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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: lunarbicep

'Cheapnis' by Frank Zappa


21 posted on 01/17/2006 1:59:08 PM PST by reagandemocrat
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To: DallasMike

That's exactly what I thought. How Rossington/Collins can make it and Stevie Ray doesn't is a mystery.


22 posted on 01/17/2006 1:59:11 PM PST by Lizavetta
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To: lunarbicep

No Andres Segovia? Those other guys were rank amateurs by comparison.


23 posted on 01/17/2006 2:00:13 PM PST by Logophile
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To: InsureAmerica
suggestions for exciting music for smart people?

That question may be above her IQ.

24 posted on 01/17/2006 2:00:24 PM PST by Clint N. Suhks (If you don't like Jesus, you can go to hell.)
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To: lunarbicep

Aww...geez! Stairway to Heaven?

The local guitar shop here has a big sign:

No Stairway to Heaven
is Allowed
On These Premises!
Violators Will Be
Ejected from the Shop!


25 posted on 01/17/2006 2:00:36 PM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: lunarbicep

What and who is contactmusic.com and why should we care what they think?


26 posted on 01/17/2006 2:00:41 PM PST by nuconvert (No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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To: lunarbicep

Hendrix's solo on the Warner live double album version of "Hear My Train a Comin'" is, without question, the most incredible solo in the history of rocknroll.

David Gilmour has hit many out of the park, as well.

In Jazz, Joe Pass and Django Reinhardt laid down some unbelievable solos every time they sat down to play.

And in the Blues, Elmore James' solo on "Twelve Year Old Boy" is the gold standard.


27 posted on 01/17/2006 2:00:46 PM PST by Skooz (Property taxes are immoral)
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To: DallasMike

No Steve Vai? No John Mclaughlin,for goodness sake?


28 posted on 01/17/2006 2:00:47 PM PST by mrsmel
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To: lunarbicep
Crossroads from Wheels of Fire.

And it's not even subject to argument

29 posted on 01/17/2006 2:00:48 PM PST by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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To: advance_copy

i assumed they meant rock solos, if you start throwing country/folk guys in then you've got to deal with virtuosos like Leo Kottke and then jazz guys like Django... i don't think they meant the top 10 best guitar parts, but more like the top 10 high-flying rock solos.


30 posted on 01/17/2006 2:00:53 PM PST by munchtipq
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To: lunarbicep
My favorite: Elliott Randall's cascading arpeggios on Steely Dan's Reelin' In The Years.
31 posted on 01/17/2006 2:00:56 PM PST by Dr. Thorne
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To: lunarbicep

No Al DiMeola?


32 posted on 01/17/2006 2:01:24 PM PST by Disambiguator (Making accusations of racism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.)
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To: Skooz

I'd add Al Di Meola to the list also.


33 posted on 01/17/2006 2:01:48 PM PST by mrsmel
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To: MarineBrat

Now THAT's funny.


34 posted on 01/17/2006 2:02:00 PM PST by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten (Is your problem ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.)
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To: Clemenza
Even Terry Kath's solo in "25 of 6 to 4" was superior to Jimmy Page's sloppy work on Stairway.

Ditto that.

35 posted on 01/17/2006 2:02:13 PM PST by Pukin Dog (Sans Reproache)
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To: oxcart

I thought I was the only one left in the US that still liked Trower.


36 posted on 01/17/2006 2:02:13 PM PST by ChuckShick (He's clerking for me...)
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To: reagandemocrat

my fav. zappa solo is The Muffin Man, i'm not allowed to listen to it in the car anymore because i stop paying attention to the road.


37 posted on 01/17/2006 2:02:14 PM PST by munchtipq
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To: Ouderkirk
Freebird has been beaten to death...

I playe in a band whose lead guitariaat just loved freebird. When I hear it now, it's like fingernails scraping a blackboard.

38 posted on 01/17/2006 2:02:21 PM PST by Rudder
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To: lunarbicep

I spent my Sophomore year in college listening to one of my fraternity brothers learn to play the lead guitar part for "Black Magic Woman". I have only recently (35 years later) recovered from that experience. John Holly, are you out there???


39 posted on 01/17/2006 2:02:27 PM PST by Senator_Blutarski (No good deed goes unpunished.)
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To: Lizavetta

Freebird and Stevie's remake of Little Wing are both great pieces of music. However, I think Joe Satriani and some of the "surfing with the alien" stuff should be up here. As well as Hendrix's Machine Gun.


40 posted on 01/17/2006 2:02:33 PM PST by ChinaThreat (s)
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