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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 ! |
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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. |
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Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Brakn Date: 31 Jan 07 - 03:51 AM Top 100 Guitarists of All Time - LOL |
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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! |
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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!!! |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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). |
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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! |
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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....... |
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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 |
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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! |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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? |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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! |
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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 |
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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"! |
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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 |
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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 |
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Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Dartford Warbler Date: 13 Mar 07 - 10:34 AM Or this! 1952 Vincent Black Lightning |
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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 |
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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!!) |
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Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: cptsnapper Date: 13 Mar 07 - 03:26 PM What about John James? |
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Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,ash_mchash Date: 14 Mar 07 - 04:51 PM haha i only agree with 1 on this list, nobody can deny the absolute genius of the reat Jimi Hendrix, anyone who challenges that is a fool. but... where's Django Reinhardt? John Squire? Johnny Marr? Pat Methany? Rory Gallagher? Syd Barrett? David Gilmour? Valiant effort but too many holes mate sorry. |
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Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Bob Ryszkiewicz Date: 14 Mar 07 - 06:49 PM YIKES! bob |
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Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,ib48 Date: 14 Mar 07 - 07:06 PM check out isaac guillory,he is incredible |
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Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: MikkinNotts Date: 16 Mar 07 - 04:15 AM Sadley "GUEST,ib48" your post should be in the past tense "check out isaac guillory,he was incredible" As very sadly Isaac died on the last day of 2000. I had the great pleasure of seeing him play not to long before he passed away. I went to see John Renbourn & Isaac played solo and with John too. I had not heard of him before and I remember being absolutely amazed by his fantastic playing (he had a great voice too) I have found this on "Wikipedia" "Isaac Guillory passed away in 2000. His legacy is immeasurable; the music that he could cause to come forth from a guitar with such apparent grace, pleasure and ease - The man who could visualise an unlimited warmth and love for life and take us to that very special place..." I read about Isaac's sad death in the pages of "Guitar Techniques". In an article written by Eric Roche's, when he used to write an acoustic column for the magazine. Eric & I exchanged emails at the time writing about our sadness at such a great loss. How ironic was it to be that Eric to is now no longer with us. Two fantastic players who will always be at the top of my list. Mikk |
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Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: gnu Date: 18 Mar 07 - 06:55 PM This guy was "first" to a lot of homes in NA with his style. He was right on his time back then. |
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Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,harryrages Date: 19 Mar 07 - 03:11 PM There wil be some of us old enough to recall Bert Weedon - probably had more influence on aspiring guitarists than anybody in his time. How many people sat in their bedroom in the 1950's with a Bert Weedon Teach Youself Guitar. cheese cutter strings and bleeding fingers. |
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Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Tunesmith Date: 20 Mar 07 - 03:39 AM Bert Weedon's book were/are dreadful, and he wasn't a very interesting player, either! |
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Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,henry Date: 20 Mar 07 - 08:51 AM Tunesmith, you are right. But Bert was all there was at the time - well, Bert and Lonnie Donegan. Myself and three pals entered a skiffle competition in a local church hall, we were all eleven years old and Bert Weedon was judging. We played I Shall Not Be Moved and Mama don't Allow. We must have been awful but Bert wrote on the bottom of our "report" sheet - "Good effort for such youngsters". Trouble is, I never got any better! |
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Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Tunesmith Date: 20 Mar 07 - 04:33 PM henry: Inspite of my criticism, I have a "soft spot" for Bert. He used to teach guitar on some pre-Blue Peter childrens' tv show way back when. Also, I saw him live many years ago, and, although I wasn't impressed, the audience loved him. |
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Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GoodNightGracie Date: 21 Mar 07 - 11:42 AM Joseph Spence |
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Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: oggie Date: 21 Mar 07 - 09:36 PM If you allow that a dobro is a guitar then Jerry Douglas must surely be in there somewhere? All the best Steve Ogden |
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Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Sea Dew Date: 22 Mar 07 - 09:31 AM DECLAN SINNOTT by all means ! |
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Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Tunesmith Date: 22 Mar 07 - 06:09 PM A lot of posters here are listing their favourite guitarists rather than the best! For example, I have a soft spot for the painter Lowry, but I know he is certainly not one of the best artists of all time. |
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Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,henry Date: 23 Mar 07 - 04:28 PM Yes, but did he play guitar? |
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Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Tunesmith Date: 23 Mar 07 - 05:02 PM Lowry played fanastic guitar on his big hit "Matchstick Dogs and Cats"! |
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