Ultimate Guitarist Poll

Good point.
I guess he's probably not the greatest.
But I can't say who is. And Page and Hendrix were only footnotes because they came along at the right time and started playing interesting stuff.
 
The amount of guitarists who sound remarkably like Kirk Hammett = More than I can count.



Slash is awesome. But his guitar style owes a lot to the many original guitar goRAB of c*ck rock. Everyone from Page to Young to Nugent. But primarly Brad Whitford and Joe Perry.
 
I assume the main reason is your obvious bias against Radiohead.

The guy was a f*cking student in theory, hes a classicly trained musician and multi instrumentalist, other than guitar he plays violin, piano, organ, xylophone, synthesizer, harmonica, glockenspiel and the ondes martenot...He may not be your Steve Vai type virtuoso, but in terms of technical ability, hes more worthy of the poll than half of the guys you chose to include.
 
Ok, well that's you. I've seen him make people cry with his stuff. Listen to some of his accoustic stuff. Youtube dead as yesterday, you might be surprised.
 
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I'll try to be as nice as I can, but I don't even see what makes Keith Urban country let alone a great guitarist, but then again I haven't heard much from him, so I'll keep an open mind, any recomendations?
 
Is there any point in having a poll based on technical ability? Because technical ability is almost factual. I can look at that poll and instantly say some of those are factually wrong such as Dimebag Darrell, even if he if a pretty awesome songwriter IMO. Adrian Smith is in the same boat.

And there are some guitarists who I can't see any merit in at all (technical, emotion, songwriting, style etc) such as Kirk Hammett.
 
Bull****!...He was already very popular before he died...Its also one of the things that suposedly driven him to commit suicide in the first place.
 
Cobain was a very talented songwriter...Thats where his talent was present, rather than his guitar playing.

Hes a decent guitar player in my opinion, though in skill terms he wouldnt make the top 3000.

Hammett is sloppy as f*cking hell sometimes, and he has been known for excessive overuse of the wammy bar.
 
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