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Poll Question: Who was the best prog guitarist from the "classic" era?
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    Posted: September 16 2010 at 23:20
I'm counting the years 1967-1978 as the "classic" era, but if you vote for a guitarist from a different time in "other", the guitarist was active in years close to the ones I mentioned and you have a pretty good reason that'd be okay. I'm sure I left a few off, but, you know...that's what "Other" is for. 

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It could be Fripp or Gilmour on another day, but today it's Barre.
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in terms of actual musical ability and knowledge, probably MacLaughlin

when it comes to creativity and innovation, I would say Fripp or Zappa

in terms of sheer gusto, Howe


That being said, I voted for Green
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Di Meola for his Job in RtF and the job in the world music (Tango, Piazzolla, Paco de Lucía) 
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Hard to choose between Fripp and Zappa.
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Hackett, because he excelled on acoustic as well as electric; Howe, a close second for the same reasons; Fripp third ; Latimer fourth; Gilmour fifth; Zappa sixth ...
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Renato D'Angelo from Banco. Beautiful tone. But since he's not on this list, I chose Gilmour. Again, a guitarist who's out of this world.
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Originally posted by progvortex progvortex wrote:

Renato D'Angelo from Banco. Beautiful tone. But since he's not on this list, I chose Gilmour. Again, a guitarist who's out of this world.

You coulda picked "Other", bro!
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Hackett for me, he managed to define the sound of Genesis (with Banks) and nobody really noticed him until VOTA and even more when he left the band.
 
A virtuoso with electric and acoustc guitar as well as in almost any genre, IMO the most versatile and complete Prog guitarist/composer.
 
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I'm going for Hackett.
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Fripp and Zappa next
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my mood for a day is steve howe...lets give him... the clap


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I'm giving my vote to Trower, not so much for his work with Procul Harem, which was just fine if rather mundane, but to his solo work, which in turn was simply fantastic.
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The first for McLaughlin
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Steve Hillage is a significant missing item, but Steve Hackett never can be beaten by anyone my that be Zappa or Fripp or anyone else from this era. Otherwise, my one would undoubtedly go for Tony MacAlpine.
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An incredible list of masters.here. Sir Gilmour is the one that moves me more, followed very close by Andy Latimer. Technically speaking, Hackett and Howe, Mclaughlin, Di Meola...Any of them is the top in his genre.
I agree about Steve Hillage, but there's surely somebody else missing if we dig a bit.
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Jan Akkerman!
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1. David Gilmour
2. Steve Hackett
3. Steve Howe
4. Alex Lifeson
5. Andy Latimer
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