re: Your top 3 guitar masters

Duane Allman

Jimi Hendrix
Eric Clapton
Jeff Beck

Frank Zappa

John McLaughlin

Eric Krasno

Tony Rice
Doc Watson
Hendrix

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Eric Krasno

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Interesting. Funk is one of my favorite genres but I have a hard time calling Krasno elite. He is a great player no doubt, but his solos are underwhelming. He is fantastic at riffs, but that is to be expected of a funk guitarist.

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Anders Osborne

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Can't get enough Anders.

"The Chip on my should that I got? It comes out onstage. I get pissed off up there. Sadness that I got - it comes out."

- Anders Osborne.

Been trough some tough shite this past year and Anders' music really helped me.

Billy Gibbons
R Blackmore
Hendrix

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Robin Trower
Michael Shcenker
Roy Clark

So many good ones

EC
Gilmour
and maybe the best, Ernie Isley

1. Hendrix
2. Page
3. Vernon Reid

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Without BB, Albert and Freddie a lot of guys on these lists wouldn't have had a career

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That may be, but that still doesnt make BB King a freakin guitar master. He's an original blues player. He's pretty much the exact opposite of a guitar master. He's got one tone, one lick, and one style and he sits in it. I will never understand the BB hype when there are far superior players that have come and gone. Hendrix, although not nearly as good a player as some of his predecessor's, was still a master. He did things with the guitar that no one had done before, had pretty good/great chops, and was an absolutely fantastic songwriter. He pioneered rock music. He fits the "guitar master" definition more. Definitely not BB King.