04-11-2003, 07:54 PM | #1 |
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Best Guitarists of All Time
Who do you think are the best guitarists of all time?
Mine would be: Jimmy Paige Jimi Hendrix Eddie Van Halen Stevie Ray Vaughn |
04-11-2003, 08:02 PM | #2 |
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Have to say I agree.
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04-11-2003, 08:13 PM | #3 |
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They are certainly "greats"! I'd add Chet Atkins, Junior Brown, Brian Setzer, and...I'll think about it!
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04-11-2003, 08:19 PM | #4 |
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Yup, all those guys plus: Django Rheinhardt and Andrés Segovia
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Oh yeah, Dave Edmonds!
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04-11-2003, 08:43 PM | #6 |
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Where do I start?
Old school - Burt Weidon (anyone remember him?) I saw him a couple of years ago, he was about 70yrs old, still played absolutely beautifully tho' Hendrix (yeesh, proper toe-curler he was) Page......Whotever that guitarist was who played with Free, brilliant! and Pete Townsend, sucked donkeys at lead guitar but is IMO the best rythym/rock player ever! (prolly a multitude to add to that list, those are the ones I listen to most). Modern era - (ish) John Squire, crossing the boundaries of pop/rock is that man.......a guitarist who stymies himself by setting his own boundaries.......Slash (not the Guns 'n Roses malarky, listen to his own stuff, he can tear a blues riff to it's bare bones, then rebuild it!) and whoever the bloke was who used to play with Rage Against the Machine.........amazing riffs And a posthumus nod to Kurt Cobain........naturally More to follow........ |
04-11-2003, 08:46 PM | #7 |
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Agree with whoever said Django Rheinhardt. Hed be tops on the list. but also:
Eric Clapton Slash Brian May Joe Satriani Dave Gilmour Kirk Hammet Steve Vai Carlos Santana Mark Knopfler Gary Moore Jeff Beck Joe Perry Mark Tremonti Nigel Pulsford Marty Friedman Neil Young Steve Morse Joe Walsh George Harrison Kerry Livgren Buddy Guy Jeff Baxter Brian may Dave Mason Billy Gibbons BB King Elmore James T-Bone Walker Dwayen Allman Cornell Dupree Robert Johnson But the greates ever were Page, Hendrix and Stevie Ray.....
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The "Master of the Telecaster" James Burton. (played for Elvis and Ricky Nelson)
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oh Lizra that reminds me how can we get forget Danny Gatton. Perhaps the greatest guitarist who never was a super star.
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oh! Johnny Winter!
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04-11-2003, 09:23 PM | #11 |
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Hey! I was lucky enough to catch Danny Gatton in 1982, in Chicago. He was playing with Robert Gordon. It was GREAT!!!! They have a CD of that tour in the Elderly Instruments catalog. I thought of him, but didn't think anyone would know him!
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04-11-2003, 09:34 PM | #12 |
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I've heard that Jimi Hendrix said Phil Keaggy was a better guitarist than Hendrix!
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Out of all the names ya'll mentioned, here's the ones i recognized that i think are good: Jimi Hendrix Eddie Van Halen Stevie Ray Vaughn Eric Clapton Joe Satriani Buddy Guy Neil Young Steve Morse Joe Walsh George Harrison BB King Chet Atkins and then there's someone that i'm not sure what his first name is but i know his last is Johnson. my cousin walked down the aisle to his music. and Stever Vai is good too. here's a useless piece of information if anybody's interested. chet Atkins took the wires off a screen door and made a guitar out of 'em when he was real young. played it for however long.
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04-12-2003, 01:04 AM | #15 |
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The best ever are in this order:
1. Buckethead 2. Angus Young 3. Van Halen 4. Hendrix I don't play guitar either, but these people are so obviously brilliant.
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04-12-2003, 01:07 AM | #16 |
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::looks at other posts, sees no Buckethead or Angus Young:: HOW? Anyway yeah those are my contributions. A lot of really good metal guitarists are considered in my opinion to be great (in fact better than a lot of guitarists mentioned here), but have yet to reach legendary status because metal is *sadly* a genre that is generally not well known anymore.
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Haha, you got there before me. Though I don't understand why it took me three extra minutes to write so little . . .
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Shavo Odaijian
Daron Malakian Kurt cobain slash buckethead
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Anyway I woke up this morning and remembered a few more names that need to be listed: Kenny Wayne Shepherd Elvin Bishop Albert King Albert Collins (The Axe!) Blind Lemon Jefferson Son House Jeff Healy Son Seals Papa Chubby Luther Allison Robert Nighthawk Bukka White Guitar Slim oh and Jonny Lang is incredible OH! And lest we forget the late great Jerry Garcia
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