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With regard to Neil Young, check out him playing on ‘Mirror Ball’ with Pearl Jam as well as ‘4 Way Street’ live album with Crosby, Stills and Nash.

Saw NY with Mirrorball at Reading in ’95. Still wear the tee shirts!
One of my all-time favourite guitar solos is an obscure one in a rather unlikely place; on an Alison Moyet single, Love Letters. There are two extra tracks on the CD single, Ne Me Quitte Pas, and This House, which ends with a really quite amazing, woozy solo, with lots of whammy bar note bending and echo. Sadly, the version that’s on her Greatest Hits is an edited version, without the solo, which is a terrible shame.
[edit] Apparently the cd is rather rare, it’s going for £22 on Amazon!

How about a bit of Ezio? Amazing live – just two blokes on two acoustic guitars.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFdgGnMYXSA[/video]

Iron Maiden, Paschendale
Opeth , A Fair Judgement
Dream Theater, Breaking all Illusions
Dragonforce, Valley of the Damned, Fury of the Storm
Velvet Revolver, You Got No Right
Pantera, Cemetery Gates
W.A.S.P. The Idol
Ozzy Osbourne, Crazy Train
All Joe Satriani

…and how could I forget Randy Rhoads – the second solo from Mr Crowley is one of my all time favourites

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfkATcv-dVY[/video]

and to show he wasn’t just a heavy guitarist

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWSUD3ZmqT8[/video]

Wayne Hussey, Sisters Of Mercy, Knocking On Heaven’s Door – 3:40 in

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtuQM6SXeiY[/video]

or maybe Marshall Gill doing the intro to Vagabonds:
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRsK3Tyct6Q[/video]

Marc Ford on The Black Crowes 2nd and 3rd albums, Southern Harmony and Amorica.

[video]http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5etRnavbfo4[/video]

Not convinced that’s gonna work…anyway Wilco, Impossible Germany. Class act and a great solo.

I should have more faith !

[video]http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NiTXGswyAls[/video]

Vai: For the love of god

Kirk Hammetts solo at the end of “the struggle within” on Metallica’s black album is ace…

Zappa, Yo Mama… as on the Jonny Dawes Stone Monkey vid, climbing in the Llanberis quarries…

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxkzluURe7g[/video]

love this from two of my favourites. Great Rock blues.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1Za8EjFVOs[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9usWeNO8vBQ[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jlzJnfDYIc[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCHVpDwMS2k[/video]

Dinosaur Jr – Get Me – from four minutes in – effortless and tuneful soloing!

Here also but a bit different live:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Pa9x9fZBtY[/video]

Nils Lofgren on “Youngstown”

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9FgwO1ysNM[/video]

Ritchie Blackmore goes pretty insane on some of the Rainbow albums live in Japan.

Dire Straits “Once upon a time in the West”

another Neil Young: “Powderfinger”

Mike Bloomfield

Al Kooper “Season of the witch”

Yes anything by Dinosaur Jr, or try J mascis doing Maggot Brain, or Cortez the Killer with Buffalo Tom

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMmXL_jxBDg[/video]

Prepare for your jaw to drop to the floor:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb5_e_4QxQ8[/video]

Pearl Jam, Evenflow.

Angus Young, Let There Be Rock, live in Paris.

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Firstly for the solo in One in a Million
Secondly for the soulful cover of Ain’t in Fun of the Spaghetti Incident
Slither from the Velvet Revolver days

Angus
Well for pretty much anything but I do really like Touch too Much

Iron Maiden
Strange World

Hendrix
All along the watchtower (already mentioned)

Too many to mention really. Guitars are ace.

Machine Head – Aesthetics of Hate \m/

Radiohead – Just

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_qMagfZtv8[/video]

and Paranoid Android

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPLEbAVjiLA&oref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DsPLEbAVjiLA&has_verified=1[/video]

A bit different to the rest of this thread, but one of my absolute favorite solos.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fVVeEPLUHc&sns=em[/video]

A lad I use to play rugby with keeps posting this on Facebook when he has has a sherbet too many, and the solo from 4:10 is growing on me:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ubH7dLJJiE[/video]

Some excellent slide guitar.

Prepare yourself for some serious guitar playing that will tug at your heart strings. No words necessary.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGho1QZO4Us[/video]

Randy Rhodes was a genius- technically brilliant but he knew when to fretwank and when not to. Something sadly not that common, most guitarists seem to think more notes is always better. Quite a lot of the suggestions in this thread just do nowt for me.

Favourite of mine…

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHtQQTU-GXM[/video]

Solo starts at 3 minutes, play it in from 2.45. Don’t really like the vibrato but otherwise, love it.

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La Villa Strangiato.
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNilsLf6eW4[/video]

OK, so solo aside, it has everything. But what a solo! Actually, musically overall, just wow.

Gob smacked no one has mentioned Andy Timmons yet. Or Adrian Legg for that matter. Or Mattias Eklund or Paul Gilbert.

Nuno Bettencourts solo in Get The Funk Out is probably the greatest solo of all time IMHO or maybe Brian May on It’s Late. Both utterly perfect for the song.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqP76XWHQI0[/video]

Good call. Nuno’s a very, very talented axe-wrangler.

See also – Fretwanking to teh max! The Flight of the wounded bumble bee, as an intro…
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1AxoPTAgxA[/video]

Two guitar greats playing together and what a classic track to enjoy:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUaevnP1LLg[/video]

Nobody’s mentioned Eric Johnson yet

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRPJtLV_imk[/video]

Or Thomas Blug the Strat King of Europe

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_EwlMa5B6I[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhaE0YG7UmA[/video]

billy corgans playing on the Siamese dream album especially still amazes me.

The intro from this –
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcHKOC64KnE[/video]
Also inkeeping with the “Queen” theme
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QwUp_MDHU4[/video]

Also, anything from The Smashing Pumpkins or Metallica obviously 😉

Ooh, and “Baker Street”! Specially the Foos’ version
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DmIk05vmMc[/video]