Yeah, he did forget Saul Hudson. But 95% here dont know what Slash's real name is anyway.

Jimmi Hendix. Slash. Dave Navarro. Rory Gallagher. Jimmy Page. Eric Clapton.

Believe it or not, Prince is actually an awesome guitarist, too.

Granted one or two of those guitarists might not be considered "rock" guitarists, but they're still personal favorites of mine.

I think that Stevie Ray Vaughn should be added for sure :-)

I've added all the ones mentioned in here that I believe should be there, SRV was a notable absentee, added now.

Sorry, no prince or eric clappedout....or old hippies that I don't rate :pimp

I had to look that up, never known him as anyone else other than slash :1orglaugh

How is the robot guitar going Mr Pheer? Does it play solos for you, so you don't even have to pick up a pic?

Let's not forget that Hendrix played a right-handed guitar left-handed and upside down.

Damn it gets no better than that:thumbsup

what? :helpme

Neil Young seems to be fave a with some serious guitarsist
I watch the guitar show and are often supprised how often he comes up and is seen as a inovator

Yngwie Malmstein

I posted a pic, but it looks like there was some hotlink protection. I was sure that would help those who didn't know out a bit. :winkwink:

That's a nice list...for the top I choose Hendrix and Page :thumbsup

Absolutely correct! 3 generations of extremely loyal fans should put him at the top or close to. :pimp

Beck their is no Paige no Clapton if it wasn't for Beck oh yeah and Hendrix got his heavy distortion sound from Beck he did first

Clapton 3 time this guy is has been inducted into the Rock and Roll HOF

Brett Gurewitz from Bad Religion

I'm not sure I can take any list that doesn't include Clapton on it seriously.


Frampton deserves an honorable mention as well.

How can you even compare the likes of Clapton to Hendrix or Randy Rhoads when we're talking about rock guitarists? Clapton was always pedestrian.

There's a clear GFY WINNER:

Randy Rhoads (44%, 17 Votes)

Thanks guys. The poll doesn't look so nekkid now.

btw, Rhodes is an island in Greece :)

you wanna go WAY back? BB King? Robert Johnson... the guy who sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads of US 61 and US 49 in Clarksdale

Eric Clapton love him or hate him... listen to some old derek and the dominos and hell even cream...

You guys COMPLETELY forgot about really any BLUES guys which were kickin ass on the guitar decades before "rock"

Angus Young wasn't much of a guitar player but he for damn sure is one the very top "showman" guitar players... the guy INVENTED so many moves on stage that he deserves to be on the list although his actually guitar ability wouldn't place him in the top 100.

Fuck, being a guitarist, I can't believe I left SRV off my list. Doh! Slipped my mind.

Okay, revised:

Jimmi Hendix. Slash. Dave Navarro. Rory Gallagher. Jimmy Page. Eric Clapton. Stevie Ray.

My personal favorite is Dave Navarro. His solo in "Three Days" made it into the top 100 solos of all time. Apparently he recorded it in one take, too. I've seen him play it live and... wow. Pure magic.

If you don't put Clapton in for consideration on a list of the world's greatest guitarists, then you have no credibility whatsoever and no business even discussing this subject.

Enough with the Clapton already, he's in!

Hey! Where's my name !? hehe



Besides me of course :P, the best man alive with the guitar is Joe Satriani, then I think Hendrix, Clapton, Page, Slash, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Santana and Kirk Hammett are all excellent.

Bucket Head

https://youtube.com/watch?v=yaCEr...eature=related

Here ya go shwsrvcs



(Use "quote" to see what you're doing wrong) :)

Oh come on. I am a HUGE Bad Religion fan, and have seen them play live twenty times going back to 1989 on the No Control tour. But to call Brett a great guitarist is just silly. I think even he would laugh if he was reading this. Call him a great songwriter yes, a great businessman, sure. But he was merely a competent guitarist. I did love the fact that on the older BR albums one could easily distinguish his sloppier playing style from Hetson's, something that is kind of lost when Brain Baker plays live with Hetson and you almost can't distinguish their two guitar sounds. But that being said, I wouldn't call Brett a great guitar playing by any other more objective standard. Since he re-joined BR a few years ago his playing actually got worse from lack of practice. Looks like he was just barely getting through the songs on his last few tv appearances. So yeah, I love the guy but let's not go overboard with praise!

My faves are:

Hendrix
SRV
Brian May
Jeff Beck
Steve Vai
D Zappa

I don't think Angus ever gave one little shit about being considered a great technical guitarist, just like AC/DC as a whole never cared about whether critics ever thought their songs had any meaning or sophistication. That being said, everything he ever did sounded absolutely fantastic, especially when Bon was still around to keep things rocking. I guess my point is that there's a lot more to music than technical virtuosity, and maybe being technically adept is really only a very very small part of the whole picture. Who would you rather listen to - Yngwie Malmsteen thrashing out something unlistenable at hyper-speed that nobody else could play, or Angus laying down something thick and heavy that twists your balls up in knots and makes your girlfriend wanna fuck, even though he never uses more than three chords?

I know what I'm choosing.

bill cosby, he plays hardcore evil blues and has a killer tone

[QUOTE=dig420;14573805]I guess my point is that there's a lot more to music than technical virtuosity, and maybe being technically adept is really only a very very small part of the whole picture. Who would you rather listen to - Yngwie Malmsteen thrashing out something unlistenable at hyper-speed that nobody else could play, or Angus laying down something thick and heavy that twists your balls up in knots and makes your girlfriend wanna fuck, even though he never uses more than three chords?[QUOTE]

Joe Satriani ya get the best of both worlds.
Joe has to be the greatest of all time and I honestly believe that.



And "Made of Tears" (Below) which I can play almost all the way through, I am still learning parts of it:)

great guitarists:

David Byrne
Paul Westerberg
Johnny Marr
Frank Black
Neil Young
Joey Santiago
Kevin Shields
Elvis Fuckin Costello
David Gilmour
Jonny Greenwood
Marc Bolan
Bert Jansch
Bob Mould
Alex Chilton

enough for now...

step your game up gfy......guitar playing ain't the fuckin olympics...those who disagree can keep watching youtubes of some dickhead playing super mario on his guitar.

</snob rant>

WOW. I'm surprised anybody here even knows who he is. I'm a huge, huge, huge Paul Westerberg fan. You get infinite cool points for mentioning his name. He's one of my top five favorite musicians of all time.

:thumbsup

Hats off sir,

While Bob and Slim played the nasty parts in the Replacements, Paul is the one who wrote them. Paul has everything I love in a guitarist. He pays huge attention to crafting a great chord progression and his chord configurations are unique, gorgeous, and inimitable. The leads he writes are usually delegated to the lead guitarist leaving him to play the real heart of his songs; his chords, voice, and impeccable rhythm.

I like to believe Paul Westerberg is one of the guys on that list that...like if Mozart or Chopin or fuckin Bach were alive... they'd fuckin get it yknow?

Anyways, now that I've aired out my fandom I can go to sleep. Have a good one bro, I'm glad to see some taste around here. :pimp

I'm a HUGE Bob Mould fan- have every CD going back to Husker Du & Sugar days and even love his new solo albums. I have a nice collection of his live music as well. I have seen him play many times live. He's a total musical genius and is practically the only music that I listen to anymore. Do you have his latest CD "District Line"?

Yeah I've heard district line and seen Bob play some of those songs at Irving Plaza earlier this year. I hope I get to see him belt out Husker Du songs with Grant and Greg someday soon. No shame in the reunion circuit imo. A lot of the greats are really reluctant to cash in and make the fans happy, even if they didn't make much money the first time around.

But yeah, Bob is a genius and the sound he got out of that typically cock rock flying V was totally amazing. A sharp distorted heartbreaking and melodic wash of noise. And his voice....

I would agree with that. I also LOVE Slash!

Unfortunately, I think that has as close to zero chance of happening as any rock band in history whose members are all still alive. Bob has made that pretty clear and even more so in recent years.

Jimi Hendrix
Stevie Ray Vaughn

yeah i read the interviews... i know...but I'm 22 and I've missed the boat on seeing most of my favorite bands live. I got lucky a few years ago when at the height of my obsession with the band and after years of denying the possibility, the Pixies suddenly reunited for the "Sellout Tour".... I ended up seeing them 14 times and dragging the most unlikely of people along just for the fuck of it :1orglaugh

I'm hoping at least some more of my favorite bands will follow suit (i.e. The Smiths, Husker Du, The Replacements, Pulp etc.) Longshot, I know....

take off Marc Bolan and we have a deal :winkwink: nice to see a young guy with so much good taste :thumbsup

Note: I don't know Bert Jansch so take him off as well :1orglaugh

He has good taste.

See how difficult it is to remain objective rather than subjective?

And mine.

You have to remember before Hendrix what was there? A few rock and rollers a few blues and then guys who played in a group and none were exceptional. Hendrix re invented the electric guitar and did things no one else had ever done. Then many copied and took his work on, but for me there will only be one.

Richie Blackmore !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Frank Zappa

Literally nobody I've asked has ever heard of Paul Westerberg or The Replacements. That's why when I read his name on your list I almost shit my pants. The Replacements are amazing and have been one of my favorite bands for years. The first time I'd ever heard of them was ages ago while I was watching some music channel, and the video for "Bastards of Young" was on. I wrote down the name of the band because I loved the song so much, bought a few of their albums, and the rest is history. I completely agree with you that Paul is a brilliant musician. And, if you ask me, he's always been way ahead of his time.

You've probably seen or heard this before, but it still blows me away every time.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=IINrFUCF8-g

That's from 1981! Talk about a sound totally ahead of its time. Over twenty years later he's still just as amazing as ever.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=2INC0In9ZzY

:thumbsup

Dweezil kicks ass as well..Little Zappa has grown up :thumbsup

https://youtube.com/watch?v=mzbpgBPJfUs
https://youtube.com/watch?v=zb_Hw...eature=related

Quite easily, since I as well as millions of others including most in the music industry itself recognize the guy's talent as noteworthy.

In your opinion.

Admittedly I'm really not that huge a fan of his, but in your next breath you say...
You just made my point for me, and undermined your whole bias against the guy. Like him or not, at least be honest with yourself enough to recogize the talent.

Have you even heard any of his work prior to his solo career? The Yardbirds, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Powerhouse, Cream, George Harrison, The Dirty Mac, Blind Faith, The Plastic Ono Band, Delaney, Bonnie & Friends, Derek and the Dominos, etc. Hello?

Why even argue about it? I see you begrudgingly put him on your list. Golly gee. :D

This thread will go on forever, there's simply too many good people playing the guitar out there. Dave Mustaine and many metal players can kick the ass of a lot of the people named above.

It's a style thing, for me there's no one like Joe Satriani (today), others will say they prefer Steve Vai, and others more fond of classical music will tend to say Yngwie Maelmsteen is the best. So we'll never choose only ONE best guitar player. If we talk about rock history, for me no one will ever beat Hendrix. It'll be easier to choose the best guitar player by decade.

I love Marc Bolan because he got down to the basics of blues and rock guitar and spun it with a weird sexy strut, writing these fantastic simple songs that all sound like they've existed forever. Like they belong in the great american songbook of anonymous late 19th century mississippi blues....but he was a jewish kid from england.

Bert Jansch is what you hear in the folk picking styles and acoustic songs of Jimmy Page, Bob Dylan, Johnny Marr, Paul Westerberg and tons of others. You'll always hear his name droppped when the greats are prodded for influences in their interviews.

Remember Zeppelin's "Black Mountain Side"? That's actually Page's tribute to Jansch's "Blackwaterside"...the music went totally unchanged.

And BIG BIG BIG props to the guy who posted Blixa Bargeld earlier in the thread. Glad some music nerds are coming out to help stop this ridiculous talk of fucking Yngwie and Steve Vai.

:thumbsup

Dick Dale should be on that list :2 cents: