Posted on 01/17/2006 1:52:36 PM PST by 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)
What, no Outlaws-Green Grass and High Tides ?
You have Roy Buchannon's last show and didn't tell me? Can I get a copy?
Steve Howe (totally self-taught guitarist) is a genius. His solos in "Roundabout" and "Close to the Edge" (yeah, the whole album) are gold standards. Not a rock cliche' in the bunch. He is so unique; combines rock, blues, country, bluegrass, jazz.......all in one beautifully original mix. SO clean........
I'd point you to John Fahey too. He's pretty good.
And for blues, absolutely nobody tops Mississippi John Hurt.
A lot of people don't know that Frampton played with "Humble Pie". Or that Steve Marriot is dead.
I haven't heard his recent music(he was supposed to play in my town,but we had a hurricane...),but I heard that song "Thirty Days In The Hole" and now it's another one of my driving songs.
A really underappreciated Hendrix album is "Axis: Bold as Love." It's a little different from his other stuff, more mellow. "Electric Ladyland" is amazing as well, I've always really liked "The Burning of the Midnight Lamp."
It was a tough school back then and pretty highly rated.
See what I started? (Make sure you get a copy).
For kickin' rock tone, unbelievable technique....Nuno has few peers. His work with Extreme still floors me. I think he had very, very few peers in his heyday....and is anything but a household name.
Mark Knopfler...
His solo work is incredible...
bump for later
The Hendrix "Family Edition" CD's are remastered and sound much better. Worth having.
"There was an Indian Brave who before he was ten, played war games in the woods with his indian friends"..."Surprise attack killed him in his sleep that night"...Castles Made of Sand
I doubt Jimmy Page would want to claim the honor for himself, but he is a decent critic of what makes for a great guitar solo. He highly regards the solo from "Reelin' in the Years" by Steely Dan. (Was that Dean Parks on guitar?) IMO that makes Jimmy capable of recognizing good guitar solos. He is probably his own worst critic, but should be commended for more than one of his own. "Heartbreaker," for example.
You're right. I love the Internet. I just punched "Ten Years After" and "A Space in Time" into a power search in iTunes and am now listening to incredible music from a classic album I haven't heard all the way through in 30 years.
No one has mentioned-
Beat It-Michael Jackson
The Other Woman-Ray Parker Jr
Born on the Bayou-Creedence
Sleepwalk-Santo and Johnny
Seven and Seven Is-Love
Feel a Whole Lot Better-Byrds
Three Fifth of a Mile in Ten Seconds-Jefferson Airplane
As I said, I don't play,so of course I'm not really qualified to make an educated critique,but I have video clips of a lot of these guys(Nuno Bettencourt,Steve Howe with Yes,etc),and to my eyes and ears what they are doing is unbelievable.
It was, and I was not ready for college at the time.
Live and learn.
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