best guiter player ever

jimi..by miles
best brit...albert lee.

Brian Setzer for me without doubt

PS: As I'm now semi-retired ...I build (as a hobby) Tribute Guitars...
I have built and hanging on my wall....
1) A copy of "Dave Gilmours" - Black Strat (complete with 7 way switching)
2) A copy of Eric Clapton's "Blackie"
3) A copy of Stevie Ray Vaughn's sunburst Strat (SRV).
4) Last but not least ..a cop of Hank's Fiesta Red Strat with all gold fittings.
I also have a "Special Edition" Stratocaster "Blackie" ...but mine is signed personally by Eric to me...
"To Ron Eric Clapton '99"

wow

well bugger me ron I have not long started trying to build one myself

respect ron

Burton, I was about fourteen when I built my first (and only self-built) guitar. It was in the woodwork class at school. (This wasn't a school in England but the Master was an Englishman.)

Getting the right glue was difficult but the woodwork Master managed it. I also needed strings. After the term break, I arrived with strings my dad had brought from the UK. I wasn't convinced that the glue had fully set, so I decided to leave it until the next week.

During that week, my usual woodwork Master was replaced by somebody else.

That somebody else fitted the strings.

The guitar exploded.

Outcome? I was expelled from the school for insolence. (Kicking him in the whatnots. That's what it said in the letter.)

Good luck with your guitar. If anything goes wrong, it will be your fault. I hope your whatnots survive.

nice story G.

I would add Peter Frampton into the mix - maybe not the best but probably the one I most enjoy listening to

Another two:

Steve Hillage

Zappa

Not a mention (yet) of Gilmour..?
Blackmore could push out a mean tune too.
So many great guitarists out there, past and present, and each has or had their own style.
If I had to choose a top five or whatever, I think I'd put it something like this, and then change my mind
Jimmy Page
David Glimour
Jimmi Hendrix
Angus Young
Richie Blackmore

Be Bop Deluxe - Bill Nelson

Adventures in a Yorkshire Landscape
Blazing Apostles
Maid In Heaven

no one plays an Axe like Bill !

All very subjective and depends on tone, emotion etc that fits mood.

For me Carlos Santana (e.g.Song Of The Wind) often in tandem with Neal Schon. Also Dave Gilmour, Peter Green, Lindsey Buckingham.

Ernie Isley.

Davy Graham

neil young can smash a tune out of his gibson

Kent DuChaine plays a very unique steel guitar which is 80 years old

Don't forget, Jean 'Django' Reinhardt.

Joe Walsh

alongwith Don Felder played the great guitar duel solo for hotel california

Duke - Since you've heard of him you'll know this. Kent Duchaine's guitar is called Leadbessie and is I think a 1934 National steel.  Someone will know better.   On his trips to Europe, he used to play a little corner Blues Pub in Brighton called the Ranelagh, as did another very fine (but departed) guitarist - Ben Andrews. Gary Moore used to pop along from Hove to play "secret" gigs there too, in front of about 70/80 people, a few years before he died.

Some missed off;

Chet Atkins
Barney Kessel
Tal Farlow
Arthur Blake
Albert Lee
Steve Vai
Satch
Yngwie Malmsteen

one that you have probably never heard of is Terry Smith who used to manage The Walker Brothers.

Aug 17, 2016 -- 7:40PM, blackbarn wrote:

Duke - Since you've heard of him you'll know this. Kent Duchaine's guitar is called Leadbessie and is I think a 1934 National steel.

Elmore James
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Walter Trout
Joe Bonamassa
Buddy Guy

The most 'non-guitar hero' guitar hero is John Squire

Adrian Belew

Jeff Beck

"Not a mention (yet) of Gilmour.." ???
Fabulaous guitarist ...one of the best ...I just love the sound he gets especially on the early stuff when he was using the "Binson Echorec"....the list goes on and on ..
Lets also add to the list Ry Cooder and Carlos Santana ?

"well bugger me ron I have not long started trying to build one myself"
"Strat"  type  Burton ?
Any help you need mate - I'd be pleasd to give it.
PS: Lead guitarist in our Band in the '60's was "Roger Giffin" (fabulous guitarist) now a famous guitar builder living in the USA ....have a look at his "Client List" - most of the guitarists named above..

Slash- NO- I'm not going to have one- Slash on Sweet Child O Mine and Mark Knopfler on Sultans of Swing. But some already mentioned are also very good.  Hank Marvin and Bert Weedon (whose Play in a day paperback launched the careers of many of those mentioned) could also be added.

All rock / pop guitarists to date but what about Andres Segovia if we really are talking about the 'best guitar player ever'?

Mr Butler- Chalk n Cheese -incomparable finger picking on a Spanish Guitar to Hendrix playing with his teeth. Different worlds almost to the extent they are playing different instruments!

Maybe we should re-name this Post ..."Guitarists we love" ?

I am doing a copy of Rossi's green tele Ron the one he used for Live Aid with just the twin pick-ups. It will not be a dead copy as his has a couple of holes drilled in the body that do nothing so I'm not doing that. The body isn't a genuine fender but I'm not worried about that, everything else will be correct including Kluson machine heads. I am struggling at he minute to find a genuine used single ply Fender scratchplate in white, there are plenty of 5 holes but I need an 8 so I might use a new one.

Andy Powell with his Flying V in Wishbone Ash was another hero of mine, anyone remember him ?

I am doing a copy of Rossi's green tele Ron...that's different ..
Have a look at :http://www.tonyrockettguitars.co.uk/quo.htm
I've always loved Tele's - had quite a few in my time...I'd love a pink Paisley one ...James Burton.

yes seen them before Ron, I am using the spec off someone called Roots guitars their copy is amazing
.
https://francisrossitelecaster.wordpress.com/

Andy Powell with his Flying V in Wishbone Ash was another hero of mine, anyone remember him ?

Still going with the latest version of Wishbone Ash. Tour the UK circuit regularly, saw them several times a few years back, still excellent.

I saw Peter Green a few years back. Sad to see and just sat at the side playing guitar. Never said a word and was obviously under medication but still had the magic touch which the greats have. Often what they play is very simple but it's the emotion and feeling which is impossible to reproduce. BB King another.

I remember when some people thought Alvin Lee was the best       

RANDY ***ING RHOADS!!!

Jimmy Hendrix was once asked what it was like being the greatest guitarist in the world, and Hendrix replied "Ask Rory Gallagher".

gosh so many names

Robin Trower deserves a mention.

Ron do you know anyone who sells body templates?

allparts.uk.com


Not cheap but they carry just about everything.

not technically the best but David Gilmour has got to be one of the best composers, so many great solos

Young Angus Young with Bon on BBC 4 right now :)
Still say his brother (my earlier inference) is the better of them. But both good!

BBC4 now has some classic lizzy, and they weren't mentioned in this thread. Shocking!
Gorham and Robertson use Steve Vai's testacles as plectrum bags :)

Dear Robbo himself, anyone still up into guitars should be on BBC4!

Django Reinhardt. Forget the pop/rock sh ite (Crapton,Hendprix etc.)and listen to someone who can really play.

"Burton - Ron do you know anyone who sells body templates?"
Christ you're not going to rout one out yourself are you ???
Easier to buy a semi finished (or fully routed) blank off EBay...most of these routed on CNC machines so very accurate.
There is an outfit from Spain that sells templates ...I'll also have a look at my past EBay purchases.

Burton , Try Allparts UK , High Wycombe.

If they cant dig one out for you give Gordon Smith a ring @ Gordon Smith Guitars.

Koko

https://youtu.be/7HS_wPT8vRU

nobody can get going like Leslie Sebastian Charles can

The correct answer is Earl Klugh.

Unreal that the guy has not been mentioned here. Staggering.

Hendrix n Gilmour share 2nd.

Fans overconcentrate on technique, you get 11-12 yr olds note perfect on Youtube but don't know what it means, and without the feeling it's just a dead exercise.
My favourite is a technically reviled guitarist, Neil Young. And the best UK guitarist (for Burton Brewers' info) is Billy Bragg. The genius of simplicity.

Still Gary Moore.

duane eddy

sad omission...my favourite...going back a bit

GARY MOORE,YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU,YOU KNOW ITS TRUE.JIMMY HENDRIX FOR THE SIMPLE REASON HE WAS THE RONNIE O SULLIVAN OF THE ELECTRIC GUITAR!

So here I am in my guitar shop Q7 Guitars (Ex-Giffin Guitars) ....and in walks this Roadie with a an old Les Paul...to be worked on/set up by us.. (It had been taken to another well known guitar shop - but Gary didn't like the way it played)
So I said leave it with us mate ...come back later today or tomorrow to collect it.
I can't he said ...well It's Gary Moores guitar given to him by "Peter Green" ..
At auction this guitar would fetch at least £ 150k !!!
about - 20 years later ...
Well here it is...The Peter Green/Gary Moore Les Paul is for sale. This is an amazing guitar as many of you know. The price is hovering above the 1mil mark ?.....
If Gary were alive today and you asked him ..Gary who in "your opinion" is/was the best guitarist ever - I'm almost sure he'd reply "PETER GREEN"

Gary Moore idolized Peter Green as a kid growing up in Belfast. Moore said he first saw Peter Green in 1967 when he had just replaced Eric Clapton of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. ... Kind of ironic that Irishman Gary Moore does a tribute to Englishman Peter Green who was an interpreter of American blues music.
Hence Gary Moore's tribute to Peter Green ..."Blues for Greeny"

BB King sayed that Peter Green was the only white guy who could play the blues.

sofiakenny ...
Going back to the 60's ...I grew up around the Ripley, Guildford area ...and of course you could see at the local venues/clubs local halls ...we had Eric Clapton, Jeff beck.Jimmy Page and of course Peter Green.
And in those days beleive me ..Greeny was "The Daddy" (I think it's fair to say Jimmy was getting there to).
It's a crying shame the drugs binge totally phucked up his (Peter Green's) ability to play....

I just found this very interesting post on my FACEBOOK page
"17-year-old French shredder Tina S performs a mind-bending version of Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata."
Allen Taylor -
Quote:
I play guitar and I've never ever seen such an accomplishment virtuoso as Tina, she makes it look so easy, undoubtedly she practices a hell of a lot, but she obviously has so much natural talent. I've seen Page, Beck, Clapton, and Gary Moore, live, all brilliant but compared to the beautiful and talented Tina S they begin to look ordinary. Thank you Tina, would love to see you live one day.
Unquote:
YouTube Lnk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6rBK0BqL2w
WATCH IN AWE !
She is just phucking incredible.

All a bit hairy and earnest here

Lets go

Tom Verlaine
John McGeoch
Carlos Alomar
Robert Fripp
Keith Levine
Billy Duffy
Geordie Walker
Nile Rodgers

See..wasn't so bad

When best solos are ever discussed or agreed there are several names that regularly appear on the lists; all lists are different but some solos are respected by most lists, if not all.

The one solo, for me, that regularly features on these lists, is Dave Gilmore's Comfortably Numb. It is my personal favourite and the song that finally cemented PF as my favourite band of all time, although I was already turning after sinking into DSotM.

I can't say I've heard all of the names mentioned here but one of them that does work for me is Jimmy Page, but I still (imvho) believe that Gilmore is, at the very least, his equal.

Loads of technically good guitarists out there but not can match Page for the riffs he created.

Hendrix too self absorbed and off his face to be considered.

Check out Gary Potter - best gypsy jazz guitarist in the world. First saw him in a pub in Bootle when he was 16, now appears all over the world. Django is his main inspiration

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJJ8DCZGVQs

one of many on youtube - enjoy

Cannonball Rag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOxo8-Wswb4

Emden • August 23, 2016 10:30 PM BST
Loads of technically good guitarists out there but not can match Page for the riffs he created

For "created" substitute "stole from other people."

Anyone rate Ariel Bender?Just wondered as he is my neighbour!

Pat Metheny (nap)

Aug 24, 2016 -- 8:22PM, nortons wrote:

Anyone rate Ariel Bender?Just wondered as he is my neighbour!

He played with Mott the Hoople ~ Cool.

Havn't read all the posts on here but ...RY COODER deserves a mention.
Played Slide guitar on the Crossroads duel (cuttin heads) with Steve Vai !
++++++++++++++++++++
Crossroads is a 1986 musical dramatic feature film inspired by the legend of blues musician Robert Johnson. Starring Ralph Macchio, Joe Seneca and Jami Gertz, the film was written by John Fusco and directed by Walter Hill and features an original score featuring Ry Cooder and Steve Vai on the soundtrack's guitar, and harmonica by Sonny Terry.

He is a cool guy Crags,70 years old and still wearing skinny jeans.Enjoy listening to his stories especially when Queen  were their support band in 1974,goes mental when someone says the reverse.

I'd love to have a chat with him about his time with MTH and music in general. Not many people can say that Queen were their support band.

Looks like it was this '74 tour in America:

Mott The Hoople North American Tour
Tue 16th Apr – USA, Denver, Regis College
Wed 17th Apr – USA, Kansas City, Memorial Hall
Thu 18th Apr – USA, St Louis, Keil Auditorium
Fri 19th Apr – USA, Oklahoma City, Fairgrounds Appliance Building
Sat 20th Apr – USA, Memphis, Mid South Coliseum
Sun 21st Apr – USA, New Orleans, St Bernard Civic Auditorium
Fri 26th Apr – USA, Boston, Orpheum Theatre
Sat 27th Apr – USA, Providence, Palace Theatre
Sun 28th Apr – USA, Portland, Exposition Hall
Wed 1st May – USA, Harrisburg, Farm Arena
Thu 2nd May – USA, Allentown, Agricultural Hall
Fri 3rd May – USA, Wilkes Barre, Kings College
Sat 4th May – USA, Waterbury, Palace Theatre
Tue 7th May – USA, New York, Uris Theatre
Wed 8th May – USA, New York, Uris Theatre
Thu 9th May – USA, New York, Uris Theatre
Fri 10th May – USA, New York, Uris Theatre
Fri 10th May – USA, New York, Uris Theatre
Sat 11th May – USA, New York, Uris Theatre

And on checking...Queen were also support band on this UK tour in '73

Mott The Hoople UK Tour
Mon 12th Nov – UK, Leeds, Town Hall
Tue 13th Nov – UK, Blackburn, St Georges
Thu 15th Nov – UK, Worcester, Gaumont
Fri 16th Nov – UK, Lancaster, University
Sat 17th Nov – UK, Liverpool, Stadium
Sun 18th Nov – UK, Hanley, Victoria Hall
Mon 19th Nov – UK, Wolverhampton, Civic Hall
Tue 20th Nov – UK, Oxford, New Theatre
Wed 21st Nov – UK, Preston, Guildhall
Thu 22nd Nov – UK, Newcastle, City Hall
Fri 23rd Nov – UK, Glasgow, Apollo Theatre
Sun 25th Nov – UK, Edinburgh, Caley Cinema
Mon 26th Nov – UK, Manchester, Opera House
Tue 27th Nov – UK, Birmingham, Town Hall
Wed 28th Nov – UK, Swansea, Brangwyn Hall
Thu 29th Nov – UK, Bristol, Colston Hall
Fri 30th Nov – UK, Bournemouth, Winter Gardens
Sat 1st Dec – UK, Southend, Kursaal
Sun 2nd Dec – UK, Chatham, Central
Fri 7th Dec – UK, Cheltenham, College
Sat 8th Dec – UK, Liverpool, University
Fri 14th Dec – UK, London, Hammersmith Odeon (afternoon show)
Fri 14th Dec – UK, London, Hammersmith Odeon (evening show)

Alvin  Lee ( Ten Years After)

love like a man...

great shout Facts....27 bum notes in 5 seconds!!!...truly aweful.

Facts you know even less about guitarists than you do about red wine  Seriously though, I saw TYA and Fast Alvin at the Lyceum in, I think mid 69.  They were ok but the warm-up band were awesome.   The Savoy Brown Blues Band!! - they seemed to have three lead guitarists and a lead singer who gargled with gravel.

bbc4 in ten minutes.......

Link Wray, easy question.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVb9jtxnTQA

Its an interesting study here that electric guitar only came a thing x decades ago yet people think that the best people must be like 1969 or something and it sticks in time. Hendrix was good but vastrly overrated, and it's not exactly binding what he thought about rory galacher, 40 years ago, or whatever. He's dead, not a future-guitar-prophet.

BTW my fav hendrix is little wing, love that to death, give him that. Most of the rest is shoit :)
And I only see one reference above to SRV! You guys are heathens.

SRV Little wing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An4uDegHB8s

sofiakenny    26 Aug 16 22:57 
great shout Facts....27 bum notes in 5 seconds!!!...truly aweful.Grin


Not as awful as your spelling

But, to which are you referring ?

Alvin boasted he was the fastest player on the planet..unfortunately he hit so many bum notes
he became a laughing stock...check out any live performance of "goin home" and you will see what I mean.

The studio Little Wing by Stevie Ray Vaughan is superb. If you like that track you might well enjoy "Little Wing Lap Steel Larry Hutcherson" and "All Along The Watchtower Lap Steel Larry Hutcherson " on Youtube.

This must rank
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJZYG5qwHHI

Johnny Marr worth a mention....

and Johnny's hero Rory Gallagher.

Re stealing licks , I have just been listening to Memphis Minnie. When she plays I keep hearing Scotty Moore chops but Minnie was playing these in the 20s. "Frankie Jean " "Reachin' Pete" worth a listen.

Prince or Jimi Hendrix.

D/H 1st Jimmy Page
" " 1st Ritchie Blackmore
    3rd Jimmy Hendrix

After stewards enquiry and objection result stands

honourable mention to Brian May just in case nobody mentioned him

brian may???..dont be ridiculous.