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Top 5 guitarist debate chapter #47, what choices would you make?

Asked by Hypocrisy_Central (26879points) August 11th, 2010

Best guitarist debate chapter 47. Everyone has their I deal who or what makes a great guitarist, be it their ability to improvise, finger speed, clean fretting, stage presence, etc. Who is on your list as the top 5 with honorable mention, and why did you place them as you did?

My top 5 have not changed much but the order might have waffled a bit at times. But I believe and I know I have not heard every possible guitarist so I am sure there are some not mentioned that people will wonder why they weren’t mentioned.

#1> Jimmy Hendricks: To me he was a pioneer and what he did with the guitar I believe inspired a whole generation after Him. I mean playing with your teeth?

#2> Angus Young: Don’t have the finger speed of Schenker but beats him big time on stage presentation.

#3> McCauley Schenker: The solos he does and the riffs he put together I could listen to for hours.

#4> Brian May: The way he could get sounds from a guitar that I have never heard before and a lot of it before synthesizers and other enhancements.

#5> Tommy Shaw: Could have gone ahead of May but he has what I always have heard, his fingers are fast but his sounds is nothing really different and his stage presence is lacks that of Young so in spite he is fast like Schenker he gets a 5th rank from me.

Honorable mention> I have to give it to Joe Satriani he can do the Hendicks (play with his teeth), I like his powerful sound and you and he just looks so cool with his clean dome and shades.

I know you have a different Ideal so lay it on us, who do you think is the top 5?

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