Most Influencial Guitarist?

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Which has had the most influence?

  • Jimmy Page

    Votes: 42 49.4%

  • Eric Clapton

    Votes: 20 23.5%

  • Eddie Van Halen

    Votes: 15 17.6%

  • Angus Young

    Votes: 8 9.4%
  • Total voters
    85
Yeah,
Sterling.
Lou provided some great rhythm & laterly struts as a lead player but Sterling Morrison played some of the great guitar parts in the VU.
 
sweetpeee said:
Henry Mars said:
Page is a trained clasical guitar player. A lot of what you hear with alternate tunings etc is a result of his clasical training.QUOTE]

Whaaaa???? Since when was Jimmy Page a classicly trianed guitar player??He himself said of his finger picking that it was "total incompetance".

His alternate tunings are usually open chord tunings for example: In my Time of Dying is in open A, Friends is in open C, That's the way is in open G.The only true alternate tuning I can think of off the top of my head is Black mountainside/white summer/ kashmir. It's more than a little likely that Page got them from Blues players.

J.P.
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And also, I would like to point out that Paige CANNOT sight read at all. Ok, maybe he's learned recently, but he is known for not being able to at all.
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Eddie Van Halen is the father of what we call heavy metal guitar: Insane picking, crazy tapping and memorable guitar riffs. My vote goes to him.
 
andycerrone said:
And also, I would like to point out that Paige CANNOT sight read at all. Ok, maybe he's learned recently, but he is known for not being able to at all.
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I don't think I ever said he was a good sight reader ... in fact I don't know if he is a sight reader. He does read though.
 
rayc said:
Yeah,
Sterling.
Lou provided some great rhythm & laterly struts as a lead player but Sterling Morrison played some of the great guitar parts in the VU.
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Yeah - it's ragged as hell, but I just love the guitar groove in 'What Goes On'.

Great phsychedelic solo there too - any idea who played that, I'm guessing Sterling, but who knows with the Velvets ;)
 
Hey ESP.....You forgot Jeff Labar and Tom Keifer!! NO WAIT I GOT IT...................Chris Impelliteri!!!!!!! Quote from him..."I promise my fans I will only get faster...."
 
The only way I could get a clue re who did what was by watching the redux vid. BUT then Lou tried to hog ALL the limelight & played, quite obviously, things he didn't have the chops to play esp. when he whacked at the lead solos. Lou was/still is an excellent rhythm player but lead - hmmmm.
Pity Lou's, & his wife's, hubris prevented any further VU work before Sterling died.
 
This thread has certainly become the lamest fucking thread I've ever seen. From claims that Jimmy Page was a trained classical guitarist to John Frusciante as being influential to anyone? Why not just claim that Mick Mars is the greatest guitar player to ever live and call it a day.


Eddie Van Halen, Jimi, Clapton & Page are probably the three MOST influential period. Others may be good, hell, they may even play great, but these four cats have written the book.
 
The most influential guitarist in my line of music is Johhny Ramone.I play punk music if you didnt guess.
 
Sirnothingness said:
Eddie Van Halen, Jimi, Clapton & Page are probably the three MOST influential period.
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Hehehehe.........Eddie, Jimi, Clapton and Page = 4..... :eek: :D :)
 
sirnothingness, different guitarists are differently influential to everyone. You CANNOT say that those players are tho most influencial... what if nobody ever listened to them, they wouldnt have any influence from them PERIOD. its an opinionative subject so there isnt a right or wrong answer.
AHHHHH
 
opinionative?
Where's the lexicon?
Another noun turned into an adjective - I suppose i should be grateful it's not been used as a verb or worse have "ing" added to it as in
I'm opinioning this discussion.
 
I'm suprised by the john frusciante love; I'm usually the only one who mentions him when this kind of thing comes up.

Hendrix wasn't the most skilled player but had a supernatural ability to move you through his guitar playing.
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what?! Hendrix had amazing skill. He's not my favorite guitarist, but hes pretty much the only person I've heard play that I was convinced he could make a guitar produce any sound he wanted it to.
 
darrvid, yeah, frusciante is a very versitle player, and incredibly skilled. He has stood the test of time, and their new album is fucking awesome
 
Popularity vs. influence???
Ever heard of a guy named Randy Rhoads???
 
killthepixel said:
Eddie Van Halen is the father of what we call heavy metal guitar: Insane picking, crazy tapping and memorable guitar riffs. My vote goes to him.
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He's way too smiley in the jump video...for that era, Randy Rhoads is what I call heavy metal...Not Van Halen, that's way too happy and rocky
 
"...but he's pretty much the only person I've heard play that I was convinced he could make a guitar produce any sound he wanted it to."

Actually that accolade would go to Todd Rundgren, be it as part of the Nazz, Utopia or solo.
Jimi it made it sound like never before. Todd made it sound (on Bat out of hell - the motorcycle & almost all sound effects) like other things as well.
 
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