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"Stairway To Heaven" tops solo guitar survey
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1600667,0011.htm ^

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)


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: guitar; guitars; guitarsolo; music; rockandroll
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To: Cheburashka
I just downloaded a whole bunch of his stuff from AllofMP3.com.

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.

181 posted on 01/17/2006 2:34:12 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Crime cannot be tolerated. Criminals thrive on the indulgences of society's understanding.)
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To: Trampled by Lambs

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!


182 posted on 01/17/2006 2:34:36 PM PST by Xanadu2112
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To: Physicist

He does,it made him leave the band once it was finished(though he's returned and left again quite a few times since).


183 posted on 01/17/2006 2:34:42 PM PST by mrsmel
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To: Ciexyz
Circa 1974, I thought Jimmy Page was God.

A lot of people did.

Page included.

Hendrix and Page are something. Freebird is a great fun song.

184 posted on 01/17/2006 2:34:48 PM PST by tallhappy (Juntos Podemos!)
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To: tallhappy

Plant actually proclaimed that he was a 'golden god' at one point....


185 posted on 01/17/2006 2:36:44 PM PST by InsureAmerica (Evil? I have many words for it. We are as dust, to them. - v v putin)
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To: JoeSixPack1
Seriously I am always surprised when that is not on the A list. It is a righteous tune, IMO>

Cliffs of Dover is at the top of my list ever time.

186 posted on 01/17/2006 2:36:44 PM PST by Diva Betsy Ross (Embrace peace- Hug an American soldier- the real peace keepers.)
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To: Clemenza
"I always found that Page was sloppy and derivative. I also have something against "showboating" ie when a guitarist's solo purposely overwhelms the song."

Much of Zeppelin's songs were overwhelming, start to finish.

A point you missed, apparently.

187 posted on 01/17/2006 2:37:03 PM PST by Senator Goldwater
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To: lunarbicep; All

You guys know how hard it is to play air guitar and post at the same time?


188 posted on 01/17/2006 2:38:09 PM PST by Cheburashka
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To: reagandemocrat

Black Napkins


189 posted on 01/17/2006 2:38:58 PM PST by RaceBannon ((Prov 28:1 KJV) The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

I've just looked up AllofMP3.com. Your experience? Ripoffs or unauthorized charges? Any limitations on use (copying) of downloads? Thanks...


190 posted on 01/17/2006 2:39:30 PM PST by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
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To: Deguello
> Somewhere out there is a album of Hendrix Christmas Carols.


Sheesh, you're right!.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000035X6T/103-7838051-4232650?v=glance&n=5174
191 posted on 01/17/2006 2:39:54 PM PST by ADemocratNoMore (Jeepers, Freepers, where'd 'ya get those sleepers?. Pj people, exposing old media's lies.)
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To: Senator Goldwater

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.....


192 posted on 01/17/2006 2:41:19 PM PST by InsureAmerica (Evil? I have many words for it. We are as dust, to them. - v v putin)
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To: mrsmel

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)


193 posted on 01/17/2006 2:43:14 PM PST by The Kingwood Kid (Texan by birth, Republican by choice)
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To: nothingnew

194 posted on 01/17/2006 2:43:15 PM PST by mrsmel
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To: Senator Goldwater; Clemenza
I always found that Page was sloppy and derivative

Ask Mrs Valens (Ritchie's mom). Ask Robert Johnson's ghost.

195 posted on 01/17/2006 2:43:31 PM PST by tallhappy (Juntos Podemos!)
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To: lunarbicep

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.


196 posted on 01/17/2006 2:44:10 PM PST by EricT. (Join the Soylent Green Party. We recycle dead environmentalists....Thanx to Kenny Blankenship!)
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To: Cheburashka

That's wot's cool about a plug 'n play external hard drive:)


197 posted on 01/17/2006 2:44:21 PM PST by mrsmel
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To: lunarbicep
Among critics and, uhm, discerning listeners, Stairway to Heaven has always been treated (when mentioned) as a joke, for its excesses and pretentiousness, much like In A-Gadda Da Vida, and Chicago (the tedious musical group, not the city) among many others popular among the unwashed. But heck, somebody must have luvd these things and bought gazillions of them. Now we at least know who. Discriminate!
198 posted on 01/17/2006 2:44:29 PM PST by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
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To: Ouderkirk
Freebird has been beaten to death...if I never hear that crap song again it will still be too soon

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."

199 posted on 01/17/2006 2:44:34 PM PST by Drew68
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To: lunarbicep

Jeff Beck's "Ain't Superstitious" should be in the top ten...


200 posted on 01/17/2006 2:44:57 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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