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Well greatest is subjective but he's always included in the best of best when it comes to lists. I'm also biased because he's also one of my favorites....guy may have been the greatest guitarist ever?
Duane was a great guitarist but, personally, I'm not sure that Dickey Betts wasn't better. DB's style is more instantly recognizable to me. When the ABB first hit with those two wielding axes and Gregg's road-weary voice telling tales of the road, they were quite special. Derek Trucks is fabulous as is Warren Haynes but the original lineup is spooky good.
There is no way I could say Dickie was better but he was his equal or very close in those 70-71 years. Dickie's writing of "In Memory Reed", Blue Sky, Southbound, his playing on at Fillmore on Dreams, Hot Atlanta, One Way Out, Mountain Jam, and even the second solo on Statesboro Blues were great and he held his own. I think Warren is better than Derek Trucks or I prefer. I love both.
Duane was great, go listen to the Derek and Domino Album, the only songs worth a **** were the one's Duane played on, Layla, he wrote the introduction, the slide coda was maybe one of greatest solo's of all time, Little Wing, Why Does Love Have to be So Sad,Duane is rumored to play most of the parts and was instrumental in writing the fast, compare him to Clapton and he is as good or better. Keys to the Highway, come on. He is the star of the show. He conveys Eric's mood and parlays into album.
He always said he played Gibson and Eric the Fender on this album, some say Eric was so strung out on drugs and so whipped over Patti Boyd that he could not even get in mood to record, sitting around and Duane came out and tore into them and lit the fire. Tom Dowd said no Layla without Duane. Eric was an alcoholic and junkie at that time. Duane taught him slide and also made these guys pull it together.
Hey Jude is said by some as greatest guitar solo ever that he played for Wilson Pickett. The English guys all said this was greatest up to that time.
Boz Scaggs and him teamed up with some great work in Muscle Shoals, The Weight with Aretha was pretty awesome work. Duane was only in mid 20's so his body of work in 4 short years is incredible.
Duane was great, go listen to the Derek and Domino Album, the only songs worth a **** were the one's Duane played on, Layla, he wrote the introduction, the slide coda was maybe one of greatest solo's of all time, Little Wing, Why Does Love Have to be So Sad,Duane is rumored to play most of the parts and was instrumental in writing the fast, compare him to Clapton and he is as good or better. Keys to the Highway, come on. He is the star of the show. He conveys Eric's mood and parlays into album.
He always said he played Gibson and Eric the Fender on this album, some say Eric was so strung out on drugs and so whipped over Patti Boyd that he could not even get in mood to record, sitting around and Duane came out and tore into them and lit the fire. Tom Dowd said no Layla without Duane. Eric was an alcoholic and junkie at that time. Duane taught him slide and also made these guys pull it together.
Hey Jude is said by some as greatest guitar solo ever that he played for Wilson Pickett. The English guys all said this was greatest up to that time.
Boz Scaggs and him teamed up with some great work in Muscle Shoals, The Weight with Aretha was pretty awesome work. Duane was only in mid 20's so his body of work in 4 short years is incredible.
Good list, I’d throw Eddie Van Halen in there as well. Guy could shred
Good but not a shredder. Dimebag could tear it up like no other. Need proof? Go watch pantera live in Moscow
Don't need proof. I take you at your word. I'm just a huge fan of SRV and wondered how people with more knowledge of guitarists than me thought he compared.
Yeah I think he’s a really good one but not elite. His style was what made him unique.
He's an icon but died at 24 and doesn't really have a huge catalog. I'd say Derek Trucks already lapped him in terms of skill, but he obviously won't be in the history books like Duane. Agree with the above poster about Dickey Betts. Seems like he never really got his due but he had a ton of great songs. Blue Sky is my all-time favorite from the Allmans.
I'm a huge Deadhead and seen the ex-members around 70 times so I'm partial towards Garcia. From about 1972 up until the early 80s when the heroin really got ahold of him, he was as good as it gets. From an improvisational standpoint especially. Here's a sweet 16-minute Sugaree that goes to some good places. Especially the last build-up jam at the 7-minute mark.
Gilmour's probably my second favorite. His notes would cut through you like a knife. Also I'd go as far as to say Tony Iommi may go down as the most influential guitarist ever. He basically invented a genre of music and is the all-time riff master.
I'm a huge Deadhead and seen the ex-members around 70 times so I'm partial towards Garcia. From about 1972 up until the early 80s when the heroin really got ahold of him, he was as good as it gets. From an improvisational standpoint especially. Here's a sweet 16-minute Sugaree that goes to some good places. Especially the last build-up jam at the 7-minute mark.
Gilmour's probably my second favorite. His notes would cut through you like a knife. Also I'd go as far as to say Tony Iommi may go down as the most influential guitarist ever. He basically invented a genre of music and is the all-time riff master.
I second Eddie. Rumored to have learned to play guitar by sound only.
I also like Satriani and Vai.
That entire Moscow concert is insane..line up and crowd. I listened to the joe rogan podcast with james Hetfield talking about it. Like 1/2 million ppl there. Sony or whoever paid for the whole thing to get a footprint in the market bc the Soviet union just fell. Ppl were going nuts bc it's the first time they felt able to Express themselves.
Derek Trucks is much, much better from a technical skill standpoint than Duane Allman ever was. We'll never know how good Duane could have been but I'd bet it wouldn't have been close to as good as Derek.
If you remove songwriting / popularity from the equation and simply look at technical ability, Shawn Lane is the greatest guitarist to ever live. That is not an opinion, it is objective reality.
Also - Jimmy Page is a sloppy hack who stole songs. Still love Led Zeppelin tho
If you remove songwriting / popularity from the equation and simply look at technical ability, Shawn Lane is the greatest guitarist to ever live. That is not an opinion, it is objective reality.
Also - Jimmy Page is a sloppy hack who stole songs. Still love Led Zeppelin tho
