Best Guitarists ever (living or dead)

[some guy]

Mine would have to be:

 

Dimebag Darrell (R.I.P.)

Randy Rhoads (R.I.P.)

Ritchie Blackmore

Dave Mustaine

Tony Iommi

Glenn Tipton

Jimmy Page

Duanne Allman (R.I.P.)

Jimi Hendrix (R.I.P.)

[shanes teeth]

Rory Gallagher

Jeff Beck

[Rich]

Floyd Pepper off the Muppet Show

 

Seriously...

 

Eric Clapton

Mark Knopfler

Hank Marvin

[Bloomdido]

Leo Kottke and John Martyn.

[Halibut]

Chet Atkins.

[ratter71]

personal favourites:

 

Robbie Krieger

Malcolm Young

Steve Cropper

 

 

But probably the greatest ever player would be Robert Johnson

[johncocker]

acoustic

leo kottke

kell jo phelps....slide

john martyn

adrian legg

micheal hedges ...all years ahead of anybody in their day.

 

electric blues ,clapton in the sixtys with cream.

his equvalent today "joe bonanmassa"

 

jazz..and jazz fusion, john mccloughlan,with shakti.

 

alan holdsworth....I think I once managed to play 2 of is chords

 

rock,jeff beck,jimmy page,pete townsend "love the way he uses chords"

[janie48]

don't know all previous mentioned,so can't be a judge of whose best--but ones i choose are

brian may.

george harrison.

mark knopfler.

eric clapton.

paul kossof.(who died age 25) i particularly remember "allright now"--(free) which i think is a classic.

[foxy lady]

I saw Albert Lee last week. He takes some beating.

 

Other astonishing guitarists that I've seen in no particular order.

 

Billy Gibbons

Eric Clapton

Ted Nugent

Martin Barre.

Paul Fox

Joe Bonamassa

Matt Schofield

Johnny Whitehill

Stan Webb

Brian May

Peter Green

Mat Bellamy

Zak Wilde

 

 

I think they all had qualities that you couldn't compare with one another to say who was best. I won't pass comment on guitarists I've never seen. That would be like commenting upon restaurants I haven't eaten in.

[horribleblob]

Impossible to say who's the "best', but my favourites are:

Jeff Beck

Diblo Dibala

Rory Gallagher

Peter Green

Jimi Hendrix

Nene Tchako

 

...plus, Leo Kottke, Martin Simpson and Richard Thompson are darn good too.