Best instrumental parts to songs?

[prohornblower]

The middle of "Fool in the Rain" by Zeppelin.

Also towards the end of "When the Levee breaks" by Zeppelin when it's just a big hodgepodge of music to get lost in.

[R*R]

keyboards- Deep Purple - Lazy

[R*R]

Oh and Alvin Lee- Ten Years After- I'm Going Home- Woodstock.

[balkii]

The first 3 movements of beethoven's 9th FTW

[Daddys_Visa]

I am a sucker for the Layla instrumental by Derek and the Dominos, but that's likely because it brought together a perfect scene in a great movie.

A personal fav that never gets any love is the guitar finale to Soulshine by The Allman Brothers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3WuSBo-lIE
This song is full of great guitar work by two of the best of all time. Main guitar solo starts at 4:40, and the 2nd guitar joins at 5:30 where it really takes off.

And Tom Morello has too many good instrumentals to list, but one of his best is from Audioslave's "Doesn't Remind Me":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOMSB7s15C8
Starts at 2:55.

If you are a Pearl Jam fan, you have to love Mike McCready's guitar solo in Yellow Ledbetter.

[kemystery]

break/bass solo from 'The Chain' Fleetwood Mac, 3:04 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csatmi34YEk

guitar solo, 'Comfortably Numb' - Pink Floyd 2:05 to 2:40 especially 4:31 to ending http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkJNyQfAprY

really love the music to 'Soul to Squeeze' by RHCP check the intro and solo at 2:37 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqJeWhtpVek

[PorkPieHat]

I don't think guitar solos should count here since they are a different subject altogether, but I have always thought the outro to Boston's Peace of Mind http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaR2JeqxQDY was a masterpiece of multiple guitar harmonizing. It still gives me goose bumps if I haven't heard it in a while.

Funeral for a Friend (kind of the intro to Love Lies Bleeding), by Elton John is also killer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GYI6XJH9Ss

[En Passant]

Dire Straights - Guitar solo in Sultans of Swing

[ezflop212]

The Tom Dowd produced Layla outro is amazing. Clapton with Duane Allman on the slide guitar part.

[5thstreet]

Beggining of Never Say goodbye by Dylan and The Band

Beggining/any part without singing of Bobcaygeon by the Tragically hip