What's Your Favourite Guitar Solo?

... solo by Daniel Secundus Fichelscher.

right now it's Roy Buchanan's "The Messiah will come again." Spookiest song ever, very heavy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgOLDAWu6OY

The solos in VHÖL's "Arising" hit all the spots I want hit in metal wankery, probably because they're really just overdriven surf/rockabilly licks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf-a1Fupras

Michael Sembello, "Maniac"

I must've listened to Mick Taylor's Spanish/A Minor a lot as a kid because I can still hum all of the extended solos. Decades later it still sounds fantastic.

Ollie Halsall in the live Cale clip is outstanding

Glad you like it.

Is there sections of songs with one guitarrist doing amazing runs like Buckingham’s live version of “big love” or Nils Lofgren doing “Keith don’t go” considered “solos”? Even instrumental guitar pieces like “entre dos aguas” by Paco de Lucia has what could count as a solo at the 2:41 mark.

And that’s one of the best Flamenco songs ever so if it counts I’m definitely considering in the best guitar solos of all time.

One solo that caught my ear on the radio a couple days ago in how it really does raise the tune is Neal Schon's on "Don't Stop Believing". It is pretty much played off the main melody line but how it sets up the title refrain at the end of the song is really some nice pop magic (nice touch with the overdubbed second line on the very end).

I have a soft spot for the big dumbrock solo that closes out Pearl Jam’s “Alive”

Dogs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRSxu2Xn-gk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MzDcsgnwZo