Was Jimmy Page a better guitarist than Jeff Beck? Clapton?

[Taverner]

As good technically that Beck was...and as emotive Clapton could be...

Led Zeppelin just speaks for itself

[edbermac]

1. Esteban is the greatest guitarist alive.

Plus he wears a cool hat. Besides when was the last time you saw Clapton on QVC?

[Left Is Write]

31. His fingernails are even longer than The Movie Geek's.

[Kali]

2. Robin Trower.......

..........man. (pretend I said that in a drunken slur)

[qwertyMike]

3. Jeff Beck n/t

[enigmatic]

4. Eddie Hazel

http://recluseshow.blogspot.com/search?q=eddie+hazel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfGatOUwyMg

[wildhorses]

5. daune allman, jimi hendrix

joe satriani, robin trower, roger mcquinn---all are good, don't make my head hurt tryin' to decide!

[6000eliot]

6. Beck is technically the best of the three.

Clapton comes in second. Page is good, but he sometimes has trouble playing cleanly.

[Common Sense Party]

7. No, and no.

Sloppy, in my opinion.

Don't get me wrong--I love Zeppelin. He wrote (or pilfered from the Blues) some great hooks and riffs, but his solos were often sloppy and disjointed.

Not as bad as Ritchie Blackmore, not even close.

But Clapton, of the three, would get my vote.

[Alexander]

10. How can you trash Ritchie Blackmore?

The man had a huge bag of riffs and wasn't nearly as sloppy as Jimmy Pagerism.

:cry:

[Common Sense Party]

26. I calls 'em as I hears 'em.

Blackmore's solos were waaaaay sloppy. They had nothing to do with the rest of the song.

I know that was his style. I know that's what he wanted. But it just grates.

[pokerfan]

8. Jimi Hendrix

as much as I love Led Zep, I have to give the nod to Hendrix.

[MrSlayer]

9. Yes and Yes.

Zeppelin is the greatest band in history. Songwritng counts and he smokes the both of them.

[SteppingRazor]

20. How can his songwriting be better than them...

when many Zep songs were just reworkings of old blues songs? :shrug:

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

24. Well, many is not all.

True, Zeppelin has some pretty derivative material, but they had some amazing songs that had very little blues influence. Houses of the Holy is a classic album but I don't hear a lot of blues in it.

[Karenina]

11. John McLaughlin

changed the very definition of guitar playing...

[eyepaddle]

12. No.

Straightforward answers to straightforward questions.

[Tikki]

32. The correct answer is NO........n/t

[bif]

13. Jeff Beck was better. McGlaughlin was the best.

[MissMillie]

14. I don't think so, but I need to qualify this statement

Jimmy Page, while pretty good at *playing* the guitar, was much better at what *effects* he could produce from a guitar--much like Hendrix.

That's an entirely different animal than Beck, or Clapton, or my hero, Steve Howe.

It's almost like asking "who's the better skater: Bonnie Blair or Nancy Kerrigan?"

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

25. Page is an excellent producer and had a great ear for layering

and textures. Effects like Hendrix though? I guess, but I think a lot of what Page could do what a result of extensive studio work and less a product of a rack of pedals (or whatever they used back in the day).

[regularguy]

15. I love Zep, BUT

Jeff Beck is simply, IMO, in different league than Page. A true guitar God, he is.

[LynneSin]

16. I've listened to Beck and I've listened to Page

and I've come to conclusion that it's very difficult to compare these two guitarists to each other. Both had very unique sounds that made them memorable throughout history.

[XNASA]

22. Anyone can play guitar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX7WaFn2Zf8

But not many people don't play it as well as Jonny Greenwood.

[regularguy]

27. It's inevitable that the two (and Clapton too)

will be compared: Brit blues/rock guys of the late sixties. I think Clapton is the truest to the blues roots, and Page/Zep were a creative force; one of the best rock bands of all time. But JBs guitar vocabulary is just so much wider and more interesting than the other two that it puts him for me in another league. And on top of that the way the dude can bend a note just brings a fuckin tear to my eye! I'm not sure I can say that about *any* other player.

[Bombtrack]

17. Yes, absolutely. Sorry I can't help factoring in the songs they write into ability

nobody holds a candle to Zeppelin in general and Page in particular.

They put out 8 albums of pure timelessness in 12 or so years. Best band ever, and Page was the most crucial part of that.

[fla nocount]

18. Fully utilizing the instruments potential? Zappa n/t

[jobycom]

19. Better? Dunno. I like Page better than Beck, and Clapton better than both

But I'm more into emotive than technical. To me, technical is only worth anything if it enhances the passion behind the playing, which is why people like Kenny Wayne Shepard don't excite me.

[vote5polend]

21. buckethead

buckethead>all

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

23. Beck

Clapton and Page. Is how I rank them. But one that might compete that has not been mentioned, as of this posting, is Stevie Ray Vaughn...........!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

[dajoki]

28. Alvin Lee...

Ten Years After with Lee was one of the greatest bands ever.:woohoo:

[kwassa]

29. Why does one have to be best?

Good artists are also unique. I think that all three are good, and so are many other guitarists. Each has their own voice, their own style.

These three each passed through the Yardbirds, but that is really the only connection.

I think Hendrix is more important than any of them, and probably the best musician, as well as being a good songwriter, for players from that era.

[Left Is Write]

30. What's with all the "was"?

Did somebody kill off those guys and I didn't know?