Lots of people talk about who the greatest guitar player of all time might be

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Beck.

This is 100% true but also true for all technology. That’s why technology progresses at an exponential rate. Innovation. Guitar pro is fantastic. We had tab pages in the early 2000s but now there are tabs that you can play along with. I will say this, the guitar grimoire series is the most important thing I’ve ever studied as a guitar player. I recommended all players undertake the bus important study in theory. It’s a very easy way to understand and apply theory to your own music.

Mark has definitely aged like finest wine. Tone for miles.

Yeah i struggled with missing fingers for 20 years, django and iommi were influence that i could actually do it even missing fingers, though mine are missing from my dominant non fretting hand, so i can plectrum play fine and three finger pick, and play mean slap/pluck bass, but i cant do 4 finger and thumb style classical arpeggios with complex double and tripple stops thrown in, i simply dont have the equipment to be able to do it, lost two fingers in a childhood accident.

I struggle on piano too, which is why i never really got past being able to play stuff like eric satie or philip glass on piano, knofpler on guitar always gave me issues too, not so much with the fretting, but the picking.

I’ll add that they are a really good band and write really impressive music.
He’s a very unique guitarist. I was immediately reminded of Billy Duffy of the Cult doing his early impressive stuff. Very listenable. Well thought out and the timing is awesome. That band is growing in popularity because of it.

forgot about rush and their guitarist alex lifeson who was voted thee best g-man .awesome group rush.

Rush are an odd band, like primus all three members were extremely competent in their field, i feel like the guitarists of rush and primus got overlooked by how good the bass playing and drumming in those bands was.

Not even in the top 10.

Malmsteen and Vai are technically better. Why do I enjoy listening to Keith Richards much more even though he's supposedly inferior.

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It's not the most technically demanding, but it's still top tier. A track you never get tired of. Whole album is great. I always come back to it.

The greatest guitar players need no effects and play acoustic.
Facts any pure guitar player recognizes this.
Time to GO back to the woodshed kiddos...
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Tell me your top ten, Guy.

Marty is my favorite guitarist.

Your is an interesting story, mate. I bet you have a unique sound, though, that nobody else has. Your own signature.
As a guitarist, I can't imagine your struggle. Although I think it is incredibly cool that you push forward with your playing regardless, good on ya'. I can see where Knopfler's mechanics would be challenging, he anchors that pinky finger on the body below the high e-string, for starters.
I have a musician's handicap, too. Superior semi-circular canal dehiscence syndrome, which in a nutshell means every sound in the world appears 10 to 100 times louder to me. Having that very much determines one's approach to making music, heh.

YES!
And it took 6 pages to get there, damn!

"Beat?"

You talk as if guitar-playing is some sort of athletic competition.

Guthrie may have some of the maddest skills but he has NOTHING on Michael Schenker.

You can take Schenker's work with UFO, Scorpions and M.S.G. to an island.

Erotic Cakes? Em, not so much. It's just basically backing tracks with display performance compared to Schenker's sense of majestic composition.

"Doctor, Doctor", "Rock Bottom", "Bijou Pleasurette" and even Schenker's instrumentals are far MORE memorable than Govan's music per se. "Captain Nemo", man. That has me fist-pumping more so than anything Govan has.

Schenker's mix of composition, technical flair, melody, tone, phrasing...now that's hard to "beat."

Nothing against Guthrie, great player, appears to be a nice guy, but when some fanboyz tell us he's better than anyone else...that's laughable.

The late great Gary Richrath



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Well said. Just being technically proficient isn't nearly enough to be called "the greatest guitar player of all time".

A bit different - Derek Sherinian




It's a trip

Oh look...another guitar "shredder".

I'm so tired of 99% of the shredders everyone seems to worship..."look how fast I can play these scales without a fucking hint of melody or emotion". Feh.

WAY too many genres to nail down "one" greatest guitarist, but there are (/were) stand-outs in a variety of fields.

As was previously posted, Tommy Emmanuel is in a league all his own--a true guitarist's guitarist.

If you're into shredders, there was NONE better than the late Shawn Lane. This was him at the ripe old age of 17 back in 1979 when he was with Black Oak Arkansas.



Some of his later work:




Shawn was one of precious few who could shred while maintaining melody--not just zooming over scales at lightning speed.

The next 2 that come to mind are Derek Trucks and SRV.

Here's Derek leaving the legendary B.B. King without words.



As far as raw musical emotion goes, none were on Stevie Ray Vaughan's level. When Stevie was "on", his soul literally poured from his guitar.



One more from Stevie at the El Mocambo just for good measure.



The rest is just "everyone else".

without watching video is it guthrie gowan who everyone thinks is great . I think he sucks.

Of course, there also is Nigel Tufnel...

This is bad assertion.

Guitar playing is an art. There is not a 'best' artist. There are different artists using different media to express themselves.

Criminally underrated

I wouldn't know how good he really is until you put a classical guitar in his hands.

I like:
Roy Buchanan and
Rory Gallagher

Jimmy Page

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Frank Zappa

Django Reinhart.