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Is Mark Knopfler the best guitar player ever?


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Dime bag Darrel, is one of my all time favorites...shame he had his life cut short.

 

Chet Atkins also was quite skilled, as Les Paul.

 

 

BUDDAH!!

 

Didn't think OLD ONES (smile) like you are allowed to love Pantera?

 

I am shocked....and pleased as heck!

 

May Dime Bag rest in peace!

 

This brings to mind we may be forgetting some great metal guitarist. What about Ingvay Malmsteen. Anybody here know him?

 

:)

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I think Mark is the best guitar player ever!

How about you? :P

Who?

And no.

 

Hendrix is, and forever will be... Enough said.

 

 

This thread should have ended with the above post.

The man speaks the truth.

Now, y'all hush and listen to Purple Haze....

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I asked what guitar player the peapole from the forums liked the best not who one person liked the best!

 

We all have different taste! Some say Hendrix some say Clapton! :thumbsup:

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The best guitar player is.... hmmm let me think........ grumble............Aha! but noo.............. I realy don't Know thers so many good Guitar players that it makes it realy hard to choose!

 

but here is a little list!

 

1. Jimi Hendrix

2. Duane Allman of the Allman Brothers Band

3. B.B. King

4 Eric Clapton

5 Robert Johnson

6 Chuck Berry

7 Stevie Ray Vaughan

8 Ry Cooder

9 Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin

10 Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones

11 Kirk Hammett of Metallica

12 Kurt Cobain of Nirvana

13 Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead

14 Jeff Beck

15 Carlos Santana

16 Johnny Ramone of the Ramones

17 Jack White of the White Stripes

18 John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers

19 Richard Thompson

20 James Burton

21 George Harrison

22 Mike Bloomfield

23 Warren Haynes

24 The Edge of U2

25 Freddy King

26 Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave

27 Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits

28 Stephen Stills

29 Ron Asheton of the Stooges

30 Buddy Guy

31 %&$! Dale

32 John Cipollina of Quicksilver Messenger Service

33 34 Lee Ranaldo, Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth

35 John Fahey

36 Steve Cropper of Booker T. and the MG's

37 Bo Diddley

38 Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac

39 Brian May of Queen

40 John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival

41 Clarence White of the Byrds

42 Robert Fripp of King Crimson

43 Eddie Hazel of Funkadelic

44 Scotty Moore

45 Frank Zappa

46 Les Paul

47 T-Bone Walker

48 Joe Perry of Aerosmith

49 John McLaughlin

50 Pete Townsend

51 Paul Kossoff of Free

52 Lou Reed

53 Mickey Baker

54 Jorma Kaukonen of Jefferson Airplane

55 Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple

56 Tom Verlaine of Television

57 Roy Buchanan

58 %&$!ey Betts

59 & 60 Jonny Greenwood, Ed O'Brien of Radiohead

61 Ike Turner

62 Zoot Horn Rollo of the Magic Band

63 Danny Gatton

64 Mick Ronson

65 Hubert Sumlin

66 Vernon Reid of Living Colour

67 Link Wray

68 Jerry Miller of Moby Grape

69 Steve Howe of Yes

70 Eddie Van Halen

71 Lightnin' Hopkins

72 Joni Mitchell

73 Trey Anastasio of Phish

74 Johnny Winter

75 Adam Jones of Tool

76 Ali Farka Toure

77 Henry Vestine of Canned Heat

78 Robbie Robertson of the Band

79 Cliff Gallup of the Blue Caps (1997)

80 Robert Quine of the Voidoids

81 Derek Trucks

82 David Gilmour of Pink Floyd

83 Neil Young

84 Eddie Cochran

85 Randy Rhoads

86 Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath

87 Joan Jett

88 Dave Davies of the Kinks

89 D. Boon of the Minutemen

90 Glen Buxton of Alice Cooper

91 Robby Krieger of the Doors

92 & 93 Fred "Sonic" Smith, Wayne Kramer of the MC5

94 Bert Jansch

95 Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine

96 Angus Young of AC/DC

97 Robert Randolph

98 Leigh Stephens of Blue Cheer

99 Greg Ginn of Black Flag

100 Kim Thayil of Soundgarden

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hmm.... Malmsteen comes to my mind, also Jason Becker, Marty Friedman, Al Pitrelli, Chriss Oliva (R.I.P.), Dave Murrey, Adrian Smith, Ross the Boss, Timmo Tolkki, Dimebag (R.I.P.)...

 

But IMO the best guitar player is Dave Mustaine... He is talented, he is a great guitar player, great composer (Look at Ride the Lightning hahahahahahahah) and his spider technique is amazing and really hard to practice :D also he has a great voice...

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Honorable mention to the late great Stevie Ray Vahn

Honorable mention to the late great Steve Vai

 

@macmert - Dave Mustaine wasn't with Metallica when they did Ride The Lightning, that was Kirk Hammet, a student of Joe Satriani.

 

I'm not believing that the greatest and most talented guitarist of all time isn't even mentioned in this thread. And you people call yourselves guitar lovers...meh... behold the awesome power and technical grace of the one and only Joe Satriani

 

 

 

 

 

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@worm82075 : I know Dave was not with Metallica back in the day, but if you look at the composers of ride the lightning and call of chutulu, one of the composers is Dave Mustaine... He also wrote Four Horsemen aka Mechanix... Hammet was playing most of Dave's solos back in the early albums...
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Don't get me wrong I love Dave and Megadeth and quite frankly I would have much rather seen him stay with Metallica but you made a blanket statement referring to the entire Ride The Lightning album. The fact is RTL was largely Cliff Burton's composition along with MOP and although they don't give him credit for it, Justice was his too. They should have never gotten rid of Dave Mustaine and they sure as hell shouldn't have replaced Cliff, a four string plucking virtuoso with Jason Newstead, a five string picker. Jason didn't even appreciate Cliff for the genius that he was and at least now they have Robert Trujillo, a man with a similar style and deep appreciation of who Cliff was. IMHO Kirk Hammet isn't that great a guitarist and Dave Mustaine is much better. Studio recordings are not the way to judge a musician because endless takes and editing can allow anyone to sound good. I've seen Metallica perform live six times and watched and listened to countless live recordings, I've also seen Megadeth perform live five times and have listened to many live recordings and Dave Vs Kirk is no contest. Dave wins hands down.
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