Best Rock Guitarist

Heard everything, ever.

-AC

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
Heard everything, ever.

'No'.

Neil Young is pretty friggin good, often gets forgotton in these kind of circles too.

Joe Perry is god to.

Anyone that has a chance to listen to Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush the 1976 Live album will think twise about this guy as he made a living playing Jimi like Butta and improved upon may licks on guitar.
Considering EVH was still milking his moma and this guy did not have a studio rack of effects to make the sweetness

Jimmy Page best of all time....Check out White Summer-Black Mountainside 11min guitar solo.....so good.

Bucket head Best of today.

Watch this video if you want to try and learn some of his stuff....It’s almost impossible though
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3444593949853639826&q=buckethead&hl=en

He has a bunch more videos just search Bucket head and be ready to be amazed.

Jimi hendrix, the emotions in his playing R just awesome. Same with Prince lol. But Jimi is King!

Originally posted by Da preacher
Jimi hendrix, the emotions in his playing R just awesome. Same with Prince lol. But Jimi is King!

A challenge: make a single post without mentioning, directly or indirectly, Prince.

Sorry, I'm just starting to discover music, I started with Prince to get to James Brown, Michael Jackson, Sly & The Familiy Stone, Parliament, Jimi Hendrix, Marvin Gaye etc. I'm starting to dig more music, but 70 percent of my music collection is Prince. My excuses for that. I know I will grow in music towards oher artists, I also know that Prince will always have a place in my music choice. I know my opinion is kinda worthless since the only music I really know is Prince, then I'm only 14. And I must say Prince has made me interested in music overall. I just need some time to develop a personal taste in music. And I would like to thank prince for showing me there is awesome music, because I always thought most music sucked (listening to the radio). He has shown me the opposite.

Btw, recently bought Mothership connection by Parliament which is an awesome album.

Hehe, he likes Prince.

Originally posted by Da preacher
Sorry, I\'m just starting to discover music, I started with Prince to get to James Brown, Michael Jackson, Sly & The Familiy Stone, Parliament, Jimi Hendrix, Marvin Gaye etc. I\'m starting to dig more music, but 70 percent of my music collection is Prince. My excuses for that. I know I will grow in music towards oher artists, I also know that Prince will always have a place in my music choice. I know my opinion is kinda worthless since the only music I really know is Prince, then I\'m only 14. And I must say Prince has made me interested in music overall. I just need some time to develop a personal taste in music. And I would like to thank prince for showing me there is awesome music, because I always thought most music sucked (listening to the radio). He has shown me the opposite.

Btw, recently bought Mothership connection by Parliament which is an awesome album.

george clinton is da god of negro muzik.

**** that other shit.. stick to prince and p-funk. james brown is disco nigga bullshit..

Originally posted by Bardock42
Hehe, he likes Prince.

Yeah, Prince CHARLES.

-AC

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
Yeah, Prince CHARLES.

-AC

Wow. There are some jokes that cross a line. How dare you use the British Royalty for such a joke? You call yourself Englishman? Shame on you, I say. Shame on you.

Originally posted by Victor Von Doom
A challenge: make a single post without mentioning, directly or indirectly, Prince.

Originally posted by Da preacher
Sorry, I'm just starting to discover music, I started with Prince to get to James Brown, Michael Jackson, Sly & The Familiy Stone, Parliament, Jimi Hendrix, Marvin Gaye etc. I'm starting to dig more music, but 70 percent of my music collection is Prince . My excuses for that. I know I will grow in music towards oher artists, I also know that Prince will always have a place in my music choice. I know my opinion is kinda worthless since the only music I really know is Prince , then I'm only 14. And I must say Prince has made me interested in music overall. I just need some time to develop a personal taste in music. And I would like to thank prince for showing me there is awesome music, because I always thought most music sucked (listening to the radio). He (Prince) has shown me the opposite.

So close.

Hahahahaha

Neal Schon > Slash and Angus - and he's easily on par with Van Halen in technical/playing ability.

When Carlos Santana asks you to join his band at the age of 14, and Eric Clapton asks you to join Derek and the Dominos at the same time, you're pretty damn good.

out of these, jimi hendrix all the way.. he is the one of these who can play guitar with feeling and then of course, he's damn skilled. guitar playing skill however is NOT, i repeat NOT playing the fastest you can. that buckethead guy had no skill whatsoever, he just plowed the guitar up and down a couple of times. anyone can learn a major scale and play it in 260 BPM, aint a problem.

Alex Lifeson! ok maybe not, but he deserves some love.
Hendrix is the obvious choice.

Originally posted by vanice
out of these, jimi hendrix all the way.. he is the one of these who can play guitar with feeling and then of course, he's damn skilled. guitar playing skill however is NOT, i repeat NOT playing the fastest you can. that buckethead guy had no skill whatsoever, he just plowed the guitar up and down a couple of times. anyone can learn a major scale and play it in 260 BPM, aint a problem.

While this is mostly true, I would make two points.

Buckethead does have skill- you just explained that.

Secondly, I believe you mean while he is proficient, he is not necessarily musically talented. That is also not true.

I think Brian May is right up there.