Top 10 Guitarists of All Time

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Comment by Franky M. on February 12, 2010 at 7:36pm

Roy Buchanan is (or , sadly - was) a brilliant guitar player , what he did w/ a telecaster was amazing , it inspired jeff beck and beck inspired him as well... but Roy Buchanan was able to manipulate his tone knobs in the middle of very well disguised ghost bends and often times what sounded like a regular fretted note was him actually in the midst of a silent bent note that would soar down from the heavens of high intervals hitting targets and scarcely if ever missing the one he aimed for... he also would hit really high pinched harmonics (mind you) on a very clean setting , while manipulating tone swells that seemed to emulate wha wha effect and his volume swells in mid bend would make growm men cry... all at once he could bend up to an extremely wide interval as a silent ghost bend then raise the volume knob making the release sound like he was using a whammy bar... another extremely insane and not of this earth brilliant guitar player was a man they appropriately called "The Humbler" CUZ OF HIS TERRIFYING CHOPS FEEL , VIBRATO , SPEED , TONE , HEART , SOUL ---- HE HAD IT ALL AND HIS NAME WAS Danny Gatton (another sad loss to a suicide)... he was the kind of player that Steve Vai would have nightmares about... Gatton was so good at rockabilly , jazz , blues , rock -n- roll , fusion woulda been next had he lived and he was a virtual master in all fields mentioned... think of that for a second (All Fields)... most guitarists that do go outside of their safe haven genre can usually excell in two mayyybe three forms of guitar playing but they'd usually have one very strong suit as opposed to the other , not Gatton , he was a jack of all trades and a master of all trades --- a brilliant , unbelievable guitarist...

Comment by Baneofmorgoth on February 4, 2010 at 12:43pm

You also can't rule out some classical guitarists.

John Williams is a complete beast. His work with Sky was/is awesome.

Comment by Arvin Batterton on February 1, 2010 at 4:26am

Jazz fusion guitarist are in a class all to their own. Al DiMeola is one of the best I've ever heard. He blows me away!!! Good call Bane!

Comment by Baneofmorgoth on January 31, 2010 at 1:26pm

What, no DiMeola?

Comment by mmcquain on July 15, 2009 at 2:24pm

Brain fart on my part... I saw Jeff Beck a couple of years ago and just walked away with my jam on the floor... WOW is all I can when I hear his playing. So it was a mistake on my part to not include him.

Comment by Arvin Batterton on July 15, 2009 at 5:45am

Jeff Beck! Definately among the top of the list in my opinion!!!

Comment by OCG on July 15, 2009 at 1:35am

Why is Jeff Beck not on this list, or is that an error of omission?

Comment by mmcquain on July 13, 2009 at 10:55am

My Top 10 personal favorites of all time would probably be...

Dickey Betts
Gary Rossington
BB King
Les Paul
Eric Clapton
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Gary Moore
Allen Collins
Steve Gaines
Jimmy Page

and then I'd add...

Warren Haynes
Billy Gibbons
Jimi Hendrix
Chet Atkins
Ed King
Hughie Thomasson
Billy Jones
Toy Caldwell
Ace Frehley
Albert King
Freddie King
Albert Collins
Lightning Hopkins
Buddy Guy
Santana
Rickey Medlocke
Duane Roland
Dave Hlubeck
Charlie Daniels
Tommy Crain
Billy Crain
Keith Richards
Don Felder
Joe Walsh
David Gilmour

Note: The above is not in any kind of order

Comment by dsaint on July 6, 2009 at 6:31pm

The guitarist who has impressed me the most the past few years is Guthrie Govan check out some of his youtube videos when you get a chance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yPEewaalik
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JPPTzQUKdk&feature=channel

another guy I love is Dave Martone...If you haven't heard of either of these guys, you have to check them out.

Guthrie really is a god...

Comment by Franky M. on June 27, 2009 at 4:14pm

yeah , satch is a classy guy too... met him at the orpheum in boston 'bout 4 yrs ago on the G3 tour , the one w/ yngwie opening the show... met all 3 dudes and even yngwie was totally accomadating and willing to talk to eeryone but satch n myself talked about boston n john finn cuz i jammed w/ finn at an AA benefit... satch was totally late for something and i kept saying go do yer thing man cuz his agent was constantly coming over and trying to drag him away... but he was like "yea yea so what did you and finn play together" total guitar god willing to spend some time w/ a nobody like myself chatt'n about a commonality we had...

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