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I hate these so subjective threads where everyone knows who the Greatest Guitarist is, including me (though my entry was based on what my big brother told me years ago). Anyway, here's someone's top 100. Is your's there?



http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-guitarists-of-all-time-19691231/kim-thayil-20101202

Alan Medic Wrote:

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> I hate these so subjective threads where everyone

> knows who the Greatest Guitarist is, including me

> (though my entry was based on what my big brother

> told me years ago). Anyway, here's someone's top

> 100. Is your's there?

>

>

> http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greate

> st-guitarists-of-all-time-19691231/kim-thayil-2010

> 1202


Interesting - find them fascinating me'self ... Horses for courses and all that I suppose, just like guitarists...

Mick Mac Wrote:

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> Otta Wrote:

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> > > I like the Edge for his identifiable style.

> >

> >

> > I have nothing against The Edge, but I always

> > think of this

> >

> >

>

> Good stuff Otta. I don't really know about music

> but I think the Edge comes in the Rolling Stone

> top 100 all time guitars.

>



Rolling Stone - Its been mentioned already AM.

Jeez Mick I didn't even mention the name myself. Besides if you wait long enough everyone will have been mentioned several times. I think I'll arrange a competition to decide who is the Forum's overall favourite Greatest Guitarist. I will have an open (not seeded) draw and everyone mentioned so far and up to midnight tonight will be included. So get nominating if you haven't already.

Alan Medic Wrote:

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> Jeez Mick I didn't even mention the name myself.

> Besides if you wait long enough everyone will have

> been mentioned several times. I think I'll arrange

> a competition to decide who is the Forum's overall

> favourite Greatest Guitarist. I will have an open

> (not seeded) draw and everyone mentioned so far

> and up to midnight tonight will be included. So

> get nominating if you haven't already.


Now there's an idea, AM !! Your quite right, if/when the thread has run for a while, most will have been mentioned several times. A lot of "usual suspects" mentioned on here, which I said wasn't the aim as some of them cannot possibly have their talent questioned. Did post earlier in the thread that really I was looking for guitarists that are maybe forgotten (so great rather than greatest), but it is all interesting, and fascinating, to read others viewpoints.

adonirum Wrote:

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> Now there's an idea, AM !! Your quite right,

> if/when the thread has run for a while, most will

> have been mentioned several times. A lot of "usual

> suspects" mentioned on here, which I said wasn't

> the aim as some of them cannot possibly have their

> talent questioned. Did post earlier in the thread

> that really I was looking for guitarists that are

> maybe forgotten (so great rather than greatest)


Otta?

Mick Mac Wrote:

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> adonirum Wrote:

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>

> >

> > Now there's an idea, AM !! Your quite right,

> > if/when the thread has run for a while, most

> will

> > have been mentioned several times. A lot of

> "usual

> > suspects" mentioned on here, which I said

> wasn't

> > the aim as some of them cannot possibly have

> their

> > talent questioned. Did post earlier in the

> thread

> > that really I was looking for guitarists that

> are

> > maybe forgotten (so great rather than greatest)

>

> Otta?



Haha, I wish!

KidKruger Wrote:

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> One amazing guitarist/banjo player/harmonica

> player/bluesman I discovered a couple of years ago

> is Duster Bennett.

> I would add him to the list.


Freely admit, KK, had not heard of him, checked him out on Wiki, looks to have had a bit of a pedigree with associations with Fleetwood Mac and Alexis Korner. Gonna check him out on you-tube when I get a moment. Thanks for the suggestion, good to come across new artists ( well new to me I mean)

taper Wrote:

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> > I like Meshuggah- the drums on Bleed are

> > phenomenal.

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> Yes, Tomas Haake is ridiculoulsy good.

> Guitarists too, but not sure the greatest.

>


No, but for me they are worthy of note for pushing their instruments into new sonic territory and working as a team to create that sound.

  • 1 month later...

Ha, brilliant. Nice one Nashoi.


Funnily enough it makes me think of the condescending muso reviewers on Pitchfork. I know when they write a scathing review then its probably worth listenig to.


"Here a jazzy introduction gives way to a driving (albeit monotonous) guitar-dominated background for Plant's strained and unconvincing shouting (he may be as foppish as Rod Stewart, but he's nowhere near so exciting, especially in the higher registers)."


Savage!!

or of an undisputed classic


""Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" alternates between prissy Robert Plant's howled vocals fronting an acoustic guitar and driving choruses of the band running down a four-chord progression while John Bonham smashes his cymbals on every beat. The song is very dull in places (especially on the vocal passages), very redundant, and certainly not worth the six-and-a-half minutes the Zeppelin gives it."


Ha, they did something to personally offend this chap!

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