Led Zeppelinin ”Stairway To Heaven” -kappaleen kitarasoolo äänestettiin parhaimmaksi

Jimmy Pagen legendaarinen kitarasoolo Led Zeppelinin kappaleessa ”Stairway To Heaven” on sijoittunut ensimmäiseksi Classic Rock Magazinen 100 parhaimman kitarasoolon äänestyksessä. Vuonna 1971 julkaistulle kappaleelle äänensä antoivat kriitikot, yhtyeet ja lukijat. Page kommentoi sivuston haastattelussa sijoitusta seuraavasti:

“Is Stairway To Heaven my best Zeppelin guitar solo? No, but it’s pretty damn good. The solo was done very quickly – in actual fact there were already layers underneath, the bottleneck you can hear was on before the solo.

“Anyway, I just said, ‘Roll it,’ took a deep breath, that’s what I usually do, and then go. I had a couple of cracks at it because you didn’t have as many options as you would have now. Back then you had 16 tracks and could only put guitar solos down where the vocal wasn’t.

“You’d save maybe three tracks to lay guitar solos into which meant you could have two or three cracks at it and then choose the best.”

“If everyone else says it’s my best solo then that’s great, that’s good, but there are others that I prefer.”

Classic Rock’s 100 Greatest Guitar Solos Top 10

Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin – Stairway To Heaven
David Gilmour/ Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb
Don Felder and Joe Walsh/Eagles – Hotel California
Allen Collins/Lynyrd Skynyrd – Freebird
Jimi Hendrix/The Jimi Hendrix Experience – All Along The Watchtower
Eddie Van Halen/Van Halen – Eruption
Brian May/Queen – Killer Queen
Slash/GN’R – Sweet Child Of Mine
Prince/Prince And The Revolution – Purple Rain
Tony Iommi/Black Sabbath – Paranoid