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"Stairway To Heaven" tops solo guitar survey
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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: Physicist

> So you're the other fan!

Me three!.


201 posted on 01/17/2006 2:45:11 PM PST by ADemocratNoMore (Jeepers, Freepers, where'd 'ya get those sleepers?. Pj people, exposing old media's lies.)
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To: lunarbicep

Couldn't Stand the Weather - Stevie Ray Vaughn


Makes me want to play air guitar in a driving gale.


202 posted on 01/17/2006 2:45:38 PM PST by Petronski (I love Cyborg!)
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To: InsureAmerica
"Plant actually proclaimed that he was a 'golden god' at one point...."

Now he looks like Tiny Tim on peroxide.

203 posted on 01/17/2006 2:45:39 PM PST by Senator Goldwater
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To: Cheburashka

Yeah, I do actually...


204 posted on 01/17/2006 2:46:10 PM PST by mrsmel
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To: mrsmel

Where was that spinning piano?


205 posted on 01/17/2006 2:47:26 PM PST by BuglerTex (Started on a 50's ES330 in early 60's lost track in 80's (down with disco))
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To: The Coopster
"I'll agree with the two posters who gave extra props to David Gilmour. There are many, many more technical guitarists out there - but that cat can really make a guitar SING. And it goes right to your soul, too..."

The solo off of "On the Turning Away" from the live record is amazing.

Gilmour is the real thing.

206 posted on 01/17/2006 2:47:39 PM PST by Senator Goldwater
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To: Drew68

""It was pretty good the first 250,000 times I heard it but, c'mon""



Actually on listen 250,001 you will have a revelation...


207 posted on 01/17/2006 2:47:58 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: giant sable

love darkness darkness

took me a few days to get the lead down good enough to
play in front of people.

and ted nugent in the amboy dukes days playing his 1/100000
time notes on prodical son is as good as it gets.


208 posted on 01/17/2006 2:48:25 PM PST by 537cant be wrong (vampires stole my lunch money !)
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To: The Kingwood Kid

The opening to "Roundabout"(even though I've heard it and heard it and HEARD it) sets the stage for an unforgettable musical ride. My favorite Yes song-please don't make me pick one,I'm so torn.

As far as guitar riffs,who hasn't played air guitar to "Smoke On The Water"'s opening riff?


209 posted on 01/17/2006 2:49:11 PM PST by mrsmel
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To: Senator Goldwater

Let's first say this is for the SONG not the artist as a whole. You coulda hit one song and be called the greatest by the standards of this question/survey.

That being said...this is not the case. Greatest guitar player of all time is too broad. My list would read, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Jimi Page, Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen, Ted Nugent, Johnnie Winter.....

"Stairway" is still the top of every greatest rock song of all time list. Year after year, decade after decade. Think about it...every minute around the world somewhere a Led Zeppelin song is playing...for 35 years going....says it at.

Robert Plant, Jimi Page , John Paul Jones and John Bonham were/are the greatest rock musicians/group of all time.


210 posted on 01/17/2006 2:49:49 PM PST by Republic Rocker (ZOFO)
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To: reagandemocrat

Jeff Beck rocks.


211 posted on 01/17/2006 2:49:56 PM PST by o_zarkman44
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To: mrsmel

Wow.. I saw them do that SO LONG ago at the California Jam.. a huge 2 or 3 day festival in the early 70's. Sabbath, Deep Purple, ELP ...a bunch of others. I was only 13 or 14 years old.

My Dad forbid me to go.. I went anyway and was in the worst trouble of my young life when I got back.


212 posted on 01/17/2006 2:50:01 PM PST by Trampled by Lambs (I think, therefor I Zot!)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
Jeff Beck's "Ain't Superstitious" should be in the top ten...

Absolutely. One of my favorites. And don't forget Joe Walsh. His work outside of the Eagles, either with the James Gang or his solo efforts were great.
213 posted on 01/17/2006 2:50:04 PM PST by Ticonderoga34
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To: ADemocratNoMore

Um, four fans are alive and breathing!


214 posted on 01/17/2006 2:50:35 PM PST by mrsmel
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To: lunarbicep

Aqualung – Jethro Tull
In Memory of Elizabeth Reed - Allman Brothers


215 posted on 01/17/2006 2:51:04 PM PST by FMBass (“Now that I’m sober I watch a lot of news” – Garofalo: From “Treason” by Coulter)
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To: mrsmel

Wonderous stories maybe? Let's have a pick the obsure Yes favorite song contest...


216 posted on 01/17/2006 2:51:16 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: BuglerTex

The inimitable Keith Emerosn of Emerson Lake & Palmer.(The Emerson of "sticking-daggers-into-my-Hammond fame). I don't know which tour it is.


217 posted on 01/17/2006 2:51:54 PM PST by mrsmel
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To: daniel boob
Saw Capt. Beefheart at the Iowa Memorial Union in Iowa City, sometime in 69 or 70. The seating was on the festival (on the floor) and this didn't leave much room for my date and I. I had just filled up with gas at the Shell station and they were giving away steak knives as a promotion. When I took off my Navy pea-coat for us to sit on, the knife flipped out on the floor. People around us made sure there was plenty of room after that...
218 posted on 01/17/2006 2:52:21 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Clemenza

you got that right about geoge harrison.
i love all his double note leads on the beatles covers of
everybodys trying to be my baby and words of love.
by the way
and your bird can sing is one hard lead to play, it goes in my top 10 for sure.


219 posted on 01/17/2006 2:52:29 PM PST by 537cant be wrong (vampires stole my lunch money !)
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To: Revolting cat!
> ...excesses and pretentiousness, much like In A-Gadda Da Vida

My current record for remixing In A-Gadda Da Vida stands at a little over 45 minutes, next time I'm shooting for 80.
220 posted on 01/17/2006 2:52:50 PM PST by ADemocratNoMore (Jeepers, Freepers, where'd 'ya get those sleepers?. Pj people, exposing old media's lies.)
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