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Favorite Guitar Solo

What is your favorite guitar solo? The one that bypasses your cerebral cortex? The one that best hits your emotional center? Any genre. Any period. Any length. A million notes. Or just one note. Obscure or famous. You can make any excuse as to why you choose it, but explanations are optional. But you gotta choose just one.

My choice? Eric Clapton’s solo in "Sleepy Time Time" from the Fresh Cream album. Simplicity. Emotional ecstasy. Tone.
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Two that come to mind are Mick Taylor’s solo in the Rolling Stones song "Sway", and Rick Derringer’s solo on "Livin’ in the USA" on the Edgar Winter’s White Trash live disc.

Hodu - Love that "Babies on Fire". Haven't heard it in a while.
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A wonderful guitarist who has a very distinctive and unique style is David Lindley. He's had some very memorable and touching solos, and one that I'm thinking of right now is on "Mama Lion" from "Wind on the Water" by Crosby and Nash. He never tries to be the star, but he often makes the song.
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xcool,
What's the name of the song? 
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That was amazing. Thanks.
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Mick Taylor was the best thing that ever happened to the Stones, and he was really way too good for them. 
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For me, the two guitars plating together at the end (it seems like forever) of Hotel California are boring and repetitive. It should end at least 30 seconds or more earlier than it does. When that song comes on the radio, I turn to another station.

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