Best Guitar Solos

[The Fat el Hombre]

Lynyrd skynyd free bird surely?

 

[jonah62]

John McGeogh, Magazine
“Shot by both sides”

 

[Saddleworth2]

4 mins 40 seconds in, and the magic starts.
33 years later, and the fella's stood 30 feet in front of me @ Manchester Academy, playing this.

Genius is an over used word, these days.
Not in Hackett's case.
Manlove.

Good call on Steve. One of our best living guitarist and massively underrated.

 

[Saddleworth2]

Steve Howe - Heart of the Sunrise
Jimmy Page - Dazed and Confused
Steve Hackett - Shadow of the Hierophant
Jimi Hendrix - just about anything really
Eric Clapton - Sunshine of your love
Donald “Buck Dharma” Roeser - Don't fear the Reaper
Jan Akkerman - Sylvia/Focus 3

 

[christened at st marks]

 

[christened at st marks]

Like Merlins left foot

 

[citizenyank76]

I can't believe nobody mentioned Elliott Randall's guitar solo in Reelin' In The Years. Wow, I thought was accepted as one greatest of all time.

 

[Nails]

Boredom - Buzzcocks. Just two notes repeating 66 times, then ending with a single modulated seventh. Punk perfection.

 

[tonea2003]

Boredom - Buzzcocks. Just two notes repeating 66 times, then ending with a single modulated seventh. Punk perfection.

another one repeated over and over :-)

 

[BLUEYESTU]

One from left field here but trust me -
Maggot Brain by Funkadelic. Eddie Hazel was told to play like his mother had just died and what he came up with was incredible.