Would that be Hendrix?



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Would that be Jimmy?

Too many awesome guitar players. Both Jimmy Page and Hendrix are legends but they are not the best ever. My personal favorite is Yngwie Malmsteen.

My personal faves :
1. Jimmy Page
2. Jimi Hendrix
3. Joe Satriani
4. Eric Clapton
5. Eddie Van Halen
6. Angus Young
7. Slash

My personal faves :
1. Jimmy Page
2. Jimi Hendrix
3. Joe Satriani
4. Eric Clapton
5. Eddie Van Halen
6. Angus Young
7. Slash


great list. I prefer Clapton.

Hendrix.
People that are innovators always rate higher than people who merely interpret other people's ideas.

Hendrix is the greatest rock guitarist of all time, look how many other guitarists ( me, included ) try to copy him. Page and Clapton should be next on anybody's list, Vai and Satriani, too. Of the new guys, Zakk Wylde and Petruccci from dream theather and whoever plays guitar in Opeth should get honorable mention

I too think Hendrix is the best.

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hendrix is the best, recent times tom morello from rage against the machine, and i cant recall his name but the guitarist for metallica is really good, he has some amazing solos.

jimi hendrix would blow them all away. there all amazing, i mean to hear jimi paige play stairway to heaven gives me a boner but jimi hendrix wrote more in his little life time than anyone. he figured out feed back in about 30 miniutes. he played songs people today still cannot replicate. He's a legacy that many will come close to being as good as but no one will ever get over that last hump which makes you as amazing as jimi hendrix on guitar

I worked with Slash many, MANY years ago, so we are cool - I have always thought he comes up with some of the best melodic, tasty, licks of any of the 80's bands. His new stuff with Velvet Revolver kicks ass, I recommend it!

Hendrix is god. Nuff Said.

jimmy hendrix
yngwie malmsteen
van halen
joe satriani
tommy iommi
patrick rondat
steve vai
gary moore

hows that for breakfast amigos!!!!!! :D

voodoo child, i can listen to that song on repeat. greatest entrance song for a wrestler ever! :D

I worked with Slash many, MANY years ago, so we are cool - I have always thought he comes up with some of the best melodic, tasty, licks of any of the 80's bands. His new stuff with Velvet Revolver kicks ass, I recommend it!

The Velvet Revolver album is pretty good.

What do you and Slash work on together?

hendrix is a no brainer. he has done more with the electric guitar than anyone before or since.

personally, i also like: john frusciante (very funky and nice hendrix like rhythm playing), stevie ray vaughn (great tone, great covers of little wing and voodoo chile too). i also like trey spruance from mr. bungle and kim thayil.

no one has mentioned stevie ray vaghan, died too young R.I.P.

Jimi Hendrix
Joe Satriani
Slash
Eddie Van Halen

Jimi Hendrix is the most influential and innovative guitar player of all time but if you mean the greatest technically, he is not. The technique of guys like my favorite Yngwie Malmsteen, Tony Macalpine, Vinnie Moore, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson, Al Dimeola, Randy Rhoads, Jake E. Lee, and others is better.

jimi played that **** with his fukin teeth!! he also lite his guitar on fire ( although the guitarist from the who was the first) he played the star spangled banner too hes crazy good and whats odd is that when he first started playing he got a right handed guitar because those are all they had and he learned right handed or upside down or some **** before he began playing left handed because he was lefthanded.

Is Prince Naseem Hamed a good guitarist?

great list. I prefer Clapton.

Yes, clapton although regarded as slow hand, his lead is somewhat always in the right tone or note. others are fast but can never beat clapton in terms of picking up the right notes!

When it comes to fast playing i like eric johnson's, it's got a blues side in it!

DID anyone know that Hendrix was left handed but played a right handed guitar? This is why his music is so hard for people to copy, so if you are right handed,get a left hand guitar snd then learn some of Jimmy's Note's and Keys


just alil F.Y.I.

I use to think Hendricks, Townsend, Clapton, all the usual suspects were the real deal. Then i Heard some dude, i think his name was Stanley Jordan or something, blew my mind. He had two guitars on stage and the son of a gun started hammering both with each hand. I didn't know one could play like that.

It's true. Jimi played a guitar strung upside down and that is why he played some strange inversions and created some off-the-wall riffs.
My buddy Jimmy Haslip who is the bassist with The YellowJackets is the same way. He usually plays a six string bass and it is tough to steal from him because the **** is upside down. :D
(also because he's a genius, of course)


Nobody mentioned Carlos Santana as one of the greats.....he should not be over-looked!

DID anyone know that Hendrix was left handed but played a right handed guitar? This is why his music is so hard for people to copy, so if you are right handed,get a left hand guitar snd then learn some of Jimmy's Note's and Keys


just alil F.Y.I.

i don't think there's a difference at all! it's just like you're a left handed but trained to write with the right hand. it's with the ears and the wisdom to play, that's what matters most! what was his age when he learn to play with the right hand, i mean if he learn to play with his usual hand which is left, there's no difference, he is still as good as playing with the right because he got used to it, do you get what i mean?

I get that you don't know what you're talking about.

The Velvet Revolver album is pretty good.

What do you and Slash work on together?

Actually I have been known to run some sound at some pretty big venues. I've got some old pics somewhere, I'll see if I can dig them out and scan some - just don't crap yourself while laughing at the old Soundtraveler and the hairstyle of the 80's and early nineties!

I get that you don't know what you're talking about.

i know what i'm talking about, i know how to play the guitar, how about you?

Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine)

Eric Clapton

Stevie Van Zant (Bruce Sprinsteen and The East Street Band)

i know what i'm talking about, i know how to play the guitar, how about you?
My musical talent has taken me around the world several times, allowed me to perform with some of the world's finest musicians and singers, play on scores of recordings and spend "quality time" with the kind of women most men only dream of.......

How about you?

My musical talent has taken me around the world several times, allowed me to perform with some of the world's finest musicians and singers, play on scores of recordings and spend "quality time" with the kind of women most men only dream of.......

How about you?


Well if you've done all that then what are you doing on some little boxing forum at 2 am? If you don't mind me asking... :confused:

One thing has little to do with the other. I am now semi-retired, raising my five young chilgren alone and am disabled with a myriad of health problems FYI.


BTW, Little Stevie Van Zandt is a nice man, surprisingly adept actor but by NO stretch of the imagination a great guitarist.

Why would you tell me that? I don't have to feel bad about some **** I read on a forum. Van Zant and Neil Young are Gods!!

:D Sorry Vanda but Neil is also pretty weak on guitar! :D

:D Sorry Vanda but Neil is also pretty weak on guitar! :D


Oh good...For a second I actually thought you knew something about good guitar players but it turns out your just a wannabe. It's cool though I know tons of wannabes and some of them are actually alright.

Whatever you say...... :rolleyes:

My musical talent has taken me around the world several times, allowed me to perform with some of the world's finest musicians and singers, play on scores of recordings and spend "quality time" with the kind of women most men only dream of.......

How about you?

well, not as good as you. i jam with just my cousin, just him and i (and i only play rhythmn) and he play lead usually we use only acoustic guitars because electric guitars are loud and the neighborhood complains everytime. what kind of music do you usually play, can you play red house by hendrix? what were your influences? how about the ventures, how do you find them? or chet atkins, or bb king? or mark knopfler?

DID anyone know that Hendrix was left handed but played a right handed guitar? This is why his music is so hard for people to copy, so if you are right handed,get a left hand guitar snd then learn some of Jimmy's Note's and Keys


just alil F.Y.I.


F.Y.I. He did use a right handed guitar and played it left handed but it was strung normally. Jimmy is overated in my opinion!!! I'm not saying he is bad but he is not the best ever!!!

Here is my list:

Randy Rhoads- Died before he could make his mark and still did! He would have been Recognized like Eddy Van Halen is now!!!

Steve Vai- Amazing skills

Joe Satriani- Taught Vai, so he is super amazing but I like Vai better.

Eric Johnson- Super technical skils with bluesy influence.

Marty Friedman- Very underrated and awesome player almost all guitar mags have learning techniques by him for good reason!

Slash- Technically not too great but he comes up with some awesome stuff.

Yngwie Malmsteen- Probably the fastest and technically best player ever.

Eddy Van Halen- For obvious reasons.

Vito Bratta- He wasn't in a great band, but try playing some of his stuff. It is some of the hardest stuff i've ever tried to play!

Jason Becker- In my humble and honest opinion, this guy is or was the best guitarist ever. He was diagnosed with A.L.S. and cannot play anymore. He would have been considered atleast an alltime great by many!!! Checkout his stuff if you can. His music will move you for sure!!!

F.Y.I. He did use a right handed guitar and played it left handed but it was strung normally. Jimmy is overated in my opinion!!! I'm not saying he is bad but he is not the best ever!!!

Here is my list:

Randy Rhoads- Died before he could make his mark and still did! He would have been Recognized like Eddy Van Halen is now!!!

Steve Vai- Amazing skills

Joe Satriani- Taught Vai, so he is super amazing but I like Vai better.

Eric Johnson- Super technical skils with bluesy influence.

Marty Friedman- Very underrated and awesome player almost all guitar mags have learning techniques by him for good reason!

Slash- Technically not too great but he comes up with some awesome stuff.

Yngwie Malmsteen- Probably the fastest and technically best player ever.

Eddy Van Halen- For obvious reasons.

Vito Bratta- He wasn't in a great band, but try playing some of his stuff. It is some of the hardest stuff i've ever tried to play!

Jason Becker- In my humble and honest opinion, this guy is or was the best guitarist ever. He was diagnosed with A.L.S. and cannot play anymore. He would have been considered atleast an alltime great by many!!! Checkout his stuff if you can. His music will move you for sure!!!

thanks for your post, now i understand how he used a guitar (for right handed) and of course being a left handed, that's difficult because the no. 6 becomes your no. 1, is that it? clapton is not on your list, you don't like him do you?

Hasn't anybody ever heard JEFF BECK? "Best" guitarist could be relative. But he's certainly the "fastest".

Jimmy Hendrix
Eric Clapton
Carlo Santana
George Harrison
Slash
Steve Vai
Kurt Cobain
Wally Gonzales
Jeff Beck( She's a woman-lead with talk box)

I use to think Hendricks, Townsend, Clapton, all the usual suspects were the real deal. Then i Heard some dude, i think his name was Stanley Jordan or something, blew my mind. He had two guitars on stage and the son of a gun started hammering both with each hand. I didn't know one could play like that.


I like Stanley Jordan a lot, and Al Dimeola too for that matter, but neither of them are in the same clas as Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Steve Vai, etc.

Jimmy Hendrix
Eric Clapton
Carlo Santana
George Harrison
Slash
Steve Vai
Kurt Cobain
Wally Gonzales
Jeff Beck( She's a woman-lead with talk box)

Wally's Blues, pinoy na pinoy. did you know that kirk hammett is half-filipino, he's very good. and there's this guy, who imitates him and has a band here in RP, Wolfgang, he's good, too. i forgot his name, i have a compilation album CD of them, it's called VOLUME.

Hi Kadyo! I think you got the wrong "Jeff Beck". Jeff had his own band "The Jeff Beck Group" which originally featured Rod Stewart on vocals and Ron Wood on bass. He then jammed with Mahavishnu's keyboardist Jan Hammer.

When I first heard him in "Blue Wind" (from album "Wired"), I instantly became a Jeff Beck fanatic for life!

Some trivia: His albums "Blow By Blow" and "Wired" remains 2 of the top-selling guitar instrumental albums of all time.
Jeff uses his fingers instead of guitar picks for greater speed on the fretboard.

May I also add Ritchie Blackmore of the old Deep Purple to the list.

Have a good day! :cool:

Hi Kadyo! I think you got the wrong "Jeff Beck". Jeff had his own band "The Jeff Beck Group" which originally featured Rod Stewart on vocals and Ron Wood on bass. He then jammed with Mahavishnu's keyboardist Jan Hammer.

When I first heard him in "Blue Wind" (from album "Wired"), I instantly became a Jeff Beck fanatic for life!

Some trivia: His albums "Blow By Blow" and "Wired" remains 2 of the top-selling guitar instrumental albums of all time.
Jeff uses his fingers instead of guitar picks for greater speed on the fretboard.

May I also add Ritchie Blackmore of the old Deep Purple to the list.

Have a good day! :cool:


Maybe he was thinking of Jennifer Batten!?!? She is an awesome guitar chick!

Jeff Beck is a great musician but your comment about him being the fastest bugs me.
The best players agree that it's not how many notes you can crowd into a bar of music but where you put them and how most emotion you can relay that matters.
Robben Ford CAN play as fast as anybody but he chooses to play with TASTE. As a result, he says more with a handful of notes than a lot of "technicians" will say in their lifetime.

Same with the new breed of female singers. Bending a note 97 ways to Sunday just gets boring. I'd certainly bang Christina and Mariah but their vocalizing doesn't impress me too much.

Got your point, Boxerdog! But being "fastest" doesn't necessarily mean "the best". And I never said Jeff's the best. Being the "best" is really relative. I mean each one of us has his own "best guitarist", depending on one's taste and the type and style of music we dig.
Give my regards to Christina and Mariah! :cool:

WE should narrow this down. We should have a thread of everyones #1 best guitarist! Just one pick!

Ralph Macchio

Actually I have been known to run some sound at some pretty big venues. I've got some old pics somewhere, I'll see if I can dig them out and scan some - just don't crap yourself while laughing at the old Soundtraveler and the hairstyle of the 80's and early nineties!

That would be cool Soundtraveler!

Ralph Macchio
Cool and obscure reference there, Dennis Miller! :D
Actually, Machio's guitar playing for the film "Crossroads" was done by Ry Cooder..........not a bad choice at all. The devil's representative in the big "play-off" was Steve Vai.
A friend of mine and I were on the road in Myrtle Beach gigging when he got the call from Ry (who he had worked with many times) to appear in a bit part in the film and sing on the soundtrack. That guy's name is Willie Green Jr. and he is currently the bass vocalist with Lyle Lovett's Large Band.

Cool and obscure reference there, Dennis Miller! :D
Actually, Machio's guitar playing for the film "Crossroads" was done by Ry Cooder..........not a bad choice at all. The devil's representative in the big "play-off" was Steve Vai.
A friend of mine and I were on the road in Myrtle Beach gigging when he got the call from Ry (who he had worked with many times) to appear in a bit part in the film and sing on the soundtrack. That guy's name is Willie Green Jr. and he is currently the bass vocalist with Lyle Lovett's Large Band.

Wow, that's a trip.....so many cool life experiences you have. Damn I should have taken up music.

Hendrix! No doubt.

Ralph Macchio

lol. Yup the karate kid could really play.

Dunno about best, but I know who some of my favorites are.

Ben Harper with his Slide Guitar.
The two Jimmys (Hendrix & Page)
Matt Freeman from Rancid on the bass guitar.
Tom Morello (of course)

there are plenty of others.

This topic is so subjective that w won't come up with just one unaminous choice. :D

For me Jimmy Hendrix tops the list in originality, style and inovation but Clapton plays it best.

It's a tussle between clapton and Carlos Santana for the best rock guitarist awards for three years . . . so Carlos Santana should not be far behind. ;)

How in the world hasn't anybody mentioned Carlos Santana! Maybe not the best, but the guy has been making incredible music for 30+ years.

Bump (for the benefit of J.Swift)

gotta go with hendrix :D