Best Guitarist of All Time

^^^only good list in this revive

list pfunkboy posted to start the revive is just a sad fucking commentary on the state of guitar playing in music ppl actually listen to

hey dont blame me!! ;)

lol i didn't, just sayin dogg

like i stan hard for a lot of r.e.m. but buck's guitar rep is entirely based on like one thing he did in the early 80s

muse guy and radiohead guy are insane britisher picks

Larry Coryell, based on his first few solo albums and some of what preceded them. Weird that he doesn't appear earlier in this thread...

Radiohead guy is really good, come on. If we're talking technique, the actual best guitarists are probably noodling behind the counters in guitar stores, or playing lutes in orchestras tbh. The best I ever saw was a young guy playing flamenco in a bar in Jerez, I'll cast for him.

Also Oranthi Panagaris, if you want female virtuosity.

No love here for Michael Timmins?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeaBNAXfHfQ

i dig that clip. also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoq6_2xnQeY&feature=player_embedded

These lists are so frustrating because as noted earlier, they're basically just lists of people's favorite guitarists.

So I'll do the same. If I had to make a short list it would look something like:

John McGeoch (Johnny Marr would rally for him before himself)
Peter Koppes/Marty Willson-Piper (OK I'm biased here)
Ed Kuepper (those who only know him from The Saints really need to listen to Laughing Clowns/solo albums)
Nick McCabe

Forgot Michaels Karoli and Rother! Also, Derek Bailey, Joe Morris, Robbie Basho, Steffan Bash Jungans, Sandy Bull, John Renbourne, Ike Turner, Curtis Mayfield...

Ooh, Ben Chasny.

If I was going to pick best female guitarist, I would say Charo.

This should be so simple. Just count raving fanboys and tote up the winner.

― Aimless, Friday, 9 April 2010 19:34 (4 days ago) Bookmark

the only three people I can listen to play an extended guitar solo are Prince, Eddie Hazel and Frank Zappa, fwiw

There is a lack of Uli Roth on this thread. A sad, sad lack.

wow, horror director, actor and master guitarist; is there anything he can't do?

Har, Har. Ulrich Jon Roth - that better? The link between Hendrix and Eddie Van Halen.

and in the Britpop category, rampaging at the fore are Martin Carr and Graham Coxon

The whole thread premise is kind of dumb. It was a C-Man thread, that should have tipped everyone. Best in a certain style? Proficient in the most styles? It's too broad; confuses "favorite" with "best," which is a crock no matter what xhuxk says.

That said, Whiney's post did prompt me to go listen to "Holiday in Berlin (Full Blown)" this morning. Fantastic solo.

http://www.lastingtribute.co.uk/image/George_Formby_2781317.jpg

Got a soft spot for Manuel Gottsching and Gabor Szabo.

Whom, by the way, haven't been mentioned at all on this thread. Shame on you ilx.

I would have mentioned both had I ever heard of either.

Gabor Szabo's pretty amazing, sorta Django Rinehart v 2.0

Thanks for saving ILX from eternal shame, SMC.

love this album cover
http://www.shugarecords.com/images/records/69ed8649-e5ae-4ba5-acdd-4fcc04a97c7e-0.JPG

the answer to this is is, btw, Jonny Greenwood, and idgaf

-is

will anyone high-five me for randy holden?

I like that one Blue Cheer record he's on

i used to be all "i like song structures, nuffa that guitar wank" and then i heard population ii.

Anyone with a bit of oversight care to tell me if Rory Gallagher is ranked up there at all? We make a big fuss of him over here, but then it's really him, The Edge or Tim Wheeler so there's not much option.

I think he used to be

The Edge?

that welsh guy in U2

Johnny Marr

Carlos Alomar
Andy Gill
Jimi Hendrix
Tom Verlaine
Lonnie Johnson

Dave Gregory from XTC is the secret agent man

Charo otm

Randy Rhoads
Robert Fripp
Robert Johnson

though it's really

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBi6hBrpgqQ

Hendrix is the best sloppiest guitar player, beats any other classic rock guitarist for style alone. He played with such soul and feeling that every wrong note he played sounded right. Kinda wish more black people cared enough to get involved in rock music, seems that right after laying the roots of rock they just lost interest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCQBbgb_Lvo

Also:

Bill Frisell
Daniel Lanois
Ry Cooder

Davie Allan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgXHchnQtt8

Hendrix had a direct connection to the Muse

i don't think anyone's mentioned the amazing slate of early blues guitarists, e.g., blind willie johnson; blind blake; scrapper blackwell; miss. john hurt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxovd6tS8mk

Grant Green Classic Or Dud?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E1qCAPJJPE

my favorite noisy guitar album is "Axis: Bold as Love"

electric guitar it's obviously Hendrix, no one comes close

acoustic guitar... I submit Elliott Smith:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBKAADRzqsc

I don't know if I'd say Steve Vai in a walk, but I think you could at least say he's...VAI-ING FOR THE TOP SPOT!