Off Topic Top Ten Guitarists

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SW Ranger said:
Hmm .. I don’t think Alice Cooper said Jeff Beck was ‘just’ a great guitarist to be fair Strolls. I think he meant he was a master of the guitar and not mostly a genre. High praise indeed. I was listening to various albums of his yesterday (as I admitted I wasn’t really a follower of his music and needed to do him justice) - a wide mix of music genres, some of his 80’s stuff wasn’t so good (Flash!) but I could still hear how good a guitarist he was. Mostly music tracks with very few vocals, a tough sell as we all love a beautiful sound and lyric to accompany each other. But some of his album tracks are beautiful & amazing (Goodbye Pork Pie Hat, Where we’re you, Brush with Blues, What Mama said - and others I’m sure I missed while working away).

Tough call to make any list though isn’t it.

Good list by the way. Jimi at the top every day for me. Like Sb’s inclusion of Mick Ronson too. I’d have Prince in there. Others? Jack White and John Martyn. Bass player popped in my head too Mick Karn.
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Yeah, I put the 'just' in, but I didn't mean to detract from Cooper's praise. I took it exactly the same way you did.
 
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Some fantastic names on this thread and pretty much all deserving.

I'd included Brian May and Ritchie Blackmore, but probably that's because Queen and Deep Purple are my two favourite bands.
 
Stroller said:
On the RIP thread, Uber posted a quote from Alice Cooper describing Eric Clapton as a great blues guitarist, Jimmy Page a great rock guitarist, but Jeff Beck just a great guitarist. I'm totally unqualified to judge from a musician's point of view, but here are my top ten based on what I've listened to:

1 - Jimi Hendrix
2 - Dave Gilmour
3 - Eric Clapton
4 - Jeff Beck
5 - Peter Green
6 - Jimmy Page
7- Steve Howe
8 - Rory Gallagher
9 - Richard Thompson
10 - Alvin Lee

Admittedly, a bit parochial.

What do you reckon?
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As someone who has studied many a great guitar player and in my own humble way, play guitar for the past 40 years, I tend to think, Clapton has to be the greatest of all time.
Hendrix was simply over a too short of period time, the drugs made him better than what he could achieve without them.

Clapton, a former heroin addict finally dried out and was still able to exude his brilliance over a long period of time, and continues to do so.
Gilmour is brilliant in a smaller window but he certainly is brilliant in his own degree.
Beck, although extremely talented, cannot be classed in the same vein as Clapton, simply hasn't got the commercial attributes on record.
With due respect, the others simply aren't in the same class.

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