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Greatest Rhythm Guitarist of All Time?
YellowSnow
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Greatest Rhythm Guitarist of All Time? 23 votes
Izzy Stradlin
0%
John Lennon
4%
1 vote
Malcom Young
21%
5 votes
James Hetfield
17%
4 votes
Keith Richards
34%
8 votes
Bob Weir
4%
1 vote
Paul Stanley
0%
Stone Gossard
0%
F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off
17%
4 votes
Comments
Malcolm is 1A, guy was a beast…
Chrissie Hynde
@dflea
Uhh, Mustaine is massively better than 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.
Don’t sleep on Rudolf Schenker
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?’
Das Scorpions?
What @JoeEDangerously said, boss.
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.
Is he not the lead guitarist for Megadeath? Or is Megadeath like Skynyrd or the Allman bros with like dueling lead guitarists.
He is listed as a rhythm guitar player in liner notes yes… but you can see him play several lead guitar solos where as Kirk plays like 90% of the solos in Metallica. Dave is a better guitar player than James. I agree for Christ sake.
Lead for Metallica, co-lead of sorts with Megadeth. Great rhythm guitar player as well. James has more memorable riffs.
I mean you don't see me putting Dicky Betts or Allen Collins in this pole.
I would say he plays maybe a quarter of the lead stuff. The rotating lead guitar players handle most of the massive shredding solos.
Megadeath is coming to White Wakanda on Aug 13th. You gonna bring the fam down or what @BleachedAnusDawg?
Malcolm - quite easily.
I’ll need to do some study to narrow it down, but I dispute some of the names on list. For one, Keith Richards. This list should exclusively feature primary rhythm guitarists. Also, we should focus only on rhythm guitar and ignore any other aspect, such as singing and song writing. Sorry John Lennon. I’m stuck between Young and Hetfeild when just focused on primary rhythm guitarists.
Jesus titty fucking Christ. Keith Richards is 100 percent rhythm guitar and is a hacker at playing lead. Are you high ?
I’m not a musician, but when I googled the Stones two most famous riffs, it’s Keith. Some bands their guitarists go back and forth between lead and rhythm, like Keith, which is why I don’t put him in this category. You play significant time on lead, then should not be on list.