The long rumbling solo at the end of Dire Strait's Telegraph Road. Beautiful.

Slash's guitar solo in Slither by Velvet Revolver

I pretty much agree what everybody said about Tom Morello.  Anything by him, especially:

'Like a Stone' - Audioslave

'Doesn't Remind Me' - Audioslave

'Sleep Now In the Fire' - Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave

'Bulls on Parade' - Rage and Audioslave

'Down Rodeo' - Rage Against the Machine

I also like:

'Bat Country' - Avenged Sevenfold

'The Everlasting Gaze' - Smashing Pumpkins

'Stand Inside Your Love' - Smashing Pumpkins

'One' - Even though Metallica licks goat nuts anymore

and LOL... 'Tribute' - Tenacious D

and pretty much anything from Stevie Ray Vaughn

I wasn't even thinking of Bat Country. He tore that up. However the solos on their new record weren't as appealing to me.

I very rarely play air guitar, I am getting so old and fat I probably look like a complete fool when I do - always a bad idea in the middle of a supermarket. But when I do it is usually when I am listening to Pink Floyd's The Wall.

Death Monkey already mentioned 'Comfortably Numb', But I would add 'Mother', 'Nobody Home', 'Young Lust' and the last few minutes of 'Another brick in the wall (part 2)' is just stunning. A great album for guitar solo's.

Also I really like the solo in Oasis' 'Live Forever' is a bit of a classic.

Since the "MAN" took down the Eric Johnson videos of him playing Cliffs of Dover, here's the Guitar Hero version...

I finally found this one on youtube. Yngwie Malmsteen with 80s metal outfit Steeler.
It's the intro to the song Hot on Your Heels. It starts of as an acoustic solo then morphs into an electric one. The lead breaks in the song are good too.

Enjoy: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=0pl-yU4gzvY

If you've not listened to DragonForce, that's some crazy solo action on pretty much any song. But therein lies the curse; a lot of their music sounds the same. My problem with picking something specific is that I tend to listen to music in large chunks and I have trouble picking out songs. I know I really love the guitar work of Pain of Salvation and Dream Theater especially. I listen to a lot of stuff, but when it comes to guitar, those two groups top my list. I never get tired of them.

Just glanced ove the board again, and how could I forget Cliffs of Dover. Damn, tht's a good one.

Guitar....oh well that's easy. Vengeance by Yngwi Malnsteen. Amazing!

Yngwie Malmsteen IS amazing.

Another one of my favorite guitar solos is our National Anthem performed by the late, great Jimi Hendrix.

cindy

Quoted from Murphy I very rarely play air guitar, I am getting so old and fat I probably look like a complete fool when I do

Young and thin people look like complete fools when they do, too.

'Halfway to Heaven' by Harry Chapin end with an incredible solo.  Harry rarely used electric guitars in his day (I think), but he nailed it here.


Phil