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Jan 16, 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 aro.
- The Best Guitarists in The World Right Now
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- The Best Guitarists in The World Right Now
May 7, 2024 · Guitar gods: The 30 most influential lead guitarists of all time. Keep in mind that this isn’t just a list of the best guitar players of all time but also of influential lead guitarists,...
Oct 13, 2023 · Guitar players are often as iconic as the lead singers for the bands they play in. But mythic guitar gods like Jimmy Page, Brian May, and Eddie Van Halen are only one part of the...
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Jimi Hendrixwas just so fluid. His hands were connected to his soul, you know? His playing was just so emotional. You could feel the fire, you could feel the blues. You could feel the sadness. It’s unbelievable. What did I learn from him? What you can do with an electric guitar. And how to blend rock & roll and blues all together in songs. I didn’t...
I fuckin’ love Hendrix. He’s all-encompassing. His song-writing ability was amazing, his leads were genius – he was so far ahead of his time. My dad was in Vietnam, and he had Hendrix’s Band of Gypsysrecord on his carrier. He brought that back when I was seven or eight, and I put it on not really knowing that much about rock & roll. I remember goin...
My favorite guitar player is Jimi Hendrix, hands down. It started when I was five or six years old – hearing “Purple Haze” and thinking it didn’t sound like anything on AM radio at the time. Then in 1976, I went to one of my first rock concerts. Between bands, they played “Purple Haze” on the PA, and I freaked out. The first thing I did when I got ...
If I had to pick just one guy who influenced me the most, it would be Cliff Gallup. He played with Gene Vincent’s Blue Caps and he’s kind of the first rock & roll guitar player, really. He wasn’t afraid to mix all sorts of different styles: You can hear country in there, there’s swing in there, you can hear this new sound called rockabilly. I think...
To me, Chuck Berryalways was the epitome of rhythm & blues playing, rock & roll playing. It was beautiful, effortless, and his timing was perfection. He is rhythm man supreme. He plays that lovely double-string stuff, which I got down a long time ago but I’m still getting the hang of. Later I realized why he played that way – because of the sheer p...
Keith Richards was really my largest influence, because he plays with such a rhythm style. Especially in things like “Start Me Up.” It’s rhythm, it’s all those notes, it’s five strings. And they’re real open and easy, but, man, we never forget ’em. When I was a teenager and started playing in front of people with just my guitar, I was influenced by...
I particularly admire the work that Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd produced for Television‘s first album, Marquee Moon. Hearing that record at the end of the Seventies was just such a throw-down to me. The electric guitar had really become such an unoriginal-sounding instrument. Marquee Moonis a very uncomplicated record sonically. No pyrotechnics,...
“I get caught up in the electricity of Pete Townshend‘s playing. I strive for that kind of energy, to be so galvanizing.” I can’t help but get caught up in the electricity of Pete Townshend‘s playing. It’s moving to see and hear an instrument when it becomes an extension of someone, an appendage that’s mastered with the naturalness and unconsciousn...
“Jimmie Vaughan’s got that self-assured artistic confidence.” For me, it’s a tossup between B.B. King and Jimmie Vaughan. They’ve mastered the “layin’ back” feel – in musicians’ jargon, it’s learning how to find the heavy holebehind the back-beat that is right in the groove. B.B. Kingshows off his expertise with vibrato and with wigglin’ that note ...
The first time I heard Jimmie Vaughan, I was impressed with the raw power of his sound. His style is unique, and if I’ve learned anything from him, it’s to keep it simple.
Feb 14, 2014 · While there have been numerous apostles there's a select band who have been elevated to status of Guitar God – who are they and what makes them so special?
Jan 16, 2023 · The best blues guitarists of all time. (Image credit: Press) 1. Stevie Ray Vaughan. Stevie Ray Vaughan brought physicality and soul to guitar playing, and he brought it in spades. The soul came through the speaker. The physicality was there for all to see.
Feb 23, 2015 · 1. Jimi Hendrix. Widely recognized as one of the most creative and influential musicians of the 20th century, Jimi Hendrix pioneered the explosive possibilities of the electric guitar. Hendrix’s innovative style of combining fuzz, feedback and controlled distortion created a new musical form.
