[Music] Worlds top ten guitarists of all time

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Robert Fripp

 

[Kosh]

A proper Friday Afternoon Flounce, predictable but still marvellous...

That's a great track as well, Fireball is one of my favourite DP albums.

Oh boy, does Fireball bring out the funk in the Purps!

As did Burn, which saw Ritchie bare his tortured soul in this his true statement... notice the ‘Blackmore can’t play the blues brigade... looking on, aghast and agog.

https://youtu.be/5GsqL_xlkh0

And then he did this, just to rub it in:

https://youtu.be/5R-voFL4ZL8

Kosh

 

[jakarta]

Robert Fripp

Prog Heavy Metal. And then he went and invented a totally new way of playing the guitar.

Whether or not you like it (and I love it and wish he had done a lot more of it) no-one else had done this, at least with a guitar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5HannQM364

 

[Marxo]

Most of my favourites have already been mentioned but here are a few more who should be:
Roy Buchanan, Mick Ronson, Lonnie Mack and especially the often overlooked Ollie Halsall (for Kevin Ayers, Patto and The Rutles). Here's a bit of Ollie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwcdjbtyWYM

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Prog Heavy Metal. And then he went and invented a totally new way of playing the guitar.

Whether or not you like it (and I love it and wish he had done a lot more of it) no-one else had done this, at least with a guitar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5HannQM364

Frippertronics. Love it!

 

[Triggaaar]

Prince

 

[boik]

Hendrix
Zappa
McLaughlin
Fripp
John McGeogh (Magazine, Banshees, Armoury Show, PiL)


That's on technical skill. But you have to say that others have been as influential, such as Wilko Johnson, Jimmy Page, Dave Gilmour, Phil Manzanera, Mick Ronson.

Great to see John McGeoch get a mention. Understated, underrated and sadly missed.

 

[Frankworthington]

Brian may

Peter Green

Albert Collins

Robbie Robertson

 

[GREASED WEASEL]

Carlos Santana

 

[Glawstergull]

Lots of great players mentioned many in my record collection.
But the winner is Eddie Van Halen