Music: POLL: Guitar Solo Battle: Hotel California vs Stairway To Heaven

[Perennial]

Which solo do you prefer?

Hotel California (solo starts at 4:20)


Stairway To Heaven (solo starts at 5:56)

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[Zodiac]

Hotel has the better solo, imo ...but Stairway is the better tune.

 

[kihei]

Stairway to Heaven. To be honest, I don't even remember the guitar solo in Hotel California.

Later: Okay, now I have refreshed my memory. The damn thing just seems long.

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

Stairway

 

[kook10]

No Quarter for me

 

[Rhaegar Targaryen]

This was actually a close one, but I voted Stairway. Also a much better song!

 

[Jumptheshark]

California. Mostly cause the fact stairway sounds alot like that spirit song.

 

[Eisen]

Stairway, but it's very, very close.

 

[Eisen]

Stairway to Heaven. To be honest, I don't even remember the guitar solo in Hotel California.

Later: Okay, now I have refreshed my memory. The damn thing just seems long.

It's not possible for a guitar solo to be too long.

 

[spintheblackcircle]

It's not possible for a guitar solo to be too long.

 

[Sigh]

Page apparently winged the solo for Stairway, so that gets my vote.

It's not possible for a guitar solo to be too long.

Depends on who's doing the solo, I guess.

 

[Ben Matlock]

Close, but voted Stairway because that’s just one guy playing the guitar.

 

[Jumptheshark]

Page apparently winged the solo for Stairway, so that gets my vote.



Depends on who's doing the solo, I guess.

even though Zep won the lawsuit

the solo is too close to the solo in the spirit song

 

[kihei]

It's not possible for a guitar solo to be too long.

Yeah...no. Some of the Grateful Dead solos clocked in at three days.

 

[Eisen]

Yeah...no. Some of the Grateful Dead solos clocked in at three days.

You know, I don't think I've ever listened to the Grateful Dead. Strange.

 

[Cas]

It's not possible for a guitar solo to be too long.

Freebird.

 

[Nemesis Prime]

Hotel California obliterates Stairway.

Jimmy Page sucks.

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

the solo is too close to the solo in the spirit song

Have you heard the Spirit song? What solo?

Anyway, Stairway to Heaven by a mile for me.

 

[tarheelhockey]

Hotel California’s solo is almost like another vocal. I would argue that it’s the best-integrated guitar solo ever.

Nothing against Stairway, it’s also a great solo, but if you delete it from the song it’s still basically the same song. I don’t think that’s the case for Hotel.

 

[spintheblackcircle]

Freebird.

Blasphemy!

What goes on too long in Freebird is the INTRO, the first 6 minutes......the 5 minute outro solo is *kiss*.

The Eagles were so boring live. Skynyrd opened for The Stones and killed them every night.



Rock was great in the 70's, look at all the beautiful women at the show!

 

[kihei]

You know, I don't think I've ever listened to the Grateful Dead. Strange.

Keep that streak going.

 

[Jack Straw]

You know, I don't think I've ever listened to the Grateful Dead. Strange.

Then this is your lucky day. Vintage Dead...

 

[Jack Straw]

You know, I don't think I've ever listened to the Grateful Dead. Strange.

And just because you're in Germany (this is one of the long ones) ...

 

[Perennial]

Hotel California obliterates Stairway.

Jimmy Page sucks.

And what's on your resume?


Page is widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential guitarists of all time. Rolling Stone magazine has described Page as "the pontiff of power riffing" and ranked him number three in their list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time", behind Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton. In 2010, he was ranked number two in Gibson's list of "Top 50 Guitarists of All Time" and, in 2007, number four on Classic Rock's "100 Wildest Guitar Heroes". He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice: once as a member of the Yardbirds (1992) and once as a member of Led Zeppelin (1995).

Jimmy Page - Wikipedia

 

[MakeTheGoalsLarger]

Hotel California by far

If we were to rate the whole song I would have the exact opposite answer.