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Jimi Hendrix single-handedly invented the concept of a guitar god.
Everybody else followed.
So, if it's going to come down to one person, then it's probably going to be him.
Furthermore, Hendrix always served the music with his playing.
In a lot of other instances of guitar 'greats', the music was simply an adornment to what they were doing. Not Hendrix. It was always the music first, and his playing was - as every element of a song should always be - to serve that whole.
Also, his taking of an interesting Dylan song in All Along the Watchtower and completely transforming it into an epic, breathtaking masterpiece remains more than half a century later the enduring example how and why to record someone else's previously-released track.
For sheer presence on stage no question. Hendrix. He wowed the greatest, even the guitar god Clapton at the time. Not sure who said it. It was either Clapton or Pete Townsend upon seeing him. Whatever you think you can do on a guitar, Its been done! Stevie Ray Vaughan and then Clapton. I only have three.
If you stopped listening to any music after 1980 this list makes sense.
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Furthermore, Hendrix always served the music with his playing.
In a lot of other instances of guitar 'greats', the music was simply an adornment to what they were doing. Not Hendrix. It was always the music first, and his playing was - as every element of a song should always be - to serve that whole.
Also, his taking of an interesting Dylan song in All Along the Watchtower and completely transforming it into an epic, breathtaking masterpiece remains more than half a century later the enduring example how and why to record someone else's previously-released track.
And Gary Moore wasn't the same way???? Literally every good guitarist is like this.
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Crosstown Traffic - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
I'm sorry, this just isn't good guitar work. Well it might be, but you can't even really hear what he's doing from the recording. It just sounds like static fuzz, his tone is terrible.
Robin Trower surpassed Jimi in the first couple albums and then released like a dozen after that, most of which are golden material.
1. Tommy Tedesco - when the guitar player in your favorite band couldn't get it right, they called Tommy Tedesco to ace the recording session
2. Hendrix
3. Blackmore
4. Alvin Lee
5. (Tie) The Yardbirds guitarists Clapton/Beck/Page - - when Beck was "on" he could climb to the top of the list, but unfortunately for him, that was not every night.
HM: Tony Iommi, for taking it all in a new direction, improvisational style.
In 1986 Eric Clapton emphatically declared that "Buddy Guy is without a doubt the best guitar player alive."
Over the years, Carlos Santana, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughn and numerous lesser lights have similarly sung Buddy Guy's praises. The Rolling Stones requested Guy and his erstwhile partner, harmonica wizard Junior Wells, to open for them on their 1970 European tour, while everyone from Mark Knopfler to Bonnie Raitt and Johnny Lang has lined up for guest slots on Guy's string of incendiary Silvertone albums from 1991 to the present.
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