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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: scott says
Scott, you are a man of your word. So am I. I really can't believe how much Bob Dylan stuff you have. Seems like every live concert he has ever done you have. You must run in a circle with a like-minded crowd.

It is fun sharing music and there is so much out there one person can't possibly know all of it that is good. I know what I know but there is more that I don't know than I do.

521 posted on 01/17/2006 6:34:05 PM PST by Supernatural (All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie! bob dylan)
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To: lunarbicep

John Cipollina

Quicksilver Messenger Service, Happy Trails. Most of the LP.


522 posted on 01/17/2006 6:34:40 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s......you weren't really there.)
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To: The KG9 Kid

Yup. Any song from Johnny Winter "Live And"


523 posted on 01/17/2006 6:34:50 PM PST by 12chachacha
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood
Mark Knopfler... His solo work is incredible.

The cat on the Strat. The flip side of genius is Pete Townshend on a Gibson SG, "Live at Leeds."

524 posted on 01/17/2006 6:34:58 PM PST by JCEccles
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To: RightOnline

I had the good fortune to meet him in a restaurant in NYC about 20 years ago. Dining at a fancy 3-star eatery, he was dressed the same as at any Doobie Brothers concert. Nice guy, too.


525 posted on 01/17/2006 6:35:04 PM PST by Dr. Thorne
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To: Riverman94610

There is much more that has not been mentioned than has been mentioned. You've got some good ones there.


526 posted on 01/17/2006 6:36:03 PM PST by Supernatural (All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie! bob dylan)
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To: Supernatural

Do you think we should include The Ventures?Perfidia,Walk Don't Run and Hawaii Five-O Theme really rock.


527 posted on 01/17/2006 6:38:20 PM PST by Riverman94610
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To: InsureAmerica

I actually like the percussion/drums on stairway better than the guitar solo.


528 posted on 01/17/2006 6:38:32 PM PST by lmr (Merry Christmas!)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

"Quicksilver" by Quicksilver Messenger Service is my no. 2 all time favorite album. Other good QSM songs are "Just for Love" Pt. 1 and Pt. 2. Cobra. Mona. Did you ever check out www.dinovalenti.com ? Great web site for Quicksilver fans.


529 posted on 01/17/2006 6:38:44 PM PST by Supernatural (All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie! bob dylan)
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To: Riverman94610

Heck, yeah, and I love the old song "Pipeline" too.


530 posted on 01/17/2006 6:39:33 PM PST by Supernatural (All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie! bob dylan)
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To: lunarbicep
Just for the record, I hate that song. Almost as much as American Pie.
531 posted on 01/17/2006 6:40:08 PM PST by arasina (So there.)
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To: nuconvert
Sure...you know I love to share!
The show was August 7, 1988 in my hometown of Guilford, CT
My Dead Head buddies told me to meet them at the Fairgrounds and bring my deck, I need to check out this guy.
They were serious tapers, and I mean serious!
We set up a 12 foot mic stand next to the soundboard, using 2 Nakamichi 300 mics ( excellent) and used sony D-5 decks, patched in.
The recording is outstanding! As good as it gets for a field recording .Super will attest to that.
The show is excellent, really awesome playing.I heard a week later on the radio that Roy was dead...this is the Last Live Performance, and I am lucky enough to have it.
It would be a pleasure to share it with you---thats what I am all about.
532 posted on 01/17/2006 6:40:13 PM PST by scott says (MSM=Morons Spouting Misinformation)
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To: sauropod

It is quite a bit to your credit that you even got accepted. I scored near 250 in the NYS Regents test, so I got accepted at a couple really good schools.

But I never cared for the toil and grind of standard academia. Yes, I understand why there's good reason not to spend your lifetime trying to trisect an angle. But the college environment IMHO discourage fringe ideas.

Even though the biggest breakthroughs in history have always come from the fringe elements.


533 posted on 01/17/2006 6:42:10 PM PST by djf (Bush wants to make Iraq like America. Solution: Send all illegal immigrants to Iraq!)
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To: scott says

I saw Roy B. five times live and your recording has better playing on it than when I saw him. Talk about a master of the guitar, Roy was THE MAN!


534 posted on 01/17/2006 6:43:16 PM PST by Supernatural (All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie! bob dylan)
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To: Supernatural

One band that definitely ROCKS. I remember when Mariot died. It was a in a fire I believe. It had to be one of the best pure rock shows I've ever seen. 1972


535 posted on 01/17/2006 6:45:43 PM PST by Always Independent
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To: scott says

Pull out that Eric Burdon I sent you and listen to "Its All Over Now, Baby Blue" and tell me what you think.


536 posted on 01/17/2006 6:46:29 PM PST by Supernatural (All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie! bob dylan)
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To: Always Independent

There was a huge live outdoor show in WVA about that year headlining Humble Pie. I missed it but I knew a lot of people who went. Big show with a lot of big names. I think it was a two day show. Everyone said the "Pie" stole the show.


537 posted on 01/17/2006 6:48:36 PM PST by Supernatural (All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie! bob dylan)
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To: scott says

Thanks, Scott! Sounds great!


538 posted on 01/17/2006 6:49:39 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: mrsmel

Vai has incredible feel, unbeatable technique. I'm simply not a fan of his tone......that's all. That's a matter of taste. I could play the rest of my natural life and not approach his skill level, but give me a Gary Moore or Frank Marino any day.


539 posted on 01/17/2006 6:49:54 PM PST by RightOnline
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To: InsureAmerica

Did you know that Tony Kaye, the original Yes keyboardist, was a longtime FReeper??


540 posted on 01/17/2006 6:51:57 PM PST by RightOnline
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