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Top Ten Guitar Solos by Jimmy Page

 

   В блоге kennermcquaid.blogspot.com, автор которого позиционирует себя как бывшего успешного адвоката, а ныне голодающего художника (!), предпринята попытка определить десять лучших гитарных соло Джимми Пейджа. Пост, на мой взгляд, интересен и заслуживает внимания:

   "[Jimmy Page is] a genius.  He's a great player, a songwriter, a producer.  Put it this way, he might not be the greatest executor of whatever, but when you hear a Page solo, he speaks.  I've always said Clapton was my main influence, but Page was actually more the way I am, in a reckless-abandon kind of way."
                                                                       Eddie Van Halen, Guitar World, February 1990

   1.  Stairway to Heaven (1971) – Though the song was overplayed by both FM radio and countless teenagers in music stores and bedrooms across the world, the fact remains that ‘Stairway to Heaven’ is arguably the greatest guitar solo ever recorded in the history of both classic rock and hard rock in general.  To record the solo, Page eschewed the guitar for which he is best known- his ’59 Gibson Les Paul- in favor of an old Fender Telecaster used frequently during the recording of the original Led Zeppelin album in 1969.   The solo, played over the three chord Am-C/G-Fmaj7 progression, has its basis firmly in A pentatonic minor despite the track’s overall folksy vibe and the borrowing of an ‘F’ note for use over the last chord of the progression.  Devoid of any guitar pyrotechnics until a series of quickly-executed bends that start at the 6:15 mark, Page creates an unpretentious masterpiece born of a mixture of blues and rock phrasing that is imminently hummable and memorable.  By the end of the famous pull-off lick at 6:42, the listener knows that they’ve been taken on a slow-building but wild flight by a pilot who clearly knows his way around the available airspace.

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