Post your favorite guitarist. List the band he belongs to just so everyone can have a reference as to what he sounds like (not everyone knows alot of guitar players).

I can't say that I really have one favorite, but here are some of my favorites:

Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin
Randy Rhodes of Ozzy Osbourne's Band
Steve Vai of... well he's been in many bands.
Carlos Santana of... er... Carlos Santana
Jimmi Hendrix of the Jimmi Hendrix experience (especially his woodstock performance)
Zakk Wylde of Black Label Society
Kirk Hammet of Metallica
Angus Young of AC/DC
Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath
Tom Morello from Rage Against the Machine
Brian May of Queen
Eddie Van Halen of Van Halen (Any time a band is named after a guitarist, you know he's good.)
Slash of Guns and Roses


That's all I can think of right now. These guys are my inspiration as a guitarist. Tell me who you like.

Also, what are your thoughts on this:

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story?id=5937559

John Petrucci, Yngwie Malmsteen and Joe Satriani.

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He's not a guitarist, but Les Claypool from Primus.

Sue me, I'm a bass player

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Wrong forum.

But I'm a fan of:

Dave Matthews
Tim Reynolds
Leo Kottke
Mason Williams
Dan Ross
Richie Sambora
Yngwie Malmsteen
John Mayer (just guitar, not his vocals)

I'm sure there are more that I can't remember. But I just woke up. Guitar is fun.

Hendrix should NOT be the number one guitarist. Yes, he introduced the world to loud, distorted, and often dissinant sound, but as far as skill and technique the man was nothing more than mediocre. Jimmi can suck it.

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1) Jimmy Page
2) Jimmi Hendrix
3) Tony Iommi
4) Eric Clapton

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In no particular order:

- Richie Sambora of Bon Jovi, he's underrated because the songs which make it big tend to be the power ballads which don't show off his ability.

- Brian May of Queen, completely unique sound, can make something incredibly slow sound beautiful

- Slash of Guns N' Roses, has created some of the best riffs and solos of all time

Matt Bellamy - Muse
I think Jonny Greenwood from Radiohead is way underrated, too.

If we're talking playing air guitar along with the music, well you cant really go past Slash - Guns N Roses

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Stevie Ray Vaughn...I absolutely LOVE his style.

He's dead now, isn't he?

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Helicoptor crash. Sad indeed.

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Les Claypool and Buckethead.

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0 of 14.

Brian May
The Edge, to me he redefined what the guitar was all about.

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the rolling stone list is a piece of ****. They dont even have Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, or Yngwie Malmsteen in the top 100 best guitar players of all time. Also, Randy Rhoads is down at 85, Eddie Van Halen at 76. KURT KOBAIN AT 12? WTF?

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Tom Morello does some amazing stuff. I like John Frusciante as well

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I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV.

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Any guitarist who makes decent music is a favourite in my book, I don't really care for names or personal statistics.

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The biggest problem with the Rolling Stone list is people like Kurt Kobain being on there at all. He doesn't belong on that list. He's not a great guitarist at all. A friend of mine once put it like this:

"A bridge is used when a guitarist is too inept to play a solo."

Who does that sound like?

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That quote is so very wrong...

Tito Jackson...

and BTW it's Jimi Hendrix not Jimmi

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Not in any real order. Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Joe Satriani, Stevie Ray Vaughan,Eddie Vedder, Johnny Ramone,Pete Townshend,and Steve Vai. Guitarists from these bands also,(unsure of names) Lifehouse,and The Clash

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Lifehouse is:
Jason Wade, vocals, guitar
Sergio Andrade, bass
Rick Woolstenhulme, drums
Sean Woolstenhulme, guitar

And Mick Jones was the lead guitar for The Clash

Google works wonders.


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Okay, so he's not a guitarist. He's still my favorite.

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Jim Hall...

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The Clash is Joe Strummer. Or was he the singer/rhythm? Eitherway, Strummer just recently died... like in the past year.

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Not everybody likes solos... and just because its complex, that doesn't automatically make it good. My friend was once playing some music to me and I said something along the lines of "this sucks"... his response was "do you know how difficult that is to play?!?"

"Nope, don't care".

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I'm with you. No matter how difficult a guitar solo/pattern is to play...If it sounds like crap, it more than likely is crap.

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True, but a solo is basically expected from a lead guitarist. It doesn't really matter how simple it is, do a solo. Billie Joe from Green Day can do a solo, so can anyone else. Some solo's do sound utterly horrible, and then again those guitarists shouldn't even be holding a guitar to begin with. The point is, sure a rhythm guitarist is cool, just as long as you have a lead guitarist playing along with him. It's like making a movie with only one camera angle and basic english as opposed to dramatic angles and Tarantino dialogue. You need that complexity.

Why not create complexity through another means? Guitar solos have been overdone to the point of boredom... listen to the dillinger escape plan/mike patton ep for an example of insanity guitar work with a lack of solos for the most part (i cant remember completely... its too much to take in).

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I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV.

I think you're missing the point of having improvisation in a song. Soloing is a chance for the band members to really have some fun with the song - the best description I heard of an improvised solo was "your melodic fantasies brought to life," and that's more or less bang-on.

Plus calling something "crap" all depends on how advanced musically you are. I used to get nothing out of bebop (fast jazz), but as I got better I started to like it.

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My band play entire jam sessions, we don't solo (we don't have a particular key) and it still comes off great... I just think for the most part they're excessive, overused and kinda like showing off.

And about complexity, I listen to lots of musically complex compositions, and I also hate a lot of it too (Metallica come to mind).

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You're missing the point though. Steve Vai can solo like no one I have ever seen, but Jimmy Page is still a better guitarist. Technical ability doesn't make a soloist good, quality of the solo in correspondance with the rest of the song makes the soloist good. Follow?

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Ok fair enough. I think if you're good enough to do one of these mad solo's then go ahead and do it, just as long as it fits with the rest of the song.

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Peter Buck from REM because I like the music that comes from his guitar while he plays it.

Johnny Marr from The Smiths, Electronic, The The, and Johnny Marr and the Healers because he's awesome and stuff. He does some interesting layering with chords and I like his jangly style. He's also very versatile.

George Harrisson from The Beatles because he just ruled.

Mick Ronson, who worked with David Bowie during the Ziggy Stardust period and on Lou Reed's album Transformer. He also did other stuff, but I don't know much about it. I just like his style.

Daniel Ash from Bauhaus, Love and Rockets, and Tones on Tail because he was just so cool. He often had a mimimalist style (especially with Bauhaus and Tones on Tail). There's even a Tones on Tail song where he only plays two notes over and over throughout the song.

Django Reinhardt because saying so will earn me cool points
Actually, I really do like his music. I haven't heard anything by him that's struck me yet though.

Chuck Berry. He did some mighty fine riffs.

Lou Reed. I believe he is known for saying something like if God were to tell him he could do anything he wanted, he would still choose playing rhythm guitar.

The Rolling Stone article is actually better than I thought it would be. They usually put currently popular people on it only. They're still doing it, but it's not quite as bad.
I'm assuming that Jimi Hendrix is number 1 because there's a picture of him and then number 2. I'd say he deserves the number 1 place.

It's interesting to see Robert Johnson so high on the list. I keep meaning to listen to more of his stuff because I've only heard one song of his.

I'm really surprised to see Johnny Ramone on there.


You can suck it. Jimi reinvented the guitar and made music that actually sounds good. He's way better than Yngwie Malsteen.


I'd hardly call him underrated. My impression that he's pretty well recognized for his guitarism. I think he's like this generation's Daniel Ash.


It's actually the best list I've seen in a mainstream publication. I love Kurt, but I agree that he doesn't really belong there. It's just common practice nowadays to put him on those lists.


Wow, your friend doesn't sound like the type I'd agree with, to put it nicely. Kurt Cobain did plenty of solos. If you want good bridges, listen to The Beatles.


Now I'm curious. Why do you say Johnny Ramone? I like the Ramones quite a bit, but I never thought of them as particularly adept musicians.


Septic, that post right there and your post earlier in this thread are doubleplus good.

This one too.


You've got a point, but I think soloing shouldn't be the focus of a song, but sort of like icing on the cake. It depends on what style you're listening to.

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Simply because i like his tone, and ability too make things sound really good, but not be complicated at all.

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I don't think you really want to read this anyway.

Let's see here my favs are

Jimmy Page
Jimi Hendrix
Angus Young
Daivd Gilmour
Steve Howe
Terry Kath- He was the guitarist for Chicago. Hendrix himself said Terry was better than him. One of the most underrated players of all time.
Brian May
Joe Walsh

Runners up
Dave Matthews
Tim Reynolds
Lindsey Buckingham.



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Meh. There's more to guitar than rock.

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