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)
Johnny Winter Be Carefull With A Fool OH YEA!
Now its a $150 per ticket for a big-name band. We use to see shows for $10. And the music WAS the thing and always will be to guys like us.
On all the stuff I sent you, the songs are listed on the inside cover of the case, except for the "filler" songs that were not included in the original CD. Those songs are taped to the back cover. I spent some time cutting those suckers out after I copied the covers on my color copy machine. But it makes it easy to see what songs are on the CD.
The other singer was Signe Anderson and she had a more powerful and melodic voice than Grace.She quit the group to become a full time wife and mom up in Oregon.I know she had come down with breast cancer a number of years ago but not sure what she's doing now.
10 years ago, I worked with these two middle aged women, who, I learned by accident, were absolutely crazy about Willie; had, or had heard all of his solo albums, seen his sorry junkie ass in concert several times and so on. Strange, until you showed here, they were the only people I had known who had ever heard of this band and this guy. Didn't he put out another solo album just recently?
Paid $6.50 to see Jefferson Airplane. I'm a little fuzzy on the exact year, only sure it was before '70.
By the time prices were getting over $10, a lot of the music was heading south anyway.
TEN dollars for a show?
Hell,I saw Jefferson Airplane,Muddy Waters AND the Grateful Dead for the grand total of THREE dollars at Winterland in 1966.Two sets each.
I really grumbled when I had to pay the trememdous sum of EIGHT dollars for The Stones at Winterland in 1972.The opening act was Stevie Wonder!
Yea , I believe so ..Used to know those guys a bit when I played a lot in NYC( I was with Robert Gorden at the time )Lost track of many ..many are dead too from that whole crew..Good to see so many music freaks here who are Conservatives..Gives me a good feeling.
On the www.dinovalenti.com website, they have posters of concerts Quicksilver was in. One show had the Dead, the Airplane and Quicksilver for...$3. Pretty amazing!
From this list I choose Hendrix. I'd rather see a list for best acoustic guitar, though, so Steve Howe from Yes could win something.
I saw Stevie Wonder open for the Stones in 1972 also, at the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh. Billy Preston was playing keyboard with the Stones and I think Klaus Voorman was on horns. Can't remember the price, think it was about $12.
After WW2 a whole generation grew up influenced by American blues. And, for me, many of the great guitarists from there are/were solidly blues infuenced. Kim Simmonds, Alvin Lee, Clapton (he lost me when he abandoned the blues and got "laid back").
Quicksilver, in the liner notes from the "Anthology" double album, says that they never played a song the same way twice live. Said it "ruined the song".
Truly one of the great "jam" bands.
I agree...I'll check them out. A truly "good" band does just that. Every performance is a new,fresh, interesting adventure....
And really unknown to many people today. They don't know what they missed, but I'm trying to educate some of them and I'll bet you are too.
This ain't no party. This ain't no disco. This ain't no foolin' around!
More powerful than Grace Slick? Wow. More melodic,I can believe. Grace could carry a tune,but her style seemed to be "juggernaut".
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