"Stairway To Heaven" tops solo guitar survey

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[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)

[massgopguy]

Nuno's sister is an artist who did the artwork for the cover of Greg Cherone's A Man Called Lincoln CD.

[The KG9 Kid]

I don't disagree with some picks, but I disagree with placement.

I won't get into that, but there's no SRV or Johnny Winter in this list?

For having no SRV alone, I must reject this list.

[secret garden]

I am not believing number 3.

[mrsmel]

Dickie Betts and "Jessica", classic. One of my favorite highway driving songs.

[JackDanielsOldNo7]

While I admit that Page's solos were choppy and not great he did create some of the greatest riffs in Rock. Randy Rhodes was freakin awesome as was Van Halen.

[The KG9 Kid]

Plus, no Jeff Healy?

Come on.

[InsureAmerica]

Yes, anyway. I was writing post 79 about No S Howe Here.

[oxcart]

Wow, shall we have a party?

[steveo]

and can't sing worth a lick.

Didn't he say his singing voice was like 'geese farts on a muggy night'?

[Emmett McCarthy]

Aha! A very smart blondee!

[rockabyebaby]

Where's George Harrison?

[who knows what evil?]

I always found that Page, like Ritchie Blackmore's stuff in Deep Purple (but not with Rainbow), was sloppy and derivative.

Good point. Although Rainbow rarely got airplay (outside of a couple 'truncated' singles), Blackmore really tore the roof off on some of Rainbow's early albums, especially 'Rising' and 'Long Live Rock and Roll'.

[mrsmel]

Who's Greg Cherone? I'm pretty open-minded,if it's not a ton of feedback.

[DAC21]

Peter Frampton? Anyone"


Actually a very decent guitar player, but ruined his rep with the Sgt. Peppers movie. I saw him in my youth on three occasions,76, 77, 78 and 26 years later again in LV and So Cal. He is not in the league of those players in the top ten, but definitely in the top 30 or so.

[brewcrew]

Even Terry Kath's solo in "25 of 6 to 4" was superior to Jimmy Page's sloppy work on Stairway.

I realize this is a thread about guitarists, but it was truly John Paul Jones and John Bonham that made Zep what they were. Page and Plant contributed very little musically.

John Paul Jones is one of the best rock/blues bass players of ALL time.

[Doohickey]

How about Glenn Tipton's solo in Victim of Changes? Rudolf Schenker? Alex Lifeson? Sheesh.

[munchtipq]

you lucky, lucky man. i am too young to have seen FZ live, unfortunately, but that recorded version was what i was referring to.

[TKDietz]

No Santana?

[xsmommy]

YER SONG, dang it!! FREEEEEEEEEEEEE BIRDDDDDDDDDDD!

[Trampled by Lambs]

Steve Morse (Dixie Dregs era) - any song