The night was dark and rainy. The courthouse clock struck midnight, a stray dog howled. It 's been nice, when the Gear Vault staff for their semi-secret meetings with the limits of the Chamber loved block of concrete called called his "office". Their agenda? In order to determine the 20 most important people of the guitar.
1. Jimi Hendrix
Widely regarded as one of the most creative and influential musicians of the 20th Century recognized pioneer Jimi Hendrixthe possibility of explosive electric guitar. Hendrix's innovative style of combining fuzz, feedback and distortion control, a new musical form. Because he neither read nor write music, which was nothing less than remarkable that Jimi Hendrix was the rise in the music in just four years short. His musical language continues to influence a host of modern musicians, from George Clinton to Miles Davis and Steve Vai to Jonny Lang Hendrix was the revolutionary GuitarGod said: Enough!
2. Edward Van Halen
Edward Van Halen once compared his guitar to "fall down the stairs and landed on their feet." Eddie had a value of about thirteen albums and serendipity in the process of how to play, listen to people, and plans to be changed to electric guitar. With his unorthodox technique, whammy bar antics bold experiments and fearless revitalized Van Halen heavy guitars, having his way in the seventies.Propagate an I-just-play-all-that's-I-do "attitude and basic equipment such as the Marshall Plan. Peavey 5150s, broke into the house, along guitars and simple, minimal effect on the box, stop, Van Halen guitar was the greatest hero He's modest anti-hero.
From a spectacular year of Van Halen "Eruption" disturbing the growing tide of "Catherdral" on Diver Down, through his 1984 chart-synth experimentation and the spirit of 5150 and for unlawful carnal knowledge, Eddieyet to be innovative in his career. Never one to wait for the electrician, Van Halen rather build his own course, and if you do not always look beautiful, good and beauty in the ears of the beholder. Retrieved from "stones Franken Ning" his first guitar at a value of $ 130 strips of the parties, has begun the search for Van Halen for the elusive "brown sound" big, warm, sumptuous "and gave the rock guitarist, a new Holy Grail of tone in the post-Jim-my time watching the page.'s single pickup and volume controlInnovation is changing the way they saw the guitars and the sound made popular guitars before dark Kramer and inspired do-it-yourself-guitar-equipment industry. Peavey amplifier custom Eddie and his ball test of pounds for his Music Man guitars, Van Halen, who still believes that artists should retain creative input to your product.
As a player, Van Halen solo-and dual-alone millions of rock players such interesting techniques such as two-handed tapping and introducedHarmonics. Prior to 1978, he was just loud and fast guitar. Eddie also plays with taste and always in a context, a fact that its legions of imitators. While he was aware of the copycat syndrome is, there is no denying that many players before he had a dazzling guitar licks for Van Halen. But none of them can fall down the stairs with such brilliance.
3. Eric Clapton
Eric Clapton reinvented successfully dozens of times:Rave-Up with the Yardbirds King, the Holy Father of Anglo-blues with the Bluesbreakers, the genius of free-form improvisation with Cream rises to every occasion musical chameleon.
Until 1965, the 20-year-old Clapton was already a legend. He had the blues, has introduced the masses, the interpretation and updating, which is a form largely unknown to the rock generation. same time, its lush, the tone of the Les Paul-driven absolute turning point in the history of rock and turned what had beenGood Mood Twang instrument in a vehicle for expressing deep.
Ultimately, the lasting image of the great guitarists Clapton the blues, standing on a corner of the stage and show his psychological wounds, the masses. It 's interesting, however, that while "blues" in it, his most memorable songs, "Layla," "Tears In Heaven" do not use the structure of the blues.
While most of his contemporaries speak Clapton and revival meeting, he never back memorieshis "good old days." His album Unplugged, which was a huge success, producing for him and his acoustic guitar, including a radical makeover of "Layla." Clapton is an artist who has learned to be grown.
4. Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney has very little of his career, he played six-string guitar spent. But as bass player, he almost single job guitarists' made much easier.
When the Beatles came on stage, rarely was the lowalso be heard on most pop records, players rarely try something more adventurous accompaniment of a root-fifth. But McCartney, who not only played bass but singing animated movies of the Beatles' with dynamic, moving bass lines in his famous Hofner and Rickenbacker after 4,001 th When the Beatles began work on Sergeant Pepper's, like McCartney pumping bass melodies, all songs performed with the result that the guitar parts of the Beatles were often sparse, thin. WithinMonths and bass player in the world today have been resolved.
5. Pete Townshend
Pete Townshend came before it, feedback has been avoided by guitarists such as bad breath. Pete made it one of the most powerful resources of rock guitar sound.
Shortly after the WHO in 1964 made its debut, Townshend was violently slamming his guitar into his Marshall stack (a form of reinforcement, he was to use the first) and destroying his instrument to splinters in the legendaryEnd of each show. All this had a profound influence on Jimi Hendrix (aka The Guitar God # 1) and almost every other rocker, who was already a guitar. Pete's trademark "windmill jingle was" stolen actually Keith Richards. Townshend, but also made larger and more dramatic is what he and The Who did with almost everything he touched. Having learned the art of pop song three minutes, he turned his attention to Townshend, 15-minute mini-operas, and with Tommy in 1969the first double album rock opera. Townshend's compositional genius and theatrical chaos dark fascination the more likely he is also a fine guitarist, as they can, as smooth as he is angry song.
6. George Harrison
When George Harrison strummed his first chord, while the historical aspect of the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show 44 years ago was the catalyst for the metamorphosis of electric guitar string instruments, tools for teensLiberation. And as the people of Gretsch and Rickenbacker readily testify, it is not so bad sale.
While Harrison has never been a virtuoso guitarist, was an innovator, continuously, the limits of the sounds in the studio and stylistic boundaries. In many ways it was also the first modern session musician, his whiskers are as diverse and far-reaching as Lennon and McCartney songwriting. He could dish out brilliant Scotty Moore-style rockabilly ("All My Loving"), heart-renderingGut-string lines ("And I'm loving") and pure fluff and anger ("Revolution")-always something memorable to add material. Later in his career he has developed an original style of the slides, melodic blues. Like the Beatles as a whole, is never constant Harrison in a comfortable groove. He slid across the musical spectrum from country western to smooth and then the psychedelic spaced-out and go to the conventions sweet slide-crushing e.
7. Angus Young
TwoDecades after Angus Young appeared for the first time, AC / DC 's Axe-wielding dervish at the age of 14 years, we sti Scottish Aussie one of the most solid bridges between metal and rock is a young blues roots. Although he has great work before and after, the boy is better known for 1980's Back In Black, Blue-Collar-masterpiece with classic killer as "You Shook Me All Night Long", is a primer for general use for coral reef to play the lead in writing and narrow climb. No matter what man does noteverything revolves around how the speed Chinchilla. Although he has brought his signature SG oxblood shade can be made, Angus Young is a giant among men.
8. Jimmy Page
Probably the most imitated guitarist in rock history is Jimmy Page a place in the pantheon of music has ensured the Great for his role as musical director, produce and all-around guru of Led Zeppelin.
His Rampaging, work on the blues-based songs like "Whole Lotta Love, Communication Breakdown"and "Rock And Roll" is defined by heavy metals. His true genius, however, was its ability to expand the parameters of the genre to include elements of traditional English folk, reggae, funk, rockabilly and classical Arabic music.
Side of the guitar was never as easy as Edward Van Halen, Steve Via, only a few players in rock history have been able, his restless imagination or visionary approach to playing guitar orchestration. If he explore the exotic delights of the open vote on the railsas "Kashmir" and "Black Mountain Side", a pioneer in the use, if backwards echo on "You Shook Me" or other worldly sounds from his flattery '58 Les Paul with a cello bow on "Dazed and Confused", page consistently transcends the limits of his instrument and recording studio.
More than 30 years have passed, recorded from the pioneering side of Led Zeppelin IV, but the album is huge imprint can still be detected in the work of these leading groups such as Jane's Addiction, Stone TemplePilots and Soundgarden, to name a few. Active site of course continue. The dense, Tcl / Tk work-layer RECORD / Coverdale Page demonstrates his refusal to rest its laurels.
9. Kurt Cobain
Kurt Cobain was the intense and Lord scruffy grunge, Nirvana brought out from the darkness at the top of the charts, was the rage, literally. The king guitar anti-hero, does not play his Fender Jaguar, but mangled in a fury agreement crunch. Inevitably, smashedhis guitars stadiums around the world with its victims to pieces.
Cobain was a pioneer, because it manages to blend the guitar in a dynamic style of aggressive punk rock seventies, the speed and simplicity of the hardcore of the eighties and the financial crisis, bottom-heavy metal of the nineties and made no foolishness or bombast, on all three species are sensitive trace.
There is no doubt that has inspired dozens of new players to enter into agreements chugging Cobain"Smells Like Teen Spirit." Segovia, it was not. But Segovia never conquered the fear of a generation with a flurry of bad reviews.
10. David Gilmour
What David Gilmour is truly remarkable is its unique ability to marry two seemingly contradictory genres progressive rock and blues. Perhaps the most dramatic example of this unusual union can be heard on one of the greatest hits of Pink Floyd "Money" (Dark Side Of The Moon). As the song begins, Gilmourslowly builds a delicate network of spacious guitar effects, only to fall with a series of emotionally charged, vibrato drenched solos, the rich, bright tone and phrasing remember correctly BB King, King Crimson, however.
Gilmour is the rarest of the rocker. Like Jimi Hendrix, has the natural ability of AHS with the emotional brain, instinctive, with the technical balance, while keeping an eye on the past and the future. It 'amazing is that this balancethe secret to lasting appeal Pink Floyd.
11. Keith Richards
Keith Richards is the archetypal Outlaw Rock, the epitome of English rock guitarist lean in a tight black suit. He held the position as the Rolling Stones first established itself as the dark, dangerous alternative to the Beatles in 1963. With his deep love for the Blues, directed Keef a generation of white, middle-class children to the wonders of Muddy Waters, Howlin 'Wolf and Chuck Berry.His only five-string open-G tuning is in the heart of this power chord classics of all time as "Jumpin 'Jack Flash" and "Street Fighting Man." As a soloist, Keef did a couple of miracles. witness "Happy" of icy, amphetamine mesmerism of his licks on "Sympathy For The Devil" and his lively turn, and he is the author of more riff heard in all the rocks. "Satisfaction" the recall of much of the tritone preference Richards' was made for controlled substances, but his latest drugMusic, his knowledge of rock, blues and reggae is encyclopedic, boundless passion for her. Him with prison, addiction, his face leather lines in storm development, the history of rock and roll acid.
12. Eric Johnson
In a realm dominated by machoismo often clumsy, Eric Johnson is a part of elegant poet laureate of rock guitar. He has succeeded in creating an original style radically different sources, such as country chickenPicking, Jimi Hendrix and Wes Montgomery jazz musician. A legend long before he was famous, was Johnson's seemingly endless melodic lines and distinctive sound "violin" is an absolute necessity for players to stop near the hometown of Texas at Austin visit there in the first half of the show year 1980.
After refusing several offers of tours as a sideman, he rose to prominence in 1986 with his critically acclaimed album, Grammy-nominated "Toni. His follow-up, Ah Via Musicom, ReachInnovator prudent further to the fore, giving a cut of a Grammy winner ("Cliffs of Dover") and finally goes gold. The combination with the passion and poetry, which is described only as a very positive state of mind, Johnson's music is progressive without an academic, edifying, without stooping to sentimentality.
13. Buddy Guy
"Part of my reason for the formation of Cream was I suddenly had this crazy idea of being British Buddy Guy, my goal was to beBuddy Guy, a bassist with composition ... And until today, when I do not think anyone can touch him. It takes you away somewhere totally different. "Eric Clapton
"Buddy Guy is as close as possible to listen to the blues." -Jeff Beck
"He plays a note and you forget the rent." -Carlos Santana
"No one can tune cool as Buddy Guy." Stevie Ray Vaughan
14. Yngwie Malmsteen
Two schools of thought have sprungYngwie J. Malmsteen over the years. On the one hand, the Swedish incredibly accurate, fast fire play with him as a deep and brilliant artist, the founder and leading representative of the neo-classical guitar deserves. From the perspective of this school that easily spead of raw materials, subtlety and passion that has defined style Malmsteen from his 1984 solo debut, Rising Force mix is the highlight of the show keyboard. Yngwie is credited withDisclosure of rolling hills.
But Yngwie is also used by many in the community who hate guitar glow with an intensity that frowned upon his most faithful Booster Games. Sun Group, Malmsteen was the architect of the cold, empty guitar style of art about art, feel stressed over speed. I'm happy with the apparent end of neo-classicism. And how do you argue for or against Yngwie?
15. Dimebag Darrell
This is a true purple with a beardLone Star rewritten the book published on crazy heavy metal riffs in the short time of several majors. By combining the virtuosity of Edward Van Halen with the rhythmic drive of a glue-sniffing punk rocker, was the guitarist of Pantera legend created a very personal sound that appeals to classic heavy metal rock, fans of death metal and industrial. The Panther 15th March 1994 release Far Beyond Driven, Darrell solidified his reputation as one of the original metal-on-trueSongs like "good friends and a bottle of pills, hell and damnation riffing in combination with the abrasive avant-garde noodling that Sonic Youth put on the map.
16. John Petrucci
Known as Dream Theater, John Petrucci is proud progressive. "Our style is totally different from the grunge and alternative music," says the 41 year-old Berklee-trained musician. "But I think our music is the attitude so much as one of those bands."
Dream Theater isknown for a complicated structured style of hard rock to improve the highest musicality embraces, long stretches, agreements and other conspicuous bold, made popular by Yes, Kansas, Rush and other rockers of the old school. Leading the charge is technically progressive mastery of Petrucci, the game includes angular melodic phrases, color theory and liquid dispays manic speed-picking style in an exciting and coherent.
Despite its reputation, Ibanez wielding shreddersremains low, "Be a Guitar Hero is looking very flattering, but if you do not like the rest of the band scattered to me," said Petrucci. "I'd rather have people see me as a talented musician in a good band, not some flashy solo". No chance.
17. BB King
As a worldwide ambassador welcomed the blues, BB King has his favorite music to introduce more people worldwide than any other artists. In fact, he is solarge-dive all ads for Northwestern Airlines and McDonald's episode of "Sanford and Son" and "Married with Children", which is easy to take for granted and forget why he was so revered in the first place.
BB King has an incredibly expressive voice and a distinctive vibrato, tone, and with legions of fans imitated. He is also the master of the perfect note bends, stretches the rope with his eloquence, brilliantTimes and constantly perfect pitch. But what is perhaps most impressive of BB King is to hang in spite of more than 300 nights a year for decades, and although she reached the status of cultural icon long ago, he has avoided slipping into complacency. He never plays the same solo twice the taut and to this day, and shows every night just because he is the king of the blues.
18. Joe Satriani and Steve Vai - Both rockers are the same and careerTalent.
From Joe Satriani, a court was to walk into virtually any style and technique of rock guitar ever developed. From delicate, classical style finger-picking for harassment profane vibrato bar, Joe knows everything. It raises the level of what he was playing with his passion for Sonic Adventure and Dead-Eye meaning of the song and orchestration.
As a melting pot man, was able to incorporate these influences as diverse as surf guitar Satriani, world beat and JimiHendrix in his playing. His much praised 1987 album performed, Surfing With The Alien, almost single-handedly restored the great Rock instrumental in helping create and bury the myth that he could not rock a thought, well-trained players. In the nature of the coup era Blow by Jeff Beck. Satriani uses its superior technology and the seemingly endless vocabulary of licks, riffs and styles in the service of the memorable songs (and not vice versa). And he continues to do soExhibitionism frustrated, the traps that many of her peers.
Steve Vai's unique technology and easy Flash-Rock made him the top pair of day laborers in 1980. He made more accessible GDP enabled Whitesnake David Lee Roth has been shredded for artistic credibility and even the Devil in a sensational performance in the film Crossroads.
But it was with the 1990 Passion and Warfare, perhaps the most anticipated guitar version of all time that crystallized his Gotechnical skills, incredible vision and drive in a sensitive explosive, guitar instruction acutely personal. He shifts gears with ease, slipping back from delicate lyricism. Like a demented circus master has Jump to enjoy the power and fear with his menagerie of sound more dangerous.
19. Joe Perry
For 35 years one or two, but many climbs to the top, Aerosmith's Joe Perry has a vivid testimony to the power of a Bad-Ass wasAttitude. Perry is not only ridiculous forever engraved on his face, but also because of his guitars and amps expressed ignored. Of course it's also some pretty decent riffs, the best of which completely defines its song writing, it is impossible to think even for non-guitarists "Walk This Way" and "Sweet Emotion" with no buzzing etched-in-rock guitar lines Perry .
20. Zakk Wylde
playing guitar Zakk Wylde hellacious and charismatic stage presence made him aGuardians of the Flame of heavy metal with Ozzy Osbourne for many years. But it is nothing "not yet heard. Zakk fixed some of his band, Pride & Glory, and his latest, Black Label Society (BLS), fast-paced, high-octane drive of guitar chaos. It is a mixture of melted Zakk two personalities: his heavy, energetic side and the devil out Ozzyfield southern rockers, ruthless side step of the way and peace with yo 'maker, my son ..
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