Favorite Guitar Solos Of All Time

Lynch

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For my money, it's VERY hard to beat the heartfelt solos that Gilmore laid down on Comfortably Numb.

I have listened to this song hundreds and hundreds of times (dare I say thousands?) and I don't think there's been one time in the past 30 years or more that I've listened to this song where I don't get chills when that solo starts (and at various points throughout it). When I say heartfelt, I don't know if I could find e better adjective for it. Being a guitar player for as long as I've been one, I could only dream of laying down an emotional track like this.


This is just the closing solo from the song from some live performance a few years ago (not sure which show or what year). The original studio version will always be tops for me, but there are plenty of other great live versions. His Pompeii performance from a couple yrs back is also fantastic!

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Off the top of my head I like Stevie Ray Vaughan "Tin Pan Alley" Solo...It's toward the end..

Another one is Billy Gibbons solo or duet solo with himself in "I'm Bad I'm Nationwide"
 

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Well, it is a bass guitar solo, but it is one of my favorites. ;)

 

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Classic example of less is more. And how he makes that off key run of notes work at 3:47 is genius!

 

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One of my absolute favorites is the song Fat Old Sun, where David Gilmore sings like an angel, and plays his guitar like a god!

 
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