"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)

[ChildOfThe60s]

Just did. Thanks.

[mrsmel]

I feel the same. He's great,and when I first discovered him I was excited,but he can become wearing.I don't like the term "no soul",because I think it's misused-a lot of jazz guitarists might be said to have "no soul",but I could listen to and "feel" tham all day long. And again I love prog,which is supposedly so soulless. Maybe it is-if it is,I guess it's supposed to be-it still reaches me,and I have to admit,I LIKE flashy fingered virtuosity on any instrument-I'm so impressed that people can do what they do on them,and some can make it seem like an extension of their very selves.

[mrsmel]

Are you series? Does he still post? Have you ever heard a song called "Martian Boogie" by Brownsville Station,or "Boom Boom Out Go The Lights" by Pat Travers? Just askin:)

[irish guard]

Well now you're talking....Frank Marino can play....so could Robin Trower.

[mrsmel]

Y'all have all mentioned Robin Trower and Ten Years After that I'm currently acquiring some of their music to get an idea of what you mean. I'm trying to remember all the mentions made that I'm not familiar with on this thread.

PS-I just listened to to "I'd Love To Change The World"-I've heard that song! I like the guitar in it-kind of delicate.

[Phantom Lord]

While Fade to Black and Sanitarium have great solos, for balls ass metal solos I would have to say that Frayed Ends of Sanity, Dyers Eve, and Struggle Within are at the very top.

And though he rarely solos, and his solos are nothing special, and the thread is about solos, without question, the undisputed king of down picking is James Hetfield.

[muir_redwoods]

"Ummm......take it from a major Clapton fan and rock guitarist since 1968.......VERY much subject to argument, my friend. Clapton has done some stellar work, no doubt, but his solo in "Crossroads" was.....ummm......let's just say .....NOT his best work. Doesn't belong anywhere near such a list."

Sorry about your hearing. Does your amp go to 11? Maybe you should turn it down.

[scott says]

Put in the EBB Sun Secrets- wow! this is great!
I can't seem to find the Baby Blue on your song lists...what cd and what track ? (if you can remember)
I just popped in the Burdon cd, and I can tell that I will dig this....oh, yeah, this is good!

[Supernatural]

What did you just do? Listen to something good?

[mrsmel]

Does your amp go to 11?

Spinal Tap?

[Skooz]

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.

Which be dat? More of a reference pls.

Recorded at the Berkeley Community Theater May 30, 1970.

You can download a high quaility mp3 from allofmp3.com for a good price. It's on the Ultimate Live Collection number 4.

[drew]

"Castles Made of Sand" is a great song. I also like "Up From the Skies" and "Wait Until Tomorrow." My Hendrix CD collection is sadly lacking, I'll have to get those Family Editions.

Do I see a silhouette of somebody pointing something from a tree ?
Click bang, what a hang, your daddy just shot poor me
And I hear you say, as I fade away...
We don’t have to wait till tomorrow

[irish guard]

Robin Trower's Bridge of Sighs...

[Supernatural]

"Rudely Interrupted", song two is "Baby Blue". Glad you like "Sun Secrets"...would have bet money that you would.

[mrsmel]

Ares is free,and no spyware.

[mrsmel]

Am in the process of trying to download it,I'll go to iTunes if I have to...

[Riverman94610]

Who did Pipeline?
I keep hearing the Chantays or something similiar.
Then theres Dick Dale,Lets Go Tripping

[Supernatural]

Chris Wood and Mike Finnegan play with Hendrix on Ladyland. Organ and flute. You just have to listen to "Voodoo Child", the 17 minute song. Hendrix makes up the words as he goes along. It is a big jam session with Hendrix' friends clapping in the background. Some of his finest playing is on this song, but with just small bursts at a time. The organ and the guitar talk to and answer each other. Hard to find a better jam.

[Supernatural]

Yeah, the Chantays. I've got a CD "Guitar Classics of the '60's with all the songs you mentioned and Pipeline on it. I listen to it all the time. Stevie Ray plays on Pipeline.

[Supernatural]

Let's Go Tripping by Dick Dale is on there too.