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[Last Exile (#35342)]

John Butler owns all. Any guitar, any riff, any speed, any lick, he can do with absolute gusto. Once you've seen John Butler live, every other guitarist in history pales tro mere insigificance.

[Drake (#126461)]

Never heard of 'em. What claim to fame does he have? What's his best song?

[Rosepetals (#42525)]

[Veleon (#124559)]

[Drake (#126461)]

I am well informed of the "hair" bands of old(which is basically visual kei, but w/e) and I listen to them on occasion. I have a few Sophmore friends that are very devout to bands like Van Halen and that, and I talk with them about the music all the time. So, if anything you need to buy some hide CD's.

[Veleon (#124559)]

Of all the people I mentioned, only Van Halen would be considered in a hair metal band. At least that is how i look at it.

[Drake (#126461)]

OK.....

[Veleon (#124559)]

[Drake (#126461)]

Whatever. My arrogance disallows me to accept defeat here.

[Tanaka (#128178)]

It's obvious it's John Petrucci of Dream Theater Fame

http://youtube.com/watch?v=SKMYeXkYcgs < haha
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[Drake (#126461)]

He was ok. I will say that.

[Phake (#130899)]

Jimi Hendrix can outguitar anyone. Well, everyone I've seen so far play guitar are not really up to his standard...yet.

[Veleon (#124559)]

search "through the fire and flames" on youtube. the guy out guitars jimi hendrix by a long shot.

[Phake (#130899)]

[Veleon (#124559)]

if that "touch" you talking about, is the fact that jimi hendrix's solos sound a lot cooler than dragonforces, I completely agree. I was just pointing out that you said "Jimi Hendrixcan out guitar anyone." Technically speaking Herman Li is playing harder stuff than Jimi Hendrix.

I myself prefer the classic rock sound. When a little goes a long way. Angus young is my favorite guitarist, as I mentioned a lot earlier in the thread. I think he has the best style.

[Phake (#130899)]

Angus Young does have the best style. *sigh* I don't know anymore.

[Mr. Goodbytes (#42894)]

[Drake (#126461)]

And I am not going to knock your opinion, but have you heard "X"? Have you heard "Art of Life"? Have you heard "Scars"? Those three songs right there show that he is better than some of the guitar "gods" from America, even if he is dead.

[Mr. Goodbytes (#42894)]

[uni_matrix_001 (#132653)]

The thing that you have to remember about all of the guitarists mentioned is their technique, each one has their own way in which they play and each style has different effects on people.
Also it’s all opinions on who the best guitarist is, I personally grew up listing to aerosmith and queen.
My friend constantly tells me how sheltered I am by the type of music I listen to, but at the end of the day its what you prefer and the style of music. The techniques used by the late greats still echo today for example some of the solos by van halen may seem simple to play today but back when they started out it shocked the world.

Music is about expression and this is shown through the musicians style and technique.

[Stuart (#132894)]

greatest guitarists

[ANIMENATAKU (#117030)]

I actually voted for Jimi. Does he really get possessed by some invisible identity when he plays? Rumor has it that he gets possessed when he plays. Well I've seen some videos of his concerts and he really do look like possessed.

[Katayoku_No_Tenshi (#130322)]

@ANIMENATAKU It's called being high

To be honest....never actually listened to any Hendrix, being born in the 90's, the good age of rap and hip hop. Although as of 2005, that's on a downfall.

But I digress. My point was that I suppose my tastes are a lil' more comtemporary. I think my all time favourite guitarists (and therfore greatest in my opinion) is Paul Wong Koon Chung from the HK band "Beyond". I urge all who haven't heard of them check it out 'coz it's real heartfelt stuff. Other than that I'd have to say the guy from L'Arc En Ciel (Hyde?...Hide?) is pretty decent and Ryo from Maximum The Hormone has a pretty mean guitar too. BECK (Beat Crusaders) guitarist Ryuusuke Minami haha...nah Toru Hidaka or whichever dude plays the solo's and stuff ain't that bad either. I wouldn't say Kurt Cobain was a good guitar player so much as he was a good musician...Smells like teen spirit lolz. Finally, whoever plays the Smash Bros. Brawl remix of Firefield is god haha and well I suppose the guitarists of the Black Mages (FF soundtracks) are awesome even though they're two people really.

And c'mon people, where's Funtwo/ Jerry C in this debate huh? Canon rock?...youtube "guitar" and click the first video if you SERIOUSLY haven't seen it yet.

[[AN]Wölf_Brother (#5002)]

Andy James was a name that slipped under my radar and I'd really recommend anyone into instrumental rock guitar music to give his album a listen. Released last year and called In the Wake of Chaos. This guy is seriously talented imo.

[me. (#82251)]

[Veleon (#124559)]

After looking through quite a few of John Butler's stuff I find that he has a very good technique on a 12 string. However, his style isn't terribly unique. It is very similar to Eric Johnson in my opinion.

I only really liked Ocean. He was refreshing but I don't find him to have a lasting impression on me.

[Ken Hayashi (#52012)]

Seriously, I find anything with more than 4 strings intimidating.

Love the string spacing of a P-bass but I've got small hands so a J-bass it is for me. Such irony.

Who's this Eric Johnson guy and what genre does he play? Too lazy to view that link.

[Veleon (#124559)]

Eric Johnson is very instrumental rock.

Wiki

Here is a video of his most famous song (mostly because of Guitar Hero III)

Cliffs of Dover
This version is live and improvisation.

The intro is was made me think of him when John Butler was playing. He plays many things like that intro.

[Jana (#137227)]

Chuck Berry will always be the best. Seems like Jimi Hendrix is the most popular though.

[Rosepetals (#42525)]

Speaking of Johnsons, I'm wondering why no one's mentioned Robert Johnson yet.

Edit: never mind Slayer linked to the Rolling Stone list earlier in this thread, but still, I think he's well worth mentioning if we're talking about classic guitarists, considering how many musicians he's influenced. He's very good. I've heard quite a few songs off of his compilation recordings album.

[Bale (#139189)]

Hide, please .

[shulin (#140572)]

[Drake (#126461)]

Haha thanks....it takes great genius to come up with the things I do

[FH (#140519)]

I'll say Mattias Eklundh only because he haven't been mentioned (or has he?). He's got some really obscure ideas and what's more... they work! As a big plus he's really funny (and he likes to talk during concerts). Laugh guaranteed (sp?). Recommended for anyone who likes either noise or comedy or both. I've seen him live... at my school! Beat that.

[cici (#114316)]

by far i'd say Jimi Hendrix of course:)

[Syllah (#143151)]

not enough options to choose from for the pole, but if i had to choose it would be a hard choice between slash, stevie ray vaughn, jimi, or eddie van halen

[spiderpig0402 (#339732)]

Saul Hudson A.K.A Slash from the band Guns N' Roses

[Uthon (#358729)]

Not on your very small vote list that I vote for: Robert Johnson

On your very small vote list the I vote for: Jimi Hendrix