Jimi Hendrix is the greatest guitarist of all time. Do you agree with me? Why not?
Hendrix isn't even the best guitarist in The Beatles
Of course
Jimi Hendrex
Of course
Misha Mansoor exists
Honestly, I don't know how to tell. I really like The Jimi Hendrix Experience, but his guitar work on his studio work isn't that impressive/exceptional. By all accounts, the guitar work that made him the GOAT in his time was his live soloing, and there just isn't that much recorded live stuff. What there is is definitely impressive, but without a good library of stuff, how can we fairly say he's better than the greatest guitarists who came after him, like Yngwie Malmsteen, Eddie Van Halen, Tom Verlaine, Robert Quine, Kevin Shields, Greg Sage, Bernard Butler, etc.?
>>64391220
He reinvented the sound of the electric guitar. Greatest =/= technically best
>>64391269
If that's how they're being judged I'd say some of the people I mentioned are even more competitive, then. Hendrix was a genius especially with feeling and guitar textures, but Kevin Shields completely changed the way guitars are used as well, with his huge washes of sound. Robert Quine brought Ornette Coleman-style free jazz to punk guitars, influencing pretty much every noise rock band that came after him. Tom Verlaine had an extremely unique guitar sound as well, melding simple garage rock with jazz and classical, in a chiming way.
idk have you heard taylor swift
>>64391422
what about sonic youth
For me its a tie between Clapton and Hendrix
He's certainly one of my favourites. Pure expression, and seamlessly blended rhythm and lead. Made the guitar scream, was a total extension of his body
what about Kurdt kobain?!?!?!
As a guitarist myself, I find Jimi to be very overrated. I always preferred Clapton or Beck desu
>>64391159
People overrate him, yet I still think he's underrated.
The stuff he was doing in his later years were pretty intense.
>>64391451
That's another good example. I was just throwing out some ideas, nothing comprehensive
So many people discount him because of his living meme status, but no one has been as good as him before or since imo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj2GAE9NeJY
He's sloppin it up live nowadays though.
>>64392420
soulless. Jimi would be embarrassed this kinda shit followed his footsteps.
>>64392448
Okay I take it back. There's some cool stuff in there. But the cheese factor.... ahhhhh
>>64392448
nah m8, his later stuff, yeah.
In his prime he was full of feel. Fast, yes, but great feel and great vibrato. He is wanky these days, I'll give you that.
Sadly, he seems to have some sort of Benjamin Button syndrome in terms of his technique, and especially songwriting.
He hit the scene 19 years old as the best shredder who ever lived, and slowly regressed into the washed up meme we know today.
Worst guitarist considered "one of the greats"
>>64392685
Him and Gilmour.
>>64391159
I've been playing guitar for 10 years and have never heard any Jimi Hendrix guitar work that truly dropped my jaw. Like, his solo in All Along the Watchtower is brilliant, and lots of great hammers and whatever... but when he's not creating feedback and using pulverizing distortion, his playing kinda bores me...
Frank Zappa is the best guitarist hands down the best .
It's a shame how people on this board claim to be musically inclined and diverse but haven't heard of incredible guitarists and musicians like Djano Reinhardt.
>>64392685
>jimmy page's best solo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgA76eq2RTU
>>64392784
Pretty sure everyone on the guitar general has heard him.
thx for the suggestion m8. listening right now .
>>64392804
sounds like a "... shreds" video
the Django Reinhardt
1. Jimi Hendrix from Rolling Stones was a better guitarist then Jimmy Page
2. The bassist from Rolling Stones isn't dead
3. Rolling Stobes wrote Stairway to Heaven and The Ocean so we all know they are superior here.
>>64391159
I can't say anyone is the best. But if we're judging who's the greatest based on influence and status amongst guitar player then Hendrix is probably it, either him or Clapton.
My personal favorite is Ben Weinman tho, no meme
Well he's easily the most important.
>>64392719
>gilmour
kys
Mark Knopfler rarely gets mentioned and is the GOAT.
>>64393073
>m-muh feelz
>>64392463
Some of the best music is cheesy af.
>>64393073
It's kiss, and no, he played for pink floid.
>>64391967
>People overrate him, yet I still think he's underrated.
This is a contradiction.
>>64392750
>context
fot today its just some other guitar music album but imagine you are 15yr in 1968, suddendly all your friends are talking a bout a nigger who plays white music and kicks eric clapton's ass, you put the record thinking its going to be the same blues shit you been hearing recycled in every rock album to date, but instead the creative use of distortion and feedback, effortless technique, etc, it changes your perception and your own playing style.
thats what happens to all those old folk who praise him still, i can understand that.
also
>im a guitar purist fag
>Hendrix had perfect tone, from his fingers side and in the studio provided by his sound engineers
>i cant not resist to give him the succ
Since I'm indecisive, here's a more agreeable list than picking just one:
Best rock guitarist of the 60's: Hendrix
Best rock guitarist of the 70's: Page
Best rock guitarist of the 80's: Van Halen
Best rock guitarist of the 90's: Slash
Best rock guitarist of the 00's: Joe Satriani
Best rock guitarist of the 10's: [spoiler]rock is dead[/spoiler]
Best blues guitarist ever: Stevie Ray Vaughan
>>64391898
Kinda the same but Clapton was only good with Cream he was terrible once he became le slowman
Ace Frehley
>>64391422
Sure Shields is influential but not to the extent that Hendrix is
>>64392685
underage reported
>>64393099
I like Mark but his music was too much of a meme.
>>64394284
you 45 or something
>>64394625
I'm actually 21 but you're basically right
I disagree with your premise because Robert Fripp has holds that position and since Jimi is dead there is no way Jimi can prove he is superior to Frip
>>64391159
not even the greatest black guitarist LMAO
>>64394698
This. Fripp is the goat.
He was the 60s version of Prince
>>64394284
>>64394597
see
>>64392804
Ritchie Blackmore was the best guitarist of the 70's hands down.
Bad 90's pick as well. Slash is famous for being the guitarist of a one-album band, an album which came out in 1987.
Best rock guitarist of the 60's: Hendrix
Best rock guitarist of the 70's: Blackmore
Best rock guitarist of the 80's: Yngwie
Best rock guitarist of the 90's: Rock died in 1991
Best rock guitarist of the 00's: Rock died in 1991
Best rock guitarist of the 10's: Rock died in 1991
>>64394890
https://youtu.be/LCnebZnysmI?t=2m15s
>>64394890
no, rock died in 1994 when Slash left GN'R
:^)
>>64394890
Why'd rock die in 91?
>>64394890
>rock died in 1991
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcVnfh-epsI
>>64395001
Cool song, but this is essentially '60s-'70s rock.
All good rock bands post-1991 are retro bands.
no stevie ray vaughan??
>>64395000
Grunge killed rock.
>>64391159
I cannot disagree
>>64395117
Grunge is a subgenre of rock.
>>64395101
Find me 30 bands that sound exactly like that from the 60s.
>>64391159
Overrated.
Also be more specific by what you mean by "greatest". Fastest? Most innovative? Songwriter? Lyricist? Composer?
So many aspects to being a guitarist, I think we just like to buy into the hype of somebody and jerking ourselves off for being part of the "cool kids" that recognize some random artist from a long forgotten era
Hendrix is largely overrated. lyrics aren't particularly potent, his riffs aren't particularly distinguishable from everyone else in his time period. He was good for his time, nothing more.
>>64395172
>being a lyricist is an aspect of being a guitarist
>>64395151
>Grunge is a subgenre of rock.
...that killed rock
>>64395101
Are seriously telling me this isn't 60s-70s sounding. It's basically Led Zeppelin + Hendrix + Random experimental bullshit.
Guitarist sounds just like Hendrix
Riffs/groove sounds just like Led Zep
Singer sounds like Robert Plant.
>>64395288
whoops replied to wrong post no. 2 meant this >>64395001
>>64395117
Rock was already dying. Grunge was the last burst of flame before the light went out. It was also better than any mainstream rock trend of the 80s
>>64395288
>...that killed rock
Since Grunge = rock, then it never died. Are you retarded?
>>64395317
>Has never heard Francis The Mute
>thinks he has a valid opinion on rock music
Yikes.
>>64395356
Grunge killed good rock then.
>Being this pretentious
Yikes.
>>64395331
Almost all 80's rock was better than grunge. Even glam metal.
>>64395504
>If I don't like it, then it's dead
Ugh
Also
>Being this pretentious
>yet only good rock has ten minute wanky solos
>>64395504
>Almost all 80's rock was better than grunge. Even glam metal.
>being this pretentious
Yikes.
>>64392685
Page could be a sloppy player, especially live, and often recycled guitar parts. But the reason he is so influential and - yes - great, is because he had the vision, arranging ability, and production innovation to pull off what other late 60s artists were only hinting at. Also, he recognized the talent in his bandmates and put them to the best use.
>>64395594
>Because he had the vision, arranging ability, and production innovation to pull off what other late 60s artists were only hinting at.
I agree actually, he is a great musician. But if we're strictly talking as a guitarist, he's horribly overrated.
>>64395692
fair enough. He's still one of my faves because I love Zeppelin.
>>64395539
Wanky solos are the bee's knees senpai.
>>64395504
>Almost all 80's rock was better than grunge. Even glam metal.
>Even glam metal.
>>64393306
Not it isn't, people can overrate him for just one aspect of his career and yet ignore other aspects.
>>64391159
Prince was better T/B/H
>>64395594
led zeppelin's production sounded awful though
>>64395692
but also, i think his playing deteriorated over time as drugs and age increased. the problem with Pagey is that he's become to comfortable with himself and his accomplishments. Which isn't good for a musician. His earlier stuff is a lot meaner.
>>64395736
That's fine.
It's also pretentious.
>>64395539
>>64395545
>>64395824
I'd like to see Kurt Cobain do this, plebs.
https://youtu.be/cDcBKVKQizg?t=2m21s
>>64395795
How so? Compared to modern stuff, then sure. But it sounds much better than stuff by, say, Beck from the same period
>>64395594
So he was a good jew, not a good guitar player.
John McLaughlin, boyo.
60's: Count Basie, David Gilmour
70's: Robert Fripp, Steve Howe, John McLaughlin, Alex Lifeson
80's: Jason Becker, Yngwie Malmsteen, Stevie Ray Vaughan,
90's: Marty Friedman, Steve Vai, Nuno Bettencourt
00's: Joe Bonamassa, John Petrucci
10's: Guthrie Govan, Rick Graham
>>64396002
Rick Graham might legitimately be the most technically skilled guitarist out there, and yet he just youtubes and talks about how he got /fit/, which is probably the most profitable thing he can do with such skills nowadays.
>>64396002
>gilmour
>petrucci
stop
>>64394890
This is pretty cringy
>>64391269
+1
If it were just technical skill I'd lean towards Tosin Abasi, after seeing Animals as Leaders live. Fucking ludicrous skill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIUKUghqK08
always
>>64396196
Being an edgelord to stir up discussion tbqh.
Still kinda mean it doe.
>no mustaine
plebs
>>64391206
Misha's great, but I wouldn't name him at all.
>>64392685
He is a crappy player but he wrote great riffs.
>>64392776
Zappa is my idol but he wasn't really that great of a guitar player, but his compositional skills were godlike.
Hendrix is by far the most important and influential guitarist, but is not even near the most technically skilled
>>64392685
I'm convinced that anyone who has this opinion has never heard Since I've Been Lovin You
>>64394684
kekd
>>64394284
Slash and Satriani are meme guitarists suicide highly recommended
>>64396304
Dave Mustaine is the best lead guitarist Megadeth has ever had. Not joking.
Whenever he does solo tradeoffs with his lead guitarist, I always like his leads better. Case in point: Holy wars.
>>64395865
I wouldn't. It's pretentious
alright listen up fagets
60's - Hendrix
70's - Fripp & Page
80's - Van Halen & Stevie Ray Vaughan
90's - John Petrucci
00's - Buckethead
10's - 4 more years, let's cross our fingers
>>64396729
'10s
Guthrie Govan or Tosin Abasi
>>64396716
>Not seeing the meme
>>64396822
>damage control
>>64396837
Alright buddy, Nitro is not a meme.
>>64396920
They actually are, sorry.
>>64397444
I know this is text communication, but could you really not sense the tone of my statement? Of course Nitro is a meme. Hence not damage control.
>>64397650
That wasn't me.
If you can't communicate without using memes, maybe you should >>>/reddit/
>>64396002
put lifeson in the 80's and add andy summers
>>64391446
kek
>>64391190
best mem
>>64397928
Toy Story 2 actually was the best Toy Story
>>64393306
>"omg i <3 purple haze"
>"I bet you'd like People, Hell and Angels"
>lol wat
Eddie Hazell.
>>64394284
>another hairfag thinks he's a rock fan
>>64399473
this picture gave me an ample amount of new respect for kanye
