ITTGod Tier Guitarists
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God Tier Guitarists
>>710465690
>god tier guitarists
>mediocre bass player
What?
I love Rush as much as anyone but Geddy was never very good live.
eric johnson
>>710466566
dubbs have spoken
John Mayer got me into the guitar
>>710466666
>>710465690
Evidently it is impossible to start a god tier guitarist thread without using a Geddy Lee pic?
Inb4 "fuck country"
He's underrated because he's in that genre but this dude can fucking shred
>>710465690
>>710465871
I'm with this guy
You're just trying to get a troll thread going so eh.
>>710465690
>mfw he's a bassist
my man
far from the "greatest" guitarist, but if there was one man i would ever want to magically be able to play like, it would be David Gilmour of Pink Floyd. he can really make that axe cry.
>>710468722
>RSH on /b/
Ha. Never thought I'd even see him mentioned on /mu/.
GOAT taste, anon.
>>710466777
post an example
>>710465690
First band I ever saw live
>>710468824
I just like challenging the status quo :)
>>710469233
not op but his early 90s stuff, even wrapped around is quality stuff. good chicken picking if ur into that
make way for someone really worth calling a god
Just cause I haven't seen him posted yet.
Also:
>Steve Vai
>Yngwie Malmsteen
>Jimmy page
>Paul Gilbert
Moa "The Ripper" Kikuchi
>>710469395
There he is.
>>710466777
Trips of truth
>>710469594
I just posted Steve Vai right before this post
Trey Anastasio
>>710469714
I know. I saw it right after I posted Satch.
I replied with
>>710469651
Tony
Learn some history, faggots.
Randy Rhodes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw74sDWPH7U
>>710469323
I love her. But she's not god-tier
>>710470065
Miss me with that gay shit
>>710465871
What the fuck. You love rush but don't consider Geddy Lee to be at LEAST top 5 rock Bassists of all time? You're a retard.
Geddy has been great live, barring recently (his voice is shot, but he's very old), the dude plays Bass, sings and plays keyboard/electronics with his feet at the same time. He's a god.
>>710467462
this guy is literally the most overrated guitarist of all time.
>>710470420
This
>>710469594
Also wanted to mention Jason Becker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7MEDrzcPbM <-- As I understand it, Becker composed this song while he was suffering from ALS and working on his record, Perspective. He eventually had to use a computer program that read the movements of his head and eyes so he could continue to compose.
>underrated as fuck
>amazing tone
>can shred like a mother fucker
>incredibly clean playing despite playing at ridiculous speeds
>can play slow and emotional as well as fast and energetic
>incredibly creative
He's probably the least known/most skilled guitarist in the thread.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDOIL5OqvYs
>>710466777
wasted trips. get the fuck out of here.
>>710466777
The holy trips
this guy is pretty much one of if not the greatest technical guitarists of all time. Didn't make revolutionary music to me, but his technique and precision is pretty much unmatched.
>>710466566
Lacks Soul
frank zappa is my favorite guitarist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FCSXVjmZEA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4TIkfII3RE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiMgH2vZSds
>>710470971
here's your (you)
Bert Jansch
No Pic.
Look him up yourself
>>710470971
>>710470912
Oh man, his playing on Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar is just out of this world.
(The rest of the musicians on that album are awesome as well!)
Daron Malakian
>>710471232
nailed it
>>710470420
Im a bass player of 15years and a guitarist for about the same and whilst i dont consider geddy in my top 10 bassplayers and im not really a rush fan outside of moving pictures and overture i have to concede that he is fucking good.
Anybody who doubts needs listen to how good his tracking is on the isolated bass track of a song like yyz and then compare it to the isolated track on say a beatles song like helter skelter
Both amazing influential bands and tracks but you can tell straight away geddys musical technical ability was far beyond lennon/mccartney, believe lenon played bass on HS.
That being said my favourite players are the ones i find influential rather than the technically best.
>>710471597
Geddy playing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPAqEQ1_ctQ
Beatles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PxVrOuMxy0
wahwahwah
>>710465690
These two ugly fucks.
Saw them in vegas last year and in sf this year. They surprisingly can still put on a damn good show.
>>710471794
and, of course, his MASTER: Satriani
>>710471869
What happened to his skullet?
>>710467142
This
I hate those thousand-picks-a-minute guys.
Also pic related, says more with one note than others in a whole career
>>710472107
>I hate those thousand-picks-a-minute guys.
Yep.
I've always said, "Music is not a race".
>>710470510
but also one of the most unique. he also gets extra points for just being a really good fucking guy, check out the old Pantera DVD's.
These guys
>>710472129
kys
>>710472580
ANGUS! Hell yeah. love ac/dc. Prefer the bonn scott era though
Jimmy fucking page
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlRjjGc6pJA
>>710466777
Got to agree. Listen to Time Warp if you need an example of how good this dude is.
Eric Clapton and BB King are my favs
John Mayer is underrated imo because he's a love song fag but he knows how to fucking play
>>710472844
WICKED song! I remember when it first came out, I was blown away.
In addition to Mr. Page, Mr. Bonham is killing it as well.
>>710472707
Haha, I know
But both Bonn and Brian have their charm I guess.
Love 'em both, got all the albums they ever put out. Except for their Australian releases, because they're either fucking expensive or you just can't find them anywhere.
>>710473029
I just torrent it bro. I buy what I can but I've got pretty much everything. Whats your fav albums?
>>710473029
I think Brian was best the first 5-10 years or so. Went down hill pretty fast after 1990. Bonn always been amazing live too, just love is energy and voice
Rod and Gab
>>710472999
>I remember when it first came out
Go away old man
Hendrix, Paige, Iommi, Young, Dimebag, Slash & Hammett all credit The Spears as their main influence and inspiration in picking up guitar.
>>710472999
Checkeddd. Nice I love zeppelin my parents got me into them at a young age.
Rip John Bonham another god
>>710473151
I think Let There Be Rock, Powerage, Highway To Hell, Back in Black and maybe Rock or Bust?
But I'll listen to anything really.
>>710473261
True, but I do think Brian got better again with Black Ice and Rock or Bust.
Maybe his surgery thing helped with that? Idk.
I see a lot of posts with guitarists that are technically good and play hard to play things that only people who play guitar can appreciate, but who gives a flying fuck if you choose to play hard to play things while nobody knows who the fuck you are because the noise you are making does nothing to a room full of people? Post guitarists that get people off their asses and onto their feet. It's the sounds you make that count. And stop posting dead guys. Seriously.
>>710473656
Jimmy page was posted
>>710473631
I am after my own heart. Ya heard Backtracks and the Odds and Sods? Carry me Home and Whiskey & Milk are solid songs
>>710470510
Bait
Was and still is a god
>>710473289
What's your problem? Dick, go wash the shitskids out of your drawers when you finish jerking off and playing xbox without washing your hands first.
>>710473839
I have of Backtracks and Cary Me Home, but not of the second one
>>710473029
aussie release of let there be rock is only version of let there be rock worth listening to. It's full on awesome album, whoever decided to alter it for america was a retard.
>>710474166
I know...
They replaced Crabsody in Blue (great song), with Problem Child, wich is fine... But not on that album because it sounds very different from the others.
>>710465690
All you fags BTFO
Skip to about halfway through for pure sex
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_CI1pHohWQ
>>710465690
Being this fucking autistic.
>Sage goes in all fields
>>710474329
exactly
>>710472391
man what the fuck
>>710474385
Fuck yeah
Tracii Guns is a great player, too bad L.A. Guns went on without him, it's like watching GnR without Slash
Everyone here is a retard. Tosin abasi is top 3 if not best.
https://youtu.be/O46v33hpx4Q
Marc Moreland was a lot of fun to watch and listen to, playing western-esque type stuff almost exclusively on his Flying-V's. Somehow integrating this with loud, unruly punk-rock numbers and making them sound good. I doubt anyone here has heard of Wall of Voodoo, but definitely check them out
>>710473913
really fucking old for 4chan man.
i'm 22.
Why is someone my Dad's age on /b/. You're old so you should be wiser than that.
>>710473656
just come out and say it, fag. you just want to post john mayer.
>>710474806
>You're old so you should be wiser than that.
Autism knows no age
>>710473656
Roy Buchanan is the man who can play technically dazzling solos and tremendous speeds but still retain emotion with an audience.
He's dead tho. so I guess I can't post.
Yall post stupid metal fucks that play 20 notes a second and use so many awful pedals, it doesnt even resemble guitar play anymore. Fuck you. Being a good guitarist is about creating a beautiful tune on the fly, not shredding a thousand notes.
Link and pic very much related
https://youtu.be/N1KRyBhf6sk#t=3m20s
>>710475939
Fuck me. Solo at 3:25.
I'm disappointed in the direction he took his solo work. He's pretentious as fuck, but his music is best when it's barebones. His white stripes era live shows were pure genius.
>>710470834
He bummed a smoke from me.
True he can play fucking anything - great guitarist, so so musician.
>>710465690
How about a guitarist who can write a song.
>>710466777
Love me some chinkn' pickin'. Check out Johnny Hiland.
Of course Paco was best guitarist.
>>710476604
Get some Schenker up in this sit.
>>710475939
you can do both you know.>>710470616
>>710465690
OC Frank Marino, Day on the Green (Oakland) 1979.
Nino Bettencourt
>>710470100
Legend
>>710467462
Thats what I'm talking about.
Vanilla, but a good classic
>ctrl-f
>no prince
You guys are faggots.
https://youtu.be/6SFNW5F8K9Y
>>710475939
Yeah, neither Slovak or Fruitcup were all that good but at least they had a sense of song.
Here's someone much better at everything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQmvW9bR_ek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn2p_E0eDs0
It felt like he left Genesis when he really started to play his best stuff live.
>>710477559
>dat sexy Jeff Lynne voice
ITT 99% shitty generic guitarists picked. Gongrats
>itt
>no slash
>no dragonforce
>no avenge sevenfold
>No kills witch engage
Everyone that posted before me should be fucking ashamed.
This douche right here.
>>710478249
You sound like you were born yesterday.
>>710478306
You too - fucking John Mayer, amateur bluesman.
Have a gander at real talent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFlDf7Ck-N4
>>710478594
Literally who? And when does the good part start.
>>710478808
Al Di Meola, Paco DeLucia and John McLaughlin. Friday Night in San Francisco.
If you like guitar and don't know this shit you were born yesterday.
>>710478984
Go back to bed grandpa your old timey guitarist are outdated and outclassed by today's artist.
>>710479112
Don't know much about guitar, eh?
Please go on thinking Herman Li is world class fool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADwfyxpriAM
So much poor taste in this thread. /b/, tonight you disappoint.
>>710465690
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1L1gNUPbTw black people sure are stupid right goys.
The Iron Maiden Guitar lineup.
Pure gold
Adrian Smith Dave Murray Janick Gers
>>710466620
I am so sorry. The world does not need you any longer.
https://youtu.be/InHjlzWA-Ec
Fuck yall queers stevie ray vaughan is god
Matthew Bellamy
>>710469715
Second
>>710480079
Adrian is far and away the best of them, though I love Murray's rawness.
They must like Janick a lot to keep him - he adds nothing to the band at this point except his stage antics.
>>710472129
Yes-- praise god. Seen him live so many times. GOAT.
>>71046677
... Underrated guitarist and automatically dismissed because country meme genre yes. Anything close to one of the best guitarists no.
Dude is technically sound but even that song time warp he doesn't do anything astoundingly difficult and the song is 100% masturbatory... simultaneously it sounds like shit.
Dudes legit but idfk how you can claim he's one of the best
>>710473656
Yeah, and I'll piss in your cheerios you Mayer loving fag kisser.
>>710471869
Devin twothousand
>>710480763
I concur.
>>710478249
That's just disgusting, KYS, you lip ring having fedora support.
For all the OzFags who are on at this hour.
kiko loureniro
Still no Al Di Meola? fucking plebs
Bulb, Holcomb...
>>710481009
Cantrell
https://speakewithpeacemthr1.bandcamp.com/track/t-d
>>710478249
>>710477001
>>710476856
Blind or retarded?
no one posted the undisputed best guitarist of all time... this guy's style cannot be copied
>>710480420
Apart from all the shit he writes
Popa chubby
Eddie Hazel.
video is for his ten minute solo from when he played with the band Funkadelic.
song is "Maggot Brain".
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JOKn33-q4Ao
>>710471597
good post brother. Glad to hear you can appreciate how great Geddy is.
>>710481387
Like what? Last great Maiden album was what, Somewhere in Time maybe?
>>710465690
If this is a "god tier guitarists" thread... then why in the world did you post a picture of a well known BASSIST?!?!
>>710478594
C'mon man, Paco De Lucia, Al Di Meola and John McLaughlin are playing a completely different game to John Mayer. Apples and Oranges. And Mayer is a kick ass guitarist in his style(s).
>>710470912
Zappa could certainly play, and knew how to spot talent, but he could not write a good tight song to save his life.
And Steve Vai is even worse in this sense.
Glad you like him - not for me.
How about some Montrose.
>>710481473
Mah nigga
>>710481581
'cause it's a bass guitar?
>>710481581
silly newfag
>>710479112
Shit man, you're not doing yourself any favours by denying yourself what John McLaughlin contributed to guitar music. He's one of the pioneers of jazz rock fusion, and I bet John Mayer's stolen a few tricks from him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcQKjffxIOY
Yngwie Malmsteen
>>710481855
Alright, Mayer is a player and I can't deny. I'd much rather listen to Stevie Ray though, and if I'm picking god-tier git players Mayer ain't making it.
>>710481561
Still great maiden songs like fear of the dark, the clansman, sign of the cross that Adrian had nothing to do since he wasn't in the band and was written with Janick and Dave
>>710472065
he turned 30 and decided it was time.
>>710482295
Yeah I'd rather listen to Derek Trucks over Mayer personally, but that John Mayer Trio shit is dope, and you've gotta respect the sounds he pulls in his pop stuff. (Guess having a Bradshaw rig and money to fill it helps with that)
Derek Trucks tho... he has such a uniquely sick blend of groove and tasteful melodies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clkrASgM8Rc
>>710476049
You mean brenden small?
>>710482086
You seem like you might be a Beck man.
I remember hearing some twat called Beck on the radio and thinking what the fuck is this shit.
Jeff should have sued his talentless ass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW73VIz7ctU
John Mayer has the perfect balance between the technique and the feel, he did a lot of awesome classic covers, too bad he's wasting his gift on making music for teenage girls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VheZyAgx_jM
>>710482654
haha yeah I was almost going to say Derek Trucks is like a more bluesy Jeff Beck. He's the whole reason I play a strat.
I'm a pretty big fan of what Mark Lettieri does with Snarky Puppy too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KLW_O2fLnI
Lemmy* video killed the radio star
>>710482850
I gotta have it tight. The fall away dive on Led Boots at 1:30 is one of my all time favorite licks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4HTHRUyaKU
>>710483628
That dive was with a standard Fender trem system too! It's pretty amazing what Fender's 1954 design was capable of in the hands of someone like Jeff Beck
Definitely my favorite guitarist!
>>710465690
Dave mustaine, I love the shit he comes up with
Rory Gallagher
fred penner bitches
![Reading+Festival+2012+Day+2+ii5Plr6N2Gbx[1].jpg](https://cdn.randomarchive.com/b/image/1478/258/1478258782391.jpg "Reading+Festival+2012+Day+2+ii5Plr6N2Gbx[1]")
She and her band are criminally underrated.
>Bill S. Preston, Esquire!
>Ted Theodore Logan!!
>God Tier!!
Eric Clapton
>>710482004
thanks man, that solo just always speaks to my soul
>no Robbie Basho
>no John Fahey
>no Leo Kottke
>no Will Ackerman
Learn to guitar fags
his music is literally sex
Pepeu Gomes
Oh c'mon guys, where the fuck is Slash
>>710487209
He's busy getting Asian whores to shit in each others mouths, duh.
skydog
>>710465690
Being this fucking autistic. KYS faggot.
>>710465690
>>710470971
John Butler. No other words needed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdYJf_ybyVo
>>710475924
Bassist
John 5
.....all your arguments are now invalid
>>710487209
Slash is not real, faggot
>>710475924
Adam Jones is the shit
>>710484911
I know the guy who plugged in their guitars at the end of the second movie. He's actually a really high profile guitar tech who's worked with everybody (John Mayer, Joe Walsh, Paul Simon, Korn etc.) so he doesn't really think much of his brief appearance in Bill & Ted, but I lost my shit when he told me he was the original Wyld Stallyns guitar tech...
It's funny how big these threads get with opinions and appreciation that's namely focused on guitar aesthetic rather than music. How many of us have done our metronome practice today?
slipknot both guitarists
Roy Clark, /b/itchez
>>710470215
Murray you cheeky cunt.
