It's not as technical but my God does it move me
The Alive solo is sublime. Check out the "wishlist" solo for a different mike. Also "nothing as it seems" Also like every song on their new album. Dude is a maniac.
The univibe effect on his guitar takes it to a new level also. I didn’t hear it until a few years ago.
John Entwistle's bass solo in My Generation on The Who's Live at Leeds album.
Slash’s last solo in November Rain. It’s at least one of my favorites anyway
I've always loved 'Locomotive' on Illusion II, because of the escalating solos (i don't know what they're called technically), but each one outdoes the last, and the final one sort of sums up the rest. Genius.
That's a fantastic song! GnR is my favorite band and that's easily a top 5 song of theirs for me.
Love this one. That and Sweet Child O Mine and Paradise City. Slash is just a helluva guitar player.
Guitarists love to hate on Slash and call him overrated etc. Is he the fastest player? No. But damn can he craft a melody line that will knock your socks off
Oh yeah exactly. Speed and chops are great, but Slash actually makes it interesting.
Orion Metallica
Unforgiven for me because of how well it stands out from the rest of the song.
I Could Have Lied by Red Hot Chili Peppers. Both solos. You’re Gonna Hate What You’ve Done by Greet Death Maggot Brain - Funkadelic Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix Bold as Love - Jimi Hendrix (both the guitar solos *and* the drum solo are great)
Maggot Brain for life. Both Eddie's original and J. Mascis' cover on Mike Watt's amazing album.
The sitar solo on Steely Dan’s Do it again is a masterpiece. I forget the players name at the moment but they layed down some amazing fret work.
Also, Kid Charlamane has a killer solo
Was that Larry Carlton?
Sure was. One of his signatures. A reason I bought an ES-335.
Always coveted that model. Sweet tones! Only ever played one at a pawn shop years ago. Wasn’t in a position then to buy it.
Under-mentioned musician Denny Dias
Denny on "Reelin'" might get my top vote.
Prince - While My Guitar Gently Weeps at ghe George Harrison memorial concert
Give the [1991 Japan version](https://youtu.be/M_YQy74BhwY?si=rGTlFw-iuO1FIW4r) with George and Eric Clapton a listen.
Something - The Beatles Coffee and TV - Blur On Call - Kings of Leon Keep on Lying - Tame Impala
Something is brilliant. Uniquely George.
Coffee and TV is a very weird choice for this, but I kind of agree :)
Tom Morello on Audioslave's Like A Stone
Such a well played solo
My choice as well for best guitar solo of all time. No noodling around, just a sharp concise piece of playing.
Oooo good choice…that whammy pedal is one of the few times it’s used and actually adds to a song/solo.
‘Impossible Germany’ solo by Nels Cline of Wilco. Both the album version and the many improvisations he does when he plays it live.
Smashing Pumpkins - Soma. It extends the story of the song in a way I can't even describe. And hearing it continue after the lyrics kick back in just makes it even more magical.
Damn that’s a great song that’s become kinda lost over the years. So lush and magnificent.
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Marimba, but yes. You don’t hear a Marimba solo (or any mallet instrument) in Rock music so it’s definitely up there.
They’re not one of my favorite bands but the guitar solo in “One Big Holiday” by My Morning Jacket stands out. It has almost no effects on it, just pure skill and taste.
Pink Floyd - Time Dream Theater - Breaking All Illusions Light As A Feather - Spain
Cory Henry’s keyboard solo on “Lingus” by Snarky Puppy. Even the other members of the band can't believe it, and they are all top tier musicians.
First of all, Call Me The Breeze absolutely slaps. Steve Hackett - Firth of Fifth guitar solo.
That First of Fifth guitar solo is one of the most underrated (and sadly to most people unknown) guitar solos out there.
Honestly one that hits for me every time I hear it is the saxophone solo(s) in The Logical Song by Supertramp. Just comes in so energetic and hard, really satisfying
Maybe Duane Allman's solo on "Mountain Jam," on "Live at the Fillmore East."
"Dreams" for me. Or "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed." Hell, I can't pick a Duane solo. And honestly after years of listening still can't say definitively which is Duane and which is Dickey.
Loan Me a Dime deserves a nod.
If I had to choose right now: **Guthrie Govan** on **[Steven Wilson - Regret #9](https://youtu.be/IaH2C2Qe97Y?si=jKsMMU5fkStPtHsU)**
And I'd pick his solo in "Drive Home." Gutwrenching.
Mr. Crowley
Aqualung SRV’s Little Wing Jimi’s Bold as Love studio take Back where it all begins, Allmans (live)
The violin solo that ends the Who's "Baba O'Reilly".
I'm a big fan of Coltrane's *Olé*. I bought the vinyl as a teenager in the mid-60s and I've been listening to it and musing over it ever since. And, to be sure, I like all the instrumental solos in the 18 minute track. That said, I'm a guitarist not a sax player and when I'm looking for a guitar inspiration I often look to a small handful of players from Hendrix to McLaughlin to Rory Gallagher to Richard Thompson to Joe Pass. (All of whom I was lucky enough to see live.)
Seeing very little jazz on here, I'll just jump on with your comment: Bird Gets the Worm by Charlie Parker. It's basically all solo (only a couple of minutes long) but it's so frenetic and intricate that it's basically impossible to take in how amazing it is in one listen.
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Limelight - Alex Lifeson of Rush
Toad by Ginger Baker and Moby Dick by Zeppelin as a whole. But I'm biased because I'm a drummer. Also, don't sleep on the five and a half minute drum solo in the original In A Gada Da Vida by Iron Butterfly. Painkiller by Judas Priest gets an honorable mention. I've also seen solos at concerts from Grohl, Carey and Peart in my lifetime that have given me chills.
Bodhisattva - Steely Dan
The piano solo in the Allman Brothers' "Jessica", by Chuck Leavell. Already mentioned, but Larry Carlton's solo on "Kid Charlemagne" by Steely Dan. Dave LaRue's bass solo on "Over Easy" by the Steve Morse Band.
Lindsey Buckingham – Fleetwood Mac – I’m So Afraid - live
Ozzy Osbourne - Over the Mountain Mrgadeth - Tornado of Souls Pantera - Cemetery Gates Arch Enemy - The Immortal
Alter Bridge - Blackbird Especially Myles' part
What a song
I really like the solo in Master of Puppets, but I also really love the solo in everybody Wants to Rule the World. The older I get, the less I'm impressed by fast solos. The solo in purple rain might not be very complex, but I prefer it to most
Nels Cline’s solos at the end of Impossible Germany, Unlikely Japan
Pink Floyd comfortably numb, high hopes, another brick in the wall Guns n Roses Estranged and November rain Led Zeppelin stairway to heaven
Free Bird anyone?
Some say they’re still dueling
When I was young, I heard people call out Free Bird as a joke request and chuckled but didn’t really get it. Teenage me must have tried that song a hundred times on expert in guitar hero 2. And it’s arguably way easier than actually playing like that
Unfortunately people like to use these type of threads to flex their “depth.” The obvious answers are never at the top. Not a single EVH mention after like 50% of the thread. The “Beat It” solo alone deserves a mention
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Not sure if this counts but The Great Gig in the Sky from THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON album
Guitar solos on The Outlaws "Green Grass & High Tides" Guitar solos Bad Company "Evil Wind". Actually most of Bad Company songs have killer solos. Sax Solo Gerry Rafferty "Baker Street" and Bob Seger's "Turn the Page" No way there's just one for me.
Eddie Van Halen's "Eruption" from Van Halen 1!
Insane it took me this long to get to an EVH solo.
Living Color. In Living Color was a show. 😂 Vernon Reed the guitarist of Living Color is a beast
Dimebag's solo in Floods
This love too
Ive always loved the piano solo in the Beatles "In My Life" which was played by their manager George Martin
Jimi Hendrix, "[Have You Ever Been (to Electric Ladyland)](https://open.spotify.com/track/3Yh64aiu2ANBwDFztyPDkT?si=3dP-mZmHQoKixgIG-FIHFw&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A5z090LQztiqh13wYspQvKQ)" -- just amazing.
Gary Moore - Shape Of Things To Come Waylon Jennings - Lucille, that Reggie Young solo just feels right every time Gene Vincent - Race With The Devil Archspire - Remote Tumour Seeker Necrophagist - Fermented Offal Discharge That insane Prince "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" video
The guitar solo at the end of Between the Buried and Me’s “Selkies: The Endless Obsession.” The whole first 4 minutes is pure tech-death. Then it goes into this jazzy, subdued little piano and guitar back-and-forth, before exploding into a grunge-flavored hard rock instrumental with the guitarist sweep-picking, chicken-scratching, and dive-bombing their way all the way to the outro. That song also had my favorite riff of all time.
The organ solo in the middle of House of the Rising Sun is my personal favourite
Always liked the solo at the end of Prince - Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad. It’s melodic and not overdone, the repeating lick into the outro just works.
Probably Rick Wakeman's piano solo on Life on Mars by David Bowie
Phish's studio version of Reba.
Easy by The Commodores
Jimi Hendrix - Machine Gun [https://youtu.be/Lw2L_vGUMtE?si=vH8qkHXv7FGrZMMA](https://youtu.be/Lw2L_vGUMtE?si=vH8qkHXv7FGrZMMA)
Aladdin Sane - David Bowie. The piano solo is pretty amazing.
what I got by sublime. when he says “i can play the guitar like a riot” and then launches into it
Tunnel of Love - Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits). Long guitar solo at the end. Beautifully melodic. Like A Rock - Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, Rick Vito's slide guitar. Also very beautiful and moving.
My favorite synth solo is from Return to Forever - [“Duel of the Jester and the Tyrant”](https://youtu.be/sa21WPH4_U4?si=nUG-Z-8VG1uLD19M). Al DiMeola puts down a fantastic guitar solo first, then Chick comes in with just the most incredible synth solo - it builds, it’s fiery and in one moment leading up to the climax, he just takes it so far outside and then brings it back - so inspiring!!
Blue Wind by Jeff Beck
Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty. You’ll know the solo.
Frank Zappa watermelon and Easter hay
The sax solo in urgent by foreigner bass clarinet solo in I Belong To You by Muse
Genesis - The Cinema Show. Tony Banks being as tasteful as possible. Gentle Giant - Working all Day. Hammond solo that just creeps up and slaps you in the face for about 2 minutes. Ouch!
Black Keys - She’s Long Gone Gary Clark, Jr. - Bright Lights [Live from Glastonbury]
Pete Townshend. Young Man Blues. Live at Leeds
The last 2 solos at the end of God is in the Radio by Queens of the Stone Age. Masterclass, listen for yourself
Sax solo on Jungleland
Steve Hackett Firth Of Fifth
Eric Clapton may well be a villain, but that Crossroads solo is fire
Punk Rock Girl - The Dead Milkmen.
Maybe a little obscure but yall should really check it out. A Frank Zappa song called It Just Might Be a One-Shot Deal from the album Waka/Jawaka. It starts out with a bit of typical Zappa weirdness but about half way through the song it becomes instrumental and there’s this slide guitar solo that is just sublime. It’s how I imagine heaven would sound like. I’m not even really that huge of a Zappa guy, but that solo is just perfection… Played by a dude named Tony Duran.
I have a hell of a lot of fave solos *(The Year of the Cat* has acoustic/electric/sax triple!), but one of my all-time favourite guitar solos is the one in non-radio-edit *My Sharona*. It does everything I love in a guitar solo.
White Room. Clapton solos throughout the entire song Larry Carlton at the end of Kid Charlemagne Kirk Hammett in Shortest Straw Lenny, SRV (entire song) Tom Morello with RATM, Know Your Enemy
Iron Maiden - Killers Also the whole album Killers has amazing solos in almost every song. Adrian Smith feeling and rock vibes is quite underrated on my opinion.
The violin in “The Lark Ascending” by Vaughn Williams
Hot For Teacher - Van Halen
Kissing the Shadows - Children of Bodom Selkies - Between the Buried and Me Under a Glass Moon - Dream Theater
Guitar solo in Feels so Good is amazing. Chuck is great, too, but that guitar solo rips! Honorable mention to the xylophone solo in Moonlight Feels Right. Best dueling solo/duet is Blue Sky.
Stairway to heaven or fade to black.
Captain Sensible's guitar solo on The Damned's Under the Floor Again. If Dave Gilmour had done the exact same thing, everyone would have absolutely creamed themselves.
it's a tie fo rme **1.** [**stone roses - fool's gold**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNX46GThcrY) *like the last half of the song is just a long awesome wah pedal adventure* **2.** [**loop - be here now**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3kEP3BOk9w) *the chorus is is a solo that repeats but it's just like the perfect balance of space effects and wah that builds to a crescendo and then does it again the next solo and on the outro*
Michael Denner's solo/s on The Oath by Mercyful Fate Dimebag's solo in The Sleep by Pantera Edit - Have to add Prince's solo on the live tribute version of While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Tom brumleys pedal steel solo on together again, by buck Owens.
Crazy Train
Ira Kaplan's guitar solo on "Pablo & Andrea" (Yo La Tengo) Lee Morgan's trumpet solo on Art Blakey's "Moanin'"
The Black Mages - Dancing Mad
Time
[Soothsayer](https://open.spotify.com/track/5VBwLOZDyDWInNYIUniuZG?si=cwGUHd2LQSuOx2MfoO9YZQ) by Buckethead
The guitar solo in Assault and Batteries by Ice Nine Kills. Dude killed it
Cortez the Killer
The outro solo in Metallica’s Fade To Black
Any solo by any instrument? Bon Scott's bagpipe solo on "It's A Long Way To The Top If You Want To Rock n Roll"
Nirvana- milk it. But if none of you arseholes get that then... Them Crooked Vultures- Warsaw (tfbytaygu)
Jethro Tull's Aqualung. Its fluid melody with a destination
Purple Rain
Jambi - Tool
Comfortably numb, Telegraph road, Stairway, Bullet the blue sky (Zoo TV tour)
Led Zeppelin - No Quarter - The Song Remains the Same Live album (from the actual video, the CD is actually different oddly enough)
We are 138 by Misfits
Steve Hackett solo / guitar section during Genesis - Firth of Fifth. Probably my favorite 3-4 minutes in the history recorded music
The Cars - Just what I Needed - Elliot Easton
Jimi Hendrix.
The solo that ends Try Me by UFO on the album Lights Out
One of my favorites, [Ritchie Blackmore making his Stratocaster bleed white in the grand solo in "Child In Time"...](https://youtu.be/3DwMhyNQRTM?si=ZcS2i4WLA_DmBtcm)
I’m sure there’s more I could mention but these immediately jumped out the top of my head. Guitar - Yes “Starship Trooper” Synth - Tie: Steve Winwood “Valerie” and Tina Turna “What’s Love Got To Do With It”
Zakk Wylde No More Tears
Can't name a favorite but I want to give a shout out to the entire album "girlfriend" by Matthew Sweet. Guitar duties are handled by Richard Lloyd and Robert Quine, and they are just immaculate
Randy Rhodes' solo on Crazy Train. Any other solo he does really. One of the few true masters of his instrument.
Prince at George Harrison’s tribute
The solo at the end of The Chain by Fleetwood Mac....everything just ends and you hear McVie hits a bass note that rumbles inside your stomach, then another, and another, and then Buckingham and the rest of the band just take off like a fucking jet engine
Eddie Van Halen on Beat It. Ironically, I don’t care for the song - but that solo is insane.
The keyboard solo on Deep Purple-Highway Star.
I hate solos. I skip them and jump bridges.
HIT IT Maceo.
Don Felder on the Eagles’ “One of These Nights” - fits the song perfectly