100 Greatest Guitar Players - Vol. 1
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Top 100 Guitarists Of All Time #1 - 25
From Jimi Hendrix to Jack White, Kurt Cobain to Scotty Moore. (Almost) all of your favorite guitarists are here in one lens.
In August of 2003, Rolling Stone published their list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Players of All Time. This is a series of SquidVids lenses bringing together videos on all of the guitarists on the list. I'll include the top rated video from YouTube.com that I can find.
And now you can let everyone know who your favorite guitarist is; even if they're not on the list. Scroll down to enter your favorite.
This is Volume One in a series of lenses that will cover all of the 100 greatest guitar players on the list. See Volume 2
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Top 100 Guitar Players Videos
1 - 5
1) Jimi Hendrix
2) Duane Allman (Allman Brothers Band)
3) BB King
4) Eric Clapton
5) Robert Johnson
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Eric Clapton - Layla (Unplugged) 2 points
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Robert Johnson- Crossroad 2 points
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Allman Brothers with Duane!!! 1 point
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Jimi Hendrix Purple Haze Vid 1 point
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B.B. King on Ralph Gleason's Jazz Casual 1968 Part 2 0 points
Greatest Guitar Players - vol 1
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~~ Click on the "Buy MP3" button to purchase and download your track.
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~~ The link in the lower right-hand corner will take you to some "Special Deals" for sales and even a free MP3!
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Top 100 Guitar Players
6 - 10
6) Chuck Berry
7) Stevie Ray Vaughan
8) Ry Cooder
9) Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin)
10) Keith Richards (Rolling Stones)
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Stevie Ray Vaughan - Lenny (Live at El Mocambo) 4 points
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Led Zeppelin The Ocean 2 points
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Ry Cooder-Vigilante Man 0 points
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Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode 0 points
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Keith Richards Dead Flowers live 0 points
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Top 100 Guitar Players
11 - 15
11) Kirk Hammett (Metallica)
12) Kurt Cobain (Nirvana)
13) Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead)
14) Jeff Beck
15) Carlos Santana
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Metallica - ...And Justice For All (live) 3 points
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Santana - Soul Sacrifice (Woodstock 1969) 1 point
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a day in the life 1 point
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Nirvana - Drain you - French TV (1994/02/04) 0 points
5
Grateful Dead - Birdsong 0 points
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- 100 Greatest Guitar Players Vol 1
- Volume one of the series contains videos of #1 - 25.
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Top 100 Guitar Players
16 - 20
16) Johnny Ramone (The Ramones)
17) Jack White (The White Stripes)
18) John Frusciante (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
19) Richard Thompson
20) James Burton
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Under The Bridge (Itunes Original Version) 3 points
2
Ramones - Provinssi Rock 1988 0 points
3
White Stripes Jack the Ripper 0 points
4
Mystery Train James Burton 0 points
5
Richard Thompson - Persuasion - Scottish TV 99 0 points
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21 - 25
21) George Harrison
22) Mike Bloomfield
23) Warren Haynes
24) The Edge (U2)
25) Freddie King
1
U2 - Love Is Blindness & Can't Help Falling In Love 1 point
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while my guitar gently weeps special edition 1 point
3
Mike Bloomfield: Drinking Wine Live!! 0 points
4
Freddie King 0 points
5
Gov't Mule - Beautifully Broken Warren Haynes 0 points
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Leave a comment about your favorite guitar player or this lens. Never fret, picking on me won't string me out!
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hughgrissettsr
Oct 27, 2011 @ 9:00 am | delete
- great lens! did you have roy buchanon on on it? junior brown is up and coming! plays great surf tunes. visit me at my lenses or at www.hgssite.com for more music chat. thank you!
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grannysage
Oct 14, 2011 @ 10:46 pm | delete
- Keep going, you haven't added Ritchie Blackmore yet, who some say invented hard rock.
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LuckyDonut
Oct 12, 2011 @ 10:27 am | delete
- Nicely done! Frusciante (#18 here) is easily in my top three.
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DashRipRock
Sep 16, 2011 @ 5:26 pm | delete
- A great lens Jim! Even Chuck Berry - one of the guys that really got the Rock guitar thing going.
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Shadrosky
Sep 1, 2011 @ 7:24 pm | delete
- Awesome lens! Very well-executed list!
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kcbacon
Apr 13, 2011 @ 12:57 pm | delete
- Man there are some phenomenal guitarists out there. Thanks for sharing!
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TheLeftFitz
Apr 1, 2011 @ 1:40 pm | delete
- Great lens! *Blessed*
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PaulOnBooks
Apr 1, 2011 @ 9:37 am | delete
- Great rankings. Angel blessed
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riff999
Mar 21, 2011 @ 2:56 am | delete
- You featured some guitarists on this lens. Well done! Blessed.
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Joshuag01 Jan 18, 2011 @ 8:31 pm | delete
- I'm with crosscreations. Chuck Berry is definitely one of the greats. Many of these guys learned how to play guitar at a very early age. That's probably what makes them so good at what they do.
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