Without a doubt.
Hendrix was good, but not Number 1. Personally, I think he is a bit overhyped.
Surely I can’t be the only person that sees guitar playing as far overrated. I can’t stand a song played by Jimi Hendrix, and his National Anthem version is worse that a chorus of squeaky chairs to me.
only because he died way before his time (as did Bruce Lee, but I think God had something to do with that).
Keith Richards at #3>>>>>>
lol he is awful though he had a lot of spark in his younger days before he got zoned out on heroin and other drugs. Mick Taylor should be on this list. Steve Winwood is a good guitarist too as in “Mr Fantasy”
Stevie Ray Vaughn. It isn’t even close.
How did Django Reinhardt do? I guess if it isn’t rock ‘n roll and its not amped, I doesn’t count.
I salute this choice, with my left hand, of course!
Keef Richards??!
Replace him with Alex Lifeson
Nope, Jimmy Page or Les Paul.
Spodefly’s Top Ten Guitarists of All Time* (in no particular order):
Steve Howe
Eric Johnson
Steve Morse
Jimi Hendrix
Pat Metheny
David Gilmour
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Steve Vai
Joe Satriani
Jimmy Page
*Based on technical facility, capability for multiple styles of play, soul, feel, sound, uniqueness.
Don’t even try to argue with this list, because I have checked it carefully and it is 100% correct.
...which is why I put no stock in anything published by Rolling Stone.
Maybe Mick Taylor instead of Keith, btw, the Stones have released their long awaited live set from their European 73 tour. Internet only for now. Hot stuff, I have had the Bedspring Symphony for years.
RS still does not like Jorma Kaukonen, eh? Or Stevie Ray, for that matter.
Any list of great guitarists that does not have Joe Bonamassa in the top 20 has no validity.
This looks like the same list they did 5 years ago.
Pat Metheny is the best guitarist who ever lived. The guitar is more than a plaything to him. With it, he has accomplished the technical virtuosity of a Hendrix, or a Clapton, or a Jeff Beck. But he has done so much more than technical brilliance. His genius informs not only his playing, but his composition and his arrangements as well. Granted, he has lived to maturity, where Hendrix cut himself down in his early manhood. Who knows what Hendrix might have gone on to accomplish. But like the young, tragic John Keats, who showed promise that he might dazzle beyond all who put pen to paper, his voice was silenced at age 25. No, the mantle of “greatest” goes to Shakespeare, unmatched on so many fronts, for so long. Metheny is indeed the greatest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWLw7nozO_U
Stevie Ray Vaughan, “Texas Flood,” live at the El Mocambo circa 1983. This is as good as it gets.
}:-)4
Sid Vicious
(Yeah, he played bass, but he was pretty darn good at it.)