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Jimi Hendrix tops Rolling Stone’s list of best guitarists
The Calgary Herald ^ | November 23, 2011

Posted on 11/23/2011 3:33:10 PM PST by ConservativeStatement

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To: ConservativeStatement
This Joe Satriani?
21 posted on 11/23/2011 3:44:50 PM PST by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: ConservativeStatement

RIP Jimi, and thank you.


22 posted on 11/23/2011 3:44:50 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (guitars and women.)
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To: ConservativeStatement
My choice would be King Benny Nawahi or Eddie Lang.
23 posted on 11/23/2011 3:45:57 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: ConservativeStatement

Gotta mention David Gilmour.


24 posted on 11/23/2011 3:46:53 PM PST by bondserv (God governs our universe and has seen fit to offer us a pardon. †)
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To: ConservativeStatement

1. Jimi Hendrix

2. Eric Clapton

3. Jimmy Page

4. Keith Richards

5. Jeff Beck

6. B.B. King

7. Chuck Berry

8. Eddie Van Halen

9. Duane Allman

10. Pete Townshend

Read more: http://www.calgaryherald.com/entertainment/Jimi+Hendrix+tops+Rolling+Stone+list+best+guitarists/5755714/story.html#ixzz1eZhFwdke

They are all good (though I wouldn’t include Van Halen). And there are some others that maybe should be on the list. Even the Socialist from Pink Floyd is arguably eligible for the list.


25 posted on 11/23/2011 3:47:08 PM PST by OwenKellogg (Herman Cain: Because everybody needs toucan stubs!)
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To: ConservativeStatement

This guy only needed four strings.

26 posted on 11/23/2011 3:48:07 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: truthfreedom

ImoFWIW - Guys like Steve Vai and Joe Satriani are technically far superior to Hendrix. And I like their work far more. Hendrix was sloppy as hell. But that sloppiness was part of the ‘groove’ he had that none have ever approached. Groove/feeling/call it what you will.

I think his influence speaks for itself and the fact that all the ‘greats’ namecheck him without prompting leads me to think that that influence is quite real. But Hendrix ain’t my thing. Vai is.


27 posted on 11/23/2011 3:49:34 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Chief Druid of Trollhenge: Cult of Palin)
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Tony Iommi


28 posted on 11/23/2011 3:49:37 PM PST by Politics4US
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To: katiedidit1
Stevie Ray Vaughan's take on Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Chile is breathtaking. But then, much of what Vaughan did so casually still manages to amaze me. Hendrix was an innovator who took the blues and soul of his youth and re-imagined it by transposition on a guitar strung upside down and expressed with his huge and astonishingly versatile hands. Stevie was another gift entirely - his command of blues was likewise innate, but his brilliant technical ability combined with the sublime muse within him - still brings tears to my eyes. RIP to both. (Can you tell I am a guitar player?)
29 posted on 11/23/2011 3:51:27 PM PST by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: OwenKellogg
No John McLaughlin? No Al Di Meola? No Paco de Lucía? Some list…
30 posted on 11/23/2011 3:51:50 PM PST by cartan
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To: ConservativeStatement

No Ritchie Blackmore. The list is deeply flawed.


31 posted on 11/23/2011 3:53:06 PM PST by kevao
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To: bondserv
Gotta mention David Gilmour

No doubt. I would also mention Mark Knopfler.

32 posted on 11/23/2011 3:53:52 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: Billthedrill

I’m glad to see that the morons at Rolling Stone put Eddie Van Halen in the top ten after previously listing him # 70. That last list was more of a popularity contest with “hipsters” placing much higher than influential guitarists who were more deserving. Come to think of it and given that this is Rolling Stone we’re talking about, I’m surprised that they didn’t put Obama at number one.


33 posted on 11/23/2011 3:54:56 PM PST by RedStateNotShirt
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To: Fiji Hill
My choice would be Potzi.
34 posted on 11/23/2011 3:55:35 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Billthedrill

Some might laugh at this but Tiny Tim was actually a musical prodigy and an expert on 19th Century music (from which he gathered much of his material). He was not the joke that many people, on the surface, thought him to be. In fact, some consider Tiny Tim (born Herbert Khaury) one of the towering musical figures of the 20th Century.


35 posted on 11/23/2011 3:57:45 PM PST by SamAdams76 (Herman Cain 2012)
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To: ConservativeStatement

They left this guy off the list?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeOKj5XdVAE


36 posted on 11/23/2011 3:57:45 PM PST by Argus
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To: OwenKellogg

Having recently watched Jeff Beck at Ronnie Scott’s for the umpteenth time, I would daresay he makes Eric Clapton’s playing look like Jack Black in School of Rock...


37 posted on 11/23/2011 3:57:49 PM PST by magritte
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To: Politics4US

I was going to post Richie Blackmore and Tony Iommi. Al Dimeola, John McLaughlin and some other jazz guys like Wes Montgomery and George Benson should be in the top 100 for sure. Also mentioned in this thread but worth repeating are Chet Atkins and Les Paul.


38 posted on 11/23/2011 3:59:03 PM PST by Blue Highway
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To: OwenKellogg

Robert Fripp?
Bill Nelson?
Brian May?
Tony Iommi?


39 posted on 11/23/2011 4:00:26 PM PST by AceMineral (Some people are too stupid for their own good.)
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To: freedumb2003

What was considered Rock or Rock and Roll in his time has nothing in common with Hendrix.


40 posted on 11/23/2011 4:01:43 PM PST by Venturer
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