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)
> So you're the other fan!
Me three!.
Couldn't Stand the Weather - Stevie Ray Vaughn
Makes me want to play air guitar in a driving gale.
Now he looks like Tiny Tim on peroxide.
Yeah, I do actually...
Where was that spinning piano?
The solo off of "On the Turning Away" from the live record is amazing.
Gilmour is the real thing.
""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...
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.
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?
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.
Jeff Beck rocks.
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.
Um, four fans are alive and breathing!
Aqualung – Jethro Tull
In Memory of Elizabeth Reed - Allman Brothers
Wonderous stories maybe? Let's have a pick the obsure Yes favorite song contest...
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.
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.
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