Top 10 guitarists of all time

tyler.durden said:
1. Andre Segovia
2. Celedonio Romero
3. Pepe Romero
4. Issac Albeniz
5. Odair Assad
6. Sergio Assad
7. Christopher Parkening
8. Paco de Lucia
9. Pat Metheny
10. John McLaughlin
11. Andy McKee (Had to include him!)

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Fucking Badass -

Get baked and take 20 minutes of this trip -

Guitar Gods -
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I love your list , its good to see somebody knows who paco & Mclaughlin are .

1 Al Dimeola .

2 Paco De Lucia .

3 Steve Via .

4 Frank Zappa .

5 John Mclaughlin .

6 Warren Cucurillo .

7 Robert Fripp .

8 Adrian Belew .

9 Dweezil Zappa .

10 Tony Iommi , not for technical proficiency but for creating a genre with his riffs .
 
leftyguitar said:
Right!!! Gilmour and Knopfler, both awesome guitarists. Mark Knopfler may (and that's a big may) be the best guitarists ever... especially for technique.
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Yeah but Dire Straits is boring for me to listen to LOL. Does this list have to include charisma as well as technique? Or are we talking strictly guitarists who changed the way the instrument/music is played?
 
bu$hleaguer said:
I know this thread will be moved to another section at some point but T&T gets more action, just like @mainliner's mom's anus does when compared to her vagina.


Ok, mine changes all the time but here it goes:


1-Hendrix
2)Jimmy Page
3)Slash
4)BB King
5)Eric Clapton
6)Stevie Ray Vaughan
7)Brian May
8.Joe Satriani
9)Tom Morello
10)Eddie Van Halen
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all awesome,,,everyone named is awesome,,how bout a prodigy

 
maybe not the best,,,,cuz I love morello,,page,,,hendrix,,,but has his own albums and has done a lot a shit,,,and is like only now 19 or so,,,,that harrison tune was on a toy guitar
 
Doobius1 said:
Anyone outside of Canada heard of Jeff Healey?
Ive never seen anyone play like this.

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Anybody who's seen the movie Road House should recognize him. He played like that because as a child that's just how he started and simply got used to doing it like that.

He's always had my respect! I just realized that he died in 2008.
 
Hookabelly said:
Yeah but Dire Straits is boring for me to listen to LOL. Does this list have to include charisma as well as technique? Or are we talking strictly guitarists who changed the way the instrument/music is played?
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I think you illustrated a good point & a question i allmost posed to the group before posting my list .

Ive been playing guitar like a hack for 50 yrs now & ive discovered there are 2 different types of players who's styles are wildly different who could be considered a top 10 player .

Youve got players who's techinal skills are worse than mine yet the runs they chose have the ability to envoke emotion & feeling .

Billy Gibbons back with songs like Blue Jean Blues & Jesus just left Chicago his blues runs are ultra simplistic yet envoke emotion .

The great BB King was another emotional player i could listen to & reflect on my life .

Rarely do players with serious technical skill envoke listeners emotions , John Mcglaughlin is a good example , the dude played highly skilled runs but his phrasing was allways machine gun guitar .

The only seriously technical player i ever saw live that could envoke emotion with complicated runs was Frank Zappa with his obscure 10 to 20 minute long runs , with any other player after a few minutes it gets to be redundant flailing , with Frank his phrasing was obscenely genious & would keep you interested at 14 minutes into a 19 minute run .

Then to watch FZ's picking style closely most guitar players would recognize his iron fingers , i dont think ive ever seen FZ play complicated repetitous runs & ever use economy picking , gain speed with each run & never loose his timing , even Steve Via uses economy picking & ive seen him do it on many songs but ive yet to see FZ economy pick .

There are different top 10 lists depending on what effect were expecting from the player .
 
I like Yngwie Malmsteen 's rising force album.
Black star and far beyond the sun especially but that whole album is pretty killer.
If I want to hear some insane guitar I like Paco de Lucia, Al Di Meola too.

I agree technical skill does not really necessarily make a better guitarist.
Tom Morello takes easy stuff and does it well. Very original and expressive . A lot of simpler guitarist have way more fans . Some just because of the band they are in and their songs.

Heres some cool Yngwie
 
panhead said:
I love your list , its good to see somebody knows who paco & Mclaughlin are .

1 Al Dimeola .

2 Paco De Lucia .

3 Steve Via .

4 Frank Zappa .

5 John Mclaughlin .

6 Warren Cucurillo .

7 Robert Fripp .

8 Adrian Belew .

9 Dweezil Zappa .

10 Tony Iommi , not for technical proficiency but for creating a genre with his riffs .
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Does Belew get extra points for being an awesome guy? If so, you can take them from Fripp for being a bit of an ass-burger.
 
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