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"Stairway To Heaven" tops solo guitar survey
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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)


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KEYWORDS: guitar; guitars; guitarsolo; music; rockandroll
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To: jblair

Your second link worked fine. Lots of great guitar players came out of or played in Nashville. Stevie Ray used to play there all the time.


681 posted on 01/17/2006 9:45:13 PM PST by Supernatural (All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie! bob dylan)
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To: Supernatural
but on the web it give credit to none other than the "Monkees" as coming out with the first "popular" album with the Moog on it.

You're right -- I forgot about "Pisces, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Jones," or whatever the correct order is. The one where they started playing most of the instruments themselves. That even beats "Wild Honey," which was post-SMiLE and "Smiley Smile" in 1967.

682 posted on 01/17/2006 9:45:41 PM PST by MikeD (We live in a world where babies are like velveteen rabbits that only become real if they are loved.)
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To: ChinaThreat

SRV's "LIttle Wing" got me back into classic rock a few years back. Listening to rock again with an ear exposed to many different types of music has given me a new appreciation for guitarists such as SRV, Duane Allman, and Jimi Hendrix, and the realization that many "great" guitarists are all flash and no feeling. While any number of guitar players can play faster than most of the greats from the 60's and 70's, the playing lacks feeling and sounds out of place with the rest of the song. I would put Eddie Van Halen and Randy Rhodes in that group. Great technique and some great riffs, but the solos are too often just notes played real fast. Unfortunately, there isn't a local radio station that will touch anything by the likes of Joe Satriani or Yngwe Malmstien (sp?), so I can't comment on them until I can get my hands on some of their records.


683 posted on 01/17/2006 9:47:07 PM PST by yawningotter
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To: MikeD
I'll see them in March.  It won't be the same though.

I recall circa '72 in 10th grade at lunch we heard a catchy song on the radio we never heard before.  Turns out that it was some new glitter band called 'Queen' that was doing a couple shows at the Michigan Palace (long burned down).  So after school we went and bought tickets at the door for about $6.  It was a small theater that seated a few thousands tops and the place was practically empty at showtime, maybe a few hundred.

So this band came out and played this incredible melodic rock for two hours.  Those that made the concert screamed bloody murder until they came out for an encore.  This very long song they played was unlike anything we knew at the time, just jaw-dropping.  Yes, the first time I heard Bohemian Rhapsody was live, talk about a first impression.

684 posted on 01/17/2006 9:48:19 PM PST by quantim (If the Constitution were perfect it wouldn't have included the Senate.)
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To: scott says

I pretty know what I want. Some Byrds. The Dylan 30th anniversary tape. Some Van Morrison. Some live Dylan, especially the show from Pittsburgh in 1991. Pick the best of it, other than the Pittsburg show I won't tell you what to send, you have heard it and know what is best, just like you said.


685 posted on 01/17/2006 9:53:22 PM PST by Supernatural (All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie! bob dylan)
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To: MikeD
A little research on the web can clear things up in a hurry. And you got the name of the Monkees album right, according to the web. You win the contest and I was way off base.

Anyway, Stephen Stills did play the Moog on the song "Move Around" on the first Manassas album.

686 posted on 01/17/2006 9:55:25 PM PST by Supernatural (All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie! bob dylan)
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To: Supernatural
I have a couple of Stephen Stills boots I recorded myself, the best one is The Fillmore SF 3-9-89, excellent show. Really great version of Bluebird....
Lets talk soon...we can have a blast trading...soups up!
I'm out---peace!
687 posted on 01/17/2006 10:05:15 PM PST by scott says (MSM=Morons Spouting Misinformation)
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To: Supernatural

Treetop Flyer??? Stills playing in a D tuning. Great stuff.

SRV opened the Volunteer Jam in '84, and I stood right in front of him, the only person who knew who the hell he was. Poncho, hat, cowboy boots, etc. THAT crowd must have thought he was a freak.

He played "Scuttlebuttin'", "Testify", and "Texas Flood". Crowd didn't know what hit 'em. Saw him 7 more times, but never in a club setting, unfortunately.


688 posted on 01/17/2006 10:07:13 PM PST by jblair
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To: jblair

Saw SRV myself in '84 or '85 at the Syria Mosque in Pittsburgh. They were a trio then. He was pretty unknown at the time. I had his "Texas Flood" album and loved it and just had to go and see him. I was so unfamiliar with the band that I thought there had to be two guitar players going in the band...just took one Stevie Ray to do it all. I was not disappointed, to say the least. On the back of the "Texas Flood" album SRV is wearing a "Decade" shirt from a Pittsburgh rock nightclub.


689 posted on 01/17/2006 10:21:51 PM PST by Supernatural (All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie! bob dylan)
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To: Supernatural

The Monkees,on a song called "Daily Nightly". Can't find what album it is:D


690 posted on 01/17/2006 10:55:44 PM PST by mrsmel
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To: DallasMike
No Stevie Ray Vaughan?

This survey is a joke. Stevie Ray should have had 5 of the top 10. This is really some kind of popularity contest.

Vodoo Chile, Texas Flood, Cold Shot, Pride & Joy, Mary Had a Lttle Lamb, Love Struck Baby.... Vaughn could play circles around all the winners.

691 posted on 01/17/2006 11:10:02 PM PST by P-Marlowe
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To: Supernatural

I was a senior in HS at the time. They played with a band called Sweat Hog. I'll never forget it. It was the third big concert I went to. My first was Zeppelin at the LA Forum.


692 posted on 01/17/2006 11:14:32 PM PST by Always Independent
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To: mrsmel

Know both songs VERY well. Travers is still out doin' it............Cub Coda, the lead guitarist/singer/leader of Brownsville Station passed away a year or so ago, sad to say. A tremendous talent.


693 posted on 01/18/2006 2:29:15 AM PST by RightOnline
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To: RightOnline

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

Really? Another thing to be amazed at from the (arguably) greatest band...


694 posted on 01/18/2006 5:46:29 AM PST by InsureAmerica (Evil? I have many words for it. We are as dust, to them. - v v putin)
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To: Supernatural
I would name Johnny Winter And as the best GUITAR album ever. That said, I still put Clapton's "Crossroads" as the best SOLO.

Listening again to Electric Ladyland, and I think Hendrix really suffered from never having a band that could jam WITH him rather than just back him up. It's so different to hear Clapton play off Jack Bruce, or hear Jim McCarty of Cactus play against Carmine Appice and Tim Bogert, but Hendrix (and Beck, too, in his bands) was always "alone."

695 posted on 01/18/2006 5:50:44 AM PST by LS
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To: yawningotter

Yngwe Malmstein falls into that fast notes really fast category in my opinion. And you are spot on in your references to feeling. I have always been attracted to rock with blues roots as it is much more full of emotion.

I still like Kirk Hammet's work on the first 3 or 4 albums with Metallica. It is a different type of music and is not really comparable to SRV, but good stuff nonetheless.


696 posted on 01/18/2006 6:27:10 AM PST by ChinaThreat (s)
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To: Phantom Lord
It's the intro and bridge solos in Sanitarium and Fade to Black that really get me. They're simple, but they fit so well. They are the first two solos I ever learned to play.

Hammett studied under Satriani for a while. I'd love to hear those guys do a project together.
697 posted on 01/18/2006 6:50:54 AM PST by T.Smith
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To: Ouderkirk
Freebird has been beaten to death...if I never hear that crap song again it will still be too soon

And from someone in Jax, Florida, I whole-heartedly agree!
698 posted on 01/18/2006 6:55:18 AM PST by jrg
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To: Supernatural

In the 70's I use to go see Johnny Winter and Rick Derringer at the Whisky A Go Go in West Hollywood....smokin! Winter would just sit on a stoll with one solo spot light and a bottle of Souther Comfort at his feet......and just play the blues....in the most electric fashion.

P.S. Did anyone mention Jeff Beck?


699 posted on 01/18/2006 7:51:26 AM PST by Republic Rocker
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To: Phantom Lord
Element187, you think I can't solo...




i never he can't solo.. i just dont think he belongs on a list with names like gilmour and hendrix.. i'm a guitar player and metallica is some of the hardest solo's to play.. but the list is not for the most dificult solo's..
700 posted on 01/18/2006 8:09:53 AM PST by Element187
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