TOP 5 Guitar players of all time!

1. Harrison
2. Gilmour
3. Hendrix
4. Richards
5. Page

Hendrix I just cannot get into.

Why Jimi Hendrix is the best guitarist ever:

1)He played guitar AND sang lead(cough cough Page, Gilmour, Harrison). This is harder to do than it seems.

2)He wasn't PART of a band, he WAS the band. (cough cough *see above*). Led Zeppelin isn't JUST about Page, Floyd isn't all about Gilmour, Beatles weren't about Harrison, but the Jimi Hendrix Experience + Band Of Gypsys (his 2 bands) were centered around him. This means he had to write pretty much all of the songs, come up with the music, etc.

3)He has more style. Who cares who can go through the Pentatonic Scale fastest. If speed really mattered that much Yngwie Malmsteen would be a household name. I downloaded Stevie Ray Vaughans version of Voodoo Child on Kazaa yesterday, and I almost laughed. He half-asses all of the complicated solo's and riffs, and replaces them with some easy crap.

4)He achieved all of his greatness in 4 years. He had more hit songs than all of these guitarists put together. Voodoo Child, Purple Haze, Fire, All Along the Watchtower, Red House, Manic Depression, etc.

5)He was self-taught.

Yeah Hendrix was an excellent guitarist, if you like that sort of thing, but he never seemed to have that....Bring up the hairs on the back of your neck tone, Unlike Messrs:
Beck
Gilmour
Page
Clapton
Santana
Do Guitarists get better with age? i think so. Maybe Hendrix could have been better had he still been alive....

Jeff Beck gets my vote, what he cant do with a guitar isn't worth doing....

No particular order.

Gilmour,
Clapton,
Hendrix,
Harrison,
and Rhodes, who died before his number should have been up.

There should be more on this list. Five just isn't enough!

Nevermind.

Top 5 current Guitarists, no order:

King Buzzo of the Melvins
Trey Spruance of Secret Chiefs 3 (ex-Mr Bungle)
Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age (ex-Kyuss)
Adrian Belew
Duane Denison of Tomahawk (ex-Jesus Lizard)

I agree that Hendrix is an excellent guitarist, but I really could never get into his music that much.

Not much depth to get into, just sort of a flaming ball of plasma-guitar energy to shock your brain.

My list in no order:
David Gilmour
Jimi Hendrix
Jerry Garcia
Pete Townshend
Tom Morrello
Santana
All the members of the Beatles that played guitar at one point
Randy Rhodes
Brian May
Mark Tremonti
Trey Anastasio
...and there's a bunch more i'm forgetting

...uh...how 'bout... Brian May?

not in P.cular order.. but i worship 'em

Eric Clapton
mark Knofler
George harrison
BB King
Jeff Beck
Paddy Guy

Tony Iommy
Eddie van Halen
Steve vai
Don Fedler
Glen Frey
David Gilmour
Dave Murray
Adrian SMith
Janik gers
paul gilbert
Slash
Jimmy page
santana

John Petrucci
Kirk hammet
dave Mustaine
Dimbag darrel
james hetfield

Paco de Lucia
Gypsy Kings''
oscar lopez
john Mclaughlin

Dilip naik
Narendra Salaskar
Arvid haldipurkar
ramesh iyer
tushar parte
raja kulkarni
rajan godambe
Richard Mitra

sorry u asked 5 guitarist i gave 5 groups

terminal frost-
thanks
Brian May, yeah, that's it. He's great.

1. Harrison
2. Hendrix
3. Gilmour
4. Richards
5. Page

Also
Clapton, Townshend, etc.

Did I already post this?

Where the hell are you from again?! Wow! Beck, McLaughlin, BB King! I didn't know people listen to that stuff back home. I thought I was the only crazy guy!

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