sweetest guitar solos EVER

[hobbit]

post some of your favorite guitar solos from any genre i need some awesome solos plz.

[FAMY2]

Maggot Brain  Funkadelic

White Room  Cream

Nottingham Lace  Buckethead

[The Hand That Fisted Everyone]

The Great Curve - Talking Heads

Adrian Belew tears that shit up son

[Selkie]

The Great Curve - Talking Heads

Adrian Belew tears that shit up son

I second this.

Also, Poison Was the Cure - Megadeth. As well as pretty much any song from Rust in Peace(Five Magics, Hangar 18), but Poison Was the Cure is a particular favorite of mine.

Cicatriz ESP - The Mars Volta, 9:20-11:01. I love the dueling guitars, and how the drums gradually build up and get more explosive throughout the solo.

[Samus Aran]

I know everyone says this, but Led Zep's "Stairway to Heaven"  has one of the best-constructed and memorable guitar solos ever written, and despite the fact that I maintain that Stairway isn't their best song, it does have Page's best solo. Of course, Page has tons of amazing solos, but I'll just stick this one.

Another one of my favorites is Petrucci's solo on Dream Theater's "Under a Glass Moon." It also happens to be my favorite Dream Theater song.

Another favorite is in a criminally underrated (at least by the general listening public) song by Deep Purple: "Child in Time," by far their best song if you ask me. And Ritchie Blackmore just fucking rips this song up.

[Selkie]

I know everyone says this, but Led Zep's "Stairway to Heaven"  has one of the best-constructed and memorable guitar solos ever written, and despite the fact that I maintain that Stairway isn't their best song, it does have Page's best solo. Of course, Page has tons of amazing solos, but I'll just stick this one.

Achilles Last Stand FOR GREAT JUSTICE.

Too few people appreciate this song. Probably because "ohOoOhhh iTz tOo lOnggggggggg"

And it is my favorite Page solo, possibly one of my favorite solos ever.

[Samus Aran]

Achilles Last Stand FOR GREAT JUSTICE.

Too few people appreciate this song. Probably because "ohOoOhhh iTz tOo lOnggggggggg"

And it is my favorite Page solo, possibly one of my favorite solos ever.

well, too few people appreciate it because it's on Presence. if it had been on a better album, it would've gotten more attention. not that Presence is bad, and it's certainly better than Coda and In Through the Out Door, but still

either way it is one of Page's best, at least

[snorkel]

Half of Mars Volta songs... Cygnus Vismund Cygnus comes to mind.

(nice 3 minute 'solo' beginning around 4:10)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OnFKTNC77I[/youtube]

(Cicatriz ESP, another good solo throughout most of the last third/half)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOx38GLyYRY[/youtube]

Cicatriz ESP - The Mars Volta, 9:20-11:01. I love the dueling guitars, and how the drums gradually build up and get more explosive throughout the solo.

I guess I second that, the Latin percussion in that part is some of my favorite

[The Hand That Fisted Everyone]

Also neil young has some great solos. Down by the river comes to mind. But there's a lot of young that I've not heard

[Mando Pandango]

This may be a different kind of "sweet," but "The Way That It Shows" by Richard Thompson and "Make It Wit Chu" by Queens of the Stone Age are both incredible IMO. The Way That It Shows much, much more so, but I still love the one in Make It Wit Chu.

[spoiler=About 3 minutes in][youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcJdyy9-FYU[/youtube][/spoiler]
[spoiler=About 3 and a half minutes in][youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr-61UoLXbU[/youtube][/spoiler]

[Samus Aran]

Also neil young has some great solos. Down by the river comes to mind. But there's a lot of young that I've not heard

cortez the killer, southern man...

[FAMY2]

Hmmm, no one mentioned Jimmy Hendrix.

[Samus Aran]

Hmmm, no one mentioned Jimmy Hendrix.

Jimi Hendrix's solos aren't as good as his simple riffage and such usually, if you ask me.

[The Hand That Fisted Everyone]

cortez the killer, southern man...

never heard cortez the killer, but southern man is great.