Posted on 11/23/2011 9:26:13 PM PST by This Just In
Rolling Stone names Jimi Hendrix the ‘Greatest Guitarist of all Time,’ followed by Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page The rest of the top five are Keith Richards and Jeff Beck
BY Jim Farber
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Wednesday, November 23 2011, 3:44 PM
Yes, he’s experienced.
Jimi Hendrix has been proclaimed the “Greatest Guitarist of All Time” by a panel of musicians wrangled by Rolling Stone Magazine.
Though dead for more than 40 years, Hendrix’s fiery and distinct style clearly continues to inspire, and intimidate, six-string pluckers the world over.
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WORD! SRV without a doubt. No one could bend the strings like him. R.I.P.
Link Wray had all of his fingers.
Link Wray is a guitar god...He invented the power chord. Tom Petty and Pete Townsend both say they were influenced by Link. Nasty, Mean, Nasty, (did I say nasty?) Link Wray needs to be in every collection.
I first saw SRV in a little bar in Palo Alto CA summer of 83. I want to say that Marc Castro opened. SRV played the hell out of the guitar. Back in 83 I had just got back from the army in Germany and music in those days really sucked bad....Kiddie pop, Hair Bands and New Wave crap...
Out from Texas came this boy and Ziggy sure could play guitar...I sear I saw him put the guitar down and it was playing itself! I had my elbows on the stage with Stevies flopsweat flying everywhere...Blues, Beer and a Hot August Night....those were the days my friend. After that I NEVER missed a SRV show in the SF Bay Area...
“Steve Vai for me is technically a genius and probably the best although all his grinding and gesticulating puts him up there for the worlds biggest knob jockey as well.”
As I said on the other thread, I’m a huge Vai fan. But you are 100% correct. But when you’re that good, all the ‘Sex-face’ stuff just adds to the show...feel sorry for his wife though ;)
For those unaware of Vai’s onstage histronics...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U52sP25ynE
Jimmy Page, Stevie Ray, Eric Clapton and Alvin Lee were always my favorites.
Carlos Santana belongs on my list, plus B.B. King.
The version found on iTunes does not have the National Anthem included; you have to purchase the actual album in order to get it.
Anyone here ever heard of B.B. King?
As a guitarist I say The Hendrix decision is obvious as far as Rock N Roll guitarists go. He took the Johnson/Waters blues legacies and innovated beyond imagination. SRV was great, and truly an innovator, but not on Hendrix’s level historically. What I never could understand is why Clapton ever got and still gets so much credit as a guitarist, even now, post Satriani, etc. The Clapton oeuvre seems to me to be a collection of previously-used riffs and licks... In fact for pure musical innovation, technical excellence, and “newness” I can’t see why any of Clapton’s famous riffs are even on a par with David Gilmour’s soaring work (on, for instance, Comfortably Numb.)
Just a few thoughts as a git fiddle picker myself.
Jimi Hendrix was great, okay? I liked the guy. But it was the AMPS that made him; Marshall Amps were the reason Jimi was Jimi. Let’s be real.
Yes, I know black and all that. Yes, Yes, and Yes.
But they put him up there a few times with SUNN amps and he sounded God-awful! Although, when he drove those fender amps into his Marshall’s at Monterey Pop it sounded good too.
I’m not saying he was not a player; Oh he was. But it had to do with the excellent equipment and also, his recording engineer, Eddie Kramer, God love him. He made everyone sound better.
Just a few thoughts from someone who knows something about all that.
I agree with you on Kath. He was awesome. I’m friends with his daughter Michelle on facebook. 8->
D’oh! Right, What about Trower? He was, to be fair, a copier of the Hendrix style. I guess that knocks him down a bit.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience's first album was Are You Experienced.
Bah, Keaggy was a decent player, awesome in Glass Harp. But THEN he got all down with the dude above and started playing that puss puss music.
Rock for Jesus or go home. My feelings on that. ;-P
You mean the dude from Sabbath?
HEH! That’s funny... :)
No one has mentioned Joe Walsh? Even Pete Townsend said he was one of the greats.
Asturias is actually a song written by Spanish pianist Issac Albéniz, who is wildly popular amongst classical guitarists. I find Segovia to be more of a performer than a composer, but a great performer he was!
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