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top 5 favorite guitarists

Posted:
Tue May 30, 2006 6:29 pm
by mickmars
name ur top 5 favorite guitarists, name more if u want i dont care
here are mine:
1. Randy Rhoads
1. Mick Mars
1. Tony Iommi..................couldnt decide between them 3, its a tie for me
2. Eddie Van Halen
3. Yngwie Malmsteen
4. Joe Perry
5. Glenn Tipton & K.K. Downing................cant seperate them 2

Posted:
Tue May 30, 2006 6:56 pm
by SMITH197
The greatest guitarist of any band still kickin out some great songs.
John Frusciante
*insert fireworks here*
Due to the absolute greatness of John, no other guitarists need to be named
Re: top 5 favorite guitarists

Posted:
Tue May 30, 2006 6:56 pm
by PaperPlunger
mickmars wrote:name ur top 5 favorite guitarists, name more if u want i dont care
here are mine:
1. Randy Rhoads
1. Mick Mars
1. Tony Iommi..................couldnt decide between them 3, its a tie for me
2. Eddie Van Halen
3. Yngwie Malmsteen
4. Joe Perry
5. Glenn Tipton & K.K. Downing................cant seperate them 2
That's cheating, you can only choose five, you said it yourself.
Re: top 5 favorite guitarists

Posted:
Tue May 30, 2006 6:57 pm
by SMITH197
mickmars wrote:name ur top 5 favorite guitarists, name more if u want i dont care
clearly paper, you dont read much...
Re: top 5 favorite guitarists

Posted:
Tue May 30, 2006 7:04 pm
by Machiavelli
SMITH197 wrote:mickmars wrote:name ur top 5 favorite guitarists, name more if u want i dont care
clearly paper, you dont read much...
It doesnt say that he will name more it says that we can name more.
You should change the title of this thread to "My top 7 guitarists"

Posted:
Tue May 30, 2006 7:08 pm
by SMITH197
now you're just being silly...


Posted:
Tue May 30, 2006 7:08 pm
by Jolly Roger
As a bassist, I know that electric guitar players are all basically posers. lol
Here's a list for bass guitar:
1. Jaco Pastorius
2. Charlie Mingus
3. John Paul Jones
4. Tony Levin
5. Paul McCartney
6. Bootsy Collins
7. Victor Wooten
8. Flea
9. John Entwhistle
10. Larry Graham
I should add a special shout out to Sid Vicious in case johnnyrotten happens upon this thread

Posted:
Tue May 30, 2006 7:10 pm
by SMITH197
flea should be higher than 8....
3 perhaps

Posted:
Tue May 30, 2006 9:43 pm
by Jolly Roger
There's no question that Flea's a great player and a great musician but I just don't find his playing as innovative as a lot of the others in the list. However, he does something interesting in every ChiliPeppers tune and you can't knock his passion - I believe he literally leaves his blood on the stage at every show from playing so hard. My numbering was pretty arbitrary anyway.
Re: top 5 favorite guitarists

Posted:
Tue May 30, 2006 10:27 pm
by PaperPlunger
SMITH197 wrote:mickmars wrote:name ur top 5 favorite guitarists, name more if u want i dont care
clearly paper, you dont read much...
haha, you're totally right, I just saw the eye candy. The post title, the numbers and names... hehe

Posted:
Tue May 30, 2006 10:53 pm
by Zepy12
1- Eddie Van Halen
2- Lynsay Buckingham (very under rated)
3- Joe Perry
4-Joe Walsh (old school, and can kiss your ass)
5- my daughter, emily. (Cause she's cute, and can play five chords!)
Zepy

Posted:
Tue May 30, 2006 10:55 pm
by Zepy12
For bassist, I'd add Mick Fleetwood...he's put down some great beats...

Posted:
Wed May 31, 2006 2:54 am
by johnnyrotten
Where the bloody hell is Brian May!?!?!?!?!?
Anyways... My favourite guitarists...
1. Steve Jones
2. Brian May
3. Pete Townshend
4. Eric Clapton
5. Tony Iommi
6. David Gilmour
7. Mark Knopfler

Posted:
Wed May 31, 2006 4:17 am
by Haydena
1. Dave Murray
2. Janick Gers
3. Yngwie Malmsteen
4. Eric Clapton
5. Eddie Van Halen
I don't play guitar, I play the Drum Kit, and my favourite drummer has to be Nicko McBrain from Iron Maiden or John Bonham from Zeppelin


Posted:
Wed May 16, 2007 11:15 pm
by 2dimes
Zakk Wylde

Posted:
Wed May 16, 2007 11:18 pm
by strike wolf
Eddie VH.

Posted:
Wed May 16, 2007 11:42 pm
by spurgistan
Django Reinhardt, John Lee Hooker, Duane Allman, Carlos Santana, Bo Diddley

Posted:
Thu May 17, 2007 6:31 am
by Serbia
Mike McCready

Posted:
Thu May 17, 2007 7:15 am
by jnd94
did you forget Jimi Hendrix? But Eddy Van Halen was awesome too!

Posted:
Thu May 17, 2007 8:25 am
by Genghis Khant
1. John Williams (Andres Segovia's protegé, not the film composer) - the best living guitarist.
2. Jimi Hendrix - technically not as good as the others on this list, but amazing passion and sound to his playing.
3. Bert Janch - technically brilliant and a massive inspiration to Jimmy Page (loads of his riffs were lifted from Janch)
4. David Gilmour - Pink Floyd, say no more.
5. Frank Zappa - the man's a genius.
other favourites include;
Peter Green
Django Reinhart
Andres Segovia
Ry Cooder
Joe Walsh
Buddy Guy
John Squire
Tom Morello
Jimmy Page

Posted:
Thu May 17, 2007 10:08 am
by 2dimes
2dimes wrote:Zakk Wylde
Dweezil Zappa

Posted:
Thu May 17, 2007 10:17 am
by btownmeggy
Only one: Omar Rodriguez.
He's such a dreamboat.

Posted:
Thu May 17, 2007 5:40 pm
by reverend_kyle
Jolly Roger wrote:
I should add a special shout out to Sid Vicious in case johnnyrotten happens upon this thread
Sid Vicious is the epitome of poser. He didn't even play bass for the sex pistols he stood up there and looked pretty. They mostly had another bassist playing in the background and in recordings.

Posted:
Thu May 17, 2007 7:48 pm
by Genghis Khant
reverend_kyle wrote:Jolly Roger wrote:
I should add a special shout out to Sid Vicious in case johnnyrotten happens upon this thread
Sid Vicious is the epitome of poser. He didn't even play bass for the sex pistols he stood up there and looked pretty. They mostly had another bassist playing in the background and in recordings.
Aye, Glen Matlock.

Posted:
Thu May 17, 2007 8:05 pm
by gimpyThewonder
Jolly Roger wrote:As a bassist, I know that electric guitar players are all basically posers. lol
Here's a list for bass guitar:
1. Jaco Pastorius
2. Charlie Mingus
3. John Paul Jones
4. Tony Levin
5. Paul McCartney
6. Bootsy Collins
7. Victor Wooten
8. Flea
9. John Entwhistle
10. Larry Graham
I should add a special shout out to Sid Vicious in case johnnyrotten happens upon this thread
how can you possibly have a best bassist list and not have Les Claypool on it. that's insane. its between Les and Flea for greatest. you've got some other good ones on the list like Entwhistle & John paul Jones. But McCartney, really? sure he could write songs but the only beattle who was great at playing them was George Harrison imo.
for regular guitar the real list goes something like:
1)Jimmy Page
2)Jimi Hendrix
3)Robert Johnson
4)Eric Clapton
5)Curt Kirkwood
honarary mention to Frusciante