"Stairway To Heaven" voted the top guitar soloist of all time [Archive]

YANKEE MAGIC

01-17-06, 04:41 PM

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 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)

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1600667,0011.htm

I am kind of surprised, no Stevie Ray Vaughan or Hendrix... Thoughts??

RhodeyYankee2638

01-17-06, 04:43 PM

I love my boy Jimmy Paige, but Eruption has one sick ass guitar solo in it. I've seen a live video of Eddie playing it, and its crazy

NYYBombshell

01-17-06, 04:44 PM

I'm not the least bit surprised by #1. I've heard many live performances of that song and the solo each time is different and just as awesome as the album version. He is truly the greatest guitarist ever.

I would have liked to see more Hendrix in the top 10; he had some pretty classic solos (Foxey Lady, Purple Haze).

RhodeyYankee2638

01-17-06, 04:44 PM

5. All along the watchtower - Jimi Hendrix

I am kind of surprised, no Stevie Ray Vaughan or Hendrix... Thoughts??

Huh????

yankeefreak04

01-17-06, 04:44 PM

I am kind of surprised, no Stevie Ray Vaughan or Hendrix... Thoughts??

Number 5 is a Hendrix tune...

Evil Empire

01-17-06, 04:46 PM

I gotta agree with Rhodey. Eruption beats Stairway to heaven.

Evil Empire

01-17-06, 04:46 PM

Number 5 is a Hendrix tune...

Maybe he's thinkin that since it's a cover, it doesn't count ;)

RhodeyYankee2638

01-17-06, 04:47 PM

I gotta agree with Rhodey. Eruption beats Stairway to heaven.

Take a look at this mofo play

http://www.youtube.com/w/eddie-van-halen?v=DjAcWjMHoB8&search=eruption

YANKEE MAGIC

01-17-06, 04:48 PM

Number 5 is a Hendrix tune...

whoops...missed it..not sure how.. :(

RhodeyYankee2638

01-17-06, 04:50 PM

and for Hendrix, I think his greatest guitar solo is his version of the National Anthem. Its mindblowingly good

Evil Empire

01-17-06, 04:50 PM

Take a look at this mofo play

http://www.youtube.com/w/eddie-van-halen?v=DjAcWjMHoB8&search=eruption

:rockin:

YANKEE MAGIC

01-17-06, 04:51 PM

and for Hendrix, I think his greatest guitar solo is his version of the National Anthem. Its mindblowingly good

Have you ever listened to Hendrix's solo on the Warner live album version of "Hear My Train a Comin'"..wow

NYYBombshell

01-17-06, 04:52 PM

I gotta agree with Rhodey. Eruption beats Stairway to heaven.

Go buy How The West Was Won and listen to Page play it. It's f*cking AMAZING.

1TonHumanHamsterWheel

01-17-06, 05:10 PM

Stairway is my favorite rock song, and a main reason is the guitar solo. But Eruption may be my favorite solo.

And you've got to check this out: a video of a guy playing "Eruption" on the violin!
http://www.bobbyyang.com/video/750kb.htm

To add to what I said, as much as I like both guitar solos from "Comfortably Numb", neither is my favorite David Gilmour solo-- that honor goes to either "Time" or "Echoes".

DeputyFife

01-17-06, 06:00 PM

SRV-Little Wing.

Sam2448

01-17-06, 07:30 PM

Ugh I hate Stairway to Heaven... and Led Zeppelin. So overrated. It's a great solo, but I just hate Zeppelin with such a passion that I can't appreciate Page's playing.

It's really pathetic that there is no Jeff Beck up there. Page stole a lot of his style from Beck, and once you hear Beck, you won't appreciate Page quite as much, though Page is still great.

I would have liked to see Cream's live version of Steppin' Out on there; that's the best Clapton playing that I have ever heard.

Ha I don't like Van Halen either... or GnR... or Metallica... I'm not a huge fan of this list.

I dunno, for me, emotion is very important to a solo, so I'd rather listen to slow emotional solos like Gilmour's than fast technical tapping and shredding like Van Halen or Metallica.

RhodyYanksFan

01-17-06, 07:35 PM

I don't think the solo in Stairway is long enough to warrant it being the best ever. It's good, don't get me wrong, but not the best ever. I would have put One above it, and even November Rain. I think the best Hendrix solo can be found on his Live at Berkely cd. His 10 minute version of Machine Gun is out of this world.

Sheff_Rod

01-17-06, 07:36 PM

Ugh I hate Stairway to Heaven... and Led Zeppelin. So overrated. It's a great solo, but I just hate Zeppelin with such a passion that I can't appreciate Page's playing.

It's really pathetic that there is no Jeff Beck up there. Page stole a lot of his style from Beck, and once you hear Beck, you won't appreciate Page quite as much, though Page is still great.

I would have liked to see Cream's live version of Steppin' Out on there; that's the best Clapton playing that I have ever heard.

Ha I don't like Van Halen either... or GnR... or Metallica... I'm not a huge fan of this list.

I dunno, for me, emotion is very important to a solo, so I'd rather listen to slow emotional solos like Gilmour's than fast technical tapping and shredding like Van Halen or Metallica.

Me neither, they just went with a list of hits that I'm sick of hearing by now.

I disagree with you on Zeppelin, I'm not a HUUUUGE fan but I do love their music.

Van Halen's OK, I grew up with GNR, and loved Metallica... I can't stand them now.

Sam2448

01-17-06, 07:50 PM

I don't think the solo in Stairway is long enough to warrant it being the best ever. It's good, don't get me wrong, but not the best ever. I would have put One above it, and even November Rain. I think the best Hendrix solo can be found on his Live at Berkely cd. His 10 minute version of Machine Gun is out of this world.

I haven't seen Live At Berkely :(

I should pick that up. I think Machine Gun off Band of Gypsies might be my favorite solo if it isn't All Along the Watchtower. Machine Gun owns.

I don't deny Page's talent (or JPJ or Bonham's), but I just can't stand Robert Plant's singing. He sounds like a more feminine Janis Joplin. I also dislike Page because he stole many, many of his famous riffs (including the Stairway riff).

I would have liked to see Maggot Brain by Funkadelic make that list. That's one hell of a solo.