Top 10 Douchiest Guitarists of All Time

Most of these cats would do well to heed the words of Ry Cooder; "Someitmes the most important notes are the ones you don't play."

^^Word, papa. Thanks. It's been our pleasure to serve!

Heard Mentality you have improved my music collection, nuthin but mad respects :-)

^^ok, just make sure to read the ones we write, okay? I'm SURE you always do...just saying

more historical well researched articles on fact,..pretty please?

Mike Portnoy

How in the hell did Kirk Hammett not make this list. Although I will concede there are some pretty big douches on this list if John Mayer only made the 10 spot.

C.C. should be #1

the hair styles were the best! That was brutal, I was laughing the whole time. there is a lot of hatin' goin on..

cute

Dan Palmer , Wes Borland & John Mayer are the ONLY 2 on this list I could listen to..lol. Now to get you on the list...

I love all these guitarists except for Wes Borland and John Mayer. Esteban is the best!!

Coulda called this.

Chris Kennedy of Light Up The Eyes

Where the fuck is Ted Nugent on this list?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

"Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning what seem to be the absurd beliefs of another group is a good way of recognizing the potential absurdity of many of one's own cherished beliefs." Vidal, Gore

Where the hell is Henry Kaiser?

mayer is just not the biggest douche of all times he sucks on gtr

John Mayer wins the douche contest.  He plays his face instead of his guitar.  Im taking guitar hero lessons.  Red, blue,yellow,green, green, green,green.

these comments are hilarious. no one said these guys weren't technically good. they're just over the top players. ie: d-bags. if you don't think yngwie and vai are douches then you're kidding yourself. ten seconds of the for the love of god music video and you should be convinced.

Vai? Really? One of the most unique, creative guitarists of the genre? Van Halen and Yngwie, who both literally changed the whole game and ushered in a whole new era of players? Yeah, Yngwie took the dickhead ego/image thing to comical heights in the 80's, but he's mellowed out a lot and has introduced a lot more nuance and feel to his playing, and will go down as one of the greatest guitar legends ever. This article has got to be almost pure satire, because it sure doesn't reflect the content of someone who actually knows dick squat about rock guitar playing. 

I will agree on John Mayer though. I wish he'd die in Hellfire.

This is just another stab at anything white. Most of these liberal loser bloggers are finding any way they can to bash anything that white males like.   This blogger is absolutely pathetic and I hope he steps out in front of a bus while typing his crap.  So to the writer. You disgusting retard how dare you offend people who look up to these players.   Joe Satriani and Vai are freaking icons in this world and you DARE to disrespect them?  You must be a failed guitar player and thats why you write half a$$ blogs for a living.   If you had a ball that wasnt stuck in the back of your throat you would goto a vai concert or a Satriani concert and realize that they inspire and promote a beautiful are form.  Unlike scum bags like you that write this drivel online and hope people pay attention to your disgusting anti-white culture a$$.. now go find a bus and dont look both ways. RETARD

This was hilarious! It's obvious this was meant to be satirical. I think Synyster Gates from Avenged Sevenfold should be an honorable mention, haha.

I agree with most of these, but Satriani?  Really?  Instead of, say, Ted Nugent? 

You lose.

I would love to see who this writer thinks are the best non douchiest guitar players of all time are! 70% of these guitar players are icons and anyone learning guitar (from what the writer is saying) rock guitar will have most of these guys as an influences. 

Unfortunately in the age of the internet it seems as anyone can be a "writer" for one of the millions of web pages out there and give their opinion. With that said, this is only his opinion and he obviously has no clue to the history of guitar and the importance of the people in the music/guitar world. The top 4 are icons.

Mr. Nate Jackson, please come up with your list of non-douchiest guitar players and let me know what you think.

@ocweeklymusic I don't mind what you had to say about pretty much everyone on this list. But what you said about Wes Borland bothered me a bit. You implied that he has no talent and makes "lame" music. Please take a look and have a listen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgDkQmsWgp8 This is Black Light Burns fronted by Wes Borland himself and I'd say it's anything but lame. And if you actually watch the video that paint you were complaining he covers himself in actually looks like a great time and if those 2 cover him in the paint every time how can you blame a guy for that?

I'm working on my own article at the moment.. The "Top 01 Douchiest Writer of All Time" and tag you're it!!

You are way off base when you add Rick Nielsen to this list. I've been a Cheap Trick fan since 1977 and it's been all about the live shows.. Fun times and fun tunes with these guys.. Rick's onstage persona is exactly that. Nothing more, nothing less. His energy and zany personality (and guitar antics) gets the audience pumped, and if they like it, then that is all that matters. Clearly you aren't a fan and don't get it. You would rather tear someone down than give credit where credit is due. Most older bands take twenty years off, then do a reunion tour of nothing but their greatest hits, and then only because they need the money. Cheap Trick has been continually touring and creating new music for FORTY years. They are obviously still having fun doing it or they would have called it quits by now.  And amazingly, they still sound every bit as tight live as they did in the beginning, so why shouldn't they keep doing it as long as they and the fans are having fun? You need to give a bit more respect to this band because if anyone deserves it, they definitely do.

Tom Dumont from No Doubt tweeted that this is one of the douchiest articles ever

You also forgot Phil X.

Whew, Nate! Eddie Van Halen!? C'mon! And although I really really don't like John Mayer's music, I still think he's a good guitar player.

The main miss here was the commentary on C.C. DeVille. You gotta go a little less hard on a guy who is on record as saying about himself (slightly paraphrased here), "I liked Hendrix, Jimmy Page...I had all the right influences -- I don't know what happened." Anyone who develops that kind of wry self-awareness should get a BIT of a break.

Nigel Tufnel

David navarro!

@ocweeklymusic    No Ted Nugent??? http://youtu.be/PxKjcIU6fo0

I've got like seventeen volumes of air-guitar and I still don't feel like a douche... like having a typewriter for fingertips... scumbags.

This whole article is BS..

Yes Esteban and Malmsteen are kinds lame..

How are you gonna put Joe/Eddie/Steve and Wes on there..?

Seems like the writter of this article was the real Douche.

Dave Mustaine is missing!

Over half of Satriani's blurb on this list is how he is connected to Coldplay. Why not swap him out for Chris Martin and cut out the middle man?