Who is the greatest guitarist of all time?
Every list of the greatest guitarists is somebody's argument. This one is settled by whoever shows up: two players at a time, one pick each, and the order belongs to the people voting.
1Jimi HendrixRecorded three studio albums in four years and rewrote what an electric guitar could sound like.
2Eric ClaptonThe only three-time inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, with the Yardbirds, Cream and solo.
3Jimmy PageLed Zeppelin's guitarist and producer, and a session player on hundreds of records before that.
4Eddie Van HalenHis two-handed tapping on Eruption sent a generation of players back to the practice room.
5David GilmourPink Floyd's guitarist, known for bending a single note further than most players bend a phrase.
6Chuck BerryWrote the vocabulary of rock guitar riffs that nearly everyone after him borrowed.
7B.B. KingBuilt a career on vibrato and space, playing one note where others played ten.
8Stevie Ray VaughanBrought Texas blues back to the charts in the 1980s with a tone nobody has copied cleanly.
9Keith RichardsThe Rolling Stones' rhythm guitarist and the author of riffs that carry whole songs.
10PrinceA guitarist first, whose solo on While My Guitar Gently Weeps at the Hall of Fame became its own legend.
11Carlos SantanaFused blues phrasing with Latin rhythm and has kept the same singing tone for six decades.
12Jeff BeckLeft the Yardbirds and spent fifty years refusing to repeat himself, mostly without a pick.
13SlashGuns N' Roses' lead guitarist, whose intro to Sweet Child O' Mine started as a warm-up exercise.
14Tony IommiLost two fingertips in a factory accident, retuned down, and invented the sound of heavy metal.
15Mark KnopflerDire Straits' fingerpicked electric style made him instantly recognisable without a plectrum.
16Duane AllmanThe Allman Brothers' slide player, gone at twenty-four, and on Layla before that.
17Django ReinhardtPlayed with two working fingers on his fretting hand and founded gypsy jazz guitar.
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