that has to be the bast review i have ever read, it was great thanx for posting :D :D :D

I dunno man... it's hard to compare guitarists from different eras.

Hendrix paved the way for all modern guitarists... maybe today he wouldn't stand out as he did at the time... or maybe today he would be 100 times more wicked... who knows?

The background of a modern guitarist is way wider than back in the day.

Come on, he couldn't sing or play guitar!

wait.... you're bashing Cobain?

I have never understood why Hendrix is considered so great. There were jazz guitarists at his time who could school him in shear ability.

i'm guessing it prolly has to do w/ the fact that most discussions of guitarist greatness center on rock music. and jazz, as one may well rationally and logically conclude, is not rock.

Thank you to the person who took the time to type this up :flowers:

Good stuff :smokin:

Hendrix is highly overrated. Yes, he did make his guitar squeal like a pig for his whole career, he wasnt that great of a guitar player tho, he wasnt technical, and didnt have the finess that later guitarists achieved. He wasnt as awesome as everyone thinks he is, i can play most hendrix licks on guitar, but i have a hard time touching on One Day Remains, so im telling you this from my personal opinion.

And...my opinion still stands, Cobain was only considered good because he could roll around on stage whacked out on heroine, and not miss a beat, he wasnt that great for things he wrote, he was considered great for the way he played.

I think you pretty much bastardize an entire generation of blues guitarists. Technically is not everthing, but if you want to say he isn't techincal you try to pull off, all the bends, pull offs hammer ons and all the small things that he did. Jimi Hendrix revolutionized the guitar, most of the techinics were new for his time, in fact none of the guitarists you mentioned would exist if it weren';t for him. He brought the ever ounce of soul out of the guitar. I fail to see how he is over-rateed. Like i said technicality isn't everything, why do you think Santana is considered so good? In one of his songs he plays one note for about a minute, but it is revered by guitarists as baddass, why is that? Because it has so much soul!

If technicality is the only concern then Tremonti would be lagging behind many today although he is a very good soloist. There are dudes like Buckethead who leave him for dead in that respect and have a lot of soul to boot. Mark is so great because he is a such a good songwriter and he is a good soloist. Hendrix set up much of what many guitarists today use and without him the world of rock would be very different. As for Cobain he wasen't a great guitarist but anyone who can write a riff like "smells like teen spirit" knows how to write catchy punk songs.

.... which, today, seems like just about every other goddamn band out there

lol please don't compare awful trash like Good Charlotte and Simple Plan to the stuff written by Cobain.

First off, im not "bastardizing" anything. I'm giving you my honest opinion. Sure, Hendrix invented things, so what, so did a lot of guitarists. Rickenbacker invented the first electric guitar called the Frying Pan, that doesnt mean it was the greatest electric guitar ever invented. Jimi Hendrix had talent for his generation, and should be idolized for that, but he is not the number 1 greatest guitarist of all time, by no means. In my eyes, the number 1 guitar player of all time "status" should be given to Micheal Angelo Batio. I'd like to see Hendrix play a double guitar, one side doing rythm, one side doing lead. Some of you who had the opportunity to see him with alter bridge, in my opinion, had one hell of a life experience, because that is pretty close to impossible to do. Hendrix may have invented a few things, but so have a lot of other people, they just don't get the notoriety that Hendrix did because Hendrix came around at a time when that kind of guitar playing wasnt expected. Cobain on the other hand wasnt an awesome guitarist, but once more, he came out when that sort of thing wasnt expected.

What im wondering is, on Rolling Stone Magazine's 100 greatest guitarists list, where was Jason Becker, Micheal Angelo, Yngwie Malmsteen, and all of the other guitar players of that era that people like santana couldnt hold a spoon to.

The magazine should have been called "The 100 most Influential Guitar Players Of All Time" instead of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists Of All Time" then, at least, it would be believeable to me.

Its all opinion i must admit, but we aren't talking who invented the guitar, we are talking about technics that were made up him, why do you think Eddie Van Halen was revered as such a badass? He basically made finger tapping popular. Micheal Angelo Batio maybe a badass technically but has he wrote songs that would be consider the best of his generation? No he hasn't, while Henrix has. Hendrix was literally one of the most inventive guitarists of all time, nobody had heard anything like what came out of his amp, it was unique. I don't give a crap if Micheal Angelo Batio can play two guitars at once that souldn't matter, if you want to go there then should i mention that hendrix played with his teeth?

You have to understand the reason why those lists are made to say greatest instead of most influential is plan and simple, they are considering everything that a guitarist is, not just if he can shred like a mad man. (and even if you want to go there Malmsteen and Petrucci own Angelo).