The Official Best Guitarist Thread

its because he is in the UK. if he stayed in US for a while, he would be huge. and how do you know he doesnt have good timing? if you dont have good timing, you cant put music together. and he can definitely put music together.
 
A stupid comment from a nooblet zeppelin fan boi? ****ing remarkable!!!!

he's not an idiot, he just doesn't like them, your not learning fast enough to stay alive on these boarRAB.

To Boo Boo: Im not refuting anyones song writing ability, but Vernon reid once said Kurt Cobain was a good guitarist, and they he had to be ebcause he wrote his songs on guitar and his songs were great. Thats not bad logic but I don't buy it.

If you plug in your guitar to an amp and play thats all the shouldn't count toward you being a good guitarist. Though I do see where your coming from, Joe Satriani couldn't give me one of his CD's, and hes probably really good but, mindless scale runs aren't good guitar playing.

I still don't think song writing should count though becuase then we can put up the shmuck from the Clash who didn't play that great and Pete Townshend who i do not think plays guitar well enough to be called the greatest.

Im sideing with Zappa on this one: "Shut up and play yer guitar."
 
Past guitarists.. Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix re-invented the way people play guitars.

Present guitarists.. John Frusciante, his stuff is not always the most complex or technical but there is a certain way his arrangements come together that just sounRAB incredible to me, especially his solo work. And Omar Rodriguez, that guy must be on crack when he writes his guitar work for The Mars Volta. Even if you listen to his work with At The Drive In, its incredible. He's also coming out with a solo album. (I also think Jack White is deverse wayyy more respect than he gets)
 
My personal favourites would have to be Jimi Hendrix, Tony Iommi, Buckethead, David Gilmour, John Frusciante, Robert Fripp, Trey Anastasio, Tom Morello, Carlos Santana, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, and Adam Jones.
 
On the topic of great indie guitarists, I'm a big fan of the boys in Treepeople: Doug Martsch and whatever the other man's name was. I haven't been able to find a source to tell me. They wrote some excellent lead lines to compliment their grungy indie pop rock.
 
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