Then Angus Young should be second on your list ;) He made whole ALBUMS with one note lol.. and they sounded GREAT!!!

never paid much attention to AC/DC to be honest, so really can't tell :) (I find all songs the same although when I was younger I pretended I liked them because you HAD to like them lol)

Urgh, impossible to choose only 1. To name a few of my favorites:

John Petrucci
Zakk Wylde
James Hetfield
DimeBag
Satriana
Vai
SRV
Hendrix
Page

I listen to them all alot.

ooh, I missed him and I was listen The Smiths just one hour ago, doh :1orglaugh

So add to my list the one and only Johnny Marr AND Robert Smith :thumbsup

oh, and East Bay Ray from DK!!!! :thumbsup

No. I don't wanna.

Thanks Kroy, the site only took a couple of hours or so :thumbsup

Damnit there's some gems I've forgot to add. Will get to it.

Thx for everyone's input.

How is Santana not there?

Not exactly a rock guitarist...:1orglaugh

my vote for jimmy page is in. Why you ask?

hippie please :winkwink:

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.

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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.

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