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We are going to exclude singers for this just instrumentalists.
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10. Neil Peart
9. Jeff Lynne
8. George Harrison
7. Eric Clapton
6. Jimmy Page
5. Les Claypool
4. Jimi Hendrix
3. John Bonham
2. Joe Walsh
1. Dave Gilmour
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favorite or best, as in prowess? (cause that's going to be harder for me, as not a musician myself. :P)
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Lindsay Buckingham, as a general musician. But why is his singing excluded? :p
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zombie wrote:favorite or best, as in prowess? (cause that's going to be harder for me, as not a musician myself. :P)
Its your opinion but I went for favorite over best
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Jason wrote:Lindsay Buckingham, as a general musician. But why is his singing excluded? :p
No straight singers and you can't include voice with instrument skill
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Tiggnutz wrote:
zombie wrote:favorite or best, as in prowess? (cause that's going to be harder for me, as not a musician myself. :P)
Its your opinion but I went for favorite over best
i'm struggling to come up with a list. guess it is tricky. :P
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John Fogerty can do it all. He played every instrument in one of his solo albums.
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Dave Grohl
Liberace
Steve Vai
CFO$ (two spots!)
Danny Elfman
Buffy (the Fat Boys) - yeah, human beatboxing is instrumental
Jeff Healey
Carlos Santana
Jerry Reed
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brian may
dave grohl
adam jones
billy corgsn
brian viglione
amanda palmer
melora creager
kirk hammett
lori barbero
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I assumed for bands *No order*

Joe Satriani


David Gilmour


Rick Wright


Brian May


Cliff Burton


John Petrucci


Jeff Beck


Mike Portnoy


James Hetfield


Eddie Van Halen

(yes, that's Eddie playing everything here)

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Tigg, this is too Fuckin hard, man! I am shocked to not see Prince on anyone's list. Dude wrote, produced, sang, and played like 32 instruments on his debut record.
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Jmac Attack wrote:Tigg, this is too Fuckin hard, man! I am shocked to not see Prince on anyone's list. Dude wrote, produced, sang, and played like 32 instruments on his debut record.
.......at 17 years old.......
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Jmac Attack wrote:Tigg, this is too Fuckin hard, man! I am shocked to not see Prince on anyone's list. Dude wrote, produced, sang, and played like 32 instruments on his debut record.
Prince might be in my top 5. Dude was incredible.
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