Best gutiar player ever

[Tyme2fish]

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Pre World War II: Riley Puckett

 

[aspeck]

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I see a few votes for Hendrix, but no one has said the man who Hendrix voted for as the best ... Phil Keaggy. He is absolutely incredible!

 

[bekosh]

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SRV, Kenny Wayne Shephard, Muddy Waters, Clapton, Hendrix, Page, Van Halen, Rhodes, Vai, Satriani...They are all great and I love them, but they pale in comparison to the Master.

B.B. King

http://www.bbking.com

 

[POINTER94]

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bekosh,

with that list how can you forget Eric Johnson and Johnny Lange? I chose Satriani - as anyone who can produce a dozen cd's and only a handful of the songs acually have words, and still be comercially viable is a talent.

Alex Lifeson isn't on anyones list either. Aquired taste I suppose.

 

[thurps]

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Charley Bird could play absolutly anything.

 

[ehenry]

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Lindsey Buckinghan can pick a mean guitar. Like someone said earlier...theres are so many different types of music and styles that people play its really hard for me to say who my favorite really is. Kenny Wayne Shepard is an excellent picker too. Its a given that Vaughan, Clapton, Hendrix, Van Halen, Paige and all other that are named are good.

 

[dave4151]

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Joe Satriani

 

[bekosh]

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bekosh,

with that list how can you forget Eric Johnson and Johnny Lange?

and Shannon Curfman, Jeff Healy, Buddy Guy, Taj Mahal...The list could go on and on and on.....

 

[POINTER94]

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I'm starting to see a trend here....

If we look at music like a language, and the guitar as its voice, how can we possibly leave Jerry Garcia out of the mix?

 

[i386]

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Music is art and art is subjective. It's hard to say who's the best. I like most of what's been said so far.

Disc #3 in my truck's cd changer is Joe Satriani's complete discography in mp3 format.

Disc #4 is a bunch of Brad Paisley who is an amazing country guitar player.

I have plenty of SRV, Via, Malmsteen, EJ, Petrucci and the like in my collection as well as Flatt & Scruggs, Jerry Reed. Let's not forget Chet Atkins either.

Look up some of these artists on YouTube sometime. There are kids from all around the world that can play those songs. It's amazing and depressing at the same time.

 

[captn-tin]

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Buddy Guy

 

[Rattle-]

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I really like Alvin Lee and Ry Cooder.
Cooder did most of the music on the movies "Crossroads" and "Southern Comfort"...

 

[OldMercsRule]

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My vote is for Stevie Ray Vaughn.....

Who do you think is the best guitar player ever?

Yup, although Hendrix n' Clapton are/were in the same league. JR

 

[OldMercsRule]

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How about still at it? Alvin Lee..Tens Years After...Captain "Quickfingers"...just made a TERRIFIC album, with many greats (like Scotty Moore..Elvis's old guitar player..)
Best damn album I have heard since the Woodstock days...yep does a remake of "I'm Going Home"..
Google "Alvin Lee Back in Tennessee"...catch a taste
Dude STILL rocks..
PS, born in 1950...somewhere in the 80's there were no GOOD guitar players...not like the real days of rock and roll..

Yah: Scaaty I forgot ta mention Alvin Lee in the league with Stevie n the boys. JR

 

[OldMercsRule]

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I don't know names of all the ones I like, but who plays lead fer Carlos Santana, or is he the man who does the deal? Never been to a live show of his, so I'm not sure who is responsible for some of the purdiest music n' wailin' spanish guitar I've ever heard. If so: he is also in SRV's league!! JR

 

[POINTER94]

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Neil Schonn of Journey was one of Carlos's first guitar players.

 

[BLU LUNCH]

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I'll throw few more of my favorites in, Frank Zappa and Alex Lifeson from Rush.........

 

[Scaaty]

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I'm into the Blues, so John Lee Hooker, Chuck Berry, Muddy, et al...also

 

[jbjennings]

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Atkins, Satriani, Clapton, E. Van Halen, and Glen Campbell is pretty good, too.
jbj

 

[Andrew Leigh]

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Hi

I agree with the opinion there can be no such thing as too many things influence the decision. Taste, competence, generation, musical genre etc.

One must also seperate out the "influential guitarists" who may not be up to todays technical standard but who in their own right revolutionised guitar. In the post 60's rock metal type arena some of these for me would be;
Jimi Hendrix (overdriven marshall stacks at volume 10)
Jimmy Page (created the grungy blues rock fusion)
Eddie van Halen (had new style with finger tapping)
Richie Blackmore (what we called underground music)
Pete Townsend (created the "rock opera" and probably the first "power chords"
Yngwie Malmsteen (probably the first massively fast guitarist using heavy classical influence)

The modern guitarist is in general, technically streets ahead of the men who they tried to emulate above. Some of these would include;
Steve Morse (voted guitar player magazines Guitarist of the Year for 5 consecutive years and then was banned from the competition to give others a chance)
Steve Vai (absolutely awesome) download "For the Love of God"
Joe Satriani (ditto) download "Satch Boogie"
John Pettrucci (ditto) download Dreamtheatre's "Under a glass Moon"
Eric Johnson (ditto) download "Cliffs of Dover"
Paul Gilbert (you gotta see him and Billy Sheehan to a bass vs. lead dual)
the list could go on.

And then there are the people that I will never get tired of listening to.
David Gilmour (for absolute feel and class) too many to mention
Rory Gallagher (for brilliant blusey type stuff) download "A million miles away"
Roy Buchanan (ditto) download his live version of "Hey Joe"
Axel Rudi Pell (very Blackmore influenced) download "Come back to me"

What about them Flamenco / Classical guitarists (Al DiMeola, Paco da Lucia, John McGlaughlan, John Williams, Alan Holdworth. Phill Keaggy). Bluegrass pickers (Albert Lee etc.)

Suppose gotta stop here.


Cheers
Andrew