Best guitar explosion of all time


My vote is for Jimi's Voodoo Chile - a Slight Return! No one has come close to his majic on that recording. I am a big Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton fan and everything they have done falls short. Not for emotional involvement, or technical virtuousity, but for the finality of the perfect guitar moment. Jimi hit it on the mark - and then some!
jeff_l
Won't Get Fooled Again, from Who's Next, the "yeahhhhhhh" in the last refrain just before "meet the new boss, same as the old boss." Nobody could do power chords like Pete, then or since.
I'm not sure I know what a guitar explosion is, but if you refer to extended solos, I think Duane Allman's ~several minute solo on Boz Scagg's "Lone Me a Dime" has to be mentioned.
Duane on "Loan Me a Dime" is an excellent example! Also his solos on "You Don't Love Me!" on the Allman Bros "Live at Filmore East".
A question for the Fripp "Baby's on Fire" contingent: Anyone else prefer Phil Manzanera's version with 801?

Even though it would never qualify as an "explosion" my favorite Fripp solo for Eno is the odd, little elliptical piece on "St. Elmo's Fire" from Another Green World.

If the "explosion" is a burst of energy at the end of a long solo "fuse" (maybe "guitargasm" works better) there are a bunch of Richard Thomspon solos that rise to the top of my list - the live "Calvary Cross" from the Watching the Dark Box set might be first among those IMHO.

Marty
no pete townsend & the who? IMHO he's the man to beat:

won't get fooled again
behind blue eyes
pure & easy
the whole 2nd disc of isle of wight

it goes on & on w/ pete