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Top 50 Guitar Albums: Full List, Readers Poll Revealed
Gibson ^ | 7-30-10 | staff

Posted on 08/19/2010 5:38:47 PM PDT by Mr. Blonde

The top 10

1. Van Halen, Van Halen (1978)
2. The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Are You Experienced (1967)
3. Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin IV (1971)
4. Derek and the Dominos, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (1970)
5. Guns N’ Roses, Appetite for Destruction (1987)
6. Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin II (1969)
7. The Allman Brothers Band, At Fillmore East (1971)
8. Cream, Disraeli Gears (1967)
9. The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Electric Ladyland (1968)
10. AC/DC, Back in Black (1980)

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: fender; gibson; guitar; rockandroll; yep
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To: vetvetdoug

Steven King is probably the most talented fingerpicker in the world and is extremely amicable.

I met him...very nice guy.


101 posted on 08/19/2010 7:27:13 PM PDT by chasio649 (amused)
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To: Mr. Blonde

He's still the best guitarist in my book bar none !

Just a taste But if you don't like hard Rock forget it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNQkcXEGiBA&feature=search

102 posted on 08/19/2010 7:27:47 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK (Any man may make a mistake ; none but a fool will persist in it . { Latin proverb })
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To: behzinlea

No. Doobie Brothers. Was an engineer on “Star Wars.” Saw him playing about two months ago at a big Hollywood GOP confab (yes, there are some conservatives in Hollywood!)


103 posted on 08/19/2010 7:32:36 PM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: Mr. Blonde
He sold a million records in 1958, but that was a single. He did cut several “albums” that were not simply compilations of singles and had distinct themes (like many others then and later). But record companies wouldn't release them here specifically (and publicly stated) because they considered him “a bad influence on American youth”. That was one reason he was so big - and so influential - in England. Some of that material is even now just being released.

Not a lot of radio play, but he sold albums like crazy over there because he was an “American bad boy”, in spite of the fact that he was really pretty clean-cut for the times, and because of that sound.

The American music business people just thought his guitar was “too raunchy”.

104 posted on 08/19/2010 7:34:32 PM PDT by conservativeharleyguy (Democrats: Over 60 million fooled daily!)
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To: theDentist

I know, but MG was the first group with FOUR lead guitarists, three of whom would play rhythm on a song while one did his thing.


105 posted on 08/19/2010 7:35:47 PM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: theDentist

Sorry, three leads and a bass


106 posted on 08/19/2010 7:36:08 PM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: Mr. Blonde; Grizzled Bear

Another airball by the Gibson website. Stevie Ray Vaughan first appears at freakin’ 31? Good grief.


107 posted on 08/19/2010 7:43:12 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (Anyone who says we need illegals to do the jobs Americans won't do has never watched "Dirty Jobs.")
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To: Mr. Blonde
So where the hell is Pat Metheney?....or is this just another of those Gen-X thingies?

I sniff some racism and/or ageism....

108 posted on 08/19/2010 7:43:23 PM PDT by ErnBatavia (It's not the Obama Administration....it's the "Obama Regime".)
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To: Mr. Blonde
The Complete Works of Agustín Barrios Mangoré.

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109 posted on 08/19/2010 7:44:29 PM PDT by death2tyrants
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To: Poser

Yep, was just listening to some TYA last night...Watt and Cricklewood Green.


110 posted on 08/19/2010 7:53:50 PM PDT by Ammo Republic 15
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To: wastedyears
Good point. Priest also had great duelists:

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111 posted on 08/19/2010 7:53:50 PM PDT by death2tyrants
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To: conservativeharleyguy

I believe similar problems are there for The Kinks in America. They are severely underrated here.


112 posted on 08/19/2010 7:57:00 PM PDT by Mr. Blonde (You ever thought about being weird for a living?)
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To: ChildOfThe60s
This should be called the Top 50 *Electric* Guitar Album list.

^^^^Ditto.

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113 posted on 08/19/2010 7:58:49 PM PDT by death2tyrants
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To: who knows what evil?
Not exactly on topic, but Grace Potter can really belt it out. This video blew me away
114 posted on 08/19/2010 7:59:01 PM PDT by Mr. Blonde (You ever thought about being weird for a living?)
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To: Mr. Blonde

Not sure if I missed it, but no Guitar Album favorites would be complete without the mention of:

ERIC JOHNSON’s A Via Musicom!


115 posted on 08/19/2010 8:00:06 PM PDT by Artcore
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To: Mr. Blonde

Was never a fan of Van Halen, and the only use I ever had for an ACDC album, was as a .22 target. The latter (Highway to Hell) some guy had played at a party - over and over and over again.

We had actually debated shooting the albums owner, but reason, and a bit of sobriety, prevailed. So, over morning coffee, out on the deck, we blasted that damn album straight to Hell.


116 posted on 08/19/2010 8:02:18 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: vetvetdoug

That was interesting, thanks for your comment.


117 posted on 08/19/2010 8:02:51 PM PDT by Ammo Republic 15
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To: Mr. Blonde

Good Grief, I almost forgot to mention Django Reinhardt.

Check this 4 minute video out. This guy literally plays with two fingers (left hand), he’s incredible!!:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iJ7bs4mTUY


118 posted on 08/19/2010 8:04:00 PM PDT by Artcore
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To: j.argese

My neighbors Uncle is Noki Edwards....lead guitarist of The Ventures...


119 posted on 08/19/2010 8:09:21 PM PDT by Mama Shawna
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To: Lil Flower

Yeah, “The Sky is Cryin’” at 31 and “Texas Flood” at 44. As muchg as I like some of the stuff on it (”Life by the Drop” is an absolute masterpiece) I wouldn’t have put “Cryin’” on this list at all if I could substitute pretty much any of the ones he made while he was still alive.

BTW, the last Gibson list was of the 50 greatest guitarists, and they had him at number 12. That’s like putting the Red Baron at number 12 on a list of the 50 best WWI aces.


120 posted on 08/19/2010 8:15:12 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (Anyone who says we need illegals to do the jobs Americans won't do has never watched "Dirty Jobs.")
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