I got sick last Friday, and have been stuck at home all weekend recovering. While I was resting in bed yesterday, I set iTunes to play random music from my CD collection. iTunes was playing musical artists who I haven’t listened to in several years (I can’t recall the last time I actually listened to Magic Carpet Ride by Steppenwolf), and it got me thinking about who the best guitar players of all time were. There are TONS of awesome guitarists, and after pondering this I came up with my ten favorite guitarists:
1. Jimmy Hendrix
2. Jimmy Page from Led Zepplin
3. Eric Clapton
4. Slash from Guns N’ Roses
5. John Frusciante from The Red Hot Chili Peppers
6. Mick Mars from Motley Crue
7. Dave Matthews from the Dave Matthews band
8. James Hetfiel, Kirk Hammett and Dave Mustaine (when he was with the band) from Metallica
9. Bill Corgan from The Smashing Pumpkins
10. Jerry Cantrell from Alice In Chains
My list is definitely oriented towards the music I listen to regularly, and also takes into account that the artists typically wrote music. If I am missing someone important, feeel free to post a comment. I digs me some music!