Early start this morning. I'm still not exactly happy with this one but it was always going to be difficult.
1. Joey Santiago (Pixies)
2. David Pajo (Slint/Papa M/Pajo)
3. Johnny Ramone (Ramones)
4. Larry Parypa (The Sonics)
5. Kirk Hammett (Metallica)
Read more guff and nonsense about this lot at http://chopstop5.blogspot.com/
Vocalists next week.
*bumb*
Too early in the morning?
I'm off down the pub now ...
Erm...Hendrix?
surely?
.
He goes on a bit at times ...
And Hammett doesn't?
Fair play
:o)
My guitar teacher in Portland
A great acoustic player (wrote a book on Travis Picking) said he jammed with Hammet once and played circles around him- I believe it.
Where's Johnny Marr?
Sacrilige! (sic)
ok
in no particular order
Richard Thompson
Duane Allman
Frank Zappa
Robert Fripp
Johnny Ramone
:o)
Good list
Incidently
Didn't mention it but these are my personal Top 5. I'm not suggesting they're neccessarily the greatest guitarists in the world. Just my favourites.
Think I should have included Link Wray though.
my favourites
1 - John McGeoch (Magazine, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Visage, PIL)
2 - Jimmy Hendrix
3 - Tom Morello
4 - Josh Homme
5 - Thurston Moore
I'm going to have to check out
John McGeoch that is a nice little list of bands he has been in.
Although my fav Visage track is Frequncy 7 (Dance Mix) which doesn't seen to have any guitar but hell its amazing.
Neil Young
Bert Jansch
Nels Cline
Robert Fripp
Andres Segovia
In no real or meaningful order.
Speedo
.
Hendrix, Thurston Moore, Dave Pajo, need to go make tea now...
Er
John Fahey?
Think
You're probably right but I've not heard enough of his stuff.
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1. Doug Martsch
2. J Mascis
3. Robert Smith
4. Britt Daniel
5. Thurston Moore
In no particular order
Victor Villareal
Omar Rodriguez Lopez (when he's not in masturbatory mode at least)
J Mascis
Tom Verlaine
Jonny Greenwood
Um
1. J Mascis
2. Greg Ginn
3. Kerry King
4. Victor Villareal
5. Josh Homme
Hmm- my favourites:
Josh Homme
Joey Santiago
Thurston Moore
Kevin Shields
Seth Jabour
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Ian Williams (Battles, Don Cab)
Chris Daly (Sweep the Leg Johnny)
Stephen Malkmus
Kevin Shields
Stuart Braithwaite (Mogwai)
Nels Cline
Johnny Greenwood
Kevin Shields
Agata from Melt Banana
Thurston M
Predictable- but oh well....
Yay for Nels Cline again
I included him in my list pretty much single-handedly on the strength of the outro on Wilco - Side with the Seeds. Phenomenal.
Banyan
are well worth checking out, Nels in full-on semi-stoner wigout mode.
josh homme
james hetfield
kevin shields
graham coxon
thurston moore
hendrix
kevin shields
george harrison
johnny marr
mick taylor
Tom Verlaine
Tom Verlaine
Tom Verlaine
Tom Verlaine
Tom Verlaine
Richard Lloyd?
1. Stef Ketteringham
2. Robert Quine
3. Tom Morello
4. Victor Villareal
5. Sam Zurich
actually, replace zurich with josh homme
theyre from shield your eyes, richard hell and the voidoids, ratm, owls and qotsa obvz
actually
probably replace him with hendrix
Hmmmm....
Page Hamilton
Caspar Brotzmann
Geordie Walker
Bill Steer
Sod it...Me
This:
Ira Kaplan (Yo La Tengo)
Tim Gane (Stereolab)
Andre Herman Düne (Herman Düne/Stanley Brinks/Kreuzberg Museum Project)
John Cummings (Mogwai/The Reindeer Section)
Julie Doiron (solo/Eric's Trip)
Five-ah
Craig Scanlan
Keith Levene
Angus Young
Wayne Kramer
Sonic Smith
Tom Verlaine
Kaki King
Cedric (ATDI)
cedric
who played guitar very averagely on a few tracks?
Old schoolish
J Mascis
Steve Albini
Neil Young
Josh Pearson (Lift to Experience)
Kevin Shields
My Favourites
Jonny Greenwood
Graham Coxon
Omar Rodriguez Lopez (Ditto above, I hate his wanky solos)
Ben Weinman
Hendrix
Shit
Tom Verlaine is my 6th
Nick McCabe
Graham Coxon
Jonny Greenwood
Kevin Shields
Gypsy from Popular Workshop
I'm presuming you mean they're all playing at the same time? It would be glorious.
Shit
Robert Johnson is my 7th
Hmm
Brent Hinds
Billy Corgan
Steve Durose (Oceansize)
Mike Kinsella
Dave Knudson
Honorary shoutouts and mad propszz to Robert Fripp, John McLaughlin, Tom Verlaine and Josh Homme.
T-BONE WALKER!
Elmore James
Richard Thompson
BB King
and,er, that doncaster lad from Babyshambles.
In no particular order
Jimmy Page
J Mascis
Tom Morello
Adam Jones
Josh Homme
hmm...
1. Bert Jansch
2. Dave Knudson (Botch, MTB)
3. Billy Corgan
4. Thurston Moore
5. Johnny Greenwood
Carrie Brownstein
So inventive.
Some great suggestions
I considered a lot of these especially Verlaine, Thompson, Albini & Thurston Moore. It's really quite hard isn't it?
No one has mentioned Stuart Braithwaite yet.
Yes they have.
Yes
You are correct. Scroll-Eye coordination failure.
Hang on - Andy Gill!
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keiji haino
derek bailey
robbie basho
martin carthy
bill nace (ok, this one more of a stretch but certainly he's pulled out some of the weirdest / most incredible sounds out of a guitar i've ever heard)
KING BUZZO!
and some others.
melvins are playing in a micro brewrey
Yellowstone Valley Brewing, in little old Billings, Montana (my home town) in two weeks. I will be there.
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Kevin Shields
Johnny Marr
Stephen Malkmus
Keith Levene
Paul Maroon (The Walkmen)
Aaaand Andy Gill, Moore unt Ranaldo, Noble from British Sea Power, Isaac Brock, Johnny Greenwood...
Here goes
1. Johnny Marr
2. Johnny Ramone
3. Matt Bellamy
4. Tom Morrello
5. Jonny Greenwood
Without giving it too much thought
Tom Morello
Kurt Ballou
Graham Coxon
Elliott Smith
Jesse Lacey
maybe
J Mascis
Thurston Moore
Jim O'Rourke
Kevin Shields
Victor Villareal
Will Sargeant
Link Wray
Frank
Tom Verlaine
Wata
:(
your the last person I would have thought wouldn't put Hendrix in the top 5.
P.S. I still love you ;)
ha. <3 u 2
Jimi was great too bad he didn't hang around cause he has been surpassed so many times. If he had lived he may have been able to reset the standard a time or two.
do it
in no order (and these are people who are still alive and doing interesting work)
Steve Howe (Yes)
Ian Williams (Don Cab / Battles)
Dave Knudson (Botch / Minus The Bear)
cant think of any more.
Jimi hendrix, Frank zappa, Omar rodriguez lopez, Jonny greenwood, tom verlaine
all for different reasons, obviously. Jonny greenwood is obviously not the most technically skilled but his guitar sound is fantastic and his guitar parts are always well suited and brilliant. Plus he invented the "wobbly solo".
His
guitar sounds particularly fantastic here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsNJU0bfxe4
^why is noone laughing!!!
laugh, damn you
That is funny but
it is what Radiohead sound like ... no?
The funniest bit is Thom's dance at the beginning which was for real.
No order
Kurt Ballou
Johnny Marr
Ben Weinmann
Dave Knudson (more for MTb stuff than Botch)
Thurston Moore
my favourite 5
bernard butler
adam devlin
elliott smith
johnny marr
nick zinner
Christopher Arp
Kurt Ballou (sp?)
Newton Faulkner (controversial choice maybe, he might not write the best music but he's a brilliant guitarist)
Jimi Hendrix (just for Little Wing)
and Francois from Comity.
Here:
1. Jimi Hendrix
2. Robert Fripp
3. Richard Thompson
4. Frank Zappa
5. Syd Barrett
5
1. John Mcgeogh. Johnny Marr admitted to trying to copy his sound on Siouxsie and the Banshees 'Spellbound' and his guitar trickery in Magazine is amazing.
2. Andy Gill (Gang of Four)
3. even Johnny Marr doesn't know how to play like Johnny Marr
4. Ron Asheton (The Stooges)
5. Bernard Sumner
eee someone else said John Mcgeoch
my absolute favourite guitarist ever, one of my friends used to live next door to him and he gave her guitar lessons. :D
here we go
johnny marr (the reason i wanted to play the guitar)
robin guthrie (cocteau twins)
rod jones (idlewild)
ryan adams (for love is hell part 1 & 2)
james del rio (the race - made me really want to be in a band)
As much as I love Santiago
HENDRIX not even in the top five! WTF!!!!!!
he is the best ever by a long way.
i'm seeing a lot of thurston moore
but no lee ranaldo...
explain yourselves.
Hmmm.
Jimi Hendrix
Richard Thompson
Bert Jansch
Martin Barre
Chet Atkins
no to both SY guitarists!
puleeeeze!
Have we seen the last of the great guitarists?
Dominic Chad
John McGeoch
David Gilmour
Robert Fripp
Jimmy Page
Bubbling under: Nick McCabe, Hendrix, Mike Ronson, John Squire
Interesting that there are so few modern guitarists in people's lists. Aren't we due a new guitar hero?
Check out Ben Weinman from DEP
Dave Knudson from Botch/Minus The Bear
Agata from Melt Banana
Spencer Seim from Hella
Thomas Erak from Fall Of Troy
Not my favourite 5 guitarists, but, by my estimation at least, modern guitar heroes. Also, Baroness and Mastodon have wonderful interplay, and Ben Carr from 5ive really suprised me- he can conjure up an entire universe from his guitar- live.
In other words- modern heavy music is where it's at!
The Skunk
Eddie Hazel
some other people
Sub genre - best 80's guitarists
1) Bob Mould (Most underrated guitarist ever)
2) Peter Buck (lost it in the 90's though)
3) The edge (carried a band of mediocre musicians to be the biggest band in the world)
4) Johnny Marr (of course)
5) Bernard Sumner
1 Neil Young
2 J Mascis
3 Jerry Donahue
4 Mark Knopfler (serious)
5 Doug Martsch
Nah
IMO you cant separate the guitarist from the band. If most of the cool guitarists these ppl mentioned went off and did a solo project no-one would listen to it. Also a lot of the best guitar work ive ever heard is so because of the way it interplays with the rest of the band. Rather than just voting for top best guitarists or best bands i'd rather do best guitar sections in which case it would be:
1.Williams/Emm (stormandstress)
2.Reiss/Frohberg (Drive Like Jehu)
3.Picciotto/Mackaye (fugazi)
4.Greenwood/Yorke/O'brien (Radiohead)
5.Moore/Ranaldo (Sonic Youth)
Also honorable mention to steve albini for a guitar tone that can scramble eggs in their shells.
props
For Storm&Stress.... fucking killer band. Their first record is off the charts.
It's the same Bass/Guitar line up on American Don too which is my other favourite Williams record.
^ definitely
it's all about the band integration.
I can't beleive this thread
doesn't contain any of the following;
Peter Green
Bo Diddley
Muddy Waters
Howlin' Wolf
Brian Jones
plus
David Byrne is a totally underrated guitarist
Why has nobody mentioned...
Robin Guthrie?
Pisses all over Sheilds in my book...
i mentioned him all the way up there!
shields and guthrie aren't comparable (guthrie is in another, higher league)
Hendrix, the guitarist from Union Kid,
Josh Homme, Bob Log III & Judah Bauer
shit forgot Steve Albini
scrub Josh Homme from the original list
so my final list
*** 1 *** Jimi Hendrix
*** 2 *** the guitarist from Union Kid (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/johnpeel/artists/u/unionkid/)
*** 3 *** Steve Albini (Rapeman / Big Black / Shellac)
*** 4 *** Bob Log III
*** 5 *** Judah Bauer (Jon Spencer Blues Explosion / Cat Power & The Dirty Delta Blues Band)
Easy, all the best...
..begin with the letter J.
1. Joey Santiago
2. Jimi Hendrix
3. Johnny Marr
4. John Squire
5. J Macsis
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Efrim Menuck (Godspeed You! Black Emperor)
Matthew Bellamy (Muse)
Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth)
Frank Zappa
Eric Mongrain
It is RIDICULOUS
to think tha Buddy Guy has not been mentioned.
Tough
not gonna do it in order
Corgan
John Frusciante
Tom Verlaine
Johnny Marr
Nick Valensi (strokes)