So...who's the best guitarist?

[lee551]

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

wow, way to set yourself up there...

[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

[cpt_azad]

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.

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

[sportcars]

1 - Uli Jon Roth
2 - Slash
3 - Matthias Jabs

[FreeDoom]

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.

[Afronaut]

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.

[erroneous]

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

[digmen1]

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

[Nigi]

Angus Young and Jimi Hendrix

[Geno]

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.