[Splodgenessabounds]

hetrodoxly on Oct 9 2008, 08:14 PM, said:

Bert Weedon.

What a legend. Good choice, my dad's favourite.

[hetrodoxly]

Splodgenessabounds on Oct 30 2008, 07:52 PM, said:

What a legend. Good choice, my dad's favourite.

I doubt if many people on here have heard of him, but most of the top players coming out of the UK owe it to Bert Weedon.

[SoulFire]

i didn't have time to read all the way through this thread, so this may have been said already. to me joe satriani is the baddest mofo EVER!! !! !!

[REBEL]

louie on Oct 31 2008, 02:17 AM, said:

http://www.liveleak....=6d2_1225370239

Ah yeah Gallagher; that's savage slide.




Heard if for the very first time this morning; Welcome back ANGUS

[iSeeDeadPpl!]

paco de lucia

[northernsunrise34]

Giving punk rock its due:

Greg Ginn (Black Flag/Gone)
Robert Quine (Richard Hell & The Voidoids)
Billy Zoom (X)
Dave Alvin (Blasters/Flesh Eaters/X)
Brian Baker (Bad Religion/Dag Nasty)
Joe Baiza (Saccharine Trust)
Pig Champion (Poison Idea)
Greg Sage (Wipers)
Bob Mould (Husker Du)


All are (or were) superb and unique guitarists.

[Vertical Gunn]

I'd have to go with Metallica, but I do like Nickel Back.

[Synthetic Anathema]

Vertical Gunn on Nov 16 2008, 11:57 AM, said:

I'd have to go with Metallica, but I do like Nickel Back.

Umm... does that mean Kirk Hammet?

Anyway, I'd have to say that the best guitarist may very well have to be Randy Rhoads. Most other guitarists use a whole pile of effects to make their solos sound right and they have their second guitarist playing something behind them to give it more of a "saturated" sound. However, if you listen to Randy's playing on his album with Ozzy Blizzard of Ozz, he plays ALL the guitar on the album. There is no second guitar playing behind him and he doesn't really use effects at all - just enough to get a good tone. His playing sounds saturated as it is - none of this mega reverb and delay that so many others need to get their solos to sound right. Just listen to the guitar solo in "Goodbye to Romance" (at 2:40) and you can hear what I mean. He is playing so that it sounds full, yet it's only him. Or look at all the people who want to be able to play "Crazy Train" like he does - and I haven't heard a single person get close to the right sound while playing on their own. He can play so good that he doesn't need all the extras the everyone else uses. And before you go and say "yeah, but there are people who can play 'better' then he can" - I don't think there is. He can play in so many differnet styles and can play so well, that I don't think that anyone could match him - even if they had twice the experience he did (as he was only playing guitar for seventeen-and-a-half years at the time of his death). All those people who you would say can play "better" would be outplayed in all the different styles that they didn't play - so again Randy is better. Then there will be those of you who say that "he wansn't an innovator" - except he was. I don't know of a single person that used the string behind the nut at the head of a guitar to get the sound of a wammy bar on a fixed brige guitar. Or who used a pickup-selector switch like he did first? Sure people have innovated more than him (and I'm not giving everything he came up with of course), but everyting put together i think that it's quite obvious who's better. Of course the question of best guitarist is an opinion question - but i do think that Randy Rhoads has to take the cake here.

[Enigmatic Ghost]

Saul Hudson, Better know as SLASH the Former Lead Guitarist of Gun N’ Roses.


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[Dr. Peter Venkman]

My personal favorite is Jimmy Page, followed closely, if not parallel with Mr. Jimi Hendrix and Rory Gallagher too. The question is so difficult to answer, so I'll go with a favorite from each genre.

Rock- Page/Hendrix/Gallagher

Jazz- Pat Metheney

Fusion- John Mclaughlin

Country- Chet Atkins

Blues- Buddy Guy

Others- Duane Allman, Eric Clapton, David Gilmour, Santana, Vai, List goes on and on. Hard to answer. Depends on how I'm feeling that day etc...

[IronGhost]

This is a no-brainer.

The best guitarist of all time is: Alex Lifeson of Rush!!!!!!!!!

[Juicebox]

I'm sorry if you take this offensively, but the OP named off the generic overrated guitar players of the last century.
Slash is a good guitar player, but he's got nothing on some of the kids around today.
Go to YOUTUBE and watch "Canon Rock" and "Canon Rock 2" by JerryC and this named Matt(its broad to locate but its not hard to find)
Minus the fact almost all of you have mentioned classic rock guitarists or legends and most likely dont like screaming and metal:
Matt Heaffy from Trivium (Mainly inspired and compared to Metallica)
Sinister Gates from Avenged Sevenfold.
Classic Fingerpicking:
Andy Mckee and Antoine Dufour

Buckethead and Dragonforce aren't close in style and genre, but they both are overrated from the use of effects to double the notes and echoes.