Time Magazines Greatest Electric Guitar PLAYERS of All Time

russianracehorse · **Posted:** Thu Aug 27, 2009 8:40 pm

Time making pronouncements about guitarists makes about as much sense as Guitar Player pontificating on politics. I suggest we ignore this as irrelevant.

wilburcook · **Joined:** Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:45 pm **Posts:** 1271

bluesguitar65 wrote:

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.

+1 I totaly agree

Miami Mike · **Posted:** Sat Aug 29, 2009 7:32 am

Ceri wrote:

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...

Cheers - C

+1 Obviously not compiled by a guitarist.

Love,
Jeff Beck

Fenderseeker09 · **Posted:** Sat Aug 29, 2009 7:48 am

russianracehorse wrote:

Time making pronouncements about guitarists makes about as much sense as Guitar Player pontificating on politics. I suggest we ignore this as irrelevant.

Well said.

Also, you can't compare different styles of guitarists across the board to compile such a list. Each musician has their own unique niche. This list is like doing a top 100 list for writers and trying to cover poets, short stories, novels, epics, etc...

straycat113 · **Posted:** Sun Aug 30, 2009 6:19 am

I Would like to see a list compiled by just guitar players then you will get some good feedback. It was never my favorite magazine but it was always a solid one. A bit stuffie but Guitar Players issues when they do there galleries of the greats and best guitarist polls and they do all genres, was always serious players and not popularity contest. If you can ever catch an issue when they do this just check out there gallery of greats all I can say is anyone in it with out a doubt belongs there.

Strat0Blues · **Joined:** Sun Jun 14, 2009 10:04 am **Posts:** 292

Hmmm, let me see:

Tommy Emmanuel
Brian May
Joe Satriani
Angus Young

Do I need to continue???

Employment Postition:

Time Magazine is looking for an editor, this job is full time and pays every fornight.....

nrt4 · **Posted:** Sun Aug 30, 2009 8:16 am

Slash is overrated

Solid Body Love Songs · **Posted:** Mon Aug 31, 2009 12:11 am

Once again, you guys made the subject interesting, read them all (posts) and thanks for the insightful views. my two cents, after checking out the link, Time magazine carefully chose the guitar players based on if they thought their readers could recognize the names on the list. thats why no Abercrombie or Holdsworth or Diddley or Vaughn or Bolin or Vestine or Neilson or whom ever the hundreds of unsung guitar bests might be. Cheers!

waya · **Posted:** Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:26 pm

RisingForce73 wrote:

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1916544_1921910,00.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

I would disagree with this list as well as some that have been suggested for this list so here goes mine:
#1.Jimi Hendrix
#2.BB King
#3.SRV
#4.Les Paul
#5.Rory Gallagher
#6.Roy buchanan
#7.Chet Atkins
#8.Joe Pass
#9.Robert Johnson
#10.Eric Clapton

Slash is good but overrated,EVH is VERY overrated,YM is nothing but a fast but flashy player. I could include Jimmy Page and Chuck Berry on my list as well as James Burton and Albert Collins,Albert and Freddie King,and my others list could go on and on.

Strat0Blues · **Joined:** Sun Jun 14, 2009 10:04 am **Posts:** 292

I can't believe no one is suggesting Tommy Emmanuel, Seriously! If there was a list of the 10 greatest guitars ever and Tommy was not on the list, then I just don't know what the word greatest means anymore.

Here is a little something to refresh your memory :wink:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBEbYXa6Cik

No need to thank me for my highly valuable input :lol:

JSJH · **Posted:** Wed Sep 16, 2009 10:09 am

+1 on

"Time mag is irrelevant on the subject."

stratmansteve · **Posted:** Fri Sep 18, 2009 7:35 am

Different people have different ideas of what constitutes "best". These stupid lists do stir things up though, don't they?

razoon · **Joined:** Sun Sep 27, 2009 1:30 am **Posts:** 1

You guys ever heard of Jan Akkerman? Worlds best guitarist in 1973 By Melody Maker.
Watch him and his band in 1973 in this youtube video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpV5InLw52U&feature=related

Or here much later:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBGxYfQ7Gy0&feature=related

ali murat · **Posted:** Sun Sep 27, 2009 2:09 am

Mr Bill wrote:

Hello Risingforce73,

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

Cheers.

Thank god there is no TIME magazine in Turkey.

What the hell is prince? Where is SRV? Or Robert Johnson?

Beaubs · **Posted:** Mon Sep 28, 2009 3:19 pm

There seems to be quite a few guitarists missing........did somebody already post that opinion?

....and by the way, shouldn't time be reporting events that are shaping the country and world? (not that guitar playing is not important in the world) Must have been a slow week in the newsroom.

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