Masters and their greatest solo

Gassage

OK, a little rainy afternoon challenge- list your 5 or 6 fave guitarists and the solo (and version) that absolutely defines them TO YOU.

Mine:

David Gilmour- High Hopes Pompeii
Alex Lifeson- Limelight (prob R30 version)
Gary Moore- Tore Down 1999
Craig Ross- Believe, - Any live version.
Earl Slick- Let's Dance, Glasto 2000
Adrian Belew- Stay, Sound and Vision Tour 1990

munckee

John Squire - I am the Resurrection, album version
 John Frusciante - Dani California, Jools Holland
Joey Santiago - anything he plays
I second David Gilmour at Pompeii

bertie

I may need time -  cos off the top of my head,  my fav solo's arent necessarily by my fav guitarists...... and vicky verky

Kittyfrisk

Prince  "While my Guitar Gently Weeps' 2004 at The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony.

fretmeister

Why is this Off Topic?

Shouldn't it be in "Music"?

roberty

Kurt Cobain - Drain You (try playing it)
Graham Coxon - Country House (comes out of nowhere)
Billy Corgan - Soma (histrionics)
Brian May - Killer Queen
Jimi Hendrix - Machine Gun

Dodge

EVH Beat It

Gilmour Time (DSOM version)

George Harrison Give Me Love (Outro)
Brian May Bohemian Rhapsody
Angus Back In Black

koneguitarist

James Burton Leaving Louisiana in Broad Daylight (Rodney Crowell song)
 Gary Moore Key to Love
 Tony Peluso Jambalaya (Carpenters)
 Albert Lee Luxury Liner (Emmylou Harris) 
 Richie Blackmore Strange Kinda Woman (Deep Purple)

ask me again tomorrow it will probably be different.

blobb

Steve Hillage - Master Builder

p90fool

Jimi Hendrix - Who Knows

Brian May - Killer Queen

I'll have to think of some more when I've finished cooking dinner...

CoolCat

Don Felder & Joe Walsh (duo) - Hotel California
Eddie Van Halen - Eruption
Mark Knopfler - Sultans of Swing
Eric Clapton - Layla (acoustic version)
Joe Perry - Dude looks like a lady

PS: there are many more I can add to my list!

Sassafras

Robby Krieger - Peace Frog.
Bill Harkleroad - Most everything he played in The Magic Band.
Mick Taylor - Can't You Hear Me Knocking.
Jimi Hendrix - Everything on Band of Gypsies (and most other stuff).

Hootsmon

House of the King Focus Jan Akkerman

Hendrix All along the Watchtower

Brian May Bohemian Rhapsody

Hocus Pocus Jan Akkerman

Jimmy Page Stairway.....

Dominic

Tony Peluso ( Carpenters )...........Goodbye to Love 
Whoever played the Spanish Guitar solo on Gilbert O' Sullivan's Alone Again Naturally
Brian May ...Killer Queen
Boz Scaggs....Breakdown Dead Ahead
Davey Johnstone for Elton ...all the guitar work on Funeral for a Friend / love lies Bleeding  ****
    ****Like Mick Ronson ,a lifelong sidekick to a Megastar and a brilliant arranger and guitarist 

Devil#20

Ritchie Blackmore - Highway Star off Made in Japan
Zal Cleminson - Last of the Teenage Idols off Next
Carlos Santana - Samba Pa Ti
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Little Wing
Joe Satriani - Always with you, always with me. 

fastonebaz

Vai - whispering a Prayer
Angus - ride on
Chris Holmes (Wasp) - sleeping in the fire

Cols

Jimmy Page - Since I’ve Been Loving You
Brian May - Bohemian Rhapsody (predictable, but it’s a fantastic solo)
Nuno Bettencourt - He Man Woman Hater (the song, not the Flight Of The Wounded Bumblebee bit)
Paul Kossoff - Fire and Water
Eric Clapton - White Room

gordiji

Blackmore/ stargazer studio version although the live versions especially dusseldorf are great too.

Eddie/ Beat it

Schenker/ Rockbottom studio version

Gary Moore/ The Messiah will come again

Skynyrd gang/ Freebird

duotone

All are the original studio versions.

Larry Carlton - Kid Charlemagne by Steely Dan

Steve Lukather - You Might Need Somebody by Randy Crawford
Brian May - Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen
Randy Rhoads - Revelation (Mother Earth) by Ozzy Osbourne
Gary Moore - Parisienne Walkways by Gary Moore & Phil Lynott

Slash - Sweet Child O’ Mine by Guns N’ Roses

viz

Devil#20 said:

Ritchie Blackmore - Highway Star off Made in Japan
Zal Cleminson - Last of the Teenage Idols off Next
Carlos Santana - Samba Pa Ti
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Little Wing
Joe Satriani - Always with me, always with you. 

Corrected  

(see if you can find it!)

scrumhalf

Ritchie Blackmore - Pictures of Home, Deep Purple
Michael Schenker - Rock Bottom, UFO
Eric Clapton - All Your Love, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers
Yngwie Malmsteen - Too Drunk To Live, Alcatrazz
Mucky Jones - C'mon, Man (live) 
Gary Moore - Parisienne Walkways (live at the Marquee, bonus single with Corridors of Power.