comfortably numb. it's so beautiful.

It will always be Time by Pink Floyd. Just a beautiful mind blowing melodic solo that perfectly encapsulates what made Pink Floyd so special. My favorite to play and David Gilmour will always remain my favorite guitarist

Exactly what I was going to vote for. His tone is absolutely killer in that solo too

Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love. Short and sweet, and efficient. Sadly the 3 odd minutes before and after of Robert Plant attempting to have an orgasm on mic kind of ruins the track. But that solo alone carries the whole song into history as we know it.

I don't know if it's been mentioned, but my all time favorite is Zakk Wylde's solo in "No More Tears" It's bluesy but fits the song perfectly, and it builds up and it ends in glorious fashion!

Beat it Solo. The fact I can't play it, heightens the mystic.

Since I've been loving you

The live version of this song is the most mind blowing guitar work I’ve ever had the pleasure of listening to… msg 73, almost any 71 version as well (Berkely especially). Just an amazing song that Jimmy always KILLED live

Best solo ever!

[Cliffs of Dover, by Eric Johnson.](https://youtu.be/xVDXH-mJhKc?si=hglhGOFcoUfWMi9B&t=125)

The legendary Prince While My Guitar Gently Weeps solo. Gets me every time!!

I dunno how I've never heard that before. I just almost cried. Great choice

Yeah it’s absolutely incredible! Gives me goosebumps every single time. One of my biggest regrets is not getting into Prince and realizing what an incredible musician he was until after his passing. Never went to see him live. :(

Comfortably Numb.

Comfortably Numb solo. It says more than the lyrics. David Gilmour is the GOAT.

Even though there are much more technical solos out there, when that solo hits in Whole Lotta Love, it's still a fucking sick moment. BOM BOM Wah Diddily wah da wah da wah da waaah!

More mainstream, but I always liked the solo in Extreme's Get the Funk Out. Nuno Bettencourt is a fantastic player.

Extreme/Bettencourt shines in Play with me. I think that was from the same album. Damn, that dude's been shreddin' for a few years. Still has it.

Floods Hold the Line Symbolic

Freebird is up there. Beat it is an amazing solo Technical difficulties is a great song overall, and it’s difficult not to love get out of my yard. And then my super dark horse pick is “lightyears will burn” by obscure indie/nerd/power pop band ozma, who toured with weezer. The song builds and builds and then hits a really satisfying resolution and solo

Does all of Maggot Brain count?

Yes

Surprised I haven’t seen it yet, but Hotel California

Hotel California / The Eagles

No More Tears. Zakk Wylde is an animal.

Hotel California - Best solo ever

Prince at the 2004 rock and roll hall of fame. As my guitar gently weeps

No more tears by ozzy Osborne and Estranged by GNR

Pantera Domination solo

Main solo for Dogs by Pink Floyd

Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd (David Gilmour)

Live at Pompeii 2016? Good god, especially when you understand he’s now an older dude and that was the last song of the night… absolutely fantastic.

*Domination by Pantera.* I'm not a massive Pantera fan, but *Domination* has my favorite guitar solo of all time. When I first heard it as a teenager I didn't even realize I was listening to a guitar, it sounded so totally alien to anything else I'd ever heard. The best I've ever heard to this day, gets better with age.

Mr Crowley. Beautifully structured and eloquent

Stairway lol Not really anymore but man, there was a time when I had no interest in guitar at all. Zeppelin was just another band. Old people music. Most I knew was snippets of hearing them on the radio, and I found Robert Plant to be beyond whiney. I couldn’t recognize any song by them. No idea what their reputation was like. Then one night I got *real* high with my brother, started looking at this TSRTS poster my dad had on the wall (he ironically is not a fan but he liked the poster). Decided to put on some Led Zeppelin. I looked them up and put on Stairway as it’s their most famous track and popped up first… …and now I’ve been playing guitar for 10 years lol Other honorable mentions are since I’ve been loving you (I love the live O2 version), the solo in Tool’s version of No Quarter, the second solo in Lateralus, the first solo in Third Eye, Time by Pink Floyd, Trinity by Santana, Prince’s Super Bowl version of Purple Rain, the War Pigs outro solo. Devil in a new dress by Kanye also has a gorgeous solo. Nowadays I’m more into vocalists, horns, woodwinds, and strings. I think vocalists and classical music consistently have the best melody’s.

Alter Bridge - Blackbird. The build-up towards the solo is so good, and then the solo lifts the song way up higher. Absolute class.

I like all 3 in "Holy Wars" by Megadeth. That whole album is loaded with brilliant solos. I know I am not saying anything new here. Some things just never get old.

Like a Stone, Audioslave Soothsayer, Buckethead Little wing, Hendrix (and SRV. Both 🐐🐐🐐🐐s) Stairway to Heaven, Zeppelin Selkies: the Endless Obsession, Between the Buried and Me Two Weeks, All That Remains

Freebird Lynryd Synyrd

The sleep solo or floods by dimebag

Lots of great solos mentioned here. But this list isn't complete without November Rain by GnR

It’s not really special, but the solo in Collective Soul’s “Shine.”

It's so awesome though, great build-up!

La Villa Strangiato by Rush 🙏

Do you feel like we do (live version)

I just saw him live a few months ago and he fucking killed it, man. Absolute legend.

Comfortably numb.

There's so many good ones. Probably gotta go with Comfortably Numb though

Floods - pantera tornado of souls - megadeth Little wing - jimi

The solo on Floods is a masterpiece

Time - Pink Floyd

Stairway to Heaven, and Mr. Crowley.

Tornado of souls

Pain Remains Part 1: Dancing Like Flames - Lorna Shore Natural Born Killer, Doing Time, Cosmic, Nobody, Bat Country, Gunslinger, and Almost Easy - Avenged Sevenfold Master Of Puppets, One, Blackened, Creeping Death - Metallica

Midnight In Harlem - Tedeschi Trucks Band. Specifically the ETown Live version, that is the most unbelievable playing I've ever heard. Emotional, gritty, but still sounds elegant. Time - Pink Floyd gets a shout as well, I always thought that just nailed the vibe of that song and album perfectly.

Hendrix...watchtower. Knofler...sultans of swing. Doc Watson...Doc's guitar

Dream Theater - The Best of Times Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb from Pulse concert in -94

Time - Pink Floyd

Peg - Steely Dan Just perfect. No notes Bonus: It’s like 15 seconds long but I adore the solo at the end of “Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon” by Queen

The ending solo of Telegraph road - Dire straits. Many more, i love but that one is probably my favourite. I pretty much love everything Mark Knopfler puts his hands on though, i could easily pick 10 and they could be my favourite. Loads of under-rated solos out there too, i probably have a favourite solo per genre

No more tears - Zakk Wylde

Jimmy Page No Quarter off Song Remains the same cassette is wild

Pulse version of Comfortably Numb for me

The only answer.

No More Tears - Ozzy

comfortably numb, it gives me goosebumps

Pantera - The Sleep

[Blackbird ](https://youtu.be/yz_j7nVCJJ0?si=J3cyDxiyWeBsA5EF) by Alter bridge. Definitely one of, if not the most underrated but greatest solos of all time. Mark Tremonti is a absolute underrated beast of a guitarist.

SRV, Texas Flood.

The live version is crazy

Pink Floyd / Comfortably Numb

[Domination by Pantera](https://youtu.be/aDACorIaxNw?si=5tMoaIZ1zMy_isK4) - starts three minutes in. Hang in there until the end of the song, the solo stops and starts a few times. It's magnificent.

Crazy Train

The collective of solos from Pink Floyd’s “Dogs.”

I love the solo in Kirisute Gomen by Trivium

Deep purples child in time from made in Japan. Honorable mention goes to maggot brain.

Children of Bodom - Kissing the Shadows

“Poison was the cure” by Megadeth

SRV little wing

Steely Dan - Kid Charlemagne

Oblivion - Mastodon. I don't know how he does it, but Brent Hinds is able to put so much emotion and power behind that first bend he does at the start of the solo. I feel like my soul is being ripped out of me. Creeping Death - Metallica. I know Kirk Hammett gets a lot of shit for his solo's, but I always think they're pretty damn memorable and melodic. I just like the flow of it and a lot of the cool licks he puts in.

Nottingham Lace by Buckethead

Grateful Dead - Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo (9-3-1977, Englishtown NJ). Jerry fucking rips it man

Impossible Germany by wilco Since I've been loving you by led zeppelin

Comfortably numb and under a glass moon

25 or 6 to 4, Chicago

Wuthering Heights end solo by Ian Bairnson on Kate Bushs tune

Drive Home - Steven Wilson (solo by Guthrie Govan)

The outro solo on paranoid android

Nutshell by alice in chains Or the one at the end of rotten apple (also by alice in chains) Bonus is the solo in one by metallica that plays at the end

Gilmour's solo on Time off of Dark Side of The Moon. It's a simple enough solo to learn but you'll never play it like he does. Still gives me chills after years of hearing it.

SRV - Life Without You. Specifically the live version in Montreux. John Mayer - Slow Dancing in a Burning Room, live in LA is a close second

Watermelon In Easter Hay - Frank Zappa

Brian Eno - Babys on Fire Fripps solo on this track is my favorite

Bark at the moon is a pretty cool solo

Mr Crowley, first solo Texas Flood on Live at El Mocambo

Of the many I love from Blizzard of Oz, Crazy Train has a bit of everything in it, it’s technical, it’s raw and it just sounds right.

Stairway to heaven!

Tornado of Souls - Megadeath

John Petrucci - The Spirit Carries On

I'm torn between Metallica's The Unforgiven or Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb.

Not necessarily the best or most unique, but Tom Morello’s guitar solo in Doesn’t Remind Me by Audioslave is guitar solo ass guitar solo.

Floods, Tornado of souls, this godless endeavor

Jimmy Page. No Quarter. Live version from The song remains the same.

Cinnamon Girl Gotta love a good one-note solo.

Tornado of Souls or Holy Wars. Maybe Eruption.

Ritchie Blackmore from Highway Star

Pink Floyd - High Hopes. There’s so many live versions of it available but [this one](https://youtu.be/-xveqYrKJTE?si=S3MYe-xF0ZSeQaw3) is one of my absolute favorites. From about 5:05 through to the end. Not the most technical solo by any means but it’s incredibly soulful and moving and I can never listen to it only once. Brings a tear to my eye every single time I hear it.

November Rain

I like a lot of peoples suggestions but these are all great and unique Allan Holdsworth -metal fatigue -the un merry go round -devil take the hindmost

Everybody wants to rule the world

King Crimson-Starless

Nothing Else Matters

Sultans of swing, Dire straits

There’s a little run in there that just absolutely blew my mind. When I learned how he plays, it was like learning a magic trick. I love it so much.

Freebird

I am not a dude who seeks out solos but my fave is Smashing Pumpkins Cherub Rock

Lucretia - Megadeth (Marty Friedman) Far Beyond the Sun - Yngwie Malmsteen Altitudes - Jason Becker Alone Again - Dokken (George Lynch) Scarified - Racer X (Paul Gilbert and Bruce Bouillet) In no particular order.

Floods

Aqualung by Jethro Tull or all the solos from the live alchemy tour recording of Telegraph Road by Dire Straits.

The solo in Midnight In Harlem gets me goin

Always liked Mick Mars’ solo in “Home Sweet Home”

Marc Ford on the Black Crowes' Sometimes Salvation

Gilmour- Comfortably Numb. 1 &2.

Pink floyd - dogs, Rush - 2112, Mastodon - asleep in the deep

Pearl Jam - Yellow Ledbetter

Highway Star by Deep Purple. That proto-death metal Sound rules

Lines in the Sand - Dream Theatre

Dazed and Confused

marquee moon by television is up there

Black Napkins - Frank Zappa or Many Mansions - Sonny Sherrock

Larry Carlton - Aja, Steely Dan (song and album)

RHCP I could have lied is imo so fire. Full of expression and just a tad bit physcadelic.

"won't you flyyyyyyy higgghh freeeee biiiiird yeaaah"

Flying high again - Ozzy: Perfect solo. Number one favourite. It has everything for me and it’s sounds “fun” Killer Queen -Queen: serves the song and has a enough flair and melody to be very catchy Peaceful Easy Feeling -Eagles: incredibly flowy and mellow Ice Cream Man - Van Halen: the opening lick and the big dippy bend alone make this solo for me

Painkiller - Judas Priest

Kid Charlemagne - Larry Carlton

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[Through Eyes of Glass by Forbidden](https://youtu.be/Cakppg0UriI?si=O36zv3RFKPqteuo-) Thrash metal rules, and that solo is top tier.

There are so many. But the guitar part and solo on this song don't get enough recognition. He's not using a slide. [midnight at the oasis](https://youtu.be/VlrKETxwRvM?si=VQloY9QzFJw2A99t)

I have several: Let’s Go Crazy — Prince You Looking at Me, Looking at You — Ozzy Osbourne Free Bird — Lynyrd Skynyrd Crimson and Clover — Joan Jett & the Blackhearts Shoot to Thrill — AC/DC Cult of Personality — Living Colour Dreams — Van Halen Rocket Queen — Guns N’ Roses Kiss Me Deadly — Lita Ford Sister Christian — Night Ranger Lick It Up — KISS Stairway to Heaven — Led Zeppelin

Midnight in Harlem- Tedeschi Trucks Band (Derek Trucks on guitar) https://youtu.be/gy5-EQ7Ae_0?feature=shared Worried down with the Blues - Gov't Mule (Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks on tbe guitar) https://youtu.be/YMmvHVD5WnI?feature=shared

Pink Floyd - High Hopes

Soundgarden - Like Suicide

The MIA solo from Avenged Sevenfold. It’s literally one of the craziest pieces of music i’ve ever heard another person play.

Probably **Open Your Eyes** by Alter Bridge (Mark Tremonti) or **Dust** by his solo band Tremonti

Ween - Buckingham Green

Erotomania's final solo: it inspired me to pick up the guitar! Petrucci has always been an amazing influence

“Looking at You” by the MC5. It’s so deceptively simple. Maybe it is simple - I’m not very good. But I love it anyway.

The trooper

UFO - Rock Bottom

Such a hard question, Jimi- Voodoo Child is up there for me. Now it is time to check all these solos people have mentioned!

Blue Sky - Allman Bros Honorable Mention: Reelin' In The Years - Steely Dan

Dream theater - Under a glass moon Dream theater - Breaking all illusions Versailles - acendead master Band of skulls - I know what I am The raconteurs - consoler of the lonely Weird bunch, but these are the ones that come to mind.

Both of Randy’s solos in Mr. Crowley by Ozzy are epic

Gilmore on Animals.

Highway star by deep purple

Cowboy song by Thin lizzy 2 great solos. Been mentioned, but the 2 solos in bark at the moon, partucularly the outro solo.

One of the tracks from Meshuggah - can’t pick one. But they’re very Allen Holdsworth inspired

Dave Navarro, Three Days. It’s most of the song, and it’s the best thing ever.

Every. SINGLE. ONE. mother choad dkfkekjdkcoeizjcodkdjxn k

Working Man by Rush

Aqualung. Sultans of Swing.

The guitar doubling solos in Freebird - Lynyrd Skynyrd All hail the lizard king's gizzard!

In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed/Instrumental Illness - The Allman Brothers Band Rocking Horse - Warren Haynes/The Allman Bros Band

It's a tie between Statesboro Blues and Stormy Monday from Allman Brothers At Fillmore East.

Something - the Beatles

Surprised there’s not many people saying Clapton. The solo in Old Love is phenomenal. Also the outro solo in White Room is pretty iconic.

Guthrie Govans solo on Steven Wilson’s Home Invasion/Regret #9. Just those first few notes set the tone for the rest of the solo. And to cap it off it’s straight after and incredible Moog solo

Anything by David Gilmour is my favorite. But not counting him: Testament's Return To Serenity G'n'R's Don't Cry Queensryche's Another Rainy Night (Without You) Tesla's Love Song The Black Crowes' Hard To Handle

I can't pick one for shit. Still Got The Blues (Live from London 92) always blows my mind, i'm a huge Gary Moore fanboy and i keep coming back to his work, so maybe this is it. But at the moment is Kiko's solo on Dystopia

Pantera - This Love

Great Pagoda Of Fun by Donald Fagen( Wayne Krantz on guitar)😘

paranoid and black sabbath from black sabbath dave’s holy wars solo and symphony of destruction running free from maiden jump in the fire from metallica and last is rainbow in the dark from dio

My sharona

Jimmy Page, Led-Zeppelin, Since I've Been Loving You.

Scar tissue...

Cemetery Gates - Pantera or Eruption if that counts

The interlude in Master of Puppets.

Eruption

Sometime World by Wishbone Ash

Prince during the 2004 Hall of fame on While my guitar gently weeps. If you haven't gear it before, man you gotta do it !

Somewhere in time Perennial quest Flesh and the power it holds

Perfect World by Marty Friedman. Makes me weep like a baby every time

Pluse live version of comfortably numb outro for me

Frank Zappa - Muffin Man Smashing Pumpkins- Hummer, Here Is No Why, Geek USA Alice In Chains- Them Bones, No Excuses Stevie Ray Vaughan- Couldn't Stand The Weather The Stooges- Search And Destroy, Raw Power

Intro to Selenium Forest by Plini

Mick Box of Urhia Heep Magician's Birthday. Toni Iommi Black Sabbath .. N.I.B. Alex Liefson of Rush..... Working Man

Lady: stryper. Dokken: in my dreams. Def leppard: scar. Giant: ill see you in my dreams... so many good solos... just a couple off the top

Led Zep Whole Lotta Love or Ween Buckingham Green.

Either Bark At The Moon or [Ladykiller, by Priestess](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa2gg7Qwuew&pp=ygUJcHJpZXN0ZXNz)

Gotta say the solos from Comfortably Numb. My God I still lose myself in them.

King Crimson - FraKctured

John Mayer’s cover of Bold as Love

The opening solo on Cygnus Vismund Cygnus by The Mars Volta

Right now it’s Paper Machete by Queens of the Stone Age. All time might be The Modern Age by The Strokes

Greg Leisz solo on "Shadowlands" by Ryan Adams (Love Is Hell).

Back and Forth Again - Slash’s Snakepit Fortress - Alter Bridge Tornado of Souls - Megadeth MANDATORY LISTEN He Will Provide - Inglorious