When people call Jeff Beck overrated it says far more about them than Beck. The man is simply unparalleled in his command of melody and nuance, and he is one of the greatest "trick bag" guitarists ever. He uses pretty commonplace gear, but you never mistake him for someone else. Granted, his catalog is uneven, so there are some clunkers in there, but that's true of any artist who continually takes chances and pushes the envelope.
Anyone who thinks J Beck is over rated have them listen to Where We're You, all harmonics and tremolo. When someone like D Gilmour says he can't play it people should listen
JEFF BECK is without doubt the most overrated guitar player ever. Literally nobody knows who he is - that's a clue not a sign he is a 'players player'....can't name one good solo or riff/chord progression and neither can anyone else when asked... ? people think they are 'cool' saying they like him and he is this and that ..... Pretentious rubbish liked by a few...Clapton made blues popular again, jimi simply blew people's minds, keith had his riffs, jimi had his riffs, svr was hendrix for the 80/90's, how in any way can people compare beck to that?!
I don't think anyone has EVER said Kurt Cobain was a great guitar player. I would say just decent enough for a three piece band to fill up the sound with something.
@@GearGasms Oh, that one magazine I never read and never take seriously... got it! For those who don't know, for those who want to know, for those who don't care to know, Rolling Stone Magazine does not take music seriously. It really just focuses more on an artists or band's public image. I think the origins of that magazine was that it was kinda like some sort of Rock/Fashion magazine with lots of pictures of musicians and articles to make the artists seem like they have some god like powers. I guess the old days of Elvis and Jim Morrison when people kinda focused more on the presence than the music was what gave the magazine people the idea to make that be their magazine theme and they've kinda stuck with that since.
I remember back when AC/DC were doing PR for Ballbreaker, one of their comeback albums, from the mid-90s, I think. They did an interview, I believe it was in GuitarWorld magazine, but Im not sure. Angus said something like: 'Ohhh, some critics like to say we've made the same album 12times....but I think we must have done it at least 15 times by now...
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I do not think that Jimmy Page is overrated, I think he deserves the place he has in music history. Either the place he has now, or an even better one.
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These videos are of course click bait. Hendrix and Page Beck etc didn’t spend their days comparing what number they are on the list of great players . That’s for us fans and you know it’s all or mostly opinion. There are some objective things too . I was thinking about Clapton when asked about Zeppelin, he said they did some good stuff, they were to heavy and loud , something like that , Clapton Hendrix Beck et Al never wrote a Rain song or Kashmiri , ten years gone , Achilles last stand etc . Page made his mark thats why he’s my number one. In my book.
The only other plausible explanation for stairway to heaven is page was adjusting spokes in his days as a bike mechanic and spun an out of tension wheel .
I don't think Keith Richards is really overrated either because I never see him on any greatests guitarists lists or people say how incredible he is as a guitarist, mostly that he wrote some good riffs
So true ! i am not even a fan of the band . But to say he is overrated is just ignorant . He is the reason you see humbuckers in strat style guitars . And the guy who basically put tapping on the map . People had done it before him , but never the way he did it . In the 80's he was probably the most copied .. guitarist of all time .
Yeah. Anyone putting Eddie on this list needs to pull up VHs first four albums, put down the crack pipe, listen to them while being reminded there was only one guitarist in the band, and realize that the term "finger tapping" had yet to be coined.
IMHO if that little prick Johnny Depp wants to play a wannabe guitar player he's definitely overrated because he sucks. I'll trade you Johnny Depp for Angus or Jimmy Page.
The people who say Eddie Van Halen's career was defined only by Eruption have clearly never listened to his playing on tracks like Spanish Fly, Cathedral, or the solo heard on Feelin'. His skills aside, Eddie was an inventor who made advancements not only in his playing but in the guitar itself. He was one of the first guitar players who tested out the Floyd Rose Tremolo System, and even made suggestions on how to improve it. He constantly tinkered with his instruments on his endless quest of chasing tone, and practically reinvented the instrument along the way. People who say Eddie Van Halen was overrated say that only cause many other musicians have since come along and started doing their own stuff with the techniques Eddie did. I may not have been born in the 1970s, but I realize just how new Eddie Van Halen's playing was at the time.
He's the reason I started playing the electric guitar at all. I just started playing 3 years ago. And sadly, it was a few months into my lessons that he passed away.
That guy sucked, he was a scrawny meth addict who was in denial of his illness. His music is the same three cowboy chords and solos are just chromatic madness, which unremarkable. He did have a fast whacking hand which probably explains the tremolo picking. Either that or it was just hand tremors from boozing all the time. No wonder he liked Clapton - another twat that’s seemingly immortal. Crazy how all the good ones die young
Edward was great but he peaked as a guitarist and when Roth left, it became obvious. He hasnt been relevent for 30 years. Thats the truth none of his fans will admit; which says something about them. Just a bunch of slurpers
It boggles my mind how people like to say that EVH always played the same thing. People like that never actually paid any attention to his music. The man was the greatest rhythm guitar player ever, and that alone tells you that he didn't "always play the same thing". The only thing about EVH that I didn't like was that he played the same solo in concert for decades. Otherwise he was the greatest ever, and that's saying something with so many greats out there.
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I have to say that when I listen to his solo show-off pieces I see an evolution. He kept stuff, added stuff, took stuff out and his solos weren't just playing fast. He always had melodic, musical threads running through them which kept them interesting. And who said "no emotion?" His playing was dripping with emotion. God some people really have no idea of what actual reality is.
Anyone who thinks EVH was overrated never had the opportunity to hear the needle drop on that first record when it came out in 1977. In the context of that point in time, nobody had ever done anything which had all other guitarists wondering just how the hell he did it.
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As a former rock bass player I always thought EVH was a terrific guitarist but the man was either unwilling or unable to play over a moving bass line. The almost single handedly ruined rock bass for a generation.
You have all of that so right. I was listening to the radio late night in '78 when "Eruption and You Really Got Me-perhaps the best cover ever) came on the radio and my mind was as they say blown.
The only one that grinds my gears is Jimmy Page. I know he was infamous for sloppy play live sometimes, but I have to say, the night I saw him he came out with licks that literally gave me goosebumps. He was incredible.
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Any normal pro musician who played as many duff notes live as Page would be sacked. He got away with it for some unknown reason - all smoke and mirrors
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That isn't the point. I think Jimmy Page is vastly overrated, but he is still a great guitarist. That said, a lot of the comments read out were quite moronic, the writers of said comments not really aware of what overrated means.
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I was 14 and saw Eddie and the boys in 1979. You're right, context matters. When he hit the scene back then he changed the guitar world forever. And no guitar player alive since then has had a greater impact than EVH. I am so glad I WAS THERE at the birth of the next guitar legend. RIP Eddie.
So long as you know he didn't invent finger tapping like many fans have claimed. That's been around since the jazz players of the late 50's early 60's.
All these guitarists have one thing in common, they get more respect from more people than anyone who voted on this list will EVER get for THEIR guitar playing!
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Jimmy Page is always a target for these types of lists. And yet, modern rock and roll wouldn’t be the same without him. Same as EVH and Hendrix. All the great guitarists we all know and love cite him as a top influence. His weaknesses and strengths as a soloist are well documented (he admits to them himself) but as the video demonstrates, when on his game, he’s one of the most exciting, spontaneous and emotional rock players of all time. In Dazed and Confused live, alone, he evokes funk, psychedelia, blues, metal and even folk. Then you have about 20 other songs in that one concert. No one covered that much ground in a single show, and he did it night after night. Trolls will be trolls I guess. And Jeff Beck overrated? Whatever
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Well stated Dan, nice job. I played in a great Zeppelin tribute for 8 years, and even though I'd known the material for ages and had played a lot of styles in bands, it was still a challenge capturing the different moods for each track because the material covered so much ground. His solos in the original TSRTS album (not that BS remaster) on No Quarter, Dazed (especially the last one!!), and the boogie section of Whole Lotta Love are peerless. Plus, he wove a tapestry of rhythm and lead as one like few ever have. Beck may have been more consistent as a soloist, but he never had that seamless blend of lead and rhythm. Plus, as a visionary composer Page had few peers in the rock world.
@@jonathanhathaway7796 couldn’t have said it better myself. He’s a very unique player with lots of unusual quirks. His playing, and phrasing, and rhythmic stylings are surprising and a little warped. This gives Zeppelin its hooky, memorable edge. Plus he’s always in the pocket on rhythm with lots of really cool fills. Just an awesome musician. Here’s proof: many advanced players who followed Page often covered Zep (thinking about Paul Gilbert and EVH) and as incredible as those guys are, they just don’t capture Page’s magic when playing Zeppelin.
Jeff Beck, Yngwie Malmsteen, Tom Morello, Van Halen and Jimmy Page? Looks like the viewers of this channel don't appreciate groundbreaking guitarists who changed the game and influenced millions of people to pick a guitar. This list is pretty sad.
@@matthewanderson2351 we think great people don’t make flaws or mistakes or immoral things or stupid things, they do both great and bad, but it’s the whole picture, do they make something new, different, better, etc.,? It’s a matter of percentage of stolen/inspired/borrowed things vs creativity and new things! What is creativity/rip off ratio? And believe me, all or most great people in different fields do the same things, but with different percentages as i mentioned
Not sure why Kobain was even on here. I didn’t know anyone ever thought he was a good guitarist to begin with. Lol he was the perfect guitarist for Nirvana, though, and that’s really all that matters.
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Every teenager who's never bothered to learn more than 2 chords on the guitar highly rates his guitar playing. They genuinely believe he plays the smells like teen spirit like he does in the music video. Ive had people say to me only Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain were good enough to play guitar left handed as if being a left handed guitar player makes you more skilled and only Hendrix and Cobain are the only 2 guitarist who play guitar left handed. These are the people who rate Cobain as a guitar player yet wont even rate his songwriting.
@@Beans360 lol kurt only had 3 lessons apparently and dude was awful live he definitely used what he had tho to craft his sound of grunge great musician lazy guitarist
@@jameshamlet4334 i think you misread my point. I was replying to someone who was basically saying Cobain isn't rated as a guitarist so therefore he can't be overrated but the fact is many people do rate Cobain as a guitarist based on bullshit. So therefore Cobain is overrated as a guitarist. Nobody said anything about his songwriting ability.
@@klauswigsmith kurt was great in what he was doing.he never wanted to be a guitarwizzard.but his riffing on teen spirit always gets me. he could create some really dark athmospheric moods. and i guess that was his prior aim.
I’ve played for decades and still remember the day I dropped the needle on VH1. EVH blew away everyone. After I heard eruption I felt like I should just give up. Obviously someone who impressed the hell out of guitar players all over the world right from the start can never be overrated. Not just his lead and solo work. His composition , rhythm and fills were one of a kind.
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That's true, but when you hear people glorifying certain guitarist by saying this guy or that is the greatest ever player ever, then it needs to be pointed out.
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You read my mind! From the off I was thinking "kids who like Dragon Force voted for these! Now I've nothing against Dragon Force but their music is not the sort of thing I listen too. Just playing as fast as you can does not make you a great player. It makes you competent. It shows you've practiced your scales a lot. However there are a million kids out there who can do that. Some of the players on this list are more great song writers than players. Keith would never put himself in a list of great players as he is steeped in blues history and would choose his heroes. Actually apart from Yngwe who thinks he is the best ever, they'd all pick their heroes!🤣.
Jeff Beck is unique. His technique is amazing, espeacially in regard to the whammy bar, harmonics, technique, and the like. He is very creative. Hendrix respected his playing. EVH gave us tapping, speed, tremelo bar magic, sound effects, and whatever else. His playing reinvigorated rock guitar. He cannot be overrated. Joe B. Is a great guitarist. Finally, Jimmy Page, who is not my favorite, is nevertheless, a legendary guitarist. I do not see how he could be overrated based on the body of guitar work he has created.
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Agreed with everything you said. Page did the 1 handed 2 finger pull off which from Ed's own mouth in that interview he said to the audience that it was him seeing Page do that when he saw that but as we all know took it too a new level with transposing the nut and actually making music with it versus a lick in a song. Here's the show. th-cam.com/video/yb26D8bBZB8/w-d-xo.html
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@@misterree1443 Maybe we need a distinct category for "musicians who play guitar" as opposed to guitarist. If he can make 2 notes sound like the whole world he could just as easily use a keyboard.
Wow... Just wow. I'm having a difficult time imagining what must be going through a person's head when they say a man like EVH is overrated. I mean, he only reinvented the way that people play the guitar and single handedly changed rock forever. You gotta think about the era he existed in too. He didn't have any TH-cam videos to watch that unlocked the secrets of guitar instantly. In my eyes, Spanish Fly was pretty wild for it's time. And remember that in those days, things weren't all digital yet and you actually had to bring your A game to the studio instead of sitting in your computer chair doing 300 takes to get a riff properly recorded. I'm not a huge fan of EVH, but you gotta give the dude props for showing us all the way. As for Malmsteen - he may be repetitive at times, but when he lays it down, he frigging LAYS IT DOWN. A couple great examples are the intro to Fire and Ice (especially that transition from shredding to the initial main riff. Sooooo tasty), and the lead-up to the solo in Valhalla. Honestly, they just don't produce guitarists like him anymore, but I can see how his style may not appeal to everyone. I do understand why this list is the way it is though. Today's guitarist almost seems to prefer the guitar be tuned waaaaay down and played like a polyphonic percussive instrument, which is perfectly fine, but very different in basically all approaches. When guys like George Bellas, Frank Gambale, Mattias Eklundh, Bumblefoot, Guthrie Govan, Chris Impellitteri, Micheal Romeo, Steve Morse, etc get called overrated, then we have a serious problem lol. Those are some VERY underrated and underplayed guitarists that deserve to be praised. $10 says most people haven't even heard of half those guys, but they've been around forever and they will change the way you look at lead guitar. Might be worth looking at those dudes for your next underrated video if you haven't covered them already. Especially Mattias Eklundh. The dude is a nutcase on the guitar.
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Check out the video "British guitarist reacts to Jeff Beck..." to see an analysis of why it's ridiculous that he's on this list. His control of the instrument leaves everyone else in the dust. His command of note intonation (with the whammy) is in a league of ONE. Watch the entire DVD show "Live at Ronnie Scotts" and then tell me he's over-rated. DUH!
Ya when I heard his name mentioned I threw up in my mouth just a bit. Ridiculous. He's amazing. Anyone that disagrees has no idea of how to really play a guitar.
If someone's playing doesn't move you, it doesn't matter what someone's analysis says or how much he controlled the instrument. If you don't feel it, all that means nothing.
As a bogie guitar player myself Evh got and held my short attention for years. He was a keyboard based guitarist who approached the instrument accordingly. I find his chops sometimes creep into my playing unconsciously. My favorite warm up for practice is runnin with the devil.the guy was a once in a lifetime talant
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He did the tricks but apart from Eruption, (which he didn't want to record), Van Halen played pop songs very loud without dragged out pretentious solos!. I remember 78 when he turned the guitar world on it's head.
my favourite Eddie playing is when they did Won't Get Fooled Again with Sammy in the studio when they made it sound better than the Who's original with 1 guitar & no kbs!.
A lot of the criticisms aren't even correct and are made by people who did not do their homework and lots of jealousy cus that player constantly ranked above theirs. I'm huge VH fan and catalog so big most listen to one era but no album sounds same.listen to Caheriine power blues like i nevheard.and delivery liveby single guitarist doesn't miss a note solo, rhythm singing running jumping.purejealousyand not doing homework.i dont play but ears good💋
Kurt Cobain was overrated? I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone bring his name up in a guitar conversation, much less say he was good. Same with Prince, no one really brings up Prince and guitar.
You must not be looking at the same lists as me. It's not a lot but Prince especially makes these types of lists. But yeah people just came in loaded for Kurt lol.
Right? Never sat down to discuss guitarists ( and I have, a lot) and had anyone bring up curt..... it's like bringing up Bob dylan..... yeah, he plays guitar, but, he is more the lead vocalist.... and rarely does a solo.... Prince, though, has been brought up..... by people who are over hearing the conversation, and are Prince fans..... we all roll our eyes, and keep talking.... can't be considered a guitarist if you don't actually play guitar on all your songs.
Cobain was a GENIUS!!!! Hes a song writer tho.. not some show boating lead guitarist.. in the 90s/2000s, Kurt was the reason ALOT of people picked up the guitar.. dude is an ICON
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I disagree with Eddie Van Halen & Yngwie Malmsteen. I think Eddie gets hate, because Hendrix fans heard of his arrival and knew he could challenge for the greatest of all time and just put him down to keep Hendrix on top. Malmsteen gets hate for his attitude. That’s my opinion on this. Both are awesome and love their sound. Not overrated at all. I also don’t think Kurt Cobain is overrated as I don’t even think he’s ever been rated as great. He definitely isn’t underrated, so I think he’s best as unrated. He isn’t great or bad, he’s just there. Nirvana as a group on the other hand is overrated. I only think they get legendary status, because of his death. They may have help kickstart Grunge, but there are way better grunge bands than Nirvana such as Alice In Chains & Soundgarden who continuously play 2nd banana to Nirvana despite being better.
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I agree, Keef takes simple ideas and concepts and turns them into something wonderful. Its all about the wrist action on his right hand. His live lead playing can be terrible however
I think what you just said "people just misunderstand what he does", could be used to excuse most, if not all of the players named here from this list.
I literally laughed out loud at this list, especially at the idiots who missed a major point, and that is that EVH was also one of the greatest rhythm guitar players of all time. His groove, his swing, his feel and his pocket are unmatched in rock and roll. That's why so many contemporary players have great technique but can't swing or play in time and can't recognize it in players who can. It's pretty sad, actually
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Probably a bunch of guys who only play Cowboy chords or are still trying to be the next Stevie Ray. To be fair, music isn't a sport. I love different players for different reasons. I preferred Hendrix riffs over his solos, I preferred Pages riffs over his solos, though he at times had a great happy medium, Clapton bores me to death, but I like his songwriting at times, Gilmour has a way of doing more with less like no one else, EVH was one of the cleanest players I've ever heard, Beck is a friggin Wizard, but musically would be a bit too try hard for me. I appreciate every player I come across. It's what makes guitar fun. The little idiosyncrasies that separates us all. Just a big ol bag of tricks that keep on coming 🤙
Saw him at crossroads festival in 06 blew my mind live. Then saw an interview where Clapton says he's probably pulls more tones from out of a guitar then anyone he's heard.
Eddie Van Halen? You kiddin? These are John Petrucci followers. Not that he's no good but Eddie invented a new genre. Jimmy Page. The master of riffing. Yngwie. You may not like him or his music but invented the metal shred genre. Idiots who suck at guitar..
People who think these guitarist are overrated doesn't know about genre, history, even worst.. don't know how many strings are used to play the guitar in general.
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Every musician is overrated and underrated at the same time by different groups of people. It’s all based on personal opinion most of the time when they are labeled as “overrated”. I have personally never been a fan of Led Zeppelin or The Rolling Stones for example and I know that I can get a lot of hate for saying that but I don’t care because it’s just my personal opinion. But I wouldn’t even dare to argue with the fact that they are 2 of the greatest bands of all time. May not be some of my favorites but if it weren’t for them, several of my favorite bands probably wouldn’t even exist today.
Honestly I personally feel that if you play exactly what's on the record it's completely uncreative and it makes such a boring live performance because then you know exactly how it is and exactly how it sounds. Led Zeppelin made songs to be live they were legendary for a reason and I think that's because of the improvisation and chemistry on the stage not because of their records. They had some serious performances and saying that they couldn't play what's on the record is wrong they just didn't want to. I think a lot of bands now are so sick and tired of their songs because they don't change anything about it.
Yeah, one thing Page wasn't was a human jukebox, he rarely played a solo the same way twice in the studio let alone live! Page was about feel and once you listen to enough live shows you find the times when the band was hitting on all cylinders and when they weren't...when they did it was incredible! I'm a massive fan of Page and have absolutely no problem with him being listed as one of the best and one of the most overrated, he was both. Where he wasn't overrated was as a songwriter and arranger.
I could be wrong about this, but people that complain about things not sounding live like it did on the record are one of two kinds of people. 1. They don't go to actual live shows but watch or listen to the cleaned up and produced "live" shows on TV or Live albums. Hardly anyone can do it, especially someone like Page who at times had so many overdubs and guitar tracks he would seriously have to replicate himself to do it correct. 2. People that go to tribute band shows. Those guys have to nail it or people get angry. I don't really like tribute band shows.
Jimmy Page took huge, ballsy risks that most guitarists wouldn’t attempt. Massive feel and musicality. He was the greatest when “on”. He’s in the line of balls out guitarists and pioneers that I think includes Hendrix, EVH and Blackmore. Hendrix could be pretty sloppy too but these guys are the Mount Rushmore of guitar rock. Also, Page is among the absolute greats of rhythm guitar. That should be undisputed. Finally, no one in rock history, except maybe Hendrix, blended so many ideas, styles, sounds and textures into a single song than Page, and then multiplied that by 100 in a concert! Eventually, drugs and age took their toll on his ability to that seamlessly like he did 71-73.
OMG EVH IS THE MOST WAY OVERRATED GUITARIST OF ALL TIME. If I had a top 100 guitarists of all time, I'd put Eddie at #65 to #75. In that area. Eddie was a great guitarist, but he was NO GUITAR GOD! He was just a shredder & a whammy bar showboating soloist on MTV. VH is also mostly a cover band with DLR.
That's RIGHT. EVH RATES!!!...#1, in MOST guitarists eyes. Van Halen's 1st album had the cultural effect of DROPPING A BOMB INTO THE ROOM; THOUSANDS of kids bought electric guitars ENTIRELY because of him!!!
How the hell is Angus Young overrated? I've never once heard someone say that Angus Young was the greatest guitar player ever. He's my favorite guitarist just because of the way he plays and because he's a riff machine! But other than that there's nothing that should warrant people saying that he's overrated
Angus is not overrated, he's underrated. He's a monster who conjures more feel, energy, and commitment than almost anyone on earth, and he does it while doing moves that most of us couldn't do without falling down, never mind ripping an incredible blues-based solo. You don't think so? Try it, two steps per foot, while shaking your head up and down. Now do an killer, memorable solo.
I think there's a lot of people (including myself) who notice that he just never changed his playing over the years. No innovation. He's still playing the same Pentatonic scales and never moved on. I haven't bought an AC/DC CD since "Flick of the Switch" in 1983.
Creativity and innovative makes me think of the great Steve Howe, an amazing musician who did not take lessons and does not read music. Most shy away from trying to emulate this amazing player
"Overly busy but not overly complicated". I think that describes a lot of "guitar gods". So many guitarists seem like they just want to cram as many notes in as possible before the singer gets back from break. That's why I like people like David Gilmour and even George Harrison. Both very melodic soloists. By the way, I posted this before viewing past #10, so I don't know if either of these guys are on this list.
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@@GearGasms Angus Young was determined to melt your face, period! :-) I was reading up on the band and their sound and how Angus was determined to go as loud as possible. I saw them in concert years ago and Angus was a nut! For example, he jumped off the top of a stack, I don't know how many feet, but it was pretty high and he landed on his back and everything went quiet. Including the audience. I was thinking; "Oh, crap! He just busted his back!" After about 30 seconds, you start hearing some notes playing, then louder, faster, then he's still laying down, but now more on his side and he's kicking his feet and actually spinning himself around and around on the floor, faster, while his playing gets louder and faster. Suddenly he jumps up and runs off the stage. You hear him still playing, but don't see him. A minute later, he's being carried out into the crowd on security's shoulder (6 of them) and they're walking him down the little aisle between the sections, as he's leaning over into the crowd jamming his little heart out. :-) I remember that clearly, because I never saw a jump from that high before and as soon as he started to speed toward the edge I was like, "Nooo!" I thought he was gonna break something and everybody thought he did, but he made it! :-)
i like his coversongs, do ya or fire and water. the leadbreak in fire and water is the best solo i ever heard of him. it has so much feeling, but compared to the great paul gilbert satriani steve vai john 5 bucket head yngwi malmsteen jason becker. ... compared to this guys he s very average.
Thats what I think of Cobain: much more a songwriter, using a guitar as his tool. His solos were usually the vox melody anyway. Re. Keith: I don't think her ever set out to be a guitar wiz; part of an ensemble is what he is.
When his debut album came out, it was something new. Nobody heard someone play that fast before. I got bored with him by his 3rd release. It just all sounded the same. I could barely sit through the G3 concert he did with Satch and Vai. They're playing tasteful parts during the jam, and Yngwie has to try and upstage them by playing fast. It just didn't fit into the song. Funny thing on that DVD at the end when they're coming off stage and Satch says something like "Oh man! That was the best G3 EVER!" You just KNOW he was saying that to make Yngwie feel special. As if the fat bastard needs an ego boost. As for shredding, if it wasn't Yngwie, it would have been Becker, Friedman, Gilbert or some other guy. Yngwie just got noticed first.
@@JoeR203 see, that is where I disagree. I love what yngwie does. Seen him live and a guitar clinic. He can play the blues like anyone. That G3 is the only one I have a DVD for. But I get what you are saying. He's not for everyone. I dislike jazz but those cats would eat me for breakfast with the talent they have that I don't. Music is subjective. But to say someone is overrated because you don't like or appreciate them is why all of these guys are on this list
I lost a lot of respect for him when he refused to share the stage with Kurt Rosenwinkel at the Crossroads concerts. And do you know why he refused? Because Kurt would’ve wiped the floor with him! 🤣 True talk 😐 Boomers don’t like being upstaged it hurts their enormous egos.
So, those 2 videos were very instructive and I quite agree on all 20, maybe bar Prince. But! Where is Zappa? He really seriously played all his solo's over one single chord. Keep up the tongue in cheek. Very nice.
Page wrote the hardest rhythm parts on this list. The chords he uses are indeed hard to play live with a strap that low. Anyway, even so, the solo you showed him performing was pretty rad. It seems on some of these entries people focus more on solos than the songs they wrote. Maybe make a separate 'underrated soloist' list? But yeah, I don't think any of the other guys on this list wrote something as nuanced as 'The Rain Song' (Maybe Prince, with the hundreds of songs he composed).
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Context is huge. Guys like Page, Beck, and EVH changed how people approach rock guitar. If all you judge a player by is technique, then yeah, they have all been surpassed. But in terms of influence and originality they will always be great.
Jeff Beck is the most expressive, unique and innovative guitarist there is. At least my other fave, Buck Dharma didn't make the list. I hope he's number 1 on your most underrated list.
I lost a lot of respect for him when he refused to share the stage with Kurt Rosenwinkel at the Crossroads concerts. And do you know why he refused? Because Kurt would’ve wiped the floor with him! 🤣 True talk 😐 Boomers don’t like being upstaged it hurts their enormous egos.
@@icecreamforcrowhurst How exactly does someone involved in the arts, a subjective thing, "mop the floor" with anyone? Is a painting "better" because it has more brush strokes? A book with more pages? Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if Kurt would be embarrassed that you even went there. If I keep scrolling down, will I see this same comment three MORE times here? Let it go. Or don't, I don't give a shit.
I thought Prince might be overrated until I saw him play as part of the George Harrison tribute. Anyone who can tear it up like that on a Telecaster is packing some skills.
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All Prince did on that tribute was basically play Frampton's take and version of the song which is way superior. He didn't reinvent and/or improvise the guitar work. It was already done long ago by Frampton.
That was a showcase of how awful he is NOT how great he was.. Jesus, are you all being serious??? Fuckin pedestrian solo, waaay overrated and just a bunch of basic shit licks strung together in one of the most disjointed and intrinsically novice examples of amateur guitar butchering I've ever seen.. And yall prop that shlock up as an example of how great he was? Holy fuckin shit this is too funny and just overflowing with absurdity.. Incredible, and just unthinkable how anyone walks away from that feeling like they just witnessed anything other than one of the cringiest displays of guitar wankery ever caught on video.. It's right there alongside little Wayne's solo as Worst Ever.. Good fuckin God fans are so rabid as to actually suggest that he did anything other than wank in that performance.. It's the guitar solo equivalent of a hot runny shit after some undercooked curry.. Just awful.
The rating scale should be: how fast can you let go of your sausage, pick up a guitar, and learn this song, and write something better? Try that and report back in 3-5 years.
You've got to include knowledge. There are three kinds of blues. Pentatonic, Whole Scale ( B.B. King like. Another overated Guitar Player) and um... I call it modifier method. Use yer modifiers, change keys with the song. (Rock-a Billy, Country, Country blues., Joe Walsh does a lot of it. ) Jimmy Page will use all three in one tune and change keys to do something else, clumsily but what's with that hand position. Randy Rhodes couldn't play no Roy Clark. Frampton's one of the smarter ones.
How is Kurt Cobain overrated? I don't know anyone who thinks he's a great guitar player. Not hating on the guy, I think he's a good song writer. But don't people have to think you're great when you're not to be overrated? Who exactly thinks Kurt Cobain is a great guitar player? Musicians don't.
All time? That's crazy 🤪!!! Most musicians I know wouldn't put him in their top 100, let alone number 12. They must be including his songwriting and singing and playing ability. I myself would just include his guitar playing. His solos are just basically copying the verse and/or chorus of what he sings (hope that makes sense). Nothing he plays on a guitar is very complicated. Not to say he doesn't have value. I really like Nirvana, but his genius is in his songwriting and his energy. Not his actual guitar chops. I don't get why Rolling Stone would put him number 12, I could understand why they would put Nirvana number 12 band of all time, they kick started grunge, and basically killed hair metal. So though I think Nirvana is an important band, putting Kurt Cobain as the number 12 guitar player of all time is a disservice to the great guitar players out there. Maybe that just shows the ineptitude of Rolling Stone, not unlike the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Led Zeppelin had NO Singles ..only complete Albums ..Still, people bought their records like CRAZY (Led Zeppelin IV alone over 80 million units ..) With an overrated guitarist ..aha .. James Patrick Page is the GREATEST rock guitarist EVER. That´s for shure
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Yes Plus Prince is more importantly an amazing composer, songwriting and multi instrumentalist. His drumming bass playing choice of piano chords, drum programming , composition recording are all underrated
There's a video of a group of very good musicians at some tribute, including some HOF guitar players. They are playing "while my guitar gently weeps" and Prince comes out and blows everyone of them off the stage with a solo. That was just #10 - I had to tap out when it got to Keith Richards, I was getting physically angry. And I read comments that said that EVH is on this list....which is just...blasphemy.
Check out Prince jamming with Tom Petty, Jeff Lynn, and Dani Harrison for the tribute to George Harrison's song "While my guitar gently weeps " Price just fucking wales away on his guitar.
I am not a fan of shedders, just because you can play all those notes fast doesn't make you a great guitar player. I like soulful classy tasteful playing. Warren Haynes comes to mind, Dicky Betts, Duane Allman and Derek Trucks. Billy Gibbons also to me is great, not a great fast shredder but his tone and knowing when to play and not to play is priceless.
There is something to truly love about every last one of these guys. The term "overrated" should only be used on fanbois who claim that their favorite should absolutely be EVERYONE'S favorite.
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When it comes to being overrated, Tom Morello is in a league of his own. I could start playing the harp tomorrow and be better at it than he is at playing guitar. Not only is he a one trick point with nearly zero technical ability, he has the nerve to sell his lessons as "Master class". GTFOH
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Great riff writer and song writer though and that accounts for more than technical ability IMO. Tom compensated his lack of technical skill with a complete overuse of effects pedals. Throw in enough effects and you can make the most atonal playing imaginable sound cool.
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The statement you made about EVH changing guitar forever but not necessarily being amazing by today's standards describes Hendrix PERFECTLY. He mostly played pentatonic licks and made noise with the wang bar but who else at the time was doing what he did? He took the world by storm in much the same way EVH did at the time.
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@@joeyd4364 LOL 😂 Let’s hear and see what you got. I’m guessing you don’t play or you suck. Cause if you were a real musician, you would know that he was a musical genius. You guys crack me up 😆
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Those who voted Page have never seen Led Zeppelin in concert. We always got something different than what was recorded, or even what was heard at a previous concert, from both Page and Plant. When Robert would step back and give the stage to Page for his solos, the quiet was deafening for a moment. And then Jimmy would play. No matter how long he played, JPJ and Bonham kept time. There was no 'sloppy' here, only a man setting his soul free. You don't hear the trash-talk for Plant altering lyrics, there shouldn't be any for Page either. Both are genius. And, Dude, I loved your little crybaby rant!
No way is Jimmy Page overrated. First, he was a great guitarist even as a kid.Second, he was a session musician in great demand by alot of bands.Third, he was in The Yardbirds( nuff said). And of course, he founded Led Zeppelin!
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EVH, Jimmy Page, Angus? Shocking. Maybe these opinions come from those who grew up listening to digitally processed tones. As for Eddie, other than Shinedown's lead guitarist Z Myers, he's the only one I've seen live who never missed a note.
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PRINCE: I originally didn't think that much of him as a guitar player, although of course "Purple Rain" has a beautiful solo. But I really only heard his stuff on the radio now and then, until the 1999/2000 New Year's Eve performance he did. My wife loved him and wanted to see it and I have to admit, that night I became a big Prince fan! He blew my mind! The man could perform and he could play that guitar! And I'd try to catch Live performances whenever I could. It's a different ball game when he's on stage and I tell people that if you're not a big fan of his guitar playing, it's because you didn't watch him live! There's a pretty decent example (not his best though) of his playing here on TH-cam, where a number of greats got together on stage to play "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (incl George Harrison) and when it comes time for the solos, Prince walks onto the stage, blows them all away, throws the guitar up in the air and walks off (like, "I know what I just did."). If you look for it, just make sure it's the version that says, "Director's Cut". So no, I don't think he's overrated. I think he's way underrated! And I personally put him up to at least the Top 5 Ever!
Song writing ability, style and social impact, ALONG with playing a guitar, puts Cobain near the top of the pile. If Cobain held the guitar more properly, and the plectrum, and practiced more scales etc then he wouldn't have played Lithium in the unique way he does, or even come up with the melody... Who sells more records - Nirvana or Michael A Batio? Prince could write a decent tune or two as well...Richards, Young, Page etc riffs that are embed in peoples heads 50 years later. Even The Edge, who i'm not a fan of, took the delay pedal and shaped it to his own soundscape. Reality is that most famous guitarists have earned, and deserve the accolades. Technical ability is one thing, but creativity is another.
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Who sells more records Nirvana or MAB? LOL The average record buying kid can't appreciate the sophistry of someone like MAB. Go listen to 'Science Fiction'. If you can't appreciate the creativity in that song it is only because you don't understand what he is doing.
You make such a great point about Eddie that probably applies, contextually, to about every one of these players (or anybody, for that matter). If a kid, growing up today, saw Eddie doing this 14:56 they'd be like, "Why is that old guy trying to play like Synyster Gates?!"
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Anybody that's puts eddie vanhalen as overrated doesn't have a clue about music and what a true pioneer he has been for music and the guitar.one of the best builder of guitars and amps he's second to none nuff said
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100% agree. I am not even a EVH fan and the dude is due all accolades bestowed on him. He is a great player and probably inspired a whole gen of players. Just personally not my guy but legend fits
Clapton and Hendricks are both highly overrated but Joe Satriani is awesome. Actually he's one of the best in the world. Have you ever heard Surfing With the Alien are not of this Earth😮
@@harislade6676 That's actually not accurate. Page was brought in, in the event that Townsend couldn't pull it together quickly enough in the studio, but Page said that he (obviously) was just fine. Since Page was there anyway, they put him to use, but he wasn't necessary.
Jimmy Page makes #1, and this guy plays the very best clip possible to prove the haters wrong. Best troll ever. That solo is so tasty, you gotta listen to it through your taste buds, not your ears buds
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EVH was not just a great guitar player, he was a gifted and brilliant composer. Something of a musical genius. There is no accounting for bad taste. After all look who is president now...
Yeah, you're gonna have to look up the definition of "genius" sometime. Van Halen, as goos as you might think he was, isn't one. Richard Wagner was a genius: Eddie was a very skillful guitarist and composer.
#10: Prince is overrated in general. He DOES NOT play every instrument under the sun. He plays the rhythm section instruments like thousands of other guys. He's a great showman and pulls off that "genius" nonsense. #9: Jeff Beck transcends guitar playing. People must be rating him based on their limited musical understanding. #8: Cobain was never rated high as a guitarist. But his songwriting was revolutionary. #7: Keith Richards. Yeah. It's okay Chuck Berry stuff for the most part but he did come up with some great riffs. #6: Bonamassa? Perhaps. #5: Angus? Gotta love him for what he is. #4: Yngwie changed everything, but yes, he never went beyond what he played on his first album. #3: Don''t know Tom well enough to comment. #2: Van Halen is the most original guitarist of the century but because he was so influnencial you have kids who know his licks and are not impressed. #1: Jimmy can be sloppy as hell. He can also be brilliant. And beyond his guitar playing, he's a special artist.
Just because Jeff Beck's name is mentions less than most guitar players doesn't mean he's underrated it means he sucks so terribly that mentioning him once is too much set a Fender Stratocaster in front of any blindfolded two-year-old
The man quite literally reinvented music. Even if you don't like Van Halen, there's a high chance that whatever music you like, doesn't exist without Eds influence.
As guitarists, we should be honest in that all of these players, regardless of how repetitive, uninspired, or boring they are, will likely be better than us at any given moment. That said........Tom Morello doesn't have a shred of Melody in his bones. He's great at creating unique sounds, but if you told him to make a decent melodic phrase, I am willing to bet he would struggle.
When people call Jeff Beck overrated it says far more about them than Beck. The man is simply unparalleled in his command of melody and nuance, and he is one of the greatest "trick bag" guitarists ever. He uses pretty commonplace gear, but you never mistake him for someone else. Granted, his catalog is uneven, so there are some clunkers in there, but that's true of any artist who continually takes chances and pushes the envelope.
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Anyone who thinks J Beck is over rated have them listen to Where We're You, all harmonics and tremolo. When someone like D Gilmour says he can't play it people should listen
JEFF BECK is without doubt the most overrated guitar player ever. Literally nobody knows who he is - that's a clue not a sign he is a 'players player'....can't name one good solo or riff/chord progression and neither can anyone else when asked... ? people think they are 'cool' saying they like him and he is this and that ..... Pretentious rubbish liked by a few...Clapton made blues popular again, jimi simply blew people's minds, keith had his riffs, jimi had his riffs, svr was hendrix for the 80/90's, how in any way can people compare beck to that?!
@@richat1691 Reread the first sentence in my comment *slowly*.
!!!!!DITTO!!!!! Carey. Beck has been my all time favorite guitarist since I first heard him on the first Yardbirds album in 1965.
I don't think anyone has EVER said Kurt Cobain was a great guitar player. I would say just decent enough for a three piece band to fill up the sound with something.
Only Rolling Stone who him top 20
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And Slash & Keith richards. Their music is amazing
Kurt was a great COMPOSER, not guitar player
I don't think Cobain was an overrated guitarist, I've never heard anyone say he was any good.
I remember back when AC/DC were doing PR for Ballbreaker, one of their comeback albums, from the mid-90s, I think. They did an interview, I believe it was in GuitarWorld magazine, but Im not sure. Angus said something like: 'Ohhh, some critics like to say we've made the same album 12times....but I think we must have done it at least 15 times by now...
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@@GearGasms Since you asked so nicely...
Pretty sure I heard him make a similar comment about only changing the covers on the albums...maybe on Howard Stern.
Angus also said he only knew one solo and made a career of it
Honeyroll is a masterful riff
I do not think that Jimmy Page is overrated, I think he deserves the place he has in music history. Either the place he has now, or an even better one.
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These videos are of course click bait. Hendrix and Page Beck etc didn’t spend their days comparing what number they are on the list of great players . That’s for us fans and you know it’s all or mostly opinion. There are some objective things too . I was thinking about Clapton when asked about Zeppelin, he said they did some good stuff, they were to heavy and loud , something like that , Clapton Hendrix Beck et Al never wrote a Rain song or Kashmiri , ten years gone , Achilles last stand etc . Page made his mark thats why he’s my number one. In my book.
The only other plausible explanation for stairway to heaven is page was adjusting spokes in his days as a bike mechanic and spun an out of tension wheel .
I don't think Keith Richards is really overrated either because I never see him on any greatests guitarists lists or people say how incredible he is as a guitarist, mostly that he wrote some good riffs
My God. Jeff Beck and Eddie Van Halen are to guitarists as Larry Bird and Magic Johnson are to basketball players.
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People that say EVH is overrated probably think Slash is a guitar god.
Love the comparison. No one born in the 60’s would have some of these legends on this list. These guys invented the genre.
Two, not "to".
@@DrakeSteve u r dumb
Really??? EVH? This guy was a pioneer. His music and playing will live on forever.
Agree 100%
It would actually have been very very comical to hear some of the names that these voters would suggest should supersede the guitarists on this list.
So true ! i am not even a fan of the band . But to say he is overrated is just ignorant . He is the reason you see humbuckers in strat style guitars . And the guy who basically put tapping on the map . People had done it before him , but never the way he did it . In the 80's he was probably the most copied .. guitarist of all time .
Yeah. Anyone putting Eddie on this list needs to pull up VHs first four albums, put down the crack pipe, listen to them while being reminded there was only one guitarist in the band, and realize that the term "finger tapping" had yet to be coined.
Most bogus list ever. Actual musicians/guitarists would disagree with almost everyone on it.
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IMHO if that little prick Johnny Depp wants to play a wannabe guitar player he's definitely overrated because he sucks. I'll trade you Johnny Depp for Angus or Jimmy Page.
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The people who say Eddie Van Halen's career was defined only by Eruption have clearly never listened to his playing on tracks like Spanish Fly, Cathedral, or the solo heard on Feelin'. His skills aside, Eddie was an inventor who made advancements not only in his playing but in the guitar itself. He was one of the first guitar players who tested out the Floyd Rose Tremolo System, and even made suggestions on how to improve it. He constantly tinkered with his instruments on his endless quest of chasing tone, and practically reinvented the instrument along the way. People who say Eddie Van Halen was overrated say that only cause many other musicians have since come along and started doing their own stuff with the techniques Eddie did. I may not have been born in the 1970s, but I realize just how new Eddie Van Halen's playing was at the time.
His rhythm playing gets overlooked
He's the reason I started playing the electric guitar at all. I just started playing 3 years ago. And sadly, it was a few months into my lessons that he passed away.
He's way over rated I mean waaaaaaaay
That guy sucked, he was a scrawny meth addict who was in denial of his illness. His music is the same three cowboy chords and solos are just chromatic madness, which unremarkable. He did have a fast whacking hand which probably explains the tremolo picking. Either that or it was just hand tremors from boozing all the time. No wonder he liked Clapton - another twat that’s seemingly immortal. Crazy how all the good ones die young
Edward was great but he peaked as a guitarist and when Roth left, it became obvious. He hasnt been relevent for 30 years. Thats the truth none of his fans will admit; which says something about them. Just a bunch of slurpers
It boggles my mind how people like to say that EVH always played the same thing. People like that never actually paid any attention to his music. The man was the greatest rhythm guitar player ever, and that alone tells you that he didn't "always play the same thing". The only thing about EVH that I didn't like was that he played the same solo in concert for decades. Otherwise he was the greatest ever, and that's saying something with so many greats out there.
@dave himlin Segovia was the greatest guitarist ever,and he didn't sweep pick either.
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Try learning to play any 2 evh songs....then tell me they're the same lol
I have to say that when I listen to his solo show-off pieces I see an evolution. He kept stuff, added stuff, took stuff out and his solos weren't just playing fast. He always had melodic, musical threads running through them which kept them interesting. And who said "no emotion?" His playing was dripping with emotion. God some people really have no idea of what actual reality is.
These little boys don’t know anything, they probably listen to Rap.
Anyone who thinks EVH was overrated never had the opportunity to hear the needle drop on that first record when it came out in 1977. In the context of that point in time, nobody had ever done anything which had all other guitarists wondering just how the hell he did it.
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Doesn't stop it from being meandering pap though, does it? Great riff and song writer, but dem solos stink. Tasteless, abstract noodlewank.
As a former rock bass player I always thought EVH was a terrific guitarist but the man was either unwilling or unable to play over a moving bass line. The almost single handedly ruined rock bass for a generation.
It came out in 78 not 77.
You have all of that so right. I was listening to the radio late night in '78 when "Eruption and You Really Got Me-perhaps the best cover ever) came on the radio and my mind was as they say blown.
A list voted for by 14 year olds. Big fucking whoop.
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Exactly what I was thinking. So who the fuck do these kiddies think is the best, the guy from Fallout Boy?
@@GearGasms I love it lol. "you sir are a complete dipshit" couldn't have said it better, but I must disagree with your number one, Page is god
The only one that grinds my gears is Jimmy Page. I know he was infamous for sloppy play live sometimes, but I have to say, the night I saw him he came out with licks that literally gave me goosebumps. He was incredible.
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My very first concert was Rush/Mott/KISS dec.20th 1975. It was Peter Criss' birthday and Paul led us in singing happy birthday to him.
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I’m glad Jimmy Page is #1 on this list. Totally accurate.
Any normal pro musician who played as many duff notes live as Page would be sacked.
He got away with it for some unknown reason - all smoke and mirrors
Nothing to see here people
Just a bunch of nobody's bashing guitar greats
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Shame on ‘em all!!! Especially this instigator who’s only BEGGING for TH-cam $$
I stumbled upon this and stopped after he talked about Princes nipples. I stopped so I didn’t bother to watch the rest. Dude sucks
Your just a sore loser - have some fun - those guys were good but just not as talented as others
If I had 1% of the talent these guitarists have I’d be very thankful
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That isn't the point. I think Jimmy Page is vastly overrated, but he is still a great guitarist. That said, a lot of the comments read out were quite moronic, the writers of said comments not really aware of what overrated means.
I am a better player than kurt cobain that's enough for me :)
These guys aren’t that talented, they’re just famous. You can do anything these dudes do, just practice.
I think I would be honored to be on this list. None of us have achieved anything close to what these guys on this list have.
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Well said dude! Most of those that voted probably can't pick their own nose with any skill let alone a guitar 🤣🤣🤣
Haha! YES! I have not sold one record EVER! In spite of being a spectacularly mediocre guitarist!
I was 14 and saw Eddie and the boys in 1979. You're right, context matters. When he hit the scene back then he changed the guitar world forever. And no guitar player alive since then has had a greater impact than EVH. I am so glad I WAS THERE at the birth of the next guitar legend. RIP Eddie.
Saw them in 80 and agree!
So long as you know he didn't invent finger tapping like many fans have claimed. That's been around since the jazz players of the late 50's early 60's.
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Eddie had the amazing tricks. I could not stomach what a A hole David Lee Roth was around the last tour with them and before Eddie died
The problem is, not much changed with his style and technique for his entire lifetime.
All these guitarists have one thing in common, they get more respect from more people than anyone who voted on this list will EVER get for THEIR guitar playing!
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Thank you for that
completely irrelevant
comment.
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How is that a great comment?
It’s completely irrelevant to
the video and the poll.
well said.
Ummm. Yah. No doy....
This is what happens when all your Hero's are TH-camrs.
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@@GearGasms great response! Very classy
But as soon as the vid started with prince I was done!
Exactly 🤦♂️
Jim page bonamasa young are theas people real why not jimi hendrix as well
Jimmy Page is always a target for these types of lists. And yet, modern rock and roll wouldn’t be the same without him. Same as EVH and Hendrix. All the great guitarists we all know and love cite him as a top influence. His weaknesses and strengths as a soloist are well documented (he admits to them himself) but as the video demonstrates, when on his game, he’s one of the most exciting, spontaneous and emotional rock players of all time. In Dazed and Confused live, alone, he evokes funk, psychedelia, blues, metal and even folk. Then you have about 20 other songs in that one concert. No one covered that much ground in a single show, and he did it night after night. Trolls will be trolls I guess. And Jeff Beck overrated? Whatever
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Well stated Dan, nice job. I played in a great Zeppelin tribute for 8 years, and even though I'd known the material for ages and had played a lot of styles in bands, it was still a challenge capturing the different moods for each track because the material covered so much ground. His solos in the original TSRTS album (not that BS remaster) on No Quarter, Dazed (especially the last one!!), and the boogie section of Whole Lotta Love are peerless. Plus, he wove a tapestry of rhythm and lead as one like few ever have. Beck may have been more consistent as a soloist, but he never had that seamless blend of lead and rhythm. Plus, as a visionary composer Page had few peers in the rock world.
@@jonathanhathaway7796 couldn’t have said it better myself. He’s a very unique player with lots of unusual quirks. His playing, and phrasing, and rhythmic stylings are surprising and a little warped. This gives Zeppelin its hooky, memorable edge. Plus he’s always in the pocket on rhythm with lots of really cool fills. Just an awesome musician. Here’s proof: many advanced players who followed Page often covered Zep (thinking about Paul Gilbert and EVH) and as incredible as those guys are, they just don’t capture Page’s magic when playing Zeppelin.
@@jonathanhathaway7796 BTW I’m jealous of your abilities. I hack away on a Les Paul and suck at it!
Holy Smokes! Anyone who even thought about putting Page on this list, is high and should not be posting.
Jeff Beck, Yngwie Malmsteen, Tom Morello, Van Halen and Jimmy Page? Looks like the viewers of this channel don't appreciate groundbreaking guitarists who changed the game and influenced millions of people to pick a guitar. This list is pretty sad.
All those guys copied other players. They weren't groundbreaking. They stole little pieces from other players and took full credit.
@@Lizardkingmediaproductions who are the other players??? And didn’t they also stole pieces from others? And so on and on……………
@@osamaqtaitat No reply. You scared him off with logic.
@@matthewanderson2351 we think great people don’t make flaws or mistakes or immoral things or stupid things, they do both great and bad, but it’s the whole picture, do they make something new, different, better, etc.,? It’s a matter of percentage of stolen/inspired/borrowed things vs creativity and new things! What is creativity/rip off ratio?
And believe me, all or most great people in different fields do the same things, but with different percentages as i mentioned
I would defend all of them except Tom Morello.
Not sure why Kobain was even on here. I didn’t know anyone ever thought he was a good guitarist to begin with. Lol he was the perfect guitarist for Nirvana, though, and that’s really all that matters.
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Every teenager who's never bothered to learn more than 2 chords on the guitar highly rates his guitar playing. They genuinely believe he plays the smells like teen spirit like he does in the music video. Ive had people say to me only Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain were good enough to play guitar left handed as if being a left handed guitar player makes you more skilled and only Hendrix and Cobain are the only 2 guitarist who play guitar left handed. These are the people who rate Cobain as a guitar player yet wont even rate his songwriting.
@@Beans360 lol kurt only had 3 lessons apparently and dude was awful live he definitely used what he had tho to craft his sound of grunge great musician lazy guitarist
@@jameshamlet4334 i think you misread my point. I was replying to someone who was basically saying Cobain isn't rated as a guitarist so therefore he can't be overrated but the fact is many people do rate Cobain as a guitarist based on bullshit. So therefore Cobain is overrated as a guitarist. Nobody said anything about his songwriting ability.
He's actually the only one of the ten that genuinely belongs here.
Kurt Cobain being in the list is ridiculous, he is not a guitar player.
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Well, he played the guitar in a rock band, so that *technically* makes him a guitar player, but I'm pretty sure Kurt would have agreed with you.
@@klauswigsmith kurt was great in what he was doing.he never wanted to be a guitarwizzard.but his riffing on teen spirit always gets me. he could create some really dark athmospheric moods. and i guess that was his prior aim.
Dude was a great lyricist and decent riff writer. By no means is he a guitar hero nor did he claim to be.
@@Blckpwdr406 agree .
David Gilmour is one that is just a awesome guitarist not a overplayer just plays great and his tone he is in a world of his on
And has an Icon of a voice!
Definitely!
Totally on point.
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seems a top guy and not about the hype
I’ve played for decades and still remember the day I dropped the needle on VH1.
EVH blew away everyone.
After I heard eruption I felt like I should just give up.
Obviously someone who impressed the hell out of guitar players all over the world right from the start can never be overrated.
Not just his lead and solo work.
His composition , rhythm and fills were one of a kind.
Seeing him live in 1980 is still my greatest concert!
EVH is a category of its own. I respect opinions, but in my opinion, he is a true genius!
@@GearGasms 1979 here and it is still the best ever. My jaw and everyones at the concert were on the ground.
I bet!
I have nothing against VH, I liked them from the early 80s. But for Eddie to think he invented tapping makes him overrated.
How about, music isn’t a competition, and it’s about making music that people enjoy, and not worry about impressing internet nerds
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That's true, but when you hear people glorifying certain guitarist by saying this guy or that is the greatest ever player ever, then it needs to be pointed out.
@@johnp.johnson1541 I agree.
Jimmy Page once said, "There are great guitar players, and then there's Jeff Beck".
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One thing I don't like about Beck is that he doesn't use a pick. That not only makes it much easier but it limits what you can do. He is great though.
Was surprised to see Beck on the list. I don't particularly care for the way he plays guitar but the sounds he is able to evoke are impressive.
Who cares what the number one overrated guitarist says? 🤪
@@rodsmolter5046 Beck plays better without a pick. To me using a pick is easier
If by "overrated" you mean, a bunch of guitarists the young kids on the internet have never heard of, than ya, i guess...
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You read my mind! From the off I was thinking "kids who like Dragon Force voted for these! Now I've nothing against Dragon Force but their music is not the sort of thing I listen too. Just playing as fast as you can does not make you a great player. It makes you competent. It shows you've practiced your scales a lot. However there are a million kids out there who can do that. Some of the players on this list are more great song writers than players. Keith would never put himself in a list of great players as he is steeped in blues history and would choose his heroes. Actually apart from Yngwe who thinks he is the best ever, they'd all pick their heroes!🤣.
I think you nailed that comment.
Jeff Beck is unique. His technique is amazing, espeacially in regard to the whammy bar, harmonics, technique, and the like.
He is very creative. Hendrix respected his playing.
EVH gave us tapping, speed, tremelo bar magic, sound effects, and whatever else. His playing reinvigorated rock guitar. He cannot be overrated.
Joe B. Is a great guitarist.
Finally, Jimmy Page, who is not my favorite, is nevertheless, a legendary guitarist.
I do not see how he could be overrated based on the body of guitar work he has created.
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I always thought Jeff Beck was unique as well, in a good way. Every listen to Rory Gallagher? Probably my favorite guitarist ever
Agreed with everything you said. Page did the 1 handed 2 finger pull off which from Ed's own mouth in that interview he said to the audience that it was him seeing Page do that when he saw that but as we all know took it too a new level with transposing the nut and actually making music with it versus a lick in a song. Here's the show. th-cam.com/video/yb26D8bBZB8/w-d-xo.html
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@@GearGasms the very concept of this video worth 10 likes man!! look at all the crybabies :D
Ha! Are you guys kidding? The Edge, absolutely the most over rated guitarist ever.
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The Edge is just a pop artist, not a person known for guitar playing.
Yet he's not. He makes 2 notes sound like the whole world.
@@richardmitchell8213 And yet he is included in the guitar documentary "It might get loud".
@@misterree1443 Maybe we need a distinct category for "musicians who play guitar" as opposed to guitarist. If he can make 2 notes sound like the whole world he could just as easily use a keyboard.
Wow... Just wow. I'm having a difficult time imagining what must be going through a person's head when they say a man like EVH is overrated. I mean, he only reinvented the way that people play the guitar and single handedly changed rock forever. You gotta think about the era he existed in too. He didn't have any TH-cam videos to watch that unlocked the secrets of guitar instantly. In my eyes, Spanish Fly was pretty wild for it's time. And remember that in those days, things weren't all digital yet and you actually had to bring your A game to the studio instead of sitting in your computer chair doing 300 takes to get a riff properly recorded. I'm not a huge fan of EVH, but you gotta give the dude props for showing us all the way.
As for Malmsteen - he may be repetitive at times, but when he lays it down, he frigging LAYS IT DOWN. A couple great examples are the intro to Fire and Ice (especially that transition from shredding to the initial main riff. Sooooo tasty), and the lead-up to the solo in Valhalla. Honestly, they just don't produce guitarists like him anymore, but I can see how his style may not appeal to everyone.
I do understand why this list is the way it is though. Today's guitarist almost seems to prefer the guitar be tuned waaaaay down and played like a polyphonic percussive instrument, which is perfectly fine, but very different in basically all approaches.
When guys like George Bellas, Frank Gambale, Mattias Eklundh, Bumblefoot, Guthrie Govan, Chris Impellitteri, Micheal Romeo, Steve Morse, etc get called overrated, then we have a serious problem lol. Those are some VERY underrated and underplayed guitarists that deserve to be praised. $10 says most people haven't even heard of half those guys, but they've been around forever and they will change the way you look at lead guitar. Might be worth looking at those dudes for your next underrated video if you haven't covered them already. Especially Mattias Eklundh. The dude is a nutcase on the guitar.
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Check out the video "British guitarist reacts to Jeff Beck..." to see an analysis of why it's ridiculous that he's on this list. His control of the instrument leaves everyone else in the dust. His command of note intonation (with the whammy) is in a league of ONE. Watch the entire DVD show "Live at Ronnie Scotts" and then tell me he's over-rated. DUH!
That Ronnie Scotts show was just jaw-dropping. Blow by Blow and Wired amazing.
People are stupid thinking that Jeff Beck is overrated
Truly stupid
Ya when I heard his name mentioned I threw up in my mouth just a bit. Ridiculous. He's amazing. Anyone that disagrees has no idea of how to really play a guitar.
If someone's playing doesn't move you, it doesn't matter what someone's analysis says or how much he controlled the instrument. If you don't feel it, all that means nothing.
@@marcmarc1967 I call it listener musically challenged
As a bogie guitar player myself Evh got and held my short attention for years. He was a keyboard based guitarist who approached the instrument accordingly. I find his chops sometimes creep into my playing unconsciously. My favorite warm up for practice is runnin with the devil.the guy was a once in a lifetime talant
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He did the tricks but apart from Eruption, (which he didn't want to record), Van Halen played pop songs very loud without dragged out pretentious solos!. I remember 78 when he turned the guitar world on it's head.
my favourite Eddie playing is when they did Won't Get Fooled Again with Sammy in the studio when they made it sound better than the Who's original with 1 guitar & no kbs!.
ps Micheal Schenker was my guitar hero in the 70's.
A lot of the criticisms aren't even correct and are made by people who did not do their homework and lots of jealousy cus that player constantly ranked above theirs. I'm huge VH fan and catalog so big most listen to one era but no album sounds same.listen to Caheriine power blues like i nevheard.and delivery liveby single guitarist doesn't miss a note solo, rhythm singing running jumping.purejealousyand not doing homework.i dont play but ears good💋
Jeff Beck OVERRATED? LOL! He is one of the very underrated and kind of a genius, one of the best ever!
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Kurt Cobain was overrated? I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone bring his name up in a guitar conversation, much less say he was good. Same with Prince, no one really brings up Prince and guitar.
You must not be looking at the same lists as me. It's not a lot but Prince especially makes these types of lists. But yeah people just came in loaded for Kurt lol.
Right? Never sat down to discuss guitarists ( and I have, a lot) and had anyone bring up curt..... it's like bringing up Bob dylan..... yeah, he plays guitar, but, he is more the lead vocalist.... and rarely does a solo.... Prince, though, has been brought up..... by people who are over hearing the conversation, and are Prince fans..... we all roll our eyes, and keep talking.... can't be considered a guitarist if you don't actually play guitar on all your songs.
Cobain was a GENIUS!!!! Hes a song writer tho.. not some show boating lead guitarist.. in the 90s/2000s, Kurt was the reason ALOT of people picked up the guitar.. dude is an ICON
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Yeah - Nirvana changed the world!
I had no clue Prince could play until I saw him preform at the super bowl. Since then I’ve respected his playing ever since.
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I disagree with Eddie Van Halen & Yngwie Malmsteen. I think Eddie gets hate, because Hendrix fans heard of his arrival and knew he could challenge for the greatest of all time and just put him down to keep Hendrix on top. Malmsteen gets hate for his attitude. That’s my opinion on this. Both are awesome and love their sound. Not overrated at all.
I also don’t think Kurt Cobain is overrated as I don’t even think he’s ever been rated as great. He definitely isn’t underrated, so I think he’s best as unrated. He isn’t great or bad, he’s just there. Nirvana as a group on the other hand is overrated. I only think they get legendary status, because of his death. They may have help kickstart Grunge, but there are way better grunge bands than Nirvana such as Alice In Chains & Soundgarden who continuously play 2nd banana to Nirvana despite being better.
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Keith Richards is a riff master and don’t see him as being overrated at all, people just misunderstand what he does.
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I agree, Keef takes simple ideas and concepts and turns them into something wonderful. Its all about the wrist action on his right hand. His live lead playing can be terrible however
I think what you just said "people just misunderstand what he does", could be used to excuse most, if not all of the players named here from this list.
Your righ he's cool, sympathy for the devil is mean as for a start.
And Prince nah he's the best in the world.
I literally laughed out loud at this list, especially at the idiots who missed a major point, and that is that EVH was also one of the greatest rhythm guitar players of all time. His groove, his swing, his feel and his pocket are unmatched in rock and roll. That's why so many contemporary players have great technique but can't swing or play in time and can't recognize it in players who can. It's pretty sad, actually
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I’d love to know who said that he plays with no feeling. LOL 😂 That’s the funniest, dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.
EVH with no swing = George Lynch
You read my mind. His rhythm work alone is worth the price of admission.
A bizarre but highly entertaining list. I can't remember laughing as much on a video like this. Keep up the good work.
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Do The people picking these guitarists even play guitar?
I sure hope so, otherwise they're watching my channel for the bad comedy!
My guess, No, Fuck No!!!
Probably a bunch of guys who only play Cowboy chords or are still trying to be the next Stevie Ray. To be fair, music isn't a sport. I love different players for different reasons. I preferred Hendrix riffs over his solos, I preferred Pages riffs over his solos, though he at times had a great happy medium, Clapton bores me to death, but I like his songwriting at times, Gilmour has a way of doing more with less like no one else, EVH was one of the cleanest players I've ever heard, Beck is a friggin Wizard, but musically would be a bit too try hard for me. I appreciate every player I come across. It's what makes guitar fun. The little idiosyncrasies that separates us all. Just a big ol bag of tricks that keep on coming 🤙
You got a point!
Sure they do their favorite manufacturer is a company called AIR
Jeff Beck is nothing short of phenomenal.
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Saw him at crossroads festival in 06 blew my mind live. Then saw an interview where Clapton says he's probably pulls more tones from out of a guitar then anyone he's heard.
Anyone who says otherwise is a shit player
Eddie Van Halen? You kiddin? These are John Petrucci followers. Not that he's no good but Eddie invented a new genre. Jimmy Page. The master of riffing. Yngwie. You may not like him or his music but invented the metal shred genre. Idiots who suck at guitar..
Jeff healey is so brilliant one of the best guitarist ever he deserves more recognition for hes awesome playing a guitar hero to me anyway.
People who think these guitarist are overrated doesn't know about genre, history, even worst.. don't know how many strings are used to play the guitar in general.
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Every musician is overrated and underrated at the same time by different groups of people. It’s all based on personal opinion most of the time when they are labeled as “overrated”. I have personally never been a fan of Led Zeppelin or The Rolling Stones for example and I know that I can get a lot of hate for saying that but I don’t care because it’s just my personal opinion. But I wouldn’t even dare to argue with the fact that they are 2 of the greatest bands of all time. May not be some of my favorites but if it weren’t for them, several of my favorite bands probably wouldn’t even exist today.
Five!!! I'll bet you it's five strings, right?
@@buckmurdock2025 yeh you're right.. considering octave it's six string on a guitar in general.
Anyone who voted for Richards must think rhythm guitar is overrated, cause next to Malcolm Young he's the greatest rhythm guitarist who ever lived.
He’s 50x better than Malcolm Young
Bob Weir is fairly proficient.
Jeff Beck is the man shutup
You tell em James!
Preach it brother!
I About had an aneurysm when I heard that one. And just to put it out there, my spell check had two spellings for aneurysm, I hope I chose correctly.
Cause W Ended As Lovers is one of the most melodic brilliant pieces ever written by anyone ever.
@@tim6128 Didn't know Wonder wrote it, all I know is Beck's rendition of it is breathtaking.
Honestly I personally feel that if you play exactly what's on the record it's completely uncreative and it makes such a boring live performance because then you know exactly how it is and exactly how it sounds. Led Zeppelin made songs to be live they were legendary for a reason and I think that's because of the improvisation and chemistry on the stage not because of their records. They had some serious performances and saying that they couldn't play what's on the record is wrong they just didn't want to. I think a lot of bands now are so sick and tired of their songs because they don't change anything about it.
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Yeah, one thing Page wasn't was a human jukebox, he rarely played a solo the same way twice in the studio let alone live! Page was about feel and once you listen to enough live shows you find the times when the band was hitting on all cylinders and when they weren't...when they did it was incredible! I'm a massive fan of Page and have absolutely no problem with him being listed as one of the best and one of the most overrated, he was both. Where he wasn't overrated was as a songwriter and arranger.
@@revgregory Agreed!
I could be wrong about this, but people that complain about things not sounding live like it did on the record are one of two kinds of people. 1. They don't go to actual live shows but watch or listen to the cleaned up and produced "live" shows on TV or Live albums. Hardly anyone can do it, especially someone like Page who at times had so many overdubs and guitar tracks he would seriously have to replicate himself to do it correct. 2. People that go to tribute band shows. Those guys have to nail it or people get angry. I don't really like tribute band shows.
Jimmy Page took huge, ballsy risks that most guitarists wouldn’t attempt. Massive feel and musicality. He was the greatest when “on”. He’s in the line of balls out guitarists and pioneers that I think includes Hendrix, EVH and Blackmore. Hendrix could be pretty sloppy too but these guys are the Mount Rushmore of guitar rock. Also, Page is among the absolute greats of rhythm guitar. That should be undisputed. Finally, no one in rock history, except maybe Hendrix, blended so many ideas, styles, sounds and textures into a single song than Page, and then multiplied that by 100 in a concert! Eventually, drugs and age took their toll on his ability to that seamlessly like he did 71-73.
You need to see Prince play with Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne and Tom Petty on "While my Guitar Gently Weeps' Phenomenal. Definitely NOT over rated.
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That was amazing seeing that, he did such a great job doing that song. Probably made George Harrison smile in heaven
Yes, that one was good.
That was an amazing jam session, one of the best I've seen
I have always thought that Prince solo was quite possibly the greatest solo I have ever heard.
EVH Changed guitar playing forever, not to mention the patents he held, NO WAY IS HE OVERRATED! He was the best and always will be
Preach brother!
The GOAT
Yes!
OMG EVH IS THE MOST WAY OVERRATED GUITARIST OF ALL TIME. If I had a top 100 guitarists of all time, I'd put Eddie at #65 to #75. In that area. Eddie was a great guitarist, but he was NO GUITAR GOD! He was just a shredder & a whammy bar showboating soloist on MTV. VH is also mostly a cover band with DLR.
That's RIGHT. EVH RATES!!!...#1, in MOST guitarists eyes. Van Halen's 1st album had the cultural effect of DROPPING A BOMB INTO THE ROOM; THOUSANDS of kids bought electric guitars ENTIRELY because of him!!!
How the hell is Angus Young overrated? I've never once heard someone say that Angus Young was the greatest guitar player ever. He's my favorite guitarist just because of the way he plays and because he's a riff machine! But other than that there's nothing that should warrant people saying that he's overrated
Angus young a riff machine???
I like Angus but anybody can play open chords on a gibson through a cranked marshall and sound god like
Malcolm was the riff machine in AC/DC
Angus played basic caveman rock for neanderthals. Yaaaaawwwwwn.
Angus is not overrated, he's underrated. He's a monster who conjures more feel, energy, and commitment than almost anyone on earth, and he does it while doing moves that most of us couldn't do without falling down, never mind ripping an incredible blues-based solo. You don't think so? Try it, two steps per foot, while shaking your head up and down. Now do an killer, memorable solo.
I think there's a lot of people (including myself) who notice that he just never changed his playing over the years. No innovation. He's still playing the same Pentatonic scales and never moved on. I haven't bought an AC/DC CD since "Flick of the Switch" in 1983.
She many people forget how it’s not just about technically it’s the innovation and creativity that makes a great player
This times 1000...
Unfortunately, internet and social media seem to make this worse.
Creativity and innovative makes me think of the great Steve Howe, an amazing musician who did not take lessons and does not read music.
Most shy away from trying to emulate this amazing player
It would actually have been very very comical to hear some of the names that these voters would suggest should supersede the guitarists on this list.
@@malmstring innovation and creativity
Steve Howe complex creativity
David Gilmore, best biggest sound squeezed from a single note
David
"Overly busy but not overly complicated". I think that describes a lot of "guitar gods". So many guitarists seem like they just want to cram as many notes in as possible before the singer gets back from break. That's why I like people like David Gilmour and even George Harrison. Both very melodic soloists. By the way, I posted this before viewing past #10, so I don't know if either of these guys are on this list.
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David Gilmour was/is unreal. I’ve learned so much about playing guitar over the years from him and he’s one of the main reasons I began playing
ANGUS: I never thought of him as a great guitarist. I just always thought of him as making great sound!
I love his hyper vibrato though!
@@GearGasms Angus Young was determined to melt your face, period! :-) I was reading up on the band and their sound and how Angus was determined to go as loud as possible. I saw them in concert years ago and Angus was a nut! For example, he jumped off the top of a stack, I don't know how many feet, but it was pretty high and he landed on his back and everything went quiet. Including the audience. I was thinking; "Oh, crap! He just busted his back!" After about 30 seconds, you start hearing some notes playing, then louder, faster, then he's still laying down, but now more on his side and he's kicking his feet and actually spinning himself around and around on the floor, faster, while his playing gets louder and faster. Suddenly he jumps up and runs off the stage. You hear him still playing, but don't see him. A minute later, he's being carried out into the crowd on security's shoulder (6 of them) and they're walking him down the little aisle between the sections, as he's leaning over into the crowd jamming his little heart out. :-)
I remember that clearly, because I never saw a jump from that high before and as soon as he started to speed toward the edge I was like, "Nooo!" I thought he was gonna break something and everybody thought he did, but he made it! :-)
Should have been No.1 on this list. So limited in ability and vastly overrated.
I think Angus's clean open chord playing is pretty damn good.
if i think of someone who is really overrated than, -sorry its ace frehley. he has a good ear for cover songs .but as a lead player ,hes very average.
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i like his coversongs, do ya or fire and water. the leadbreak in fire and water is the best solo i ever heard of him. it has so much feeling, but compared to the great paul gilbert satriani steve vai john 5 bucket head yngwi malmsteen jason becker. ... compared to this guys he s very average.
I saw the KISS poster in back and thought for sure Ace was going to be high on that list.
Prince is a phenomenal musician who puts out music that I don't care for
Right on the money!
I preferred Rick James music but dug Prince! Ricks' albums, Princes' singles!
ya for sure. I like a little dose of Prince one in a while. Not over rated just an acquired taste.
I can respect that, at least you recognize his genius.
I don’t remember Keith Richards ever being thought of as a really great guitar player, so it’s hard to see how he got to be overrated
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Andy taylor..hands down by far the greatest ever...hungry like the wolf ..enough said
He’s on my 80s underrated list!
He wrote some cool riffs, and had a distinct playing style, but was certainly never a guy that would make my knees buckle if I met him.
Thats what I think of Cobain: much more a songwriter, using a guitar as his tool. His solos were usually the vox melody anyway. Re. Keith: I don't think her ever set out to be a guitar wiz; part of an ensemble is what he is.
Oh my. I haven’t had a laugh like that in a while. Thanks for going knuckle-deep for my enjoyment
Lol
Add Satch and you could rename this video "11 of the best rock players ever"
So many people forget the fact that without YJM, shredding would have never the same.
Same with EVH
Get serious. I've been eating Shredded Wheat since long before YJM hit the scene.
The problem with Yngwie - like many virtuoso players - is that he can't write a decent song to save his life.
When his debut album came out, it was something new. Nobody heard someone play that fast before. I got bored with him by his 3rd release. It just all sounded the same. I could barely sit through the G3 concert he did with Satch and Vai. They're playing tasteful parts during the jam, and Yngwie has to try and upstage them by playing fast. It just didn't fit into the song. Funny thing on that DVD at the end when they're coming off stage and Satch says something like "Oh man! That was the best G3 EVER!" You just KNOW he was saying that to make Yngwie feel special. As if the fat bastard needs an ego boost. As for shredding, if it wasn't Yngwie, it would have been Becker, Friedman, Gilbert or some other guy. Yngwie just got noticed first.
@@JoeR203 see, that is where I disagree. I love what yngwie does. Seen him live and a guitar clinic. He can play the blues like anyone. That G3 is the only one I have a DVD for. But I get what you are saying. He's not for everyone. I dislike jazz but those cats would eat me for breakfast with the talent they have that I don't. Music is subjective. But to say someone is overrated because you don't like or appreciate them is why all of these guys are on this list
Jeff beck plays beautifully and has some really complex melodies
I lost a lot of respect for him when he refused to share the stage with Kurt Rosenwinkel at the Crossroads concerts. And do you know why he refused? Because Kurt would’ve wiped the floor with him! 🤣 True talk 😐 Boomers don’t like being upstaged it hurts their enormous egos.
Always found him boring.
Page and Clapton both say he’s the man.
@@icecreamforcrowhurst Who? Precisely.
What’s a Rosenfinkel?
Never heard about her.
So, those 2 videos were very instructive and I quite agree on all 20, maybe bar Prince. But! Where is Zappa? He really seriously played all his solo's over one single chord.
Keep up the tongue in cheek. Very nice.
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Eddie on this list is like Bach or Mozart making an over-rated composers list.
Never agreed more with a comment
Well put man! Did everyone miss ice cream man or take your whiskey home? How could someone say he had no feel after listening to those? Blasphemy!
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Bach and Mozart would laugh at Eddie's playing. He was a sloppy player. Nice guy, but a sloppy, undisciplined player.
@@tomdolman8158 Yeah they would probably laugh at Vai and hendrix too. Eddie’s in good company.
What?? People picked evh and page?? Hendrix, Evh, holdsworth, page, blackmore and Malmsteen are the Best in My list.
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Page wrote the hardest rhythm parts on this list. The chords he uses are indeed hard to play live with a strap that low. Anyway, even so, the solo you showed him performing was pretty rad. It seems on some of these entries people focus more on solos than the songs they wrote. Maybe make a separate 'underrated soloist' list? But yeah, I don't think any of the other guys on this list wrote something as nuanced as 'The Rain Song' (Maybe Prince, with the hundreds of songs he composed).
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“Ten years gone” is brilliant and absolutely what you’re talking about
Context is huge. Guys like Page, Beck, and EVH changed how people approach rock guitar. If all you judge a player by is technique, then yeah, they have all been surpassed. But in terms of influence and originality they will always be great.
Yes
Agreed. Otherwise we'd all be listening to Polyphia (shudder)
Jeff Beck is the most expressive, unique and innovative guitarist there is. At least my other fave, Buck Dharma didn't make the list. I hope he's number 1 on your most underrated list.
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I lost a lot of respect for him when he refused to share the stage with Kurt Rosenwinkel at the Crossroads concerts. And do you know why he refused? Because Kurt would’ve wiped the floor with him! 🤣 True talk 😐 Boomers don’t like being upstaged it hurts their enormous egos.
@@icecreamforcrowhurst How exactly does someone involved in the arts, a subjective thing, "mop the floor" with anyone? Is a painting "better" because it has more brush strokes? A book with more pages? Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if Kurt would be embarrassed that you even went there. If I keep scrolling down, will I see this same comment three MORE times here? Let it go. Or don't, I don't give a shit.
I thought Prince might be overrated until I saw him play as part of the George Harrison tribute. Anyone who can tear it up like that on a Telecaster is packing some skills.
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Totally agree. He freaking nailed it on that video
Didn't he also do kind of a "Mike Drop" exit too? That's classic Prince - kind of like "THAT'S how you do it, Mofos"
All Prince did on that tribute was basically play Frampton's take and version of the song which is way superior. He didn't reinvent and/or improvise the guitar work. It was already done long ago by Frampton.
That was a showcase of how awful he is NOT how great he was.. Jesus, are you all being serious??? Fuckin pedestrian solo, waaay overrated and just a bunch of basic shit licks strung together in one of the most disjointed and intrinsically novice examples of amateur guitar butchering I've ever seen.. And yall prop that shlock up as an example of how great he was? Holy fuckin shit this is too funny and just overflowing with absurdity.. Incredible, and just unthinkable how anyone walks away from that feeling like they just witnessed anything other than one of the cringiest displays of guitar wankery ever caught on video.. It's right there alongside little Wayne's solo as Worst Ever.. Good fuckin God fans are so rabid as to actually suggest that he did anything other than wank in that performance.. It's the guitar solo equivalent of a hot runny shit after some undercooked curry.. Just awful.
The rating scale should be: how fast can you let go of your sausage, pick up a guitar, and learn this song, and write something better? Try that and report back in 3-5 years.
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You've got to include knowledge. There are three kinds of blues. Pentatonic, Whole Scale ( B.B. King like. Another overated Guitar Player) and um... I call it modifier method. Use yer modifiers, change keys with the song. (Rock-a Billy, Country, Country blues., Joe Walsh does a lot of it. ) Jimmy Page will use all three in one tune and change keys to do something else, clumsily but what's with that hand position. Randy Rhodes couldn't play no Roy Clark. Frampton's one of the smarter ones.
Kind of a weird fantasy life you’ve got there Brah.
How is Kurt Cobain overrated? I don't know anyone who thinks he's a great guitar player. Not hating on the guy, I think he's a good song writer. But don't people have to think you're great when you're not to be overrated? Who exactly thinks Kurt Cobain is a great guitar player? Musicians don't.
Rolling Stone #12 all time
All time? That's crazy 🤪!!! Most musicians I know wouldn't put him in their top 100, let alone number 12. They must be including his songwriting and singing and playing ability. I myself would just include his guitar playing. His solos are just basically copying the verse and/or chorus of what he sings (hope that makes sense). Nothing he plays on a guitar is very complicated. Not to say he doesn't have value. I really like Nirvana, but his genius is in his songwriting and his energy. Not his actual guitar chops. I don't get why Rolling Stone would put him number 12, I could understand why they would put Nirvana number 12 band of all time, they kick started grunge, and basically killed hair metal. So though I think Nirvana is an important band, putting Kurt Cobain as the number 12 guitar player of all time is a disservice to the great guitar players out there. Maybe that just shows the ineptitude of Rolling Stone, not unlike the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
He played 3 notes as a song written he even said he just picks out words that goes with the cadence most people have already forgot who he was
Mostly a list of guitarists who cannot be overrated
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Somehow I think their bank accounts tell me they don’t care. Lol.
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Led Zeppelin had NO Singles ..only complete Albums ..Still, people bought their records like CRAZY (Led Zeppelin IV alone over 80 million units ..)
With an overrated guitarist ..aha ..
James Patrick Page is the GREATEST rock guitarist EVER.
That´s for shure
Have you ever heard Prince play complicated jazz? He's phenomenal.
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@@GearGasms Desperate much?
Yes Plus Prince is more importantly an amazing composer, songwriting and multi instrumentalist. His drumming bass playing choice of piano chords, drum programming , composition recording are all underrated
There's a video of a group of very good musicians at some tribute, including some HOF guitar players. They are playing "while my guitar gently weeps" and Prince comes out and blows everyone of them off the stage with a solo. That was just #10 - I had to tap out when it got to Keith Richards, I was getting physically angry. And I read comments that said that EVH is on this list....which is just...blasphemy.
Check out Prince jamming with Tom Petty, Jeff Lynn, and Dani Harrison for the tribute to George Harrison's song "While my guitar gently weeps " Price just fucking wales away on his guitar.
I am not a fan of shedders, just because you can play all those notes fast doesn't make you a great guitar player. I like soulful classy tasteful playing. Warren Haynes comes to mind, Dicky Betts, Duane Allman and Derek Trucks. Billy Gibbons also to me is great, not a great fast shredder but his tone and knowing when to play and not to play is priceless.
Indeed
Hendrix said gibbons was the best
There is something to truly love about every last one of these guys. The term "overrated" should only be used on fanbois who claim that their favorite should absolutely be EVERYONE'S favorite.
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Beck plays the whammy bar, the volume & tone knobs and strum without a pick.... And makes a strat 🎸 sing 🎵🎶 like nobody else can
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Ya, without any soul..
David gilmour can make the strat sing like no other
@@mikewheeler3994 Yeah right🤣🤣🤣
Beck sounds like he’s playing a violin with a broken bow. Also, one of the worst Strat tones I ever heard.
I can live with everyone being on this list EXCEPT Jeff Beck.
No way does he belong on this list.
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Prince ??! Wtf
Jimmy page?
Angus and Richards are proof nicotine is a preservative.
Lol
Drugs for Keith and nicotine Angus alcohol and nicotine
Is this video satire?
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I guess it is all about fun. F.U.N. Nothing wrong with it :)
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When it comes to being overrated, Tom Morello is in a league of his own. I could start playing the harp tomorrow and be better at it than he is at playing guitar. Not only is he a one trick point with nearly zero technical ability, he has the nerve to sell his lessons as "Master class". GTFOH
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Great riff writer and song writer though and that accounts for more than technical ability IMO. Tom compensated his lack of technical skill with a complete overuse of effects pedals. Throw in enough effects and you can make the most atonal playing imaginable sound cool.
Yea but he is politically correct
Plus he's been held down by white guitarists
Let’s hear your stuff? I can you don’t play, that’s obvious. So just keep to what you know, knitting.
"Which old guitarist do the younger generation like to rag on most" should have been the title to this vid.
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EVH was so good he outperformed the instrument itself. His career was an extinction-level event for rock guitar.
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The statement you made about EVH changing guitar forever but not necessarily being amazing by today's standards describes Hendrix PERFECTLY. He mostly played pentatonic licks and made noise with the wang bar but who else at the time was doing what he did? He took the world by storm in much the same way EVH did at the time.
I agree. When I went to listen to him based on EVH praise he didn’t do it for me for the same reason kids today shrug off Ed
Totally disagree about Hendrix. Totally agree about EVH.
How in the world does van halen and Jimmy page make a list of most over rated these are the same nit wits that think Joe Biden is a great president
@@russellgrove7261 C'mon man! Everybody knows Jimmy. .. uh. .. what's his name.. Plays the uh ... you know the thing.. uh ... great! 😅
You really really don't understand Hendrix. You shouldn't even be allowed to say his name.
Prince was a great guitar player period.
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Prince was better than average at best.
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@@FlixMaker64 Prince was OK.
This is ridiculous, Keith Richards and Jimmy Page are guitar legends..
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Those who voted Page have never seen Led Zeppelin in concert. We always got something different than what was recorded, or even what was heard at a previous concert, from both Page and Plant. When Robert would step back and give the stage to Page for his solos, the quiet was deafening for a moment. And then Jimmy would play. No matter how long he played, JPJ and Bonham kept time. There was no 'sloppy' here, only a man setting his soul free.
You don't hear the trash-talk for Plant altering lyrics, there shouldn't be any for Page either. Both are genius.
And, Dude, I loved your little crybaby rant!
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No way is Jimmy Page overrated. First, he was a great guitarist even as a kid.Second, he was a session musician in great demand by alot of bands.Third, he was in The Yardbirds( nuff said). And of course, he founded Led Zeppelin!
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Most of them are not overrated.
Page was too innovative to be overrated although he is the least favorite of the Yardbird Three.
This guy absolutely gets it 🤘
@@yankeelawdog My favorite of the Yardbird three.I've seen all of them and Jimmy impressed me the most.Just my opinion !
EVH, Jimmy Page, Angus? Shocking. Maybe these opinions come from those who grew up listening to digitally processed tones. As for Eddie, other than Shinedown's lead guitarist Z Myers, he's the only one I've seen live who never missed a note.
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No Jimmy Page isn't, without him, out there would not even heavy metal exist
you never saw Randy Rhoads live then?
Angus belongs on this list
@@josephigillis he certainly does.
PRINCE: I originally didn't think that much of him as a guitar player, although of course "Purple Rain" has a beautiful solo. But I really only heard his stuff on the radio now and then, until the 1999/2000 New Year's Eve performance he did. My wife loved him and wanted to see it and I have to admit, that night I became a big Prince fan! He blew my mind! The man could perform and he could play that guitar! And I'd try to catch Live performances whenever I could. It's a different ball game when he's on stage and I tell people that if you're not a big fan of his guitar playing, it's because you didn't watch him live! There's a pretty decent example (not his best though) of his playing here on TH-cam, where a number of greats got together on stage to play "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (incl George Harrison) and when it comes time for the solos, Prince walks onto the stage, blows them all away, throws the guitar up in the air and walks off (like, "I know what I just did."). If you look for it, just make sure it's the version that says, "Director's Cut". So no, I don't think he's overrated. I think he's way underrated! And I personally put him up to at least the Top 5 Ever!
Great comment!
Thank you for typing that first
I been playing Guitar for 48 years and it's amazing that you have done this video as I would.
It’s not my list but it was fun!
Song writing ability, style and social impact, ALONG with playing a guitar, puts Cobain near the top of the pile. If Cobain held the guitar more properly, and the plectrum, and practiced more scales etc then he wouldn't have played Lithium in the unique way he does, or even come up with the melody...
Who sells more records - Nirvana or Michael A Batio? Prince could write a decent tune or two as well...Richards, Young, Page etc riffs that are embed in peoples heads 50 years later. Even The Edge, who i'm not a fan of, took the delay pedal and shaped it to his own soundscape.
Reality is that most famous guitarists have earned, and deserve the accolades. Technical ability is one thing, but creativity is another.
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Who sells more records Nirvana or MAB? LOL The average record buying kid can't appreciate the sophistry of someone like MAB.
Go listen to 'Science Fiction'. If you can't appreciate the creativity in that song it is only because you don't understand what he is doing.
You make such a great point about Eddie that probably applies, contextually, to about every one of these players (or anybody, for that matter). If a kid, growing up today, saw Eddie doing this 14:56 they'd be like, "Why is that old guy trying to play like Synyster Gates?!"
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Anybody that's puts eddie vanhalen as overrated doesn't have a clue about music and what a true pioneer he has been for music and the guitar.one of the best builder of guitars and amps he's second to none nuff said
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100% agree. I am not even a EVH fan and the dude is due all accolades bestowed on him. He is a great player and probably inspired a whole gen of players. Just personally not my guy but legend fits
Joe Satriani, just bores me to tears, but no1 by a country mile has to be Clapton
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Clapton and Hendricks are both highly overrated but Joe Satriani is awesome. Actually he's one of the best in the world. Have you ever heard Surfing With the Alien are not of this Earth😮
Jimmy Page was so high on dope in those videos. Lol I want to see anyone try to play a Zep tune like that
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He played on a Who record. Bits Townsend could not get right.
@@harislade6676 That's actually not accurate. Page was brought in, in the event that Townsend couldn't pull it together quickly enough in the studio, but Page said that he (obviously) was just fine. Since Page was there anyway, they put him to use, but he wasn't necessary.
I couldn't play it like that. I would do it much better. 🤣🤣
Jimmy Page makes #1, and this guy plays the very best clip possible to prove the haters wrong. Best troll ever. That solo is so tasty, you gotta listen to it through your taste buds, not your ears buds
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EVH was not just a great guitar player, he was a gifted and brilliant composer. Something of a musical genius. There is no accounting for bad taste. After all look who is president now...
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Yeah, you're gonna have to look up the definition of "genius" sometime. Van Halen, as goos as you might think he was, isn't one. Richard Wagner was a genius: Eddie was a very skillful guitarist and composer.
You meanvthe dementia patient in chief? Ugh
@@caribman10 evh defines genius!
#10: Prince is overrated in general. He DOES NOT play every instrument under the sun. He plays the rhythm section instruments like thousands of other guys. He's a great showman and pulls off that "genius" nonsense. #9: Jeff Beck transcends guitar playing. People must be rating him based on their limited musical understanding. #8: Cobain was never rated high as a guitarist. But his songwriting was revolutionary. #7: Keith Richards. Yeah. It's okay Chuck Berry stuff for the most part but he did come up with some great riffs. #6: Bonamassa? Perhaps. #5: Angus? Gotta love him for what he is. #4: Yngwie changed everything, but yes, he never went beyond what he played on his first album. #3: Don''t know Tom well enough to comment. #2: Van Halen is the most original guitarist of the century but because he was so influnencial you have kids who know his licks and are not impressed. #1: Jimmy can be sloppy as hell. He can also be brilliant. And beyond his guitar playing, he's a special artist.
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Just because Jeff Beck's name is mentions less than most guitar players doesn't mean he's underrated it means he sucks so terribly that mentioning him once is too much set a Fender Stratocaster in front of any blindfolded two-year-old
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Eddie Van Halen could play the guitar. The question is could he play MUSIC?
Yes and a ton of it
@@GearGasms Just sounds like noise to me.
@@davidgagnon7806yes overrated big time
Nah he's perfectly in the middle@@Duck_Dodgers
The man quite literally reinvented music. Even if you don't like Van Halen, there's a high chance that whatever music you like, doesn't exist without Eds influence.
Jimi Hendrix is extremely over rated IMO. As far as the GOATGuitarist I go with Jeff Beck.
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You're a very smart man😊
As guitarists, we should be honest in that all of these players, regardless of how repetitive, uninspired, or boring they are, will likely be better than us at any given moment.
That said........Tom Morello doesn't have a shred of Melody in his bones. He's great at creating unique sounds, but if you told him to make a decent melodic phrase, I am willing to bet he would struggle.