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soul > skill

jimi will always be #1

>>54636563
>Jimi Hendrix
>soul
Nigger literally just got really high and started playing random notes.

To be fair OP, if you view it in the context of the time he was relatively impressive. Lots interesting techniques that nobody else had done, yet

Anyway, for my pick, anyone who plays in a generic '5-minute solo' power metal band. The idea of such songwriting is great, the first three times you hear it, at least.

>>54636675
>Nigger literally just got really high and started playing random notes.
And he was the best at it.
He also put gasoline on his guitar so that he can make a sound that wasn't available at the time.

>>54636531
nice b8

>>54636849
It's not bait. Hendrix just got really high and tried to make cool new sounds. Anyone could have done that.

And van Halen just taps. Literally the lowest form of guitar soloing. My dog could play a guitar solo with tapping.

>>54636563
This. Jimi Hendrix is not overrated. Commercially successful does not mean overrated.

>>54636531
technique doesn't make you good. just listen to dragonforce. that shit was recorded to make ears bleed.

hendrix was an incredibly creative guitarist, especially in the context of the time.

>>54636931
>Hendrix just got really high and tried to make cool new sounds. Anyone could have done that.
Yes. So that means that you could also get really high and make cool new sounds right now?

>>54636931
"anyone could do that" is such a sorry fucking critique
ANYONE could do ANYTHING ANYONE has EVER done, given enough practice and dedication
but guess what? no one did it but Jimi, and he did it fucking good, with passion

>>54636531

Jimi Hendrix was a great guitarist AND a fantastic musician. Sure, he was a skilled and revolutionary in his approach to guitar playing, but I feel like too often people ignore the fact he was a great songwriter too.

And what comes to EVH, I think he was a great guitarist too. Although Van Halen is obnoxious cock-waving hard rock band, Eddie's guitar work is often quite memorable, melodic and angular in rhythmic sense especially considering their radio-friendly hard rock context. Just listen the intro of Mean Streets (muh tapping) and tell me it isn't musical.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2R2KXNQR1M

If you aren't willing to actually discuss then don't make the thread. Hendrix is far from overrated to anyone who plays guitar

>>54636931
>Van Halen just taps
Confirmed for only having hear eruption.

Every fret wanker ever

>>54637082
This
>>54636931
You're fucking retarded.

And I don't even like Van Halen but he was a great guitarist.

>>54637412
For the most part, yes.

I'm a big fan of Marty Friedman though, as he's got a very distinct style and sound. And listen to his 1992 solo album Scenes and tell me that's not some of the most beautiful, tasteful soloing you've ever heard.

>>54637493
I will. Thanks, man

>>54637412
Listen to tender surrender by Steve Vai and tell me he doesn't have emotion.

>>54636531
he's one of the best, but like all 'the best' he's overrated to the point of godhood. the people who say shit like "there are only two types of guitars, those who came before Jimi and after" make me cringe into a new universe.

>>54637956
i dont get the hate for guys like vai and malmsteen. ok, yes i do.. but seriously you cant appreciate the insane level of skill, and display of musicality?

>"muh tapping"?

it's like none of you even listened to Van Halen

he literally had to play songs early on facing away from the audience so that guitarists wouldn't steal his techniques, and even when they did, to this day no one can replicate the "Brown Sound"

>>54637995
>but seriously you cant appreciate the insane level of skill, and display of musicality?

I can respect it, but I can't bear it

If Vai was good enough for Zappa to take him in his band , even if he was a spandex-wearing douchey youngster at the time , who are you to diss on him ?

>>54637412
If Vai was good enough for Zappa to take him in his band , even if he was a spandex-wearing douchey youngster at the time , who are you to diss on him ?

Jimmie Page

Fuck that drunk sloppy plagiarist pedo.

>>54638374
Your argument make no sense, I never stated he's a bad musician, just that his solo work is unbearable

>>54636531

>Everyone watch out for the edge

>>54638108
that's fucking retarded. I'M THE ORIGINAL DUDE TO DO THIS NOONE ELSE COPY ME! music is 100% copying shit, taking it in, replicating it, and spitting it back out mixed in with eveything else you've heard before. van halen is a fucking hack and you're a queeeeeeeer

>>54638613

Agreed.

>>54638374
Vai was also "good enough" for Whitesnake

>>54638712
Holy shit! THIS is the most overrated guitarist ever. Along with Jack White.

OP is one of the biggest faggots I've ever seen here, although half of /mu/ consists of faggots

>>54638875
Does anyone even consider him a great guitarist?
>muh twinkly delay wankery

>>54638920
y-you too

>>54639142
Well, Edge does what he does flawlessly.

I bet you think those reggaetone fucks who play acoustics and hit the side of their guitar like a drum are just geniuses.

>>54639372
well they're better than fucking van halen for sure

>>54639669
In all fairness no they still aren't.
fuck that crap.

>>54639669

ew gross. that kind of shit puts me to sleep. The only time I've seen/heard it done skillfully is by Tommy Emmanuel. I'd like to be proven wrong, but 99% of the time it's just a soft acoustic pop Jack Johnson gimmick.

>>54639372
god I hate certain people who can't do this tastefully

I know a guitarist that can't play a single chord without going all gung-ho with his drumming and it just ruins anything he tries to play

I'm not a big fan of Hendrix at all but if you honestly think he wasn't one of the greatest guitar players in the world you must be, honestly, you MUST be, 100 percent retarded.
The man revolutionized rock music, the hype is justified, who do you think you're fooling?
(Hint: No one but yourself.)

>>54639669
Did he fuck your mom or something? Why do you continue to shitpost about him when it's universally acknowledge that he is a good player?

>>54636531
Van Halen was overrated, Hendrix is great.
I bet you're going to post Petrucci now lmao.
>But shredding conveys so much emotion!

>>54640069
im not op, i like jimi hendrix

but van halen is annoying, he didn't even invent tapping

>>54640124
Being a shredder doesn't mean you're void of emotion. Check out the lines in the sand or hollow years live at bud plan solos.

>>54640133
No one claimed that. He didn't invent it but he certainly popularized, some might say revolutionized it.

>>54637288
>>54637431
>>54640133
>>54636531

Eddie did memorable shit with tapping, but his tone and rhythm playing are really his strength
>dat brown sound

>>54640199
I'm aware of those. I've even covered that version of hollow years lmao.
But I'm talking about the mindset of DT/technical fans more than DT/Petrucciin general.

>>54637965
i mean, he's not the only person to change the course of guitar playing in rock, but he's one of the most important people in its history

>>54640289
I'd say he's known for his technicality and that's what initially drew me in when I was a kid but I appreciate his slower soulful pieces much more than his fastest flashiest playing. People that say he's a robot or Michael Angelo batio copy just haven't heard enough of his catalog.

>>54640366
Yeah I used to really be into them, I've seen them live twice and own all their albums plus a few boxsets blah blah.
I'm not sure about their last album though. I'm feeling like they've been catering more and more lately to the loudest fans.

But you're right because I've heard some of the most emotional solos (shred included to depict angst) from him.

But ofc I'm just here trying to be a snarky bitch to someone ;3

>>54636793
I think he put gasoline on his guitar so he could light it on fire. It's just distorted blues, it was just the first time distorted blues had reached the mainstream.

>>54636531
You're trying too hard.

j mascis
doug martsch
that guy from blue oyster cult

>>54640478
I thought A dramatic turn of events was solid enough, but this last one really went beyond me. It's got it's moments but I just can't get into it. I definitely agree they're catering to the people who want a more classic DT progrock sound. Frankly, I think Petruccis best work was on Liquid Tension Experiment 1.

i don't care if it's not the patrishun choice, Are You Experienced > Electric Ladyland. Mainstrueam blues rock can bore me to death but those choruses get me going like a motherfucker

>>54638629
>tripfag

>>54639142
Say what you will about The Edge, but he's easily one of the most influential guitarists. His chiming, minimal sound has paved the way for basically every indie rock guitarist, and his sense of atmosphere is unparalleled.

No one lists him as one of the fastest shredders or the guy who does SICK SOLOS MAN, but he knows how to get the sound that fits the song better than anybody else.

>>54636531
Yes to both, especially EVH

also Clapton, Richards and Santana

>>54636563
>>54636676
>>54636990
he is great, the fact that hes so often assumed to be the greatest guitarist of all time is what makes him overrated

>>54640764
Congrats on naming 5 of the most influential and prolific electric guitarists in history.

ITT: faggots

Yngwie...

He is very, very good, but he doesn't play nearly as cleanly as he lets on in print, and the model he "pioneered" was being done to less excess beforehand, and has been improved upon ceaselessly since.

Aside from the djent/core guys who can literally only play B,C or F#, E, pretty much every "technical" metal guitarist can at least match him, and a lot of people have put a lot of effort into out Malmsteening Mr. Ynglebert.

If we really want to talk overrated,

>Angus Young
Identical-sounding simple pentatonic licks on every song, alongside down-syndrome tier 3-chord riffs that sound like they came out of a "teach yourself guitar" book.
>Slash
DUDE HE WEARS A HAT WHAT A BADASS LMAO, his solos sound like a dying animal and his leads are nothing special.
>Kirk Hammett
Playing up and down a pentatonic scale quickly, then playing a couple of notes over and over while raping a wah pedal isn't skill, it's just flashy but substanceless. James is a much better guitarist, and the only legitimately talented member of the band.
>Every 80s hard rock guitarist
Hailed as virtuosos because they can do some flashy tapping here and there, but it's the same grating, obnoxious bullshit every time.

Underrated guitarists:
Link Wray
Peter Silberman
The Edge
Pete Townsend
Efrim Menuck/Mike Moya

>>54641017
Literally reddit: the post.

Slash is número uno most overrated

>>54636990

see >>54640764
He was commercially successful, he was pretty revolutionary for the time, he's a god damm hell of a guitarist especially given the period, but people still put him on a pedestal that's a little too high imo.

Oh Slash for me is the most overrated.....I can't stand Guns fans

Slash had great riffs/licks, terrible lead player and solos tho

>>54640828
That's why they're overrated. I'm not going to start naming off guys no one considers all that great.

>>54641201
yes, it's like people have made him out to be this untouchable next-level music god. Same with Coltrane, Marley and Pac. They aren't all that good.

>>54641290
They're overrated cause they're good? Is that what you're saying? Or cause they're popular?

>>54641338
they're overrated because they are considered to be much greater than they actually are.

>>54641381
But you agree that they're at least good? Just not "Clapton is god" good?

>>54639787
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7lKxSQX3Uc

This guy has a pretty fucking damn good grip on the style. Composes a heap of his own stuff in the style and can think up a stylized cover for damn near anything.

>>54641465
Yeah. They're not some immortal, untouchable, fucking devote your life to preaching their fretboard gospel guitarists, but they definitely deserve their praise.

It's like people fetishize these musicians for nostalgia's sake.

>>54641468
Call that song pickled ass instead. It'd be so much better without the percussion bullshit.

>>54641506
Electric guitar was in it's infancy in the 60s and 70s. Perhaps that's why people idolize guitarists from that era much.

>>54641017
I actually completely agree with this post.
I've been saying that Angus Young is a joke for years.
Same with Slash. Slash is all about the image and the hat and the sunglasses. The music itself leaves much to be desired.
Kirk Hammett is also one of those guys that plays the same thing every song and it got old decades ago.

>>54641600
Dave mustaine is a faggot, but definitely a better player than Kirk.

Buckethead.

Jason Becker.

I could shred circles around that faggot

>>54641857
>>54641907
>NOW THATS WHAT I CALL SHITPOSTING

>>54641857
>studio albums: 151
How many have you listened to, anon? If anything he is underrated.

>>54641907
Well, yeah, he's got Lou Gehrig's Disease.

>>54641857
This meta again.
Listen and educate your self:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zne2aFaPEjE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwXlzy9k7jI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPZ_g7tz2OQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=957gqOFbpq0&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tYmZikuPeo

I could go on, to show you just how versatile and creative he is.

>>54642188
And please do yourself a favor and listen to this from beginning to end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj6DBi264DI

>>54642188
Great list anon, but no colma or electric tears? That's buckethead 101

>>54641770
Dave really isn't that great of a lead player. I don't know where this whole idea that Dave is better than Kirk or others, because Kirk actually knows his way around the fretboard, he just can't really do it creatively.
Dave can shred, but it's just shapes, and patterns that he moves up and down with no real idea what he's doing.
Dave's lack of music theory is very apparent in his solos.

>>54642307
Daves solos are great because they sound exactly like the personality and atmosphere he's trying to represent. the climbing staccato patterns sound good in this context

>>54642303
Honestly, there's so much you could put to show his versatility that's it's hard to narrow it down to a few.
Even 20 or 30 isn't really enough for him.

>>54642358
Which is great and I love that about his songs. I'm not saying he's not good, he's a living legend, but the idea that he's a better lead player than Kirk, when Dave isn't even the lead guitarist of his band, is kinda ridiculous.

>>54636531
>Who do you think are the most overrated guitarists?
jimi really good but I hate it when people who talk about him and don't know shit about him
eddie tapping whoopty doo
eric I don't know why he is famous, maybe because of Cocaine but I think that's it, really hasn't done anything note worthy
yngwie that fucking faggot
and finally my least favorite overrated guitarist FUCKING JIMMY PAGE

>>54642423
I wasn't the guy you started the argument with. I replied to your post before reading up.

yea guitarists can tell kirks more trained than mustaine

>tfw golden age megadeth albums won't ever be recorded in great quality. (remasters suck)

honestly one of the biggest dissapointments in my life

>>54641600
>>54641381
the autism of these posts.
Angus is a joke? you have no understanding of rock music, just leave. If you play guitar, you should be ashamed of even saying that. Without many of these so called "overrated" musicians, we wouldn't have the music we have today. Not even your faggy "patrician" things.

You call them overrated because they aren't really as good as people say they are? According to who? You? What makes a good guitarist? Would they not be overrated if they sweep picked arpeggios? or played more jazz chords? You do realize that people don't want to hear bullshit wankery every second that sounds like elevator music? Some want just some simple rock songs. So much ignorance in this thread. All of your favorite guitarists would not be making the music they do if it wasn't for the Hendrix's, the Clapton's, the Young's, etc.

>>54642581
>don't know why Clapton is famous, maybe cocaine
Ever heard of Cream? The Yardbirds ? Derek and the Dominos?

>>54636931
Hendrix started making psychedelic music before he took psychedelic drugs.

alright guys, what guitarist do you think actually deserves all the praise they get?

>>54644211
Guthrie Govan

Let's see if I can trick /mu/ into defending the blandest, safest dadrocker of all time.

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>>54636675
thats jazz you idiot !

>>54644211
Actually I agree with Megadave.
He's never tried to be anything different than an angry metal god.

If you read his autobiography, which is highly recommended by the way, you'll learn how he literally went from living on the streets with nothing but a guitar to being what he is now.

>>54645334
A crazy, hard-to-work-with born-again Christian bouncing from addiction to addiction?

>>54645381
He's been clean for a decade, m8.

>>54641857
how does he release so many albums

>>54640508
>t was just the first time distorted blues had reached the mainstream.

Agreed all these "legends" are just the first ones to do it on a mainstream scale. Its not as mystical as most ppl think

>>54646225
He just improvises and records. I'd say 90% of his Pikes series he could never play live, he simply improvised it on the spot, recorded it and released it.
It's why so many of them are hit or miss.

Most people obsess over everything being perfect and all that cal, but he just makes music he likes, regardless or what someone may think of it and releases it.
I think it's actually really cool.

>>54636931
>And van Halen just taps. Literally the lowest form of guitar soloing. My dog could play a guitar solo with tapping.

Most retarded thing i've ever read

When Frank Zappa was given a huge list of all the top guitars players in an interview, EVH was the only guy he thought was good. He shit on everyone else.

If EVH was good enough for Frank, he's good enough for me.

Clapton. The guy doesn't deserve the attention he gets. The guy has some great work under his belt: Yardbirds, Cream, Derrick and The Dominoes but as a guitarist he hasn't been anywhere near the greatest since the mid 60's.

Pretty much all shredders are overrated. EVH's actually fairly appropriately rated tho.

>>54646620
And what makes everyone think Zappa is even that good anyway? He's on the overrated list too.

>>54641907

you are a bad man

>>54641907
This rustles my jimmies.

Jason Becker, at 19, was technically superior to virtually any guitarist that has come before or since. And not only that, but he was actually able to write beautiful music and be soulful and melodic. He's was simply the perfect guitarist.
And then he got ALS and has been paralyzed ever since.
Then, the fact that he was given just a few years to live, and now, over 20 years later is not only still alive, but improving, and continues to compose music, is simply mindblowing.

Jason is one of the GOAT inspirational stories and will go down in the hall of fame of life.

>>54646620
>When Frank Zappa was given a huge list of all the top guitars players in an interview, EVH was the only guy he thought was good.

I don't know about anyone else, but it was only when I picked up the tab book for VH1 that I realised just how insane EVH's stuff was for 1978.

The left hand stretches are fucking inctedible.......8 to 9 fret strectches for the first lick in the ice cream man solo (it's picked,not tapped). There's also a ton of jazz shit going on in his solos. I only read recently that his dad was a touring jazz musician too.

If one guy deserves his cred, it's Eddie.

>>54646854
I also own a Van Halen classic songs tab book and yes, I can't play a single thing by him.

He's just nuts. You hear a song and think it's pretty simple, but you break it down and realize it's anything but. He's crazy and I gave up. I haven't learned a single song of theirs yet.

>>54636931
Honestly, Van Halen isn't bad, but I've heard people credit him with the invention of tapping when he wasn't even the first guitarist to record with it.

>Hendrix
>overrated

edgy teen detected

no one with any knowledge of guitar would make such an idiotic statement

>>54636531
Lol.

>>54646690
he had soul, and wasnt just a guitarist but an incredible composer

Jimmy Page is objectively the most overrated guitarist of all time

>>54641017
100% agreed.Nice opinions,Winrar etc etc
I'd also add BLS-era Zakk Wylde

>>54640585
>that guy from blue oyster cult
If anything, Buck Dharma is massively UNDERrated. You never hear 13 years kids in Guitar Center screaming about how awesome that solo the live version of Veteran was. But it was awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pFdkkjGiEs

>>54647712
I wholeheartedly concur.

>>54646854
>that I realised just how insane EVH's stuff was for 1978.

I've got a lots of tab books of Vai, Satriani etc but EVH solos are still some of the hardest shit i've ever come across. It's just so unconventional the way he plays scales, bends are crazy wide and the stretching is off the charts.

The tapping is actually the easy bit compared to the other crazy shit he does. Sometimes what sounds like him tapping is actually really wide alternate picked licks though.

>>54640585
>j mascis
ultrageous.why you think so bruh

dimebag was a great guy and all but as a guitarist he's portrayed as some impossibly good, impossible to replicate god by so many just because he was killed

Jeff Beck
Angus Young
Slash
Santana
Derek Trucks
Tony Iommi
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Dimebag Darrell
Kirk Hammett
the list could go on...

>>54640585
this is the worst post i've ever seen

>>54648288
>tony iommi
the rest I can agree with

>>54636531
Misha Mansoor

>that masturbatory soulless monstrosity piece of shit Eruption
>that disgusting retardedly bombastic You Really Got Me cover

>>54648445
>that masturbatory soulless monstrosity piece of shit Eruption

and yet you couldn't play any of it properly if your dick depended on it.......

>>54648582
>implying I want to play that boring shit
Now, Spanish Fly on the other hand...

>>54640585
this gave me cancer

>>54648582
Jesus, who cares?

That's literally the only thing it has going for it, it's complicated. That's it. It's just a bunch of notes played really fast, with no meaning or intent beyond "look how fast I can play in these spandex pants that show off my 2" cock, ladies who wants to fuck first?"

>>54647884
>the stretching is off the charts.

Ever tried to play the Jacko "Beat It" solo? Eddie does an insane fast-picked wide-stretch thing right after the first tapped part. It looks fucking impossible to play on paper but I found an old live vid where def picks it. It sounds tapped but it's not.

>>54648582
>soulless

it's anything but soulless

Lee Ranaldo is my favorite

>>54646767
why don't you call him up and suck his cock already

>>54640585
>hating on based Mascis

>>54648288
>Tony Iommi

>>54636531
Why overrated, some of you may wonder. Jimi was an ideal icon for for the hippie twat movement of the late 60's, that's why. He was exalted to the skies by an "oh-so-counterculture" clique that yearned for their "hippy saviour", regardless of his actual musical ability (damn, "musical" and "hippy" in the same sentence). In fact, they were fascinated by shocking noisy tricks and stage gimmicks that he borrowed from free jazz avant-gardists of the time, not by his compositions or musicmanship. Hendrix the myth filled a niche of an anti-establishment ideal in belief system of your average slimy dope head of the early 70's. Hendrix the man was a decent pop musician at his best, with a natural talent for improvisation and a distinctive flair for showmanship. Don't tell me about Hendrix's " guitar innovations", nobody gives a f*ck about fuzz pedals and feedback in our time, nobody copies his "technique" (or rather his deliberate disregard of any consistent technique). Plus, he didn't even accomplish most of what he said he will because he died.
All the idolatry didn't go unnoticed by wheeler-dealers of the music industry. And voila - they tell us we've got to worship black Apollo with a six-stringed (Strat®) lyre now. These fuckers teamed up with old drugged rock'n'roll farts to make guitar-playing teenagers' lives miserable. The kids are obliged and conditioned to enjoy the "profoundness" of his rusty blues-rock anthems and silly ballads as if they were a religious revelation.

>>54636531
John Petrucci
Fucker got no soul and feelings in his guitar playing, only technical and army of artists to defend him.

>>54638475
this, page is such a fucking sloppy player.

For me it's Eric Clapton. I really don't get why his subpar blues rock playing is so revered.

Kurt Cobain its a legend but a not very skilled guitarist

>>54651807
>>54651626

I hear eric and jimi and I feel bad about not feeling "it".
like maybe i'm not getting something
as guitar players were suppose to look up to these guys but I don't feel inspired when I listen to em. Got me feeling insecure and shit

Alright, I agree with Hendrix being the most influential and etc etc etc guitarist. But for fuck's sake, can we stop putting him on top of every "best guitarists ever" list? Now it's getting fucking autistic, there have been better players. Yeah, he's influenced a whole generation of guitarists and his music was innovative for his time, but we need to stop overrating him.

>ITT: Talented guitarists who I dislike

>>54638875
>Along with Jack White

Look at this pleb :^)

Machine Gun is so fluid and amazing. I've never heard anyone else play like that. Jimi is the best.

>>54640133
Of course you like Jimi Hendrix... Of course... There are others...

Anyone who doesn't think jimi hendrix is the greatest needs to listen to this fucking shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajCrMw9EWCg

>>54652335
This is fucking LIVE btw

>>54652335
>Anyone who doesn't think jimi hendrix is the greatest needs to listen to this fucking shit.
Have you heard every single psychedelic rock guitarist ever? Jazz guitarist? Cmon dude. Jimi was great but he didn't achieve things he could have because he died so young.

>>54652335
its fucking wankery its dated as fuck

>>54652413
Do you even play guitar?

>>54652500
>being a musician
>being a critic

>>54652500
lol getting butt hurt because I think hendrix was overrated and that song sounded like him wanking off. one big blues solo

>>54641008
I assume this is the kind of thing you're talking about
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02RRM-4A1m4

>>54642188
God damn I love Swomee Swan

>>54636931
It honestly sounds like you have not even listened to either of them ever.

>>54636531
Yeah no. Start playing guitar before you shit on him. Once you get good you'll find you can learn almost anything in a few minutes except for any hendrix song, which will take you literally weeks at a time and it still won't sound 100% right until you've been playing it every day for months. He was on a completely different level. And I hate niggers.

>>54652106
wow. you SHOULD feel bad. Clapton really is mediocre, though. Maybe you should check out Junior Kimbrough, though. It might help you get into Jimi.

>>54647826
solo made my dick hard as diamonds

Brian May

>>54644211

>>54644211
Steve Howe

>>54636531
Van Halen is insanely overrated and I wish I could punch him, and his fanbase, right in their fucking wanker faces.

Hendrix is good though.

every guitarist in an indie or 'alt' rock band

Someone please explain to me how Hendrix ISN'T overrated?

>>54654370
He was innovative, unique, and soulful. Top guitarist lists are incredibly stupid, but dont let them affect your opinion of something just because you're a contrarian