OT. The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. Rolling Stone Magazine..

[BadCo]

Wil I have a buddy that was stationed in Germany about that time,gonna see him SuperBowl Sunday after 7 years.

Anyway he was drafted and after boot camp he got his orders to go to Germany and he was eleated but said he felt had to refraine as guy's around him had thier Veit Nam papers.

My question to you is how;d you end up both?

Take it you were a career man,i.e lifer?

 

[SlashednThrashed]

Hendrix allegedly claimed Phil Keaggy was the best guitar player
in the world.

(ex glass harp virtuoso)

What I've heard also...


When Jimi Hendrix was asked "What does it feel like to be the greatest guitar player in the world?" he shrugged his shoulders and responded "I don't know, ask Phil Keaggy."

 

[SportSavant]

wil, carlos is a huge favorite of mine as well, have seen him 5 or 6 times already, but nothing is like the stuff this legend did in the 60's and 70's

 

[NES]

Kurt Cobain a full seventy places ahead of David Gilmour, what a joke.

 

[Brooklynbomber]

no top 20 list is complete without [SIZE=-1]Mathias Jabs[/SIZE]

 

[wilheim]

BadCo - not to hijack the thread but to answer your question.

My question to you is how;d you end up both?

Take it you were a career man,i.e lifer?<!-- / message -->

Nope I was not a "lifer" (I use the term with respect) as career men were called back then and probably still are in all of the armed forces. I was not drafted either but instead joined while I was still in high school for three years in the US Army. I served the three years and was honorably discharged as a Sergeant in 1970.

Back then the Army and Air Force had what was called the DEP or delayed enlistment plan so that high school seniors could join during the latter part of ther final year of high school a few months before graduation.

After graduation you had about 4 to 6 weeks to enjoy civilian life and then it was off to bootcamp and training school after that, but your "paydate" started back when you enlisted in April or May of your senior year in high school and not the day you reported to boot camp and were sworn in.. The Army called training school AIT if I remember right which stood for advaced infantry training.

The good thing about the DEP was you were able to (according to your aptitude test scores) choose a career field instead of what most draftees faced which was the real infantry and therefore became what was commonly referred to by all enlisted men back then as ground pounders. Being a ground pounder in VietNam in the late 60s was not a good job to put it mildly.

I choose aircraft maintenance and ended up in an Airborne unit and flew in and worked on helicopters, mostly Bell AH-1 Cobra Gunships in Vietnam and later in what was known back during the Cold War as "The Fulda Gap" in West Germany after my year in Nam was over. The Fulda Gap was named that because right in the middle of it was the West German city of Fulda and farther west was the industrial city of Frankfort.

The Fulda Gap is where Nato forces were massed to stop a back then highly feared Soviet Bloc forces tank invasion of Western Europe if WW3 ever broke out.

Luckily for humanity it never did and that gave us GI's a chance to get drunk and chase Frauliens whenever possible in the small cities, towns and villages in West Germany along the East German border. Today Germany is reunited into a single country but the Cold War was no joke for around 45 years, and was especially hot for a cold war during the Vietnam era.

A wekend trip into Frankfort and it's famous red light district called "The Kaiserstrasse" was what we all counted the days for at the front where with high powered binoculars you could see East German troops staring back at us across the border with their own high powered commie binocs.

Anyway, some of the trips into Frankfort revolved around seeing some big name entertainers at places like the Jahrhunderthalle which was always booking big names like the ones I mentioned in my earlier post..

We also were lucky to see some not quite as popular entertainers in our own base Enlisted Mens clubs. I remember seeing Lou Rawls and Triny Lopez (among others) at different times come to Germany to entertain the troops right on the various bases.


wil..

 

[gynecologist]

horrible list. what a joke.

 

[wilheim]

New list - lets hear from all you experts on this list.

100 greatest Rock Guitarists of all time. Compiled in June of 2005. * = RIP..

1. Jimi Hendrix* - Jimi Hendrix Experience
2. Eric Clapton - Yardbirds, Cream, Derek & The Dominos, Solo
3. Jimmy Page - Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin, The Firm
4. Jeff Beck - Yardbirds, Jeff Beck Group, Solo
5. Eddie Van Halen - Van Halen
6. Stevie Ray Vaughan* - Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
7. Joe Satriani - Solo
8. Ritchie Blackmore - Deep Purple, Rainbow, Blackmores Night
9. Steve Vai - David Lee Roth, Whitesnake, Solo
10. David Gilmour - Pink Floyd, Solo
11. John Petrucci - Dream Theater, Liquid Tension Experiment
12. Randy Rhoads* - Quiet Riot, Ozzy
13. Allan Holdsworth - Solo
14. Paul Gilbert - Mr. Big, Racer X, Solo
15. Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force, Solo
16. Phil Keaggy - Glass Harp, Solo
17. Jason Becker - Cacophony, David Lee Roth Band, Solo
18. John Mclaughlin- Mahavishnu Orchestra
19. Duane Allman* - Allman Brothers Band, Derek & the Dominos
20. Chuck Berry - Solo
21. Eric Johnson - Solo
22. Steve Howe - Yes, Solo
23. Neal Schon - Santana, Journey, Solo
24. Brian May - Queen
25. Gary Moore - Thin Lizzy, Colosseum II, Skid Row, Solo
26. Bo Diddley - Solo
27. Steve Morse - Deep Purple, Dixie Dregs, Steve Morse Band, Solo
28. Carlos Santana - Santana
29. Tony Iommi - Black Sabbath
30. Buckethead - Solo, Praxis, Thanatopsis, The Deli Creeps, Cornbugs, GNR,
31. Mark Knopfler - Dire Straits, Solo
32. Marty Friedman - Cacophony, Megadeth, Solo
33. Nuno Bettencourt - Extreme, Mourning Widows
34. Shawn Lane* - Black Oak Arkansas, Willy, Solo
35. Kirk Hammett - Metallica
36. Uli Jon Roth - Scorpions, Solo
37. Terry Kath* - Chicago Transit Authority
38. Alex Lifeson - Rush
39. Frank Zappa* - Mothers of Invention, Solo
40. Rory Gallagher* - Solo
41. Dimebag Darrell* - Pantera
42. Peter Green - Fleetwood Mac, Solo
43. Robin Trower - Procal Harum, Solo
44. Slash - Guns N' Roses, Slash's Snakepit, Velvet Revolver
45. Mick Taylor - John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Rolling Stones
46. Robert Fripp - King Crimson
47. Tom Morello - Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave
48. Michael Schenker - Scorpions, UFO, MSG, Contraband
49. Ry Cooder - Solo
50. Angus Young - AC/DC
51. Keith Richards - Rolling Stones, Solo
52. Michael Angelo Batio - Nitro, Solo
53. John Squire - Stone Roses
54. Pete Townshend - The Who
55. Steve Hackett - Genisis
56. Zakk Wylde - Ozzy Osbourne, Black Label Society
57. George Harrison* - Beatles, Traveling Wilberys, Solo
58. Alvin Lee - Ten Years After
59. Dave Davies - Kinks
60. Jerry Cantrell - Alice In Chains, Solo
61. Steve Stevens - Billy Idol
62. Johnny Winter - Solo
63. Dickie Betts - Allman Brothers Band, Dickey Betts & Great Southern
64. John Cipollina* - Quicksilver Messenger Service
65. Kenny Wayne Shepherd - Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band
66. Steve Cropper - Booker T. & MG's/Stax sessions
67. Adrian Belew - King Crimson
68. Joe Bonamassa - Solo
69. Steve Lukather - Toto, Solo
70. Jerry Garcia* - Grateful Dead
71. Joe Perry - Aerosmith
72. Prince - Prince & The Revolution
73. Kim Mitchell - Max Webster, Solo
74. Adrian Smith - Iron Maiden
75. Dave Murray - Iron Maiden
76. Neil Young - Buffalo Springfield, CSNY, Solo
77. Billy Gibbons - ZZ Top
78. Tony MacAlpine - Solo
79. Mike McCready - Pearl Jam
80. Adam Jones - Tool
81. Gary Hoey - Solo
82. Leslie West - Mountain, Solo
83. Peter Frampton - Humble Pie, Frampton's Camel, Solo
84. Dick Dale - Del-Tones
85. Vito Bratta - White Lion
86. Mickey "Guitar" Baker - 50's sessions/ Mickey & Sylvia
87. John Frusciante - Red Hot Chili Peppers
88. Ronnie Montrose - Montrose, Edgar Winter Group
89. Mick Ronson* - David Bowie, Solo
90. Roy Buchanan* - Solo
91. Warren Haynes - Allman Brothers Band, Gov't Mule
92. Vinnie Moore - Alice Cooper, Solo
93. Robbie Krieger - Doors, Solo
94. Chris DeGarmo - Queensryche
95. Jake E. Lee - Cutting Crew, Ozzy, Badlands, Solo
96. Glen Tipton - Judas Priest
97. Joe Walsh - James Gang, Eagles, Solo
98. K.K. Downing - Judas Priest
99. Eddie Hazel* - Funkadelic
100. Alex Skolnick - Testament

Honorable mention:

101. Doug Aldrich - Burning Rain, Dio, Whitesnake, Solo
102. Michael Romeo - Symphony X
103. Vernon Reid - Living Colour
104. Gary Richrath - REO Speedwagon, Solo
105. Link Wray - Link Wray and his Ace-Men
106. Allen Collins* - Lynyrd Skynyrd
107. Larry "Ler" Lalonde - Primus
108. Randy Bachmann - Guess Who, BTO
109. Jeff Healy - Jeff Healy Band
110. Greg Howe - Solo
111. Dave Navarro - Janes Addiction
112. Scott Gorham - Thin Lizzy
113. Ted Nugent - Ambouy Dukes, Damn Yankees, Solo,
114. Vivian Campbell - Dio, Whitesnake, Def Leppard
115. Paul Kossoff* - Free, Back Street Crawler
116. Ritchie Kotzen - Poison, Mr Big, Solo
117. Brian Robertson - Thin Lizzy, Motorhead
118. Andy Summers - Police
119. John Sykes - Blue Murder, Whitesnake, Thin Lizzy
120. Scotty Moore - Elvis Presley
121. Gary Rossington - Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rossington Band
122. Ty Tabor - Kings X, Jelly Bean, Poundhound, Jughead, Platypus
123. John Fogerty - CCR, Solo
124. Ron Wood - Faces, Rolling Stones
125. Ace Frehley - Kiss
126. Akira Takasaki - Loudness, Lazy
127. Michael Wilton - Queensryche
128. Cliff Gallup* - Gene Vincent's Blue Caps
129. Richie Sambora - Bon Jovi
130. George Lynch - Dokken, Lynch Mob
131. Reb Beach - Winger, Dokken
132. Nick Drake* - Solo
133. Tommy Bolin* - James Gang, Deep Purple
134. Kerry King - Slayer
135. Thurston Moore - Sonic Youth
136. Harry Cody - Shotgun Messiah
137. Lowell George* - Little Feat
138. Tracii Guns - Guns N Roses, L.A. Guns
139. Tom Scholz - Boston
140. Buck Dharma - Blue Oyster Cult
141. Jorma Kaukonen - Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna
142. Richard Thompson - Fairport Convention, Solo
143. Trey Anastasio - Phish
144. Janick Gers - Iron Maiden
145. Mick Box - Uriah Heep
146. Johnny Marr - Smiths, Electronic, Johnny Marr & The Healers
147. Blues Saraceno - Poison, Solo
148. Lowman Pauling* - "5" Royales
149. Timo Tolkki - Stratovarius
150. Mike Einziger - Incubus
151. John Christ - Danzig
152. Jonny Greenwood - Radiohead
153. Phil Collen - Def Leppard
154. Andy Timmons - Danger Danger, Ceili Rain
155. Steve Gaines* - Lynyrd Skynyrd
156. Ron Asheton - Iggy Pop, Stooges
157. James Burton - Ricky Nelson, Elvis Presley
158. Mark Kendall - Great White
159. Lindsey Buckingham - Fleetwood Mac
160. Jennifer Batten - Jeff Beck, Michael Jackson, Solo
161. Matthias Jabs - Scorpions
162. Carl Perkins* - Solo
163. Wayne Kramer - MC5
164. Nils Lofgren - E Street Band
165. Michael Sweet - Stryper
166. Robbie Robertson - The Band, Solo
167. Frank Hannon - Tesla
168. Trevor Rabin - Yes
169. Brian Setzer - Stray Cats, The Brian Setzer Orchestra
170. Martin Barre - Jethro Tull
171. Kim Thayil - Soundgarden
172. Pat Travers - Pat Travers Band
173. Dave Mustaine - Metallica, Megadeth
174. Rik Emmitt - Triumph
175. Eddie Cochran* - Solo
176. Frank Marino - Mahogany Rush
177. Justin Hayward - Moody Blues, Solo
178. Tommy Skeoch - Tesla
179. Warren DeMartini - Ratt
180. Syd Barrett* - Pink Floyd
181. Don Felder - Eagles
182. The Edge - U2
183. Brad Gillis - Night Ranger, Ozzy
184. Andy Powell - Wishbone Ash
185. Mick Mars - Motley Crue
186. Billy Duffy - The Cult
187. Randy California* - Spirit
188. Eric Bell - Thin Lizzy
189. Lita Ford - The Runaways, Solo
190. Jeff Hanneman - Slayer
191. Mick Jones - Foreigner
192. Stone Gossard - Pearl Jam, Temple of the Dog
193. Duane Eddy - Solo
194. Mike Campbell - Tom Petty/ Heartbreakers
195. Glen Buxton* - Alice Cooper
196. Daron Malakian - System Of A Down
197. Steven Stills - Buffalo Springfield, CSN&Y, Solo
198. Roger McGuinn - Byrds, Solo
199. J. Mascis - Dinosaur Junior, The Fog
200. James Hetfield - Metallica

 

[FairWarning]

That list is more realistic. One that I lelt out in the first list and is very low in the second is Brian Setzer. I still don't get the fascination for Clapton, but that argument is for another day.

 

[wilheim]

Clapton rocks "Layla" live with a Fender Stratocaster

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2sfelvHAlU

 

[wilheim]

Clapton rocks out "Layla" live with a Fender Stratocaster...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2sfelvHAlU



Say what you want but you can't tell me Eric Clapton doesn't belong on any list of the top say 25 rock guitarist ever..



wil...

Extra bonus..Hotel California..Lead vocal by Don Henley, Guitar solos by Joe Walsh & Don Felder.

 

[Samhain]

Kurt Cobain a full seventy places ahead of David Gilmour, what a joke.

He shouldn't even be on the list.

Don't recall seeing Yngwie Malmsteen or John Petrucci on the RS list.

 

[Samhain]

Wilheim, Duane Allman was more of a rythym guitarist. Dicky Betts was the lead.

Another mention would be Chris McCaffery and Chris Oliva of Savatage fame/TSO. McCaffery that is.

 

[DickyW]

He shouldn't even be on the list.

Don't recall seeing Yngwie Malmsteen or John Petrucci on the RS list.

Malmsteen was a guitarist's guitarist's. I never got into his music but my musician buddies use to talk about him like he was a god, same with Vernon Reid

 

[maruiz85]

Wilheim, Duane Allman was more of a rythym guitarist. Dicky Betts was the lead.

Another mention would be Chris McCaffery and Chris Oliva of Savatage fame/TSO. McCaffery that is.

I dont know about that, didnt he have the lead on Whipping post? His slide guitar work is incredible though. He is in my personal top 10 but he doesn't belong at 2 of all time.

I loved claptons work from derek and the dominos, cream, and with John Mayall. Steppin' Out

 

[slapshot]

no doubt number 1


Andrés Segovia :toast:





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[Buster]

Thats a nice renedition by Jake Shimabukuro but lets not lose sight of the fact Jake can only play it because George Harrison wrote the song for The Beatles "White" album in the first place.

Here is an even better rendition performed whith vocals by Tom Petty when George Harrison was posthumously inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004. Watch for the solo riff by Prince at the end - it blows all other reneditions of the song away (including young Jake's very good solo you provided). Starts around 3:30 Minute mark.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5zOPGMIyMQ






wil..

just saw this on american idol and i bump for this reason...simply awesome

 

[Buster]

one more time before heading off to bed,,,cannot get enough of this

 

[Buster]

FINALLY A REAL LIST OF THE TOP GUITARISTS...VOTED ON BY OTHER GUITARISTS...THIS IS THE ONLY LIST THAT MATTERS AND MAKES SENSE,SO ALL OTHERS SHOULD BE DELETED FROM THIS THREAD IMMEDIATELY...IF NOT SOONER!

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=97298


Thiago Sarkis of Roadie Crew magazine (web site) organized a poll in which 330 guitarists were asked about their favorite guitarists of all time. Among the participants in the poll were current and former members of such bands as GUNS N' ROSES, KISS, MACHINE HEAD, NIGHTWISH, MEGADETH, SCORPIONS, TESTAMENT, ARCH ENEMY, KING DIAMOND, SEPULTURA, DIO, TWISTED SISTER, KAMELOT and DOWN.

The results of the poll — published in the new issue of Roadie Crew (#112) — are as follows:

01. Jimi Hendrix
02. Eddie Van Halen
03. Yngwie J. Malmsteen
04. Randy Rhoads
05. Ritchie Blackmore
06. Jimmy Page
07. Tony Iommi
08. Steve Vai
09. Jeff Beck
10. Michael Schenker
11. David Gilmour
12. Dimebag Darrell
13. Allan Holdsworth
14. Uli Jon Roth
15. Angus Young
16. James Hetfield
17. Brian May
18. Marty Friedman
19. Joe Satriani
20. Jason Becker
21. Gary Moore
22. Paul Gilbert
23. Eric Clapton
24. Al Di Meola
25. Zakk Wylde
26. John McLaughlin
27. John Petrucci
28. Adrian Smith
29. Steve Morse
30. Stevie Ray Vaughan
31. Slash
32. Kirk Hammett
33. Robert Fripp
34. Alex Lifeson
35. Chuck Schuldiner
36. Ace Frehley
37. George Lynch
38. Dave Murray
39. Glenn Tipton
40. Neal Schon
41. Eric Johnson
42. Trey Azagthoth
43. K.K. Downing
44. Andy LaRocque
45. Malcolm Young
46. Django Reinhardt
47. Jeff Loomis
48. Steve Lukather
49. John Sykes
50. Denis "Piggy" D'Amour

 

[steaktartar]

1-5-6-9 my top 4 thanx buster