The Best Electric Guitar Players Of All Time

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The best electric guitar players of all time.

I ll never forget the day i discovered john mclaughlin s music. Paul mccartney has spent very little of his career playing six string guitar but as a bassist he almost single handedly made guitar players jobs a whole lot easier. But much like our custom amplifiers this list goes to 11. Chris goss producer masters of reality.

His rock solos gives you a feeling usually only legendary blues players can have. By nature of the fact that acoustic guitars predated electrics by a few centuries the list of highly influential guitar wielding instrumentalists and singer songwriters is huge by comparison. In that light trying to whittle this story down to just 50 transcendent acoustic players was a challenge for all of us. Larry carlton alvin lee eddy clearwater lee ritenour john lee hooker peter banks bill nelson.

It was conceived in 1961 and originally released as the new les paul. One thing is for certain. The 10 greatest electric guitar players. He may not be the best shredder or have the best hand techniques but his style is unique.

If the following musicians are not the 12 most influential guitarists of all time they are certainly 12 of the most influential. I was just a 13 year old kid at an outdoor show at syracuse university in 1972. Best rock lead guitar of all time. The 100 greatest guitarists of all time by total guitar editors total guitar 06 july 2020 featuring the trailblazers the early innovators the best jazz rock indie blues metal and acoustic players and the best guitarists around today.

Regardless of their respective styles all are players who have excited the imagination and kindled the flame to pick up the instrument in countless individuals. The 50 best guitarists of all time as voted by you. David fricke s picks from jerry garcia and joan jett to b b. When the beatles first arrived on the scene rarely was the bass even heard on most pop records.

10 best bass guitars 2020. The sg standard is gibson s all time best selling guitar. Time s music critic josh tyrangiel picks a pantheon of six string masters. Players seldom attempted anything more adventurous than a root fifth accompaniment.