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Post subject: Time Magazines Greatest Electric Guitar PLAYERS of All Time
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:48 pm
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http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0 ... 10,00.html

Time magazine has compiled a list of the "10 greatest electric guitar players." They are as follows:

01. Jimi Hendrix
02. Slash
03. B.B. King
04. Keith Richards
05. Eric Clapton
06. Jimmy Page
07. Chuck Berry
08. Les Paul
09. Yngwie Malmsteen
10. Prince


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Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 11:03 pm
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Please, we all know the correct answer is as follows.

1. SRV
2. SRV
3. SRV
4. SRV
5. SRV
6. SRV
7.SRV
8. SRV
9. SRV
10. SRV

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Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 11:32 pm
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Prince????? What criteria did Time Magazine based this on?

To me guitar players that changed the way the guitar was played during their time/era and were emulated and have influence other guitar players would be considered pioneers and best guitar players of all time.

These would be the ones that would fit that criteria:

Not necessarily in this order:
1. Les Paul (pioneer in the design of the solid body guitar and recording techniques)
2. Jimi Hendrix (pioneer in new way of playing the electric guitar with the use of fuzz, feedback, and sound effects that identified the 60s psychedelic sound. You hear Hendrix in everyone's playing.) No one played guitar like Hendrix back in the 60s.
3. Edward Van Halen( pioneer in also a different approach to guitar playing in the late 70s, and 80s. Not since Hendrix that one guitar player single handedly influence so many people to take up guitar due to his finger tapping. when the first VH album came out in 78, no one played like Eddie, no guitar solo was like eruption during that time. He also pioneered in modifying guitars and amps, made it popular.
4. Yngwie Malmsteen. (pioneered in influencing players in classical approach to guitar playing with sweeps and arpeggios) Sure, Blackmore and Rand Rhoads had strong classial influence in their playing, but Malmsteen has taken it much further. Young players that play fast, sound like Blackmore, Rhoads or Malmsteen? I would say most sound like Yngview.
Malmsteen came out in the early 80s, first USA band was Steeler. When Mike Varney introduced him to the world, and now every guitar player that play fast sounds like Malmsteen.

This is my opinion and gave the criteria I based it on.

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Hello Risingforce73,

Now I know why I don't Read TIME magazine.
Thanks for the link.

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Time magazine surely didn't do thier research or didn't have a clue on most of it's list. What were they thinking? Prince couldn't play as good as Dicky Betts on his worst day and certainly couldn't play with Joe Satriani or Stevie Vai. Looks like the writers just pooled thier vavorites and made this list. I will agree with most of it but not in the order it's in.


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Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 5:18 am
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RisingForce73 wrote:
Time magazine has compiled a list of the "10 greatest electric guitar players." They are as follows:

01. Jimi Hendrix
02. Slash
03. B.B. King
04. Keith Richards
05. Eric Clapton
06. Jimmy Page
07. Chuck Berry
08. Les Paul
09. Yngwie Malmsteen
10. Prince


What a bizarre list...

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Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 5:30 am
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Slash has a nice hat, but his tone is the puke. :twisted:

jmo :wink:

List like that are useless except for a laugh.


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Actually, Prince is a much, much better player then many of you might think.

But I find it shocking that a non-music magazine that has been in publication since 1923 would come up with the same hoary list of blooze-rock heros that you would expect from any guitar magazine with an editorial board that thinks EVH is "old school."

Best electric guitar players of all time? These pentatonic wankers don't even come close.

Charlie Christian. Chet Atkins. Joe Pass. Danny Gatton. Tal Farlow. Larry Carlton. Alvino Rey. Jim Hall. Tuck Andress. Wes Montgomery. Roy Buchanan. John McLaughlin. George Van Eps. Allan Holdsworth. Pat Metheny. Howard Roberts. Robben Ford.....

You know, it occurs me me that I could make a list of the 100 greatest guitarists, and SRV and Jimi wouldn't even be on it. There are many, many ways to make music with a guitar that have nothing to do with in-your-face overdriven blooze.


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SlapChop wrote:
You know, it occurs me me that I could make a list of the 100 greatest guitarists, and SRV and Jimi wouldn't even be on it. There are many, many ways to make music with a guitar that have nothing to do with in-your-face overdriven blooze.


Well, fear not. Neither SRV nor EVH are on that Time list.

From its omissions it is clearly neither a list of most musical players, nor most technically adept, nor most influential. Or even simply most famous.

It's just a list of guitarists a non-musical journalist happens to have heard of.

So equally worthwhile, here's my top ten list of magazine journalists:







Cheers - C


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Ceri wrote:
SlapChop wrote:
You know, it occurs me me that I could make a list of the 100 greatest guitarists, and SRV and Jimi wouldn't even be on it. There are many, many ways to make music with a guitar that have nothing to do with in-your-face overdriven blooze.


Well, fear not. Neither SRV nor EVH are on that Time list.

From its omissions it is clearly neither a list of most musical players, nor most technically adept, nor most influential. Or even simply most famous.

It's just a list of guitarists a non-musical journalist happens to have heard of.

So equally worthwhile, here's my top ten list of magazine journalists:







Cheers - C







Heres my top 10 Magazine Journalists too:











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SlapChop wrote:
Actually, Prince is a much, much better player then many of you might think.

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You are correct Prince can play serious guitar!!!! Anyone who says he can't just has not seen or watched him.

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Celtic Cyclonus wrote:
Ceri wrote:
So equally worthwhile, here's my top ten list of magazine journalists:

Heres my top 10 Magazine Journalists too:

Hey Celtic Cyclonus: your list is longer than mine. It seems you have not heard of more magazine journalists than I have not heard of...

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having seen Prince play i will say he knocked my socks off. But he doesn't play enough to make any kind of serious list.

That list looks to be more of a way for the 'journalist' to show that he is a cool hipster than any kind of serious analysis.

My list of best magazine journalists:



And my list of best magazines:





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