TOP 10 1960'S FASTEST GUITAR SHREDDERS! (Blackmore, Hendrix, Alvin Lee, Page, Campbell, Dick Dale) 

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!

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.

Ritchie Blackmore was shredding before it was a word.

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.

Alvin lee at Woodstock! Goin Home! My hero!

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.

I like this so much better than current players. Way more character

This is a fair list. Have to give the country pickers their due! Roy Clark was a monster!

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

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? 🎸🎸🎸

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.

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What a fantastic video have a wonderful day also happy first weekend of summer ❤😊

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 RU-vid 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.

Love Roy. Equally brilliant on the fiddle and the banjo. ❤

Leigh Stephens from Blue Cheer was kinda fast id say

Glen cambell was a genius master player

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.

Johnny Winter.

I think there was a couple you left out that you could have put in there but they could only be 10

Jimi Hendrix Steve Morse ( Deep Purple)

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?

Hmmmm, Robert Fripp?

Roy Buchanan?

Where's Albert Lee?

When the pinkie flies is witchcraft

Jan Akkerman

Glen Campbell and Roy Clark could flat pick faster than most of today's shredders.

It's Django

Where's Clapton

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

No fukimg way Hendrix is fast. Roy Clark was a Beast!

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.

Page smoked 'em all. LedHed Pb 207.20 🎶 🎸 🎹

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Fast picking triads is sooo. Boring. Anyone can Shawn Lane way over the top.

Fastest? Hendrix???? You gotta be kidding, he was a better rhythm guitarist than lead. He was slow and sloppy playing lead.

Alvin Lee ain’t even that fast tf …Roy Buchanan should’ve been on this list instead