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- Guitar Gods showcases the 25 players who made the greatest impact on rock’s long and winding history.Meet rock and roll’s party crashers. They are the guitar-wielding heroes who came into an established musical framework, rearranged the furniture, tipped over a few chairs, and ditched – leaving the stragglers to pick up the pieces.
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Feb 14, 2014 · While there have been numerous apostles there are a select band who have been elevated to the status of Guitar God – Who are the best guitarists and what makes them so special?
- Brian May. Arise, Sir Brian Harold May, the greatest guitarist of all time, the player most regal, and the one whose pathway to the summit began in the most unorthodox fashion, with a father-and-son woodcraft project converting a fireplace into one of the most inventive electric guitars ever made, the Red Special.
- Jimi Hendrix. Jimi Hendrix was the supernova of creativity that the electric guitar had been waiting for. It’s tempting to say that Hendrix was ahead of his time, and yes, it’s true, he was.
- Jimmy Page. Years honing his chops as an on-call session musician had prepared Jimmy Page for what was to come, namely being guitarist and producer of the biggest rock band on the planet, a band whose creative ambition matched the scale of their success.
- Eddie Van Halen. We can argue over who is the greatest guitarist of all time but surely none have been more entertaining than Eddie Van Halen, whose hot-wiring of hard rock norms was like a power-up for electric guitar culture, making a spectacle of the instrument that could rival the Super Bowl, Hollywood, the aurora borealis… great herds of wildebeest migrating across the Serengeti.
- Chuck Berry. Berry was married with a kid and held a succession of joe jobs before his gigs playing the blues in local St. Louis bands turned into anything more than a hobby.
- Jack White. Jack White was set to attend a seminary as a teenager when he learned he couldn’t take his amplifier with him. Instead, he began an upholstery apprenticeship with a punk fan who drafted White to play guitar in a duo.
- Jimmy Page. Maybe Page was simply meant to play guitar: the Led Zeppelin guitarist claims he first picked up the instrument when his family moved into a new house and he found one that the previous occupants had left behind.
- Joe Bonamassa. There was no escaping the guitar for Bonamassa: his parents owned a guitar store and he started playing when he was just four. A brief mentorship at age 11 with the ace player Danny Gatton set Bonamassa on his current path, which included a stint in the blues-rock band Bloodline with the sons of Miles Davis, Robby Krieger and Berry Oakley in the Nineties before he launched a long-running solo career with his 2000 release A New Day Yesterday.
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- Duane Allman. When it comes to Duane Allman’s prowess as a guitarist, we can talk about epics like “Whipping Post,” but one of the most mesmerizing things about Allman was his ability to improve on existing songs (and the fact that he accomplished everything by the age of 24, when he tragically died in a motorcycle crash).
- Chet Atkins. How could we have a list of influential guitarists without “Mr. Guitar” himself, Chet Atkins? In addition to his own hit songs, the fingerpicking pioneer played on now-legendary tracks like Hank Williams’ “Your Cheatin’ Heart” and Elvis’ “Heartbreak Hotel.”
- Jeff Beck. A veteran of the Yardbirds, the Jeff Beck Group, and Beck, Bogert & Appice, Jeff Beck is also known for handling (and thoroughly rocking) the guitar duties for the likes of Rod Stewart, Mick Jagger, Stevie Wonder, Jon Bon Jovi and ZZ Top, among many others.
- Chuck Berry. “Johnny B. Goode” has been listed among the greatest songs of all time, and it wouldn’t exist without Chuck Berry. He wrote the song, so it only makes sense, but the infectiousness of the ditty doesn’t come from its lyrics...
Apr 1, 1999 · These interviews, featuring our finest guitarists talking about their own heroes and gods, show how the guitar transformed American popular culture – by putting immortality within arm’s reach.
Guitar Gods: The 25 Players Who Made Rock History Used. Meet rock and roll’s party crashers. They are the guitar-wielding heroes who came into an established musical framework, rearranged the furniture, tipped over a few chairs, and ditched – leaving the stragglers to pick up the pieces.
