Who's Your Favorite Guitarist

of All-Time

Published on October 8, 2005 By uDigItTheMost In Entertainment

I'm asking who's your favorite. Your favorites who are still living, and your favorites who are no longer living. They don't have to be who you think is the greatest, just ones you like for whatever reason. The only thing I ask is to keep each question to 3 answers or less. I know that's asking alot considering how many fantastic players there really are all there. I had trouble sticking with my own request but I narrowed it down.

My 3 favorite guitarists that are no longer with us is:

STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN - His first album is still my favorite from him. I absolutely love the song "Texas Flood" from it. I was very fortunate to see him in concert 7 times.

JIMI HENDRIX - When I was young my father bought me a stereo from a garage sale. It had an 8-track player, my uncle gave me my first 8-track, "Smash Hits" from Jimi. I been a fan ever since.

KURT COBAIN - Singer, songwriter and guitarist from Nirvana. As great as "Nevermind" was, I was blown away by "Unplugged in New York". From beginning to end it's perfection.

My 3 favorite living guitarists are:

BUDDY GUY - I'm embarrassed to say I used to think he didn't match up with Robert Johnson, B.B. King or Muddy Waters. One day on the way to a blues festival, I heard "A Man and the Blues", then I seen him performed, made me realize how dumb I been. Possibly the greatest living guitarist.

TOM MORELLO - The guitarist for one of my favorite bands of all-time, Rage Against the Machine. Unfortunately the group broke up. If you never heard them, get their self-titled debut album or "The Battle of Los Angeles". Very good live. He nows plays in the group Audioslave.

JACK WHITE - Guitarist, singer and songwriter from the group The White Stripes. A friend of mine gave me a bootleg tape of him doing a Son House song, which made me buy their album "White Blood Cells". I rank it every good as Nirvana's Unplugged in New York. Another one who's great live, if you have the chance to see him perform, go. Very underrated guitarist.

Okay that just made me think of another question - Who's the most overrated guitarist?

My choice ( and I might get some flack for this) is:

TED NUGENT - Some friends I grew up with think he's in the top ten. I never been a fan of his. He doesn't suck. I always like his song "Strangehold", and if I heard it just one time a year "Cat Scratch Fever" wouldn't be bad either. Tell me your choices.

Comments (Page 1)

borgia

on Oct 08, 2005

I really love Kurt Cobain, too, and I like Clapton when he was with Cream.

ParaTed2k

on Oct 08, 2005

Favorite Guitarists No Longer Living:

Jimi Hendrix
Randy Rhoades
Criss Oliva

Favorites Still Alive and Kicking:

Jeff Beck
Eric Johnson
Stanley Jordan

Most Overrated:

Eric Clapton. I like his music (for the most part) but a "guitar god" he just plain isn't.

I agree, Stranglehold is great, but Sweaty Teddy is much more about a fun show an party songs than old fashion talent... I'd love to go hunting with him though!

Secret Squirrel

on Oct 08, 2005

I like that Mexican Carlos Santana. (He has his own unique style)

Jimi Hendrix (Has his own unique style too)

T-Bone Walker (Started it all electric, Clapton sounds alot like him)

Eric Clapton is severly overated.

MasonM

on Oct 08, 2005

Stevie Ray Vaughan
Hendrix
Joe Satriani

Most overrated?
Nugent

dharmagrl

on Oct 08, 2005

Hmm...Kurt was good, but if you ever look at any of the tabulature for his songs you'll see just how simple a LOT of it is. Not ALL of it, but a fair old chunk of it.

As far as guitarists...hmm....Ted Nugent, Hendrix (did you know that he played left handed, but instead of getting a left-handed guitar he got a regular one and strung it backwards?), BB King, Carlos Santana.

Most overrated? Slash. I was listening to Velevt Revolver the other day, and their songs have the potential to be really good....but Slash's solos are sooooooo booooring......soooo predictable.

Moderateman

on Oct 08, 2005

hendrix,

steve vai

santana

Ionolast

on Oct 08, 2005

Dead:

Stevie Ray Vaughn
Frank Zappa
Jimi Hendrix

Living:

Buddy Guy
Jeff Beck
Johnny Winter

Most overrated: B.B. King. He can't play bar chords.

Dr Guy

on Oct 08, 2005

Carlos Santana

My Son.

uDigItTheMost

on Oct 08, 2005

--I really love Kurt Cobain, too, and I like Clapton when he was with Cream.--

I also liked Cream. Did you see any of their reunion shows? I think the DVD is out already.

uDigItTheMost

on Oct 08, 2005

--Jimi Hendrix
Randy Rhoades
Criss Oliva--

I was so close to adding Randy Rhodes on my choices. If he wouldn't have died so young he would've done some amazing work. As great as he was, I liked his modesty about it.

--Jeff Beck
Eric Johnson
Stanley Jordan--

As well known as Jeff Beck is, there's still alot of people who don't realize how good of a guitarist he really is.
You should hear my version of Eric Johnson's Cliffs of White Dover. It's the equivalent of William Hung singing on American Idol.

I was so fortunate to see Stanley Jordan perform, and at a night club. too. He has magic fingers.

--I agree, Stranglehold is great, but Sweaty Teddy is much more about a fun show an party songs than old fashion talent... I'd love to go hunting with him though!--

I bet you'd have a great time with him. I know he has tons of land he hunts on, I think he's more into bow hunting.

uDigItTheMost

on Oct 08, 2005

--I like that Mexican Carlos Santana. (He has his own unique style)--

And he's playing as great as ever. His instrumental albums are very underrated.

--T-Bone Walker (Started it all electric, Clapton sounds alot like him)--

Another super blues guitarist not enough people know about. It's funny how Europeans seem to know more about American blues artists than Americans do.

uDigItTheMost

on Oct 08, 2005

--Stevie Ray Vaughan
Hendrix
Joe Satriani--

Joe Satriani is very well technically. Smooth player. Does he still teach at Jilliard? I always wanted to see him in concert.

uDigItTheMost

on Oct 08, 2005

--Hmm...Kurt was good, but if you ever look at any of the tabulature for his songs you'll see just how simple a LOT of it is. Not ALL of it, but a fair old chunk of it.--

A old friend's father was in a tejano band. One day he bet his son that he could play anything in his son's collection from just listening to the CD. He played Nirvana, Alice in Chains and Metallica like he been playing them all his life. Then he commented,"Most rock songs are easy to play." I was impressed.

--Hendrix (did you know that he played left handed, but instead of getting a left-handed guitar he got a regular one and strung it backwards?)--

Yes, I did know that. I always thought I could get the same sound if I got a left-handed guitar and strung it backwards. "Yeah right", I tell myself sarcastically.

--Most overrated? Slash. I was listening to Velevt Revolver the other day, and their songs have the potential to be really good....but Slash's solos are sooooooo booooring......soooo predictable.--

Maybe he just got lazy. I do like his playing in Guns'n'Roses' debut album. You can see a slow decline though after that.

uDigItTheMost

on Oct 08, 2005

--hendrix,

steve vai

santana--

Good choices. I seen Steve Vai in concert when he was playing with David Lee Roth. Good live performer. Wasn't he one of Joe Satriani's students?

uDigItTheMost

on Oct 08, 2005

--My Son.--

Great pick. Is your son pretty good? I did say your "favorite", so well done. I didn't even think of someone I actually knew. A good friend of mine is a fairly good guitarist. You should hear me sing some classic rock songs over his house just fooling around. Wait a minute, maybe you SHOULDN'T hear me, unless you're a masochist.

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