Our most favoured guitar idols are often people that inspire us with their musical ability and guitar prowess. Their songs often speak to us and tell us that we should try and pick the guitar up, whether it be to emulate some of our favourites or to start our own band or write our own music with our very own style. But it isn't just the music that inspires us to create our own music, sometimes, when they are not getting wasted, sleeping with groupies or taking drugs, guitarists can say some pretty awe inspiring things.
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This week's riff comes from one of the greatest guitarists on the planet, and one of the biggest bands of the late 80's. The band is Guns n Roses. The guitarist is Slash, and the riff... You've guessed it, Sweet Child O Mine. Arguably one of the greatest guitar tracks ever. Q Magazine placed it as the 6th best guitar track of all time, and I would probably say rightly so. Anyway here it is, if you don't know it already, its a riff that every guitarist should have in their catalogue.
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Ok, so now that all of the best guitarists of the decade polls are over, I can finally move on to who you think the best guitarist is. The winner of the best 00's Guitarist goes to Matt Bellamy so he has put himself in the running for Greatest Guitarist Ever. Now, the only way that I can think about putting this list together in the fairest way is to take all of your choices on the decade polls and only use those guitarists to determine the Greatest Guitarist.
So all of you who didn't[...]