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)
Good post...I love his voice!
If anyone lives near that horse's @$$, Lars Ulrich(or whatever), please approach door, ring bell, break his face when he answers.
Thanks!
I cannot believe it took this long for first mention of The Master Of *Sounds* -- I will toss in Hackett's solo on Genesis' Firth of Fifth as an example of how to truly make your guitar sing ...
mmmmmm.......don't think so. That was Joe (alone) running a Tele through a tiny Fender amp (single speaker; not sure if it was 8", 10", or 12".......think it was only 8") cranked full up, closely miked. Nothing in between. That's why it has that punchy "let's PUSH some air here!" tone to it. Great song.
My hearing is just fine. Not picking on Clapton; a fine player, no doubt about it. I've listened to him since his Cream days (even got a DVD for Christmas of the Cream Reunion held last year). Has done outSTANDing work. It's just the solo from "Crossroads" isn't one of his better pieces of guitar work, IMHO, and is nowhere near the quality that would put it on a "best" list such as this one. It's fun to listen to, but more than a little pedestrian.
Okay, thanks for solving that. Why did you wait until 739 posts? :)
Brownsville Station also had a MAJOR hit with "Smokin' In the Boys' Room", later redone (and quite well, I may add) by Motley Crue.
This kicks 'em out of the realm of "One Hit Wonder".
OMG, you MUST be kidding!!! The '70's........rock 'hard to come by'?????
Oh son........let's start with Johnny Winter, Edgar Winter, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, James Gang, Black Sabbath, UFO, The Scorpions, The Allman Brothers, Pink Floyd, Heart, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Queen, Yes, Kansas, Thin Lizzy, Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush........the list goes on and on and on and on.........
The '70's were AWESOME for rock, but the hype around disco seems to have camouflaged some of the best rock ever recorded. There were two distinct "camps" back then: rockers and those into disco. Three guesses which "camp" I fell into. :)
Most of those I've already got. LOL! :)
Another cover done quite well is Sweet's Ballroom Blitz, done by Krokus.
And as I told StarCMC, Streetheart's version of Van Morrison's Here Comes The Night puts an 80's sound to an already good tune.
His work on "Sitting on Top of the World," on the other hand, is to die for...
Mason Williams, Classical Gas.
thanks for the info. i'll look for the video.
i heard them in NYC on the first tour, and at the Oakland Coliseum on their farewell tour. "I feel free" at the first concert and "White Room" at the later one stand out in my mind as really powerful.
i'm definitely with you on Ellington and Davis. about a year ago i heard the (new) ellington orchestra, led by Paul ellington, who is Duke's grandson. Paul is young, but very talented, and a very nice guy, too. (i got to talk with him and a couple of his friends after the show.) the band was awesome--it was in a club in NYC, so the sound was incredible. hearing Duke's music live was beyond belief.
I got to hear Dizzy once live also, and he was a truly wonderful person.
if you ever want to try opera, anything by Puccini sung by either Mirella Freni or Kiri Te Kanawa is great. Puccini wrote arias with great melodies--it's almost like pop music.
there is a movie called "copycat" about a serial killer, where a Puccini aria (sung by Mirella) is played in the background in one scene, if you want to hear something incredible.
rarely do these guys[and gals] bring their fave collector instruments on tour,expensive reporos are expendable ,... back when, I was told by a drummer for Iggy, how Ivan Kral's fave Les Paul Junior had a forklift turn the headstock into toothpicks
Clapton played his famous '57 Fender Stratocaster "Blackie" in the (reunion) concert in question, so he's not shy about bringing out the vintage gear. The reason he didn't play his old Gibsons is because he's been a confirmed Fender man for about 35 years now.
i can't argue with you on that point--it makes a lot of sense.
i think i once heard that clapton rated Hendrix as the best when he first heard hendrix play.
but, i would bet that if we got a bunch of professional guitar players to rate the top players, there would still be the same disagreements over Hendrix vs. clapton vs. page vs. beck, etc.
subjective tastes have a lot to do with it. and a lot of music sounds very different when you hear it live vs. on a recording. i think there are a lot of variables that affect musical ratings.
yup ,[exception: Icons,LOL!!] EC's guitar tach/roadie handcarries that lil' baby
maybe we should rate lute players next.
I can only imagine. Hopefully they'll make it up this way one day.
I saw the Mingus Big Band in L.A. about a decade ago (with many of the original members) and was awestruck. The power generated by a great big band is far more impressive than any rock band I've seen.
Thanks for the opera tips.
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