Ultimate Guitarist Poll

See thats what I hate about these list that are always on this forum. It`s all metal & hard rock , yet it`s in a rock music forum , where are other forms of rock?

Where are people like Johnny Marr , Robert Smith , Graham Coxon , John Squire , Frank Black , Kevin ShielRAB , Johnny Greenwood, Jack White , Will Sargent.

Most of them are more inventive than most of the people on that list
 
Technial and composition is what I said...And I didn't list all the guitarists I like. Check out my list on page 4 and tell me who I should add if you like.
 
I think steve vai is probably the the best technical guitarist, but I like the sound of eric johnson, he has an awesome style. and then me...joke
 
You need to observe the prog and blues scenes more carefully, theres a fair amount of guys who can ape SRV and Gilmour very convincingly.

In fact, listen to Steve Rothery of Marillion, he's basically David Gilmour No. 2.



If a guitar has a bad tone, no matter how I play it, its gonna have a bad tone, the tone is in the instrument, any music theorist will tell you thats common sense.



Yeah, those are the guys whose opinions really matter. The same guys who listed Smells Like Teen Spirit as the 26th best guitar solo of all time. Above Machine Gun, Sweet Child O'Mine, While My Guitar Gently Weeps and Since I've Been Loving You.



Not any tone they want, but they can indeed change tones with different picking and fretting techniques, the types of plectrums or tools like the E-Bow or the Jellyfish. But thats all about technique, nothing to do with emotion.



Ok, refute scientific fact. The standard guitar tone comes from the vibration of the strings and how it resonates depending on the type of body shape, neck, pickups and amplification, if me or you simply pluck a string on the same instrument with the same equipment, it will produce the same exact tone. We only trigger the execution of the tone, we don't produce it ourselfs. Thats what musical instruments are for in the first place.



You really are a pretentious one. You must write for Pitchfork.



Theres a good deal of modern blues players who base every aspect of their technique on SRVs, I shouldn't have to name drop for you to realise this.



I don't even have an effects pedal for my electric guitar, and I play my accoustic guitar more than my electric one anywho.
 
They spawned more complicated music. Niravana spawned simplier music. Blues spawned Jazz which is way more complicated. Early rock and roll started out simple, but evloved into Prog and other more complicated Music. Nirvana was simple and music got simplier (well you can't really unless you went back to the orginal Gegorian Chants). Virtually the same Chord Progression with simple melodies, simple rhythm and lyrics that make little to no sense. As for you Rez have you ever played an instrument? Becuase you said you wanted to take up guitar and if you haven't as for all of you what would you know about the greatist guitarist if you don't play it or a similar instrument. Most people I know take Kurt to be one of the worst guitarists of all time, and in fact if you look at comments on the Rolling Stones list of guitarists if it wasn't about slash not being on the list it was about Kurt Cobain being on the list. As for ProggyMan saying Jimi Hendrix wrote more relative to his material. One word Mozart. And if you mean guitarists Paganini invented all of our techniques. Hammerons and PulloRAB, Tapping, sweeping arppegios. You name it and you can trace it back to Steve Hackett who got it from paganini.
 
Page's songwriting was ingenious. Ten years gone has 4 guitar parts, four sticks switches from 5/4, to 6/4, and back to 5/4, over the hills and far away starts with 4/4, switches to 9/8, followed by a measure of 7/8. Dazed and confused starts with 12/8 time, switches to 9/8 and then to 6/8. The ocean starts with 4/4 and switches back and forth between that And 7/8. Finally black dog starts in 4/4 and switches to 5/8 and back to 4/4. Another thing that page was amazing at was alternate guitar tunings. Kashmir especially is ingenious with the DADGAD tuning, as is black mountain side which is of the same tuning. If anyone says that pages playing is easy they are retarted, and lack musical knowledge. Its a hell of a lot easier to buy a tab book and have it all written out in front of you than to start from scratch. Page is the master of guitar.
 
Hendrix, without a doubt. The way he utilised feedback and various tirabres in his music still amazes me.

One great guitarist not mentionted on the poll list is Robert Fripp of King Crimson. He rarely solos, but when he does, its a mind-bending experience...

~ josh
 
That has nothing to do with his point, his point is that no two guitarists sound exactly the same, and even if only some guitarists sound exactly the same, thats still enough to prove him wrong.
 
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