Greatest Guitarist Ever?

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EDIT: Top 10 in no particular order

1. Jimmy Page
2. Pete Townshend
3. Eric Clapton
4. Buckethead
5. Slash
6. Angus Young
7. Tom Scholz
8. Kurt Cobain
9. Stevie Ray Vaughn
10.Eddie Van Halen
 
arsenicCatnip

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I don't know about 'the greatest', but my favorite is Steve Conte. If you've watched Cowboy Bebop or Wolf's Rain or listened to the New York Dolls, you know his haunting voice and wonderful guitar work. He sticks mostly to punk/rock, but isn't very well known outside the anime/NYC rock communities.

Presented for your consideration, three differing styles from three different projects.



 
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Void(null) said:
ianrocks6495 said:
Wow that guy is amazing. How did you find out about him? Since he's from the 40's and whatnot.
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I listen to classic jazz and swing?

Django Reinhardt, Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Art Tatum, Cab Calloway, Count Basie etc.

The majority of my music collection is from 1920-1950.

Funnily enough I cant stand modern jazz, it makes me want to kill people. Like, it just bubbles up in a well of annoyance like someone sitting behind you, flicking your ears for 6 hours.
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Bebop just makes Void(null) sooooo mad! Beepity Boop Grrrrrrrrr!

Seriously I'm just glad someone mentioned Django before I had to. Thank you.

By the way people, if you mention Beck, Clapton and Hendrix you are obligated to also mention Alvin Lee. It's the Law.

My favorite bit of electric guitar work is by Eddie Hazel, so if we make the thread about the greatest electric guitarist, I'll say Eddie Hazel, just for Maggot Brain.
 
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sennius said:
Stevie Ray Vaughan is mind-blowingly amazing.

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This. He is the single most talented frontman I've never heard, playing stuff like that alone on one guitar, while singing in his other songs. Pure brilliance.

Along with him, I'd say Syn Gates from Avenged Sevenfold. Fast, melodic, powerful, he can play anything.
 
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Personally a fan of Keith Richards and SRV. Leaning towards Keith because he has a talent for being able to play any genre well.
 
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Furburt said:
My favourites are more because of diversity in tone than anything else. And groove.

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Wasn't he the drummer not the guitarist for Eagles of Death Metal? Or did he just happen to play guitar on this particular song? Just Curious.

OT: I would have to say Hendrix, Matt Bellemy, Page, White, and many more!
 
BonsaiK

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A guitar teacher's opinion:

In terms of technical merit and skill:

Jimi Hendrix was definitely the most important guitarist of the 20th Century. Even though his music has horribly dated in retrospect (let's face it no-one would give a flying crap about those songs if it wasn't for Hendrix popularising them), his guitar technique certainly hasn't. He was the first "modern" guitar player and his playing marked the first time that the electric guitar was explored to its full sonic potential.

Close second would be Eddie Van Halen. His technique changed the way that people designed guitars - before then, guitar manufacturers were adding features to guitars that weren't being fully utilised. After Eddie, players started evolving their technique beyond the limitations of the instrument itself, forcing designers to go back to the drawing board and design "super-strats" tailored to the needs of advanced players. Instead of the instrument influencing the evolution of music, for the first time the musicians were influencing the evolution of the instrument.

After that would be Django Reinhardt, because he was the first player to bring guitar technique to the forefront. With only two working fingers on his left hand he played more fluidly than any other fully-functioning guitarist at the time, and arguably, to this day. He also had the unique advantage among technical guitarists of having made a body of musical work that doesn't completely suck a donkey's rancid ass.

All other technical lead players are essentially irrelevant as at least 90% of their style is directly lifted from one or more of these three players.

As far as far-reaching musical influence is concerned:

Tony Iommi is the most important guitar player in terms of sonic realisation of a specific sound. He solidified the power chord and downtuning as musical standards decades before heavy metal finally found its stylistic feet and every single guitarist who ever thought "fuck barre chords, there must be an easier way" owes him an enormous debt.

If you've ever messed around with placing objects on your guitar, exploring weird noises with it, getting strange and unusual textures and basically using it as an ambient "sound creation device", don't pat yourself on the back just yet because Blixa Bargeld from Einsturzende Neubauten has been there and done all that stuff ten years before you even walked into a music store for the first time.

As much as I despise his musical legacy, Johnny Marr made it okay to use weird chords and textural ideas in pop music and he's generally the person who everyone is really ripping off when they think they're ripping off any other pop guitarist instead.

As for what I like to listen to:


Fuck guitars. Seriously.
 
sln333

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Even though I know other guitarists may have more technical skill and can appeal to more people, I love the duo of Synyster Gates and Zacky Vengeance from Avenged Sevenfold.
 
Capt. Crankypants

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Mark Knopfler. But by now this is just drops in the ocean.
Not saying he's better than all your crazy deathmetal insanely quick fingered fellows, just a personal favourite. This man is amazing, and this song is stunning.

EDIT: Also, how could I forget about this legendary man?!
Tommy Emmanuel

Anyone else have similar taste in guitarists?
 
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