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Five Best Rock Guitarists EverThe Legends of Rock Play the Best Electric Guitar Music
Electric guitar music arouses high frequency passion, which is why it is a good idea to strap on a flack jacket when you point out the five best rock guitarists ever.
The language of the rock guitar world is filled with words like licks, riffs, bends, hammers, picks, meaty sounds and many other words that almost hide the fact that these legends of rock mostly played their music in the 60’s and 70’s. Maybe they just don’t make people who play electric guitar music like that anymore! Top Five Rock GuitaristsThese five top rock guitarists would most likely be in most people’s Top 25 at least. Jimi Hendrix – Psychedelic Electric Guitar MusicBesides the virtuoso guitar playing, Jimi had magic. Hendrix headlined the iconic 1969 Woodstock Festival and became one of the ultimate legends of rock. Jimi Hendrix was probably the best exponent of the blues and blues-rock. Hendrix helped develop the technique of guitar feedback with overdriven amplifiers and was influenced by blues artists like B.B. King and Muddy Waters. Rolling Stone named Jimi Hendrix the best guitarist on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time in 2003. Eric Clapton aka Slow Hand, the Blues-Rock GuitaristEric Patrick Clapton, CBE also known as Slow Hand, is an English blues-rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. He is one of the most successful musicians of the 20th and 21st centuries, with an unprecedented three inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (The Yardbirds, Cream, and solo). Clapton, also one of the true legends of rock, was ranked fourth in Rolling Stone Magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. Mark Knopfler of Dire StraightsThe Sultans of Swing would put Mark Knopfler on most any list because of that classic electric guitar music bit at the end. Knopfler was the frontman for the English rock band Dire Straits, which he co-founded in 1977 with his brother David. He is one of the most respected fingerstyle guitarists of the modern rock era. Mark Knopfler was ranked #27 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. Dave Gilmour, Pink Floyd's Brick in the WallThis is one person who is a rock guitar legend, not because he was a virtuoso, but because he knew how to use his talent the best and made Pink Floyd superstars with his inspired guitar playing. Gilmour had a powerful touch with intense upper-octave playing and brilliant vibrato or bending. In his early career with Pink Floyd, Gilmour played a multitude of Fender Stratocasters. One of his popular guitar solos Another Brick in the Wall Part 2 was played on a Gibson Les Paul guitar. In August 2006, Gilmour's solo on Comfortably Numb was voted the greatest guitar solo of all time in a poll by listeners of the digital radio station Planet Rock. Stevie Ray-Vaughn, One of the Legends of RockHow many top rock guitarists haven’t been inspired by Stevie Ray Vaughn? This unassuming guitar virtuoso is jokingly regarded as the only white man who could play the blues the way it is supposed to be. One of the true legends of rock, Stevie Ray Vaughn (SRV) the man with rock solid technique, was known as an electric blues-rock guitarist. Classic Rock Magazine ranked him #3 in their list of the 100 Wildest Guitar Heroes in 2007.
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