re: Best guitar solo in your opinion

SRV- Texas Flood

Ted- Free For All

Someone Loan Me A Dime. Duane Allman

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I was listening to Free Bird today and really keyed into the guitar solo, so that’s my choice. That solo is unbelievably awesome

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And that's a triple lead solo, so almost in a category by itself. The only other triple lead candidate I can think of is from The Outlaws' Green Grass and High Tides.

For double lead, Hotel California, Eagles haters notwithstanding, probably edges out (although there are some Priest and Maiden songs that are in this conversation as well) all other contenders.

For a single guitar lead solo? With so many great players, it's tough, but I tend zero in on these 4 candidates, with Comfortably Numb standing out for what it is not (loud, aggressive, overdone - amazing for the instrument and genre):

Comfortably Numb (Gilmour)
Stairway (Page)
Eruption (EVH)
Voodoo Child - Slight Return - (Hendrix)

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The first solo starts at 2:11. Glen Fry actually played the solo on the album version, but Don Felder played it live. The second solo starts at 3:11.

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Glenn Fry, one of the best "utility" guys in all of classic rock history, didn't play a lot of lead for the Eagles. His own self-effacing joke was that his solos were always slow (like the above) because that was as fast as he could play.

Felder, a phenomenal, criminally underrated guitar player (again, Eagles haters, primarily responsible for this) himself, indicates this is his favorite solo from his former bandmate.

Glenn also played excellent solos on Already Gone (pre-Felder) and the Meisner track from HC, Try and Love Again.

Cmon man, 7 pages and no mention of Tony Iommi

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Furthermore, Iommi is recognised by many as the main creator of heavy metal music. Brian May of Queen considers him "the true father of heavy metal",[71] Eddie Van Halen states that "without Tony, heavy metal wouldn't exist. He is the creator of heavy!"[71] and James Hetfield of Metallica, who was profoundly influenced by Iommi, defines him "The king of the heavy riff".[72] Rob Halford, vocalist for Judas Priest, when filling in for Ozzy Osbourne during an August 2004 concert in Philadelphia, introduced Iommi to the audience as "The man who invented the heavy metal riff".[73] Michael Amott of Carcass and Arch Enemy considers Iommi his "guitar hero"[74] and the world's greatest guitarist "because he invented the heavy tone and evil riff".[75] According to Lamb of God singer Randy Blythe, "Iommi is the reason heavy metal exists".[74]

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Frank Zappa - Inca Roads

Also excellent performances by George Duke on keys and vocals, Chester Thompson on drums, Tom Fowler on bass, and Ruth Underwood on marimba.

While not super technically proficient, very few guitar solos have moved me like Jack White's work on White Stripes-Ball and Biscuit.

Another good one is Billy Gibbons solo on Blue Jean Blues live from Texas.

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I’ve just started revisiting old ZZ Top with my son lately who erroneously perceived them as an 80s MTV band. Will give that a listen .

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ZZ Top is essentially the American AC/DC - or more properly, AC/DC is the Australian (Scottish-Australian?) ZZ Top.

But, don't let that accuracy of such labels fool you, Billy Gibbons can flat out play the guitar. As good as anybody, anywhere, ever.

All these pages and no Robin Trower or Scott Henderson?

RT's best solo to me is, "Fool and Me". Honestly any solo or outro solo on Bridge of Sighs is really good.

Scott Henderson's solo on Dolomite is killer.

I could list a couple others that haven't been mentioned, but I'll save for later.