Greatest Rocker of All Time

[onedomino]

Since the guy who started this thread made Dave Mustaine his choice as greatest rocker, the thread should have been entitled greatest Metal musician of all time. Metal music has never made me feel good. My choices for best rock guitarists, the band, and the album that I liked best:

Duane Allman - Allman Brothers- Live at the Fillmore East

Eric Clapton - Derek and the Dominos - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs

Robbie Robertson - The Band - Music from Big Pink

Peter Townshend - The Who - Quadrophenia

Jerry Garcia - The Grateful Dead - Live Dead

 

[manu1959]

I dont know if I would consider zep a *hard* rock band. Definately awesome rockers though. For the best "metal" band (what I consider hard rock) it would have to be either GnR or Iron Maiden.

metal isn't rock....it is metal....

 

[jillian]

G 'n R wasn't a metal band.

 

[manu1959]

G 'n R wasn't a metal band.

nope and they weren't any good either.........

 

[jillian]

nope and they weren't any good either.........

I liked G 'n R.

G 'n R Lies was a great album. And Use Your Illusion I and II was a massive effort which was, largely, successful. November Rain was massive in scope. I wouldn't count them among the best of the best, but I think they were a very good band.

On the thread topic, I do think some of the best rock guitarists are unsung... people like Nils Lofgren (who started touring with Neil Young and Crazy Horse when he was 16)... for instance.

 

[manu1959]

I liked G 'n R.

G 'n R Lies was a great album. And Use Your Illusion I and II was a massive effort which was, largely, successful. November Rain was massive in scope. I wouldn't count them among the best of the best, but I think they were a very good band.

On the thread topic, I do think some of the best rock guitarists are unsung... people like Nils Lofgren (who started touring with Neil Young and Crazy Horse when he was 16)... for instance.

don't own anything by guns.....have a bunch of nils' stuff.....ever hear of robert fripp?...

 

[Gunny]

Since the guy who started this thread made Dave Mustaine his choice as greatest rocker, the thread should have been entitled greatest Metal musician of all time. Metal music has never made me feel good. My choices for best rock guitarists, the band, and the album that I liked best:

Duane Allman - Allman Brothers- Live at the Fillmore East

Eric Clapton - Derek and the Dominos - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs

Robbie Robertson - The Band - Music from Big Pink

Peter Townshend - The Who - Quadrophenia

Jerry Garcia - The Grateful Dead - Live Dead

Duane Allman was badass. Definitely one of the best.

 

[Gunny]

Well, that has to be a good deal closer to "hard rock" than Jimi. But, if you're going for that 70's time period, Ozzy/Sabbath, and Alice Cooper really need to be in that mix...

I disagree. Jimi Hendrix was as hard rock as it gets.

 

[Shattered]

I disagree. Jimi Hendrix was as hard rock as it gets.

Who you kidding? That dude was so stoned, he could barely stand. If you called him hard rock, what did you call the two I mentioned previously?

 

[dilloduck]

I disagree. Jimi Hendrix was as hard rock as it gets.

Too many sub-groups of rock to pick just one. I'd stick Jimi in acid-rock.

 

[onedomino]

Duane Allman was badass. Definitely one of the best.

Could not agree with you more. My Dad introduced me to the real Allman Brothers (before Duane Allman and Barry Oakley died so tragically in motorcycle accidents) and it made me feel so good to listen to that music. The Duane Allman - Dickey Betts guitar duet in the tune Blue Sky on the album Eat a Peach made me want to move immediately to Georgia. Duane Allman...just a regular Southern kid who happened to be a blues/rock guitar genius.

 

[Gunny]

Too many sub-groups of rock to pick just one. I'd stick Jimi in acid-rock.

The thread is ill-defined. The term "acid-rock" is pretty old.

Going "anywhere," I'd put Roy Clark or Glen Campbell up against most of the people mentioned here.

A lot has to do with musical taste, and age.

 

[eots]

never mind the bullocks.....here come the sex pistols

YouTube - Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the UK (Studio Version)
The Sex Pistols studio video of Anarchy in the UK.(And yes ...
3 min 32 sec -
[ame]www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bM_l443VV4[/ame]

 

[Gunny]

Who you kidding? That dude was so stoned, he could barely stand. If you called him hard rock, what did you call the two I mentioned previously?

I doubt many of these guys aren't stoned until they get lucky and make to their 30s and go into a rehab that usually doesn't work the first couple of trips.

And as I said, age and taste has a lot to do with it. Hendrix actually played MUSIC. Very little of his stuff was just noise.

 

[Diuretic]

don't own anything by guns.....have a bunch of nils' stuff.....ever hear of robert fripp?...

King Crimson - going back a bit. Now I'm thinking Emerson, Lake and Palmer.

I really liked Yes, still got a couple of their vinyls when they did the theme type stuff.

 

[Shattered]

I doubt many of these guys aren't stoned until they get lucky and make to their 30s and go into a rehab that usually doesn't work the first couple of trips.

And as I said, age and taste has a lot to do with it. Hendrix actually played MUSIC. Very little of his stuff was just noise.

I'll give you age..

But, I thought *I* was the one with taste...

 

[Diuretic]

I disagree. Jimi Hendrix was as hard rock as it gets.

I always put him down as blues first a foremost. I remember buying his vinyl lp "Are You Experienced", I reckon it was in 1967 (still got it). I loved it. Still do. But I could still hear the bluesman under the showman.

 

[Diuretic]

Too many sub-groups of rock to pick just one. I'd stick Jimi in acid-rock.

I have to disagree. He was ripping it up before acid-rock was thought of.

 

[Diuretic]

never mind the bullocks.....here come the sex pistols

YouTube - Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the UK (Studio Version)
The Sex Pistols studio video of Anarchy in the UK.(And yes ...
3 min 32 sec -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bM_l443VV4

Bollocks - and I mean that in the nicest possible way

 

[Diuretic]

And....Alvin Lee