The greatest guitarists of all time
 

Another top 100 list is out and Jimi Hendrix is listed at #1. It's a little tough for me to judge but I'd like to hear your favourites and why.

"Hendrix embraced the LSD-enlightened culture of the mid-to-late-'60s with style and tonal palettes of infinite colors. Beyond his defiant deconstruction of pop music and blues, beyond the grace that channeled through him from some other world, his working knowledge of 57 varieties of various popular music -- from big band to deep soul and gospel -- gave him a brave new world from which to draw. Many of his explosive performances had one foot in the relevant worlds of the Beatles, the Stones, and other popular musics, while the other searched and found firm terrain in 20th century black music. His guitar was an extension of his body, his efforts still revered by everyone who picks up a guitar today."

Essential Album: Are You Experienced?
Classic Moment: "Red House"




http://www.guitar.com/g2kfeatures/vi...p?featureID=12

no argument here. there's hendrix and then there's everyone else.

- js.

absofuckinglutely :AP:

Robert Fripp prolly, although I like lots, and respect many, Fripp is the innovative one, the original one, the much copyed and followed one.

Download

Brian Eno - I'll Come Running
Brian Eno - St. Elmos Fire

or

King Crimson - Frame By Frame
King Crimson - Book Of Saturday

and

David Bowie - It's No Game
David Bowie - Scarey Monsters

Hear the master

FRIPP

No question. No competition. Not even a close contender for second place.

Some more suggested Fripp downloads to supplement Greedy's:

Any King Crimson.

The League of Gentlemen: Inductive Resonance, Heptaparaparshinokh, Dislocated, Cognitive Dissonance

David Sylvian and Robert Fripp: anything from The First Day or Damage

Andy Summers and Robert Fripp: anything from I Advance Masked or Bewitched

Peter Gabriel II: Exposure, Here Comes the Flood

David Bowie: the albums Heroes and Scary Monsters, especially the song Scary Monsters, which to my mind is still one of the most hysterical guitar solos to date.

..and a few assorted others.

Fripp's leads on Scarey monsters and It's No Game are big and precise and ferocious and tighter than tight. So much personality, such attitude from a guitar. Nice and crunchy.

It's really something.

Is this genre specific... If not:

Andres Segovia
Buddy Guy
BB King
Les Paul
Jimi Hendrix
Steve Vai
Randy Rhodes
Joe Satriani

The complete list of outstanding and inspirational guitarists would take several pages.

Stevie Ray Vaughan - (Eric Clapton about SRV)

"I don't think anyone has commanded my respect more, to this day. The first time I heard Stevie Ray, I thought, "Whoever this is, he is going to shake the world". I was in my car and I remember thinking, I have to find out, before the day is over, who that guitar player is. That doesn't happen to me very often, that I get that way about listening to music. I mean, about three or four times in my life I've felt that way, in a car, listening to the radio, where I've stopped the car, pulled over, listened, and thought, I've got to find out before the end of the day, not, you know, sooner or later, but I have to know NOW who that is.



Eric Clapton
"My guitar is still my voice.
When I hear a piece of music in my head,
I don't hear a song, I hear the guitar part.
So I write words to that and sing it.
The guitar is first and foremost in my head...
I'll always try to play
with the most amount of soul through the guitar."
(Eric Clapton)

and a newcomer

Jonny Lang

B.B. King was impressed enough to invite Lang on stage to trade a few choruses. Lang, who shares King’s technique of answering his own vocals with short bursts of guitar fills, learned something just from standing on the same stage with the master. "He’s such a great influence," said Lang. "We toured together for a month and he invited me up on stage to jam. We had a blast. I’d look over at him and realize that I was sitting next to a legend." B.B. returned the compliment in the Los Angeles Times. "Jonny Lang’s 16, so he’s got youth and talent with it. When I was young, I didn’t play like I do today. So these kids are starting at the height that I’ve reached. Think what they might do over time."

Ahhh... thanks for reminding me:

...continued (not in any particular order)

Kenny Wayne Sheppherd
Eric Johnson
Rick Derringer
Johnny Winter
Frank Marino
Pat Travers
Ted Nugent
Alan Collins
Gary Rosington
Eddie Van Halen
Brad Gillis
Kirk Hammett
David Gilmore
Syd Barrett

And of course... the great...

Harvey Mandell. :BL:

... to be continued.

Ack! How could I not list them near the top?:

Jimmy Page
Jeff Beck

...to be continued.

thank you!
and how's about...

David Wilcox - Hypnotizin' Boogie
Alex Lifeson...a very underrated guitarist, who is one of the 3 best musicians, Geddy Lee & Neil Peart of RUSH...choose ANY song!

newer ones...
Big Sugar..pick any song.
mah favs...Better Get Used To It, The Scene, Nicotina (She's All That)
Danko Jones - Bounce, The Mango Kid, Cadillac
Big Wreck - "Ladylike"...awesome tune

to be continued...

Stevie Ray Vaughan gets my vote :tu:

Well, ok, if there had to be a contender, a couple come to mind...

Adrian Belew: Though I'm not a big fan of his solo work he's absolutely one of the most inovative stylists on the planet. Check out his work with Crimson, Talking Heads, Bowie, Laurie anderson and others...

Trey Gunn and Tony Levin: Both of whom are really the premier Chapman Stick players, which I would consider guitar, although Levin is better known for his straight bass work.

Phil Manzanera: Look for the album Primitive Guitars and other solo work, as well as his work with Roxy Music.

Daniel Lanois, Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins), Michael Hedges, Bill Nelson...

and of course the geriatric crowd, Steve Howe, David Gilmour, Mark Knopfler, Jeff Beck, Mike Oldfield...

and let's not forget SNAKEFINGER

:dir:



...Did I mention Robert Fripp?

(and no, I'm not being any more genre specific than only mentioning guitar players whose music I like, and whom I consider inovative in what is a very very tired genre in itself: guitar music)

Put me down for Stevie Ray Vaughn

Stevie Ray Vaughn - Texas Flood (Live from the El Mocambo)

One of the best

Do you know if they also made a song about Triamazikamno? :a: :AF:

- tg ;)

dunno about best, but this guy gets the glamour award

Dave Pajo orginally of Slint
now of Papa M
guest for mogwai and partically every other post-rock band you ever heard

Tom Verlaine of Television-esp. for "Marquee Moon" cos he makes his guitar sound like a seagull

nanook, you like Rush? Very rare for a woman. A girl after my own heart. (But Neil Peart is the best musician of that band - or any band).
:tu:

Now... if Steve Vai played for Rush... :PO:

:PO: I`m a little suprised that Dickey Betts wasn`t on that particular top 100 list but glad to see that Duane Allman was :tu: :beer: