"Stairway To Heaven" tops solo guitar survey

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[lunarbicep]

Guitarist Jimmy Page of the band Led Zeppelin has been voted the top guitar soloist of all time for the song Stairway to heaven.

According to contactmusic.com, Page's performance topped the survey held by the website aboutguitars.com and beat out the likes of Eddie Van Halen for the track Eruption.

The third place was occupied by the dual guitar solo by Allen Collins and Gary Rossington on Lynyrd Skynyrd's Freebird.

The top 10 guitar solos are:

1. Stairway to heaven - Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin)

2. Eruption - Eddie Van Halen (Van Halen)

3. Freebird - Allen Collins and Gary Rossington (Lynyrd Skynyrd)

4. Comfortably numb - David Gilmour (Pink Floyd)

5. All along the watchtower - Jimi Hendrix

6. November rain - Slash (Guns N' Roses)

7. One - Kirk Hammett (Metallica)

8. Hotel California - Don Felder and Joe Walsh (The Eagles)

9. Crazy Train - Randy Rhoads (Ozzy Osbourne)

10. Crossroads - Eric Clapton (Cream)

[o_zarkman44]

how about the great Ted Nugent riff from "The Great White Buffalo"?

[mrsmel]

Can we trade lives? Just for a few hours anyway,hehe?

[Trampled by Lambs]

I was listening to two younger co-workers talking about how much they liked Beck and how great he was. Suprised, I joined the conversation, mentioning a few of my favorite Beck tunes like "Blue Wind".. Much to my chagrin they had no idea who Jeff Beck is but were talking about this guy: Boy did I feel OLD.

[Southbound]

As a picker who has studied many styles, and played country, jazz, pop, rock, bluegrass, folk and whatever else they'd pay me for, I can agree about the amazing ability of Chet Atkins. I was lucky enough to meet Chet, and spend an afternoon with him once. We were just pickin' when he called in and introduced to us a young man who HE said was the best......Jerry Reed. Couldn't argue with him.....Reed was incredibly creative.

[o_zarkman44]

Gotta include Joe Walsh in "Rocky Mountain Way" or back when he was in the James Gang "Funk#49" although the Eagles did get some credit.

[KC Burke]

I agree, Nugent should be on the list for spanning four decades at a let-it-all-blast performance level. I saw him in 2005 and he didn't give away anything against the first time I saw him in about '74.

I think there are a couple of tracks that Kenny Wayne Shepard has laid down that, while outside the strick genre, still deserve a mention: Ledbetter Heights, Born with a Broken Heart and Aberdeen.

As Jazz has been mentioned as well, I might ask if anyone bought and listened to Kevin Eubank's album from fifteen years back, "Heat of Heat"? Of course, jazz is like rock, once you start to name the names, it never stops.

[mrsmel]

Picking obscure Yes songs-that's not hard,there's too many obscure ones. That's fun-I'll start with "Siberian Khatru"(not all that obscure,but still...) Did you ever notice that Jon Anderson spelled "wonderous", "wondrous"?

[Alberta's Child]

I think "Blue Sky" by the Allman Brother definitely belongs among the top five on this list.

[justkillingtime]

Nope...."Victims Of The Fury" CD is in my car right now.

[Thunder 6]

Trower Rocked!
Regards,

[Ticonderoga34]

How about Neil Young on "Like a Hurricane" or even better, "Cortez the Killer". Great stuff.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Wang Dang...

[kylaka]

Same thing as a solo duet.

[mrsmel]

I love old bluegrass("Awful Dreadful Snake",ie)and Jerry reed-am I thinking of the right guy? The guy who sang "When You're Hot You're Hot" and "East Bound And Down"?

[Thunder 6]

I was partial to Henrix's live version of "Little Wing".
Regards,

[o_zarkman44]

What ever happened to Alvin Lee and 10 Years After?

[T.Smith]

I take it you own a copy of "Sneakin' Around"?

[Natural Law]

There was really only one Chuck Berry song. They just kept releasing it with different titles and lyrics.

[knak]

Neil Young on "Like a Hurricane"

Ditto

[Drew68]

8. Hotel California - Don Felder and Joe Walsh (The Eagles)

9. Crazy Train - Randy Rhoads (Ozzy Osbourne)

10. Crossroads - Eric Clapton (Cream)

11. Talk Dirty To Me - C.C. Deville (Poison)

(*snicker*)