What?! Hell no!

ranking guitarists is kinda dumb, especially when it spawns arguments.
life is too short for that kind of shit.

fact of the matter is:
is jimi hendrix the best guitarist ever?
i don't know, but i do know he is amongst the best.
as simple as that.

Yes.

from the net


Anastasio has employed the services of his friend and audio technician Paul Languedoc (Phish's soundman from 1986 - 2004) throughout his career. The highly resonant hollowbody electric guitars built by Languedoc for Anastasio, his Ibanez Tube Screamers, and Ross Compressors are key to his signature tone. Trey has three custom Languedoc hollowbody electric guitars:

1. "Old Reliable" is a white/light blonde colored hollowbody that debuted in 1987. The body was made from a combination of spruce and walnut. It was Trey's main guitar until 1990, and backup until 1996.
2. The second Languedoc hollowbody is a blonde padauk. The headstock inlay featuring Trey's dog Marley was slightly larger than on old reliable. This guitar was Trey's main guitar from 1990-1996, and became the backup in 1997 and remains so.
3. The third Languedoc guitar has a flame koa body and features a bronze nut and saddles instead of bone. According to Languedoc, this guitar has "the most brilliant sound" of the three instruments. This guitar has been used by Trey in virtually all live appearances since 1997. "Trey is a one guitar guy," says Languedoc.[

The designs of Anastasio's Languedoc guitars, inspired in part by the commercially unsuccessful Fender Starcaster, are uniquely conceived and handcrafted instruments that make use of set maple necks with 24-fret ebony fretboards, dual Seymour Duncan PAF reissue humbuckers and custom-wired electronics. The first two Languedocs also featured a single coil pickup in the middle (each was removed when it became the backup guitar). Because they are true hollowbodies (as opposed to semi-hollowbody construction), and because Anastasio typically plays with two Ibanez Tube Screamer overdrives, the guitars are prone to excessive feedback, requiring a great deal of manual dexterity and control on the guitarist's part in order to manage the signal. Anastasio has learned to tame this feedback and often used it to his advantage in the creation of psychedelic and other-worldly sounds onstage and in the studio

 

I have to say, that really is a lovely looking guitar.

Hell yeah. To LBP - why should she not be voted best guitarist, then?

Rob Instigator - With all respect, owining a nice guitar maketh not a good guitarist. What is so good about him, then?

Won't this thread Die?

No, it won't. so nerrrr.

okay

i've decided

after careful scientific robotussin-fueld research

the best living guitarist

jandek

it would seem not....

see, the reality is many people feel that Hendrix is indeed the best guitarist ever. I think the whole point of this thread was not to prove the argument, but rather just to have the dialogue.

from this dialogue, for those who took it semi-seriously, on could find many other talented guitarists. why is hendrix the best? because he took a little piece of what made every OTHER guitarist before him the greatest, and combined them. thus, he became a hybrid of all of the greatest players....

and from Zappa, hendrix learned how to use the Wah during solos, but I would have to say that Henrdix did way more with the wah the zappa did....

its too bad hendrix image was destroyed by the record companies just like Black Sabbath...

ZOMG, Teh Kurtzzz is the best guitarist in the whole wide world, I wanna be just like him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

amazing guitarist. not keen on him wanking off though.
i much prefer the experience stuff, and i dont think this is to do with noel and mitch. more to do with the band being produced/controled alot to get along well with the charts and make some money for the fucks who apparantly took it all before jimi saw it.
who was that guy controlin from the back? chas chandler was it?
whoever.
i think hendrix, when controled can write fucking ace songs, play them in a short 3 or 4 minute space of time, condense his guitar skills into really great sorter bits rather than really long wanky boring bits that acid freaks can shake their hands to and come away with a great pop song with quality musicianship that is all extremely passionate and has alot of appeal in alot of different forms.
after he went off after the exp, he was kinda left to do what he liked, which was twiddle around like a spaz on stage for far too long with nothing in it apart from he'd obviously practiced alot to be that good at doing something that pointless and crap.
sometimes, people with skill need controlling in order to get the best results. i think i do, but id just not listen.


i wouldnt have used full stops if were saying it either.

Fucking hell. It's only Jimi Hendrix.

Saying "It's only Jimi Hendrix" when you are talking about rock guitarists is like saying
"It's only procreation" when your child is born.

The horror.

hendrix schmendrix, nice jacket though.

scuse me while i eat a pie.

I mentioned this elsewhere, but jimi hendrix's favorite guitarist before his death was zoot horn rollo from captian beefheart.

Just figured that fit our conversations from earlier.

What if Beefheart hadn't have dropped out of Woodstock '69...

jimi hendrix had the potential to be the single greatest rock guitarist ever, but he died

Hey, just want you all to know that I can now play a barre chord without it sounding like a dud firework. Not exactly inventing the wheel, but I'm rather pleased with myself to be honest. Give me a week or so and nodoubt i'll have mastered the Freebird solo ... with my teeth.