Saw ELP in concert during college...damn, that was an entertaining show!
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)
Texas Flood great song. Too bad Pantera's Cemetary Gates didn't manage to make the list.
Sorry to join in the fun late. One of my favorite Dire Straits tunes is "Single Handed Sailor". The guitar riffs on that song are so deliciously haunting.
Splendido Hotel, baby. Enough said.
Thanks for reminding me of one of the greatest practical jokes ever played, courtesy of the Winter Brothers.
The summer after my sophomore year in college, I was a firefighter at Big Basin State Park in California. We had one guy in our crew that was an absolute madman, and a big fan of Edgar and Johnny.
The day before he came back on shift, we concocted this story that a crazy man was lurking in the campgrounds, cutting off male private parts (keeping it clean). We spent the next day retelling the "incidents" of the past few days.
After lights out, the trap was sprung. While one of the crew was crawling under the bunks to sneak up on him, we got him talking about an Edgar Winter concert that he had attended a few days earlier.
I interrupted him by saying, "did anyone hear the door open?" This went on for a minute or so. Then the other crewmember jumps up and screams:
I WANT YOUR COCK!!!!!!!
You could hear the screams from a mile away!!
None of us were able to sleep for the next two hours...just when it quieted down, one of us would start giggling, and the laughter would erupt again.
Funny how things turn out. We couldn't stand each other for the first few weeks, but were very good friends by the end of the summer. I hope he's had a great life...this happened over 30 years ago.
Saw ELP in concert during college...damn, that was an entertaining show!
bookmk ping for this whacky thread ,
and ,... thanks lunarbicep
Speaking of The Who, gotta go with Baba O'Riley, Eminence Front, Behind Blue Eyes, Bargain, and My Generation. Another great guitar solo would have to be ZZ Top's La Grange, also Heart's Barracuda, and Crazy On You, for blues, I'd have to say Chris Duarte's Big Legged Woman.
Ahhhhhhhh, Roxy Music. I first heard them while stationed in Germany in the late 70s. They received a fair amount of play on Radio Luxembourg. RL was a great station to listen to: German on the way to work, Luxembourgie late morning, and English (pop/rock) in the afternoon.
They also appeared in a German TV concert with Dire Straits and Talking Heads...it was wild!
Not music related, but nothing holds a candle to a five hour trip in a C130. Even with ear plugs, I was deaf for a few hours after the flight.
Try Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band or just Bob Seger. His earlier works were with TSBB.
Or Night Train, Mr. Brownstone, Paradise City or Welcome To The Jungle.
What's a guitar?
Absolutely! James Gang's Funk #49 is one of my favorites. It had Joe Walsh and Ted Nugent on guitar, and for some earlier Nugent, there's The Amboy Dukes. My favorite Joe Walsh tunes include Rocky Mountain Way, Life's Been Good, All Night Long, A Life Of Illusion, Ordinary Average Guy, and with The Eagles doing lead vocals, I'd have to go with Life In The Fast Lane.
I second that-thanks,this is a fun thread:)
Or listen to I Drink Alone, with the volume cranked up. If you have 5.1 or 7.1 surround, even better.
I love the Who-I've just been listening to "5:15" from Quadrophenia.That's a good song to play really loud.
Great song. :)
A year or so ago on Sirius Satellite Radio, they played Eric Johnson, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Steve Morse together doing a Van Halen tribute, playing Van Halen's solo 5150 on their channel Deep Cuts.
That's basically the gist of how these threads go. Everybody chimes in with an opinion. So I've tossed mine on the table.
Quadrophenia is their best album IMHO. :)
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