Many musicians have revolutionized music and helped define their respective eras.
From riffs From energetic to energetic strums, the thrum of distortion sounding from six steel strings affixed to a piece of wood has never failed to awaken in attendees the transformative power of music.
By plugging into your amps and turning up the volume, the best guitarists of all time have also harnessed the wacky antics of the stage to their impressive musical prodigiousness, leaving us hungry for more life-changing experiences to whet our appetites.
It's that powerful the power of the guitar, and that is why perhaps it could be the instrument most important of music.
And today, since it is the birthday of stone gossard, guitarist of pearljam, born on July 20, 1966, in Seattle, Washington, United States, today we make a brief review of the best five guitarists in history.
Of course, the list will always be debatable, but at least we are about to know our favorites.
1. Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix he blew up our idea of what rock music could be: he rigged the guitar, the whammy bar, the studio, and the stage.
In songs like "Machine Gun" or "Voodoo Chile", his instrument is like a dowsing rod from the turbulent sixties.
His style was effortless, there's not a minute of his recording career where he feels like he's trying too hard to make his guitar sound so good. He feels like everything is flowing through him, and a beautiful song that reflects such ability is "Littlewing", a song that, as a guitarist, you can study all your life and not get depressed, but never get into it like he did. He seamlessly weaves chords and single notes together and uses chord voicings that don't appear in any music book.
The riffs Jimi's were a bulldozer of pre-metal funk, and his lead lines were like an electric LSD trip.
There are arguments about who was the first guitarist to use feedback, and it doesn't really matter, because Hendrix used it better than anyone else; he took what would become funk from the seventies and ran it through a amp Marshall, in a way that no one has since.
2.Jimmy Page
listen to what he does Jimmy Page on the guitar can transport you.
Like the lead guitar of Led Zeppelin, he always plays the right thing in the right place, and he does it while displaying his extraordinary taste.
With creepy solos on "Dazed and Confused" Y "Heartbreaker", Jimmy possessed an incredible immediacy that teeters on the edge of technique while remaining spectacular.
Seeing what he did in the studio and how he used his guitar on the songs he wrote and produced, it's undeniable the legacy Jimmy built through an incredible catalog of experience that began with the Yardbirds.
He knew exactly what kind of sounds he wanted to get, and you can't miss it. He had this vision of how to transcend the stereotypes of what the guitar can do, and he did it better than anyone.
His guitar evolved through so many different changes: it got louder, lower, softer, and louder again. He wrote the songs, played them, and produced them; no one has really done it like him.
3.BB King
The influences of BB King were established at an early stage.
From a very young age in Indianola, Mississippi, the sound of country cries and the fundamental figures of blues, such as Charlie Patton and Robert Johnson They left an important mark on him.
Playing in short bursts, with a rich and robust delivery, there is technical dexterity and clean phrasing in his playing. It was a sophisticated solo that is so identifiable, so clear, that it could be written down and seen.
BB was a genuine soloist. His music and his sophisticated and emotive solo style have inspired literally thousands of musicians over the years, including Bono, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, 50 Cent, Keith Richards, Richie Sambora, Carlos Santana and many more.
His personality has not been altered even today after so many years. This rounded tone, where the front pickup is out of phase with the rear pickup, is truly timeless.
4.George Harrison
George Harrison understood the ingredients that were required to become an outstanding guitarist, and for the former Beatle, it was not necessary to be a entertainer extravagant to achieve icon status. Instead, Harrison believed that nuance was the crucial component, one reason why he had Keith Richards in such prodigious esteem.
While The Beatles and The Rolling Stones they played up to the pantomime rivalry with each other in full view of the public, behind closed doors, the band's two guitarists only respected each other. Both admired each other as people, but more so the technical capacity that the other possessed. Furthermore, their personal histories overlapped significantly. Harrison and Richarda were born in 1943, and both fell in love with the same records.and rock and roll during their youth, the same albums they used as fuel to trigger the British Invasion.
when he switched to guitar slide later in the race Beatles, it was really beautiful to hear him play
He once said, "I think modern guitarists are forgetting tone," and that was something that really mattered to him.
He was very in tune when he played; his glide was very precise and had a beautiful vibrato to it. Really his guitar sounded like a voice, a very distinctive characteristic voice.
5. David Gilmour
As a producer and composer, David Gilmour, Pink floyd is drawn to floating, dreamy textures, but when he picks up his guitar Stratocaster black to play a solo, takes over a completely different sensitivity.
I wanted a bright, punchy lead guitar tone that would basically rip your face off.
And boy did he do it. He is a fierce soloist based on the blues in a band that hardly ever played the blues: his long, graceful, relentlessly melodic solos were as vigorous a wake-up call as those alarm clocks on The Dark Side of the Moon. But Gilmour was also adept at avant-garde improvisation, as seen on the album Live at Pompeii, and could be a rhythm guitarist unexpectedly funk; the sneaky riff of "Have a Cigar"It's a great example of that.
His pioneering use of echo and other effects, initially inspired by Floyd's original guitarist, Syd Barrett, gave him one of the most recognizable stamps in music.
