Best guitar player?

[billtool]

Anyone mention Billy? He’s one of the greatest.

 

[GeorgeS]

Jimi Hendrix
Roy Buchanan
Andres Segovia

 

[billtool]

And finally- Terry Kath was incredible.

 

[General Zod]

How about Django Reinhardt?

 

[Vaquero]

Nobody has mentioned Brian Setzer yet - and the dude is insanely good.

Here he is with a few friends on stage...Eddie Van Halen, David Gilmour, BB King, Les Paul...several more, too.




Hell, I even spotted Waylon Jennings on stage with (I'm pretty sure) Wendy and Lisa from Prince's band "The Revolution"...This is surreal.

Yep. That's Waylon.
Dang.

 

[General Zod]

Yep. That's Waylon.
Dang.

Not just Waylon, but Waylon flirting with Wendy and Lisa LOL

 

[Vaquero]

Nobody is as accurate and active as Angus.
Beat concert I ever saw. Hands down.
Older than most of us and hasn't slowed down a bit.

 

[popper]

Saw a TV special of Andres Segovia long time ago. Played two different songs at once, one classical and one pop. I'll never make the list.

 

[Texan-in-Training]

They're all great...
Here's a twofer...

 

[Texan-in-Training]

I don't think this gentleman was mentioned earlier, so I'll add him to "the mix".

 

[Vaquero]

I'm a big fan of Chris.

 

[Vaquero]

 

[MikePotts]

If we bear in mind - one mike one take, this guy's got it covered:

 

[rp-]

Lots of good names here but the question is a lot like which truck is better. There's too many categories to place them into. Personally David Gilmore of pink Floyd is one of my absolute favorites.

But what about Adam Jones from the band tool? One amazing thing about tool is they sound the same live as they do on recordings. This dude will be remembered with the greats.

And you can't leave out tom morello from rage against the machine/audioslave. You can't deny he is a master of the guitar in a way no other has been.

There's also a few more that I didn't see on the list. Ozzy's guitarist Randy Rhoads, Peter Frampton, Jimmy Page.



Personally I'm a bass player so I also look at that often overlooked crowd. Tim Commerford of rage/audioslave, Justin Chancellor of tool... and can we talk about Chris Wolstenholme, bass player of the band Muse? This dudes playing 4d chess. He has his own model bass guitar that's got as much tech as an iPhone!

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[Rafe]

And finally- Terry Kath was incredible.

Yep, Kath was an unrecognized master of rock. I think it was merely because of the structure of the band and that the album versions kept him in-check, with established runs. Live, he shredded.

 

[General Zod]

How about Dave Evans, aka "The Edge" from U2? A lot of really solid, layered backing guitars and some of the best hooks in rock & roll, even if he's not really known for his solos. He's also a freaking genius with his amps and the band's audio system. When I saw U2 perform at AT&T Stadium (the first major concert there), the sound was atrocious because the place just wasn't made for concerts. Muse was their opening act, and I can honestly say I saw them perform live several months before I ever heard one of their songs, because the music in that place just sounded like jet noise.

It seems that Jerry World has vastly different sound qualities when it's empty vs when it's full of thousands of people.

So there was an extended break after Muse's set, and Edge could be seen moving around the stage with the roadies and sound guys, and some recorded music was played while they messed with the mix...and then the U2 set started. And the sound quality was dead on where it needed to be.

Here's one of those killer musical hooks Edge does so well, along with his usual wizardry with delays and layering the sound to create a much bigger sound that one would expect from one guy with a Stratocaster.

 

[General Zod]

Also there's the noted British astrophysicist Sir Brian H. May (CBE, PhD) who was briefly in a modest little band when he was younger...

 

[billtool]

Lots of good names here but the question is a lot like which truck is better. There's too many categories to place them into. Personally David Gilmore of pink Floyd is one of my absolute favorites.

But what about Adam Jones from the band tool? One amazing thing about tool is they sound the same live as they do on recordings. This dude will be remembered with the greats.

And you can't leave out tom morello from rage against the machine/audioslave. You can't deny he is a master of the guitar in a way no other has been.

There's also a few more that I didn't see on the list. Ozzy's guitarist Randy Rhoads, Peter Frampton, Jimmy Page.



Personally I'm a bass player so I also look at that often overlooked crowd. Tim Commerford of rage/audioslave, Justin Chancellor of tool... and can we talk about Chris Wolstenholme, bass player of the band Muse? This dudes playing 4d chess. He has his own model bass guitar that's got as much tech as an iPhone!

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Stanley Clarke? Solid pick as well.

 

[mongoose]

Robert Cray can hit a lick.

 

[Rafe]

Speaking of overshadowed family members, I'd toss in Nancy Wilson of Heart.

Stumbled across this video of Heart in 1978. I still say Nancy Wilson was underrated.