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)
Check your FReep mail. And your private mail.
Al Anderson rocks. Great song writer too. My better half and I see Al every January for a week "Sandy Beaches Cruise" hosted by Delbert McClinton. We'll be cruising with him in a week.
And it's not even subject to argument"
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.
I saw him around the same time.
Definitely!! Expand the list to 100!
...and don't forget Jeff "Skunk" Baxter's work on that same song/album....and many others with Donna Summer, The Doobie Brothers, etc. Brilliant guitarist. Good Conservative, as well. Highly educated man who can WAIL on a six-string.
I'm listening to the great studio lead by Alvin Lee in "I'd Love to Change the World" even as I read your post.
Not true if you are looking for playing w/ feeling. Others on this thread have already mentioned Machine Gun. I would assert that Hendrix has done some pieces that (at times) can approach a Gatton or a Malmsteen or whomever. In particular, I would refer you to Beginnings from Woodstock or Mannish Boy from Blues.
A lot of times, he was stoned out of his gourd and I concede that point to you.
Trower rocks. Period. The same album......."Bridge of Sighs"........let's add the true BEST solo work: "Too Rolling Stoned".
Hendrix wished he was that good. I don't care what other so-called "purists" may think; I've been slinging rock guitar for well over 30 years, and Trower is right there near the top of the heap of "Most Incredibly Underrated Guitarists of All Time".
One of the best all-time rock albums..."A Space In Time" by Ten Years After...just about every song is excellent!
Technical ability w/o feeling you can program a robot to do.
What precisely do you mean by "sounds the least bit new?"
IN that case we have to add Rick Derringer! And hopefully someone will second Steve Miller and Bozz Scaggs.
Not kidding.
The incredible fretwork in "Bodhisattva." Was that lead by Baxter, Diaz, or both?
LOL.......darlin', I almost set my stopwatch to see how long it would take.......:)
Rocky Top by Chet bttt
"True, if you are looking for technique."
Lol. What else is there if you're judging who the better player is? And Gatton certainly had feeling too.
Though as I said, I don't think he really belongs in the Rock catagory.
Not the first one.
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