Best guitarrist?

[Uston]

Agree on McLaughlin. This thread should really be titled "best rock guitarist" because any of the top jazz guitarists of the last century (McLaughlin, Wes Montgomery, Django, even George Benson) are in their own league.

[jokerthief]

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no one else mentioned even comes close to the kind of diversity this guy has consistently displayed over the past 30 years, and he still practices 6 hours a day!

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You should check out Tim Reynolds and try to find a scale he hasn't used. He's the only guitar player I've ever heard who actually envokes images in my mind by his play.

[willie]

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Page is the most overrated guitar player who ever lived.

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he is highly overrated, but he's pretty good

my list

hendrix
mayer
SRV (my fav)
slowhand clapton
trey anastasio

[DMBFan23]

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no one else mentioned even comes close to the kind of diversity this guy has consistently displayed over the past 30 years, and he still practices 6 hours a day!

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You should check out Tim Reynolds and try to find a scale he hasn't used. He's the only guitar player I've ever heard who actually envokes images in my mind by his play.

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tim reynolds is nasty, but I'm a fanboy so I couldnt really mention him - I'm a little biased.

anyone ever seen Justin King? THAT dude is just sick. search for "Justin King Larrivee video" and you'll see what I mean.

neither is the best ever though. that's gonna be some obscure Jazz guitarist I don't know but everyone will insist is better than anyone I've ever heard so they can sound smarter than me [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[turnipmonster]

I like tim reynolds a lot, but what I am talking about doesn't have anything to do with scales [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]. frankly I would be shocked if tim or any of the guitarists mentioned on my or anyone else's list thought about scales when they played.

[jokerthief]

What is up with Mayer? Is he really that good? I wrote him off because I didn't like his first single then I hear that he played with Paul Simon and a bunch of people here espouse him. Did I judge him too quickly or is he the whiney sissy I first pegged him for?

[istewart]

Mayer is very good compared to what he is perceived as via MTV and such (i.e. like a normal teen girl pop idol or whatever), but he's not even close to the other guitarists in this list.

[DMBFan23]

on his studio albums he is bubblegummy and poppy and a huge tool.

live, he's definitely got the SRV/hendrix/badass guitar dude thing going on. he's really good.

[NutCrackerr]

Gotta be either Buckethead or Esteban.

[M2d]

andres segovia