re: Best Lead Guitar Player

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Chet Atkins was tapping on the fretboard twenty years before Eddie Van Halen was born.

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well that's not true.

However, I do like the fact that when you watch the stuff he was doing in the 1950s and 1960s, and he was doing things like sweep picking before it was invented. Chet Atkins and Les Paul probably invented (without naming) a shite ton of electric techniques that are credited to some metal or hard rock guy decades afterwards.

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Chet Atkins was tapping on the fretboard twenty years before Eddie Van Halen was born.

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However, I do like the fact that when you watch the stuff he was doing in the 1950s and 1960s, and he was doing things like sweep picking before it was invented. Chet Atkins and Les Paul probably invented (without naming) a shite ton of electric techniques that are credited to some metal or hard rock guy decades afterwards.

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Amateur Italian guitarist doing some serious tapping in 1965


LINK

You want tone? Robin Trower

Technical? Jeff Beck called John McLaughlin the GOAT !!!!!!

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Eddie Van Halen is the best of all time and its not close.


Chet Atkins was tapping on the fretboard twenty years before Eddie Van Halen was born.

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and Mobile had Mardi Gras first, ppl may not like his playing style but I don't think any guitar player would deny Eddie advanced the instrument more than anybody.

ETA: whoa Rick Beato just put out a video touching on this today, although it needs to be said that it was more than just tapping with Eddie. LINK

Marty Friedman

How did this get to four pages before this?

DIckie Betts for me.

Currently I'm digging his playing from 1990-1995 when Alan Woody & Warren Haynes were in the ABB.

Check out how dark Dickie takes his solo on Whipping Post here from 1991...

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