Stairway To Heaven

[Spiritinthesky]

From This Day in Music.com

2006, readers of Total Guitar magazine voted the guitar solo by Jimmy Page in Led Zeppelin’s 'Stairway To Heaven' as the greatest guitar solo of all time. The 1971 track was voted ahead of tracks by Van Halen, Queen, Guns N' Roses, Jimi Hendrix, Metallica and The Eagles by its UK readers.

 

[lp_junkie]

It's also a really easy song to play, I am one of the few that I have seen dare to play it live though and not suck at it. But then again I have been playing that song since the late 70's myself.

Stairway is a great song.

 

[ojedad23]

agree great song, but not the greatest

 

[lp_junkie]

If you lived through the 70's it is arguably up there if not the greatest song.

 

[ojedad23]

oh, I'm from the 90s

 

[Blues Power]

hmmm i don think its the greatest either but def very melodic

theyre pretty easy chords to solo over most anything would work or sound good

 

[Sinmastah]

Meh, it's not bad. The solo isn't the best solo I've ever heard. There are much better IMO.

 

[Regan]

Solo is extremely LONG when you are trying to use the song to teach Metaphor to high school kids....alhtough, it is a decent one.

 

[Alligatorbling]

thats my mom and dads "song"

 

[Studio fire]

I think that solo is amazing

 

[HogmanA]

 

[lp_junkie]

Page has been one of my heroes since I was a kid in the 70's, I have spent years learning Zep songs and practiced endless hours to get them right. I can get the sig licks but tend to put my own little fills into a lot of the songs more often these days.

When I need to I can hit them note for note, but it gets tiresome after playing some of those songs for 30 years.

 

[Murfdog]

So what would you all pick as the best guitar solo ever?

C.C. Deville---Talk Dirty To Me

 

[Adwex]

The solo was improvised......on a Tele.




I know, broke my heart too.

 

[Alligatorbling]

So what would you all pick as the best guitar solo ever?

C.C. Deville---Talk Dirty To Me

i can hear that in my head now.... lol...

 

[geochem1st]

I'm a die hard Jimmy Page fan, ....

...... there was always love for Page, regardless of the fickle magazines.

After Zep IV was released I quit reading 'Rolling Stone' mag because the reviewer trashed the whole lp calling it 'inferior tripe'. Haven't read it since, still have my original vinyl copy of Zep IV.

 

[Drudeboy]

After Zep IV was released I quit reading 'Rolling Stone' mag because the reviewer trashed the whole lp calling it 'inferior tripe'. Haven't read it since, still have my original vinyl copy of Zep IV.

I've got a PINK vinyl LZ IV!

 

[Murfdog]

i can hear that in my head now.... lol...

Pick up that guitar and....talk to me C.C.