Greatest Guitarist?

[newwavefrank]

Eric Johnson, Steve Morse, Steve Vai

 

[Shovelbone]

What about Tim Reynolds? Warren Haynes?

 

[mtshark]

TS is pretty uneducated when it comes to guitar players...

 

[Staredge]

Don Rich???

 

[Stranger Danger]

Jerry Garcia, Duane Allman, Michael Houser & everybody else.

Done.

 

[gjbassist]

Way to go thread necromancer!

 

[NoiseNinja]

What does Kurt Cobain and John Lennon do on that list, they might be great song writers but guitarists?
The greatest guitarist is not on the list, namely J. Mascis of Dinosaur Jr. So I dindn't vote, but I guess of the ones listed it would be Jimmy Hendrix

 

[rmayer]

Jack White, Really?? Next we'll have his wife on the list of best drummers. Apologies to all, I just don't get them.

 

[avvie]

Poll is LOL!

 

[Duke21]

John Lennon and George Harrison weren't even the greatest guitar players in the Beatles.

And Ringo was not the best drummer in the Beatles

 

[Duke21]

No Howe, Lifeson, Zappa, Beck, Belew or Fripp = Invalid Poll

Fripp, Howe, Hackett, Lifeson, Belew, Billy Sherwood, Steve Rothery (Marillion), Roine Stolt (Transatlantic, Flower Kings),

 

[tdub0199]

This poll blows.... C'mon, none of the guitarist you have listed are even worth listening to except Hendrix, Clapton and Page......

My vote is and always will be David Gilmour....

 

[tdub0199]

Over 80 posts and no one mentions...

EDDIE VAN HALEN ????

Eddie Van Halen has always been way over rated IMO.....

 

[devilock76]

Kurt GoBang is on this poll list and not Don Ross, blasphemy.

Ken

 

[Rune Bivrin]

Only one mention of Mark Knopfler, and NO MENTION OF BRIAN MAY!

This thread is like Mark Fialsno sized fail.

 

[Infrasonik B.]

I can assure you that none of them are on the list you've provided. Both you and your friend are wrong

Agreed!

Django Reinhardt comes to mind.

The man could do with 2 fingers (on the fretting hand) what every guy on your list wishes they could do... and they have all their digits

Django Reinhardt - Jazz Guitar Genius - YouTube

 

[afzoomie67]

Derek Trucks, from the Allmans?

 

[rmayer]

This is what happens when you let bassists pick guitar players. Ha!!! We pick the ones with the volume stuck on 1!!!!!! Go Jack Bruce. I reference the live version of Crossroads on "Wheels of Fire", one of the most blistering guitar solos ever, and Jack adds "Eric Clapton...VOCALS"!!!!!! Ouch!

 

[redmagictones]

Alex Lifeson, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Randy Rhoads, Steve Vai, Paul Gilbert

 

[drummer5359]

This thread is stupid.

Music is art, and while you can have a favorite artist, that doesn't make one greater than the other.



On a side note, Avenged Sevenfold blows.

^THIS!


As far as favorites, I've always been a Jeff Beck nut, Eric is amazing (Johnson), Alex (Lifeson), Frank Zappa, Chet Atkins knew his way around a fretboard and some kid from West Virginia named Brad Paisley does not suck either...

I'm a drummer/bassist though, so what do I know?









AND,


This is a popcorn thread if ever I've seen one.