The best guitar solo ever

Peter Green with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers - amazing 10 second opening note. Then he went on to found Fleetwood Mac.

https://youtu.be/QeOKj5XdVAE

Precious Roy wrote:

Mediterranean Sundance wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvVmqnNBo9w

Paco De Lucia & Al Di Meola . Sublime musicality and technical prowess, almost unrivalled.

This album is unreal. I got to see McLaughlin play live with Shatki and in a combo with Dennis Chambers and Joey DeFrancesco. Anyone who is into the guitar needs to fill their iphones with the legends of the jazz fusion era and get to a live show to see these guys while they still have it. Sadly, Paco passed away a few years ago. But McLaughlin and Di Meola are still cranking it out.

Saw these guys at Kleinhans in Buffalo NY back in the early 80's

I’ve heard that “I do not know, ask [name]” quote a million times in reference to people Jimi supposedly said it about, usually Terry Kath or Rory Gallagher. It’s urban legend. Hendrix was shy in person but, to be sure, he knew he was the baddest cat on the scene. And nobody else was even in the same conversation.

SRV could sure put his whole body and soul into his playing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC5H9P4F5Uk

I raise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t9slqL_eSw

Go, Laura! wrote:

I've always loved Jeff "Skunk" Baxter's solo at 4:45:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFnwczuvb74

Coud have posted a shed-load by the extraordinary Richard Thompson, but here's just a couple:

Starting at 2:33 -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dk2G0yCvR8

Starting at 1:58 -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWUwcr7vdQ8

Go Laura: I am glad someone mentioned Richard Thompson. Very fortunate to see him last fall. Unbelievable show. If you get a chance listen to A Sailors Life when he was with Fairport Convention. His guitar playing for the last few minutes of that song is incredible.

Hopefully you have listened to his last CD- 13 Rivers.

Larry Calton, especially in the intro to Steely Dan's Don't Take Me Alive:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gV1sxB8TxI

Don't Axe, Don't Tell wrote:

Larry Calton, especially in the intro to Steely Dan's Don't Take Me Alive:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gV1sxB8TxI

Love Larry Carlton on “Kid Charlemagne”!

Anyways, here’s an interesting list:

And here’s a list I made years ago:

Will need to go through the thread.

Mynameshardenjames! wrote:

The Solo starts at 4:58. Listen to the entire track which further justifies this magical timber as righteousness

https://youtu.be/SInH7BLVGRk

Equinox is a very underrated album, for sure...

beatuALL wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6rBK0BqL2w

16 YEARS OLD

Wow. Just. Wow.

Thanks for sharing that, you have brightened my whole day!

+1 TWOD (The War on Drugs) deserves a listen.

Fred Gwynne wrote:

Go Laura: I am glad someone mentioned Richard Thompson. Very fortunate to see him last fall. Unbelievable show. If you get a chance listen to A Sailors Life when he was with Fairport Convention. His guitar playing for the last few minutes of that song is incredible.

Hopefully you have listened to his last CD- 13 Rivers.

Yes to all of that! You can't go wrong with a bit of RT! I'd go as far to say that he's the best "combination acoustic/electric guitarist" alive. The man has genius in that brain and magic in those fingers!

I read once that he says he gets bored with playing solos the same way so he will always improvise some part (or much) of the solo. So much so that after many years of playing a song live the solo can sound very different to the studio version.

Hereford wrote:

I’ve heard that “I do not know, ask [name]” quote a million times in reference to people Jimi supposedly said it about, usually Terry Kath or Rory Gallagher. It’s urban legend. Hendrix was shy in person but, to be sure, he knew he was the baddest cat on the scene. And nobody else was even in the same conversation.

Ya, Phil has been shooting that down for 40+ years. One of his standard comebacks is "maybe he said I was the world's shortest guitarist".

Anyway, Keaggy was great ~50 years ago:

And is still great:

There are so many but here's my vote... Peter Green...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oWmfG0uFBc&list=FLNO3S15oz_uM1NOMkOk1-0A&index=75&t=0s

Seriously. check this guy out. His band is frickin brutal...but every great guitarist is a fan of him saying hes techinically the best out there

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw5dUPrHSre/

Armstronglivs wrote:

Hereford wrote:

Hendrix never served in battle. He was discharged while training in Kentucky, after injuring his back. This was the official reason given, but many suspect the army wanted him out because he was lazy and not a promising soldier. Seems plausible. Either way, it worked out pretty well for the universe. He was the GOAT, by light years.

Joe Satriani, who can play a little himself. has said the single greatest guitar solo in rock is Hendrix's solo in "Machine Gun", live at the Fillmore. End of thread.

This

I haven't read the whole thread but I assume "Everlong" is all over this, starts at 9:00

https://youtu.be/nDnph5lp_vE?t=541

Ryan Foreman wrote:

Armstronglivs wrote:

Joe Satriani, who can play a little himself. has said the single greatest guitar solo in rock is Hendrix's solo in "Machine Gun", live at the Fillmore. End of thread.

This

Satriani is one of my top two favorite guitarists, and he’s not wrong about “Machine Gun.” I think I have that solo somewhere around #10 on the list I posted above, but it could probably go even higher. His guitar depicts the chaos and futility of the Vietnam battlefield and jungles with eerie precision and power.

My personal favorite guitar solo ever is Satriani’s “Crushing Day.” “For the Love of God” and “Tender Surrender” by Vai, “Mr. Crowley,” and “Comfortably Numb” are also favorites. Others in the top ten region: “Fade to Black” (all of the guitar in the song), “November Rain” (actually like the slower solos more), “Far Beyond the Sun” by Yngwie, “Texas Flood,” and “Hotel California.”0

Another one from olden days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_ShiEM4u9I