Top 10 Guitarists of All Time

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Comment by OCG on July 23, 2010 at 4:10pm

Nice list. I like the range :)

Comment by Randy Causey on July 23, 2010 at 1:03pm

... and now for my 2cents worth...
Andres Segovia (the keeper of the flame - our patriarch)
Paco deLuca
John MacLaughlin
Jeff Beck
James Burton
Jimi Hendrix
Stephen Stills
Doc Watson
Merle Travis
Albert King

*always just wanted to get next to Ana Vidovic

* I was visting Danny Gatton (1978 - w/a couple of friends - one of whom was "The Fat Boys" drummer and I witnessed Danny winding his own pickups with a kitchen mixer - this astounded me at the time, but it made perfect sense in retrospect)

Comment by OCG on July 22, 2010 at 1:24pm

@FrankyM: EXCELLENT BUCHANAN NOTES!! Very eloquent and educational. Had no idea about the tone knob stuff. MUCHAS GRACIAS, JEFE!!

Comment by OCG on July 22, 2010 at 1:22pm

LOL!! And good reasons, too. It's a great and wonderful world filled with amazing guitars and players, and everyone should get to be part of it, IMHO. Jeff is very important to me, personally, so I never hesitate to POMP HIM OP :)

Comment by Ryan on July 22, 2010 at 1:19pm

Jeff's obviously a legend and extremely talented. I just wanted to deliberately squeeze in some of the "undervalued" younger talent like Bellamy and White. (I should've maybe put top ten "favorites" - heh heh)

Comment by OCG on July 22, 2010 at 1:14pm

How anybody can have a top 10 without Jeff Beck always shocks me (not that your list isn't awesome --- it is --- but still :).

Comment by Ryan on July 22, 2010 at 1:00pm

My top 10:

Eddie Van Halen
Joe Satriani
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Jimmy Page
Jimi Hendrix
Steve Vai
Kirk Hammett
Matt Bellamy
Jack White
David Gilmour

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!

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