So, these are in no particular order.


BECK

Rolling Stone ranks Jimi Hendrix as the greatest guitarist of all time, but it's got to be Eric Clapton or George Harrison. Sir Paul is definitely the greatest bass guitarist of all time.

It can't be either... they only used standard guitar playing. Sure they made up tunes and played the guitar, but they never revolutionized guitar playing. Jimi Hendrix changed it forever - with his sharp and almost anti-harmonious guitar sounds he changed the face of modern rock as well as other genres.

Dude, Eric Clapton is God.

Jimi Hendrix is Brahma.

No he's not. Do you even know wtf I'm talking about?

yesh.
http://www.whereseric.com/ecfaq/biography-...i-nickname.html

Okay, then how is Hendrix Brahma?

I dunno.

So you WERE shitting me.

Bob Dylan is always going to be one of the best, if not THE best song writer of all time. Tim Armstrong from Rancid has a solo project, although I haven't heard any songs by him yet...Dashboard Confessional is the name of Chris Carrabba's solo project, he writes great lyrics too. Rob Zombie, great man, great man. John 5, awesome guitar player, played for Marilyn Manson and Rob Zombie. Joe Satriani, Stevie Vai. All great solo artists. Todd Rungdren, he's pretty cool too. Boy George, one of my heroes, had a solo career after Culture Club disbanded.

THE best song writer of all time would probably have to be Sir Paul McCartney. John Lennon gets most of the credit, but Paul wrote most of the influential stuff.

No offense to any Beatles fans, but I'm not really big on their music, I don't hate them, but I'm not going to say they are my favorite either. By no means am I going to trash the Beatles, considering how successful they are and I'm not that ignorant...Just for some reason, I'm not a giant fan.

Well, since we're on the topic of solo artists anyway. Out of all the Beatles, I'd say that George Harrison was the greatest songwriter as a solo artist.

He was good, I liked him. Sting, from The Police was good on his own as well.

I have like at least three Sting albums, but I have yet to listen to them.

Jerry Cantrell from Alice In Chains, did some solo stuff after Layne Staley died, but I haven't heard any yet. Chris Cornell from Soundgarden and Audioslave did some too. Tom Morello from Rage Against The Machine and Audioslave does solo work under the name "The Nightwatchman".

Ever hear You Know my Name by Cornell? Great song. I have yet to find it though, so I can put it on my computer and iPod.

I've got a channel on my tv, it has music and I think I heard that song, it was pretty good.

You mean like BET?

No, it's called Music Choice, they don't show music videos, they just play the music.

Nice. Madonna is also a great solo artist.

Well, there's also Perry Farrell's Sattelite Party.And how could we forget the infamous David Bowie?

Ah yes, David Bowie. I believe the Timebandit is a great David Bowie fan.

I like a few of David Bowies songs.

Cool...My mom seen him when she still lived in Detroit, I think. She said it was the best show of her life. Anyways, solo artists... Robert Plant, great in Zepplin, great as a solo artist. I know many of the members from KISS, did solo projects.

John Elton is a great artist. Your Song and Rocketman are some of my favourites.

Rocketman, good song.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is a pretty good song, like the theme, but one of the lines is cheesy, and it kind of ruined it for me.

I liked Serj Tankian's debut as a solo artist with the song "Empty Walls". I think that the seperation of System of A Down is sad, since their music was so great. But I think it could also be a chance for him to give us something better.

Jack Johnson and Jack's Mannequin?

Serj Tankian is going solo, he was the lead singer in System of A Down. Sounds great so far.

Um, I just basically said that.

What about Pat Monahan... he published a solo album recently and at least one of the songs is pretty good

You all might want to throw tomatoes at me, but I really don't like Elton John, he bugs me. Prince, now that is a great solo artist, how many genres has he dabbled in? Plus, "Purple Rain" went Diamond, not gold, not Platinum, but DIAMOND. George Michael, got to love the "Faith" album, another album that went Diamond with 13 million sales, and still selling!