Best Rock Guitar hero ever!

cos the man knew how to party?

 

Brian May (Queen) and Rik Emmett (Triumph) are my favorite guitar heroes, but of the 10 listed, I think Page reigns.

Miles

 

Yngwie Malmsteen!

Eric Clapton!

Me! With all 4 of mu chords that I know. But I am still learning (despite a broken finger).

I voted for Stevie Vai though.

 

Eddie Van Halen all the way.

 

Angus Young. Any man who can play guitar, do the duck walk while wearing school clothes and still look cool is "THE" man.

Boards

P.S. out of the poll I will have to go for eddie van halen.
If we go out of Rock then Tommy Emmanuel gets up there.

 

In martial arts, a claim to being better than someone can be sorted out by stepping into the ring, for musicians, the "head cutting" contest is often used, just like that Steve Vai/ralph macchio/Ry Cooder scene in Crossroads. I think that before Agutrot continues with his"beyond Hendrix" stance, a sample video should be produced of him playing a Hendrix tune. I think"Little Wing" would be appropriate. if anyone has another suggestion, let's hear it.

It is possible for young musicians od this generation to become technically better musicians than those of past generations, but the respect still must be given to the pioneers, whom the new generation base their sound on.

 

Great suggestion, I'm all for it.

 

From personal taste my pick from the list would be hendrix or blackmore.

My favourites would be:

Santana
Jeff Beck
Zappa
Townsend
Prince
Stephen Malkmus (of Pavement, now solo)
Terry Bickers (of House of Love and Levitation).

I repeat this is my personal choice, before some upstart starts accusing me of being tone deaf....yadda yadda yadda tell me something i don't know

 

Jimi...

No contest.

 

Crickets chirping. Must be some serious woodsheddin' going on

 

i'mma youngin but i listen to some of the older rock and hendrix is my favourite

 

They were more Indie pop, but Peter Hook from New Order is the only guitarist I can think of that made me stand up and say "whoa! How'd he do that?"

 

Where's Clapton?

 

He was obviously too good to be included...

 

For me 'The Edge' from U2. He has a style of his own and I could listen to him all day.

 

hendrix
page
malmsteen
vai

Hendrix did not invent the electric, merely made it sing in ways it had never done before and never will.

the 1st electric guitar was played by buddy holly me thinks,not sure on that but, correct me if so, and then there was the shadows, did i really say the shadowsUUUURRHHHH!!!!!!

 

The electric guitar was around a long time before Buddy Holly! It was invented by George Beauchamp in 1931. (It's amazing what you can learn from Mr Google!)

 

Eric Bell was a much better guitarist than Gary Moore in my opinion, have you heard 'The Rocker'?, his finest moment.

But personally the rest pale in comparision to Hendrix.

 

i did say correct me