The Official Best Guitarist Thread

Steve Vai, Dimebag Darrell, and Slash are all rather talented guitarists. Jimi Hendrix is overrated, it seems like only the poser rock fans say him 'cause they've never heard of any other guitarists. But he does have pretty sick skills.
 
^ and that has to do with metal guitarists how....?
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Yes and townsend influenced guitarists as did johnny ramone.



I think that's kind of what he was saying.
 
ya, we got that. we got it the first time you said it, we got it the seconf time, and yes, we got it the third time. So why would you feel the need to state it yet again. just stop, seriously.

back to the topic, someone said that you can't really decide on the "best guitarist" beacuse everyone has their own style, and I completely agree. Judging a musicians skill is in large part based on personal preferance. However, that is not to say that it is impossible to differentiate between the truly skilled musicians, and the mediocre ones.
 
^ Na, you're right, they'd probably be exciting or something unheard of.


Well some judge best on how fun they are. Like you say, Malmsteen isn't really on your list of favourite songs but you give him some credit. Tis probably because he is really good, but not as fun as the others. Possibly why people rate Dimebag higher too, people could feel his music when he wasn't playing a melody at kazillion miles an hour.

To me thats what defines "Great" - Incompasses everything. Technical ability, feeling, versatility.

While "Best" should just be a label for the pure technicalities of a situation. In which people like Dimebag wouldn't really play any part.
 
In no order

Eddie Van Halen
Steve Vai
Randy RhoaRAB
Yngwie Malmsteen
Tony Iommi
Slash
Kirk Hammett
Joe Satriani
Ron Thal
Buckethead
Dimebag Darrel
Adrian Smith and Dave Murray
Tom Morello
Adam Jones
John Petrucci
Kerry King
KK Downing
Glen Tipton
several others

Dont nickpick, its not a skill based list and it wasn't meant to be, i didn't put Batio in there for a reason. ;)
 
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