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                        <title>Re: Best professional guitarists</title>
                        <link>https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/best-professional-guitarists/paged/2/#post-349400</link>
                        <pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Warren Haynes  &amp; Joe Bonamassa !But , there are so much .... 8)]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Warren Haynes  &amp; Joe Bonamassa !<br>But , there are so much .... 8)]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/">Opinions and Polls</category>                        <dc:creator>crazyhorse</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Re: Best professional guitarists</title>
                        <link>https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/best-professional-guitarists/paged/2/#post-349116</link>
                        <pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Prince is the best guitarist. No question.]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Prince is the best guitarist. No question.]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/">Opinions and Polls</category>                        <dc:creator>EEEEEE</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Re: Best professional guitarists</title>
                        <link>https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/best-professional-guitarists/paged/2/#post-348296</link>
                        <pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[I couldn&#039;t resist bumping this thread. Andres Segovia makes perfect sense to me. You don&#039;t have to like classical guitar to realize how much of a master he was. I suspect that &quot;best&quot; in most...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[I couldn't resist bumping this thread. Andres Segovia makes perfect sense to me. You don't have to like classical guitar to realize how much of a master he was. I suspect that "best" in most minds is strongly tied in to the music we like (as has been stated before). If limited in that way, Jimi Hendrix would certainly get my vote, but  I would have a hard time justifying such a vote even with myself when compared to Segovia.]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/">Opinions and Polls</category>                        <dc:creator>boynamedsuse</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Re: Best professional guitarists</title>
                        <link>https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/best-professional-guitarists/paged/2/#post-347787</link>
                        <pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[obviously, i&#039;m the best...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[obviously, i'm the best...]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/">Opinions and Polls</category>                        <dc:creator>U2Bono269</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Re: Best professional guitarists</title>
                        <link>https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/best-professional-guitarists/paged/2/#post-347784</link>
                        <pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Some of my favourites....Jimi Hendrix,David Gilmour,Stevie Ray Vaughan,Albert King,Joe Satriani,Robin TrowerAll fantastic in their own way.....]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Some of my favourites....<br><br>Jimi Hendrix,<br>David Gilmour,<br>Stevie Ray Vaughan,<br>Albert King,<br>Joe Satriani,<br>Robin Trower<br><br>All fantastic in their own way.....]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/">Opinions and Polls</category>                        <dc:creator>fleaaaaaa</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Re: Best professional guitarists</title>
                        <link>https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/best-professional-guitarists/paged/2/#post-347130</link>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Stevie Ray Vaughn.Erm, I mean Mark Knopfler.David Gilmour. What day is it again? It REALLY depends on the mood I&#039;m in. Erm, Slash? Zack Wilde?BB King? Who do I listen to most right now? Gary...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Stevie Ray Vaughn.<br><br>Erm, I mean Mark Knopfler.<br><br>David Gilmour. <br><br>What day is it again? It REALLY depends on the mood I'm in. <br><br>Erm, Slash? Zack Wilde?<br><br>BB King? <br><br>Who do I listen to most right now? Gary Moore. (Learning to bend HARD.) BUt that's the only reason he really makes the play list. <br><br>Yngwie Malmsteen?<br><br>Santana?<br><br>Erm...this could go on forever. I'd list all of these guys...some days.<br><br>Ande.]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/">Opinions and Polls</category>                        <dc:creator>Ande</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Re: Best professional guitarists</title>
                        <link>https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/best-professional-guitarists/paged/2/#post-347058</link>
                        <pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:42:12 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Clapton, Beck, Hendrix, Knopfler, Eric Johnson, Robert Johnson, Buddy Guy, the &quot;Three Kings&quot;, Duane Allman, Vaughan, Cale, Vai, Petrucci... and Segovia, Romero, De LucÃ­a... in no particular...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Clapton, Beck, Hendrix, Knopfler, Eric Johnson, Robert Johnson, Buddy Guy, the "Three Kings", Duane Allman, Vaughan, Cale, Vai, Petrucci... and Segovia, Romero, De LucÃ­a... in no particular order...<br><br>And also Dogbite, Joe Hempel, Dale (Tonedr), Alan Green, Steinar...<br><br>I like each guitarist that can communicate a feeling while playing. The best one for me? Probably it depends on the moment.]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/">Opinions and Polls</category>                        <dc:creator>Nuno</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Re: Best professional guitarists</title>
                        <link>https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/best-professional-guitarists/#post-347056</link>
                        <pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[We go through this about once a year. The result is always the same - no answer.There are too many variables, which make a decision impossible. What, for example, is the definition of &quot;best&quot;...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[We go through this about once a year. The result is always the same - no answer.<br><br>There are too many variables, which make a decision impossible. What, for example, is the definition of "best"? Is it technically the best, or is it musically the best? Does best mean fastest? Most "feel"? <br><br>Then, of course, there is the ultimate variable - the listener. Those, who are into punk, will have a totally different set of parameters than someone into surf music.<br><br>There is just no simple answer and, certainly, no definitive one.]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/">Opinions and Polls</category>                        <dc:creator>greybeard</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Re: Best professional guitarists</title>
                        <link>https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/best-professional-guitarists/#post-347055</link>
                        <pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[But if we are talking technical guy, there are alot of em these days Paul Gilbert, Satriani, Vai, Petrucci. .

Lets not forget Steve Morse.  8)]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<br>But if we are talking technical guy, there are alot of em these days Paul Gilbert, Satriani, Vai, Petrucci. <br>.

Lets not forget Steve Morse.  8)]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/">Opinions and Polls</category>                        <dc:creator>Rahul</dc:creator>
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                        <title>Re: Best professional guitarists</title>
                        <link>https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/best-professional-guitarists/#post-347051</link>
                        <pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 08:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Wholenote.com ran a &quot;who is/was the greatest guitarist ever&quot; poll a few years back and Andres Segovia won. Who? A dead Spanish classical guitarist, A :-)

Isn&#039;t Segovia like the father of th...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<br>Wholenote.com ran a "who is/was the greatest guitarist ever" poll a few years back and Andres Segovia won. Who? A dead Spanish classical guitarist, <br><br>A :-)

Isn't Segovia like the father of the classical guitar ( not like the guitar itself but the style of playing it ). IEDIT: Scratch that, thanks WIkipedia, he helped bring it back, because at the time Flamenco was more popular.<br><br>Sorry , way off topic :P.<br><br>But if we are talking technical guy, there are alot of em these days Paul Gilbert, Satriani, Vai, Petrucci. <br><br>Its all a matter of opinion i think.]]></content:encoded>
						                            <category domain="https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/">Opinions and Polls</category>                        <dc:creator>Coolnama</dc:creator>
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