[Mag]

   I want song suggestions where a guitarist goes ape.
I have several but I'll start 'er off with: Child In Time- Deep Purple- Made in Japan
I climax on this guitar solo every time and I've been listening to this album for almost 50 years.
Ritchie Blackmore wasn't always in the Zone but he was on this masterpiece. Perhaps it was because when in Japan it would've been morning for the band members playing in the evening, I would guess. And he just went ape, possibly suffering from jetlag.

[Mag]

Whipping Post- Live at Fillmore East- 23:12 minute version
If you have a subscription to Amazon HD, they played this song on a few nights. IMO Duane Allman was in the Zone on this 23:12 version and he goes Ape!

Sinner- Judas Priest- Unleashed in the East
K.K. Downing takes the lead in this one and goes Ape. I've heard other versions IMO this is perhaps the best version of the song where the guitar dual nails it, arguably Judas Priest best song.

[Mag]

Pipeline- Dick Dale & Stevie Ray Vaughan
These Two guitar gods team up and go Ape in this classic version of Pipeline

[Mag]

Voodoo Child- Stevie Ray Vaughan

Stevie Ray Vaughan goes Ape on this Carnegie Hall version establishing that he is a guitar god.

[Mag]

Steve Kimock Band- Hillbillies
 Steve goes Ape with stamina in this Jam session.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fteXqBUUmrE&ab_channel=SteveKimockBand-Topic

[FullRangeMan]

I failed to get the title but some bands even practice group choreography.

[BobM]

Guitar solo starts about 8:35. Supposedly this solo was so much on the edge of loss of control for so long that it won "best guitart solo" for many, many years in a row back in the day.

Focus - Eruption

https://youtu.be/JvHWl7Bx9kw

[sonicboom]

Chicago's "25 or 6 to 4" live at Tanglewood - 1970

Solo by Terry Kath starts at about the 3 minute mark - Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uAUoz7jimg

[Samac]

I climax on this guitar solo every time and I've been listening to this album for almost 50 years.

Ugh, dang, I can’t unread that.

Cheers,

Scott

[rocker9999]

FREE BIRD!
Seriously folks, is there anything better?

[FullRangeMan]

Guitar solo starts about 8:35. Supposedly this solo was so much on the edge of loss of control for so long that it won "best guitart solo" for many, many years in a row back in the day.

Focus - Eruption

https://youtu.be/JvHWl7Bx9kw

At the Live at the Rainbow 1973 Akkerman had a guitar string broken and continued playing as if nothing had happened.

[GregC]

Here you go.  Jose Feliciano is a true master of his craft.  Hard to believe he has obtained this level of skill despite being blind.  I was lucky enough to see him play live before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk3n-UQ9KSY

[FullRangeMan]

Wow great 
I thought he was just singer.

[GeneS]

I can’t wait to look a few of these up!

Pretty much anything Derek Trucks does, especially live.
Try to find live versions of  Tedeschi Trucks Band “The Storm” or the newer “Pasaquan”.

Johnny Winter goes pretty ape on the live version of “Mean Town Blues”, as does Rick Derringer on “Edgar Winter’s White Trash” album “Roadwork” during “Back in the USA” or “Tobacco Road”.

Steve Vai on a regular basis….pick your era. I saw him and Billy Sheehan when they played for David Lee Roth.
I’m still not over it.

[Mag]

Tony Iommi goes ape on this song.

[JCarney]

Voodoo Child- Stevie Ray Vaughan

Stevie Ray Vaughan goes Ape on this Carnegie Hall version establishing that he is a guitar god.

I can attest to SRV not so much going ape, but going somewhere else to produce the best live guitar solo's I've ever seen. It seemed he became one with the guitar. He wasn't so much playing the instrument, as speaking through it. Then, without missing a lick, the guitar is behind his head or back and it was just amazing that not a note was missed, or an emotion for that matter. Dude could flat make a guitar do whatever he wanted it to do.

JCarney

[dflee]

When you say "ape", I'm assuming you mean on the guitar and not theatrics.
So I have always been one to be stopped in my tracks by Alvin Lee. Catch any
of his vids doin "I'm goin home". And ya, SRV was from another planet.

Don

[rockadanny]

That's easy! ...
Omar Dykes (and the Howlers), "Monkey Land",
which, btw, is also a really good album.

[FullRangeMan]

When you say "ape", I'm assuming you mean on the guitar and not theatrics.
So I have always been one to be stopped in my tracks by Alvin Lee. Catch any
of his vids doin "I'm goin home".

Now you revealed your age,
nobody knows TYA but us.