I-95 Drive Home Featured Artist [VIDEO]

Tonight’s featured artist performs Led Zeppelin's  Jimmy Page’s favorite guitar solo of all time. Funny thing is that the person wasn’t in Led Zeppelin or for that matter even a part of the band the solo is recorded with.  Can you guess who the guitarist was or maybe the band or song?

We’ll start with the guitarist, his name is Elliot Randall and the recorded solo was on an album for Steely Dan. Elliot Randall, who was not a member of Steely Dan, stopped by on an invite from Skunk Baxter while they were recording this and ended up playing the guitar solo. This was one of the first of many times Walter Becker and Donald Fagen would use studio musicians, and by their fourth album, nearly every player was a studio musician. Randall also played on their albums guitar solo earned high praise from Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page. According to Classic Rock magazine (January, 1999), Page has said it is his favorite guitar solo of all time.

Here they are with Elliot in London.  See if you can hear the difference from the video above.