"Stairway To Heaven" tops solo guitar survey

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[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)

[KevinB]

Anyone who has ever heard Lindsey Buckingham cut loose on Fleetwoods live "The Dance" album, track 5, "I'm So Afraid"...

I've always thought he was one of the most underrated guitarists ever.

I'm with you - check post 46. I also love his lead in the studio version of "Go Your Own Way." I think he does all his leads by fingerpicking, which is unusual. He is indeed greatly underrated.

[mrsmel]

>>A hundred years from now, some people will get their PHD's in music theory writing about YES...

I think it's been done already!

[djf]

He also does some superb work on "Bleed to Love Her", also "Trouble".

I have yet to get the whole "Law and Order" album, I've been downloading from Napster, but I'm hacked that there's no easy way to convert the WMA stuff to standard WAV.
Hell, I BOUGHT THE TUNES!!

[nuconvert]

Hendrix is overrated. Always was, always will be.

[drhogan]

i stopped listening to rock about 1972, so i have no idea what happened after that.
now i listen to jazz and opera.

[Supernatural]

The first four or five songs are the "Law and Order" album are great. "Mary Lee Jones" is wonderful. Hear that one?

[KevinB]

Whoa! I made my reply to your post before reading the balance of the thread. LOL!

You obviously are a man of taste.

[sauropod]

My fave is Hotel California...

I hate, Hate, HATE that song.

Makes my ears bleed, it does.

[Supernatural]

Hendrix' best album is "Electric Ladyland". If you don't have it, borrow it from someone who does and listen to it a few times. Might make a believer out of you.

[Mr. Mojo]

Cream back in the day? Lucky dog. Did you check out the 2005 reunion concert at the Royal Albert Hall on video yet? Not bad for a bunch of fogeys, but I was hoping Clapton would at least bring out his old Gibsons for the show; they sound much better than Strats for the type of music played. But EC's been a Stratman since the Derek and the Dominoes days, and I guess that's what he's most comfortable playing.

Anyway, the standout tunes (for me) were "Rollin' and Tumblin" and "NSU."

[mrsmel]

Oh my God, I love him,and I haven't yet heard a note-I'm going out tomorrow and buy some of his music-any short list suggestions for a beginner?

[who knows what evil?]

I swear, I couldn't hear for like 2 days... loudest performance I've ever seen...

Try George Thorogood in a small bar in Bangor, Maine...I went outside to get a little relief from the cigarette smoke, and realized I couldn't hear a thing...nearby people talking, cars driving by...nothing. It wore off eventually, but I sure was freaked for a while.

[Mr. Mojo]

I listen to a lot of jazz (Ellington, Mingus, Basie, Tatum, Davis, Coltrane, etc.), but no opera.

[sauropod]

I remember seeing the California Jam on TeeVee.

Wasn't Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush part of that?

[djf]

You obviously are a man of taste.

Thanks! Well, I gotta chunk of change into my sound system, around 250WPC into the original 1986 Polk SDA-SRS's, and I'm proud to say that Kurt Cobain never got a single watt from my rig...

[Mr. Mojo]

Unfortunately I never saw ole George, but I heard he used to put on some of the most raucous shows imaginable.

[mrsmel]

If you like the genre,the most insightful and intelligent book on progressive rock that I've read is "Rocking The Classics" by Edward Macan. It's not a biography of the bands,or anything like that-it's a somewhat scholarly book on the progressive style and the way it correlates to classical music.

[nuconvert]

I was around when it came out. I know it.

[mrsmel]

Acoustica Software has some really good conversion programs,they're not free,but you can try them,and they're simple enough for a casual user like me.

[RightOnline]

"Still Got the Blues", Gary Moore (and SO many other great songs of his)

"Flying High Again", Randy Rhoads (sp?), Ozzy Osbourne

Agree totally with David Gilmour's work on "Comfortably Numb"

Frank Marino............countless times

Carlos Santana..............ditto

Rick Medlock on Blackfoot's "Train Train"......brilliant

The gentleman from Trans Siberian Orchestra who plays "O Come All Ye Faithful/O Holy Night" on their CD "Christmas Eve and Other Stories"..........unreal

Many tracks on the Steve Vai-produced "Merry Axemas" CD's......but notably Eric Johnson (if you don't put his "Cliffs of Dover" on this, albeit as an instrumental vs. just a solo, it's a crime) for "The First Noel"....gorgeous......Steve Morse for "Joy to the World"...unreal........and the totally surreal "Amazing Grace" done with such beautifully sublime slide work by Mr. Jeff Beck (add his solo with Rod Stewart's "People Get Ready"; just drop dead gorgeous)