The greatest single note in guitar solo history

DrCornelius

Just driving home from work and listening to Planet Rock.

Stairway comes on and I’m just counting down in my mind to that opening bend in the solo.

Hairs stand up on the back of my neck even after hearing the song thousands of times.

Any single notes in solos better than that beauty ? 

Shrews

Prince - Purple Rain.

That very first 'chang' sound is enough for me to know what's coming and turn the radio up loud, with the aforementioned hairs on the neck response!

RocknRollDave

New Year’s Day - U2

GoFish

Foxy Lady!

DrCornelius

GoFish said:

Foxy Lady!

Great shout that

viz

First top E in Parisienne Walkways

Funkfingers

The Fletcher Memorial Home

MrTee

Tornado of Souls

3:42, that 8th fret G string bend. 
Tasty

rze99

Sustained G on solo Eric Clapton Key to Love solo. 

rze99

Feedback note before first riff on Beatles I Feel Fine

rze99

Descending G string bend from B to A with selector switch kill switch effect and wah, Hendrix, Voodoo Chile (Slight Return). 

darthed1981

Must be on a Coldplay song... surely?

CaseOfAce

JezWynd

Ronson peaking on Moonage Daydream.

blobb

There's a bass note Richard Sinclair plays in the middle of Nine Feet Underground. It comes after an interlude section (8:48). the note is the first note of the next section (9:49) and pow!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CqLRXZdnb4

tone1

SRV plucked low E flat at the end of Pride & Joy….I would have said most of the above (Gary Moore & Jimi, Beatles etc) 

vasselmeyer

It's the long note in Parisienne Walkways, preferably a live version.

tone1

vasselmeyer said:

It's the long note in Parisienne Walkways, preferably a live version.

Tru dat…..

axisus

vasselmeyer said:

It's the long note in Parisienne Walkways, preferably a live version.

Meh, that went on too long, it left being music and entered the guitar olympics instead.

(Yeah but I LOVE Gary Moore though!)

barnstorm

Not a contender, but a recent bit of playing that I love and return to often is here, in Don't Know What It Means:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRipadkd6wk 

At 6:10 Susan plays a solo before handing off, at 6:30, to Derek, and there's a note that makes her turn and laugh an 'Oh yeah, you're Derek Trucks!' laugh.

ICBM

The third note in Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath.