Greatest Guitarist (Rock or Blues)

[stevenash]

wow, no Stevie Ray Vaughan listed here... shocking and tragic!

He'd be way up there on my list
If he didn't die 20 years ago

[GoCougs!]

Josh Homme (Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age, Them Crooked Vultures). The guy comes up with sweet riffs and absolutely jams!

Being from Seattle....Jimmy, don't care if he's dead. Fan of SRV....dead, don't care.

Pete Townsend, Slash, Joe Satriani (not sure if I spelled that right).

[raggman]

really like Buddy Guy's music. very underrated imo

[KingKolzig]

uncle quikfingers

[DEP78]

He's disqualified because he's dead, but Duane Allman deserves a mention.

For qualifying entries-
Dickey Betts
Peter Frampton
Guy from Molly Hatchett (can't remember his name)

[pronk]

1 Jimmy Page
2 Jeff Back
3 B.B.King

[falconticket]

James Taylor for living guitarist not mentioned yet. There is a lot more to guitar than just finger speed/ he's a great writer as well. Also for dead I would throw in Chet Atkins.

[PanamaBrad]

Robin Trower? did I remember the spelling correct?

[pronk]

None of you bozos even once mentioned the Great B.B.King and you call yourselves music experts! Shame, shame, shame...

[pinchylarue]

john petrucci


jeff loomis

[mikejamm]

A lot of great names on here. Nice tread. See, I knew a bunch of us had other shit in common besides gambling. What's really sad, like stated earlier, a lot of these greats are gone. And the guys out there today with exception of a few, have nowhere near the chops the dudes from the 60's and 70's had! It's all fuk'in fake pop shit with auto tuned robotic voices!

Even rap which at one time, was actually cool, ( think Aerosmith and Run DMC) is phony and totally identical from one lame ass rapper to the next. Now every fuk'in dude with auto voice tuner and a robot effect thinks their music is good. That shit is so fuk'in lame and untalented! Peter Frampton, another great guitarist by the way, was do'in the same only much cooler "analog" not digital, voice effect back in the 70's, way before T-Pain claims "he" invented it! And Styx, nobody could even fuk'in come close to the stuff Dennis DeYoung was conjuring up on synthesizer voice effects!

[pinchylarue]

overrated guitarists:

1.jimi hendrix
2.gary moore
3.allan holdsworth
4.tom morello
5.herman li
6.yngwie malmsteen

[Crayzee]

i'm a guitar freak and player also
still living:
jeff beck
tommy emanuel
jimi page
brian setzer
charlie daniels
dickey betts
warren haynes

dave edmunds( no longer performing i think )
alvin lee ( also not performing)
have died:
les paul
danny gatton
roy buchanan
rory gallagher
django reinhardt
duane allman
steven gaines

[Crayzee]

going to see jeff beck tomorrow night and maybe tues also!

jeff becks rock n roll party-
tribute to les paul!!

[gregm]

He's disqualified because he's dead, but Duane Allman deserves a mention.

For qualifying entries-
Dickey Betts
Peter Frampton
Guy from Molly Hatchett (can't remember his name)

absolutely

toy caldwell too!

[gregm]

i'm a guitar freak and player also
still living:
jeff beck
tommy emanuel
jimi page
brian setzer
charlie daniels
dickey betts
warren haynes

dave edmunds( no longer performing i think )
alvin lee ( also not performing)
have died:
les paul
danny gatton
roy buchanan
rory gallagher
django reinhardt
duane allman
steven gaines

awesome list, this thread needs to stay alive, some new names on this thread like loomis,petrucci i have never heard of,and I want to check out that eric johnson video.

we need a good music thread on this forum

[gregm]

going to see jeff beck tomorrow night and maybe tues also!

jeff becks rock n roll party-
tribute to les paul!!

tribute to les paul ? that should be incredible.

[shaggy3000]

pingpong youre right Mayer is good. he really dumbs his music down for the ladies

[JoshB]

Guthrie Govan is currently the best imo



Paul Gilbert
Marco Sfogli
Michael Romeo
Greg Howe

Those guys are all great too

[gregm]

overrated guitarists:

1.jimi hendrix
2.gary moore
3.allan holdsworth
4.tom morello
5.herman li
6.yngwie malmsteen

gary moore overrated ?

hendrix overrated????? wow. Can't disagree more. people will never understand the influence hendrix had on so many styles of music.

Maybe you have to be older, but any wah -wah sound you ever heard sampled on rap tunes, 70s cop shows, funk, soul, rock in the 70s came directly from hendrix. Listen to miles davis, post bitches brew, jazz guys in the fusion era, hendrix had such an influence on so many musicians. Even today, his music with those great dylan-sci fi influenced lyrics sounds incredibly futuristic

[gregm]

Guthrie Govan is currently the best imo



Paul Gilbert is amazing too

wow thanks for this! never heard this guitarist,, so much on this thread I have to catch up with. Great thread

[hhsilver]

Crayzee,
I'm glad to see you mentioned Django Reinhardt and Les Paul, even though the thread called for those still alive.

Here's a couple of young live guys playing 'Some of These Days' in a style similar to Django.

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Frank Vignola is the one I knew and looked up. He's the one with the glasses.

I hope some of you will like this .

[gregm]

Guthrie Govan is currently the best imo



Paul Gilbert is amazing too

wow thanks for this! never heard this guitarist,, so much on this thread I have to catch up with. Great thread

[gregm]

this is probably getting away from the rock/blues genre, but if you are a guitarist or any sort of musician really you should like this for those days when you are practicing scales. They had a great album called one night in san francisco you should find

[gregm]

Crayzee,
I'm glad to see you mentioned Django Reinhardt and Les Paul, even though the thread called for those still alive.

Here's a couple of young live guys playing 'Some of These Days' in a style similar to Django.

[img]<iframe title="YouTube video player" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/KLFf1eekg14?rel=0" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" width="480"></iframe>[/img]

Frank Vignola is the one I knew and looked up. He's the one with the glasses.

I hope some of you will like this .

I love this , thanks silver! tough finding any video of django, I have seen a clip from a movie.I wish I could find more charlie christian videos, here is wes montgomery

[gregm]

[gregm]

a very influential guitarist , incredible influence. scotty moore Buy a hollow body!

[gregm]

you dont have to be quentin tarantino to love surf music and rockabilly

Dick Dale

[Trident]

1. Mark Knoffler (can play anything, rock, blues, country, classical)

No list is complete with out him.

[gregm]

toy, love this video, his guitar , his voice, the flute!

[VegasPlayer]

With all the tasteless shit posted in the forum, it's refreshing to see some real taste in music here.

[ElLoco23]

I like some new or some old ones.

[cockblocker]

Mick Mars

[falconticket]

Loved steve vai's blues and classical pieces in the movie "crossroads". I think he played both parts. He can smoke a fretboard

[Crayzee]

damn having trouble posting youtubes