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 May 15, 2008 @ 18:55:35 | #22 | guitarist319
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Join Date: May 2008 | christobar said:
Ugh you ignorant people you. No way to say the "best" guitarist because everyone has their own style, its all opinion. But what isn't opinion is saying one guitarist is better than the other based on versatility, technique, and overall complete mastery of the guitar. And that my friends is why Hendrix and Clapton should not even be mentioned in a thread about the best guitarists. They are undeserving of that title by a long shot. Maybe you could consider Hendrix for innovator or top showman but hes far from the best guitarist. Steve Vai, Michael Romeo, John Petrucci, Al Di Meola, and countless others would rape Hendrix and Clapton in a battle of versatility, technique, and overall mastery.
I agree with you here. You forgot Allan Holdsworth and Steve Morse.
Here's the problem. Most people just believe Hendrix, Clapton, and Page are the best because that's what they have always been told.
Think for yourselves. The playing those folks do is very basic compared to what has been done since, not to mention the fact that there were more advanced players around before AND during the time those three came around.
Page was about the sloppiest player in rock history. How are you going to be sloppy yet be considered one of the best? If you play tennis and are sloppy, you will lose. If you are an architect and your work is sloppy, the structure will collapse.
The saddest part? All three of the aforementioned rock guitarists are basically bluesmen with distortion.
Blues guitar is level one when you take lessons. It is to guitar what 2+2 is to mathematics.
Expand your horizons by listening to a variety.
Better yet, learn to play the instrument for a few years THEN see if you still think they are the best. |   | |
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