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God Tier Guitarists
Govan is superb.
Should have specified he plays bass guitar, but you're right.
You don't even have to look at a different band to find a god tier guitarist
>>697999396
Bassists don't count, faggot. Any dildo can play it.
rock music
>ew
>>698000061
Not any dildo can play it like he can
Robert Fripp
I cum on useless faggot basses
>>698000061
Listen YYZ by Rush, he is fucking amazing, also plays the keyboard
>posts a cum guzzling faggot bass "player" when referring to guitarists
don't give me that "bass guitar is a guitar" bullshit, "guitarist" means electric guitar to anyone with more than two fucking brain cells
get your shitty fucking retarded useless cunt bassists out of here. Every single one of them is a piece of shit
>>698000061
Pretty sure Les Claypool would count
Geddy kills the bass, Lifeson shreds and Peart is literally perfect on the drums
One of the best
>>698000725
keked hard
Keiji Haino
>>698000599
Checked, also dubs confirm
>>697999396
Geddy is a bassist you fucking downy
Another
Tosin Abasi, unbeatable
Randy Rhoads, Chuck Sculdiner and Jeff Hanneman are to be considered
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw25dOC7H9M
only video that needs to be watched in regards to bass playing virgins
>>698001018
And another
>>698000988
But here's who I have as my most God tier guitarist. The one, the only, Dimebag
Rob fucking chapman
No one is gonna mention Jimi?
>>698001505
He does not need mention, it is supposed he is a god tier guitarrist
>>698001420
literally defines the skill ceiling
>>698001505
Niggers don't count.
When have niggers ever counted?
These three
>>698001741
names, please?
Mark Knopfler is pretty good
Brian May
** Geddy is playing BASS - that's a different animal than regular guitar... don't mix the 2. i can play guitar pretty well but don't have the brain for bass
>>697999396
Is this ozzy?
>>698001018
yes. saw him live a couple months ago. guy still got it
>>698001613
Wow anon, from that comment I can tell you're so funny and cool and sociable. I wish I was as funny as you.
>>698002073
If this isn't bait, you are a moderate autist.
>>698001899
Al Di Meola
John McLaughlin
Paco De Lucia
https://youtu.be/k_5YZbmLI4c
Also this
>>698001944
>>698002112
That's awesome man. I've always wanted to see either him or the whole band. Wish they could put aside their beef and do a farewell tour. Not a 3 city only deal but travel a bit. Don't need the whole wall production I just want to hear the guitar riffs live.
>ITT people who think "bass guitars" aren't guitars
>>698002199
Fuckin butthurt
>>698001613
lel niggers pioneered guitar playing
>>698002339
Nobody thinks bass guitars aren't guitars you fucking cum-guzzling dipshit, the term "guitarist" refers to fucking electric guitarists to everyone without sever autism. Literally nobody ever says "oh man he's my favorite guitarist" referring to a fucking bassist.
Kill yourself you obese retard
>>698002199
Go suck BB Kings dead corpse cock you bigger lover and put your Beyoncé album on and leave this thread for the grown ups.
>>698002372
No really what kind of life advice can you offer as someone who is reveling in their youth and using this precious time to the fullest? How do I become as popular as you?
This man is an amazing composer, not just a guitarist
>Omar Rodriguez-López
>>698000102
what m8?
>>698000809
Bullshit.
>>698002543
>the term "guitarist" refers to fucking electric guitarists
>>697999396
Duane Allman
>>698002286
was trying to get on nylon acoustic guitars, fucking saved that, thanks
>>698002499
this tbh
retards like metal and talk shit about nigger players, when metal was/is strongly based on blues, bands like metallica, marty friedman's solos, etc
>>697999396
>>698002668
>grownups on /b/
wew lad you still have that "newfag" smell
>>698002827
Sooty not sorry that your taste in guitar riffs are terrible.
Best of all time
Trey Anastasio
>>697999396
>>698003201
huh?
punk is cool n all but it's the easiest to play
>>698003238
donno exactly who this is but his face disqualifies him
>>698003426
Dunno, looks like that faggot from phish though.
>>698003201
>>698002543
>>698000725
And this, lads, is how being triggered looks like
>>698003506
>>698003201
>>698000793
But yet rush sucks
>>698003813
>>698001018
man... I love Gilmour
>not posting Toni Iommi
>>698001613
be racist when you have to. Respect The Jimi, you faggot piece of shit.
>>698004073
mah nig
>>698004183
beans and cornbread
>>698000599
>>698001944
The Dubs Confirm.
King Crimson is GOAT.
>>698004125
Well I had to be racist. You don't just turn it off, dumbass.
jerry garcia
>>698003671
nigganigganigganigganiggawickawickanigga
Guitarist and bassist here.
>Too mediocre to be generic le ebin metalz shreddzzzz
>Too good to be a bassist for gigs
it fucking sucks. Bass is easy enough when your hands are big and you know some theory, but I'm stuck playing rhythm guitar because the lead doesn't know what a fucking chord is.
>>698000061
Bass might be the easiest instrument to play but it's the hardest to master. (According to old music teacher)
Kirk Hammett, Dave Mustaine, David Gilmore, Randy Rhoads, Eddie Van Halen, Tony Iomi, Jimmy Paige, James Hettfeild, and Jimi Hendrix.
>>698004598
i 2nd this
>>698000061
not quite, the bass has its place since nothing else can hit the low frequencies like it. A true good bassist has a type of fingerpicking only rivaled technically by classical guitarists.
Yes, there is generally less strings but their strings are very fat and spaced out making it hard to be as dextrous as a sissy-string guitarist.
I recognize bass as a true form of guitar.
>>698000061
not your thread faggot
>>698000988
bass >guitar
>>698001420
meh.
could use less distortion and less marketing shtick
>>698004328
listen. https://play.spotify.com/track/0auKlivXpm76wR63mMJ3pR
>>698002336
I know, dude. My dream is to one day wake up and REALLY find out that I'll get to see them play. I Love Pink Floyd.
>>698003201
he could hardly play
>>698002286
not saaying hes not good, theyre great
but they wouldnt be half as good without mics, amps, and eq's doing the tone manipulation for them.
they play guitars like keyboards with buttons instead of strings with dynamic properties.
>>698001613
>Implying YOU aren't a fucking nigger.
go and listen to your shitty soulja boy, while we chill to all along the watchtower.
>the fucking tone
>that bro attitude
fell in love with this faggot's playing.
>>698006426
Me too.
The Bob Dylan one. Ya know, the one that wrote it and sang it first.
Dumbass.
yall are forgetting someone
>>698004344
Into the dead so much recently
>>698004244
chicken and beans?
btw best thread on /b/ in a while, and /mu/ for that matter
>>697999396
kek
>>698007110
ikr? pretty civil and mature for here. It'll go back to shit soon.
>>698001018
fucking guitar nerds never put him on that high up on their lists, but goddamn this man has the smoothest sound out of anybody in my opinion
>>698007420
so smooth, so relaxing
fuck you all
why he is not the first reply?
>>697999396
Ozzy wasn't even the guitarist m8 2/10 bate.
>>698006426
>listen to hendrix's most overplayed cover of a Dylan song
casual nigger detected
>>698008192
because he and Clapton are severely overrated.
Also. No love for Peter Green?
Kys summerfags, respect the real God bassist Merle Allin
>>698007044
Saw him 57 times
>>698003254
Saw him once
>>698003238
Saw him about 15 (?) times
>>698001018
Saw him once, desperately want to see him again.
I like Marrs work when he was in The Smiths. The bassist was also excellent.
>>697999396
Taylor Swift
>>698001597
This.
Lil Wayne, Michael Jackson and DMX somehow didn't make this list.
joe santiago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mvn0U4lS24
>>698001613
Agreed niggers only understand mud huts and bongo drums. They will never have the attention span to become guitarist in a country full of white women, welfare and things to steal, to many distractions
>>698001369
Fuck yes
/thread
When will anyone mention blackmore??
>>698008192
Because every lead guitarist in the past 20 years is better then him, kids in there basements are better then him, go buy a guitar your probably better then him
Triumph sucks assholes, but Rik Emmet is good.
SRV
Tosin Abasi
Jimi
Mick Mars
Alexi Laiho
Jerry Cantrell
Daron Malakian
Mark Knopfler
Fredrik Thordendal
Mårten Hagström
Joe Duplantier
Calle Thomer
Steve Vai
>>698012064
Rik Emmet for president
>>698005058
>A true good bassist has a type of fingerpicking only rivaled technically by classical guitarists.
Agreed. Back when I played, it was with thumb + 3 fingers. On a six string guitar it was thumb + 4 fingers.
SRV, of course
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5sqJNFFwqc
>>698009485
MURDER JUNKIES
>Ctrl + f 'Malmsteen'
>0 results
I am disappoint
>>698012263
No one asked who was the biggest pussy faggot.
Thread over, go home
>>698007044
Days between.
>>698000725
do you count lemmy as a "cum guzzling faggot bass 'player'"? i think anyone who appreciates any genre of rock music would disagree.
>>698012385
Too swedish.
>>698001741
Yeah. The fucking rocked it.
Mediterranean Sundance with Paco and Al was part of the music of my youth.
>>698012403
Nobody asked for your worthless opinion
>>698001613
they count for 3/5's
You can argue all you want, but John Mayer gets more pussy than all of you combined
>>698001613
Jimmy wasn't a nigger.
>>698003489
Seeing him holding such a nice guitar makes me sick
>>698012525
But he's not a Muslim...
>>698003671
i would literally blow seventeen dudes for that guitar and hes holding it like its no big fuckin deal
>>698011207
Also watermelon
J Mascis
>>698012602
Historical reference, nice
Why can't I see this guy here?
Neil Pert
Kek. Keep practicing your scales dudes.
And for bassists...
> The tuning app is free, ya know?
also David FUCKING Mustaine.
>>698012427
no memes, please
>>698012269
Hell yeah
>>698004273
Got to agree with you.
>>698012804
>>698012269
trying to learn this beauty of a song right now.
>>698003882
flawless technique
>>698009809
Better hurry anon, he getting old :(
>>698012589
OP did, you shitfisted cockhound.
>>698013170
/thread
>>697999396
if we're talking in terms of technical superiority, Anton Svendin of Soreption has it in my book.
>>697999396
David Gilmour... quite possibly the greatest guitarist of all time.
>>698013170
>>698003489
This is a shit tier guitarist.
No place in a God tier thread
>>698000061
Quads checked nice get /b/ro
>>697999396
THAT MOTHERFUCKER IS A BASSIST YOU IDIOT
>>697999396
I'm a bassist and I find this post offensive
>>698013677
Him > all
>>698013170
Nick Jonas
>>698003489
THE FUCKING GOAT RIGHT HERE
Cucks 4 BEEBS
WEW lad
>>698006806
filename checks out
>>698009718
Lockn?
That Phil Leah and friends set gonna be fire
>>698012946
megadeth is my favorite band and this guy made me want to pick up a guitar. and he is a really good guitarist just not godtier. Godtier composer though
>>698013897
>thinks of performance with taylor swift
>silent kek for jobro
Greg Ginn of Black Flag had some awesome moments throughout the years...if he had explored guitar more he could have taken it to the next level.
>>698002906
i prefer dickey's solos to duane's, tbh
>>698012064
Triumph: The second best Canadian Power Trio ever.
>>698012142
Where's Chet Atkins?
>>697999396
This guy right here, plays it better than GEEZER himself.
Bass is where it's at.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWsw0ft3xT0
guitarists sound like crying faggots without bass.
Mike McCready
>>698013545
He's in my top ten list, maybe top five.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEs5sKDXZuk
Jaco
Oh shit. Look what the cat dragged in.
>>698003489
you are a fucking idiot
>>698014668
overrated. stu hamm ripoff.
Tracii Guns
The GOAT
your all a bunch of fucking dumbass posers
>>698012169
THANK YOU!
i learned so much from prince, specifically how to let loose with my playing and find ways of being spontaneous with the music. he was a supremely talented guitarist but an incredible band leader and multi-instrumentalist. sorely missed
Tim Henson
>>698012169
Hell yeah, back when one artist could tear down the house for the Super Bowl instead of them have 10 different acts to try to be "bigger"
>>698014866
Jaco had much more of a unique style
Stu is obviously an amazing bassist but he is a machine
>>698014927
The rest of you can go home now!!!!
>>698006426
Don't worry about that guy.
Musically he's not experienced.
>Jimi puns, anyone?
>>698006806
This crazy motherfucker was bound to show up in this thread sooner or later.
Larry Carlton. Great jazz/rock fusion guitarist.
>>698012669
If guitars could talk, that one would be saying, "kill me now"
KG!
>This is far into the thread
>No Clapton
Disrespectful
>>698016343
Wanker.
>>698004073
This
Nigga invented metal
>>698004636
You and me are not so different
You faggots forgot about Satch??
Noodle is supreme guitarist
>>698013024
You just listed a fucking drummer, you god damn autist.
>>698014492
He may be good, but he has no business not wearing a shirt with that dad body
The hell, no Petrucci?
Where the fuck is Marty Friedman in all of this?
>>698003813
its amazing how 3 talented musicians as they are can consistantly make such crappy music
>>698014927
He actually is really good at Spanish and flamenco style playing on nylon guitars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1RTX9O8gek
where my eddie van halen fans at
without that glorious man we wouldnt have half of these other ones
>>698017426
>33
The BEST!
One of my favorites. Damn shame that he passed away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtLwuPCUEdg
>>698018749
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlN5pxC7gjI
He wrote songs with the Beach Boys
>>698018851
Already covered my man >>698015791
>>698001369
He was such a fucking faggot. Thank God he's dead
>>698001369
The great fucking southern trendkill. What we need again
>>697999396
god tier guitarists are everywhere these days. i can play just about anything thats been played before. what really counts are revolutionary guitarists.
no one played like hendrix before hendrix
no one played like bb king before bb king
and no one played like eddie van halen before eddie van halen
>>698015488
>>698014492
My niggas. Just throw Jerry Cantrell in there as well.
>>698002768
Him and Cedric are straight dickheads though. Love ATDi, don't get me wrong. But they are holier-than-thou Scientologist fags.
Les Paul. Not only did everyone learn rock from him but he also invented the guitars all these lesser gods play
>>698018662
Kys
>>698019546
nice b8 br0
>>698020107
It doesn't matter who you are. If you were killed like he was you become instafamous
only a few bass players posed in a guitar thread? As a bass player i have come to know the only other people who appreciate a good bass player are other bass players, or drummers....
Josh Homme from Kyuss
Comes up with some of the sickest riffs
>>698020399
i'm so glad peter steele is there : 3
this fucking hobo
>>698020399
thats because bass players and drummers barely require any skill to play their instruments. How does it feel to know even highschool orchestra and band kids mock you?
>>698020399
>I feel pretty good! This freeballing is amazing!
Goddamn I miss this show
Bass guitars are what parents get there kids before they are skilled enough to play real guitar, some kids never realize that bass guitars are just toys tho and keep playing them any way despite the limitation, buy a seven string or a six, so much better Then playing five year old smoke on the water pretend instruments, besides a computer can play the bass guitar for your band and no one pays atention to the bassist exept people who play bass while every one else drools over the lead guitarist and singer because they actually have skill
>>698001741
Oh yes. How about these three?
>>698021681
I care about bass and i don't play shit
>>698021681
Wow anon, you sure convinced me with those HOT opinions!
>>698021681
Two replies already I think these bassist are pissed
>>698001018
Ok, he has two of the greatest solos in rock history, but on his own without waters, he is sackless and effete. It's sad. He. Has greatness in him, but he needs the tension roger gave him.
>>698022061
Tired of real guitarist sounding better then you
>>698001148
No one cares.
>>698012169
Yup.
>>698021681
Metalfag detected.
When you're a real musician and you grow out of edgy fads and trends, you'll realize how useful and great the bassist and guitar is. if the lows in a mix were done completely by computer, it'd make any band the fucking laughing stock of musician groups.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd30xwa8nPI
if you don't want a bassist, just play power chords with an 8 string and see how far it takes you, metalfag
>>698021681
You probably listen to heavy metal, which is incredibly overrated
>>698003331
Not really. You have to mean it. Sid could it play for shit, but he meant it. You need both.
>>698007044 Nice dubs
>>698012428 There were days..
>>698012604
Dead & Company are blowing it up! Wasn't sure what to think at first but Mayer might have been the only one today who could pick up where Jerry left off. That is saying a lot
>>698022413
Bassist are great when they help the lead sound even better then he already does, and if you listen to guitar outside of metal Or rock, what's the point in listening
>>698021254
i played violin in hs and had a few friends that played trumpet and clarinet in Band class. Can confirm drummers and bassists are laughing stocks
>>698012269
Completely underrated.
>>698022685
Violen would be great if it could replace every bass guitars useless low notes with its gold presence
>>698022413
>implying 8 stringers only play powerchords
>implying all metalfags play 8 strings
>implying he's a metalfag just for posting edgy bait
>>698019637
everyone playing the same tuning and learning from the same people isnt helping
its like were all trying to hit the same target in a different way using the same gun and the same bullets and the same techniques...lol expecting something new?
>>698012269
bless you. I had to double check the list to make sure he was included. I was about to be real disappoint!
Can't be fucked to read the thread.
My contribution. How'd I do?
>>698022664
I can remember when Mayer was about 16 and playing nothing gigs doing nothing but Stevie Ray Vaughan covers and thinking to myself that he was fucking incredible. Then he released room for squares which I'll freely admit got me tons of pussy being able to play and sing, but still was a total disappointment to me. On that album city love and neon are the only songs worth a damn.
>>698000809
sweet looking 6-string bass. I heard those are hard to play.
I think you guys are forgetting someone.
>>697999396
Starts thread about guitarists...posts a bassist. Bass is for people too stupid or lazy to learn guitar.
>>698023149
I just remember him from the Chappelle Show. No question, he's getting more hippie pussy now than you can shake a stick at. Can't deny his talent
>>698023316
duh, as if she even needs to be listed. Its already known
>>698000942
this looks 3d AF
ahh the never-ending stereotyping of bass players continues. I swear this shit is as old as music itself. i feel sorry for these people, they will never truly appreciate music...
Name one flaw of John 5
>>698023367
No fucking joke there dude. He got Jessica Simpson in her dukes of Hazzard years and now gets any trim he wants. I'd give my left nut to have half his talent and a quarter of the pussy he gets
How could you forget Ian Anderson of Jefro Toll.
>>698022880
Is there a point in not being metalfag, altho modern metal talent is a needle in the haystack, it's the genre that produces some guitar skills that once found are only rivaled by guitar hero 3 zeus
Not my favorite, but definitely needs to be in these conversations.
Patrick Rondat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm8c4PAy_9U
>>698023786
Those duke years was prime trim. Yeah, JM ain't using no moisturizer on his dick, that's for sure
>>698001018
Gilmore is easily one of the greatest musicians ever
>>697999396
Billy Sheehan bitches!
>>698023811
The electric flute, a ballsy version of the guitar to learn indeed, I wish my bassist friend could understand how hard the electric flute was to play in comparison
>>698024164
And easily one of the most purely emotive through his music. The solo for Comfortably Numb can bring tears to my eyes in the right mood. Guys like him, Clapton, SRV. Those guys make the guitar sing.
Guthrie Govan and Shawn Lane are the two guitarists to have blown my world completely over their versatility and also masterful, yet tasteful, shredding and improvising.
>>698009485
i got a buncha GG signed stuff, prison letters, most of the original BLOOD records 7s... Merle sent me a nice signed photo, Merle Dino and Billy signed it.
>>698024180
>Yamaha
Synester
Gates
>>698007420
agreed... the man is the god of expressive playing.. I can't believe the power and feeling he can produce with just a couple of notes... his playing on the live album pulse is unbelievable, sorrow and comfortably numb from that live album are mind blowing
>>698024906
>>698025014
>metalcore
>D minor
bruh
>>698000725
Some people trigger so easily
>>698022933
something new will come around eventually. I wish I could be the one but im not. It happened with classical composers for hundreds of years. it'll happen again.
and ill be there to learn and appreciate
>>698015093
Polyphia ayy
>>698015093
mah nigga
>>698025488
that one popular solo song he did was good. everything else meh
>>698014157
megadeth with marty friedman + amzing music. Rust in piece, countdown and youthanasia changed my life
>>698004073
Was wondering when he was going to finally show up.
>>698025473
Ever listened to him play, sounds better then you anon, don't need to hear you play
Underrated as a guitarist
>>698025997
Nate?
>>698001148
Saw this guy live a few months ago.
My verdict: he's a nigger
>>698018645
He's my second favourite guitarist of all time next to Gilmore.... His phrasing like Gilmores is just so musically superior to almost every other guitarist out there
>>698024691
fuck man ur lucky
Would kill for gg memorabilia