Who is the best guitarist of all time??

i think innovation is important...thus i elect eddie van halen.

Originally posted by 2D_MASTER
So, once you finish your victory march, I will continue this argument if you wish.

I even used Depeche Mode as an example so you could relate.

The argument: What comes out of knob turning, button/pedal pushing...(effects)...doesn't take the amount talent or is as great a thing as transcribing Bach...(which is what you think because it seems you see talent in limited ways ie. only as skill playing an instrument/writing or arrranging music...your logic: there's nothing hard about pushing a button...because of course that's ALL using effects is). Thing is, using effects in an innovative and creative way has it's own challenges...as does playing an instrument, transcribing music or singing.

Originally posted by EPIIIBITES
Well then reply to the post dude.

Actually EP, I've decided to put this topic at a rest in this thread. I'd be happy to argue with you about this. But I don’t think this is relevant to the topic at hand anymore. PM me, whatever, make your own thread, Id be happy to argue. The argument about” the best guitarist of all time” has degenerated to this, it's unfair for people who actually want to discuss that. Make a new thread, Reiterate all your points , then I will provide rebuttals to everything you said. Deal?

Sure...thread on the way.

Randy Rhoads, Kirk Hammett, Jerry C., Dimebag Darrel, Marty Friedman, and Jimi Hendrix.

You cant state just one, soo many guitarists are among the class that we refer as the best, and all have their high and low points.

i dont get it. how can people put randy rhodes and steve vai and dimebag, and just roll eddie van halen over? it doesnt make sense to me.

We both know that if Dimebag was alive he'd get half the praise.

-AC

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
We both know that if Dimebag was alive he'd get half the praise.

-AC

very true.
not that he wasnt a stellar guitarist, but i hate how people saint dead musicians....because they're dead

Yeah.

There are exceptions, but in many cases it's not good. I think Van Halen won't be truly appreciated until HE'S dead.

-AC

well, eddie seems to have drank the same cup of vampire mutant blood that kieth richards endulged in. see him lately?

i hope he gets out of rehab soon, since ive been a van halen fanboy since i was a wee toddler (coincidentally the stones as well)

That guy from Linkin Park is really good.

Originally posted by Schecter
well, eddie seems to have drank the same cup of vampire mutant blood that kieth richards endulged in. see him lately?

i hope he gets out of rehab soon, since ive been a van halen fanboy since i was a wee toddler (coincidentally the stones as well)

Everyone knows Keith doesn't traditionally drink or eat, he probably snorts his food and injects any drink he has.

-AC

edit...I'll post in other thread.

Originally posted by EPIIIBITES
I'll quote this again for 2D...in case he didn't read it (which...it sounds like he often doesn't do) ...and it's because how the effects are USED.

I told you this belongs in the other thread, stop being a so frantic. I told you I'd address one thing at a time, IN THE PROPER THREAD.

Sorry...mistake

Didn't know where to put this but I just read that Peter Lindgren has left Opeth, who are apparently just falling apart. They've nabbed the awesome Fredrik Åkesson (Arch Enemy) to replace him.

It won't make a different, I don't think.

Pete and Mikael were arguably the best guitar duo of modern times, it won't be the same without the two of them together.

I heard they'd recorded most of their new album, so maybe it will be alright, but I don't know where they'll go from here. Mikael writes most of the music, but Pete was the one other guy who had a lot of input regarding the guitar work.

-AC

They may improve, who knows. Hopefully, anyway.

As for Dimebag, the praise hasn't changed in terms of quality; only quantity.

I love this thread, and I've waited a long time to chip in my 2 cents.

...seems to me a lot of respondants here don't have a sense of music history. It nice that for some of you, that there are guitarists today that you think are the greatest of all time, but alas, you are mistaken.

That being said, I'm not sure there is a greatest ever. However, if someone wished to annoint Jimi the greatest, I wouldn't complain either.

I think there needs to a team photo, if you will, and in this photo I would have Jimi, Van Halen, Santana, Clapton, and probably a few more (that I would have to debate about i.e. Satriani, Malmsteen, etc, etc), and that's it. There would need to be a cutoff somewhere, and that is the hardest thing in my opinion. Who doesn't belong in the tream photo, and what criteria do you base that on? Talent? Sales? Revotionary? Songwriting? Degree of difficulty playing the guitar? All the above? Get my drift.

A lot guys mentioned are good guitarists. But greatest ever? C'mon, guys. I would put Bonnie Rait up against a lot of these guys, and even though she's an expert slide guitarist, a lot of these youngin's would be in awe of her, literally.

Who, in your opinion, does not deserve to be mentioned?

-AC