Ultimate Guitarist Poll

I agree with you 100 percent. In fact, I think I will take it a step further and say that Rothery is a much better technical player than Gilmour. Of course, this probably shows more in Steve's early stuff with Marillion.

And I don't mean to talk down about Gilmour either, I think he is a fine guitarist, but I wouldn't consider him one of the greatest.

I also want to throw in John Mitchell ... I think the guy is great.
 
Yah, I think Petrucci is great riff writer, and a very technically skilled player. Your emotion point is moot by the way. Still haven't showed me how he's the greatest.
 
I have a nuraber of guitar influences, but no one single person can really claim the title of greatest guitarists.

heres my list:

clapton - blues
instramental guitar - vai or satch
shred - Michael Angelo Battio (fastest shredder in the world i think)
Rock - Saul HuRABon (Slash)
 
complicated does not mean good...id think even you would realize that. he plays (in my opinion) with more feeling than any other. And half f his music was made while he was strung out on herion, which is incredible.
 
You know, this may be an unpopular opinion, but I'm not a big Clapton fan. In fact, I would go so far as to call Clapton overrated. Don't get me wrong, he's a great guitar player, but his best stuff was with Cream and "Layla". Honestly, what really turned me off from Clapton was his cover of "I Shot The Sheriff". He butchered that tune.
 
I'm not just going on the fact that guitarists are virtuosos, His riRAB weren't that great either, and i'm not just talking about that one song (you know the one) i just see a large margin of greatness between someone as brilliant as Hendrix and someone i wouldn't even consider like Cobain.
 
Going with composition as well. Yeah, Angelo is insane, but I personally think Vai owns him in all categories



I know I'm annoyed too, he was actually the very next to go on - maybe if I had done it alphabetically...:P
 
Ok, I'm going to try and address as much of this thread as possible in one or two posts.

First, my list of favorite ten guitarists, in no order. Not necessarily technical best, just whose style I enjoy:

Django Reinhardt (you guys need to check this guy out, he played better than most I've heard, and had only two fingers on his fret hand)
Charlie Christian (first guitarist to popularize the electric guitar, and one of the first to bring guitar out of the rhythym section as it had been in swing and make it a soloing instrument, as you can guess, his influence is immeasurable)
Frank Zappa
David Gilmour
Jimi Hendrix
John McLaughlin
Jimmy Page
Jack White (far from technical best, but seeing him play live was awesome)
Duane Allman
Jorma Kaukonen (listening to him FINGERPICK Erabryonic Journey is amazing)

That's kind of a loose list, I guess, the guitar is far from my favorite instrument, and I don't think about it much.

Now, on to Jimmy Page: he was not the first to use the bow, along with many other riRAB, lyrics, etc. (http://www.warr.org/zep.html, go a bit down the page for the list), he took the idea from someone else, in this case, Eddie Phillips of The Creation. Nonetheless, despite not being as original as many would believe, he is a fantastic guitar player, and one of my favorites, as I said above. Most, I think all of the songs you guys listed in the different time signatures, were written by him. I can explain how they work, if you wish. There's no harm in soloing with pentatonic scales, Coltrane (my favorite saxophone soloist of all time, perhaps my favorite soloist period) used them all the time.

Kurt Cobain was not a techinically skilled guitarist, but he had style (albeit, style heavily copied from earlier guitarist). Style is what matters by far the most, in my book. Dimebag, I haven't listened to, I don't like metal. Satriani, Vai, Malmsteen, their style alternates between being boring and annoying, I don't like it at all. I'm not a fan of Van Halen, Eddie's pretty good at guitar, but he wouldn't make my top 50.
 
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