Your Favorite, Most Outstanding Guitar Solo

Larry Carlton's solo on "Hill street blues".

Alvin Lee, Ten Years After, Cricklewood Green
"Love Like a Man"

Buck Dharma, Blue Oyster Cult, Secret Treaties,
"Dominance and Submission"

Jeff Beck, Jeff Beck Group
"Goin' Down", "Highways", "Definitely Maybe"

Skunk Baxter, Steely Dan, Countdown to Ecstacy
"My Old School"

David Sancious, Transformation, the Speed of Love
"Piktor's Metamorphosis", "Sky Church Hymn #9"

Martin Barr, Jethro Tull, Aqualung
"Aqualung"

Just a few off the top of my head.

Any solo performed by native New Orleans guitarist Robby Longley. A great blend of modern guitar with Flamenco, and New Orleans gumbo.

I also like Jeff Beck's performances on There And Back, but my favorite is "The Final Peace".

I'll go along with Dekay on "Green Onions". When I first saw Amercian Grafitti back in the early seventies in a damp deserted movie theater somewhere on Oahu, "Green Onions" seemed so incongruous with the rest of that fantastic soundtrack, but it also was so "right " for the final drag race at the end of the movie. A really nice piece.

Ritchie Blackmore's solo on "Space Truckin'" from Made in Japan.

Neil Schon's solo at the end of "Stone in Love" from the Journey album Escape.

Dave Gilmore's solo at the end of "Comfortably Numb" on The Wall album.

Eric Clapton's solo on "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" from The Beatles White Album.

Tim Heintz' guitar solo on "Dear Jacqui" from his no longer available debut album.

James Taylor's solo on "Fire and Rain" is pretty damn moving, especially if you see it context of the film "Running on Empty".

Steve Denny has some guitar solo with great pathos on his own album "Oscuro" and in his collaboration with Tom Maxwell on "Magic Box".

And my first ever favorite guitar solo is by Chet Atkins from the In Hollywood album, the fourth song entitled "Theme From A Dream". Chet made two versions of this album, so make sure you get the older, less orchestrated one. So simple, so sad, so good.

Lots of good stuff and damn near impossible for me to choose just one.

Hard to pick one or two, but if I HAD to, I would say Bill Nelson, 'Adventures in a Yorkshire Landscape', from the Live in the Air Age LP, and Steve Vai, 'Whispering a Prayer', from live in an Ultraworld CD.

Michael Schenker of UFO, solo on ''Highway Lady'' from the album ''No Heavy Petting'', also his solo on ''Lights Out'' from the live ''Strangers in the Night''.

How about Wes Montgomery's excellent work on "Impressions", from the 2 cd Verve set, "Impressions".

Mike