Who's the best guitarist of all time, and why is it some

good music and technical virtuosity rarely go together

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>Who's the best guitarist of all time
Green
>why is it some guy I've never heard of?
You know his music but some heavy LSD took him out of the scene for a while

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRu7Pt42x6Y

>>72545904
Is that Speedwagon?

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>>72545904

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>>72546056
YYEEEAAAAHHHHH

>>72545904
>Who's the best guitarist of all time

Jason Becker
>why is it some guy I've never heard of?

Lou Gehrigs disease (ASL) fucked up all his motor skills just when his career was starting to hit off and before he got a chance to mature from power metal antics. Still writes music though wheelchair bound
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9_CW-hRnLU

>>72545904
There is no objective best.
>and why is it some guy I've never heard of?
Possibly because those guitar players did it for themselves, for the love of musicand not record deals and commercial success.

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Is the guitar a dead instrument? Will there ever be another guitarest that discovers something new that changes the industry again? Ever since the internet all the mystery is gone, and anyone with a guitar and youtube can learn to play voodoo child and hot for teacher. Sure, playing is still fun, but I feel like everything's already been discovered. Is it too late for a comeback, or are we doomed to hear the same chords and the pentatonic scale until the end of time?

>>72546379
damn...

daily reminder that the only people who disrespect guitar virtuosos are "guitar players" that couldn't play their way out of a wet paper bag

>>72545904
Nobody cares about that irrelevant "instrument" anymore

It's David Gilmour.

He played beautiful music instead of blues wankery.

Jimmy Hendricks

>>72546834
Only relevant musicians are hip-hop producers, right? At least make an effort.
1/10

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>>72545904

Jimi Hendrix is the classic, but I worry it might be the Babe Ruth effect, of we like to think of him as the classic best, so we don't compare him to contemporary players.

Yngwie Malmsteen is a great guitarist. It's a shame about the music, though.

Eddie Van Halen's bretty good.

Buckethead is the spastic 14 year old dork pick.

My favorite might be Robert Quine.

Rhys Chatham is underrated.

Hound Dog Taylor has an interesting style.

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>>72546744
This the reason why djent and too many strings started to surface. Pockets of evolving to new aspects of technicality that still carry some "wow how did he do that" factor for the audience

It's Django y'all r stupid saying hendrixcks
Honorable mention to les Paul

>>72546869 here

>>72546896
I feel bad for not thinking of Django Reinhardt. He's amazing. I'm still getting into jazz, but it seems like he must've been a huge influence on bebop, because he's the most expressive-bebop-like thing I've heard from his era. He fits in perfectly with players like Art Blakey, Charles Mingus, Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter, and Pete La Roca,

I was watching this earlier

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

Personally a big fan of Greeny, early Clapton and basically any black dude pre-1960s

>>72546744
Made a thread for this question
>>72546804

>>72546944
underrated

>>72546842
75 percent of what Gilmour ever played is literal blues wankery

it boils down to two guitarists at the end of the day

Sonny Sharrock
Masayuki Takayanagi

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>>72546869
>>72546869
>It's a shame about the music, though.
>It's a shame about the music, though.
>It's a shame about the music, though.
>It's a shame about the music, though. >It's a shame about the music, though.

wat the fugg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmOEwiz5Kxs

why are the best guitarists retarded?

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it's so obviously pic related

maybe Neil Young coming in second

>>72547650
You've stolen my answer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSh-YsyjpXk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJNjZCkrqR8

>>72546942
Dude had 3 fingers and was still better than anyone that came after him

mozzart
rock ``music'' is not music

>>72545904
Allan Holdsworth

>>72546056
In terms of what he could play, maybe. Dude writes awful songs.

>>72546944

>basically any black dude pre-1960s
Specifically if they're blind

>>72548160
shame mozart died over a century before traditional guitars were invented

>>72548128

Django is the greatest, no doubt. Hendrix's Machine Gun from the Band of Gypsy's album is favorite extended electric guitar improv, and Clapton's second solo on the live, Wheels of Fire version of Crossroads is my favorite shorter, more traditional solo, but every time I listen to Django play the Minor Swing I'm completely blown away. Dude was inhuman.

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>>72548313
>Dude writes awful songs.

>>72545962
THIS.
H
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True also for every form of art.

>>72548367
Traditional guitar is pretty primitive instrument, actually, I seriously doubt that any Classicism era composer would bother to write something for guitar.
Also, Mozart was a hack.

Jandek, of course.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PzfM1175YM

https://youtu.be/O8Blccc0PM0?t=206

>>72545962
>>72548902
>good music and technical virtuosity rarely go together
lmao art school tier plebs

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>>72548353
This

>>72548313
plebeian spotted