TOP 10 1960'S FASTEST GUITAR SHREDDERS! (Blackmore, Hendrix, Alvin Lee, Page, Campbell, Dick Dale)
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- TOP 10 1960'S FASTEST GUITARISTS. Featuring the talents of guitar legends such as Ritchie Blackmore, Jimi Hendrix, Alvin Lee, Jimmy Page, Glen Campbell, Dick Dale and others.
Who do you think was the fastest guitar player in the 1960's?
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Finally, Alvin Lee gets his recognition on this list.He is not often mentioned on these lists but if you are not familiar with Alvin Lee,sit back and play Ten Years After album A Space In Time, you won’t be disappointed!
Amen to THAT!
Ten Years After "Undead"..."Woodchopper's Ball" is a smoke show...Alvin Lee Shreds it...This Album could also be considered a Jazz Classic...also "I Can't from Crying" from The Isle of Wight Festival...Enough said.
@@user-sn3dj9ri6t Amen Bro!
Ritchie Blackmore was shredding before it was a word.
Alvin lee at Woodstock! Goin Home! My hero!
Going Home was a monster of Guitar greatness! One of the best at Woodstock 1
ALVIN LEE , RITCHIE BLACKMORE , OH YES.
Alvin Lee , they called him " the Bullet " . RIP .
Alvin Lee rules. Standing at the station is awesome.
Alvin Lee was so good with a very unique style incorporating jazz which is typically uncharted territory in most guitarists including myself. Good top 10 list.
Alvin Lee has got to be the most underrated guitarist of all time!!!
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Alvin was a gift from god. Cheers.
An excellent list. It's gratifying to see two country pickers on the list. Alvin is one of my favourites. We lost him way too soon. Johnny Winter and Rory Gallagher could play very fast, but were not really known as shredders.
Merci car vous êtes le seul à avoir mis Alvin Lee dans votre vidéo. Qui est pour la plupart des spécialistes l'un des plus grands guitaristes du monde.
This is a fair list. Have to give the country pickers their due! Roy Clark was a monster!
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Yess!! Along with Glen Campbell and Jerry
Glenn Campbell and Roy Clark are equals in monstrosity. Sorry again, Ritchie.
@@growalnuts9880 I love them both. But I love the rock guys too, like Blackmore and Page. Page is technically not as clean as these guys but he had a knack for synthesizing theses various styles into his recognizable sound.
I like this so much better than current players.
Way more character
Just seeing this. I'm seeing Alvin Lee's name mentioned,which is absolutely correct. They'd be negligent if Johnny Winter's not mentioned. Every well known player when asked to describe JW notes his lightning fingered, clean accurate playing style.
Jimi Hendrix 🎸🎸👍🏼👍🏼 all time
With the exception of Dick Dale…great list !
Has anybody here heard of a guy called Ollie Halsall ? He was an English guitarist in the early seventies, into the eighties. He played lead guitar in a band called Patto, and later played and recorded with Kevin Ayers. Sadly he got hooked on the heavy stuff and it took his life, but what he did on guitar at that time was hard to believe. He was a left hander, played a Gibson SG mostly, and was a supremely naturally gifted musician. People who worked with him said he could pick up any instrument and could master it in a ridiculous short period of time, and that no matter what instrument he played it looked effortless. His speed on the guitar was ridiculous, he developed his own technique, and by the way he had a beautiful tone and melody, and could play slower blues style with real feel, he wasn't just a shredder and nothing else. He truly was a master of the instrument. Check out a track called ' Blue '', it's a Kevin Ayers track from his album ' Yes We Have No Mananas '. You may not like the track, but you'll get the message of what Ollie Halsall could produce, you'll hear the ridiculous speed, but also during his solo the tempo drops and he plays some beautiful bluesy stuff before taking off again. This track was from mid 70's, but he had been playing like this for years. Nobody else was playing with his unique technique at that time. His band Patto toured supporting Ten Years After in the early 70's, and Alvin Lee was so amazed with Ollie's playing, he travelled on Patto's bus between gigs most of the time to talk guitar with Ollie and ask him about his technique. High praise indeed. Sadly, videos, and information on the internet is limited because Ollie Halsall was not a star in his own right, he played in other people's bands, or guested on their albums, but check him out anyway, there are some videos of him performing with Patto on you tube, but check out the track ' Blue ' by Kevin Ayers first.
Yes, he was unique. Heard some of his playing in Patto, and there were licks there I'd never heard before. RiP Ollie.
@BlueBlazer47 There was also Allan Holdsworth who was also exploring the legato technique and went on his own journey to guitar greatness.
@@Fontsman-14: Yes, and I confuse him with John McLaughlin - masters of fusion.
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it was a really different feeling in the general guitar playing style in the early years. this guys are much more authentic in style and playing than most of the modern players. maybe it is from less electronics and more rough personally skills and style and art of playing. today's guitar sound is mostly more clean, cold impersonally than the old one . . .
today is also a lot of good music out there but the old sound is very special more unique - simply i like it
Agree
This is so much better than the modern/current players
@@kevinkinnu341 bro, crawlnout from under that rock. Electric guitar has evolved so much in everyway. The only reason you don't like modern guitar solo is because you can't play them clown. You're probably some ignorant boomer who still hasn't figured out why his les paul won't stay in tune, or how to use any other mode than pentatonic minor
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What a fantastic video have a wonderful day also happy first weekend of summer ❤😊
Cheers! 🤘🎸👍😎
Watching this video, I am reminded that in my youth I saw Jimi Hendrix and the Monkees at the same show.
Very interesting video. I'd add Albert Lee (Country Boy, Heads Hands & Feet), Mick Abrahams (Leave It with Me, Blodwyn Pig), and jazzers like Wes Montgomery and Bert Weedon.
It is sad that so many of the greatest guitarists are now gone forever.
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This is nuts!!!!😮
Best list ever!
Love Roy. Equally brilliant on the fiddle and the banjo. ❤
That guy was a beast. And his facial expressions in the video are priceless! 🎸🤘
@GuitarGodzUnleashed check out his version of maleguena on the odd couple if you haven't seen it. Classic
@jeffroegner1499 I think I came across that whilst researching this video. It’s all good. Great music, very enjoyable stuff, great guitar playing. Could listen to it anytime! 🎸👍
Yes ALVIN LEE and Ollie Halsall /Patto, Tempest, Kevin Ayers Band.
awesome locote grandes guitarristas
All good pics..hard to pick who the best...alot depends on what you like etc. Also lots of great jazz guitar players
Great list. Some people take these things very personally.
I am waiting for Jan Akkerman and Al dimeola more different chanres not just one
Alvain lee
Johnny Winter.
Great
Leigh Stephens from Blue Cheer was kinda fast id say
Glen cambell was a genius master player
Previous video got blocked due to copyright restrictions so I have uploaded a new version. Someone doesn’t want Ritchie Blackmore’s guitar shredding to be seen for some reason! 😂
So who was the fastest guitar slinger in the 1960’s? 🎸🎸🎸
Prolly Ritchie, after all the guy quit rock so he could exercise (soccer) 😅😂😂
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Glen Campell
All these guys are dazzling, each in their own way.
Acoustic guitar is John Mclaughrin！！！😤😤
Glen Campbell and Roy Clark could flat pick faster than most of today's shredders.
There is some footage of Glen Campbell a few years later, in the early 70’s and he’s even faster then, beast of a picker!
+Rory Gallagher. The rest, yes.
In my previous comment below, regarding the brilliant guitarist Ollie Halsall, I forgot to also recommend you listen to his amazing guitar playing on the Kevin Ayers track ' Didn't Feel Lonely Till I Thought Of You ', this was the early 70's. Also meant to mention the two UA-cam videos ' Ollie Halsall best guitar solos ' & 'Ollie Halsall great guitar moments '. If you read my comment below you'll see my reference to Alvin Lee's admiration for Ollie Halsall, but if you check out the comments under ' Ollie Halsall best guitar solos ', you'll see Alvin Lee's direct comment. Please read my comment below to make sense of this comment & I hope you enjoy the amazing skills of an unknown guitar great.
A parte ovviamente ritckie Blackmore
When I first started playing I unintentionally faked being fast by tremolo picking like Dick Dale. Not knocking him, but that style came extremely easily to me from the get.
He only seemed to pick fast when playing on one string which is a lot easier to do than when crossing all the strings. I reckon Hendrix and Page could have done that tremolo picking on a single string no problem?
@@GuitarGodzUnleashed For sure.
Weird ranking … I mean: Ranking is weird as such. But what does speed gave to do with music? Sometimes you need it. But aren‘t there lots of other aspects of music that shouldn‘t be ranked?
Glenn Campbell shredded with precision a 12 string acoustic guitar behind his head. He was country. Could have taken Deep Purple from Blackmore and made a better Mark 2. Amazing man.
Jan Akkerman
Absolutely,,,,!!!!!!!
Not 60's
@@armandbasilico9002 focus formed late '69 as the pit band for the musical "hair"
@@fritey5624 Not denying Jan's merits but late 69 kind of puts him in the 70's. Although I was unaware of Focus starting that early.
Remember Roy Clark?🎸
Where is Johnny Winter??
Hendrix, Alvin Lee, Terry Kath were the best.
I think there was a couple you left out that you could have put in there but they could only be 10
Only room for 10 in a Top 10 🤘😎
Where is Bo Winberg guitarist of the Spotnicks?
Jimi Hendrix
Steve Morse ( Deep Purple)
Was Steve Morse around in the 60’s? Thought he was late 70’s?
To me, all were best.
You forgot about Rory Gallagher .peace
🤔 .. how about Rory Gallagher ? 🌹,☕☕ ? 😊
Page smoked 'em all.
LedHed Pb 207.20 🎶 🎸 🎹
Roy Buchanan?
Where's Albert Lee?
When the pinkie flies is witchcraft
Hmmmm, Robert Fripp?
Love Johnny but saying he would leave Alvin in the dust is just silly and absurd.
What has fast got to do with music. if you want fast buy a sports car
I love jimi hendrix but shouldn't be up there for the fastest guitar.
He played with feel.
He was the genius of revolutionary.He didn't have to play fast.
Didn't replace slow and at times he could play pretty fast, not super fast.
No Albert Lee? No Steve Morse? I dont agree
Where's Clapton
No fukimg way Hendrix is fast. Roy Clark was a Beast!
Hendrix not generally a fast player but he had some nifty fingers when he wanted them. Check out his Woodstock performance, at times he could bang out some quick licks here and there
It's Django
He was soooo great,,,!!!!!,,but he sadly passed away in 1953...
Allan Holdsworth,Frank Marino,Ulrich Roth,Ted Nugent⚡⚡🤘🤘
Tecnicamente non se ne salva uno....
First of all, Johnny Winter would make most of these guys look lethargic. Secondly, I could NEVER stand those stoopid faces that Alv8n Lee always made when playing.
Fastest is DEFINITELY not best! Playing a million notes in a bar just shows a lack of feel, passion, groove, it shows something lacking! Guitarists with the feel, passion, emotion of Kossoff, Page, Gilmour are the best.
Guitarists who play fast do it because they can.If you don't get it you don't get it.
Totally wrong. Fastest by itself doesn't mean the best but it is an important component of virtuosity that is revered in all genres of music--especially jazz, classical, and bluegrass--and nobody would say those musicians were "lacking" anything. Many fast guitarists can play with the passion, feeling and soul of the guys you mentioned--Gary Moore, Alvin Lee, and Johnny Winter are just a few of them.
Fast picking triads is sooo. Boring. Anyone can
Shawn Lane way over the top.
Betcha this lightweight list doesn’t mention Johnny Winter, who’d leave Alvin Lee in the dust ! 💤
Whenever I see the words “shred” or “jam band”, you know the author’s clueless about real music. 🤡
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Love Johnny, but saying he would leave Alvin in the dust is just silly and absurd.
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Silly & absurd…what do you know about serious Blues? Likely not much beyond garden variety blues rockers who cover a few blues songs. Do some real serious research & drop your bias, juvenile opinion.
@@loilt5091 The more you talk the more foolish you sound. I have been playing guitar for over 50 yrs and have been a blues afficionado for just as long. Johnny Winter is one of my all time favorite players as is Alvin Lee. I have seen them both live at least a dozen times each--including twice on the same bill. I have all of their recordings, including several dozen or more bootleg of each. I have met and hung out with both on a few occasions. This video was about speed, and you made an inaccurate comment that Johnny would "leave Alvin in the dust" which is just nonsense. Speed isn't everything but this video is about speed and that is what we are talking about here. Johnny never played anything faster than the Alvin clips shown here and these clips are not even Alvin's best or fastest. I do believe Johnny should definitely be in any conversation about the 60's fastest players--that statement can be easily made without making an inaccurate claim and attempting to take away from another player, which is what you did.
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I don’t buy your spiel for a second & if it’s true, your taste is highly questionable? You NEVER hear his name mentioned in REAL Blues guitar articles. Winter won 3 Grammy’s out of the 4 Muddy Waters albums that he both played on & produced, starting in the ‘70’s. In 1988, Johnny was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame, the first non-African-American performer to be inducted into the Hall. I caught J.W. live, at least 10 times; not much of an Alvin Lee fan. Got heavy into the Blues, immediately after ‘70’s high school, skipping many of the blues rockers, via the Johnny Winter/Muddy Waters connection…going straight to the actual source! We can drop names all night…guaranteed, I’ve seen far more real Blues artists, (not Alvin Lee, blues-lite types, but the REAL DEAL), than you ever have. The fact that you’re caught up in a speed/(Alvin Lee), blues rocker thread, alone, tells me where your likely tastes lie. Personally, I don’t limit myself to just rock or blues, having a wide, eclectic musical palette, far beyond mere rock & blues. Speed for its own, wanker sake, means very little to myself in terms of actual musicality. As Edgar himself stated about his older brother, he was the John Coltrane of blues guitar. The man could improvise endlessly during his absolute prime. Alvin Lee never had that kind of ability, end of story. I could care less about him playing a few minutes of a fast lick, etc.. “I’m Goin Home”…big deal! There are jazz greats who’d embarrass these kinds of aspiring speedsters in a heartbeat. In terms of the actual Blues, A.L.’s a lightweight, blues guitarist, wanna be. If you truly know anything about J.W.’s encyclopedic blues background/vast vintage record collection & absolute virtuosity, you wouldn’t dare make your uneducated statements. Don’t take my words out of context, we’re talking the Blues genre & he’s NOT EVEN IN THE SAME LEAGUE.
Homework 📚 time…or light up another fatty & flashback to Woodstock. ☮️
@@loilt5091 What a bunch of irrelevant babbling bullshit. The video is not about blues, it is about SPEED--can you not comprehend this? You made the comment that Johnny would leave Alvin in the dust on a video about speed (which again is nonsense). So all your bullshit about who is a better blues player is IRRELEVANT to this video. Alvin may not play blues as often as Johnny but that does not mean he doesn't play blues very well. In fact Alvin's playing on "The Bluest Blues" is unsurpassed by anything Johnny ever did. By your foolish reasoning Gary Moore is also a lightweight because he didn't limit himself to playing blues. Gary was every bot as great a blues player as Johnny. I LOVE Johnny Winter but if you think Alvin Lee was all about speed and "I'm Going Home" you are indeed an ignorant fool. As much as I love Johnny, I would argue that Alvin was the more versatile player precisely because he didn't limit himself to blues like Johnny MOSTLY did. Here I digressed into an area that has nothing to do with THIS video just to address you bullshit nonsense.
Fastest? Hendrix???? You gotta be kidding, he was a better rhythm guitarist than lead. He was slow and sloppy playing lead.
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Alvin Lee ain’t even that fast tf …Roy Buchanan should’ve been on this list instead