Worst Guitarists of All Time

He's the worst and fake. I mean, I saw his guitar solos. Are those even real? They are lame jokes. I mean, he taps on the guitar and the sound is something else. If you show me someone picking a note with one finger and calling it economy picking, would you believe it? I wouldn't call him the worst guitarist, even if he can't play guitar. But why pretend to be something you can't do? He tries to become Eddie Van Halen!
At least Kurt Cobain plays guitar, and those were real. It doesn't matter how good, bad, or overrated he is.
Not much to be said here that hasn't already been said. He clearly can't play the instrument and doesn't try to learn. This is evident in his infamous guitar solo on YouTube.

Guys, he is technically by far the worst on this list. He is absolutely talentless and has no purpose in anything whatsoever. Worse than Lil Wayne and Fred Durst. Also, what the heck is Kirk Hammett doing on this list?!?!?!?!?!? The guy who made this must have been drunk.
If he's trying to be a bad guitarist, then he's doing good.
His song and his guitar playing are just no...

He is a good rapper, but Wes Borland is the rightful guitarist.
He's not a guitarist, but he tried playing guitar once and he sucked at it.

I don't understand why a bunch of girls pick up a guitar because of Taylor Swift's "music". All she does (or at least did when she was a country singer) is play four chords over and over and sing about every guy she's gone out with and broken up with. She's not that talented and doesn't even play guitar anymore.
Taylor Swift is beyond talentless. I have never seen a more deplorable vocalist in my life.
New Eddie Van Halen my ass. She sucks.

Baby: One chord at the intro, nothing else. This guy is a poser guitarist.
Does he know what a guitar even is?

Kurt wasn't technically a good guitar player. He never did many impressive solos or musically diverse riffs, but his guitar playing perfectly matched the feeling the band was going for. His sloppy, distorted guitar screeches matched Nirvana's style and actually made their music sound more interesting and better. If they had a more technically skilled guitarist like Slash, for example, the band's music wouldn't have been as good or made as much of an impact.
The thing about Kurt was that yeah, you could sit down with your guitar and play his songs without too much trouble, but it makes you go "why didn't I think of that?" He had an amazing feel for writing compelling guitar lines, technicality aside. There are plenty of bands that like to show off their music theory knowledge, but something just gets lost along the way sometimes.

This guy stinks. He sucks. He only plays acoustic. Have you even seen him on electric guitars before? Hell, I think he writes all those songs just to get chicks.
Any one of his songs can be learned in under 60 seconds.
I think I can play even better than him.

Maybe if he'd shorten his strap, his pick would actually catch all the intended strings. Quality is sacrificed for image, and his ego kills his talent even more.
Sure, his solos are easy because as a child he didn't focus on being the best guitarist ever. He focused on being the best songwriter ever.
I can't believe his solos are super easy. I played the solo in "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" in maybe under 1 minute!

Can't play. Can't even make a single good song.
All he does is play three chords over and over while singing boring and generic love songs.

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His style is basically screechy noises that ruin beautiful solos. He's an insult to guitarists, and he's very pretentious.
His solos are way too distorted and sound more like screechy noises than actual solos.

All he does is play basic chords that you would learn in the first month of guitar lessons (Photograph is a perfect example). He doesn't even have good note selection either: Burn It to the Ground would have sounded better if he hadn't gone from plucking the open E straight to plucking that string on the 15th fret.
Why is Kurt Cobain above him? I'm not even a Nirvana fan, but it's not hard for me to realize they're nowhere near the worst! But Chad Kroeger sucks!
Take a look at this trash guitar.
Every time I play it I become a star.
Oh wait, that was stolen!


Since 30 years ago, he sounds like he has only a few days of practice and never improved a little bit. The worst guitarist ever, worst solos ever, boring, simple in the worst sense of the word... very low-quality music made for the masses... Oasis is the McDonald's of music...
Graham Coxon, Jonny Greenwood, Keith Richards, and Pete Townshend are way better guitarists than Noel Gallagher. Also, he is an absolute idiot and treats everyone like garbage. Why anyone would like or support this person is beyond me.


Whammett demonstrates what happens when you're taught by one of the best and don't practice your material. Kids, please learn from this!
Seriously? This guy's solos are awesome!

Terrible guitarist. Even Lil Wayne plays much better.

Doesn't play with enough feel, but he does do some impressive feats.

He used to be good. Now, he seems to have lost all knowledge of music theory. As a guitarist, Richard Benson's guitar playing sounds like he's just slamming a bunch of random notes from different arpeggios, scales, and keys together, and playing them at lightning speed with no regard for musicality.
A bad guitarist with no skills. All he knows is how to tap and make a guitar suffer. He sucks!


I highly agree - he couldn't play guitar very well and just strummed along with the band. But he posed with a double-neck electric guitar, LOL. There are pictures on the net.

Not that bad, but very overrated. Just plays a few simple power chords and that's all.
