Best instrumental parts to songs?

[wdogg40]

Ginger Baker Drum Solo

Blind Faith

"Do What You Like"

[steggy]

piano solo in scenes from an italian restaurant.

seconded on jungleland.

[SpaceMonkey13]

Intro (piano, then guitar) to Springsteen's New York City Serenade

[daveT]

The intro to "Time" by Pink Floyd has always been my favorite.
Many of the intros to Ozzy Ozbourne.
80s music is like the king decade for music intros. So many good ones at from that time.

[Number27]

Guitar solo in Heartbreaker by Led Zeppelin.

[maltaille]

The first 30 seconds - one fifth of the song - of Little Wing, by Jimi Hendrix
The intro to Gimme Shelter, by The Rolling Stones
The intro to 2000 Light Years from Home, by The Rolling Stones (especially the live version from the 1990 Madrid concert)
The intro to the Nina Simone version of Summertime
The interlude in Sinnerman, by Nina Simone
The intro to Locomotive Breath, by Jethro Tull (especially live, they do it several ways)
The intro to Money for Nothing, by Dire Straits
The Brian Eno/Phillip Glass/David Bowie version of Heroes
The intro to the extended version of Papa was a Rolling Stone, by The Temptations
Half a dozen Nine Inch Nails songs, like La Mer, Memorabilia, Slipping Away, or Ripe (With Decay)

Does the chanting in O Fortuna make the rest of it count as the instrumental part or a song?

Award for best riff: shared by Rocky Mountain Way, by Joe Walsh, Kashmir, by Led Zeppelin, and No One Knows, by Queens of the Stone Age

[Hollywade]

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The intro to Gimme Shelter, by The Rolling Stones

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Agreed, this is awesome. It really added a lot to The Departed, in my opinion.

[GoCubsGo]

The first thing that came to my mind was the part about 2/3 through "Light My Fire" by The Doors.

I also really like the intro of Elliott Smith's "Shooting Star." It sounds so chaotic, yet every note fits perfectly.

[Scotty_12]

Page solo in Squirming Coil is awesome
November Rain slash solo is awesome
Fool in the rain instrumental is awesome

For a studio recording, I love the instrumental in DMB Lie in our graves (with the background studio ping pong match conversation)

I also like Bela Fleck and the Flecktones 'At last we meet again'

And Grateful Dead Peggy-O from April 16th, 1978 gets my vote for top live ... hard to pick from the 80 GB or so I have, but give it a listen if you have a moment, starting at 2:56 :

http://www.archive.org/details/gd78-...292.sbeok.shnf