Who is the best guitarist of all time??

apart from the obvious candidates...i quite like:

Yngwie Malmsteen
Ulrich Roth

Malmsteen is great if you enjoy bland uninspired shred

i guess i enjoy blandness then.

Mark Knopfler or Jimmy Page

Bass Guitar is Ken Casey.

forgot to mention earlier
BUCKETHEAD!!!!
🤘

Neal Schon of Journey.

Seriously, the man's a freakin' beast. He is hands down one of the fastes, most fluid guitar players.

He's also performed with: Hardline, Bad English, Santana, Paul Rodgers, HSAS, and Soul SirkUS.

Check this out:

When he was FOURTEEN years old, he was asked by Carlos Santana to join Santana and Eric Clapton to join Derek and the Dominos.

Sorry, guys. That blows Slash, Brian May, Phil Collen, Kirk Kammet, and so forth out of the damn water, lol.

don't know who's the best, but my favorites are:
Matt Bellamy
Thom Yorke/Jonny Greenwood
Damien Rice

Originally posted by Gideon
Neal Schon of Journey.

Seriously, the man's a freakin' beast. He is hands down one of the fastes, most fluid guitar players.

He's also performed with: Hardline, Bad English, Santana, Paul Rodgers, HSAS, and Soul SirkUS.

Check this out:

When he was [B]FOURTEEN years old, he was asked by Carlos Santana to join Santana and Eric Clapton to join Derek and the Dominos.

Sorry, guys. That blows Slash, Brian May, Phil Collen, Kirk Kammet, and so forth out of the damn water, lol. [/B]

So he was a noteable 14 year old guitarist, impressive.

Jimi Hendrix was the untouchable best ever by the time he died, just over mid-twenties. Wrap your head around that.

-AC

Originally posted by undertaker619
ok whos every1's fav guitarist/ 's of al time???

Carlós Santana.

Toni Iomi

Eddie Hazel

Have you heard of Stanley Jordan? He's the best tapping player i know.I find his playing kinda boring but it's sometimes fun to watch. Check him out.

jimmy hendrix, tim mahoney, robert johnson, andré olbrich, carlos santana, eric clapton, jimmy page, and brad nowell are some of my favs.

So he was a noteable 14 year old guitarist, impressive.

I think "noteable" and "impressive" don't begin to describe his talent, but I know how you are, Alpha, so I'll take what I can get. 😛

Jimi Hendrix was the untouchable best ever by the time he died, just over mid-twenties. Wrap your head around that.

Hendrix was an innovator and changed the musical world as we know it. I'm arguing that Schon was - again, I must use this irksome word - a technical beast. I'm not comparing the two of them, still, it doesn't detract from Schon's brilliance.

Hendrix is the best.
Jimmy page is somewhere in the top,have him right in back of Hendrix.

Originally posted by Gideon
I think "noteable" and "impressive" don't begin to describe his talent, but I know how you are, Alpha, so I'll take what I can get. 😛

Hendrix was an innovator and changed the musical world as we know it. I'm arguing that Schon was - again, I must use this irksome word - a technical beast. I'm not comparing the two of them, still, it doesn't detract from Schon's brilliance.

I'm not detracting from it, I'm just not overhyping it.

-AC

No, you are actually. Having the kind of ability to be realised and respected by such legends like Santana and Eric Clapton (to such a degree that they both asked him to join their band respective bands, and view hims as a sort of equal really) speaks heavily for how gifted he was.

Did I not just say it was impressive?

I'm not saying Schon isn't technically talented. I found it impressive, especially at such a young age, you don't hear things like that often, but you're forgetting something; It's entirely possible they were shocked at the fact that he possessed that talent at 14. If you put the talent he had at 14 into a 30 year old man, back then, they wouldn't have given him a second look, I'm willing to bet.

Having great talent FOR AN AGE does not translate to great talent overall. Jimi Hendrix was doing things in his early 20s that Clapton and Townshend (Two guitarists revered as the world's best at the time.) were in awe of because he was better than them. Clapton and Santana were just impressed that Schon was good for his age. Go on YouTube, there are untold amounts of videos of early teen shredders who can play things that appear to be amazing, but aren't. It just stands out more cos they're young.

Gideon is rating him highly NOW because he WAS brilliant for his age...at 14, and that's just silly. It's not relevant to now. He's not great now because he was good at 14. It doesn't work like that.

When Maurice Greene is old and grey, you won't say he's still one of the fastest runners on Earth because he was at some point.

-AC

Actually, I'm rating him highly "now" because Neal Schon is still a technical beast, and I can provide dozens and dozens of videos from Youtube to prove it. In fact, I prefer his guitar licks now much better than the '70s and '80s days where Steve Perry (skilled vocalist he may be) put Schon in a creative stranglehold as far as his rock taste is concerned.

Edit: I know for a fact that Sammy Hagar (who is a guitarist himself) says that Neal can play "as good as anybody", Brian May refers to Neal as a "guitar god" and a "guitar extraordinare" on his website when he visited Journey backstage, and Phil Collen from Def Leppard considers Neal to be a "much, much better" guitarist than he is.