Greatest Guitarist?
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Who according to /mu/ is the greatest guitarist of all time? All genres acceptable.
Jimi Hendrix - Machine Gun is enough of a reason
Eddie Hazel is a close second
>>63714832
Actually never heard of the second guy
My opinion: Jimi Hendrix.
Mother fucker played a right-handed guitar left-handed, and played it with his fucking teeth.
I still don't understand how you can do that.
Mississippi John Hurt
Old: Hendrix and Gilmour
New: Guthrie Govan
>>63714851
He was the lead guitarist in Parliament-Funkadelic, listen to the track 'Maggot Brain' for a good example of his talent
>>63714832
every guitarist for the rest of time is just playing for second desu
Johnny Winter and Eric Clapton come close on rare occasions but it's still not even close
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>>63714763
Obviously Fripp
>>63714855
All theatrics my man
Guthrie Govan or Malmsteen, maybe Hendrix instead.
Fuck you rockists. I don't know what the greatest guitarist is but I know it isn't a rock guitar player
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Carlos Alomar is in my top 10 and has a lot of my favorite riffs and solos of all time
#1 is probably Hendrix or Fripp
Eddie Hazel is a really close second, actually I think for me he's tied in first place with Hendrix
>>63715556
oh fuck off. there is no definitive greatest guitarist of all time. there are plenty of greats that played in rock bands
>>63715556
Yeah it's obviously a metal player
>>63715542
Malmsteen really? Speed for speeds sake.
>>63715627
Pic not related
>>63715360
Clapton is overrated as shit
>>63715652
It's not just speed dude. He really is good. If he was just doing alternate picking and sweeping the pentatonic you'd have a point, but he's pretty damn good.
No one said Belew yet...
>>63715729
Meh he lacks feel or something, if you want a brilliant underrated guitarist listen to rory gallagher. Taste by Taste is a great album and his former band
>>63715783
I've actually heard of him, he's pretty baller.
>>63715556
Blues players maybe?
>>63715794
Yeah he was our first guitar hero, also Gary Moore is a great blues player, heard of thin lizzy?
>>63715681
95% of his stuff is, but his good stuff is second only to maybe Jimi Hendrix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ym7Lsqj90c
>>63715836
Page, Gallagher, Richards, SRV all blow him outta the water desu.
>>63715864
>Page
>Richards
>SRV
Ok now you're just trolling
>>63715666
yeah, id agree with that. i don't think zappa is a great rock guitarist, just great in general. i just had to tell that cheeky cunt off
>>63715884
Stevie Ray Vaughan > Clapton by a country mile my friend.
>>63715904
He tried as hard as he could to copy Jimi Hendrix and had no style whatsoever
>>63715884
Page and Keef too for that matter.
>>63715922
Now you're just trolling me haha
>>63715884
the last thing page was know for was his playing, amazing songwriter but his playing is pretty mediocre
>>63715977
Pft. Some nights yeah he was pretty sloppy but his rah performance and msg are brilliant imo
>>63716019
>>63715977
Also the 1969 tv performance in like Sweden or something is fucking incredible. My favorite work by him personally
>>63715353
california dreamin' is a great tune too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqDGTT2OtsQ
>>63716069
Danmarks Radio 1969 I think, brilliant performance.
>>63716019
>>63716069
Are you guys joking, this literally sounds like a high schooler on guitar
https://youtu.be/HJZHh-FiRz0?t=512 (8:30-ish)
This is the only legitimately impressive performance I can think of, sound quality is shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ha7DW1KPOI
>>63716314
Anon thinks Page is sloppy and bad. I'm sure you're miles better? Also whatever retard said srv had no style gave me hiv.
>>63714763
this board is a joke
>>63716384
People like you create the "dadrock" stereotype
>>63714832
not even reading the rest of the thread because this is the answer right here, SRV could be tossed around for second imo. John Mayer is probably the greatest "new" guitarist
>>63716475
https://youtu.be/hLWm9GRRsN8
>Srv could be tossed around
Jesus, are you all 60 years old? Post actual talent
>>63716414
Reasons?
>>63716537
>>63716475
Wait I read that wrong sorry I thought you were dissing him
>>63716537
>>63716384
Page is sloppy and bad
>>63716528
Lots of technical skill but this just backs up
>>63715922
It's just rehearsed licks and runs that he probably, no definitely stole from Hendrix
Jimmy Page
>>63714763
according to me: frank zappa
according to /mu/: probably annie clark or something stupid
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Robert Plant
>>63716648
Well it's hendrix's song but stevie has his own style and image.
My opinion is the best
>>63716537
This
>but muh blooz
>>63714855
He put the strings on the way a left handed player usually would, not cool at all.
Albert King, that fucking guy truly played a righty as a lefty.
Underrated guitarists?
There's not very many rock guitarists bringing something unique to the table anymore. Denison is in no way technically flashy, or an astounding virtuoso, but he did have his very own style/sound and that's got to count for something.
>>63716446
this is basically /r/guitar
4chan and reddit are the same
>>63716727
Jack White?
>>63716735
You mean mostly dominated by generation y and z middle class males? Yeah we're pretty similar. Fuck off with the cliquey fagshit.
>>63714855
Playing with your teeth doesn't make you good, nor did it sound good either
>>63716648
plus he's like 30-probably 40 in that video
the gimmicks are just pathetic
>>63716772
Fuck Jack White. Go listen to the Gories to see where White got his "unique" sound from.
>>63716699
The very father of rock and roll itself.
>uhh recenr stuff pls?
I personally don't believe some tool strumming two chords passes for a good guitar player and most of them nowadays are like that, this was based on the beat guitar player not recent ones.
Thurston Moore is up there I think.
>>63716788
Sounds copy-pasted from reddit, minus the "fag" in shit. Just reconfirmed it, retard
Plini
>All these rock guitarists
My vote goes to this bald motherfucker.
Django Reinhardt is also a god, considering he played with only two fingers on his left hand.
>>63715627
another one of my favorites
>>63716895
I'm just saying if you waste your time on 4chan hating on reddit you're guaranteed underage. No adult fucking cares what other websites you frequent.
>>63716845
But they are the best. Name a more technically and musically advanced duo
>>63716938
4chan does
>>63716985
Yeah 4chan is largely high schoolers so it's not surprising that they are overfocused on cliquey inconsequential and shallow bullshit.
>>63714763
He's not even my personal favorite but anyone who denies Jimi Hendrix as the best guitar player of all time has no appreciation for guitar playing or is trying to be a special snowflake
>>63717015
lol, good man
>>63716926
Obligatory "I'm cultured, I like Jazz guitar, Django is the best'
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Watch this video and see real great guitarists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvVJZt7_CHI
Jim Hall, Robert Fripp or Jerry Garcia.
Lotta other respectable opinions itt though.
>>63717070
>muh opinions are better than everyone elses and if someone disagrees they're wrong.
The internet is supposed to be 12+ darling.
>>63717120
I just mentioned Django, and it's undeniable that he was a great guitarist considering his physical impairment.
I think Pass is definitely up there, not the most influental of course, but one of the greatest ones.
>>63717148
>spanish guitar
>>63714763
Easy. Dave something:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96WrTWE4Mz4
Ah fuck, as long as we're busting out the jazzers, Green had all the swing and blues in his shit you could ever ask for. Alive! is one of the funkiest slabs of voodoo jazz out there.
/mother fucking thread
>>63717264
Pass and Metheny are the GOAT jazz guitarists.
>>63717266
Boy. Talk about pulling down your pleb pants.
>>63717338
God-tier.
>>63714855
Here's the thing about Jimi. The man had some serious chops. His guitar had a 4 octave range and he excelled in any style. He wrote brilliant songs. And his stage presence was only matched by Adolf Hitler. Seriously, watch them play Woodstock and then watch a video of the Nuremburg rallies. We had better thank our lucky stars Jimi didn't go into politics or he would have taken over the world. Yes, he was the most incredible guitarist who ever lived, hands down.
>>63716537
lmao
My vote goes to Townshend, Clapton, Hendrix and Blackmore
Townshend passion
Clapton class
Hendrix creativity
Blackmore because he's awesome
>>63717454
Benson is also incredible, you'd never think he would make this out of Brubeck's Take Five.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn27IcAapPI
>that video of Rory playing Shadow Play and everyone looking fuck dead bored
Poor guy
The baddest motherfucker who ever touched a guitar.
Also Zappa, but Wes is GOAT.
>>63717477
Yeah... I thought that too...
...when I was 14.
There is no greatest guitar player in general.
There are greatest guitar players in a genre though.
How has no one mentioned MK?
>>63717920
Because he's fucking shit.
>>63717935
>>63717935
Nah man his live performances are incredible
Joe Reinhard
>>63716938
>>63717015
maybe there are a few boards that are mostly high schoolers (/b/, /mu/) but to say the entire site is just shows you're a redditor making shit up. fuck off back to your website.
>>63714763
>Rory Gallagher is the best guitarist of all time
Spot the Corkman
Metal - Dave mustaine
Hardcore - Thomas Erak
Rock - frusciante
Jazz - Wes Montgomery
Anyone that disagrees with any of this is a fucking idiot.
>>63718195
lol you are the only one who needs to grow the fuck up faggot
>>63714763
>>63718294
ok. go back to rebbit.
>ctrl+f fahey
>no results
this board never fails to disappoint
>>63718288
Dave has never even been the best guitarist in megadeth
Probably not objectively the best but I find his tone and melody style the most enjoyable of anything I have heard.
Marty Friedman
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>>63718538
I know right ... I don't see any acoustic players, except for a couple Django mentions. Stupid /mu/
>>63718472
Kill yourself.
>>63719007
seconded.
>>63719007
back2reddit
Zappa.
Maybe not technically, but he makes up for that in every other area
>>63714891
>mississippi John Hurt
Thread
Kevin Shields
>>63717505
one of the few people with good taste itt
