i never he can't solo.. i just dont think he belongs on a list with names like gilmour and hendrix.. i'm a guitar player and metallica is some of the hardest solo's to play.. but the list is not for the most dificult solo's..
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)
Your second link worked fine. Lots of great guitar players came out of or played in Nashville. Stevie Ray used to play there all the time.
You're right -- I forgot about "Pisces, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Jones," or whatever the correct order is. The one where they started playing most of the instruments themselves. That even beats "Wild Honey," which was post-SMiLE and "Smiley Smile" in 1967.
SRV's "LIttle Wing" got me back into classic rock a few years back. Listening to rock again with an ear exposed to many different types of music has given me a new appreciation for guitarists such as SRV, Duane Allman, and Jimi Hendrix, and the realization that many "great" guitarists are all flash and no feeling. While any number of guitar players can play faster than most of the greats from the 60's and 70's, the playing lacks feeling and sounds out of place with the rest of the song. I would put Eddie Van Halen and Randy Rhodes in that group. Great technique and some great riffs, but the solos are too often just notes played real fast. Unfortunately, there isn't a local radio station that will touch anything by the likes of Joe Satriani or Yngwe Malmstien (sp?), so I can't comment on them until I can get my hands on some of their records.
I recall circa '72 in 10th grade at lunch we heard a catchy song on the radio we never heard before. Turns out that it was some new glitter band called 'Queen' that was doing a couple shows at the Michigan Palace (long burned down). So after school we went and bought tickets at the door for about $6. It was a small theater that seated a few thousands tops and the place was practically empty at showtime, maybe a few hundred.
So this band came out and played this incredible melodic rock for two hours. Those that made the concert screamed bloody murder until they came out for an encore. This very long song they played was unlike anything we knew at the time, just jaw-dropping. Yes, the first time I heard Bohemian Rhapsody was live, talk about a first impression.
I pretty know what I want. Some Byrds. The Dylan 30th anniversary tape. Some Van Morrison. Some live Dylan, especially the show from Pittsburgh in 1991. Pick the best of it, other than the Pittsburg show I won't tell you what to send, you have heard it and know what is best, just like you said.
Anyway, Stephen Stills did play the Moog on the song "Move Around" on the first Manassas album.
Treetop Flyer??? Stills playing in a D tuning. Great stuff.
SRV opened the Volunteer Jam in '84, and I stood right in front of him, the only person who knew who the hell he was. Poncho, hat, cowboy boots, etc. THAT crowd must have thought he was a freak.
He played "Scuttlebuttin'", "Testify", and "Texas Flood". Crowd didn't know what hit 'em. Saw him 7 more times, but never in a club setting, unfortunately.
Saw SRV myself in '84 or '85 at the Syria Mosque in Pittsburgh. They were a trio then. He was pretty unknown at the time. I had his "Texas Flood" album and loved it and just had to go and see him. I was so unfamiliar with the band that I thought there had to be two guitar players going in the band...just took one Stevie Ray to do it all. I was not disappointed, to say the least. On the back of the "Texas Flood" album SRV is wearing a "Decade" shirt from a Pittsburgh rock nightclub.
The Monkees,on a song called "Daily Nightly". Can't find what album it is:D
This survey is a joke. Stevie Ray should have had 5 of the top 10. This is really some kind of popularity contest.
Vodoo Chile, Texas Flood, Cold Shot, Pride & Joy, Mary Had a Lttle Lamb, Love Struck Baby.... Vaughn could play circles around all the winners.
I was a senior in HS at the time. They played with a band called Sweat Hog. I'll never forget it. It was the third big concert I went to. My first was Zeppelin at the LA Forum.
Know both songs VERY well. Travers is still out doin' it............Cub Coda, the lead guitarist/singer/leader of Brownsville Station passed away a year or so ago, sad to say. A tremendous talent.
"Did you know that Tony Kaye, the original Yes keyboardist, was a longtime FReeper??"
Really? Another thing to be amazed at from the (arguably) greatest band...
Listening again to Electric Ladyland, and I think Hendrix really suffered from never having a band that could jam WITH him rather than just back him up. It's so different to hear Clapton play off Jack Bruce, or hear Jim McCarty of Cactus play against Carmine Appice and Tim Bogert, but Hendrix (and Beck, too, in his bands) was always "alone."
Yngwe Malmstein falls into that fast notes really fast category in my opinion. And you are spot on in your references to feeling. I have always been attracted to rock with blues roots as it is much more full of emotion.
I still like Kirk Hammet's work on the first 3 or 4 albums with Metallica. It is a different type of music and is not really comparable to SRV, but good stuff nonetheless.
In the 70's I use to go see Johnny Winter and Rick Derringer at the Whisky A Go Go in West Hollywood....smokin! Winter would just sit on a stoll with one solo spot light and a bottle of Souther Comfort at his feet......and just play the blues....in the most electric fashion.
P.S. Did anyone mention Jeff Beck?
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