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)
It crossed my mind,but I let it pass:0 He became better,but I personally can't put him up there with there very greatest,not for technique,or innovation,or anything. Plus I have an inherent distaste to Jefferson Airplane.
Interesting one of the lines Anderson sings at the very beginning of Revealing Science of God....
Revealing corridors of time provoking memories,
disjointed but with purpose...
I agree. Close is almost totally seemless. And there are parts that are almost love ballad type material, so it's not so religion/spiritual/mystic based.
I think Roy Buchanan, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Peter Green and Jimi Hendrix are all better guitar players.
Saw Page one other time -- with Zep, 1977, L.A. Forum. Loudest show I've ever attended. Shoulda brought some cotton.
"Daydream" by Robin Trower is better than "Stairway to Heaven".
I know a gal who thinks the same way as you.
Oh, and how could I forget!
Sweet Child Of Mind - Guns N Roses (Slash)
"Voodoo Chile (slight return) by Jimi Hendrix.
Thanks -- LOL!
Nuge blew my ears out so bad in 82, I was afraid to go back again. He is an awsome performance.
I swear, I couldn't hear for like 2 days... loudest performance I've ever seen
Most any song from the "Making Movies" album by Mark Knofler and Dire Straits.
Anderson has said that CTTE was based on Hesse's "Siddhartha". I need to read it some day so I'll know just what he's talking about. But the words are still beautiful-I listen to "Yes" primarily for the music as a whole.Anderson could've used gibberish lyrics-some say he did,LOL-but he's said that sometimes he used words as musical notes,for what sounded good and fit the music,not to convey ideas.
they all had a tendency to play a bit too loud.
i remember a yardbirds concert (with page) in the beacon theater (i think), where they played so loud it was actually painful. beck was prone to doing that also.
and nobody has mentioned Mick Taylor. he played on a John Mayall album called "diary of a band", and did some nice stuff. (it think he played briefly with the stones, but that's another matter.)
Ritchie Blackmore -- King of Riffs
"Too Much Seconal" on the "Still Alive and Well" album by Johnny Winter.
Hendrix cleans everybody else's clock.
Always has. Always will.
Crossroads #10? That solo is otherworldly. Glad to see the solo on "Hotel California" in the top 10. "Bodhisatva" is a personal favorite.
"Crazy Train" is eminently forgettable.
Pull the plug and make yer list again......
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