The Greatest Rock 'N' Roll Guitarist

yay for Jimi..he was the best and he'll always be better than the 'others'.

No Chuck Berry? Without the man, we wouldn't even have Rock & Roll.

"If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry' " John Lennon

It's hard to choose one great guitar player, because there are just too many with different styles of playing. One of my biggest guitarheroes is Slash. A great blues guitarist in a hard rock band. I liked him in GNR (he and Axl basically made that band). I liked him in Slash's Snakepit and in Slash's Bluesball, but Velvet Revolver doesn't really suit his style. For some reason it feels like he's not giving a 110% like he used to.

Other favs include: John Scofield, Al Di Meola, Jimmy Page, Stevie Ray Vaughan

matt bellamy - muse

For pure musical ecstasy, I have to say David Gilmour. He's just amazing, my favorite guitarist of all time. (His On An Island album, simply amazing.)

But for this, I'm going off the board: Andrew Latimer of Camel. He's an amazingly diverse guitarist with some of the best solo's I have ever heard. He is a god with the guitar. He can play the softer soothing melodies, he can crank out an impressive solo, all around an amazing guitarist that I think can truly make any song that much better if he's behind the guitar.

But if i have to pick on the board Either: Clapton, Page, Hendrix, SRV, Steve Howe, Gilmour, Jeff Beck. They are the all wonderfully rounded guitarists that can excel in any type of song you put them in basically.

Why am I not surprised that

the cliche pick

Hendrix is winning by a landslide?

I picked David Gilmour. All the other greats of the 60s/70s were so rooted in conventional blues-based rock playing that Gilmour is a mastermind of originality in comparison. Great riffs, phenomenal solos, great touch (whereas other guitarists simply whack their strings), and a rare understanding of how the guitar can contribute to atmosphere. He's the man. :blueeyedbaby:

I'll also plug Dickey Betts of the Allman Brothers. Everything Duane Allman became a legend for in that band was actually written and played by Betts and no one ever gives him credit.

Ritchie Blackmore

His work with Deep Purple and Rainbow is just amazing.

Great solos and incredible riffs.

SLASH

SLASH

+1

jimi for sure... but Stevie Ray holds a VERY close second

No Chuck Berry? Without the man, we wouldn't even have Rock & Roll.

"If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry' " John Lennon

Agreed.

Bo Diddley should have made it in there somewhere.

and how about O.G. blues guitarist, robert johnson>?

I voted for Kirk Hammet, cuz he is the best.

No Chuck Berry? Without the man, we wouldn't even have Rock & Roll.

"If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry' " John Lennon

Agreed.

Bo Diddley should have made it in there somewhere.

and how about O.G. blues guitarist, robert johnson>?

Oh Robert Johnson He's so good. Highly influential, love his music

Hendrix is the only classic rock I listen to

Randy Rhoads gettin' no love

Although it was difficult, I had to go with Jimmy Page. It's the mega Zeppelin fan in me...

Eddie Van Halen. His style revolutionized music of the '80s and beyond.

I mean, there's a reason why Hendrix is the cliche choice, and that is that he had the best understanding of what the electric guitar should be used for. I'll always take raw power and exhilaration over technically perfect noodling.

It really doesn't suprise me that Hendrix and Slash are ahead of the game here. There so, commercialized fr being such good guitarist, which they are, but, in my opinion, they are kind of over rated.

Like I said, I picked Page. It's the natural Zeppelin fan in me. But Gilmour was a close second. I love the Floyd.

But, just wondering, no George Harrison or Keith Richards?

Voted for Hendrix, of course. (I even named my cate like that xD)

But where the hell is jhonny ramone? ¬¬