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Location: Michigan | OK you old Hippies of the 60's
Which one was the best lead guitar player
in your opinion.
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Location: Whitecourt, Ab | Tough call, GWB. I personally think Hendrix was more experimental/creative, but Clapton was more tight, and played effortlessly |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Some one cruelly posted earlier that Jimi's death did more for his fame than his guitar ability.
But lately I have been listening to some Hendrix, and y'know what?...
There are alot of better guitarists out there.
I voted for Clapton.
(Not to be a total jurk... But even I can play the National Anthem...
Maybe not as well...) |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Different styles and different backgrounds: Clapton is probably (at least in my opinion, the greatest white blues player ever: Hendrix was a great improvisor and took the electric guitar in places that it had never been before...both great in their own ways...I have always liked both but I have always been a Clapton fan...I have everything he has done in some form or other... |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by Old Man Arthur:
Some one cruelly posted earlier that Jimi's death did more for his fame than his guitar ability. That was me. No disrespect to Hendrix but IMO if he had not died he would have had a few more LPs and then disappeared and be mostly forgotten about. Same for Croce, Morrsion, Moon, Joplin and Cobain and others. They were good in their time, but the main reason the flame burns so many years later is because they are dead. It's human nature. Hell, the most famous thing Kennedy did was get himself shot. Clapton vs. Hendrix is a no contest.
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Location: CA | IMHO, best lead guitar player of the '60s, and maybe ever, was David Gilmour.
Jimi had the fire, Clapton had the hands. But Gilmour is the master of space and time. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | I didn't even know who Nirvana was until Cobain took a walk on the sewer-side.
(Still ain't impressed)
But as to your point, yeah there are alot of musician that just disappeared. Most of the Jefferson Airplane, Spooky Tooth, Uriah Heep and a few others come to mind.
That great retirement home in Humbolt County... |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Neither Hendrix nor Clapton are on my radar. I don't recall any particular groups or guitarists from then as I was more into the tunes themselves. Liked this tune, didn't like that one, had no idea who sang or played any of them back then.
I agree that in a list of Clapton, Hendrix and Gilmour, Gilmour is in a class way beyond the other two. |
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Location: Tennessee | George Harrison. Never a single note out of place. |
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Location: SoCal | Jim Hall. Just perfect..... |
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | Originally posted by stonebobbo:
George Harrison. Never a single note out of place. :D :D :D |
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Location: Las Vegas, Nevada | Peter Green. Jeff Beck. |
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Location: Scotland | Clarence White |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Originally posted by Oddball:
IMHO, best lead guitar player of the '60s, and maybe ever, was David Gilmour.
Jimi had the fire, Clapton had the hands. But Gilmour is the master of space and time. Well said. I'm with Oddball. |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | Originally posted by Tupperware:
Hell, the most famous thing Kennedy did was get himself shot.
That, and Marylin ;) |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Rather limited choices GWB. There may be a few more guitar players that fit the bill. But between the two I have to go with clapton as I believe he was better in a band context. In terms of musical genius, hendrix was more genius. Did I spell genius right? |
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Location: Texas | Clapton - hands down - but Stevie Ray Vaughn is right up there with my all time favorites....Oh and Jonny Lang - I had better stop - this could go on forever :D |
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Location: ms | I`ve always thought of Clapton as a blues wanna be. I saw him live back in the day and what some may call effortless playing i call boring. |
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Location: Minden, Nebraska | Since there is no standard measurement, it is a matter of taste and preference. There were a lot of fine players then, and even more now. But as a young guitar player in the mid 60's, none influenced me more than Clapton and Hendrix at the time. |
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Location: Wooster, Ohio | I had heard that in an interview Jimi Hendricks was asked if there was anyone that played guitar better that he did. He said Phil Keaggy. I think he was right but Phil went in a different direction, and also didn't die. To me it is not just playing but making songs that are memorable and timeless. For that I would agree with George Harrison.
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | No Fair! no fair!
George Harrison nor David Gilmore were among the choices.
Nor Frank Zappa nor Stevie Ray Vaugh...
[When your initials are recognizable, does that mean you've made it?]
--Weird though--
Isn't that the deal you make with the Devil on old Twilight Zone episodes?
You can be insanely famous, But you Gotta Die Young? |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by 45flint:
I had heard that in an interview Jimi Hendricks was asked if there was anyone that played guitar better that he did. He said Phil Keaggy. Just for the record, Phil has stated he doesn't know where that legend came from, but to his knowledge Hendrix never said it. |
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Location: Flushing, MI | Both!
It depends on when you catch me. |
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Location: Michigan | Im not saying that these two were the best guitarists, only that they were without a doubt the best known for that 60s era.
Which one did you like better?
I personally think that Hendrix played live with whatever came to him at the time
( On Acid so who knows )
Where I think Clapton live seemed to me to play more from something that he had already wrote before and would just play it as close to the albulm version as he could
( he was on heroin in the 60s )so drug wise they were both messed up while playing but Jimmy seemed to play from the seat of his pants and although both of them sounded pretty crappy live back then I tend to favor Hendrix.MHO only.GWB |
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BEST LEAD GUITAR PLAYER OF THE 60S HENDRIX OR CLAPTON???
