Greatest Rhythm Guitarist of All Time?
Greatest Rhythm Guitarist of All Time? 23 votes
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Keith Richards
Malcolm is 1A, guy was a beast…
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off
Chrissie Hynde
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Malcom Young
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off
Uhh, Mustaine is massively better than Hetfield.
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James Hetfield
Would agree technically but Dave is more of a Lead player than James and James had the special sauce for the more memorable jams.
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James Hetfield
Don’t sleep on Rudolf Schenker
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off
Eddie VH had a lot to say about the lead / rhythm roles. He had great common sense along with musicianship. For the guitar was not a lead or rhythm instrument but both in varying degrees.
“Eruption, like most of the other songs on the first album, was performed pretty much live. We had been in the studio for the first time ever about a year earlier with Gene Simmons of Kiss, and I quickly learned that I didn’t like overdubbing.
"Simmons produced a three-song demo for us that consisted of Runnin’ with the Devil, House of Pain and a song called Babe, Don’t Leave Me Alone. Gene said, ‘Here’s what you do in the studio - you play your rhythm parts on one track, and your solo parts on another.’
“I remember feeling very uncomfortable with separating my lead and fill parts from my rhythm parts. Onstage, I’d gotten used to doing both simultaneously. I’d just noodle in between chord lines. Because it was my first time in a recording studio, it didn’t occur to me to say, ‘Can’t I play just the way I play live?’
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Malcom Young
Das Scorpions?
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Keith Richards
What @JoeEDangerously said, boss.
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off
Mustaine doesn't play lead in his own band. If the qualifications include having the biggest hit songs the poll should probably be re-done.
