Top 10 Guitarists and Songs

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Top Ten Guitarists



1. Jimi Hendrix

2. Eric Clapton

3. Jimmy Page

4. Stevie Ray Vaughan

5. Peter Green

6. Keith Richards

7. Jeff Beck

8. George Harrison

9. David Gilmour

10. Mark Knopfler / Pete Townshend



Top Ten Songs



1. Nina Simone - I Put a Spell on You

2. Rolling Stones – Soul Survivor

3. Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac – The Green Manalishi

4. Jimmi Hendrix -Hey Joe

5. Leonard Cohen – Suzanne

6. Lead Zeppelin – Kashmir

7. Mike Oldfield – Tubular Bells

8. Snow Patrol – Chasing Cars

9. Amy Winehouse – Back to Black

10. The Who – Won’t Get Fooled Again



Honourable mention



Dire Straits – Sultans of Swing



What are yours?
 
Guitarists:



1. Gilmore

2. Edge

3. Matt Bellamy (Maybe my favorite musician)

4. Tom Morello

5. Stevie Ray Vaughn

6. John Mayer (I know he's a Stevie ripoff...but his tone is INCREDIBLE)

7. John Petrucci

8. Doyle Dykes

9. Brad Paisley

10. Brian Hinton (A local guy. He could be playing anywhere for anyone,

but instead he's co-owner of a local music store)



Honorable Mention:

Nigel Hendroff



Songs:



I don't know if I could put them in a particular order, but...



Muse - Stockholm Syndrome

Marc Broussard - Home

Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb (Pulse Disk)

Thrice - Red Sky

U2 -Streets (Don't judge me)

Brand New - You wont know

30 Seconds to Mars - Closer to the Edge

Dropkick Murphys - Barroom Hero

Brad Paisley - Time Warp

Killswitch Engage - Rose of Sharyn
 
No particular order. I hope I spelled them right.



Eric Clapton

Stevie Ray Vaughan

Jonny Lang

Vince Gill

John Petrucci

George Lynch

Nuno Bettencourt

Mark Tremonti

Joe Satriani

Brad Paisley



Songs are too hard to get to just 10.
 
1. Stevie Ray Vaughan

2. Jimi Hendrix

3. Alex Lifeson

4. Gary Moore

5. Bernd Steidl

6. Al Dimeola

7. David Gilmour

8. Adrian Legg

9. Jerry Cantrell

10. Robert Cray



Can't believe no one mentioned Alex Lifeson. Easily the best living rock guitarist, no one even comes close.
 
Guitarists:



1. Jimmy Page

2. Al Dimeola

3. Alex Lifeson

4. Eric Clapton

5. Jimi Hendrix

6. Pat Travers

7. Frank Zappa

8. Kerry Livgren

9. Joe Walsh

10. Eric Johnson



Songs:



1. Whole Lotta Love-Led Zeppelin

2. Song for America-Kansas

3. When the Levee Breaks-Led Zeppelin

4. Crash and Burn-Pat Travers

5. Egyptian Danza-Al Dimeola

6. Cygnus X-1 BookII-Rush

7. Comfortably Numb-Pink Floyd

8. The Pinnacle-Kansas

9. Supper's Ready-Genesis

10. Spartacus-Triumvirat
 
Scott .... how can a Texas man leave out SRV?



1. Stevie Ray Vaughan

2. Jimi Hendrix

3. Jimmy Page

4. Eric Clapton

5. Jeff Beck

6. Al Dimeola

7. David Gilmour

8. Mark Knopfler

9. Duane Allman

10. Dave Mason
 
Scott- I had to resist naming Led and Pink Floyd (I could just say every track on Dark Side) otherwise they'd have used the whole 10 songs
 
Depends on what genre of music you're really into. My family has at least three generations of jazz musicians in it, but I just like to polish cars. :o You guys have picked some all out classics and those guitarists are geniuses. Going back to jazz, one guitarist who sort of branches out into anything, even pretty weird sounding stuff is Pat Metheny. He's extremely creative, talented, and all around cool guy to listen to.
 
Phil Keagy - He has frequently been listed as one of the world's top-three "finger-style," as well as "finger-picking," guitarists by Guitar Player Magazine readers' polls.



Mark Farner - Grand Funk Railroad



Ones that haven't been mentioned
 
There are 3 reasons I tried my hand at learning guitar. 10 years later and I can still only pluck a few songs.



1. David Gilmour - Guitar Solo on the top of the wall in comfortably numb. After all these years, still jaw dropping the watch.

2. Mark Knophler - Nobody makes a guitar sing like he does. Check out. Dire Strait's Live at BBC for some classic Knophler goodness

3. Jimmy Page - When other bands cover Zepplin, they often need two guitarists. Nuff said.



These guys also belong on everyones top ten.

4. Alex Lifeson

5. Eric Clapton

6. Jimi Hendrix

7. Pete Townshend

8. Carlos Santana

9. The Edge

10. George Harrison



My Top 10 songs list would be filled with 10 random Pink Floyd songs. :violin:
 
Nice to see I am not the only who has heard of Al Dimeola. I went to see Renaissance (a classical/prog rock band) in Dallas in the late 70s and Al Dimeola opened for them. He absolutely blew them off the stage.
 
Uh, David Lee Roth? He was the vocalist for Van Halen.



Jimi Hendrix

Larry Coryell

John McGlaughlin

Harvey Mandell

Vernon Reid

Buddy Guy

Kenny Wayne Shepherd

Jimmy Page

Tom Morello

Dan Auerbach



Songs:

Voodoo Child-Jimi Hendrix

Killing in the Name-Rage Against The Machine

Cult of Personality-Living Color

Communication Breakdown-Zep

I Can See For Miles-The Who

Set You Free-The Black Keys

Jammin' With Albert-Larry Coryell

Seven Nation Army-White Stripes

She's So Tough-Mink DeVille

Get Off Of My Cloud-Stones
 
Ottmar Liebert 's work fuses elements of several genres making some pretty cool stuff. I guess you can call it "New Age" or "World", whatever that really means.
 
So many great guitarists.. so many different genres...



Someone who doesn't get enough credit was the late, great Les Paul... the man was a genius who invented multitrack recording, echoplex and the solid bodied electric guitar. He played right up until his passing at a jazz club in New York.



Pat Metheny, Larry Coryell, Al Dimeola, John McLaughlin, Carlos Santana, BB King... how about the man who brought the guitar to the forefront of jazz... Django Rhinehart?



Jethro Tull's Martin Barrie is another who deserves mention, along with Stevie Vai, Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malmsteen, Eric Johnson, Duane Allman, Jeff Beck, Steve Hackett, Steve Howe, Mike Rutherford and others too numerus to mention



Scottwax: you brought me a blast from the past with Triumvirat's "Spartacus"... they didn't get the accolades they deserved.. many thought of them as the German Emerson, Lake and Palmer.
 
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