Poll: Best Dead guitarist?

[Wag]

You guys do realize that a young Jimmi Hendrix played with Little Richard, and used to go and listen to the current blues players- Most notably Buddy Guy (who's still alive and considered by many to be one of the best living players). Jimmi stole much of his technique and stage antics from Buddy, including the guitar behind the head thing, and his wah-wah pedal thing too.

That said, if you guys are really into hearing the roots of many of these players I highly recommend the Atlantic Blues Guitar Greats CD, which has some amazing players on it. T-Bone Walker deserves much credit as he was responsible for inspiring many of the great blues guitarists, who in-turn are much responsible for American popular music as a whole.

 

[depechemodeone]

What about John Lee Hooker?

 

[LikeLinus]

Originally posted by: Wag
You guys do realize that a young Jimmi Hendrix played with Little Richard, and used to go and listen to the current blues players- Most notably Buddy Guy (who's still alive and considered by many to be one of the best living players). Jimmi stole much of his technique and stage antics from Buddy, including the guitar behind the head thing, and his wah-wah peddle thing too.

That said, if you guys are really into hearing the roots of many of these players I highly recommend the Atlantic Blues Guitar Greats CD, which has some amazing players on it. T-Bone Walker deserves much credit as he was responsible for inspiring many of the great blues guitarists, who in-turn are much responsible for American popular music as a whole.

"His wah-wah peddle thing" Exactly what thing? You mean that he used one? It's not like Buddy created the thing himself, many other players had been using one. Plus you're only stating the obvious that every guitarist has an inspiration. All guitarist have "guitar idols" and grow up playing like them. It's the music he actually wrote and how he played it that makes him great. Buddy didn't sit around writing the music for him. 🙂

 

[Renob]

JH sucked compared to Randy R

 

[Wag]

Ah yes, John-Lee was great- but hard to quantify. ZZ Top owes their careers to him.
We can run down the list of dead blues players- Joe Turner, "Missisippi" John Hurt, Lightnin' Hopkins, Bukka White, Blind Lemon Jefferson, JB Hutto, Muddy, Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, et al.

Yes, everyone is inspired by someone, but the Poll was based on the "Best Dead Guitarist" so we're trying to single out the real innovators. Alot of the great innovators are still alive (barely)- Buddy, Les Paul and Chet Atkins come to mind. Nobody's even mentioned the great Jazz players like Wes Montgomery, Tiny Grimes, Django Reinhardt, etc.

Guys like Charlie Christian and T-Bone were truly the crossovers- both playing Jazz and Blues- T-Bone originating the "squeeze" string technique that BB King picked up on, and every great electric guitar player uses today.

 

[FoolishMcNasty]

hendrix, then grant green.

 

[Siddhartha]

I like and or respect all the guitarists on the list. But Hendrix changed how people thought about the instrument.

 

[NesuD]

no way! Stevie took some of Jimi's tunes and did them better than Jimi did. (Little Wing)

 

[Squisher]

I can't do it.


I can't choose between SRV and Jimi.

My brain would explode.

 

[zCypher]

Originally posted by: NesuD
no way! Stevie took some of Jimi's tunes and did them better than Jimi did. (Little Wing)

took the words right outta my mouth... i love SRVs version of little wing. AWESOME guitar song