I have nothing to contribute to the actual discussion, but that video was insanely awesome.
edited 7th Feb '12 3:27:34 PM by MikeK
Not a vote per se, but definitely a nomination:
Greatest guitar solo ever, no contest. This guy practically sweats melodies.
Because I choose to.Greatest guitar solo ever, no contest
That's not Maggot Brain.
If you don't like a single Frank Ocean song, you have no soul.I have no clue who the best overall guitarist is nowadays, but my vote for best rhythm guitarist? Jon Schaffer.
(He's the graying-haired one with the Explorer). Damn if he can't pull off some of he best riffing I've ever heard. And he's been doing this since 1989.
Tough choice. There are just so many good ones and they're all quite talented. My personal favorite is Buckethead without a doubt, but I can't claim he's the best current guitarist. But he's definitely one of the more diverse and original ones when it comes to music, appearance and stage performance. And he's quite skilled at playing, though not always without faults or mistakes.
Marty Friedman is another very talented one, and he's also experimented with different genres, from heavy metal to j-pop even. And he's largely self-taught, which is admirable.
But I can go on forever like this, since I like many guitarists. "Greatest" is very hard to place on just one musician, as it is something that can't be universally agreed upon.
Please don't feed the trolls!My vote goes to Robert Fripp.
His work with both King Crimson and his different side-projects (The League of Crafty Guitarists, the Proje Kts...) is amazing still to this day. And lets not forget his collaborations with David Sylvian, or the invention of Frippertronics (guitar ambient soundscapes, essentially)...
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here.I'm going another way to answer this.
For me it's got to be Per Nilsson and Paul Waggoner; both have at least average technique (nothing compared to Satriani & co.), but their creativity is INSANE. I'd nominate Devin Townsend because of that too, but I guess he isn't a creative guitarist more than a creative musician overall.
edited 2nd Mar '12 4:06:41 PM by NEO
No regret shall pass over the threshold!I'd say Per's technique is pretty phenomenal actually, in terms of pure shred I reckon he's at least on the level of dudes like Vai and Gilbert. Awesome note choices too. Probably the best guitarist in melodeath.
Because I choose to.Akira Takasaki
David Bowie 1947-2016guess who i vote for*hint:look at my username*
Bumbleby is best ship. busy spending time on r/RWBY and r/anime. Unapologetic SocialistI made a thread about him, but nobody cared since he did not play super fast on electric guitar.
He resides in the state of Washington, still alive and well, and still performing. But he is insanely unpopular and barely known. His original music is on iTunes and CD Baby though, so at least it's available.
Hmm... I'm too indecisive to choose one favourite, so here's three that are certainly up there:
- Ivar Bjornson of Enslaved - He's likely not the most technically proficient guitarist by any stretch of the imagination, but every album he plays on is just so inspired and thoughtfully crafted.
- Oddleif Stensland of Communic - Every riff he plays is absolutely mindblowing, and he's one guitarist that sounds like three, and he sings while playing, and those riffs...
- Dagon of Inquisition - Another guitarist that manages to have a completely full metal sound despite having nobody to back him up. All of Dagon's guitar lines are simplistic and minimalistic, managing to say a whole lot using very few distinct ideas.
x7 Nice choice. Robert Fripp's guitar playing is always so precise and on-point, but always kind of seems like it's born out of some spontaneous inspiration, which is something I can say of very few other guitarists, particularly in progressive rock music.
"I thought Djent was just a band" -Physical StaminaMy vote goes to Parker Griggs, guitarist for Radio Moscow. Guy's an absolute treat, rips it up like the best of the 70's.
edited 17th Feb '15 7:37:49 AM by SCPH7503
Live on a flat bed diesel in the middle of a race track at a Miami Pop Festival.I'm a bit of a guitarist myself (mainly a keyboardist who can play a little bit on guitar, bass, and mandolin), and I find that I don't really like overly showy and flashy players. I just find rapid fire noodling to be nothing more than musical masturbation, which is why as a country fan, I don't care for Brad Paisley's playing style.
But I do love Keith Urban's guitar style a lot. He's not showy; no noodling or shredding. There's a real passion and tunefulness to his playing style that I enjoy.
Maybe it's just because I am nowhere near nimble enough to shred...
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Bumbleby is best ship. busy spending time on r/RWBY and r/anime. Unapologetic SocialistI find it super-duper hard to quantify the greatest. You can't really boil it down to a single characteristic like how avant garde they are (everything groundbreaking soon becomes ground well tread), how technical they are (technique increases capability for quality music but isn't a necessity for it), how catchy they are (catchiness can be nice but something that easily gets stuck in your head can just as easily be annoying) and so on.
However if I must nominate one, then my vote goes for The Chasm's Daniel Corchado. He has an interesting and very varied style that accumulates at least 26 years of metal history, from the fast ripping riffs of thrash and trad/power/speed metal's melodic architecture and slicing attack to the vast expanses of black metal's and death metal's surging labyrinthine textures, along with a healthy degree of doom melancholy.
Combined with this is an unusual tendency for spacey sometimes quite dissonant floaty chords and playing reminiscent of classic Voivod but with a neo-classical-ish mindset guiding it. All of it manages to stay coherent due to his sharp ear for picking very particular riffs to emphasize fluid motion or dirge-like pacing, as well as aggression and density or eerie and spacey placement. It's both familiar for seasoned metal listeners yet also very out there.
edited 28th Aug '15 2:18:43 PM by StillbornMachine
With the most Awesome, but Impractical guitar ever, it seems.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ8ml7eENuI
edited 28th Aug '15 4:20:19 PM by MABfan11
Bumbleby is best ship. busy spending time on r/RWBY and r/anime. Unapologetic Socialist
My vote is for this guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm6xg1CdNCc