Hey, this question is meant as a refuge for experienced guitarists. Top five guitarists of all time. I start, you follow with your picks and back it up. Best argument wins!
Also, please refrain from answering if you're fourteen, don't play guitar, and try to name the lead guitarist of My Chemical Romance or something...I will cop to the fact that my own metal leanings influence my list.
1. Randy Rhoads-He only made it to 25, but his mixture of classical and metal sensibilities has always appealed to me.
2. Jimmy Page-Very elegant playing, but a progenitor of melodic heavy stuff as well.
3. Slash-He may only know his major and minor pentatonic scales, but he wails on them about as well as anybody.
4. Django Reinhardt-Pure technical ability. Just listen to an ancient recording of the man and realize that he just made up and down an acoustic guitar faster than you can blink with a disfigured fret hand.
5. Alexi Laiho-My only modern pick. He's bringing back technically sound metal.
2007-07-30 13:20:14 · 6 answers · asked by remymort 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Performing Arts
1. Chet Atkins
2. Django Reinhardt
3. Merle Travis
4. Les Paul
5. Paco de Lucia
2007-07-30 14:19:23 · answer #1 · answered by Guitarpicker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
J Mascis John Mclaughlin David Gilmour Jimi Hendrix George Harrison
2016-05-18 01:33:21 · answer #2 · answered by carmelina 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
John Williams
Paco de Lucia
Chet Atkins
Slash (favorite solo on rock guitar, Sweet Child of Mine)
Jimmy Page
SRV
and I have to add these guys, John Mclaughlin, Julian Bream, Liona Boyd, to see this classical guitarist go on youtube and type in her name, best woman guitarist in the world especially her tremolo, and she's beautiful to look at !!!!!! I do agree with you on Reinhardt, how he played after his fingers were so burnt up in a fire I'll never know ! It's so hard to name just five, I have about twenty who are my favorites, Clapton is another one, I could go on and on, I've been a guitar nut since I was about eight or nine, my father played the jazz clubs in Philly, and that 's all I heard growing up, but you said just five, sorry, bye. As you probably already guessed, (from my selections) I play classical and have for about 35 - 40 years. Sorry, I went over the count !!!!!!!!
2007-07-30 13:39:49 · answer #3 · answered by chessmaster1018 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love your list...here's mine in no particular order
1. Steve Vai - anyone who can attain his zen level of playing and can challenge Zappa for wierdness has my vote
2. Satriani - melody, chops, and a helluva teacher
3. John Schaffer - from Iced Earth, this dude has the fastest right hand I've heard for quite some time
4. BB King - I learned my vibrato from him, he's a legend
5. Stanley Jordan - I'm not a huge jazz fan, but to see him play two guitars at once is very impressive (Michael Angelo Batio gets an honorable mention for similar feats).
2007-07-30 15:28:23 · answer #4 · answered by iroteb 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
B. B. King
Eric Clapton
Jimi Hendrix
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Robert Johnson
2007-07-30 13:30:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
TOP5 GUITARIST ARE:
1.chet atkins
2. roy clark
3.me
4.me
5.me
2007-07-30 14:31:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋