re: Your favorite guitar solo of all time?

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Knopfler reminds me of Gilmour to a degree he uses space and the blues scale in innovative ways.

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No doubt in my mind,that Knopfler is a Huge Gilmore fan,but his approach to writing songs,is more conventional,and it doesn't allow him the same freedom on the guitar.
He is really my favorite(well known) guitar player though.

Tony Rice is a bad MoFo too,but he only plays acoustic. Check out his Bluegrass journey" Shenendoah" on youtube if you like..just him picking,no vocals,nobody backing him up.

He mixes 3(maybe more) songs together and plays it all at the same time,and makes it tasteful and beautiful. I admire the hell out of that ability.
That is true command of the instrument IMHO.