Best Guitarists of All Time

FoolofaTook · 04-11-2003, 07:54 PM

Who do you think are the best guitarists of all time?

Mine would be:
Jimmy Paige
Jimi Hendrix
Eddie Van Halen
Stevie Ray Vaughn

Ornelírë Mistë · 04-11-2003, 08:02 PM

Have to say I agree.

Lizra · 04-11-2003, 08:13 PM

They are certainly "greats"! I'd add Chet Atkins, Junior Brown, Brian Setzer, and...I'll think about it!

Hasty Ent · 04-11-2003, 08:19 PM

Yup, all those guys plus: Django Rheinhardt and Andrés Segovia

Lizra · 04-11-2003, 08:21 PM

Oh yeah, Dave Edmonds!

Coney · 04-11-2003, 08:43 PM

Where do I start?

Old school - Burt Weidon (anyone remember him?) I saw him a couple of years ago, he was about 70yrs old, still played absolutely beautifully tho'

Hendrix (yeesh, proper toe-curler he was) Page

......Whotever that guitarist was who played with Free, brilliant! and Pete Townsend, sucked donkeys at lead guitar but is IMO the best rythym/rock player ever! (prolly a multitude to add to that list, those are the ones I listen to most).

Modern era - (ish) John Squire, crossing the boundaries of pop/rock is that man.......a guitarist who stymies himself by setting his own boundaries

.......Slash (not the Guns 'n Roses malarky, listen to his own stuff, he can tear a blues riff to it's bare bones, then rebuild it!) and whoever the bloke was who used to play with Rage Against the Machine.........amazing riffs

And a posthumus nod to Kurt Cobain........naturally

More to follow........

Insidious Rex · 04-11-2003, 08:46 PM

Agree with whoever said Django Rheinhardt. Hed be tops on the list. but also:

Eric Clapton
Slash
Brian May
Joe Satriani
Dave Gilmour
Kirk Hammet
Steve Vai
Carlos Santana
Mark Knopfler
Gary Moore
Jeff Beck
Joe Perry
Mark Tremonti
Nigel Pulsford
Marty Friedman
Neil Young
Steve Morse
Joe Walsh
George Harrison
Kerry Livgren
Buddy Guy
Jeff Baxter
Brian may
Dave Mason
Billy Gibbons
BB King
Elmore James
T-Bone Walker
Dwayen Allman
Cornell Dupree
Robert Johnson

But the greates ever were Page, Hendrix and Stevie Ray.....

Lizra · 04-11-2003, 09:11 PM

The "Master of the Telecaster" James Burton. (played for Elvis and Ricky Nelson)

Insidious Rex · 04-11-2003, 09:14 PM

oh Lizra that reminds me how can we get forget Danny Gatton. Perhaps the greatest guitarist who never was a super star.

Insidious Rex · 04-11-2003, 09:17 PM

oh! Johnny Winter!

Lizra · 04-11-2003, 09:23 PM

Hey! I was lucky enough to catch Danny Gatton in 1982, in Chicago. He was playing with Robert Gordon. It was GREAT!!!! They have a CD of that tour in the Elderly Instruments catalog. I thought of him, but didn't think anyone would know him!

cee2lee2 · 04-11-2003, 09:34 PM

I've heard that Jimi Hendrix said Phil Keaggy was a better guitarist than Hendrix!

Coney · 04-11-2003, 09:55 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by cee2lee2
I've heard that Jimi Hendrix said Phil Keaggy was a better guitarist than Hendrix!

(apparenty) Jimi Hendrix was a very modest man

(he couldn't have had much self confidence, considering all the crap he use to swallow

)

Elven Archer · 04-11-2003, 11:00 PM

Quote:

(he couldn't have had much self confidence, considering all the crap he use to swallow )

i thought he just did the bandana thing. i guess he prolly did more than that though. anyhoo....

Out of all the names ya'll mentioned, here's the ones i recognized that i think are good:

Jimi Hendrix
Eddie Van Halen
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Eric Clapton
Joe Satriani
Buddy Guy
Neil Young
Steve Morse
Joe Walsh
George Harrison
BB King
Chet Atkins

and then there's someone that i'm not sure what his first name is but i know his last is Johnson. my cousin walked down the aisle to his music. and Stever Vai is good too.

here's a useless piece of information if anybody's interested. chet Atkins took the wires off a screen door and made a guitar out of 'em when he was real young. played it for however long.

Bombadillo · 04-12-2003, 01:04 AM

The best ever are in this order:
1. Buckethead
2. Angus Young
3. Van Halen
4. Hendrix

I don't play guitar either, but these people are so obviously brilliant.

Anglorfin · 04-12-2003, 01:07 AM

::looks at other posts, sees no Buckethead or Angus Young::

HOW?

Anyway yeah those are my contributions.

A lot of really good metal guitarists are considered in my opinion to be great (in fact better than a lot of guitarists mentioned here), but have yet to reach legendary status because metal is *sadly* a genre that is generally not well known anymore.

Anglorfin · 04-12-2003, 01:16 AM

Haha, you got there before me. Though I don't understand why it took me three extra minutes to write so little . . .

Comic Book Guy · 04-12-2003, 08:26 AM

Jimmy Page (More or less the entire Zeppelin back catalogue)
Kirk Hammet (Fade to Black, One, Master of Puppets, Orion)
Slash (Welcome to the Jungle, Sweet Child O Mine, November Rain)
Eddie Van Halen (Eruption)
Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath, The Wizard, N.I.B, Iron Man, Paranoid)
Brian Carroll (Power Rangers Theme Tune (hehe), Star Wars, For Mom)
Paul Gilbert
Joe Satriani

gimli7410 · 04-12-2003, 11:40 AM

Shavo Odaijian
Daron Malakian
Kurt cobain
slash
buckethead

Insidious Rex · 04-12-2003, 02:53 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Elven Archer
Out of all the names ya'll mentioned, here's the ones i recognized that i think are good:

Jimi Hendrix
Eddie Van Halen
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Eric Clapton
Joe Satriani
Buddy Guy
Neil Young
Steve Morse
Joe Walsh
George Harrison
BB King
Chet Atkins

and then there's someone that i'm not sure what his first name is but i know his last is Johnson. my cousin walked down the aisle to his music. and Stever Vai is good too.

here's a useless piece of information if anybody's interested. chet Atkins took the wires off a screen door and made a guitar out of 'em when he was real young. played it for however long.

wow Elven Archer I'm awfully impressed. When I was your age I was clueless about who was who as far as guitarists go. I see you in a whole new light now. And yeah Id heard that about Chet Atkins. Pretty amazing stuff. Course Im sure you know about how Hendrix was left handed but played a right handed guitar essentially upside down. Or maybe it was the other way around. I forget.

Anyway I woke up this morning and remembered a few more names that need to be listed:

Kenny Wayne Shepherd
Elvin Bishop
Albert King
Albert Collins (The Axe!)
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Son House
Jeff Healy
Son Seals
Papa Chubby
Luther Allison
Robert Nighthawk
Bukka White
Guitar Slim
oh and Jonny Lang is incredible
OH! And lest we forget the late great Jerry Garcia

04-11-2003, 07:54 PM	#1
FoolofaTook Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: ??? Posts: 214	Best Guitarists of All Time Who do you think are the best guitarists of all time? Mine would be: Jimmy Paige Jimi Hendrix Eddie Van Halen Stevie Ray Vaughn

04-11-2003, 08:13 PM	#3
Lizra Domesticated Swing Babe Join Date: May 2002 Location: Reality Posts: 5,340	They are certainly "greats"! I'd add Chet Atkins, Junior Brown, Brian Setzer, and...I'll think about it! __________________ Happy Atheist Go Democrats!

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Lizra Domesticated Swing Babe Join Date: May 2002 Location: Reality Posts: 5,340	Oh yeah, Dave Edmonds! __________________ Happy Atheist Go Democrats!

04-11-2003, 08:43 PM	#6
Coney The Buddy Rabbit Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Trapped in the headlights.. Posts: 3,372	Where do I start? Old school - Burt Weidon (anyone remember him?) I saw him a couple of years ago, he was about 70yrs old, still played absolutely beautifully tho' Hendrix (yeesh, proper toe-curler he was) Page......Whotever that guitarist was who played with Free, brilliant! and Pete Townsend, sucked donkeys at lead guitar but is IMO the best rythym/rock player ever! (prolly a multitude to add to that list, those are the ones I listen to most). Modern era - (ish) John Squire, crossing the boundaries of pop/rock is that man.......a guitarist who stymies himself by setting his own boundaries.......Slash (not the Guns 'n Roses malarky, listen to his own stuff, he can tear a blues riff to it's bare bones, then rebuild it!) and whoever the bloke was who used to play with Rage Against the Machine.........amazing riffs And a posthumus nod to Kurt Cobain........naturally More to follow........ __________________ Blessed are the cracked, they let the light in Beatallica

04-11-2003, 08:46 PM	#7
Insidious Rex Quasi Evil Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Maryland, US Posts: 4,634	Agree with whoever said Django Rheinhardt. Hed be tops on the list. but also: Eric Clapton Slash Brian May Joe Satriani Dave Gilmour Kirk Hammet Steve Vai Carlos Santana Mark Knopfler Gary Moore Jeff Beck Joe Perry Mark Tremonti Nigel Pulsford Marty Friedman Neil Young Steve Morse Joe Walsh George Harrison Kerry Livgren Buddy Guy Jeff Baxter Brian may Dave Mason Billy Gibbons BB King Elmore James T-Bone Walker Dwayen Allman Cornell Dupree Robert Johnson But the greates ever were Page, Hendrix and Stevie Ray..... __________________ "People's political beliefs don't stem from the factual information they've acquired. Far more the facts people choose to believe are the product of their political beliefs." "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

04-11-2003, 08:02 PM	#2
Ornelírë Mistë Elven Warrior Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 482	Have to say I agree.

04-11-2003, 08:19 PM	#4
Hasty Ent Elf Lord Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 516	Yup, all those guys plus: Django Rheinhardt and Andrés Segovia

04-11-2003, 09:11 PM	#8
Lizra Domesticated Swing Babe Join Date: May 2002 Location: Reality Posts: 5,340	The "Master of the Telecaster" James Burton. (played for Elvis and Ricky Nelson) __________________ Happy Atheist Go Democrats! Last edited by Lizra : 04-15-2003 at 08:36 PM.

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Insidious Rex Quasi Evil Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Maryland, US Posts: 4,634	oh Lizra that reminds me how can we get forget Danny Gatton. Perhaps the greatest guitarist who never was a super star. __________________ "People's political beliefs don't stem from the factual information they've acquired. Far more the facts people choose to believe are the product of their political beliefs." "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

04-11-2003, 09:17 PM	#10
Insidious Rex Quasi Evil Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Maryland, US Posts: 4,634	oh! Johnny Winter! __________________ "People's political beliefs don't stem from the factual information they've acquired. Far more the facts people choose to believe are the product of their political beliefs." "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

04-11-2003, 09:23 PM	#11
Lizra Domesticated Swing Babe Join Date: May 2002 Location: Reality Posts: 5,340	Hey! I was lucky enough to catch Danny Gatton in 1982, in Chicago. He was playing with Robert Gordon. It was GREAT!!!! They have a CD of that tour in the Elderly Instruments catalog. I thought of him, but didn't think anyone would know him! __________________ Happy Atheist Go Democrats! Last edited by Lizra : 04-11-2003 at 09:25 PM.

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cee2lee2 Elf Lord Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: 2nd star to the left..... Posts: 566	I've heard that Jimi Hendrix said Phil Keaggy was a better guitarist than Hendrix!

04-12-2003, 01:04 AM	#15
Bombadillo "The Bomb" Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: all over the place Posts: 1,601	The best ever are in this order: 1. Buckethead 2. Angus Young 3. Van Halen 4. Hendrix I don't play guitar either, but these people are so obviously brilliant. __________________ Could it be that one path to enlightenment leads through insanity?

04-12-2003, 01:07 AM	#16
Anglorfin Alasailon Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: college Posts: 861	::looks at other posts, sees no Buckethead or Angus Young:: HOW? Anyway yeah those are my contributions. A lot of really good metal guitarists are considered in my opinion to be great (in fact better than a lot of guitarists mentioned here), but have yet to reach legendary status because metal is sadly a genre that is generally not well known anymore. __________________ "and then this hobbit was walking, and then this elf jumped out of a bush and totally flipped out on him while wailing on his guitar." "Anglorfin was tall and straight; his hair was of shining gold, his face fair and young and fearless and full of anger; his eyes were bright and keen, and his voice like music; on his brow sat wisdom, and in his hand was great skill."

04-12-2003, 01:16 AM	#17
Anglorfin Alasailon Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: college Posts: 861	Haha, you got there before me. Though I don't understand why it took me three extra minutes to write so little . . . __________________ "and then this hobbit was walking, and then this elf jumped out of a bush and totally flipped out on him while wailing on his guitar." "Anglorfin was tall and straight; his hair was of shining gold, his face fair and young and fearless and full of anger; his eyes were bright and keen, and his voice like music; on his brow sat wisdom, and in his hand was great skill."

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