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Jan 16, 2023 · Jenna Scaramanga, Amit Sharma. last updated 16 January 2023. A comprehensive rundown of the best guitarists of all time, featuring the trailblazers, the early innovators, the best jazz, rock, indie, blues, metal and acoustic players – and the top guitarists around today...
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Oct 13, 2023 · The 250 Greatest Guitarists of All Time Celebrating six-string glory in blues, rock, metal, punk, folk, country, reggae, jazz, flamenco, bossa nova, and much more By Rolling Stone
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- Michael Schenker. Mike McReady (Pearl Jam): "It’s really hard to pick just one guitarist. It would have to be… early on, I’d say Ace Frehley and Paul Stanley.
- George Harrison. Elliot Easton (The Cars): "To me, George Harrison is the one. A lot of the guys in my generation that saw Harrison play, that’s how we learned how to be a lead guitarist in a band.
- Malcolm Young. Scott Ian (Anthrax): "Malcolm Young has gotta be the most unsung, underrated guitar hero of all time. He was the backbone of AC/DC, the greatest rock band ever, and wrote some of the most amazing riffs you’ll hear.
- Paul Gilbert. Jim Davies (The Prodigy, Pitchshifter): "As a guitarist with The Prodigy and Pitchshifter, I guess I might be considered an unlikely fan of Paul Gilbert.
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- Jimi Hendrix. Let’s face it, rock will never come up with a more visionary guitarist. Not only did Jimi Hendrix expand the sonic possibilities of what a guitar could do, but he also found uncharted places that a guitar could take you to.
- Chuck Berry. The blues had a baby, they called it rock’n’roll, and the guitar intro on Chuck Berry’s “Maybelline” was the moment of conception. Berry was a master of the short and tasty solo (though you can check out 60s albums like Concerto In B Goode if you want to hear his solos at length), and there’s been no worthy rock guitarist who hasn’t absorbed a little Chuck.
- Wes Montgomery. During his too-short career, this jazz great was rightly renowned for his octave technique (playing phrases on two strings an octave apart, giving a clear sweet tone), and his aggressive thumb strokes (something Jeff Beck and others emulated).
- BB King. You might say that BB King was half of the greatest vocal duo in blues history. The other half was his guitar, Lucille, whose elegant, pleading tone said everything that the words couldn’t completely express.
- Jimmy Page. The mastermind behind hard-rock giants Led Zeppelin is without a doubt the best guitarists who ever lived. Jimmy Page’s clamorous fusion of blues-rock and hyperactive riffage took the revolutionary spirit of Jimi Hendrix’s innovations and turned them into pure magic.
- Jimi Hendrix. After arriving in the UK in September 1966, Seattle-born guitarist Jimi Hendrix single-handedly revolutionised rock’n’roll with his virtuosic wail of electric blues.
- David Gilmour. Picking up on the psychedelic sonic touchstones paved by Pink Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett, David Gilmour and his iconic “Black Strat” created a guitar sound like no other.
- Eric Clapton. In the 60s, in the days before Hendrix, graffiti could be found daubed on London’s walls declaring that “Clapton Is God”. It’s not hard to see why.
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Jan 29, 2024 · 1. Brian May (Queen) Video unavailable. Watch on YouTube. First on our list is Brian May, one of the founding members of the iconic band Queen. He holds a spot as one of the most influential and well-known guitarists, songwriters, and performers of all time.
100 people. Sort by List order. 1. Jimi Hendrix. Music Artist. Music Department. Composer. Woodstock (1970) Widely regarded as the greatest and most influential guitarist in rock history, Jimi Hendrix was born on November 27, 1942 in Seattle, Washington, to African-American parents Lucille (Jeter) and James Allen Hendrix.
