whos the best

[alpenglowRG11]

Jimi Hendrix
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Jimi Paige
Eric Clapton

[F_cksia]

What´s with all those "who/what is the best"-stuff of you today?
This is going to turn out in a discussion about colors anyway.
What´s the best? Colors or colours?

[King Elvis]

Who the F*CK is Jimi Paige???

I think that is that black guy on that Trading Spaces TV show!!!

[boingoman]

Apparently he formed a band called Zepp, or Led Zeplin, or Stairway to heven, with a guy named Rhobert or Rob or Roburt Plant, who inflenched all bands that came after and before them, for all of history. There popularity arise from black magic and witchcraft. They had a powerfull rithem section, John Bonnem on durms and John Jones on base. Thay are the gratest.

All spellings courtesy of the internet.

p.s. in terms of having vision of the power of music Hendrix and Page are almost equals, IMHO.

[stonepiano]

Look at the question you're answering.

Who do think is the best guitarist??

SRV, IMHO.

[boingoman]

In terms of musical depth of their playing, SRV is way behind the rest of this crowd. He's like an idiot savant.

[Gidge]

Richie Sambora....

[Purge]

None of them wail like Fred Durst. Somebody put that link up again (the one with Fred blasting out the most egregiously passionate solo in history.) Yep. Everyone smokes pole compared to Fred.

[timboZ]

Frank Zappa.


FZRIP

[EleKtriKaz]

I had to go SRV. It was close between Hendrix and him, but Stevie is the only one who I just sit in awe of everytime I see a clip of him playing.

[MK-Ultra]

I remember listening to 'The Sky is Crying' and 'From the Cradle' back to back, and I was struck by the fact that I preferred Clapton's playing. When Clapton is in the mood, he's a damn good blues player.

I've known a number of non-famous guitarists who could do what SRV did. He's alright, but for originality and influence, I'd go with Page over SRV, and Hendrix over Page.

[boingoman]

Originally Posted by Purge

None of them wail like Fred Durst. Somebody put that link up again (the one with Fred blasting out the most egregiously passionate solo in history.) Yep. Everyone smokes pole compared to Fred.

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!

....."egregiously passionate"............

MWAAAAAAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!

God I hope this is a joke cause that's some funny shit.

Not to mention Limp Bisquik in general.

Oh man I just found that link. Priceless. Man! the hate for fred durst runs deep here and everywhere. I never knew. guess that's what i get for never giving a crap about them.

egregious passion

[crazydoc]

Mahavishnu - but then that's another whole order of magnitude.

[Purge]

AAAHHHAHAHAHA (guffaw, chortle, snort) HHEEEEEHEHEH....WOOOHOOO!!!!

Boingo, you da man for finding that link!!! (holy shit, I'm still laughing!)

Who's up for starting a Limp Bisquick cover band called "Egregious Passion"??

[c7sus]

Originally Posted by boingoman

Apparently he formed a band called Zepp, or Led Zeplin, or Stairway to heven, with a guy named Rhobert or Rob or Roburt Plant, who FELCHED all bands that came after and before them, for all of history. There popularity arise from black magic and witchcraft. They had a powerfull rithem section, John Bonnem on durms and John Jones on FREEbase. Thay are the gratenest.

Knorra Joan'ez iz preetty graatyng, two.

[fretmeister]

Originally Posted by crazydoc

Mahavishnu - but then that's another whole order of magnitude.

Yea, how many John McClauglin imitators do you see?

[andyhix]

I too need to thank boingo for that link. How f'n hilarious! Although, I think it is obvious that that is a Fred Durst Impersonator, as he is clearly wearing a black hat, not a red one. what a turd.

[amt7565]

None of them are my favorite.
But I would vote for Paige.

Clapton is way too overated. But a good man, because he auctioned off his guitar collection last month for $15 million. All that for charity.

[assin]

guys I,am a guitarist 42 years....the best are the guys who had to play for a liveing in the bars.so then you know all the guys who came up hard ...jimmy page ain't played or pay no dues..where when you play in the bars you got to play dance type of music to grt the people hot so they got to drink to cool off ..bar owners like bands like that and will pay all over the world mahavisnu orchestra ..jimmy hendrix ..vanhallen..now you know why the beetles went to see hendrix in 1965 in england and called him a black demon prince the guitarist for ''yes''bad man the guitarist for a grouo call ''rough cut out of germany .steve vai out of calf...johnny wimter....the kid fron gun and roses he's nicethe real greatest ''glen camble and the guy from hehaw roy ??????these guys who play them long lines of head music ain't makeing no money ...guy who play in the bars and make the girls fall in love with them and their guitars thoes are the good ones..when you play from town to town you get really fucking hungy and if you can't get down you got to go home to mama..I,am skip been on the road so long all I play is the blues now and mees with girls who like my guitars

[Imaduck]

"Best" is such a vague vague term. Especially since I have yet to hear even .01% of all the guitarists out there, and the best guitarists I've heard are the ones nobody else has heard of. Each of the artists you mentioned, except for Hendrix, sport technical skill, but, in my opinion, no creativity. No heart. Just boring lines that I know exactly where they're going 3 notes into them. Hendrix, on the other hand, simply did a lot of drugs and played random (and in my opinion, crappy) riffs as a side effect of the drugs.

Next we can debate who the king of rock and roll is: The Beatles or Elvis.

But that's just my opinion.

[Blue Bear Sound]

Another lame poll...... what's the deal, sparky??????????

[juststartingout]

Who cares who is best. I mean, how does that help me knowing who, someone else thinks is best.

[Bass Freak]

im the best. enough said.


i can play 'chords' and 'notes' and 'bass lines'.



nuff said.



i like them all equally.


freak

[fretmeister]

Originally Posted by assin

guys I,am a guitarist 42 years....the best are the guys who had to play for a liveing in the bars.so then you know all the guys who came up hard ...jimmy page ain't played or pay no dues..where when you play in the bars you got to play dance type of music to grt the people hot so they got to drink to cool off ..bar owners like bands like that and will pay all over the world mahavisnu orchestra ..jimmy hendrix ..vanhallen..now you know why the beetles went to see hendrix in 1965 in england and called him a black demon prince the guitarist for ''yes''bad man the guitarist for a grouo call ''rough cut out of germany .steve vai out of calf...johnny wimter....the kid fron gun and roses he's nicethe real greatest ''glen camble and the guy from hehaw roy ??????these guys who play them long lines of head music ain't makeing no money ...guy who play in the bars and make the girls fall in love with them and their guitars thoes are the good ones..when you play from town to town you get really fucking hungy and if you can't get down you got to go home to mama..I,am skip been on the road so long all I play is the blues now and mees with girls who like my guitars

Assin, you mentioned some great guitar players. To Glenn Cambell and Roy Clark, I would add Chet Atkins, Jerry Reed, Albert Lee, Vince Gill, and the country singer with the black hat who's very popular now who's name I can't remember but is about the best guitar player I've ever heard (???). The country players have always been among the best and this is certainly true now. That said, I don't know WTF you're point was.

[Bass Freak]

clint black?



well if were adding country....



what about willie and waylon?





freak