Thread of List...........Guitarist

[Rory Sparrow]

In regards to guitarists who have same first/last name, I would have had Steve Stevens on the list over Dave Davies.

Possibly the most 1980's sounding guitar solo in music history...

 

[BaBaBlacksheep]

Did BearsBud make the list?

 

[Xuder O'Clam]

If this is for R&R guitar, you cannot go without mentioning Link Wray, father of the power chord with vibrato, feedback, and distortion, in 1958. All attitude.

 

[Leomaz]

If this is for R&R guitar, you cannot go without mentioning Link Wray, father of the power chord with vibrato, feedback, and distortion, in 1958. All attitude.

Great Song.....always a great song to drive home from Chicago with

 

[number51]

If this is for R&R guitar, you cannot go without mentioning Link Wray, father of the power chord with vibrato, feedback, and distortion, in 1958. All attitude.

I knew I heard that somewhere before.

 

[LordKOTL]

I have to give a shoutout for this thread to the late Corey Smoot, Brent Purgason, and Michael Derks:

a.k.a Flattus Maximus, Pustulus Maximus, and Balzac: The Jaws of Death. from GWAR

Considering the fact that, based on personal observation for the last 22 years, those three were able to play every track live, without messing up or playing slower than studio to keep up (especially on tracks like "Womb with a View"), and do so not only while wearing massive rubber costumes but also fighting 2-story anamatronic T-rexes while fake blood and other bodily fluids spew forth over them and the pit...that's gotta count for something.

 

[nc0gnet0]

Rik Emmit could out play most of those 100.

 

[BearDen]

Rik Emmit could out play most of those 100.

Not anyone I listed, zero chance.

 

[nc0gnet0]

Not anyone I listed, zero chance.

I don't see a list from you anywhere on this thread, but I highly doubt you could come up with 100 more proficient.

 

[Omeletpants]

and no Chuck Berry..........this thread is a clown car

 

[DC]

The only way to kill omelet pants is to unilaterally put him on ignore. A mass protest. He's like a cockroach. A dumb, wrinkly ass cockroach.

 

[number51]

and no Chuck Berry..........this thread is a clown car

You didn't even read the thread, you are a nightmare, a fun siphon, the destroyer of joy.

26. Chuck Berry

You stupid old ****, go away.

 

[Omeletpants]

The only way to kill omelet pants is to unilaterally put him on ignore. A mass protest. He's like a cockroach. A dumb, wrinkly ass cockroach.

That's one school of thought

 

[KittiesKorner]

what a way to spend a retirement

 

[nc0gnet0]

There is no “best” guitarist. At a certain point, you could become skilled, creative, and innovative enough to have your name in the discussion, but there is no, nor will there ever be, the goat guitarist.

That is kinda the key......to name a list of the "best" guitarist, you first have to define what you qualify as "best".

Influential does not equal best.
Innovative does not equal best.

All admirable traits mind you, and deserving of lists of their own.

Best would seem to imply that if you gave all the listed guitarist lets say 50 different guitar pieces to play, in several different genre's, to be played on acoustic, electric, steel, etc guitars, who could replicate them the best.

Also, names left of the list because of the OP's preferred genre (he didn't say rock guitarist)

Steve Howe
Glen Campbell
Roy Clark

 

[Leomaz]

That is kinda the key......to name a list of the "best" guitarist, you first have to define what you qualify as "best".

Influential does not equal best.
Innovative does not equal best.

All admirable traits mind you, and deserving of lists of their own.

Best would seem to imply that if you gave all the listed guitarist lets say 50 different guitar pieces to play, in several different genre's, to be played on acoustic, electric, steel, etc guitars, who could replicate them the best.

Also, names left of the list because of the OP's preferred genre (he didn't say rock guitarist)

Steve Howe
Glen Campbell
Roy Clark

But I did say that I could have another 100 names that were left off. Maybe 200.

 

[nc0gnet0]

And why is it Bonnie Rait gets included in so many of these lists, is it the need to put a female or two on the list? Isn't Nancy Wilson a better player?

 

[Leomaz]

And why is it Bonnie Rait gets included in so many of these lists, is it the need to put a female or two on the list? Isn't Nancy Wilson a better player?

Depends. They are both very good guitarist different styles and genres of music. John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin is actually a very talented guitarist in his own right. There are so many great guitar players I’m sure every body’s top ten would be vastly different

 

[nc0gnet0]

Depends. They are both very good guitarist different styles and genres of music. John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin is actually a very talented guitarist in his own right. There are so many great guitar players I’m sure every body’s top ten would be vastly different

How do you define best? Not sure how you can allow personal favorites to influence this (for instance I despise country, but cannot deny the talent of Roy Clark or Glen Campbell).

In all fairness, you never said "best" in your original post, but that is the direction the thread took.

 

[nc0gnet0]