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Originally Posted by mbriant  Sovkiller, you are correct. There are all sorts of great guitarists these days, many of them session musicians, some of them teenagers, who could likely play circles around Jimi Hendrix if they wanted ... but I think most of us are taking the originality of the music they helped shape and create into account when choosing who was a great rhythm guitarist. Their contribution to great songs may not be as prominent as the writer's, the vocalist's, or the lead guitarist's, but as part of the group who actually together created and performed the great songs, their piece of the synergy was unique ( at that time) and extremely important to the final result. The same could be said for drummers, lead guitarists, keyboardists, and singers as well.
I've often thought about this while watching guest bands play on Letterman or Leno, etc. As musicians, the house band members are usually technically way ahead of the guest band's musicians, capable of playing anything with excellent results, but it's the guest band, often comprised of young, much less experienced and less refined musicians who have created the sound and spark of whatever recent hit they're performing ... so they're the ones people pay most attention to, and they're the ones people will remember.
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I agree with you to some extend, that was why I stated if they were only talking of playing, or as a whole musical phenomenon, of course Beatles, Stones, were the base for what we have today, and I respect that, even while I do not like too much what they did, I'm more into more aggressive and elaborated musical tendencies, even though I have a couple of Stones videos and CDs around, but nothing that will take my sleep away...
But the thread asked about the best rhythm guitar players of all times, that is very big name to just let Harrison, or Wood to take it, just based in ancient history, IMO they are not clearly the best rhythm guitar players of all times, sorry...not even considering what they did in the bands, or the legacy for the humanity they have left behind...But anyway that is a realy complex argument, so whatever float your boat....
