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Posted: 7/20/2024 5:23:30 PM EDT
[#1]
That's too subjective. I'm a fan of these guys.
Vito Bratta, love his single note rhythms and melodic arpeggio solos. Nuno Bettencourt: Funky metal with fantastic string skipping tapping, funky grooves, heavy rhythms and supersonic palm muted playing. Stevie Ray Vaugh: Yeah the dude only plays 5 notes and a lot of his phrasings are copied and repeated in his songs but it's fucking awesome. Dude has the touch, the vibe, the mojo. His playing gives me goosebumps. Brian May: Amazing phrasing and melodies with some fantastic riffs as well, it's all about the song for him and he has his own style that I just love. EVH: Dude was the original stunt guitarist. He was able to take all the flashy guitar tricks, invented quite a few of them as well, and turn it into amazing music. Tim Henson: He's the Gen Z EVH. He's changing guitar playing forever. Joe Satriani: Love him over Vai. Vai is great but his playing can be really sterile and overly psychedelic for my tastes, Joe has an energy to go along with his virtuosity and he's amazing live. Jeff Beck: Go listen to Guitar Shop. Dude is fucking off the chain amazing. Just in awe with how he picks and hits those pitch perfect harmonic bends with the trem bar. I love so many different guitarists but these are the top ones off the top of my head this second. |
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Posted: 7/20/2024 5:27:40 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Fair enough and I'd value your opinions on the top 5. I get tired of these top whatever lists by people who are just stating their favorite bands that also have decent guitarists. I rarely find good discussion about techniques, actual riffs or tabs, discussion of vibrato, etc... It's like the 9mm vs 45acp discussion but worse. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Yes. I have played since I was 8 years old. Thank you. It's like the 9mm vs 45acp discussion but worse. I sure the hell ain't great, but I am also aware of that fact. I also realize that one does not have to be a musician to appreciate and understand music. |
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Posted: 7/20/2024 5:31:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I sure the hell ain't great, but I am also aware of that fact. I also realize that one does not have to be a musician to appreciate and understand music. None of us are born playing guitar, but I also don't really care for the endless top whatever guitarist lists written by people who haven't listened to the depths of music (metallica and megadeth are about as far as they explored in metal) nor play the instrument they want to discuss who is best at playing. I really like classical piano, but since I am not an expert in piano or classical music, I will describe what I like and not try to make a "best of" list since I know it would be wrong. |
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Posted: 7/20/2024 5:32:08 PM EDT
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I love what Jeff Loomis does with a 7 string guitar
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Posted: 7/20/2024 5:35:09 PM EDT
[#5]
Quote HistoryQuoted: These lists are dumb, usually written by people who don't play or study guitar, and do nothing to advance the knowledge of guitar. I will not participate. Thanks for bumping the thread. |
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Posted: 7/20/2024 5:37:20 PM EDT
[#6]
No modern guitarist?
Jason Richardson Tim Henson |
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Posted: 7/20/2024 5:39:31 PM EDT
[#7]
Poll only allowed so many
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Posted: 7/20/2024 5:41:08 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: One doesn't have to be a racecar driver to drive a car. But if we are going to talk about track cars, I'd like to listen to professional drivers. None of us are born playing guitar, but I also don't really care for the endless top whatever guitarist lists written by people who haven't listened to the depths of music (metallica and megadeth are about as far as they explored in metal) nor play the instrument they want to discuss who is best at playing. Well my list probably won’t suit your taste. I really don’t care for many technical players or theory nerds. Not a huge metal fan either. |
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Posted: 7/20/2024 5:48:31 PM EDT
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Unpossible. Too many to list and rank.
At the risk of agitating some in this thread, i'm afraid i'll have to add some I didn't see mentioned or only once or twice. Ted Nugent Frank Marino Junior Brown Henry Garza (of Los Lonely Boys, if you doubt this guy is amazing, look for the Cottonfields & Crossroads video and then get back to me) Gary Clark Jr. Roy Clark (was mentioned but worth repeating). KK Downing and Glenn Tipton Randy Rhoads (I saw him live, he really was incredible). Dave Murray and Adrian Smith Rick Neilsen Robin Trower |
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Posted: 7/20/2024 5:50:40 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/20/2024 5:50:47 PM EDT
[#11]
Not one person has brought up Eddie Wilson… what a shame?
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Posted: 7/20/2024 5:51:39 PM EDT
[#12]
Van Fuckin' Halen!
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Posted: 7/20/2024 5:55:15 PM EDT
[#13]
Jimmy Hendrix
Eric Johnson Eddie Van Halen SRV Everyone else. |
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Posted: 7/20/2024 6:00:46 PM EDT
[#14]
Prince? Lol
Where’s Satriani, Vai, Beck? |
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Posted: 7/20/2024 6:03:01 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Prince? Lol Where’s Satriani, Vai, Beck? All hacks compared to Taylor Swift  ETA: you stole my last name lol |
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Posted: 7/20/2024 6:03:37 PM EDT
[#16]
Junior Brown.
Everyone else is just a wannabe |
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Posted: 7/20/2024 6:06:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Junior Brown. Everyone else is just a wannabe Fuckin a, i'm going out to the shop, poppin' the top on a cold one, and crankin' up Guit-Steel Blues loud enough for the neighbors to appreciate it too. |
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Posted: 7/20/2024 6:07:32 PM EDT
[#18]
Frank Zappa should be on the list
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Posted: 7/20/2024 6:09:41 PM EDT
[#19]
EVH and David pulling away
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Posted: 7/20/2024 6:12:33 PM EDT
[#20]
Can’t believe OP forgot Mark Knopfler. I know “Greatest” is subjective, but objectively speaking, leaving MK out, should be a bannable offense.
 Telegraph Road - AMAZING AUDIO!! - Mark Knopfler - Live 2005  Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing (Alchemy Live) |
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Posted: 7/20/2024 6:16:51 PM EDT
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Been to many many concerts growing up but live I've never seen anything that compares to these guys
 Seen them 8 times and every time they just blew the crowd away. Boston was a distant second so Tom Scholz would be on my list |
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Posted: 7/20/2024 6:17:05 PM EDT
[#22]
Bill Kirchen, the Titan of the Telecaster
Dick Dale, oh yeah. Redd Volkaert, I seriously don't know how the man does it, seen him live many times, and he has the shortest fattest fingers i've ever seen on a guitar player, lol. |
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Posted: 7/20/2024 6:17:36 PM EDT
[#23]
Just to be different
Mark Knopfler Glen Campbell Jerry Reed Chet Atkins Terry Kath |
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Posted: 7/20/2024 6:17:43 PM EDT
[#24]
If you voted anyone other than Hendrix, you're showing your ignorance??
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Posted: 7/20/2024 6:19:44 PM EDT
[#25]
Gary Moore and Ritchie Blackmore belong at the top of that list.
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Posted: 7/20/2024 6:20:29 PM EDT
[#26]
Quote HistoryQuoted: No modern guitarist? Jason Richardson Tim Henson |
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Posted: 7/20/2024 6:21:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: If you voted anyone other than Hendrix, you're showing your ignorance |
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Posted: 7/20/2024 6:21:41 PM EDT
[#28]
The best guitar players play the songs we like.
I like a lot but Fogelberg and Rik Emmett cover it for mellow to harder stuff. |
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Posted: 7/20/2024 6:26:27 PM EDT
[#29]
Let's make it more interesting. Top guitarists that you have seen live. Mine, in no particular order:
Page Clapton Alvin Lee Robin Trower Peter Frampton Santana Billy Gibbons Ted Nugent EVH Joe Walsh Albert King Link Wray Mark Farner Tommy Shaw Keef Johnny Winter Pete Townsend Skunk Baxter Tommy Iomi Randy Rhodes Buck Dharma George Harrison Gilmour I'm sure there are more but I am old and can't remember. |
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Posted: 7/20/2024 6:29:21 PM EDT
[#30]
idk if he's the greatest, but this is a pretty cool video
 Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood (Live at the El Mocambo) |
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Posted: 7/20/2024 6:30:47 PM EDT
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The best guitar players play the songs we like. This. I don’t care if the guy playing can dance around a song in all the modes and arpeggios or if he just shrugs his shoulders and says he just uses the “rock” scale. Great music has to move you and invoke emotion. I sure appreciate the players that do that and their skills and some of them can make great music that invokes emotion and feeling, but it’s hardly a prerequisite for me. Don’t show me what you can do with the seven notes in the scale, show me what you can do with just one or two. |
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Posted: 7/20/2024 6:33:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: No modern guitarist? Jason Richardson Tim Henson I've got Tim on my list, I stand by what I said as well. He's the Gen Z EVH and is changing how guitar is being played. |
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Posted: 7/20/2024 6:36:03 PM EDT
[#33]
Quote HistoryQuoted: This. I don't care if the guy playing can dance around a song in all the modes and arpeggios or if he just shrugs his shoulders and says he just uses the "rock" scale. Great music has to move you and invoke emotion. I sure appreciate the players that do that and their skills and some of them can make great music that invokes emotion and feeling, but it's hardly a prerequisite for me. Don't show me what you can do with the seven notes in the scale, show me what you can do with just one or two. Go play a minor second over and over. You have Jaws. Now go play a minor second in any of the modes after playing other notes in the scale. They will have much more meaning. |
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Posted: 7/20/2024 6:39:01 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Can’t believe OP forgot Mark Knopfler. I know “Greatest” is subjective, but objectively speaking, leaving MK out, should be a bannable offense.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjJzlIedCuo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Pa9x9fZBtYIf you haven't, check out the 2019 Milano concert on youtube. I watch it every now and them... Skip to 1:27... |
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Posted: 7/20/2024 6:42:23 PM EDT
[#35]
I’m saying EVH because he reinvented the guitar like Hendrix and did as much in the development for the electric guitar as Les Paul
And if you’ve never paid attention to the rhythm and swing in his playing, you’re really missing out.  Eddie Van Halen - I'm the one (Isolated guitar) FULL SONG |
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Posted: 7/20/2024 6:43:47 PM EDT
[#36]
Quote HistoryQuoted: One or two notes does not establish emotion. Go play a minor second over and over. You have Jaws. Now go play a minor second in any of the modes after playing other notes in the scale. They will have much more meaning. Well, tell that to David Gilmour. It’s just a matter of taste. Sorry you don’t care for my taste in music. You’re much superior in that way and I applaud you. I really appreciate the level that the newer generation has taken music to but personally I’ll stick to my boomer bends. |
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Posted: 7/20/2024 6:44:51 PM EDT
[#37]
Quote HistoryQuoted: SRV |
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Posted: 7/20/2024 6:46:08 PM EDT
[#38]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Well, tell that to David Gilmour. It's just a matter of taste. Sorry you don't care for my taste in music. You're much superior in that way and I applaud you. I really appreciate the level that the newer generation has taken music to but personally I'll stick to my boomer bends. |
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Posted: 7/20/2024 6:46:53 PM EDT
[#39]
Quote HistoryQuoted: This will be a thread of people listing all of their favorite musicians who play guitar, so eventually all of the greats get mentioned. As soon as Paul Stanley or Mick Mars get mentioned, it is time to shut it down. If Jack White, The Edge or Taylor Swift get mentioned, it is time to nuke it and try again. |
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Posted: 7/20/2024 6:49:45 PM EDT
[#40]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Chet Atkins Roy Clark Glen Campbell Tommy Emmanuel Read my mind |
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Posted: 7/20/2024 6:50:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Again those bends mean something when they are played in relation to other notes. Nobody playing 1 or 2 notes will convey any emotion. You are likely hearing a lot of other notes in the music you like, don't attribute it to one or two notes. I think you’re missing the point in what I’m saying. And I feel we are saying really the same thing. Music doesn’t have to be a note salad to be great. And I am not saying to only use one or two notes, it is, like you are kinda saying, those one or two notes played in the right context or placement that matters. |
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Posted: 7/20/2024 6:51:26 PM EDT
[#42]
Poll fail
Neither rossington or Collins is up there |
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Posted: 7/20/2024 6:55:29 PM EDT
[#43]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I think you're missing the point in what I'm saying. And I feel we are saying really the same thing. Music doesn't have to be a note salad to be great. And I am not saying to only use one or two notes, it is, like you are kinda saying, those one or two notes played in the right context or placement that matters. I could make some midi songs or midi conversions of classical music that would be enjoyable to listen to. There isn't magic that happens once someone with a guitar plays them. I'm all for discussing attack, aggression, nuance, vibrato, phrasing, legatto vs staccato, etc... but don't discount music theory. Even people who aren't classically trained and figured it out on their own, music theory is behind all your great guitarists. That one note you love, you love because it completes or satisfies a larger phrase the guitarist is playing. So yea they need the whole scale to create that emotion. |
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Posted: 7/20/2024 6:55:53 PM EDT
[#44]
Ricky Nelson!
Just kdding, but James Burton who played with Ricky is up there. |
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Posted: 7/20/2024 7:01:59 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/20/2024 7:02:36 PM EDT
[#46]
Quote HistoryQuoted: A few not normally mentioned: Glen Campbell ( lots of Wrecking Crew hits before his solo work) Don Felder (Look at all the famous guitar lines Don Felder has written and performed. Not all the greats were shredders). Fuck you Lebowski lol. Stephen Stills Willie Nelson (talk about phrasing) Malcolm Young (rhythm guitar of AC/DC was far more iconic than the leads), back me up @Solo_ ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVTjEm2G3Fg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZaZqx9v3dUYea, same can be said of Brad Whitford or how GnR changed when Izzy Stradlin left. |
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Posted: 7/20/2024 7:05:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: If you haven't, check out the 2019 Milano concert on youtube. I watch it every now and them... Skip to 1:27... Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Can’t believe OP forgot Mark Knopfler. I know “Greatest” is subjective, but objectively speaking, leaving MK out, should be a bannable offense. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjJzlIedCuo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Pa9x9fZBtYIf you haven't, check out the 2019 Milano concert on youtube. I watch it every now and them... Skip to 1:27... Will do. It’s a personal inspiration to me, that he kept bringing the music as long as he did. All the traveling.. It wasn’t for the money, that’s for sure. |
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Posted: 7/20/2024 7:06:23 PM EDT
[#48]
Mark Knopfler should be on the list.
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Posted: 7/20/2024 7:08:09 PM EDT
[#49]
Quote HistoryQuoted: These lists are dumb, usually written by people who don't play or study guitar, and do nothing to advance the knowledge of guitar. I will not participate. These threads do end up just being lists of guitarists people like a lot or guitarists for bands that they like a lot, but you don't need to know theory or even how to play to know greatness. |
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Posted: 7/20/2024 7:10:27 PM EDT
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Quoted: On the top 2 strings, can you play the following basic triads: major, minor, diminished, and augmented without looking it up online? I remember my theory professor telling us about a woman who spent years trying to sing chords. Apparently she could not do two notes at once. I certainly applaud her efforts though.
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