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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

Legendary musician Jimi Hendrix was named the greatest guitar player in history Wednesday by Rolling Stone magazine in a list compiled by a panel of music experts and top guitar players.

“Jimi Hendrix exploded our idea of what rock music could be: He manipulated the guitar, the whammy bar, the studio and the stage,” said Grammy-winning guitarist Tom Morello in the magazine, citing Hendrix’s “Purple Haze” and “The Star-Spangled Banner” as key tracks.

(Excerpt) Read more at calgaryherald.com ...


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: guitarists; hendrix; music; rockandroll; rollingstone
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To: hugorand

Believe it or not Fripp was also a huge influence on the genres like House/Trance/Drum and Bass and other forms of electronica. His stuff is just so ‘out there’ that it impresses on a sheer “what the hell just happened’ level. The whole ‘soundscape’ thing he does is pretty wild. He certainly had his own ideas of what ‘music’ is supposed to be.


101 posted on 11/23/2011 5:01:05 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Chief Druid of Trollhenge: Cult of Palin)
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To: Libertarian444
Since Brian Jones died, he’s effectively been able to hide behind Mick Taylor and Ronnie Wood.

I am not much of a Keith Richards fan and can't imagine why he would even make the top 50 but that's The Rolling Stone for you. However I am puzzled by your statement. Jagger wrote the lyrics and a few melodies but essentially Richards wrote the riffs and almost all the music. As far as the music goes Keith Richards IS the Rolling Stones.

Mick Taylor was a good soloist (Can't you hear me knocking) but was just a sideman. Ronnie Wood is a mediocre guitar player and hasn't added anything really. Their act would be delayed sometimes for hours waiting for Keith to show up or Keith to get his son to help him find his junk. They didn't perform without him. Keith just does his thing & it doesn't impress me much but he is the musical heart of the Rolling Stones. What I did find interesting though is Richard's vast use of tunings and his claim that there are no electric guitars on Jumping Jack Flash - all acoustic.

102 posted on 11/23/2011 5:03:39 PM PST by plain talk
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To: ConservativeStatement

Danny Gatton


103 posted on 11/23/2011 5:08:59 PM PST by Jay Santos CP ("Idiocracy"... It's no longer just a movie.)
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To: Big Red Clay

That’s an interesting perception. I’ve seen Page, Clapton, Van Halen, Townshend and Richards but not the others. I saw Clapton play in a club in the mid-to-late 80s.


104 posted on 11/23/2011 5:11:31 PM PST by ConservativeStatement (Obama "acted stupidly.")
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To: ConservativeStatement
My list:

1. Jimi Hendrix

2. Duane Allman

3. Keith Richards

After that, does it even matter?

105 posted on 11/23/2011 5:11:34 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: plain talk

Hand each one of those top 10 guitarists a guitar and as them to play some of their accoustic stuff, the best on the list is Page.

No question Hendrix was awesome. He did things with a guitar that takes a guitarist 3 different peddles to achieve the same sound with.


106 posted on 11/23/2011 5:13:47 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (To fix government, we need a rocket scientist. Oh, wait we have one!)
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To: alicewonders
While my guitar gently weeps-Tommy Emmanuel & Jake Shimabukuro[YouTube Video]
107 posted on 11/23/2011 5:23:09 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their Moonbats)
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To: ConservativeStatement

No Frank Zappa or Ritchie Blackmore?What a joke.


108 posted on 11/23/2011 5:32:36 PM PST by Uncle Meat
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To: alicewonders

Yes. I always thought George Harrison was quite an underrated guitarist. So was Paul McCartney. Even on George’s own song Taxman George struggled getting the solo to sound right and McCartney ended up doing it. Paul also did the solo to Good Morning.

But George was tasty. On Abbey Road I believe the last thing they tracked were those guitar solos on the 2nd side. McCartney, Harrison and Lennon screwed around for a while working out their parts and then supposedly nailed those solo’s in one real live take. Harrison’s is the 2nd, 5th, and 8th. I always thought Harrison’s tone on that 8th one was especially good


109 posted on 11/23/2011 5:34:10 PM PST by plain talk
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To: al44
I had the honor of sitting across from Tommy Emmanuel and Chet Atkins practicing for the “Chet Atkins Appreciation Society's” concert. I kept my mouth shut and my guitar quiet. One look at the songs Atkins played on would put him on the R&R list for anyone with a brain. James Burton too. I think the list is flawed because many of the ones that voted on it have a limited depth of knowledge and experience.
110 posted on 11/23/2011 5:34:27 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: ConservativeStatement

1)Django
2)Grant Green
3)George Benson


111 posted on 11/23/2011 5:34:27 PM PST by logitech
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To: Blue Highway

I’m not sure I’m that amazed by the Animals as Leaders clip. He’s fast, and with 8 strings, that’s more notes you can have.
Angular, fast solos. The tonality isn’t that interesting. Every note varies only in pitch. I’m not sure how they get away with calling themselves djent . It sounds quite a bit like progressive metal. I prefer the sounds of like Kylesa and Mastodon. The dynamics there. I’m not saying Laura Pleasants is the best guitarist of all time. But I think I prefer what Kylesa does to the really fast melodic / prog metal soloing. But I prefer the 70s guitarists to the 80s guitarists. I thought the 80s guitarists lacked “rock”. Too fast, they lose me. The guitaring is like a layer, pasted on top of the song. It’s like you have to choose between great riffs, and a superfast layer of melodic soloing, and I’d like to hear both.


112 posted on 11/23/2011 5:37:20 PM PST by truthfreedom
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To: ConservativeStatement

It’s the Ford vs Chevy argument with strings.... people like what they like. Warren Zevon, Frank Zappa, EC, SRV


113 posted on 11/23/2011 5:39:21 PM PST by Feckless (I was trained by the US << This Tagline Censored by FR >> ain't that irOnic?)
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To: andy58-in-nh
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?)

THAT!

114 posted on 11/23/2011 5:44:33 PM PST by Talisker (History will show the Illuminati won the ultimate Darwin Award.)
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To: OwenKellogg

Boot Keith Richards, and put Chet Atkins at #1.
115 posted on 11/23/2011 5:46:46 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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To: ConservativeStatement

He was a heck of a good one when he was able to stand.


116 posted on 11/23/2011 5:47:33 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: OwenKellogg

Boot Duane Allman, put Les Paul at #3.
117 posted on 11/23/2011 5:48:05 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Electric Graffiti

Wow! That was beautiful! Thanks for the link.


118 posted on 11/23/2011 5:48:14 PM PST by alicewonders
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To: OwenKellogg

Boot Duane Allman, put Les Paul at #3.
119 posted on 11/23/2011 5:49:31 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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To: OwenKellogg

Boot Duane Allman, put Les Paul at #3.
120 posted on 11/23/2011 5:49:31 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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