Brutal Honesty

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Stairway

I was trolling around on Youtube last night and came across Mr. Jimmy Page laying down a nasty solo on Stairway to Heaven. I consider this live version to be a cut above the studio version. Jimmy was an amazing guitar player before he decided that heroin was his drug of choice. What is it with guitar players and heroin?



Then while I continued to troll some more I came across this little nugget. I have no musical ability whatsoever. I mean I can play a little bit of the right hand on a piano, but it would take me a long time to learn just that song. I have always wanted to play the guitar but I guess it is really just a wish because I have never put any time into learning how to strum away. Maybe one day it will happen, and both the wife and I can get some chops. Anyways, what really impresses me about this is that this kid has not only memorized the solo to Stairway, but he adds a little bit of his own flavor to it. To top it off he can't be more than like 7. Any seven year old that can play Stairway is more than alright in my book. Unfortunately the guy has disabled the ability to embed this so you will have to follow the LINK.

1 Comments:

At 6:31 AM, Blogger Emily said...

Hey Peter,

I've never posted on a blog before...but when I see Jimmy doing his thing with the double decker fret-board I get excited. Nice find.

Trent

 

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