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)
I'd forgotten how good he was.
Most folks only know him from his days with Mountain (Mississippi Queen). But he did so much more. Raw, bluesy. Great stuff.
VAN HALEN! Changed the way guitar is played and no one has even come close since! Go get the book Van Halen 101! It is a great read about their climb out of the backyard party circuit in LA to super-stardom!
He does,it made him leave the band once it was finished(though he's returned and left again quite a few times since).
A lot of people did.
Page included.
Hendrix and Page are something. Freebird is a great fun song.
Plant actually proclaimed that he was a 'golden god' at one point....
Cliffs of Dover is at the top of my list ever time.
Much of Zeppelin's songs were overwhelming, start to finish.
A point you missed, apparently.
You guys know how hard it is to play air guitar and post at the same time?
Black Napkins
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We've got steve howe with the dobro, pedal steel, volume pedal, accoustic, page with the violin bow, mandolin, 12 string doubleneck, theramin, these two are at the top of any list i would make. Lots of other greats, but if i were stranded on an island and could choose only two albums.....
I agree. While I don't think my two favorites are solo pieces, even after all these years I truly love to hear....
Roundabout by Yes
Suite Judy Blue Eyes by CSN and Y (I'm not sure about Young)
Ask Mrs Valens (Ritchie's mom). Ask Robert Johnson's ghost.
Anything by Kirk Hammet. If you will include Bass solos, the late Cliff Burton could do things with a 4 string Bass guitar that most folks couldn't do with a 6 string Strat.
That's wot's cool about a plug 'n play external hard drive:)
Same with "Stairway..." I love Zeppelin but when that tune comes on the radio I change the station.
It was pretty good the first 250,000 times I heard it but, c'mon! Led Zeppelin recorded a few more songs besides "Stairway."
Jeff Beck's "Ain't Superstitious" should be in the top ten...
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