Greatest Living Guitarist

Mikel41 · Post by **Mikel41** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 7:48 pm

Probably posted before but, who do you think is the greatest living guitarist.

2StepGranny · Post by **2StepGranny** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 7:51 pm

Your definitely going to get mixed reactions from this. And your going to get a some remarks about this not being in the right forum

General Guitar Discussion is where you want this

But I don't have a clue who is.

Mikel41 · Post by **Mikel41** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 7:55 pm

sory im a newbie 4 post as you can see

2StepGranny · Post by **2StepGranny** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 8:00 pm

Hehe, it's not a problem, just thought I would break it to you easy

TimmyThing · Post by **TimmyThing** » Mon Apr 12, 2004 3:54 pm

Greatest living guitarists? I'd have to go with Tim Reynolds and Tommy Emmanuel. If you haven't heard of Tommy you should definitely look for stuff by him. He plays some great classical.

whip3512 · Post by **whip3512** » Mon Apr 12, 2004 5:53 pm

Greatest living guitarist....I don't believe in such a thing. An interesting question though. What would make such a guy the greatest anyway? If you wanna go with pure shredding speed it'd be someone like Yngwei Malmstein (sp?) or Tim Reynolds. If you wanted to contest who's the most revolutionary guitarist it might be Hendrix. Seriously, I'm not bashing your thread, but you can't rate such a thing.
My favorite guitarist though, is Jimmy Page. What a guy

Mikel41 · Post by **Mikel41** » Mon Apr 12, 2004 7:47 pm

Jimmy Paige thats all ill say

Dilbert · Post by **Dilbert** » Tue Apr 13, 2004 7:14 am

This is far too much of an emotive subject. Greatest ever guitarist? What style? Acoustic, electric? Everyone has their favourites and it is all personal taste.

I could give you a list of maybe 20 or more guitarists that I personally like to listen to, with 4 or 5 that I would like to be able to play like. But putting them in any particular order is not possible. So to get things going, here are a few of my favourites.

Dave Matthews (had to be considering the forum)
John Mayer (sorry, I happen to like his earlier stuff

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Larry Carlton
Tommy Emmanuel
Martin Simpson
Kaki King
Ani DiFranco
Claude Bourbon
Eric Clapton
Michael Hedges
Pierre Bensusan
Allan Holdsworth
Earl Klugh
Santana
Martin Taylor
Me!

See. How could you really put them in any order (appart from the last one being last!!). Add into this the likes of Django R and Segovia etc and you can see why no one person can EVER be classified as the best ever. Many have tried, but no one will ever agree. People will say "but what about him / her" or "you forgot so and so", hence why it is an impossible task.

erikro · Post by **erikro** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 3:20 pm

John Williams

QuattroDore · Post by **QuattroDore** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 3:56 pm

Define great.

Clapton, B.B. King, Hammett.

moosicmaniac · Post by **moosicmaniac** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 6:31 pm

Clapton
Reynolds
Nils Lofgren

cody · Post by **cody** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 7:56 pm

i think i gotta go with esteban on this one.. his infomercial is the most inspiring thing i think i've ever seen on television

DT · Post by DT » Wed Apr 14, 2004 8:00 pm

umm, hendrix and michael hedges are not anywhere close to being the greatest living guitarists, since theyre both dead....

the guitarists that im the most impressed/moved by that i listen to are Leo Kottke, Tommy Emmanuel and Tim Reynolds- I know there are about a million people out there that are just as good but i just havent heard them

GrateDMB21 · Post by **GrateDMB21** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 8:07 pm

tim reynolds, leo kottke, jimmy page, steve howe

djs488 · Post by **djs488** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 8:20 pm

i would say hendrix, but alas, he is still dead. so i must choose clapton as the best. in terms of song construction i would not give him an inch, maybe even give that to mr. dave himself, however, the solos churned out by this machine are absolutely amazing, which i believe eclipse that of hendrix and page. nils lofgren is also an underrated guitarist who i believe has more shredding power than malmsteen and certainly timmy.

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