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re: Best Guitarist Ever
Posted on 12/26/22 at 4:16 pm to AlwysATgr
Posted on 12/26/22 at 4:16 pm to AlwysATgr
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I'm not sure Prince is in any all-time great discussion for any instrument.
Prince was a great player of multiple instruments, but is a pop and R&B musician.
Just like John Mayer is a great guitar player, but made his living playing pop music.
If you aren't writing and playing it as part of your music career, it's irrelevant.
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Posted on 12/26/22 at 4:19 pm to ob1pimpbobi
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I think you mean Les Paul.
Les Paul and Roy Clark should not be part of this thread. Different music and genres. They are both great, but it's a different conversation.
Posted on 12/26/22 at 4:20 pm to tigahlovah
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You rate EVH as the most talented MUSICIAN of the last 50 years. I wasn't aware that he played anything other than guitar. Did he play other instruments?
You cannot be serious with this? Are you 20?
Posted on 12/26/22 at 4:23 pm to BigOrangeBri
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The best guitarists of all time are mainly found in the credits on the back of albums. Most don’t have their names in the bands or on the front of the record.
If you can't write or create, then you're not in the discussion for the best. You are just playing other people's music.
Posted on 12/26/22 at 4:57 pm to greasemonkey
quote:I let you know on Saturday!!
Billy Strings
Posted on 12/26/22 at 5:07 pm to Treacherous Cretin
quote:Funny you should mention this. I took the family to Maui and one beautiful day we went to 10,023K peak at the top of the volcano. My wife and kid, not Dead fans at all, let me listen to this version (and eyes of the world) on the 45 minute drive down the mountain. It was utterly mind bending
Dark Star - From the same show
Posted on 12/26/22 at 6:10 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
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Anyone can mimic someone great, but the talent is in the creativity, not the the mechanics of operating the actual instrument - be that a guitar or a paint brush.
There are teenagers who can play every Hendrix or Van Halen song, but they can't create anything.
Agree with your views. Well said.
Posted on 12/26/22 at 6:53 pm to PrezCock
Six pages with no mention of Neal Schon or Steve Lukather?
Posted on 12/27/22 at 8:38 am to Lou the Jew from LSU
Great story about Duane...Aretha Franklin was recording with Jerry Wexler in the late 60's. They were going to do the Band's song "The Weight". Wexler asked Ms. Franklin who she wanted as her guitarist and she replied "Get the white guy." The white guy was Duane Allman...give it a listen. Also Eric Clapton appears on Lady Soul in the tune "Good to Me as I am to You"...another one of those "give it a listen"...incredible talents, all three...
Posted on 12/27/22 at 12:40 pm to PrezCock
Billy Strings
Posted on 12/27/22 at 6:53 pm to PrezCock
This is a no brainer...... It's some dude on a street corner who has his guitar case open every day to collect pay from strangers. He's playing because he's in love with his guitar and it pays his bills.
This post was edited on 12/27/22 at 6:54 pm
Posted on 12/27/22 at 8:00 pm to PrezCock
Does anyone think that any of these top guitarists watch another top guitarist and just say “damn bro, you got me. I can’t do that.”
No. That’s why it’s about creativity, not skill.
No. That’s why it’s about creativity, not skill.
Posted on 12/28/22 at 10:31 am to PrezCock
After much thought:
Link Wray
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Johnny Ramone
Link Wray
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Johnny Ramone
Posted on 12/28/22 at 12:45 pm to PrezCock
Me
Posted on 12/28/22 at 1:19 pm to PrezCock
Posted on 12/29/22 at 10:08 pm to tigahlovah
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To me, Prince is CLEARLY the best all around musician ever. That cat had #1 songs, and ENTIRE albums where he played every instrument and sang every note. And they sold big. It doesn't get better than that.
Probably late to the party now but I would submit the late Shawn Lane as one of the better musicians in the last 50 years as well.
Guy was a musical genius.
Posted on 12/30/22 at 12:50 am to PrezCock
Kenny Wayne Shepherd
Posted on 12/30/22 at 9:00 am to Telecaster
Johnny Ramone would be offended. He always claimed that he was not a musician.....just a dude who had a guitar.
Link Wray is an excellent choice. He's the only artist on here to have some of his music banned because the guitar play would inspire rowdiness.
From an underrated aspect you have Lukather from Toto......and Vince Gill.
Link Wray is an excellent choice. He's the only artist on here to have some of his music banned because the guitar play would inspire rowdiness.
From an underrated aspect you have Lukather from Toto......and Vince Gill.
Posted on 12/30/22 at 9:06 am to dchog
I think Roy Clark was in a category by himself. Very clean play. Technically masterful and seemed to do it effortlessly.
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