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I go for Jeff Beck followed by Hendricks and Eric Clapton. Any thoughts? Jeff beck does not use a pick, and is a virtuoso of the whammy bar, a true rock and jazz virtuoso.
@divegeester saidThe same number as those who can’t spell Knopfler 😀
How many people can’t spell Hendrix?
@drewnogal saidjimi wouldnt make my top ten.
Hendrix
Jimmy Page
Stevie RV
David Gilmour
@badradger saidWhat about Robert Johnson?
jimi wouldnt make my top ten.
in his prime at no 1 peter green
then Johnny Winter
gary moore
Roy Buchanan
robert cray
Ry cooder
dereck trucks
T Bone Walker
Son house
Clapton
All blues guitarists
@divegeester saidNice list.
My favs:
Page
Gilmore
Hendricks
Clapton
May
Knofler
And Stevie Ray Vaughn, if only for his version of Little Wing
@badradger saidAll this - on a headfull of drugs - in 1968. A beautiful charismatic man, a musical genius, only on the scene for a few years - then sadly gone.
jimi wouldnt make my top ten.
in his prime at no 1 peter green
then Johnny Winter
gary moore
Roy Buchanan
robert cray
Ry cooder
dereck trucks
T Bone Walker
Son house
Clapton
All blues guitarists
@drewnogal saidI read that Hendrix could neither read nor write music. He is said to have envisioned the sounds he wished to create then experimented with them until he got the sound he wanted. That seems like genius to me.
All this - on a headfull of drugs - in 1968. A beautiful charismatic man, a musical genius, only on the scene for a few years - then sadly gone.
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James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Although his mainstream career spanned only four years, he is widely regarded as one of the most influentia ...[text shortened]... t celebrated musicians of the 20th century. Wikipedia
Died: 18 September 1970, Notting Hill, London
@suzianne saidOh, another one...
What about Robert Johnson?
What about B.B. King?
Still, these folks are blues, not rock.