favorite guitarist?

1.Kirk Hammet

2.James Hetfield

3.Kurt Cobain

4.That Deftones Dude....

Paul Gilbert !!
STEVE VAI!!!!
and also..the late KURT COBAIN!

I could'nt believe that it was page 7 before anyone (RAC5150 I think) nominated Eric Clapton. Eric may have copped his tone and most of his licks from the great bluesmen, however, he is a great guitarist in his own right and in common with my other favorites can express a feeling with some simple licks and bends ans stuff. Great guitar playing does not have to be flashy or display a high level of technical skill. If the riff or solo hits the spot then the guitar player has done his job (right Luigi Cabrini). So here goes my top guitarists in no particular order:- Jimmy Page - SRV - Muddy Waters - Paul Kossoff - Dave Gilmour - Chuck Berry - Keith Richard

[Edited by howie50 on 12-03-2000 at 02:48 PM]

I like your picks howie, so i'm curious, who is paul kossoff?
I could never choose a favorite guitarrist, let alone one who i think is best. However, some guys i like are Joe Pass, Pat Metheny, Wes Montgomery, Scott Henderson, etc.

To Luigi - Paul Kossoff was the guitar player in Free you've probably heard their biggest hit 'All Right Now' they played blues based rock, sadly Paul committed suicide at the height of the band's fame in the early 70's. Free also featured one of rock's best vocalists in Paul Rodgers who went on to form Bad Company. Paul Kossoff I believe favoured a Les Paul and had tone to die for, a very expressive player with his own distinctive style. More of my favourites are (I was tired when I posted last) - The 3 Kings, BB,Freddie and Albert, Robert Cray, Pete Townshend and of course Jimi Hendrix, Rory Gallagher also springs to mind but hey, I could go on forever. Like you I find it hard to pick out a favourite there are so many great players out there - I forgot Carlos Santana - There is no best guitarist it's all a matter of personal preference.

[Edited by howie50 on 12-04-2000 at 03:51 PM]

Ah ok, yes I am familiar with free, yeah they had some tasty guitar playing. The world needs more people like you who realize that there exists no such thing as a best guitarrist, I hate it when I hear people declare that person X was the greatest and will actually argue if you try to refute them. Me I don't even listen to guitarrists all that much anymore, I mean I do, but the majority of stuff I listened to tends to be more horn based, at least half, there's lots of music out there and there's no reason to limit yourself.

My Favourit guitar player is the unbelieveable, Mr Eric Jhonson and Mr Balawan from Bali, he's style is more like stanley jordan

Gary Moore
SRV
Eddie

Some of my favorite players are:
Johnny "Guitar" Watson. Hands down one of the unknown greats! Born in 1935 his slashing licks are known to have jumped over genres to influence people like Etta James, Sly Stone, Jimi Hendrix, and Steavie Ray Vaughan. If you ever heard Space Guitar and you knew that he never used a pick on that track you would and could understand why his music had such an impact. Prince, George Clinton and Rick James each recognized Watson's towering influence. He was not only a great guitarist but a pianist and saxophonist. Never-the-less in the 528 pages of Shaw's text, subtitled The Golden Years Of Rythm And Blues, Johnny "Guitar" Watson's name was never mentioned, not even as a footnote.
"The writers don't know who the real cats are. Only other cats know that. They'll testify. They'll let you know you shaped their souls. Look, man, I came up at a time when, far as music goes, you couldn't **** around. You either knew how to play or not; you either could sing or not. There was no faking the ****. The people who heard me then, heard me good and loud. I made my impression, and no book can change that fact."
Johnny "Guitar" Watson

Others in no particular order;
B B King
Walter "Wolfman" Washington
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
Smokin' Joe Kubek
Little Jimmy King
Barbara Lynn
Carlos Santana
Eric Clapton

SRV
Slash
David Gilmour

Eddie Van Halen, hands down. :)

OK I DO NOT HAVE A FAVORITE AND I NEVER HAD A FAV SINCE I PICKED UP THE GUITAR AT THE AGE OF 6 AND NOW IM 15. BUT I DO KNOW PLENTY OF PEOPLE THAT ARE GOOD AND AMAZING. STARTING FROM THE BEST TO THE LEAST IN MY OPINION SOME OF U HAVE DIFFERENT OPINIONS

1.STEVE VAI
2.JOE SATRIANI
3.EDDIE VAN HALEN OR RANDY RHOADS, EVEN THOUGH THEY BOTH HAD CLOSE TO THE SAME STYLE BOTH OF THEM COULD WIPP EACH OTHERS A^$# IN DIFFERENT PLAYING TECHNIQUES.
4.RED BEACH IS PRETTY AWESOME.
5.GOERGE LYNCH IS AWESOME.
6.ZAKK WHYLDE IS GOOD
7.PROBALEY LAST WOULD BE YNGWIE MALEMSTEIN I NEVER REALLY DID ADMIRE HIM THAT MUCH EVEN THOUGH HE IS ONE OF THE MANY MASTERS OF WRITING CLASSICAL MUSIC.

BUT THE PERSON THAT I CANNOT STAND IS KURT COBAIN HE GETS SO OVERRATED THAT IT MAKES ME SICK. HE HAS TO BE ONE OF THE MOST SLOPPIEST GUITAR PLAYERS I HAVE EVER HEARD ALONG WITH MICK MARS EVEN THOUGH MICK IS A MUCH BETTER SONG WRITTER.

I can appreciate that Vai, Malmsteen and others like them are technically profficient, even brilliant, however their music leaves me cold, there's nothing in it, I find it neither joyful nor sad, it just seems to be emotionless and machine like. Kurt Cobain and Nirvana on the other hand while maybe sloppy players have a sense of purpose. Their songs and playing express the feelings inside them, rage, frustration, boredom, hope and so on. Their rock really rocks, while the likes of Malmsteen prefer to show off their skills. This is not a put down, just a point of view. I prefer music to give me a slap round the face, to make me think, to sing in the shower, or just to make me feel good. I think Lou Reed once said two chords is rock and roll, any more and you're getting into jazz. Keith Richard said (something like) all you need to play rock and roll is 3 chords, 2 fingers and 1 a*&hole. Right Keef!

Slash
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Buckethead
Morello

1) stanly jordan
2) paul gilbert
3) eric clapton
4) santana
5) that guy from steely dan

My favorites in order are:

Joe Perry
Brad Whitford
Angus Young
Slash
Stevie Ray Vaughan



[Edited by zeews on 02-01-2001 at 02:16 AM]

Originally posted by john costa
.....5) that guy from steely dan

*Walter Becker :)

I don't believe any of you really play guitar and appreciate the instrument.
All the guitarists named all use massive Fx's, especially none other than the Virtuoso Mr Hendrix.
You probably have never heard the Hendrix stuff which made him popular.His earlier stuff was very blusey and somewhat even jazz, with very few effects.A bit of reverb and that was all.

My favourite guitarist was made know to me because of the period I grew up in.It's the lead man of Dire Straits, Mark Knopfler. The few people who know him do because
of songs like "money for nothin'". This was purely a commercialised song.Just like Hendrix with "Foxy Lady".No talent is shown in either song.

Slash on the other hand is a talented guitarist and he'll tell you he doesn't pretend to be anything other than a Glamourised American rock guitarist.(Although he comes from Stoke,England) So my message is..
THINK CAREFULLY BEFORE CHOOSING YOUR IDOL!!

Originally posted by RG Lloyd
I don't believe any of you really play guitar and appreciate the instrument.

*Oh, Really........(I guess for the last 28 years I've been just foolin' myself..)....Get real, dude.....I don't know how old you are, but if you're holding Slash up on a mantle, than itz safe to say I was writing tunes on my first POS guitar through a borrowed amp while you were still drooling....THE important part is that musucians play music, WHATEVER QUALITY OR EFFECT USED....You younger guitar players today like to talk about how "awesome" Hendrix and Page, etc.. were in their day and what heroes they were....Yuk, yuk....Half the time, their axes were outa tune and amps were smokin' on stage all the time.....To them it was simply playing music...It's just that the crowds kept getting larger and the cults were created.....RULE #1: MUSICIANS KEEP PLAYING MUSIC !!! (Your opinion of what is and what is not is noted....But that doesn't make it true...) .....BTW, I CAN assure you that the royalty checks I recieve are for real and you know what talks and what walks (After all, this IS a business)....'nuff said...The V has spoken......LAST NOTE: I saw Frank Zappa play in a Castle court-yard in west Germany in '82......There AIN'T nothin' else after that !



[Edited by LEEtheV on 02-09-2001 at 11:19 PM]

Yeah RG Lloyd, get reall man...
believe me ,that there are lots of guitarist that can blow knofler, or slash or even hendrix anytime...
ever heard the name brian may??
or richie blackmore???
believe me richie blackmore was 10 times better player then hendrix or slash....and even if your opinion different from mine, dont tell i dont apreciate the guitar man....
believe me slash and knofler are much more commercial musicians than blackmore ever was....