Stairway to Heaven: Great or Overrated?

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Post by muimui » Sat, Mar 20, 2010, 1:40 PM UTC

Stairway to Heaven: Great or Overrated?
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Post by nazgulnarsil » Sat, Mar 20, 2010, 2:23 PM UTC

greatest guitar solo st the very least. fun fact: Page had 3-4 differet solos worked up for the song originally. I'm somewhat curious about the ones that didn't make it but never looked into it seriously. do recordings exist?

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Post by sophacles » Sat, Mar 20, 2010, 2:35 PM UTC

If you read his blog post backwards, wackjobs will start emailing you instructions.

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Post by joe_bleau » Sat, Mar 20, 2010, 2:55 PM UTC

nazgulnarsil wrote: post #2

greatest guitar solo st the very least. fun fact: Page had 3-4 differet solos worked up for the song originally. I'm somewhat curious about the ones that didn't make it but never looked into it seriously. do recordings exist?

If you enjoy the solo, you should listen to Frank Zappa's cover. He has the horn section (and maybe Vai on stunt guitar too, can't tell for sure) do the guitar solo, in unison.

Here's a low-quality video of the tune: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p3Ue3ncH3g

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Post by paraschopra » Sat, Mar 20, 2010, 3:04 PM UTC

I never imagined they can have so many theories and studies on a single song.

Nevertheless Stairway to Heaven is indeed mystical, if you haven't heard that song (anyone?) go listen to it right now.

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Post by rglovejoy » Sat, Mar 20, 2010, 3:18 PM UTC

joe_bleau wrote: post #4

nazgulnarsil wrote: post #2

greatest guitar solo st the very least. fun fact: Page had 3-4 differet solos worked up for the song originally. I'm somewhat curious about the ones that didn't make it but never looked into it seriously. do recordings exist?

If you enjoy the solo, you should listen to Frank Zappa's cover. He has the horn section (and maybe Vai on stunt guitar too, can't tell for sure) do the guitar solo, in unison . Here's a low-quality video of the tune: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p3Ue3ncH3g

And here's the reggae version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7DqjyNGHJU

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Post by delano » Sat, Mar 20, 2010, 3:33 PM UTC

nazgulnarsil wrote: post #2

greatest guitar solo st the very least. fun fact: Page had 3-4 differet solos worked up for the song originally. I'm somewhat curious about the ones that didn't make it but never looked into it seriously. do recordings exist?

There are many, many bootlegs of live shows, but only one that I know of that contains studio recordings. It's about 11 hours long with quite a wide range of stuff. There are recordings of them practicing Stairway to Heaven at several stages, including an early acoustic version, one of the first times they played together, and a couple demo versions with different solos. It's pretty cool to hear the song develop.

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Post by SandB0x » Sat, Mar 20, 2010, 3:37 PM UTC

Wayne's World: http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/4663/waynesworldnostairwa...

Basically don't try and bust it out in a guitar store.

Re: Stairway to Heaven: Great or Overrated?

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Post by char » Sat, Mar 20, 2010, 3:47 PM UTC

I think it's a great song, though I'm sure I'd appreciate it even more if I weren't constantly hearing about how it's such a great song.

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Post by doron » Sat, Mar 20, 2010, 4:01 PM UTC

Studies will one day find the overall tonality resonates with stoners brainwaves on a 1:1 ratio.