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1. Comfortably Numb - David Gilmour (Pink Floyd)
2. Stairway To Heaven - Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin)
3. All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
4. Freebird - Allen Collins (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
5. Maggot Brain - Edie Hazel (Funkadelic)
6. Texas Flood - Stevie Ray Vaughan
7. Eruption - Eddie Van Halen (Van Halen)
8. Highway Star - Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple)
9. […]

1. Jimi Hendrix* - Jimi Hendrix Experience
2. Eric Clapton - Yardbirds, Cream, Derek & The Dominos, Solo
3. Jimmy Page - Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin, The Firm
4. Jeff Beck - Yardbirds, Jeff Beck Group, Solo
5. Eddie Van Halen - Van Halen
6. Stevie Ray Vaughan* - Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
7. Joe Satriani - Solo
8. Ritchie Blackmore […]

Guitar players that were not listed in the top 200 list - in no particular order.
John 5 - Marylin Manson, Solo
Johnny A. - J.Geils Band, Solo
Jan Akkerman - Focus
Dave Alvin - Blasters
Sam Andrew - Big Brother
Jeff “Skunk” Baxter - Doobie Brothers
Brendan Bayliss - Umphrey’s McGee
Brian Benoit - Dillinger Escape Plan
Steve Blaze - Lillian Axe
Mike Bloomfield* […]

“I’ve always felt that blues, rock ‘n’ roll and country are just about a beat apart.”-Waylon Jennings (1937-2002)
“We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.” -Decca Recording Company rejecting the Beatles, 1962
“It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now …” - Jerry Garcia / Grateful Dead
“It […]

While Chuck Berry introduced the world to “the guitar hero”, and The Beatles standardized the four piece band, it would be bands like Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and The Jimi Hendrix Experience who would most exemplify the guitar hero as a member of band rather than a solo artist (although some may argue Hendrix was […]

 
The Guitar in Vermeer’s Paintings
Vermeer portrayed the guitar only one time in his oeuvre, in the late Guitar Player. “Vermeer’s compositional organization of this picture may be linked to his decision to depict a guitar player rather than a lute player. The guitar was just coming into vogue in the late 17th century as a […]

The Beatles: Introducing the World to the Rickenbacker
Although all of The Beatles are more well known as songwriters rather than guitar heroes, their guitars and guitar playing have had a huge influence on nearly all music released since their existence.  No other guitar brand has had more of an impact from the Beatles than the […]

Although many guitarists have maintained true to the few instruments mentioned above, some guitars have popped up as fairly popular over the years and some guitarists have made relatively unheard of guitars their own.  Most notably in this second category is Brian May of Queen, and his Red Special.  What makes this guitar so special […]

Without question, the first guitar hero was Chuck Berry. Without him, the music of today and the “guitar hero” may have never existed.  By the mid Fifties, he had practically invented rock and roll, or to quote John Lennon, “If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it ‘Chuck Berry’ […]