Best guitar solos?

[Heathray]

I will start the ball rolling...........

Jeff Beck, Gets us all in the end.
Steve Vai on Dave Lee Roth's cover of Tobacco Road.
Unknown on end of Carpenters Goodbye to Love.
Jimmy Page on Dazed and Confused.
Gilmour on Sorrow.
Blackmore on Highway Star and Child in Time.
Santana on Open Invitation.

Let the floodgates open

[davewells]

Mick Taylor on Can't You Hear Me Knocking or Time Waits For No One. Or Keef on Hand Of Fate.

[dgenerate]

Ooooo there's so many but here's my fav:

Pete Townshend - Water
Slash - November Rain
Mike McCready - Animal
And of course Bill And Ted's air guitar solo in their excellent adventure! lol

[Rude Boy]

Oh man...this is heaven!

DG of course...Time, Shine On..., Pigs, Dogs, Another Brick In The Wall, Comfortably Numb, Fletcher Memorial Home, On The Turning Away, High Hopes. For real Gilmour anoraks there is a vast amount of killer DG stuff among his session appearances including an absolutely beautiful and gloriously long solo on a track called "Pink and Velvet" by a band called Berlin.

Eddie Van Halen - Loads...especially "Eruption."

Clapton - Anything.

Jeff Beck - Where Were You and The Ballad of Bill Hubbard by Roger Waters on which Beck guests.

Alex Lifeson (Rush) - Too many to mention.

Tony Iommi - Heaven And Hell, Warning, NIB, Born Again, Kill In The Spirit World, Zero The Hero, Dirty Women.

Jimmy Page - Loads but I've always been particularly fond of the solos in the live versions of No Quarter and Stairway To heaven on "The Song Remains The Same" live album.

Steve "The Guv'nor" Rothery (Marillion) - Out Of This World, This Strange Engine, The Great Escape, Living With The Big Lie...CRIMINALLY UNDEREXPOSED GENIUS!

Lynyrd Skynyrd - The one at the end of Freebird.

Randy Rhoads - Mr Crowley, Suicide Solution.

Prince - Purple Rain, When Doves Cry.

Brian May - Shedloads, way too many to list.

[Hitman]

The one that got voted the best is:-
Slash - Guns N Roses "Sweet Child O' Mine"

Other good ones I can remember:-

Steve Vai - Whitesnake "Now Your Gone"
Slash - Velvet Revolver "Loving the Alien"
Tracii Guns - LA Guns "Ballad of Jayne"
Kirk Hammet - Metallica "One"
Mick Mars - Motley Crue "Without You"
Steve Harris - Iron Maiden "Afraid to Shoot Strangers"
Dave Mustaine - Megadeth "A toit le monde"
Eddie van Halen - Van Halen "Jump"
Dave the Snake Sabo - Skid Row "In a Darkened Room"
C.C. Deville - Poison "Every Rose Has its Thorn"
Brian May - Queen "Innuendo"

[Rude Boy]

Steve Harris - Iron Maiden "Afraid to Shoot Strangers"

It sure features some sterling lead work but Steve "Bomber" Harris is Maiden's emperor of the bass guitar, the lead players in Maiden at the time were Janick Gers and Dave Murray, a magnificent "Twin Lead Attack." Steve Harris does however solo on a Maiden track, albeit on bass, on the track "Blood On The World's Hands" from the "X Factor" album. That zip sound you hear is my anorak!

Oh hell I forgot....

Whitesnake (John Sykes) - Crying In The Rain

Peter Green - Albatross, Man Of The World...how could I leave out Greenie??

[The Last Word]

It's DG trailing out at the end of Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights, isn't it? Sublime stuff.

[Rude Boy]

Anorak on. It sure is very Gilmouresque but it is actually played by a guy called Ian Bairnson. DG plays on "Love And Anger" by Kate Bush and duets with her on "Pull Out The Pin" from her mighty "The Dreaming" album.

There is a also a widely available bootleg of DG playing lead on a live version of "Running Up That Hill" which is fucking incredible.

Anorak off.

[tas]

Gary Moore - Parisienne walkways
Randy Rhodes - Mr crowley
kirk hammett - ride the lightning
almost everything by steve vai

[Pervert]

The Kick Inside featured three session musicians who were part of the pop group Pilot.

Gilmour, Comfortably Numb

Prince, Little Red Corvette

Neil Young (or was it Nils Loffgren), Like A Hurricane

Steve Hackett, Fountain Of Salmacis

Way too many to list, let's be honest.