Who will go down in history as the greatest guitarist of all times?

Answer 1

I have a few votes, in no particular order...

Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin)
Eric Clapton
Jimi Hendrix
Carlos Santana
Stevie Ray Vaughan

You can also look up the Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Players. It's a good list.

And I think they list Eddie Van Halen at 79. Wayyyy below any of the ones I listed.

Answer 2

Django Reinhart! Hes a gypsy jazz player who only had the use of two fingers on his fretting hand. Two fingers were paralyzed from a fire in a gypsy camp. He was great! His era was the 30s and 40s. His partner was the legendary violinist Stephane Grappelli.
If this is a rock question I would say Eddie Van Halen. He
influenced a whole genre. Every metal guitarist owes him a major debt.

Answer 3

Eddie Van Halen, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Satriani

Answer 4

Eric Clapton or Eddy Van Halen

Answer 5

S.R.V.,Satriani,Randy Rhodes,Clapton for sure,Neal Schon,Zack Wylde,C.C Deville,S. Vai,Muddy Waters,B.B.King,Santana,K.K.Downing,Tony Iommi,Kirk Hammet,Dave Mustaing,Ace Frehley,Joe Petty,Soooo Many...

Answer 6

Eric Clapton

Answer 7

His name is written like this : Yngwie Johan Malmsteen . . . Pronounced : Ingvay Yohan Malmsteen
Yngwie Johann Malmsteen (IPA: (born Lars Johann Yngve Lannerbäck, June 30, 1963) is a virtuoso guitarist from Sweden who achieved widespread acclaim in the 1980s due to his technical proficiency and invention of neo-classical metal and is attributed as one of the fathers of modern shred guitar playing. He claims his first name in Swedish means "young Viking chief". Actually, it is a variation of Yngvi, who founded the House of Yngling, which is the oldest known swedish dynasty. Guitar One magazine rated him the 3rd fastest guitar shredder in the world after Michael Angelo Batio and Chris Impellitteri.[1]

Born into a musical family in Stockholm, Yngwie was the youngest child in the family. At an early age, he showed little interest in music. It wasn't until September 18, 1970 when at age seven he saw a TV special on the death of Jimi Hendrix that Malmsteen became obsessed with the guitar. To quote his official website, "The day Jimi Hendrix died, the guitar-playing Yngwie was born".

Malmsteen was in his teens when he first encountered the music of the 19th-century violin virtuoso Niccolo Paganini, whom he cites as his biggest classical influence. It has been rumoured that Yngwie believes himself to be the reincarnation of the temperamental, often criticized,and widely misunderstood violinist from Genoa.[citation needed] Through his emulation of Paganini concerto pieces on guitar, Malmsteen developed a prodigious technical fluency. Malmsteen also cites Jimi Hendrix, Genesis, Brian May, Uli Jon Roth, and Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple as influences.

Malmsteen's contributions to the evolution of modern rock guitar, particularly his embracing of modal progressions and classically-influenced techniques not widely used in rock music, broke new ground and Malmsteen is often credited with the creation of the neoclassical metal genre, inspiring a new generation of virtuoso electric guitarists including Paul Gilbert and Tony MacAlpine.

Answer 8

jimi hendrix is the greatest guitarist of all time. there is no question about that.
some other good ones are carlos santana and eric clapton

Answer 9

Classical: Segovia

Answer 10

Jeff Beck