Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: cptsnapper Date: 13 Mar 07 - 03:26 PM What about John James? |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: MikkinNotts Date: 13 Mar 07 - 11:26 AM Tunesmith "I not sure Richard Thompson should be near the top of the acoustic list." I most certainly am !! " I've always been disappointed with his tone." Wot!! Have you seen him play live!! " It's probably because he plays electric guitar so much. To be a really great acoustic player, a guitarist would really need to totally devote themselves to being "un-pluged"! " Now your just being silly !! Thanks "Dartford" for pointing the uninitiated in the right direction Mikk (Beating a very hasty Retreat!!) |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Stringsinger Date: 13 Mar 07 - 11:15 AM Burl Ives...he could do more with less. Frank Hamilton |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Dartford Warbler Date: 13 Mar 07 - 10:34 AM Or this! 1952 Vincent Black Lightning |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Dartford Warbler Date: 13 Mar 07 - 10:26 AM Dear GUEST,Tunesmith (13 Mar 07 - 07:03 AM) If this isn't acoustic, then I'm the Hokey Pokey man! : Beeswing |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Eric Date: 13 Mar 07 - 09:47 AM BEN HARPER .....is the man on top |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Tunesmith Date: 13 Mar 07 - 07:03 AM I not sure Richard Thompson should be near the top of the acoustic list. I've always been disappointed with his tone. It's probably because he plays electric guitar so much. To be a really great acoustic player, a guitarist would really need to totally devote themselves to being "un-pluged"! |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: MikkinNotts Date: 13 Mar 07 - 05:29 AM There are some good player in the Top 100 Acoustic List BUT….. Richard Tompson of course has to be very near the top of this list as well. And the exclusion of these mighty fine players is a travesty of justice. The late great Issaac Guillory The sadly missed Eric Roche Roy's there but Nick knocks socks off his Dad Little known but world class player and luthier Steve Hicks I suppose that is the very nature of compiling lists. Somebody is always going to be excluded. Mikk |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Dartford Warbler Date: 12 Mar 07 - 05:12 PM
That is my current top 6. But RT will always be there in first place! |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Wayne Date: 12 Mar 07 - 04:49 PM 1. Stephen Stills 2. Gary Richrath 3. Davy Graham 4. Julie Ellison 5. Dan Fogelberg That's my fave five, for what it's worth. What they have in common is the ability to play convincingly in a number of styles. Richie Blackmore would have been in there if he hadn't influenced all those fret-wank shredders. |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,preben Date: 12 Mar 07 - 04:22 PM vey good list, but i think Kirk Hammet of Metallica shoul be number 2! you got to hear him over and over again and studdie him a bit more. |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,in the mind Date: 06 Mar 07 - 02:49 PM This forum is intended for the use of articulate people able to construct proper sentences, expressing valid points of view. It's not for irrational adolescent outbursts. You need three things 1. counselling 2.dictionary 3.spellcheck. |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,in the flesh Date: 06 Mar 07 - 04:44 AM my fucking god, fuck you, you poser geek, your list affends me, where is david gilmour, why is there no talk on him, fuck all these randoms, 1. hendrix/page 2.clapton 3.gilmour 4.tommy emanuel |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Lucius Date: 25 Feb 07 - 08:00 PM Considering that most of the ÒguitaristsÓ that Rolling Stone included are of the genre that requires amplifiers endowed with large wattage, they should at least be intellectually honest. Either lose Bert Jansch and Joni Mitchell and add Martin Barre, or some other rocker like Ian Hunter, or as someone else said, explain the criteria. Personally, IÕm waiting for next monthÕs feature ÒWhat is the most popular stripe on the american flag?Ó. |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Dartford Warbler Date: 25 Feb 07 - 07:55 PM Good to see Tommy Emmanuel there, but where the hell is Richard Thompson this time? |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Lord Soken Date: 25 Feb 07 - 07:47 PM No-one ever saw this bloke as a popular performer - including me - but his books encouraged many a spotty teenager to pickup a guitar and go on to great things. Let's give Bert Weeden a bit of credit. |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Alex Unrein Date: 25 Feb 07 - 07:32 PM horrible list, cobain at 12 and eddie van halen at 70, all cobain did was play chords and slow acoustic, eddie put together maybe the best solo of alltime-ERUPTION, if you told cobain to play eruption it would take months maybe for him to even come close to it, now if you told eddie to play any nirvana song he would just listen to it and have it down |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: jojofolkagogo Date: 20 Feb 07 - 01:12 PM Oh, No dont tell me there are at LEAST one hundred of them !!! Jo-Jo |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Jon Date: 19 Feb 07 - 11:15 AM What about dave mustaine from megadeth he is way better than kirk from metallica i dont see him on the list and randy rhoads 85 tony iommi 86 eddie van hallen 70 there behind all these no names and chuck berry wasnt even that good same with kurt kurban jimmy page should be first or 2nd |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Don Firth Date: 06 Feb 07 - 10:06 PM Andy McKee (link just above) does some pretty interesting stuff on the guitar and he obviously does what he does with a great deal of facility. But when I see something like that, I'm reminded of a classic guitarist who was playing at a restaurant where my wife and I ate a couple of years ago. He played pretty well, but I noticed that I had never heard any of the pieces he was playing before. And after he played four or five pieces, they all started sounding the same. When he took a break, I got to talking with him. He'd taken about six months worth of lessons from a teacher in town that I knew (good teacher) and from that point on, he was self-taught. Everything he played, he'd written himself, he said with a touch of pride. I pressed the questions a bit. Could he play, say, "Recuerdos de la Alhambra," Tarrega's "Tremolo Study?" No. Could he play "Romance de Amor," a lovely, but fairly simple piece by Anonymous, that almost everyone, classic guitarist or not, takes a shot at? No. Could he play, say, Tarrega's "Lagrima" (a piece my teacher had me playing about two months after I started)? No. How about a Fernando Sor study or two? Uh. . . . No. In fact, all he could play were pieces he had worked out himself. They consisted primarily of moving the three bar chords he knew reasonably well up and down the neck while he played arpeggio patterns with his right hand. Not, I would say, on anyone's very long list of "top guitarists." So when I see someone playing stuff he fairly obviously worked out himself, I tend to wonder if he can play anything written by someone else. Don Firth |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,282RA Date: 06 Feb 07 - 09:28 PM I can't see Kurt Cobain on any such list over guys like Cliff Gallup (Gene Vincent's axe man) or John Goodsall of Brand X. And a few others have wondered why there's no mention of Django or Carlos Montoya. Indeed. |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,mike Date: 06 Feb 07 - 09:30 AM I was just about to post the last comment. Moving on indeed! |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: dj bass Date: 06 Feb 07 - 08:46 AM Have a look at Andy Mckee http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddn4MGaS3N4 The guitar has moved on a lot. dj |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Billy Nord Date: 06 Feb 07 - 07:46 AM The WORST list I ever saw........ Where are : Allan Holdsworth Al Di Meola Steve Vai Yngwie Malmsteen Paul Gilbert Frank Gambale Pat Metheny John Petrucci Are people getting payed to make the list ??? Earn your money next time !!! Geee....... |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: frogprince Date: 05 Feb 07 - 09:52 PM I've been fortunate enough to hear Carlos Montoya, Doc Watson, and Pat Donahue live. My only regret was that Doc wasn't playing solo, so I couldn't pick out just how much of the gorgeous stuff was him personally. I would put Pat Donahue way, way up the list of those in the business today; absolutely stunning in a small concert setting. But I've heard so many lesser-known people with beautiful individual styles, god only knows who the best thousand guitar players are! |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: LukeKellylives (Chris) Date: 05 Feb 07 - 09:30 PM I, personally, think Paul Brady, my brother's friend from The Tony Danza Tap Dance Extravaganza (wish I knew his name; amazing player), and Adam from Murder by Death (folk rock/strange as hell band). |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Greg B Date: 05 Feb 07 - 09:05 PM Don't forget that Leo Kottke credits Pete Seeger playing 'Living in the Country' for inspiring him to take up the 12-string. |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: fumblefingers Date: 05 Feb 07 - 08:43 PM I don't like any guitar picker who: 1. destroys his instrument on stage. 2. Relies on a wave stick, fuzz box, wah-wah, etc. 3. Sets fires on stage. 4. Can't keep his dope dosage straight. |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,r.i.p dimebag Darrell Date: 05 Feb 07 - 08:21 PM why isn't dime bag darrell?I think he should be #30 |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Chip Date: 05 Feb 07 - 08:02 PM If Hendrix is #1 I am the Duke of Earl. For the a list to be meaningful it would have to be divided by genre, you can't compare a flat picker to a rocker. |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,mick metalhead Date: 05 Feb 07 - 07:50 PM i agree! Angus Young is the alltime greatest! No question!his solo in "Razor's Edge" is freakin sweet. He's the only one i know of who can roll around on stage and not mess u. 4 those of you who don't agree, DEAL WITH IT!!! |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,mrguitar Date: 05 Feb 07 - 07:43 PM Angus Young rocks! he's the greatest! |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Brakn Date: 31 Jan 07 - 03:51 AM Top 100 Guitarists of All Time - LOL |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Tim theTwangler Date: 31 Jan 07 - 01:39 AM Buffy Saint Marie,Bonny Raitt,Dick Appleton. |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: DriveForever Date: 31 Jan 07 - 12:41 AM Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter (Steely Dan) definitely deserves to be in the top 5. Eric Johnson also, one of the best fusion guitarists ever. It was good that Ms. Mitchell was not overlooked; though not a 'lead' guitarist in the traditional sense, she contributed greatly with her system of open tunings. XJapan's Hide ! |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Zany Mouse Date: 30 Jan 07 - 05:21 PM Mick Pearce does it for me (and he is getting better all the time!) Rhiannon |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Tunesmith Date: 30 Jan 07 - 05:00 PM Brent Mason is the most fabulous guitarist in the world. He is Hendrix,Django,Benson and Albert Lee rolled into one. |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Scoville Date: 30 Jan 07 - 04:19 PM That's what I was thinking, M.Ted. Sort of an exercise in futility, really. |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: M.Ted Date: 30 Jan 07 - 04:17 PM Easier, by far, to make a list of a hundred "top" guitarists than to lay out the criteria for what constitutes a "top" guitarist. |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Blindlemonsteve Date: 30 Jan 07 - 04:02 PM How about the late great "Carl Perkins", or even "Brian Setzer", and how on earth could eddie Cochran have been no 84, every Electric guitar in England had a wound "G" string until he showed us the way, he was a god, and possibly one of the greatest losses in the world of music in the last 50 years. |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Paco Rabanne Date: 30 Jan 07 - 11:38 AM Jeronimo Maya Vicente Amigo Paco de Lucia Sabicas Diego del Gastor Nino Ricardo Paco del Gastor Moraito Tomatito Gerardo Nunez Resistance is futile.... |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Rusty Dobro Date: 30 Jan 07 - 09:31 AM Roy Harper - Diz Disley - Ike Isaacs - Blind Blake - Ivor Biggun. |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: John Hardly Date: 30 Jan 07 - 09:07 AM stumbled upon this top 100 acoustic players... 1. Michael Hedges 2. Leo Kottke 3. Chet Atkins 4. Phil Keaggy 5. John Fahey 6. Adrian Legg 7. Merle Travis 8. John Renbourn 9. Bert Jansch 10. Tommy Emmanuel 11. Norman Blake 12. Doc Watson 13. Preston Reed 14. Nick Webb 15. Tony Rice 16. Jorma Kaukonen 17. Laurence Juber 18. Martin Carthy 19. William Ackerman 20. Sandy Bull 21. John Martyn 22. Don Ross 23. Billy McLaughlin 24. Doyle Dykes 25. Steve Tibbetts 26. David Bromberg 27. Peter Lang 28. Kelly Joe Phelps 29. Alex deGrassi 30. Davy Graham 31. Martin Simpson 32. Monte Montgomery 33. Muriel Anderson 34. G.E. Stinson 35. Pierre Bensusan 36. Bill Mize 37. Al Petteway 38. Peter Finger 39. Craig Chaquico 40. Greg Carmichael 41. Tim Reynolds 42. Pat Kirtley 43. Peter Huttlinger 44. Benjamin Woolman 45. Stephen Bennett 46. Richard Smith 47. Roy Harper 48. Edward Gerhard 49. Peter Rowan 50. Sam Pacetti 51. Kaki King 52. Stefan Grossman 53. El McMeen 54. Miles Gilderdale 55. Eric Tingstad 56. Sean Harkness 57. Doug Smith 58. Peter Ostroushko 59. Tommy Jones 60. D.R. Auten 61. Dirk Freymuth 62. Dan Schwartz 63. Peter Roller 64. Paul Geremia 65. Douglas Niedt 66. William Coulter 67. Tim Farrell 68. Arlen Roth 69. Joni Mitchell 70. Chris Smither 71. Andrew York 72. Jerry Reed 73. Gayla Drake Paul 74. Artie Traum 75. Richard Johnson 76. Thom Bresch 77. David Wilcox 78. Kenny Sultan 79. Steve Baughman 80. Buster B. Jones 81. Robbie Basho 82. Peppino D'Agostino 83. Pat Donohue 84. Mike Dowling 85. Tony McManus 86. Dave Mallany 87. Tim Sparks 88. David Grier 89. Orville Johnson 90. Brooks Williams 91. George Villiers 92. Rick Ruskin 93. Greg Neaga 94. Dorian Michael 95. Charles David Alexander 96. Tom Long 97. Richard Gilewitz 98. Jim Earp 99. Tracy Moore 100. Michael Dunn and this top 100 pre-war acoustic guitarists... 1. Kokomo Arnold 2. Pink Anderson 3. Ed Andrews 4. Son Becky 5. Ed Bell 6. Black Ace 7. Scrapper Blackwell 8. Kid Bailey 9. Willie Baker 10. Blind Blake 11. Billy Bird 13. Ishman Bracey 14. Big Bill Broonzy 15. William Brown 16. Willie Brown 17. Bo Carter 18. Joe Callicott 19. Rev Edward Clayborn 20. Kid Cole 21. Bob Coleman 22. Walter Coleman 23. Sam Collins 24. Blind Teddy Darby 25. Rev. Gary Davis 26. Little Buddy Doyle 27. Honeyboy Edwards 28. Frank Edwards 29. Sleepy John Estes 30. Blind Boy Fuller 31. Blind Roosevelt Graves 32. Richard "Hacksaw" Harney 33. Blind Willie Harris 34. Willie Harris 35. Buddy Boy Hawkins 36. Johnnie Head 37. Barbecue Bob Hicks 38. King Solomon Hill 39. Lightnin' Hopkins 40. Son House 41. Peg Leg Howell 42. Mississippi John Hurt 43. Bo Weevil Jackson 44. Skip James 45. Blind Lemon Jefferson 46. Blind Willie Johnson 47. Lonnie Johnson 48. Robert Johnson 49. Tommy Johnson 50. Coley Jones 51. Little Hat Jones 52. Charley Jordan 53. Rube Lacy 54. Furry Lewis 55. Mance Lipscomb 56. Robert Jr. Lockwood 57. Carl Martin 58. Tommy McClennan 59. Charlie McCoy 60. Kansas Joe McCoy 61. Mississippi Fred McDowell 62. Blind Willie McTell 63. Memphis Minnie 64. William Moore 65. Buddy Moss 66. Sonny Boy Nelson 67. Isaiah Nettles 68. Hambone Willie Newbern 69. Robert Nighthawk 70. Blind Benny Paris 71. Charley Patton 72. Robert Petway 73. Eugene Powell 74. Willie Reed 75. Blind Joe Reynolds 76. Walter Rhodes 77. Mooch Richardson 78. Sonny Scott 79. Johnny Shines 80. Jaydee Short 81. J.T. "Funny Paper" Smith 82. Frank Stokes 83. Blind Joe Taggert 84. Tampa Red (Hudson Whittaker) 85. Johnnie Temple 86. Elvie Thomas 87. Henry Thomas 88. Ramblin' Thomas 89. Henry Townsend 90. Walter Vincson 91. Otto Virgial 92. Uncle Bud Walker 93. Willie Walker 94. Rev. I. B. Ware 95. Curley Weaver 96. Sylvester Weaver 97. Casey Bill Weldon 98. Peetie Wheatstraw 99. Bukka White 100. Robert Wilkins |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Nick Date: 30 Jan 07 - 08:59 AM >>I have always felt that Jimi was highly over rated, a lot of great playing but lacking in any inate subtlety or understatement. He is a great rock player but not a great guitarist. I don't think he was overrated in his own time but I think listening to a lot of his material now it sounds limited, dated and often too rooted round pentatonic blues scales with some over the top pyrotechnics thrown in. However... and it's a big one Some of his playing is beautifully understated,lyrical, melodic and subtle. Wind Cries Mary - Little Wing - rhythm playing on Angel - 1983 on Electric Ladyland - unaccompanied piece at the end of Woodstock - are a few that immediately come to mind. And as a straight blues player (when he does it) he stands up there with the best. |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST Date: 30 Jan 07 - 08:38 AM I have always felt that Jimi was highly over rated, a lot of great playing but lacking in any inate subtlety or understatement. He is a great rock player but not a great guitarist. |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Alec Date: 30 Jan 07 - 06:55 AM Or Somebody nobody has ever heard of... (Well it could happen) |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Nick Date: 30 Jan 07 - 06:50 AM What about Steve Vai - stunning guitarist (who I think eclipses his teacher Joe Satriani) Or Jan Akkerman... Or Eric Johnson... |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Big Al Whittle Date: 29 Jan 07 - 05:49 PM So we're all agreed .....complete load of crap. some journalist talking bollocks for this weeks paycheck. too much of that stuff going on. |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST Date: 29 Jan 07 - 01:16 PM With all due respect, how can any list that puts George Harrison above Mark Knopfler be taken seriously. As for Hendrix as the all time best, I would disagree and put Eric Clapton, Ellen MacIllwaine and Stevie Ray ahead of him. Just my opinion tho. |
Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST Date: 29 Jan 07 - 01:13 PM Where is Bruce Cockburn, Martin Simpson, Paco delucia, Ellen MacIllwaine, Yangwe Malmsteen. My Top man would be Lenny Breau. |
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