Guitar Gods Thread
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What's your favorite guitarists, /mu/?
Judging however you want, whether it's technical prowess, songwriting, or something else.
pic related, Buckethead kicks ass
Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Zappa
Robert Fripp.
Fred Frith
Not a big deathcore guy but Lucas Mann from Rings Of Saturn is pretty fucking good. Despite that most of it is finger tapping.
The Froosh
his technique may not be impressive but i just fucking dig his style.
forever will be on of my favorites
John frusciante
Frank Zappa
John McLaughlin
Jeff beck
Jimmy page
Steve Howe
Hendrix
Buckethead
Gary Moore
Jan akkerman
Fripp
Those guys from chon
Those guys from scale the summit
Josh homme
>>61603266
Oh I and I forgot to add iommi and django reinhardt
>>61602779
solo guitar, man
remind me of how Stanley Clark uses the slap to play both sides of the neck simultaneously,
truly a guitar god.
David Gilmour.
Songs: David Gilmour
Technical: Buckethead
John Lee Hooker for pure stubborn originality
This guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BwVXtpDwEI
I fucking love Al Di Meola
>>61605975 is awesome too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVAA9xi98Ys
>>61601762
i want to like buckethead, he's a really technically great guitarist but he can't write a song worth dick t b h f a m
Suprised no one's mentioned Mark Knopfler yet
Also he's not technically amazing or anything but Simon Neil from Biffy Clyro
>>61607435
tasteless and gaudy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFlDf7Ck-N4
If you've got two and a half hour to kill
wes borland of limp bizkit & black light burns
>>61607511
Why would he hold it like a normal acoustic guitar, why not have that classical sitting posture?
>>61603298
what about the guy who plays with Billy Cobham? Tommy Bolin I think...
>>61607815
Jesus Christ I'm hard!
>>61607882
I've noticed that, he also uses incorrect right hand fingerings, like repeating his index finger multiple times rather than alternating between middle and ring fingers. His technique isn't necessarily "perfect," but he's still a damn good guitarist. As far as his right and left hand posture though, those are god-like
>>61607755
>>61607559
He's written a countless amount of gems, he just has hundreds of albums so it's difficult to sift through so many of his 'eh' songs
>no shawn lane
kill yourselfs
Toisin Thumbasi
>>61607815
this is essential dad-core for me. I love this stuff despite (or maybe because of) the "wankery"
>ctrl + f
>Jason Becker
>0/0
>Malmsteen
>0/0
You may not like their style too much, but you have to admit they are the best shredders out there.
>>61609211
Malmsteen literally just plays the harmonic minor scale fast.
guthrie govan
Dave Mustaine, his solos may be lacking and his singing garbage, but I don't think there is a single guitarist who can top his riffage.
>>61609630
This
Also, if you are into instrumental metal, Andy James
omar.
One of the best guitarists of all time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn7Y_FfLShM
>>61609870
chink power metal guitarists are robots.
>>61609906
yeeeee his composition skills are goat
Peter DiStefano
Mike Ness
John Frusciante
Dr Know
Daisy Berkowitz
Devin Townsend
Jared Dines
Buckethead
Scummy
Larry Lalonde
Joe Jack Talcum
many others
>>61609211
My nigga.
Satriani for me
>>61609906
love this guy. created a whole new genre rooted deep in the american music traditon
>>61610013
Jared Dines is not so good.
He is nice for a Youtube guy, but not so good.
Better that Stevie T.
>>61610121
Saw him live a few months ago.
Absolutely incredible.
>>61609870
He's definitely up there for best metal (lol) guitarists, I'll give him that. Post a real guitarist from a real genre instead though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95V1XJZ2xYE
>>61601762
How many albums has he released this week?
>>61603266
>gary moore
mah nigga
>>61610184
Being out of major concert range is suffering
>>61610310
Just one.
>>61610310
he releases a new album everytime he noodles on a new scale
Terry Kath is the guitar god.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uAUoz7jimg
Definitely Paul Gilbert
https://youtu.be/UxRe2x2WnQc
Allan Holdsworth
Steve Howe
Jeff Beck
Hendrix allegedly thought that Terry Kath was better than him.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DPZUgfOqAdg
No particular order:
Fred Frith, Robert Fripp, Carl-Michael Eide, Derek Bailey, Hasjarl (whatever his real name is, it's a bloody mystery), L. A. Spinetta, Caspar Brötzmann, Andrés Segovia, Davy Graham, Ernest Ranglin, Frank Zappa, Hans Reichel, John McLaughlin, Yusaf Parvez, Justin Broadrick, Allan Holdsworth, Jimi Hendrix, Keith Levene, Luc Lemay, Joni Mitchell...
I dunno. Probably more.
>>61610554
Woops, forgot to copy the article
http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/Forgotten_Heroes_Terry_Kath
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pKvNoC0SRoY
Little bit of his singing. He was known as the White Ray Charles
>>61607559
Yeah, most of his stuff is just generic guitar wankery, but some of his albums are actually really good:
>Population Override
>Colma
>Pike 13
>Albino Slug
>A Real Diamond in the Rough
>Electric Sea
And I remember liking a more recent Pike, Wall To Wall Cobwebs, but I don't really recall why I liked it or really anything about it.
>>61603316
>>61604690
>songs: David Gilmour
this
Those solos on Comfortably Numb and On The Turning Away still make me jizz every time.
Billy Bragg is a great acoustic guitarist
>>61603266
>Jan Akkerman
>John McLaughlin
Yeah buddy
>no mention of Thomas Erak, the chosen one
thanks for the lmao friends
jonny greenwood back in the day
>>61607559
Aunt Suzie is really good both technically and "emotionally"
Should I give Joe Satriani another chance? I see people praise him a lot and that he's an amazing guitarist, but I heard his first three albums and was very underwhelmed. I don't think it was his technique that was lacking, just the songs overall that left me bored.
Danny Gatton
Sonny Sharrock
Freddie King
Albert Collins
>>61610184
>Jared Dines is not so good
Eddie Hazel
Muddy Waters
Doug Martsch
John Fahey
Elizabeth Cotten
>no luke hoskin
shit taste t.b.h
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtruSyT_nz4
if that doesn't convince you he's the goat you are a cuckold who deserves all the BBC in the world
>>61611382
I say yes, but to each his own ya know?
Want reqs?
>>61611974
Sure.
Johnny Marr though
Jeff Loomis
>>61611974
Ok sorry for the wait.
Crystal Planet, most of the Strange and Beautiful Music album, If I Could Fly, Super Colossal, Crowd Chant, Pyyric Victoria and watch him jam with funtwo to Canon Rock
>>61612058
>>61613145
Redirecting, my bad
>>61613182
Thanks.
Matt Pike
>>61601970
>>61605975
>>61606172
>>61606210
>>61607511
Goog god.
Finally some good answers
BEHOLD, LIL WAYNE GUITAR GOD MASTER RACE
bump for Terry Kath
Django Reinhardt
Agustin Barrios
Robert Johnson
Merle Travis
Les Paul
Erik Petersen
Jeff Beck
>>61601762
The Greatest of all Time
>>61615505
he honestly is the best guitar playing rapper of all time.
Based Gary Moore
The shit he does live is just amazing. Plus all his guitars are gorgeous.
>>61604690
same for me
>>61609764
Sonic Youth have better riffs than Megadeth.
buckethead is autistic and you are all autistic plebs
steve vai is fuck also
