re: Is the Comfortably Numb guitar solo the greatest of all time?

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Stairway to Heaven. Never has been and never will be matched

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I've heard it way too many times at guitar center to where that doesn't count for me. Too much of a used war horse.

No one will say this but:

-Feels So Good by Chuck Mangione is the best "mainstream" solo I've ever heard on guitar. Tone is amazing, and his vocabulary bounces around between post bop jazz, some blues, and classic rock type solo, with a total "smooth jazz" (I hate that term) type tone. The pocket and the technique to get across the ideas is unprecedented. Listen to that shite.

-If we're talking honorable mention:

-the shredder (don't like that shite but whatever) would be Paradise City. Of course Hotel California but it's so overplayed. Smooth by Santana.

-old school blues solo - Freddie King - Five Long Years

-contemporary blues solo... And Derek Trucks has taken the best solo I've ever heard on a 12 bar blues solo but it was from a live show.