Posted on 09/29/2016 6:17:49 PM PDT by Mariner
The 20th century could easily be considered the golden age of guitar in popular music. You can hear it in the inventive blues and jazz guitar work that seemed to reinvent the instrument every decade if not every year or so, and you can especially hear it in the invention of the guitar-centric rock genre that became a cultural behemoth in the second half of the century. Popular music today often eschews the guitar in favor of studio-based arrangements, but the guitar players who made the greatest impact in the 1900s continue to influence popular music today. To celebrate their contributions to music and music history, we’re counting off five of the most influential guitarists of the 20th century, in chronological order.
1. Robert Johnson
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My fav fingerstyle player...
Doyle Dykes does an instrumental version of Cold Play’s “Yellow”... with his own intro & arrangement. Just beautiful
My 2 favorites. Stevie Ray Vaughn and Garry Moore.
You really meant Dave Mustaine instead of that Metallica copycat puppet, right? ;-)
Yeah, I like Megadeth - Metallica fights ... The greatest heavy metal band vs. the band Dave Mustaine created that pretty much used and abused Mustaine’s formula on their first three albums that pretty much launched them to superstardom :-).
I do like what I’ve heard from the new Metallica album so far. It almost sounds like Dave Mustaine produced it :-).
In all seriousness, Mustaine would be an incredible rhythm and blues guitarist. If you ever get bored, try slowing down some of his solos :-). That man has some I credible talent.
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Agree, Peter Green, too bad what happened to him.
End Of The Game (jam) on End of the Game album.
Drifting.
The Supernatural.
Albatross.
Always like running across others who appreciate Greenie.
Also B.B King, Muddy Waters and blind Wille Johnson.
Trey Anastasio
Gerry Garcia
Roy Buchanan (anybody remember him?)
Only two mentions of any of the Three Kings. They were ALL influential and great!
Also, only one mention of Duane Eddy. He never gets the credit he deserves. He made great MUSIC and sold a million guitars. And he begat Hank B. Marvin who begat every Canadian and most Brit guitar players you ever heard.
No rock guitarist could do what he did, Mark Knopfler is about the only one with a similar style though rock. You do have to like that sort of music, of course.
Um, Robert Johnson was playing guitar before Les was crawling. Look him up.
Les Paul’s contributions are beyond dispute
And for the record zJohnson was only four years older than Paul. Moreover without the solid body guitar that Paul invented most of that list is useless
Hey! The man was honest about his voice: "Geese farts on a muggy day" ring a bell?
I met the great legend B. B.King on September 1, 1993 in Detroit on his personal tour bus “Lucille.”
Steve Howe of the Yes.
Just because you’re a musical genius and CAN play a million notes per minute, doesn’t mean you SHOULD.
All three of the guys you name are just into musical self-gratification—getting off on how exceptional they are musically with no soul or feeling. After a few minutes of them, it’s worse than listening to a Bruce Hornsby piano concert for 3 hours. I’d rather listen to Hillary sing.
Give me Carlos Santana or Robin Trower, or so many others who are just as gifted, but actually feel the music, and express more emotion in 10 notes than the million notes those other guys play.
And then there’s Eric Clapton, who is quite probably the most overrated well-known guitar player on earth, no better than the original 1,000 blues guitar players before him, and worse than the 10,000 blues club players after him.
“EVH can’t shine JMH’s shoes”
Jimi was the greatest, but I wouldn’t go that far.
EVH and Jimi weren’t similar at all...totally different styles, approaches and musical influences...can’t compare the two of them.
I actually like the list
If I had to remove it would be Johnson and Chuck
Replace with Beck
Clapton and Peter Green tie
Johnson was remarkable but the best picker of the 20s delta guys?
I’m not sure
Martin Barre of Jethro Tull.
I will bet the bulk of you guys never heard of Lenny Breau but you can bet just about everyone of the guys you mention knew of him.
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