SMG Poll: What is Your Favorite Guitar Solo?

AiXeLsyD13 March 6, 2012 at 8:10 am

I like the live versions of “Rocket Queen”
where Slash just goes off.
Chris March 13, 2012 at 12:05 pm

“Kid” by the Pretenders. James Honeyman-Scott was overlooked and underrated.
Bill B. March 27, 2012 at 11:43 am

Frampton Comes Alive
Chris April 24, 2012 at 8:25 pm

Robbie Robertson’s guitar solo at the end of The Band’s song “King Harvest” is epic.
ZHMMY April 28, 2012 at 6:18 am

Unfair Question! Sure, the guys named are some of the greats. However, you can tell by the comments above that no one player is the greatest. Another great is Roy Buchanan, and his rendition of Hey, Joe is notable for sure. A lot of the judging would depend on who the listener is and the genre should be narrowed down also. There are simply too many variables. Maybe the originator of the question should simply name his own preference and let it go at that.
Doad May 14, 2012 at 12:27 am

I think that my personal favorite really, is Eric Clapton’s live solo of Crossroads. The one that’s published on Strange Brew/The Very Best Of Cream.

I guess if I wanted to be political about things, I’d pick someone like what others did, but this is my personal favorite solo to perform in spite of the fact that I can do all of the above solos too. But anyway…