Carl Perkins
All Time Top Guitar Players
We have all seen and heard of many top musicians in the present and the past. Some were brilliant playing guitars and some were brilliant playing the pianos. This post carries the information on the World’s greatest guitars players of all times. You can’t say one is better than the other because they are all from different era, you might prefer one than the other but doesn’t mean they are better so I have put them in order of their time.
1950s Top Guitar Players
Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Mickey “Guitar” Baker, Scotty Moore, Lowman Pauling, Cliff Gallup, James Burton, Eddie Cochran, Link Wray and Carl Perkins.
1960s Best Guitarists
1960s has to begin with Mr Jimi Hendrix and then Eric Clapton, Steve Cropper, George Harrison, Peter Green, Dave Davies, Pete Townshend, Keith Richards, Jeff Beck and Frank Zappa.
Top guitar players of 1970s
Jimmy Page, Richie Blackmore, David Glimour, Duane Allman, Brian May, Carlos Santana, Tony Iommi, Angus Young, Ry Cooder and Mick Ronson.
Best guitarists of 1980s
Eddie Van Halen, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Yngwie Malmsteen, Randy Rhoads, Eric Johnson, Paul Gilbert, Steve Morse and Jason Becker.
Best guitarists of 1990s
Kenny Wayne Sheperd, John Petrucci, Buckethead, Tom Morello, Zakk Wylde, Marty Friedman, Mike McCready, Dimebag Darrell, Vito Bratta and Jerry Cantrell.
There are other big guitarists who I have not mentioned above such as Terry Kath, famous Slash from Guns N Roses, Andy Summers, Eddie Hazel, Dickey Betts and many others.
My personal favourite out of all the above has to Jimi Hendrix, I grew up listening to every single song of his and I was born in 1984. My dad had a huge collection of Jimi Hendrix and was a big fan, he went to see Hendrix play 20 times. I have always been interested in music and can play grand pianos, keyboard piano, drums and guitars. but shame I couldn’t make it big.
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