The Most Iconic Guitarist in rock n metal history IS...................

[Danny Top Hat]

I reakon Angus Young should've won it, but Hendrix deserved to beat Page.

[BA]

page was a heroin addict for longer than hendrix. no that thats a contest.

what?your gonna tell me page was more fucked up on stage than hendrix?have a day off please.plenty of singers guitarists whatever have been on heroin while on tour i know plenty myself.howver acid is a differrent kettle of fish.
so yeah it is a contest,and hendrix wins.i cant believe were arguing about this hendrix wins hands down end of.


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[Sakib]

As it should be. Jimi Hendrix is without a doubt the greatest guitarist in rock history.?

That's a totally subjective remark.

Yes, add 'IMO'.

However, just so u know he was voted the greatest guitarist ever, on both the RollingStone and Total Guitar polls and hell, Slash is not even in the top hundred.

wierd because in Total Guitar issue of December 2004 the greatest guitarists were;

1. Jimi Hendrix
2. Jimmy Page
3. Eric Clapton (i think)
4. Slash

[Mr. Dick Purple]

I dont care too much about magazines cause they always skip Brian May they put him in like 50th place or something and in the first places appear Kurt Cobain? thats just plain stupid 

[Genesis]

wierd because in Total Guitar issue of December 2004 the greatest guitarists were;

1. Jimi Hendrix
2. Jimmy Page
3. Eric Clapton (i think)
4. Slash

Yes u're right. But he's not there in the top 100 in the Rolling Stone poll. I listed the polls (even though all magazine polls are shit), since any comment I made in favour of Hendrix would be 'subjective'...

[BLS-Pride]

I dont think Slash should be number 4 on that list at all. Theres plenty guitarists who are better than Slash.

[bh339]

No.4 is definitely too high for Slash.  He's good but let's not be that biased just because we are GNR fans.  By the same token everybody has a right to their own opinion, like assholes everybody has one.

[Danny Top Hat]

I don't.

[Eduardo]

Ilove Hendrix, but I used to think he was a bit overrated, UNTIL the day I read MIck Taylor saying a little something about the times he played with him:

"One time, he came to this little club in London called the Speakeasy. It was a little club that musicians came to ... Hendrix came there anyway... it was that kind of club that musicians used to go to in the evening. He wanted to play, but there was no spare guitar... I'm right handed ...and he's left-handed...and all he did was just turn it upside-down ... It was amazing to hear someone play so well...and with the guitar backwards! Jimi Hendrix could play both ways...which is quite phenomenal.

I've never met anyone else that could do that. It's like playing the piano backwards.... Because all the strings and notes are reversed. He seemed to be able to play equally well both ways ... which is quite phenomenal.

You can't learn to play one way...and I can't think of anyone that I've ever met who's left handed that can just turn a right handed guitar upside down... To turn it upside-down and play backwards. All the chords are reversed...and instead of bending a string.... You'd have to pull it."

Man, that?s just PHENOMENAL!!

[Genesis]

Jimi also pioneered the use of feedback.