Current Greats and all time greatest Guitar players

I love Kirks guitaring. Love his creativity and he's played some great stuff in his time.
So i'd put him up their with the greats certainly

I woudln't however go to the lengths of saying he's better than any of the others mentioned...

I mean how can we judge this anyway.

Do we go on creativity?
Pure guitar skills?
Complexity?
Speed?
Passion?
Quality of songs?

I've always loved Metallica and a lot of the old guitar stuff that went along with them so it's easy for me to say that judging by any of the above I loved what Kirk did on his axe....
Maybe it could be edited to read,,, greatest guitar players and why they're so great?? That would help with the whole, no WAY is him better then him..!

Hendrix was marverlous also, I Santana was amazing, but yet I don't really like listening to him that much. Which has absolutely NOTHING to do with his guitar skills.... technically he may be 'greater' than others, but yeah... anyway you see what i'm getting at...

That guy that said Kirk was better than everyone hands down probably just f'n loved metallica, and he could probably hear another 100 great guitarists 1000 times over and still like listening to Metallica more,, so hence he would probably still say Kirk is the BEST guitarist ever.. I suppose in his opinion he'd be correct too becuase any day of the week he'd rather listen to him play guitar than anyone else...

okay i'll shut up now

This is from the dvd van halen: live without a net (sammy hagar almost dies during one song)
his brother also does an amazing drum solo thats on the dvd but im not lookking for that now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xifi2rC04g4

and george lynch. Believe it or not most of the guitarists in the 80's were pretty good but overlooked. Here's the best of them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asUQBl1DTDA

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Nice to see some old names on here again.

Rebekah was on here a few weeks back
The_Shadow has come back
Rick_Rack
Snakey

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But yeah! for me it's Santana #1
Born in Jalisco Mexico, raised there and Tijuana, B.C.
VIVA MEXICO CABRONES!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weoGpyvIqP8

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Cheers and C.C. #1,970,986,845,295, Mick. Love Santana and he's way up on my list. One of the musical cats around.

It doesn't get any better than this:

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Just think of what Jimi could have done if he would have taken the opportunity and worked with Miles Davis. This is sheer Genius! ;)

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This is from the dvd van halen: live without a net (sammy hagar almost dies during one song)
his brother also does an amazing drum solo thats on the dvd but im not lookking for that now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xifi2rC04g4

and george lynch. Believe it or not most of the guitarists in the 80's were pretty good but overlooked. Here's the best of them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asUQBl1DTDA

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Yeah, I love them both. Lynch Mob is a great band, and his guitar work with Dokken is incredible.

Here's an eclectic group of ax swingers!

BB King and T-Bone Walker
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Buddy Guy
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Steve Clarke
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Buckethead
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Prince (this isn't the most difficult song but he's good at what he does)
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Duane Allman and Eric Clapton
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Howlin Wolf
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Dickey Betts
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Link Wray
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yeah LYLE! cant believe we forgot PRINCE!

now that guy was one talented mo fo so talented its scarrrrry!

rumor has it Prince like never took any lessons he just started picking up instruments and started playing them?????? like some prodigy kid?

crazy huh?

CC 1058 by the way LYLE!

of no relation but the guy that produced Prince's cd;s. Jellybean Johnson: I saw him play in a shithole club with Ronnie baker Brooks and he blew my socks off. Fucking amazing.

Hendrix, Clapton, SRV, BB King, Albert King (I have a great cd of Albert King and SRV playing together), Howlin Wolf (have a cd where he's telling the Stones the correct way to play a song, hilarious) and many others. I'm partial to the blues and like the older stuff like Robert Johnson, Leadbelly, Sampson Pittman, etc. While were on this subject, I have been trying to find an early Rolling Stones cd which has some of their early blues stuff like Route 66 and Walking the Dog. I've looked at all the music stores in my area and can't find any early stuff, can anyone help?

That vid that Lyle put up reminded me -

Anyone looked really close at Buckethead? Is it just me, or does Paul Gilbert's prodigal student look an awful lot like Paul Gilbert?

Kinda fun, ain't he?

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i once got into this loooooooooong debate with this white dude who said metallicas guitar player is way better than carlos santana and jimi hendrix combined.

this dude was one of them ignorant/racist guys who seriously thought white people are just plain better end of story.

so he seriously thought metallica kicks santana and hendrixs asssssss in guitar or shall we say metal up their asses ::**

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;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D I think IGNORANT is the most appropriate adjective. To play devils advocate, Kirk Hammett is playing in a completely different idiom. This guy was apparently a metal-head, but Darrell Abbott or Alex Skolnik blows Hammett out of the water in the metal-scene.
I love metal, and an abundance of other forms of music, but Hammett, IMHO, can't hold a candle to the creative maverick of James Marshall Hendrix. In terms of the Santana, and the Hendrix for that matter, it's like comparing apples to oranges. They are coming from very different disciplines and styles.
It's like comparing Picasso's cubist period to Jackson Pollak - it just doesn't make any sense.

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i once got into this loooooooooong debate with this white dude who said metallicas guitar player is way better than carlos santana and jimi hendrix combined.

this dude was one of them ignorant/racist guys who seriously thought white people are just plain better end of story.

so he seriously thought metallica kicks santana and hendrixs asssssss in guitar or shall we say metal up their asses ::**

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;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D I think IGNORANT is the most appropriate adjective. To play devils advocate, Kirk Hammett is playing in a completely different idiom. This guy was apparently a metal-head, but Darrell Abbott or Alex Skolnik blows Hammett out of the water in the metal-scene.
I love metal, and an abundance of other forms of music, but Hammett, IMHO, can't hold a candle to the creative maverick of James Marshall Hendrix. In terms of the Santana, and the Hendrix for that matter, it's like comparing apples to oranges. They are coming from very different disciplines and styles.
It's like comparing Picasso's cubist period to Jackson Pollak - it just doesn't make any sense.

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CC bro! that was well said, but yes this doosh bag was clearly a racist thats why im no longer friends with him. his racist mouth almost got his asss kicked so many times. i cant stand to be around someone whos like that u know? its a sad situation cuz hes really a lost cause.

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Originally Posted by TheBESTP4P

i once got into this loooooooooong debate with this white dude who said metallicas guitar player is way better than carlos santana and jimi hendrix combined.

this dude was one of them ignorant/racist guys who seriously thought white people are just plain better end of story.

so he seriously thought metallica kicks santana and hendrixs asssssss in guitar or shall we say metal up their asses ::**

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;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D I think IGNORANT is the most appropriate adjective. To play devils advocate, Kirk Hammett is playing in a completely different idiom. This guy was apparently a metal-head, but Darrell Abbott or Alex Skolnik blows Hammett out of the water in the metal-scene.
I love metal, and an abundance of other forms of music, but Hammett, IMHO, can't hold a candle to the creative maverick of James Marshall Hendrix. In terms of the Santana, and the Hendrix for that matter, it's like comparing apples to oranges. They are coming from very different disciplines and styles.
It's like comparing Picasso's cubist period to Jackson Pollak - it just doesn't make any sense.

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CC bro! that was well said, but yes this doosh bag was clearly a racist thats why im no longer friends with him. his racist mouth almost got his asss kicked so many times. i cant stand to be around someone whos like that u know? its a sad situation cuz hes really a lost cause.

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Well, CC#680, P4P. I know where you are coming from. I played in a blues band briefly that was headed by a former friend named Doug. He was a black harmonica player who could play the shit out of his instrument, but sounded like a dying dog when he tried to sing. Guy remarked to me one time that I was too white and too Irish to play the blues. LOL And this was coming from a guy who's father was the first black physicist to break the color barrier at Brookhaven National Lab. I finished the gig, took my $110, and told him to call Buddy Guy (who I can't hold a candle to). Last time I seen him play, he was playing with this morbidly obese Italian dude...go figure.
Shame is he's a really bright guy with an amazing head. I just think that growing up in a predominately white suburb has made him a bit bitter due to some bad life experience.