"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)

[lunarbicep]

how quick they forget the grandaddy of it all:

Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley

[DallasMike]

No Stevie Ray Vaughan?

[misterrob]

Dude, like some of those guys like really rock!

[tallhappy]

Patheticos on parade.

Cheez.

Boring music for stupid people.

[Ouderkirk]

Freebird has been beaten to death...if I never hear that crap song again it will still be too soon

[PzLdr]

ANY Chuck Berry Tune!

[Doogle]

No Stevie Ray Vaughan?

..yeah I was wondering about that too

[misterrob]

Light My Fire by The Doors

Whole Lotta Rosie by AC/DC

Nothing by BB King either

[trillabodilla]

Highway Star - Deep Purple (Ritchie Blackmore)

[Clemenza]

BS! Even Terry Kath's solo in "25 of 6 to 4" was superior to Jimmy Page's sloppy work on Stairway. Jeff Baxter's solo on Donna Summer's "Hot Stuff" was better than Stairway for Crissake.

Where is Wes Montgomery? Where is Django Reinhardt?

[munchtipq]

Brian May - We Will Rock You

[advance_copy]

Stevie Ray Vaughan not even in the top ten? Please. He was better than every one of them. Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page are both overrated.

Best guitar solo = Rocky Top by Chet Atkins (I don't think even Stevie Ray could do that).

[TChris]

My favorite guitar solo of all time: Zakk Wylde for Ozzy Osbourne, No More Tears

[MarineBrat]

[oxcart]

Bridge Of Sighs
Robin Trower
Chrysalis 1057
Released: March 1974

[Doogle]

and Eric at number 10....eehhh....don't think so.

[Clint N. Suhks]

Boring music for stupid people.

So if you like Rock you're "stupid"?

[Clemenza]

Light My Fire by The Doors

Robbie Krieger and George Harrison are the most underrated guitarists in rock and roll. Krieger was originally a flamenco guitarist, btw.

I always thought the song "All Your Love", whether the Otis Rush OR Eric Clapton/John Mayall version, had some outstanding guitar work.

[InsureAmerica]

""Boring music for stupid people""


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