73. ??? - A deaf person musta compiled this list.
no Ed King - ?
Yeah, but how many of these guys can play without a pick?
Steve Stevens?
Prince: Just My Imagination , While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Brian Setzer: Sleepwalk
bfl
18. Zakk Wylde - Ozzy Osbourne
19. James Hetfield - Metallica
28. Eric Clapton
29. Billy Gibbons - ZZ Top
Any list that would put the people listed at 18. & 19. above the people listed at 28. & 29. is immediately invalidated because its pure Barbara Streisand
but Eddie Van Halen is great no doubt...and a disarming guy...David Lee Roth acts like a gay vaudeville act..very Catskills kitsch...entertaining though
as for number one...
I would place Hendrix in a class by himself ..as he actually was...emulators...Trower, Stevie, Marino...it's just a different thing
but overall best Guitar player to over 45 guys like me is after much consideration ..
...JEFF BECK
and he's the least commercially successful..
but just do this with the holy trinity of rock guitar 1966-1974
Yardbirds....Train Kept a Rolling
Beck, Clapton and Page..all played on many many versions of that great tune
go on Rhapsody or YouTube and compare who has the tastiest licks of those three
it ain't even close...
and Beck can still effortlessly tear up a guitar
Duane Allman has a special place for slide and his very young death
best guitarist I ever saw from only 10 feet away in a small club in Nashville and who also died young and tragic
Eddie Shaver...and I bet few outside some Texas freepers know who he was
when his daddy would say “hit it Eddie”..man he was quick chopped..alas...he had a tar problem
earliest guitar act to really impress me was Alvin Lee I'm coming Home" on the Woodstock movie-sountrack...it was something
man we could talk this stuff all day...I am sure glad I got to grow up in the best period before Rock died...from my Link Wray-Motown -Top-40-FM underground rock-Stadium rock-Punk rock youth....it was great to be there for the ride
Only because Brian May is from Queen which had liberal rocks god Freedie Mercury. All things Freedie are to be worshipped.
I doubt I would have had him in the top 50.
Rik Emmit isn't EVEN ON the list.
What about Roy Clark Roy Clark youtube
Then there is Jerry Reed.
Eddie Van Halen #1???
This is more of a popularity contest than anything objective.
Chet Atkins and Les Paul did more to revolutionize todays guitar playing than any of these others on the list did.
And Ace Frehley ACTUALLY made the list of top 100???
“Move over rover, let Jimi take over!”
Hendrix, was, is and always will be, The King.
Jeff Beck at #39, Stevie Ray Vaughn at #8. Bogus poll, I rest my case.
The real "greatest" guitarists are no doubt studio musicians with names unfamiliar to the public.
It’s amazing to see so much talent listed with so many different styles. I recognize about 1/4 of the names, so opportunity to take a listen to some I’ve never heard before. I’d have a difficult time voting.
68. George Lynch - Dokken/Lynch Mob
Way too low.
Clapton and Knopfler are way too low as well.
Yngwie malmsteen is easily the best..
Stevie Ray Vaughn was tons better than Hendrix. This list stinks.
Any list that doesn’t have Tommy Emmanuel is obviously generated by teenie boppers.
As one guitar player who is not especially into Van Halen type music, I agree, he is a monster. Whether #1 or not...well.
But, seriously, Wes Montgomery #100?
Looks pretty good to me, but what do I know? Placing Gilmor so high on the list is surprising.
And Hendrix should be number one for “Voodoo Chile” alone, which took the whole thing to another level.
Tommy Emmanuel is what Eddie Van Halen would have been had Van Halen be been sober and practiced every day for the last 30 years.