there are so many to choice from...btw Randy Rhodes wasnt on the list either..but i had to pick Jimi Hendrix
The Greatest Guitarist Of All Time
- Thread starter CaDDaFy
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I know theres many more great guitarist but i can only put 10 in the list
Them in the list are not just there for there technical ability but for the riffs & songs they created
Keith Richards is not as flash as steve vai or joe satriani but he came up with amazing simple riffs, satisfaction, jumpin jack flash, Bitch , can you here me knocking and many more
Yengi malmstreaim is shit hot when it comes down playin geetar. lighting speed finger movement, but hes nether really made any top songs
Them in the list are not just there for there technical ability but for the riffs & songs they created
Keith Richards is not as flash as steve vai or joe satriani but he came up with amazing simple riffs, satisfaction, jumpin jack flash, Bitch , can you here me knocking and many more
Yengi malmstreaim is shit hot when it comes down playin geetar. lighting speed finger movement, but hes nether really made any top songs
These lists also tend to look too much on past guitarists and too harshly on guitarists of the last 10/15 years.
Robby Krieger, Chuck Berry, Page, Hendrix
If we go outside of rock´n´roll Charlie Christian needs to be named too.
Jimi was the most creative, Clapton the cleanest, but I have three words for you.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN!!!
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN!!!
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN Played & toured with jeff beck for a while.
Clapton in the cream sounds clean, ummm ? he started going clean in the late 80s when he gave up coke
Jeff beck is a very clean Creative player, Hendrix & Clapton in one i think
Jagger69
Three lullabies in an ancient tongue
I had to vote for Clapton but Page, Vaughan, Beck, Hendrix & Robin Trower are all real close....equally talented but different styles (except Hendrix & Trower).
Pete Townshend and Keith Richards are more rhythm players than lead but hey you didn't specify so I guess they can be considered. It doesn't take near the talent to be a decent rhythm player as a lead.
Pete Townshend and Keith Richards are more rhythm players than lead but hey you didn't specify so I guess they can be considered. It doesn't take near the talent to be a decent rhythm player as a lead.
Since I am not a total classic rock guy... I would add to the great choices noted: Tom Verlaine, Kevin Shields, Bob Mould and Lou Reed
Hendrix would get my vote from the list, but listening to Eliot Fisk play Paganini's 24 Caprices on guitar is totally mind-blowing.
Some of your criteria above really kind of undermined the title of this thread. It perhaps should have been called "The Greatest Guitarist That Came Up With Amazing Riffs and Top Songs".
Iamforever
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only because i am drunk right now will i say this. but, the slayer boys are great guitarists. the best, no. close to the top, no. but i love them. sllayyyyyyyyyyer.:bowdown:
best guitarist???? They all can't be lumped together. Robert Johnson started it all. Les Paul, Chuck Berry, Buddy Guy, Hendrix, Muddy Waters, B.B., Capton, Iommi, Van Halen ( as much as i dislike him, he was an inovator) Rhoads, S.R.V.,Malmsteen, Eric Johnson, Dimebag. Page is one of my favs he's equally at home playing acoustic or a les paul through a wall of marshalls. Slash plays with alot of soul. But at the top of my list would be Dave Murray, Adrian Smith and Janick Gers of Maiden.
