Greatest Guitarist Ever?

[thingymuwatsit]

Dragonforce, anyone?

 

[shticks]

My favourites are more because of diversity in tone than anything else. And groove.

Spoiler: Josh Homme

-snip-

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!

Homme is the guitarist/ singer for Queens of the Stone age.
Plays Guitar/ Sings for Them crooked Vultures.
and does pretty much everything for The Eagles of Death Metal.

(explaining this goes beyond the scope of this post go read about him on wikipedia.)

But before all that he was involved in a little thing call The Desert Session

and before all that..... Kyuss.

If you are a fan of some of his work I highly suggest you check out all of his work.

He is IMO the single largest force holding rock together today.

 

[Dana22]

I like Wes Borland, from the modern guitarists. But it all depends on style you prefer.


also, Fredrik Thordendal and Mårten Hagström have some epic skills.

 

[Nautical Honors Society]

My favourites are more because of diversity in tone than anything else. And groove.

Spoiler: Josh Homme

-snip-

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!

Homme is the guitarist/ singer for Queens of the Stone age.
Plays Guitar/ Sings for Them crooked Vultures.
and does pretty much everything for The Eagles of Death Metal.

(explaining this goes beyond the scope of this post go read about him on wikipedia.)

But before all that he was involved in a little thing call The Desert Session

and before all that..... Kyuss.

If you are a fan of some of his work I highly suggest you check out all of his work.

He is IMO the single largest force holding rock together today.

I am a fan of Josh Homme, all I was saying was that I thought he was the drummer of EoDM and Jesse Hughes played guitar/sung.

But I guess I am wrong.

 

[Angus565]

Gotta love Hendrix.

 

[shticks]

My favourites are more because of diversity in tone than anything else. And groove.

Spoiler: Josh Homme

-snip-

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!

Homme is the guitarist/ singer for Queens of the Stone age.
Plays Guitar/ Sings for Them crooked Vultures.
and does pretty much everything for The Eagles of Death Metal.

(explaining this goes beyond the scope of this post go read about him on wikipedia.)

But before all that he was involved in a little thing call The Desert Session

and before all that..... Kyuss.

If you are a fan of some of his work I highly suggest you check out all of his work.

He is IMO the single largest force holding rock together today.

I am a fan of Josh Homme, all I was saying was that I thought he was the drummer of EoDM and Jesse Hughes played guitar/sung.

But I guess I am wrong.

Technically you weren't wrong; and i wasn't trying to correct you..... i was just trying to to give you an avenue to explore his music if you haven't already.

 

[Citrus]

Nobody beats David Gilmour, in my opinion. He says a lot with what he plays.​

 

[Nazulu]

Jimmy Paige
Jimi Hendrix
Slash
Tony Iommi
Keith Richards
Kirk Hammett
John MacLaughlin
David Gilmour
John Lennon
Paul McCartney

Either Paige or Hendrix for No.1, but I threw in the rest cause I reckon they're up there too. It's not just a good live performace but also the great riffs they wrote. So when you say greatest, this is what matters most I reckon.

 

[The Rockerfly]

Buckethead for being monumentally good, having a massive variety of styles and just having a delicious choice in guitars. Plus he's possibly the most talented musician I have heard in years

Spoiler: Buckethead

Steve Vai for being ridiculously fast but stylish at the same time

Spoiler: Steve Vai

Steve played the Karate kid bit too

Finally Jimmey Wahlsteen for being classy, stylish and encorporates new playing methods using them like he would do all the time

Spoiler: Jimmey Wahlsteen

Dragonforce, anyone?

As an avid Dragonforce player I can say they are talented, amazing talented but they are sloppy and only know how to play fast. If that's what you consider the best guitarist in the world then more power to you but there is a lot more then just hitting a shit load of notes

They do hit a lot of otes and it's almost always the right ones

 

[Alon Shechter]

According to The Rolling Stones magazine , Hendrix is the ultimate player.
Personally I do not give a damn , if the greatest guitar player on earth plays bullcrap then it will stay bullcrap even with he's awesome skills.

 

[Jezzascmezza]

Angus Young, from ACDC.
Sure, maybe others won't think that, I'm not really into metal and all, but I've seen the guy perform live, and not only does he play awesome stuff, he's also really entertaining to watch.

 

[IIWatson]

Hendrix, Clapton, BB king, SRV


PS. playing the guitar really fast isn't good

 

[Klepa]

A guitar teacher's opinion:

Spoiler

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.

I agree with you.. mostly. I give a flying crap about Hendrix, I don't like La Roux, and instead of fuck guitars, I'd say fuck guitarists.

 

[captaincabbage]

It's gotta be Hendrix, or Stevie Ray Vaughn.

 

[Tonimata]

..........Me?

If you're gonna smack me around the head, do it with a guitar. I won't have it any other way. And specify what guitar you're using.

 

[Oskar K]

Jimi Hendrix, Mick Mars (Very underrated guitarist), Jimmy Page, Brian May and Ace Frehley.

 

[Oskar K]

..........Me?

If you're gonna smack me around the head, do it with a guitar. I won't have it any other way. And specify what guitar you're using.

A Fender Stratocaster Mexican Made From 1991. Can I be more specific?

 

[Corpse XxX]

This must be some of the greatest guitar play ever

 

[Swny Nerdgasm]

Guys we're forgetting something, Frampton makes the guitar talk!!!!!!!