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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)


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: guitar; guitars; guitarsolo; music; rockandroll
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how quick they forget the grandaddy of it all:

Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley

1 posted on 01/17/2006 1:52:37 PM PST by lunarbicep
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To: lunarbicep

No Stevie Ray Vaughan?


2 posted on 01/17/2006 1:54:04 PM PST by DallasMike
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To: lunarbicep

Dude, like some of those guys like really rock!

3 posted on 01/17/2006 1:54:17 PM PST by misterrob (Democrats, The Party of Treason)
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To: lunarbicep
Patheticos on parade.

Cheez.

Boring music for stupid people.

4 posted on 01/17/2006 1:55:00 PM PST by tallhappy (Juntos Podemos!)
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To: lunarbicep

Freebird has been beaten to death...if I never hear that crap song again it will still be too soon


5 posted on 01/17/2006 1:55:38 PM PST by Ouderkirk (Funny how death and destruction seems to happen wherever Muslims gather...)
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To: lunarbicep

ANY Chuck Berry Tune!


6 posted on 01/17/2006 1:55:50 PM PST by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: DallasMike
No Stevie Ray Vaughan?

..yeah I was wondering about that too

7 posted on 01/17/2006 1:55:54 PM PST by Doogle (USAF...8thAF...4077th TFW...408th MMS...Ubon Thailand..."69"..Night Line Delivery,AMMO)
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To: lunarbicep

Light My Fire by The Doors

Whole Lotta Rosie by AC/DC

Nothing by BB King either


8 posted on 01/17/2006 1:55:56 PM PST by misterrob (Democrats, The Party of Treason)
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To: lunarbicep

Highway Star - Deep Purple (Ritchie Blackmore)


9 posted on 01/17/2006 1:55:57 PM PST by trillabodilla (Jesus Saves)
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To: lunarbicep
BS! Even Terry Kath's solo in "25 of 6 to 4" was superior to Jimmy Page's sloppy work on Stairway. Jeff Baxter's solo on Donna Summer's "Hot Stuff" was better than Stairway for Crissake.

Where is Wes Montgomery? Where is Django Reinhardt?

10 posted on 01/17/2006 1:56:14 PM PST by Clemenza (Smartest words ever written by a Communist: "Show me the way to the next Whiskey Bar")
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To: lunarbicep

Brian May - We Will Rock You


11 posted on 01/17/2006 1:56:34 PM PST by munchtipq
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To: lunarbicep

Stevie Ray Vaughan not even in the top ten? Please. He was better than every one of them. Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page are both overrated.

Best guitar solo = Rocky Top by Chet Atkins (I don't think even Stevie Ray could do that).


12 posted on 01/17/2006 1:56:34 PM PST by advance_copy (Stand for life, or nothing at all)
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To: lunarbicep
My favorite guitar solo of all time: Zakk Wylde for Ozzy Osbourne, No More Tears
13 posted on 01/17/2006 1:56:38 PM PST by TChris ("Unless you act, you're going to lose your world." - Mark Steyn)
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To: lunarbicep
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14 posted on 01/17/2006 1:56:45 PM PST by MarineBrat (Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand.)
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To: DallasMike

Bridge Of Sighs
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Released: March 1974


15 posted on 01/17/2006 1:57:03 PM PST by oxcart (Remember Bush lied.......People DYED... THEIR FINGERS!)
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To: Doogle
and Eric at number 10....eehhh....don't think so.
16 posted on 01/17/2006 1:57:30 PM PST by Doogle (USAF...8thAF...4077th TFW...408th MMS...Ubon Thailand..."69"..Night Line Delivery,AMMO)
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To: tallhappy
Boring music for stupid people.

So if you like Rock you're "stupid"?

17 posted on 01/17/2006 1:57:38 PM PST by Clint N. Suhks (If you don't like Jesus, you can go to hell.)
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To: misterrob
Light My Fire by The Doors

Robbie Krieger and George Harrison are the most underrated guitarists in rock and roll. Krieger was originally a flamenco guitarist, btw.

I always thought the song "All Your Love", whether the Otis Rush OR Eric Clapton/John Mayall version, had some outstanding guitar work.

19 posted on 01/17/2006 1:58:10 PM PST by Clemenza (Smartest words ever written by a Communist: "Show me the way to the next Whiskey Bar")
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To: tallhappy

""Boring music for stupid people""


suggestions for exciting music for smart people?


20 posted on 01/17/2006 1:59:05 PM PST by InsureAmerica (Evil? I have many words for it. We are as dust, to them. - v v putin)
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