Best Guitarist of All Time

oh and dave navarro on the janes albums is godlike

have never heard of like half the guys on lj's list btw

given how much our tastes converge, it is probably the band we disagree on most! altho they're certainly not in my top-rank. or in the ranks immediately below.

SMC, some of them are British and a few of them are pretty obscure indie types who nonetheless wield a finer axe than most

Navarro's pre-reunion Jane's stuff is next level, but he's sorta buried that with the avalanche of shit that is the rest of his career so I can't place him on any "best of" of anything.

didn't even know Mark Hollis played guitar tbh haha

what the hell, I had a post on this thread that vanished

it basically said "I liked Joe Satriani in high school, which was the last time I really paid attention to guitar players"

30 years does not quite extend back to the heyday of Danny Fichelscher, sadly, but dude was awesome.

my list would probably be robert quine and... that's about it. robert quine.

don't mind john frusciante being on the list tho, he's a really great guitar player, very inventive and creative, always a lot going on with relatively simple elements, cool passing chords and a little extra harmonic flavor. not that i like his band very much, mind.

lol xp to SMC...The guitar is so central to the vision on those last 3 TT albums...cdnt rly have been anyone else, although dude was equally adept at keys obv

neither google nor wikipedia are helping me out on Aaron With. who he?

Not sure if this is his best performance (haven't seen it yet!) but this is a great song and it does require some fairly groovy guitar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFKsTn5ul88&feature=related

M Hollis gtr work on those records is awesome and literally inimitable.

Also, ppl, Andy Summers, not kidding. One of my all time faves.

And Kimberly Rew as far as freakout psych-blues in a pop frame.

David Byrne and/or Jerry Harrison - not sure who did what, where

john fahey

Noones talking about the actual list now as the 1st post of the revive is off the page now. So I'll repost it for those who didn't see it while the thread was on ILE.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8611997.stm

Former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante has been voted the best guitarist of the past 30 years.

Frusciante, who left the group in 2008, beat Guns n' Roses star Slash, Muse's Matt Bellamy and Johnny Marr of The Smiths to the top spot.

Prince, Jack White, Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood and REM's Peter Buck were also in the top 10. But Noel Gallagher, The Edge and Kurt Cobain missed out.

Some 30,000 people took part in BBC 6 Music's Axe Factor online poll.
...

1. John Frusciante - Red Hot Chili Peppers
2. Slash - Guns n' Roses
3. Matt Bellamy - Muse
4. Johnny Marr - The Smiths
5. Tom Morello - Rage Against The Machine
6. Kirk Hammett - Metallica
7. Jonny Greenwood - Radiohead
8. Prince
9. Jack White - White Stripes
10. Peter Buck - REM

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 9 April 2010 19:09

Kevin Shields.

Andy from Dog Faced Hermans. Would seriously go see any band if he's in it.

http://www.ohrwaschl.de/shop/ProductImages/holden%20pop2.jpg

Paul Leary
Buckethead

Here's a better one of Aaron With (last one, promise):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyQplf_QVPk&feature=related

paul leary and andy from DFH, yes

amazing a thread could get this far without

link wray
dick dale

this revive was for a 'last 30 years' best-of tho

thread pedant

east bay ray

srsly, I wish there was an instrumental version of plastic surgery disasters

lj noone is interested in the bbc 6 music poll, they prefer to list. Its ILM!

i am surprised though that 6music listeners left out Squire & Butler though.

Squire does seem like a weird ommission given the Roses' tendency to win "best album ever" polls in the UK and whatnot

maybe 6music listeners are younger so dont remember the roses, though i doubt it.

Fuck that shit

1. Ted Falconise
2. Paul O Leary Walt
3. Kirt Kirbkwood
$. Kevin Shilediosis
5. Robert Mould
6. Col Ginn
7. Werbert Pajo
8. Andrew ridgeley
9. Nick harper
10. Chris Hersht

Nels Cline

David Shouse

Mark Kozeleck

without the c

Lol btw, where I said "Joe Satriani" could you actually substitute "Steve Vai" because that is who I actually meant

no love for steve stevens, billy idol's guitarist in the 80s?

pretty amazing, iirc, tho i stick with my choices upthread.

Tim Kerr

i will absolutely second andy summers, if you could surgically remove sting from the police you have one of the best duos ever

Depending on criteria -- chops, technique, innovative qualities, the dreaded 'influence" -- you could make arguments for a lot of different guitar players, such as John Martyn, Blixa Bargeld, Neil Young, Steve Howe, etc, etc...

Also, an observation: only dudes seem to get included in these lists and only dudes seem to care.

maybe, but fwiw, my vote was for gabriela, of rodrigo y gabriela.

Nancy fucking Wilson.

manics fella can hold his own, he also did all of the suicide (maybe he did maybe he didn't)(4 real) guys parts in the studio too!

also, nick drake?
technically brilliant, but that was part of his downfall, live shows boring, people lost interest because he's spending time between songs with weird tuning.

Lol btw, where I said "Joe Satriani" could you actually substitute "Steve Vai" because that is who I actually meant

unlike Satriani, Vai has actually played on decent records (primarily early DLR solo) so he gets a little bit of a pass from me

Also, an observation: only dudes seem to get included in these lists and only dudes seem to care.
― Lostandfound, Friday, 9 April 2010 23:31 (9 minutes ago)

Yip, very true, a big circle jerk going on here -- a bit like the "what's yer fave solo" thread.

*unzips trews* ....ahem....

Neil Young

what makes "best guitarist of all time"
song writing skills
technique
sound
originality... etc

Also, an observation: only dudes seem to get included in these lists and only dudes seem to care.

a few women have been cited already but its no mystery that the vast vast majority of guitarists, and particularly lead guitarists, are male. I love plenty of female musicians but most of them don't have any interest in coming off as guitar virtuosos (some exceptions to this, of course, primarily in the metal world - Nancy Wilson, Lita Ford, etc.) All those riot grrrls played lots of loud guitars but the only ones who seemed to really rise above the general squall as far as technical chops go would be Sleater-Kinney, I imagine...? Was never blown away by any of the guitar playing on Bikini Kill or Huggy Bear records.

Joan Jett and Dolly Parton are amazing songwriters/performers but I don't really rate either's guitar picking as all that special, for ex.

Hearty assent to Nick Drake, amazing technique, amazing style. A bunch of guys from that brit pastoral tradition not being mentioned in this thread. Jansch etc.

Have never heard Kaki King but she seems to get the plaudits?