200 greatest guitarists in rock

[Taks]

Hey, I don't wanna come off saying that you are stupid, Hackett is a hell of a guitarist. But to think petrucci is a robot, or IMO putting him in anything below ten is a travesty. But that second part is subjective!

[Krista]

I didn't say I wanted him off the list. I just took a semi-random person from the top 20 and suggested that he could be replaced by Neil Young, which I prefer over Brian May.

[Double J]

i deffinately think that eric clapton should be higher than 5

[buzzn94]

are you kidding me?

[fab@50]

I've never understood why people rate Clapton so highly. I find his guitar playing extremely uninteresting and it seems fairly derivative to me.

[captain_charisma1]

Well if I can read it then surely you can as well?


I have my habits :laughing:, so less use of the enter button and thats it right? I aint going to shorten my posts, I usually have too much to say lol.

[jrg]

well...taste in style matters a lot which makes this list even harder to make

BUT

when lists of "best/most skilled" guitarists come out we're also talking in terms of innovation and what they have offered to the musical world. The less well known the guitarist is, chances are, the less they've offered to the musical world. Especially now that guitarists arent just a dime a dozen, they're a dime for every 200.

[hippo]

LOL

Wait until boo boo sees this.

[Bryan W Gaint]

ah blackmore! forgot about him
granted, you're probably right there...

clapton...a personal opinion...just never thought the man deserved his kudos in the face of much more interesting guitarists
to me its just sub par bb king rehashed as rock music

[Murcatko]

He was a big influence on Hendrix, Page and all the others. He along with Beck and Hendrix did a lot to reinvent the electric guitar for the hard rock era. He's not as original as the others, (though the fuzzy tone he achieved with albums like Wheel of Fire and Disraili Gears were pretty unique for the time) but he makes up for that in every other field IMO.