Your Favourite Guitarist

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

I decided to make a Greatest Guitarist poll without the other option.
This way we can see which of the most highly acclaimed guitarists is most popular at Che-lives instead of ending up with 20% "other" votes, which nobody likes.
:)

[FatFreeMilk]

hmm, Carlos?Jimi?Carlos?Jimi?....

Carlos!

[dark fairy]

fuck this is hard because page and hendrix and santana and morello
FUCK THIS IS HARD DAMN IT!! I HAVE TO GO WITH HENDRIX
SECOND CHOICE WOULD BE A BATTLE BETWEEN santana and page
ah this is hard :unsure:

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

What amazingly tastesful young lad must have voted for Eric Clapton?
:P

Nice choices there, comrades.

[nezvanova]

what about mick taylor...? :(...or robbie robertson?

[ideot]

my really real favorite guitarist is brian setzer, but I picked jeff beck from your selection.

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

I really thought that all of the ones I mentioned are better than Mick Taylor, Robbie Robertson, and Brian Setzer.

[Pedro Alonso Lopez]

Page and Clapton.

Big blues fan here.

[Scottish_Militant]

Dan Hawkins

[Intifada]

jimi

[shakermaker]

this is difficult...hendrix or santana? oh why i can't choose them both?
hmm...i say jimi hendrix!

[truthaddict11]

Tony Iommi, where the hell is he on the list? or what about Randy Rhoads? Or Vernon Ried?

[che's long lost daughter]

It has to be Tom Morello

[Pingu]

JIMI!

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

I seriously considered Randy Rhoads and Tony Iommi, but I figured Vaughan and Gilmour were better.

[seen_che]

Roll ower let Jimi take ower

[seen_che]

Move ower ower and let Jimi take ower :D :P :D

[Jesus Christ]

I voted for Brian May

but actually, my favorite guitarist is Larry LaLonde

[celtopunk]

Of those listed Jimi, otherwise Dick Dale. I wouldn't even list Gilmour, or Morello there are others more deserving.

[SittingBull47]

what? no John Frusciante?

i guess Jimi Hendrix, due to the absence of Frusciante.

[Take the Power back]

I really, really wanted to put Morello or Page, but Hendrix got me into playing music. Ler would also be a choice of mine. Let's make a poll for bassists (guess what I play?)

[nezvanova]

ohh I play bass too! I don't know enough bassists to put a poll together though...

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

I'll do one. :)
I tried one with drummer, but it sucked and everyone put other, so I never tried bassists.

[cubist]

morello has his own unique style which puts him up there
what about joe satriany (sp?)

[RAGING BULL]

Originally posted by [email protected] 19 2004, 04:03 PM
what about joe satriany (sp?)
Joey Santiago was/hopefully still is a brilliant guitar player.

But Jimi's the best.

Edit: cephas was of course talking about Joe Satriani, and not Joey Santiago,please forgive me. But why am I looking at this old thread anyway? And why do I bother to edit my post now after five months? Simple answer:

I need to get laid.

[leftist manson]

:angry:
ther is no slash from guns n'roses
he played some of the best leads ever
listen to don't cry, november rain.sweet childo'mine
woooooooof
but still ichose gilmour
he is ma second favourite
i wonder nobody else voted him either

[Comrade BNS]

Clapton was my vote....all the guitarists there are amazing musicians but Clapton, Santana, Morello, Beck and Hendrix are my fav. in that order from the list...simply because of their songwriting skills as well....which i admire more then just technical ability!

Comrade BNS

[Lefty]

1. Jimi- Innovation and mad skillz. Bonus points for fashion sense.
2. B.B. King/Santana/Clapton/Page- This was tough, but they were all extremely good.
3. Tom Morello- Best modern guitarist

[canikickit]

Left you hit "report this post to a moderator" and sent your last reply to me!
Do that again and you'll be banned from the music forum for life!

Not really, just thought I'd let you know that's why it didn't show up.
I also couldn't let you get away with ridiculing Geist like that.

One of my favourite guitarists is Earl "Chinna" Smith, an original member of the Aggrovators, Bunny Lee's studio band. Many a Chinna guitar lick can be heard echoing across the emptiness created by King Tubby.

[commie kg]

Originally posted by Jesus [email protected] 18 2004, 04:18 PM
but actually, my favorite guitarist is Larry LaLonde
You're damn right he is.

He is soo underrated. But damn is he good.

[Lefty]

I'm sorry. If you forgive me, I'll send you an inappropriate picture of Ken Lay in a compromising position with various members of Bush's cabinet, British parliament, and an obscure (but very well endowed) member of the ruling family of Uzbekistan.


By the way, have you heard of Black Uhuru?

[canikickit]

Ban this piece of shit! :lol:

Yeah Black Uhuru are okay. I'm not a big fan of them, they sound a bit too "clean" for me. Something about the music, it isn't analogue enough. In general at least. I like their song, "I Love King Selassie". they've a few nice ones alright, the album Red, isn't too bad.

[Lefty]

That's cool. I found their cd whilst walking down the street a few days ago, and I thought of you, oddly enough. I was all like, "Obscure reggae? There's only one person to associate with this!" and thought of you. True story. Anyway, I have no clue what any of the song titles are, as it is simply a burned cd with "black uhuru" written on it in black marker. They seem pretty good, though. Anyway.

[atlanticche]

out of those?
they're all to good
out of them i did vote for tom morello as he is my favourite THERE
but otherwise outside the list:
James Iha
Billy Howerdal(its just a coincidence they're both in the same band now)
that dude from Black Sabbath
Jerry Cantrell(alice in chains)
kurt cobain
Troy van leueweeeeeethjktyktyu(that dude who went from apc to qotsa)
Billy something or other(smashing pumpkins dude)

im gonna remember these names later and be pissed of

but its not really just for there talent but attitude and so on

[monkeydust]

I would have voted Steve Vai, but I couldn't so it had to be Jeff Beck.

Personally I feel that Jimi Hendrix is an overrated guitar player.

I will probably get flamed for making such a statement. <_<

[Lefty]

There are other guitar players that have more "skills," that can probably play better parts (i.e. Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, maybe Stevie Ray Vaughn, others) but Jimi Hendrix was incredibly influential and innovative. He was the first person to make music out of feedback and use "wah-wah" pedals (only he didn&#39;t actually have pedals) and make effects (only he had to actually make them by playing all crazy-like, he didn&#39;t have effects pedals or none o&#39; that newfangled bool-sheeit.) That&#39;s why I put him at number 1, anyway.

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

Dan Hawkins

You must be kidding?
:lol:
The dude released one fucking album and now he&#39;s better than Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Stevie Ray Vaughan, BB King, Santana, and Jeff Beck?
C&#39;mon&#33;

Lefty, I agree that Clapton has more mad skillz than Hendrix.
Have you ever tried playing Layla?
That shit is impossible&#33;

Hendrix, however, was more innovative.
And he had more great songs, whereas Clapton only had a handful of great songs and loads of pretty good ones.
I&#39;m still not sure that I can say that Hendrix is a better songwritter than Clapton, though.

He is deffinitely my secong choice.
Either him of BB King.
I never thought I&#39;d say taht BB King is under rated, but you guys aren&#39;t giving him the credit he deserves.
He is a fucking amazing guitarist&#33;
And also extremely innovative. Far more so than Clapton.

Robert Johnson, anyone?
I seriously thought about putting him on there.
He wrote some fucking amazing shit, like Crossroads in 1936&#33;
He was the single most innovatove guitarist taht I have ever heard.

And Gilmour did some kick-ass solos.
Not sure if he should be there, but he was also extremely talented.

Stevie Ray Vaughan I am not very familiar with, but I have heard some really impressive stuff from the man.

Jimmy Page is also talented extremely. Not as much as Hendrix, Clapton, or BB King, but talented nonetheless. Also very innovative. He did some shit taht was unheard of in his time as well. Listen to When the Levee Breaks with headphones on and there is some crazy shit going on that you&#39;ll hear in that song.

Tom Morello is talented but he needs to do some more demanding and better music, because Audioslave sucks massive ass.

Santana is also awesome. I&#39;d probably put him up with Gilmour. Him, Gilmour, and May. All amazingly talented guitarists who pumped out some great riffs.

And I also think that T-Bone Walker deserves a mention for being probably among the most talented blues guitarists rivaling B.B. King. Should he have been on that poll?

And I also think that Eddie Van Halen also deserves a mention for being one rockin&#39; mother fucker. The 80s almost didn&#39;t suck because of this man.

And finnaly, Eric Clapton, who I believe to be the most talented guitarist who performed and wrote some of the most harmonic, becautiful, and rockin&#39; tunes.

[Invader Zim]

Originally posted by che&#39;s long lost [email protected] 18 2004, 06:17 PM
It has to be Tom Morello
Are you mad? Compaired to Jimi... Clapton, May, Gilmour, Morello, he,s not even in the same league.

VC, must have been trying to be tactful, the guys good, but not in the same level of genius as say Jimi Hendrix.

[FatFreeMilk]

How come peter frampton isn&#39;t on here? Come on now he could make his gui-tar talk&#33; Even if he was on there I would have still voted for santana.

Does anybody else think the guy from the darkness looks like frampton or is it just me? :lol:

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

I think you maybe right. He does have some resemblance to Frampton.

And Enigma, yeah.... I added Morello because I knew he&#39;d plenty of votes.

[Rastafari]

Jimi Hendrix. I don&#39;t see how he couldn&#39;t be the best (I guess this is favorite though, so...)

2nd-3-way tie for Eric Clapton, B.B. King, and Duane Allman

[Lefty]

Redzepplin-

Notice I still said that Hendrix was the best. I agree with you on all counts.

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

Yeah, I know.
I wrote that I agreed with you. :)

[monkeydust]

Well.........as great as Hendrix was, I can&#39;t help but think that many people believe him to be &#39;the best&#39; simply because "he is".

I know plenty of people who will claim that Hendrix is better than Steve Vai, without even hearing Steve Vai. Does this make sense?

What Lefty said about Hendrix making sounds without effects isn&#39;t strictly true. Hendrix was the first guitar player to widely use effects, some of the first wah pedals were built specifically for him.

Hendrix was undoubtedly innovative in many respects, though again, Steve Vai is equally innovative, with far less credit for being so.

I don&#39;t think that Hendrix is bad by any stretch of the imagination. But I always thought that he received too much credit for what he did.

[Rastafari]

Steve Vai belongs in a different category of "Technical" Guitar players. People like Stanley Jordan, who don&#39;t really have a band per se.

[celtopunk]

And where is Les Paul???
Link Wray?
I mentioned Dick Dale before.

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

Les Paul is good.
I think the ones I listed are better than any of those, however.

Steve Vai is really good as well.
Possibly better than a few of the ones I mentioned.
Not nearly as good as Hendrix, King, Page, Vaughan, or Clapton, though.

[monkeydust]

I personally feel that Vai is the best. Though I&#39;m aware many people don&#39;t agree.

Whatever people say about Vai, it&#39;s unfair to simply call him a &#39;technical&#39; player. Though his techincal ability is amazing his playing is very often slow and melodic. He&#39;s also incredibly original, his music is refreshingly different.

Players like Malmsteen on the other hand are technically good, but just plain rubbish.

[nezvanova]

i would take Vai over Clapton any day. I&#39;m not overy impressed with Clapton&#39;s playing. It&#39;s very basic when you come right down to it. So far, there&#39;s not a clapton song/solo i haven&#39;t been able to figure out. but hendrix, man, i&#39;m still struggling with little wing&#33; I haven&#39;t tried to learn any vai though...but i did learn that thing that kid Eugene played inthe movie "cross roads" the thing Vai tried to play but couldn&#39;t. anyway, I sorta got off track, point is, I don&#39;t care much for clapton.

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

nezvanova, ypu need to give Clapton another chance.

Pick up Layla and other assorted love songs by Derek and the Dominoes, Eric Clapton Unplugged, and Slowhand then tell me he isn&#39;t a great guitarist.

You ever tryed playing Layla.
that shit is really, really hard&#33;

[Rastafari]

With rockin&#39; Duane&#33;

oh well, the album is only so-so...


Clapton rocks though.

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

Originally posted by [email protected] 21 2004, 08:01 PM
Clapton rocks though.
Fuckin-A&#33;

[nezvanova]

layla isn&#39;t all that difficult in my opinion. I didn&#39;t really like the electric version of layla thay much either, I prefer the accoustic version. Don&#39;t get me wrong, he&#39;s got skills, but I&#39;d choose hendrix or vai any day.

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

http://www.ergir.com/saatli/clapton_is_god.jpg

[Rastafari]

technically you shouldn&#39;t see this RedZeppelin, but I don&#39;t see what harm it could bring.



this is spam, but there is a point to it somewhere.
EC, every time you edit a post, you should put a little picture of this in it:
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002G8D.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

:lol: :lol:
LOL&#33;&#33;&#33;
HAHAHA&#33;&#33;
That&#39;s friggin&#39; hysterical, Rasta&#33;
Why shouldn&#39;t I see it?
I don&#39;t get that.

[Rastafari]

it was in a...special... part of che-lives, I&#39;m afraid.

but it&#39;s all good, right?

[Invader Zim]

Originally posted by [email protected] 21 2004, 06:09 AM
Jimi Hendrix. I don&#39;t see how he couldn&#39;t be the best (I guess this is favorite though, so...)

2nd-3-way tie for Eric Clapton, B.B. King, and Duane Allman
Because Claptons better...

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

You and your silly mod forum. <_<

:P

[atlanticche]

how in gods name did you miss of Tommy Iommi, he is the all time best there has never been anyone better, jimi hendrix just about touches him but apart from him everyone including jimmy page is over a mile away

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

I&#39;m not familiar with Tommy Iommi.
:lol:

[Rastafari]

"Tommy Iommi" is a 2-bit rip off of Django Rhineheart. If you want real guitar, look this cat up

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

There are several Spanish websites that mistake Tony for Tommy.

But I also found some actual referrences to this Tommy Iommi.