Best guitarist?

[Dr Mindbender]

I've included some of my favourites in the poll. Feel free to flame me for ones i've missed.

[Rosa Lichtenstein]

Hey! Why are Gary Moore, Ritchie Blackmore, Michael Schenker and Angus Young (among many others) not on the list?

And Phil Lynott is not a guitarist, great bassist and singer though he was.

David Bowie? Give me a break! Even I am better than he is, and I am crap!

[communard resolution]

Johnny Thunders and Chuck Berry.

[R_P_A_S]

Robert Johnson, BB King, Zakk Wylde and Carlos Santana???

[Dr Mindbender]

Robert Johnson, BB King, Zakk Wylde and Carlos Santana???
yeah, lol thats his name :blushing:

[punisa]

Richie Sambora

[KrazyRabidSheep]

I think you were drunk when you made your list.

BB King, Chuck Berry, Joan Jett, Kaki King, Suzi Cuatro (bassist, but she did play some 6-string), Eric Clapton, Duane Allman, Peter Townshend, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Jerry Garcia, Johnny Ramone, Robert Fripp, Frank Zappa, Ike Turner, Robbie Krieger, Eddie Hazel, Mark Knopfler. . .

My personal vote goes to Carlos Santana, but next week it may be someone else.

[Scrap]

Stevie Ray Vaughn, Kurt Kobain, David Gilmore, and B.B. King

[Pirate Utopian]

I accidentily voted Jimmy Page, I ment Hendrix.

[F9]

so is my vote goes to...Hendrix!:thumbup1:

[Dr Mindbender]

can a mod change setanta to carlos santana please? I f'ed his name up when i was doing the poll.

[Red_or_Dead]

can a mod change setanta to carlos santana please? I f'ed his name up when i was doing the poll.

Then best change Lynnot with somebody else, because he was a bass player, not a guitarist.

I voted Hendrix.

[Led Zeppelin]

Page, obviously.

Gilmour close second.

[rampantuprising]

i agree with led zep with page 1st gilmour 2nd...but eric clapton didnt make it onto the poll?!?

[Chapter 24]

Hendrix. No fucking doubt in my mind.

Although I do also enjoy Clapton and Satana.

[Invader Zim]

This poll is awful.

Firstly, Phil Lynott played base.

Secondly, sorry to dispel the popular myth held by those under the age of 16 who are just getting into music and think that RATM are 'well rebel', but Tom Morello is not an epicly great guitarist and certainly not the 'best' guitarist.

Thirdly, I like the Smiths, Radiohead and David Bowie; but neither Marr, Greenwood or Bowie should be on this list or even anywhere near it.

The best guitarists are individuals most people probably haven't heard of who play some of the most god-awful and pretentious shite ever released, but in fairness also some really great stuff too. Steve Via, Joe Satriani, Buckethead, Yngwie Malmsteen, John Petrucci, etc.

[Bilan]

You didn't even mention Paco de Lucia or Fernando Sor.

[Malakangga]

i choose Tom Morello. :confused::confused::confused:

[Invader Zim]

i choose Tom Morello. :confused::confused::confused:

This is because you know nothing about music, or confuse 'favourite' with 'best'.

[Random Precision]

Stevie Ray Vaughan, in my opinion. This poll is shit.

[Vanguard1917]

Out of your list, Hendrix.

But a comprehensive list should not leave out key styles of guitar-playing like flamenco and classical.

Off the top of my head: Paco de Lucia, Paco Pena, Vicente Amigo, Paco Cepero, Sanlucar, Sabicas, Segovia, Narciso Yepes, Tarrega, Sor

[Svante]

Mikko Linde - Valo HIM
Danny Johns - Silverchair
Slash - guns n roses
Pauli Antero - The Rasmus:cool:

[Gitfiddle Jim]

If we're talking electric era, it's gotta be Hendrix. The best guitarist of all time for me though has to be Charley Patton (cue various blank looks).

[Yehuda Stern]

Other than Morello, Hendrix and Page, no one on that list is even very talented as a guitarist. I mean, my opinion on their music aside, they just aren't good at all. Not to mention that in Thin Lizzy, Lynott was on bass.

[nvm]

Dave Mustaine!!!!!!!!!!

[coda]

love stevie, but my heart aways belongs to page.


Edited to add clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0PNsoC1ExU&feature=related

not only a guitar virtuoso, but a studio genius as well producing every single album.

a song LZ never played live

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ3nLZ_J04c

[coda]

<<Ritchie Blackmore,<,

Funny you mention Ritchie Blackmore, rosa. I share a cousin with Deep Purple/ Rainbow singer (also Yngwie) Joe Lynn Turner. He recorded the 1990's Deep Purple Slaves and Masters album --that's the album most DP fans hated because it sounded like Rainbow and apparently he didn't replace Ian Gillian easily. He's actually DP's 5th singer!! anyhow, he's related to my cousin on her father's side and i am related on her mothers side or more specifically, his cousin married my cousin and produced my younger cousin Michelle. he hee... small world. I never really got into Deep Purple or Rainbow myself, (stone cold is a lame song) and I prefer the Ian Gillian stuff if i had to choose.

Joe Lynn turner & Ritchie Blackmore - smoke on the water:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ6pRFkIOg8

Ian Gillian & Ritchie Blackmore- smoke on the water: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jp3de50_d8&feature=related

here is a more recent interview referring to Blackmore, 2001 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQTk4Jfc0To&feature=related

[coda]

speaking of Yngwie...

playing some Bach
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpDblDia5TE

Cavallino Rampante
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn6-XqmkKUA&feature=related

and Paul Gilbert -- This is the man!!! Blow me fucking away.
and scorchin' hot!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZj5JFoy42w&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqeQto8PZYU&feature=related

haydn symphony no.88
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnlkku8d8VU&feature=related

Paul Gilbert and Chen Lei Purple Haze cover
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcLVyoWzbYU&feature=related

2 of the top shredders in the music biz

oops.. one more

chen lei
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVah1qgYOh8&amp;feature=related

[coda]

then there's Eddie.... :thumbup1: who degraded himself playing in Van halen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_lwocmL9dQ

okay.... that's enough for me for tonight.

[Kurt Crover]

I voted Hendrix, that man had soul. I think George Harrison was a great guitarist as well.