200 greatest guitarists in rock

Well I consider SRV blues rock, he played on Lets Dance too which was very much a pop album.

I just feel like drawing a line, adding BB would mean having to add Buddy Guy and Albert King and all the other big electric blues guitarists, and then people will say "you might as well throw in all the fusion guys too".

This is just my opinion, I'll add a few more names to it and then I want to start my little blog project.
 
So what? There's nothing seriously limited about the pentatonic scale, it's the most commonly used scale in music from all around the world. It's the foundation of blues and rock music, and a lot of folk music, and since that's what Page's music is derived from, rather than being derived from neo classical music like Petrucci is, of course he prefers the pentatonic scale.

Saying a guitarist is better based on what kind of scales he uses is just ridiculous. It's all about how you play, not what you play.

I'm no muso, but I don't think I have to be to know that you don't know as much about music theory as you want us to believe.
 
If that was a 'huh' for him being there shame on you. If that was a 'huh' for who that is, I shall tell you. it's Slash's real name
 
I personally think that most guitarists that everyone talk about today are slightly overrated, some more than others, depending on who you speak of.

As mentioned on an earlier post, I feel that slash is way overrated and Kirk Hammett also.

I know of a guitarist who is surely underated, and is better than Kirk and Slash put together!! And that is ... Paul Gilbert!!! all tjis praise doesnt even do him justice though as he deserves more than praise for what he has accomplished.

Id like ti see Kirk Hammett or Slash complete "Scarified" without missing a note like paul gilbert did on youtube!!!

YouTube - Paul Gilbert - Scarified
 
glad i'm not alone in my opinion of jordan then hehe :thurab:

it seems over the last few years that buckethead has become the default standard of guitar virtuosity (i don't get it but whatever, i'm old). SJ isn't the absolute best there is out there but he's definitely worthy of attention too.
 
Billy Gibbons is an astounding guitarist with a dearth of music to show it. He was primarily influenced by B. B. King, but he took it so much further and incorporated a huge rock ethic in his work. He also uses a quarter as a plectrum. Noice.
 
Clapton... awful?

Say wuh?

And Malmsteen is not unoriginal, he pretty much started the whole neoclassical shred thing. Though Blackmore deserves some of the credit for that as well. And as cliche as it is today, taking neoclassical influences and applying it to electric guitar was a pretty novel idea back in the day.
 
Thats only 9 mate, actually it's 8 because Dimebag is in twice.

I'm just trying to imagine what kind of personal hell two Dimebags would have made for me :D
 
Well he's not "better", that wasn't really the point of the list. May has a great sound, though his use overdubbing was a big part of it. Townshend may not be better technically, but he pretty much invented a new approach to playing guitar, using more feedback and distortion than anyone before him and playing power chorRAB more extensively than anyone before him, and his influence is insanely huge.
 
So do you think The Spirit Carries On doesn't have soul? Or how about Petrucci's solo at the end of Octavarium. Or what about Rite of Passage?
 
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