John frusciante man....got poster him on bedroom wall..brilliant is he
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John frusciante man....got poster him on bedroom wall..brilliant is he
"10 fingers of doom" Ted Nugent
Prince.
Jason Becker is defintely the greatest guitarist of all time! No one could ever compare to him! If only he didn't get crippled and could still play guitar now! :(
Richie Blackmore
Abbath from Immortal! He is the best \m/
Johnny Guitar Watson
http://www.davealvin.com/dave/dphoto...4/SCAN0041.jpg
Almost all of the players mentioned ROCK
And I LOVE rock
But does anyone remember ol' Roy Clark of Hee Haw??????
He is IMO a pretty bad ass musician(not my taste musiclly, but still I can appreciate his talents)
Peace to all
Richie Kotzen.
I have two more to add to my original list:
Willie Adler and Mark Morton
These guys are gonna bring back fucking metal man, mark my words.
Herman Li lol
The next Malmsteen for sure, awesome shredder :cool: .Quote:
Originally Posted by Linkin Park
Daron Malakian. Sysytem of a Down guitarist, SOAD are also the greatest band in the world to me anyway
SRV was deffinitly a great one. Others that come to mind are BB King, Jimmy Vaughn (SRV's brother), hell, get ahold of the SRV Tribute album- live at austin city limits- If I remember correctly, there is a seven minute jam session with a stage full of great guitarists (eccept Dr John and Art Neville, who rank up there as best pianists)Quote:
Originally Posted by j2k4
the tribute is everyone that was playing with SRV at austin the night he died.
Bonnie Rate
Jimmy Vaughn
BB King
Eric Clapton
Robert Cray
Buddy Guy
Dr John
Art Neville
Hell of an album
as for Eric Clapton, his singing is horrable, but his guitar work more than makes up for it. I guess this could be said for a lot of people though.
Do you also prefer Sylvester Stallone movies at all, at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by rockyrambo23
I used to think so, too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tempestv
I've changed my mind.
Fix your spelling, ftw...
Ummm...ya ok.:mellow:Quote:
Originally Posted by rockyrambo23
I think I am the best guitarist, then Guitar Slinger (Afronaut) followed by Rocktron
mark knopfler
if we're talking shredders here has anyone mentioned rusty cooley yet?Quote:
Originally Posted by cpt_azad
I think he was mentioned a few pages back, not sure.Quote:
Originally Posted by lee551
lol, calm down there powerchord boy.Quote:
Originally Posted by thewizeard
My favorite guitarist is Jimi Hendrix followed closely by Jason Becker.
I don't know what you mean by best. Most controversial, influencial, fastest, best technique?
I agree with you Pho
There are many defintions of Greatest.
Perhaps someone should start threads under each of your categories, this would be much better.
Regards
Digby
NZ
Would cause too many threads to pop up under "same" subject (as the mods would put it anyway). I guess I should have put "best guitarist in your opinion under the various categories" somewhere in the first post. My bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by digmen1
We have evidence of Afronaut's talent; we have none such in your case.Quote:
Originally Posted by thewizeard
You could, of course oblige us...:huh:
John Frusciante, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Satriani, Brian May, Mikael Akerfeldt.
I have a fair few favourites.
Yeah, gotta give props to Brian May; he has a sound all his own. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Seltzer
Half of the guitarists in this thread I have never heard of ! So how can they be "great" ? They may be good in your eyes (ears) but surely part of being great means that you are known world-wide. Ex rocker from way back.
Regards
Digby
NZ
Come now, Digby...let's have your list. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by digmen1
Ok? You're telling me you've never heard of Malmsteen and the like? And since those guitarists have been mentioned that you hve not heard of, why not download some of their stuff and give it a shot, you may be surprised (or not). Lets see your list.Quote:
Originally Posted by digmen1
wow, way to set yourself up there...Quote:
Originally Posted by digmen1
Nope never heard of Malmsteen
Here are my greatest - in no particular order
Alvin Lee - one of the fastest
Carlos Santana - invented his own style - tasteful
Jimi Hendrix - early on showed what can be done with an electric guitar
Richie Blackmore - early heavy metal full on and exciting
Jimmy Page - many different styles
George Benson for a good modern jazz guitarist.
And yes I will take up the challenge and try to get some songs by all of these greats.
And just to fight back a little to be greatest one surely needs to be well known. Whilst I do not buy Guitar Player magazine etc, I do listen to good radio stations and I do read music columns in magazines and I watch good TV shows eg Jools Holland.
Indeed what we really need is a new thread which lists our greatest's and lists a few songs which show off their talent best.
Regards
Digby
Well at least you put effort into your post and I give you big props for that (most people just spit out bullshit w/o any backup), so congrats on that part.Quote:
Originally Posted by digmen1
And ya, download some of the stuff that are listed in the thread, you might be amazed, you might be disgusted, either way you'll never know until you give em a go.
Also, there are a lot of really amazing guitarists that aren't mainstream, so hence they wont get radio play no matter what radio station it is you listen to.
Now I'm gonna go and listen to Purple Haze because I just remembered I haven't listened to that in over 2 weeks :frusty:
1 - Uli Jon Roth
2 - Slash
3 - Matthias Jabs
I'm gonna say the ones i like and for me are the Best:
-Dimebag Darrel
-Carlos Santana
-Jimi Hendrix
-Mark Knopfler
Different styles but the BEST.
Here's some players i dig atm:
Setzer, Halen, Gilmour, Knopfler, Clapton, Malmsteen,
Vai, MacAlpine, Michael Romeo (Symphony X),
Dimebag (RIP), Petrucci, Johan Reinholdz (Andromeda),
Johnny Guitar Watson (hehe), SRV, Paul Gilbert, Satriani,
Danny Gatton (with Joey Defrancesco especially)
Hetfield (kirk did ok before going for Teh Blues)...
..the list is huge, cant remember everyone.
:D
Just stumbled on this thread, read all the way through and can't believe that Jeff Beck was mentioned once and Frank Zappa not at all. Musical tastes are strictly a personal thing and these lists are purely subjective.
The people that I enjoy listening to are (in no particular order):
Frank Zappa
Jeff Beck
Ritchie Blackmore
Guitar Slim
Johnny Guitar Watson
Robert Fripp
John McLaughlin (also not mentioned)
Joe Walsh
Jimmy Page
Randy Rhoads
Keith Richards
John Sykes
These guys are all "the Best" to me... my $0.02
erroneous
OK guys
As I said I would like to try to listen to some of these "best" guitarists and to do so I made a list of all the guitarists mentioned in this thread in a little database. (I am a database junkie -I have about 70 of them ! any excuse and I start a new one !) There are about 75 guitarists in this thread and as I said I have not heard of half of them let alone what band they are in and what some of their good songs are.
So I want to publish this list on this forum so that you guys can fill in some bands and songs for us so that I can get them to listen to.
Shall I do it in this thread or start a new one ?
Regards
Digby
Angus Young and Jimi Hendrix :)
John Petrucci ?
or maybe Frank Gambale...?
Actually, it's probably John McLaughlin or Allan Holdsworth.
But those are my favorite. The best, as in most influential or w/e, would probably Jimi Hendrix.