The World top 5 Guitarists

Jimi Hendrix
Jimi was an American guitarist and singer and song writer. He is widely considered to be the greatest electric guitarist in music history, and one of the most influential musicians. Hendrix’s first single, “Hey Joe,” a cover of a song , hit the U.K. charts in early 1967, followed in quick succession by “Purple Haze,” “The Wind Cries Mary,” and the trio’s ferocious debut album, Are You Experienced?, which featured those tracks and the Hendrix staples “Foxy Lady” and “Manic Depression.” Hendrix’s popularity Stateside was a bit slower in igniting, but Are You Experienced? finally broke through in a major way after a defining moment at the famed Monterey Pop Festival when the notoriously outlandish frontman created a sensation by coaxing flames from his Strat during the band’s performance.

The next year, Hendrix’s eclectic psychedelia reached a zenith with two albums, Axis: Bold As Love and Electric Ladyland — the latter ranks as one of the greatest works of the rock era. But the experience at the top didn’t last long — Hendrix and bassist Redding grew apart, and muddled by overindulgence in drugs and groupies, Hendrix came to believe — wrongly — that his management was cheating him. In 1969, the Experience disbanded.

Hendrix won many prestigious rock music awards in his lifetime, and has been posthumously awarded many more, including being inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005.


Robert Johnson
Born in Hazlehurst on May 8, 1911 Robert Johnson was an American singer and musician. As an itinerant performer who played mostly on street corners, in juke joints, and at Saturday night dances, Johnson enjoyed little commercial success or public recognition in his lifetime.

It was only after the first reissue of his recordings on LP in 1961 that his work reached a wider audience and got recognised. Johnson is now recognized as a master of the blues, particularly of the Mississippi Delta blues style.His deal with the devil and death are full of folklore and mysticism. According to a legend one evening Johnson began flirting with a woman at a dance, the wife of the juke joint owner, according to rumor, unaware that the bottle of whiskey she gave to Johnson had been poisoned by her husband.


John Frusciante
Known as the former guitarist of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers Frusciante is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, record and film producer. Frusciante has released ten solo albums, as well as two with Josh Klinghoffer and Joe Lally as Ataxia. Influenced by guitarists of various genres, Frusciante emphasizes melody and emotion in his guitar playing, and favors vintage guitars and analog recording techniques.

Frusciante has received immense recognition for his guitar playing skills, ranking at number 18 on Rolling Stone’s list of “The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time” in 2003 and voted the best guitarist of the last 30 years in a 2010 BBC poll called “The Axe Factor”





John Mayer

John Mayer is an American pop and blues rock musician, singer-songwriter, recording artist, and music producer. His first two studio albums, Room for Squares and Heavier Things, did well commercially, achieving multi-platinum status. In 2003, he won a Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for “Your Body Is a Wonderland. Other awards won by Mayer include Les Paul Horizon Award , Can’t Get You Out of My Head Award for “No Such Thing” , Favorite Male Artist – Pop or Rock ‘n Roll Music , Reached 100,000 spins for “Why Georgia” , People’s choice award for Favorite Male Artist etc.



Dick Dale

Dick Dale is an American surf rock guitarist, known as The King of the Surf Guitar. He experimented with reverberation and made use of custom made Fender amplifiers, including the first-ever 100-watt guitar amplifier. Dale is often credited as one of the first electric guitarists to employ fast playing scales in his playing.

His song “Let’s Go Trippin’” is often regarded as the first surf rock song. His first full-length album was Surfers’ Choice in 1962. The album was picked up by Capitol Records and distributed nationally, and Dale soon began appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show, and in films where he played his signature single “Misirlou”. He later stated, “I still remember the first night we played it (”Misirlou”). I changed the tempo, and just started cranking on that mother. His second album was named after his performing nickname, King of the Surf Guitar.





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