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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Yngwie should have been in the top 20, if not the top 10.
Duane Allman was the best.
If he said that about Jimi, he was just being nice.
EVH’s a far more influential player than Richards. Keith rides on the fame of the Rolling Stones. Richard’s can’t match EVH’s musicality, technicality, innovation, and licks (as well as gymnastics...well, way back when...).
Absolutely.
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.
Based on all this and Ritchie Blackmore isn't mentioned? ppfftt!
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.)
I never really got the Keith Richard thing. I think he did some cool stuff with the tunings and the style of play that fit the music, but I never thought of him as a groundbreaking guitarist, or one that had much depth or facility. Top 100 sure, not top 10.
EVH changed every guitarist that followed him into the rock/pop world.
Yngwie is amazing - his Arpeggios from Hell video on you tube is stunning.
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.
I still like Blackmore and Page for their Riff writing and solos.
Mel
Pardon me, but Sid Vicious couldn’t play his way out of a bucket. I believe he had a firm grasp on a three or four chord progression.
I only had room for 10 :)
Blackmore is Top 25 for sure on the Spodefly list.
Hendrix inspired thousands of 15yr old garage band
musicians who played poorly but succeeded in chang-
ing Rock n Roll to screach n squeal. Progress?
Hendrix was the innovator.
SRV was great but he was a follower.
I get your passion for Metheny. He has been incredible since the first PMG album back in the late 70’s. His ensemble play, his solos, his “trumpet” synth, the acoustic numbers and sounds ... He is unique and brilliant.
But Rolling Stone can’t even open their eyes enough to recognize broadly the rock guitar pallet, much less Jazz/Progressive.
When asked about today’s innovative guitarists, Jimmy Page said that Eddie Van Halen had his attention.
Although EVH didn’t invent the hammer technique, he put it on the map with his own style and technical attack.
Joe Pass gets my vote. Honorable mention to Les Paul.
Anybody who thinks Hendrix could play needs to go to Youtube and watch Tommy Emmanuel play Purple Haze. Or anything else for that matter. Personal taste and all, but few of the guitarists mentioned would make a good sized wart on Emmanuel’s rear end.
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