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My favorite spanish style guitar player is Paco De Lucia. Those that are into that should check him out. By far the best in that genre IMO. 
Thank you for that. Never heard of the guy before. I love the sound of a spanish guitar. It is probably the most beutiful sounding music ever.
Have you ever seen Charo?? yeah Charo of Oochie Koochie fame. She can seriously pick on the classical guitar.
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Thank you for that, you just made my night. Damn I miss Dimebag. If you saw Staind on their last tour Mike Muschok is who a very good guitarist himself does a solo in tribute to Dimebag that just brought tears to my eyes. Cool thing about it is Muschoks guitar teach is the guy who was Darrels tech and Mike played with one of Dimebags guitars.
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How in the world can you fix something...
If you don't know how it's supposed to work?
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Hendrix was good, but he wouldn't make my top 10.
He relied on feedback too much, which covers poor finger work.
I doubt the guy could play a tune on an acoustic.
Yes Jimi could play acoustic, peen. Quite well in fact 
His rythmn guitar work was incredible, the feedback was just a gimmick and he was much more than that. He revolutionized guitar sounds and had beautiful tone... Hendrix blew the doors off anyone who was before him and is considered by most guitar aficianados to be Top 3 in terms of rock guitar greatness. At worst.
For rock players other names are Clapton, Page, Beck, Van Halen, Emmett, Blackmore, Rhoads, Howe...there's a long list (somebody had a good catch with Paco, too).
As one poster said, there's so many great ones, it's hard to name the best.
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1Jimi Hendrix
2 Duane Allman of the Allman Brothers Band
3 B.B. King
4 Eric Clapton
5 Robert Johnson
6 Chuck Berry
7 Stevie Ray Vaughan
8 Ry Cooder
9 Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin
10 Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones
11Kirk Hammett of Metallica
12 Kurt Cobain of Nirvana
13 Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead
14 Jeff Beck
15 Carlos Santana
16 Johnny Ramone of the Ramones
17 Jack White of the White Stripes
18 John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers
19 Richard Thompson
20 James Burton
21 George Harrison
22 Mike Bloomfield
23 Warren Haynes
24 The Edge of U2
25 Freddy King
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having kurt cobain on this list makes the whole thing null and void
kurt cobain was an average guitar player, at best...
just like his band was...
and again, billy gibbons isn't on that list
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........Vince Gill is as good as they get
 I like my country, but Gill can't hold a candle to the top 100. I wouldn't even put him on a list of the top 50 country guitarist. Atkins and Skaggs can pick.
My top 2:
Hendrix
With Page a very close second.
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[having kurt cobain on this list makes the whole thing null and void
kurt cobain was an average guitar player, at best...
just like his band was...
and again, billy gibbons isn't on that list
Yeah thats why they are one of the most influential rock bands of the past 20 years and were the voice of a generation and the surviving members have went on other sucessful bands.
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they're still an average overrated band that takes way too much credit for "changing rock"
rock was changed before them, bands like faith no more, nine inch nails, etc, were more influential than nirvana
the only thing they were influential on, was other crappy grunge music...
and wait a minute, the surviving band members went on to what? yes, the best thing that ever happened to dave grohl, was that nirvana ended, and foo fighters started... but that was it, nirvana was a 3 piece band, and the bassist, kris novoselic went on to do nothing.
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and i never understood why people always claimed that nirvana was this generation changing band, when other bands, like alice in chains, for example, were doing it before them, and doing it a hell of a lot better... i never got that...
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So one of the two surviving members went on to form one of the most sucessful rocks bands of the past five years, but yeah they sucked.
Whether you liek them or not Nirvana was the face of a generation and many of their songs have went on to achieve iconic status. This is not a knock on ALice in Chains becaue they are very good too but they never achieved the fame of Nirvana.
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and Johnny Rotten (i think he was the Sex Pistols guitarist)
Johnny Rotten (John Lydon) was the singer, the guitarist i think was Steve Jones?
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Van Halen comes in at 70 on the list, Randy Rhoads at 85. I clicked it looking for a personal fave of mine who didn't feature. Don't know how many of you guys will be familiar with his work (but if you're an old school metaller you'll know it.) Alex Skolnick....killer axeman of bay area thrashers - Testament. Legend. 
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I am unfamiliar with this feeling of optimism
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I like Hammett better....some hard driving stuff. Chet sort of trademarked that finish......here is another.....sounds like 2 people playing....but that was Chet....he could do stuff nobody else could. http://www.youtube.com/v/wsePsTEgiqU
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Good stuff Lew.......I like his choice in songs......I liked his rendition of Classical Gas.....I may have to check him out on CD
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I'm a huge Nirvana fan, so I'm gonna disagree with you about Cobain as a guitarist and Nirvana as a band. I know that Nirvana was one of the only bands I've ever heard that the first time I heard them, I literally stopped what I was doing and could not believe my ears. I mean, it was almost a religious experience. But, that's JMHO. I love Alice in Chains, too, though. On a separate note, my brother-in-law plays guitar, and he has said many times that the guitarist he admires the most is, of all people, James Taylor. He said it is extremely difficult to play a lot of James Taylor's stuff because it's so advanced. I have no idea if that's true, but I know I really like Taylor. And I have to say that Hendrix always gets my vote for top guitarist. That guy really seemed like he was "one" with his guitar. I love the story behind what is my favorite song of his (and one of the greatest guitar solos of all time, IMO), Voodoo Chile (slight return): This was recorded after Hendrix had finished the long, slow blues of "Voodoo Chile," a 15-minute jam that appears earlier on the album. An ABC film crew came into the studio to do a piece on The Experience, and told them to "make like you're playing, boys." Jimi said, "Okay, let's do this in E." The TV footage was lost. SongFacts.com
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I am unfamiliar with this feeling of optimism
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Looks like Santana and the boys were just trying to stretch the act....sounded like some bizarre Zappa tune.
I don't think I would have clapped much for that.
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Maybe not "The Best" -- but my favorite is Mark Farner,....and one NOBODY knows, Tommy Figinsky, played in a band in Youngstown back in the day called Left End.
Joe Satriani is pretty dang good.
Hendrix is the man. Stevie and Eric right there,...Van Halen, Page, Angus.
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I believe James Taylor used a cappo for many of his song's (dont quote me on this) Also alot of people are useing drop-D tuning these days.
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Wow, I'm shocked that you mentioned nothing about Eddie VanHalen, Peter Frampton, Joe Satriani, Kirk Hammett from Metallica, Carlos Santana and Tom Morello from Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave. All those guys should be right up there as well. Stevie Ray Vaughn though you got right, when he plays he takes you to a different world.
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I failed to mention Gary Rossington and Richard Betts on my list.
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Alex Skolnick is awesome. Testament's other guitar player Eric Peterson is no slouch, either. Jerry Cantrell is toward the top of my list and SRV is probably at
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Forgot another great player...Eric Johnson.
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So one of the two surviving members went on to form one of the most sucessful rocks bands of the past five years, but yeah they sucked.
Whether you liek them or not Nirvana was the face of a generation and many of their songs have went on to achieve iconic status. This is not a knock on ALice in Chains becaue they are very good too but they never achieved the fame of Nirvana.
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what does dave grohl forming the foo fighters have to do with nirvana, and how good/bad they were? nothing.
face of a generation? of what, grunge, which lasted all of what, 8 years?
smashing pumpkins, stone temple pilots, pearl jam, those were the faces of the 90's generation
the only reason nirvana gets the pub they get, is because cobain killed himself, and then they became this huge iconic band...
alice in chains may not have gotten the "fame" that nirvana got, but that doesn't mean nirvana was better
linkin park sold more records then a lot of bands that were better then them a few years ago, what mtv thinks of you has no bearing on what kind of band you are...
alice in chains is far and away a better band than nirvana ever was...
i just don't understand that whole face of a generation thing, what generation? when i think of 90's music, i think of smashing pumpkins before anyone else, because they were easily the best band in the 90's...
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the only reason nirvana gets the pub they get, is because cobain killed himself, and then they became this huge iconic band...
Thats crap. They were huge before Cobain killed himsef and that is why it was such a big deal. How big of news was it when the guy from ALice in Chains died??
So Nirvanas fame didnt transcend the grunge fad?? If yuo believe that you are dilusional. If you dont lik Nirvana thats cool but they were still awesome.
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alice in chains were past their prime when layne staley died
i don't dislike nirvana, i just think they are vastly overrated, i think they were a very average band, and i think they get way too much credit for, like you said, being the face of a generation
a generation that was already defined by bands like faith no more, the smashing pumpkins, nine inch nails, etc...
my initial statement was that cobain has no business being in the top of any guitar playing list, his work was very average and is used to teach beginner level guitar...
and you can't deny that their fame and notoriety skyrocketed when cobain died, you couldn't deny that if you tried...
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Robert Johnson and Jimi Hendrix Where is the love for Johnson? all this talk about Clapton but your forgeting his idol! Then of course Hendrix was just insane, he was just from another planet when it comes to his guitar playing ability! 
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Where is the love for Johnson? all this talk about Clapton but your forgeting his idol! Then of course Hendrix was just insane, he was just from another planet when it comes to his guitar playing ability!
the same reason people leave out billy gibbons, who was the idol of jimi hendrix
it's a popularity contest, that's why rolling stone has been a horrible magazine for the good part of the last 20 years...
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my initial statement was that cobain has no business being in the top of any guitar playing list, his work was very average and is used to teach beginner level guitar...
I never argued your statement about Cobains guitar skills. I argued your statement about the band as a whole. As a whole I feel Nirvana was a hugely influential band, hence the face of a generation. Or at least some of the face of that generation, no one band can completely be that one face. The other bands you mentioned played a huge role too.
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Anbody mentioned Shawn Lane( RIP) or Petrucci?
Randy Rhodes is MY #1.( RIP)
Paul Gilbert
Stevie Ray Vaughn ( RIP)
Rusty Cooley
Jimi Hendrix ( RIP)
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown( RIP)
Alex Scholnik ( spelling ?)
Tony McAlpine
Steven Stills
Frank Zappa( RIP)
Darrel Abbott( RIP) miss you brother
Carlos Santana
Peter Tosh (RIP)
Way too many to list depending on your musical tastes.
I try to keep my mind open being a guitarist myself.
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I failed to mention Gary Rossington and Richard Betts on my list.
Are you kidding? Do you even know the 1st. think about playing?
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I failed to mention Gary Rossington and Richard Betts on my list.
Are you kidding? Do you even know the 1st. think about playing?
It's just my opinion.Isn't that why we are all here?
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Much like the "Greatest Vocalist" of a couple weeks ago, it would depend on the criteria for determining the greatest.
Influence - Probably Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page
Technical Ability - Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Yngwie Malmstein, John Petrucci
Popularity - Elvis
Speed - Michael Angelo, Chris Impellitteri, Yngwie Malmstein
And this is just rock, if I knew more country I could put some of them in there I'm sure.
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Peen, you are miles from even sniffing the best country guitarists. Try Merle Travis, Doc Watson, Clarence White. Chet Atkins would fill out that quartet.
If anyone likes bluegrass, rock, folk, and country, look for some Clarence White. He played with the Kentucky Colonels, a 60's bluegrass band (when he was 10 or something like that, he played on TV with Bill Monroe - he was that god even then). He backed up the Byrds for a while. His work on Sweethearts of the Rodeo is amazing.
Along the same lines, you have to think about Tony Rice and Norman Blake. Great flatpickers.
How about Peter Green on the rock end of things? Nobody mentioned him? Jorma Kaukonen too (and he lives in Ohio now and runs a musc camp in Athens).
One more: Django Reinhardt. Influeneced even some of the bluegrass guys.
Everyone's lists are good, but there is some amazing talent outside the realm of (and pre-dating) rock.
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