| Best Guitarist of All time
Posted: 12/5/2005 8:57:11 AM |
Chops: John Petrucci
Thank You!...
I was really wondering how far I'd have to read before someone mentioned him. And he clearly is the best over all guitarist around today.
but, everyone knows that the majority of the best guitarists are NOT even in bands they're studio musicians or very unknown players outside of musicians and a select small following.
I'm also pretty sure i never read Jason Becker's name mentioned anywhere.
Sloppiest player awards can go to:
Jimmy Page and Jimi Hendrix.
Most Mind Blowing *LIVE* Guitarist:
Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Biggest prick who needs to make up for his lack of genitals with his guitar:
Yngwie Malmsteen | |
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| Best Guitarist of All time
Posted: 12/5/2005 9:11:49 AM | welll, my humble opinion, HENDRIX!!!!
Jimmy Page, Frank Zappa, Stevie ray, Carlos Santana, you know, old school..cheers | |
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| Best Guitarist of All time
Posted: 12/5/2005 9:46:41 AM |
Biggest prick who needs to make up for his lack of genitals with his guitar:
Yngwie Malmsteen
I totally agree on this statement. Yngwie Malmsteen as a 'technician' has gone very far but as far as depth he needs big changes. The guy knows every little trick there is to playing the instrument, but if u heard most of his albums, there's something monotonous in his music. In the 80s, the collective mind of rock/metal fans embraced his Neo-Classical Metal, but nowadays our collective conscience may regard that style as quite trite. I used to be a big Malmsteen's fan and heard he once gave 29 concerts in 31 days in Scandinavia. | |
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Posted: 12/5/2005 10:25:47 AM | | well everybody seem to have mentioned everybody...I enjoy listening every player all the styles,happy to see alot of people mentioned Randy Rhoads,I still can remember hearing"all aboard,ha ha ha ha"that was it for me,I was gonna play guitar for the rest of my life..recently saw Vai and that was the best guitar show i ever saw,once went to a Howard Roberts seminar,that was a priceless moment,saw George Benson with the Count Basie orchestra,the was an incredible show...saw Eddie Van Halen play last year,that was a total treat..Satch is about as kool as it gets on stage...lol,I remember having arguments with my buddy a long time,it was Rhoads...no..hendrix..lol..over and over..there are many amazing guitarists in many different styles and for moi..the ultimate in my enjoyment is whenever I hear his soul play the guitar it made me feel good and happy and that is a very special gift to have and the guitar player was Randy Rhoads..peace. | |
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Posted: 12/5/2005 11:11:01 AM | | Well, my favorite rock guitarist would have to be Joe Satriani... and someone who is not a guitarist, but an incredible classical string instrumentalist is Yo Yo Ma... if you haven't heard him, you're missing out! :) I'm assuming Jimi has been mentioned... Eddie Van Halen? How about B.B. King??? Stevie Ray Vaughn? Pete Townsend? Keith Richards? Wow, George Benson - brings back great memories for me! Count Basie... timeless! Okay, you're getting me excited!!! Stop it! lol | |
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| Best Guitarist of All time
Posted: 12/5/2005 4:56:01 PM | Best Guitarist of all time, envelope please. 1.Jimi Hendrix 2.Jimmy Page 3.David Gilmour 4.Stevie Ray Vaugn 5.Eddie Van Halen 6.B.B. King 7.Chuck Berry8.Muddy Waters and finally Homer Simpson. | |
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| Best Guitarist of All time
Posted: 12/6/2005 4:54:06 PM | Ummm...pretty much everyoe mentioned in this thread is a master of the genre he's in
I'd like to add as my personal faves:
Josh Homme
Tom Morello
Jerry Cantrell
Dimebag...May your soul fly..
Dave Mustaine
Andres Segovia
Randy Rhoades
Sheesh...so many...
Changes all the time and I've now got a new bunch to check out thanks to this thread!! | |
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Posted: 12/6/2005 5:13:25 PM | Why yes...yes I suppose I do...
Thanks...everybody rocks in here..I think I found a home  | |
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| Best Guitarist of All time
Posted: 12/6/2005 9:21:15 PM | martin barre
esteban
eric clapton
freddie king
albert king
little milton
b b king
alex lifeson
dime bag
john pettrucci
etc etc etc | |
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| Best Guitarist of All time
Posted: 12/6/2005 9:45:57 PM | (repost)
A few more.......
Lenny Breau (my deity of choice)
Jim Hall
Pat Metheny
Steve Morse
Buckethead
Danny Gatton
Ted Greene
Grady Martin
Junior Barnard
Bill Kirtchen
Robben Ford
Mike Stern
Mike Scofield
Steve Howe
Charley Hunter
Django Reinhardt
Shawn Lane
George Van Eps
Les Paul
Chet Atkins
Barney Kessel
Herb Ellis
Pat Martino
Tuck Andress
Joe Pass
Charlie Christian
Roy Buchanan
Albert Lee
Merle Travis
Ray Flack
Warren Haynes
Adrian Legg
Wes Montgomery
John McLaughlin
Terry Kath
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
Vernon Reid
Ricky Skaggs
Tommy Emmanual
..........Many, many more. Most will be unfamiliar with some of these guys, but all of them can rip it up in many ways that "shredders" can only dream of.
Best? ...... probably some guy nobody's ever heard of. | |
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Posted: 12/6/2005 9:54:27 PM | once had to learn a 10 page song by Pat Martino called The Great Stream...was more like a great stream of sweat.lol..awesome solo that was..
on topic.....Howard Roberts... | |
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| Best Guitarist of All time
Posted: 12/6/2005 10:10:50 PM | Pat Martino is a very unique man, he became a master of the guitar, twice.
He sufferred a brain aneurism, completely losing the ability to play.
And became a master, all over again.
Howard Roberts is cool, I was a twelve year old kid when I first saw him play, ...'74.
He was demonstrating Gibson guitars at a club in Winnipeg, I got to play three tunes with him.
That was the first time I played in a bar. | |
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Posted: 12/6/2005 10:19:51 PM | | Very Kool Late,my teacher was taught by Howard,I meet Howard when he did one of his last seminars,he was ill but after the seminar we all went out to a jazz club to listen to a guitar player named Benny Garcia...Howard was a very kool kat,was double fisting his drinks all night..lol | |
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Posted: 12/6/2005 10:29:35 PM | Ted Greene was probably one of the best teachers ever, he just passed away this summer.
His books: "Chord Chemistry" and "Modern Chord Progressions", both published in the '70s; were the basis of my self-teaching back then. He was an amazing player, never toured.
He had an unbelieveable grasp of the harmonic.
He did put out one album, "Solo Guitar", .......it's a "must have" for anybody serious about the instrument. | |
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| Best Guitarist of All time
Posted: 12/6/2005 10:44:25 PM | ONe of the best guitar players I ever heard was a guy named Clint Strong,when ever he would jam with my teacher it was incredible,Clint was a pure guitar player,I could could just listen to him play for hours upon hours,he made a livin' being Merle Haggards guitarist and Merle was an awesome guitarist as well..
on topic...Clint Strong | |
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0tto
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Joined: 5/19/2005
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| Best Guitarist of All time
Posted: 12/6/2005 11:04:30 PM | well, no one of us heard him but technicaly best guitarist of all times is Nicolo Paganini.
some stuff for guitar he wrote and played at his time remain impossible to play for past and present guitar players. | |
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Posted: 12/6/2005 11:43:14 PM | Uh, ...hate to break this too you, ...he never played guitar.
He was a violinist, probably one of the best that ever lived, but I'm willing to bet that he was a shitty guitar player.
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0tto
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Joined: 5/19/2005
Msg: 244 | |
| Best Guitarist of All time
Posted: 12/7/2005 12:07:52 AM | yes he was violinist and most know as violinist.
paganini was also a virtuoso guitarist, composing over 200 works for the instrument.
next time before posting make lil bit research for unknow to you stuff :) | |
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| Best Guitarist of All time
Posted: 12/7/2005 12:15:49 AM | Cool, ...Wikipedia....
Looks like he had Marfan Syndrome, just like Tal Farlow, ...that explains a few things | |
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Posted: 12/7/2005 1:01:17 AM | | Been listening to a LOT of Blind Blake the past half-year. His dexterity shines even through the acetate-pressed scratchy retakes from the 1930's. | |
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pip32
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Joined: 11/21/2005
Msg: 247 | |
| Best Guitarist of All time
Posted: 12/7/2005 9:31:10 AM | Best guitarists? Tough one. But here's some of my favourites;
Jeff Beck
Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser
Peter Green
Paul Kossoff
Don Felder
Pete Frampton
Jimmy Page
Albert Lee
Jimi Hendrix | |
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| Best Guitarist of All time
Posted: 12/7/2005 1:54:51 PM | Jimi Hendrix was great and would have gotten better had he lived.
However, Phil Keaggy is the best electric guitarist that ever lived.
Acoustic --the best are Andres Segovia and Phil Keaggy. A lot of people never heard of Phil.
He is not a showboat and not a big ego. | |
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| Best Guitarist of All time
Posted: 12/8/2005 9:07:33 AM | I was just about to mention that dreamboat..when asked who he thought the best
guitarist was, Jimi Hendrix said it was Phil Keaggy, being a christian is why so few have
heard of him..count me in as saying Keaggy is 2nd to none with a guitar..Ive seen him
live and up close--one squared away musician.  | |
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| Best Guitarist of All time
Posted: 12/8/2005 4:06:08 PM | just cause i have seen lack of mention of such players
as adrian belew
as well as adrian legg. | |
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