Top 5 Irish Born Guitarist! Who's #1?

[@tcat7576]

Rory Gallagher. Next question?

[@blasterofmuppets4754]

nothing to add.

[@Carlos12330]

Correct 👍

[@sidsidow2024]

Agree! NO QUESTIONS........

[@grantmccallum4018]

Pat Mcmanus should definitely get a mention! Rory should be number 1

[@rsqyoung]

100% I'd put Gary Moore and Pat McManus =2nd

[@MichaelGovers]

Rory should be number 1 all day any day.

[@rikumetelinen1860]

Yes he should, there's no doubt about it!

[@rsqyoung]

​@rikumetelinen1860 even Gary Moore and Pat McManus (and brian may) would say that.

[@greatguitaristoftherockera2833]

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[@michaelpowderly5514]

Number 1....Rory Gallagher....no contest!!!!!

[@greatguitaristoftherockera2833]

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[@Carlos12330]

It’s Rory by a country mile just look at quotes from his peers!

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[@alhewat7775]

Probably about right. Well done for excluding that plank scratcher from U2.

[@stephenbrown4211]

He’s Welsh born anyway so wouldn’t count

[@greatguitaristoftherockera2833]

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[@Drinckx2]

Gary Moore was great and deserves the number one spot although I'd pick different albums and tracks to represent him. His playing with Colosseum II and on tracks like The Blister on Cozy Powell's solo album are exemplary, showing off his Jazz-Rock period; Corridors of Power, Victims of the Future and Dirty Fingers represent his fiery heavy rock style. I'd agree that Still Got the Blues best represents the later blues playing although you could arguably pick any of those latter albums. I also really rate Belfast-born, Simon McBride, currently with Deep Purple. He's an excellent blues-rock player carrying the Gary Moore torch forward (along with Viv Campbell, although Campbell is a little neutered by being in the rather anodyne Def Leppard).

[@greatguitaristoftherockera2833]

Thank you for watching and the comment. I should of spent a few more minutes thinking about his albums.

[@paulgunovich2766]

Rory Gallager Gary Moore Vivian Campbell Bernie Torme Simon McBride

[@karlheinzvonkroemann2217]

Gallagher - the "h" is silent

[@iansmith4788]

Rory Gallagher….unquestionably number 1!

[@greatguitaristoftherockera2833]

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[@AEGIDIUSREXii]

Rory and Gary are joint second in my favourite guitarists of all time. Just can't decide between them.

[@greatguitaristoftherockera2833]

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[@chrispetritsch1291]

How much do you actually know about guitar and guitarists if you can't pronounce Rory's surname properly!?

[@ChrisTian-rm7zm]

Is is the "g" silent, like in Galla-her?

[@karlheinzvonkroemann2217]

@@greatguitaristoftherockera2833 It's a major "foo-pah" and shouldn't have gotten by the editors. Getting all kinds of defensive about it instead of apologizing and learning from it really makes it 10x more annoying than it would have been. These are indeed sad times we're living in.

[@karlheinzvonkroemann2217]

@@ChrisTian-rm7zm All day, every day.

[@BobMurphy-v2s]

All these Guitarist are Brilliant . No One is better than the other. Rory would agree

[@deargdoom8743]

Johnny Fean of Horslips fame should be in there. Henry once lived in a caravan outside Enniskillen where he would play guitar to bemused cattle whilst under the influence of certain substances early in the morning. According to my grandfather.

[@greatguitaristoftherockera2833]

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[@BanalayerPete1972]

A good list, but I think a Top 10 would be justified. Gary Moore's one of my Top 3 guitarists, so happy he's #1. Bernie Torme's fave Gillan album on which he played was Mr Universe. It IS a total classic. Eric Bell is also a brilliant guitarist.

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[@BanalayerPete1972]

@@greatguitaristoftherockera2833: Cheers!

[@George-f8r]

Rory is the greatest

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[@fphandmade]

Thanks for the awesome video!

[@greatguitaristoftherockera2833]

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[@markbeavers5747]

Thanks for giving Gary Moore a number one. His body of work is so huge from 1968 to the day he passed in 2011 he was a beast. Rory Gallagher was awesome and was right there with Gary!!!

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[@GeoffreyVerey]

Gary the greatest by a mile Rory good saw him and Gary live .. Gary all day long best ever with Hendrix Steve via my hero’s

[@greatguitaristoftherockera2833]

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[@aminahmed2220]

Rory Gallagher

[@RobertFranklin-of3ow]

An Aussie visitor, I was lucky to catch Rory G in Liverpool in 1971. Gary Moore deserves to be number one; too bad I never saw him live. Both brilliant! 😊

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[@jamesaslevin]

Jimi Hendrix was asked what is it like to be the best guitarist in the world he answered I don't know ask Rory Gallagher ❤

[@greatguitaristoftherockera2833]

I heard that said about several guitarist. Thanks for watching and the comment.

[@richiehoyt8487]

Although widely propagated, that _is_ a myth. He's certainly known to have highly rated him, though.

[@sparkyrob3522]

Rory was great but Gary in my opinion has to be the greatest player to walk the planet, he was able to master any genre and was a complete virtuoso.....also was part of the greatest band to come out of Ireland. 💚

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[@antrygis1]

Bernie is number 1 for me. Yes, he was in Gillan But his first 2 solo albums Turn Out the Lights and Call of the Wild were special. Then he did the LIVE album and that is GUITAR. Bernie was the king of the whammy bar. Hands down. Wild Irish and another in the late 90's were killer on many tracks.

[@greatguitaristoftherockera2833]

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[@chrispetritsch1291]

You mustn't have heard much Gary Moore then.

[@johnbennett606]

How on earth could you put these amateurs alongside Rory.

[@greatguitaristoftherockera2833]

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[@PanglossDr]

Please say his name properly. It is pronounced Gal-a-her. There is only one g sound, at the start.

[@williamwallace4924]

Why have another g if you don’t want no one to pronounce it, silly paddy’s.

[@PanglossDr]

@@williamwallace4924 the gh in the middle is pronounced as in lough in Irish. It is generally just an h sound in English.

[@williamwallace4924]

@ what about clough as in Brian clough?.

[@greatguitaristoftherockera2833]

Thanks I knew that, I'm not sure why I pronounced wrong there. Thanks for watching and the comment.

[@edgardtorres6162]

Gary should be #1 Vivian #2 Rory #3. 🎸🎸🎸

[@greatguitaristoftherockera2833]

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[@pjnugent8198]

Did he say LondonBerry? Must be an American. Agree with number one. 🇮🇪

[@greatguitaristoftherockera2833]

I am American. Thanks for watching and the comment.

[@pjnugent8198]

Ooops.

[@karlheinzvonkroemann2217]

You couldn't possibly be Irish. Gallagher is a popular Irish name and isn't pronounced like you're pronouncing it. "GallagHer". The "H" is always silent.

[@greatguitaristoftherockera2833]

I'm not Irish. Sorry for the mispronunciation. Thanks for watching.

[@mikefolsom727]

The Edge?

[@greatguitaristoftherockera2833]

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[@richiehoyt8487]

Disqualified, on account of not actually being Irish born. (Wales - UK). [Edit: Personally, I think he's been phoning it in for years now, anyway, but that's just me!]

[@alanbiggs9306]

I would definitely reverse the top two here, Rory was streets ahead of Gary.

[@greatguitaristoftherockera2833]

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[@pmc237]

You need to change no 2 with 1 ,rory by miles

[@greatguitaristoftherockera2833]

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[@KevinMurphy-ip2rz]

Edge was born in Wales

[@colmtansey8359]

Pot Stewart lomben berry.. AI.😂

[@greatguitaristoftherockera2833]

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[@Nicholas-dreamlove]

Jimmy Page is only 1/2 Irish and it's on his mother's side.

[@Carlos12330]

The best half 😂

[@greatguitaristoftherockera2833]

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[@greatguitaristoftherockera2833]

LOL, thanks for watching.

[@Carlos12330]

@@greatguitaristoftherockera2833 its a pleasure 🕊️

[@georgebarnes8163]

Henry Mc Cullough is British , born in the UK Vivian Campbell is British, born in the UK Gary Moore was British, born in the UK The Author should learn how to read a map before posting such misinformed rubbish.

[@karlheinzvonkroemann2217]

Where you're born doesn't define your ethnicity.

[@georgebarnes8163]

@@karlheinzvonkroemann2217 Do you mean buying one of those tens cents per dozen Irish passports that anyone from any part of the world can get?

[@karlheinzvonkroemann2217]

Yup, when people can have multiple passports and be citizens of countless countries that's a rather big problem. This began in the USA in 1967 with Supreme Court decision that permitted American Jews to own multiple citizenships so as to be able to vote in both Israeli and American elections. That cancerous situation has since spread to multiple countries around the world with certain countries permitting their nationals to be citizens of numerous countries at the same times.

[@georgebarnes8163]

@ there are an estimated 28 million Americans with Irish passports, most of them could not find Ireland on a map, that is what happens when you hand put passports like sugar lumps, now the Irish are complaining about the mass immigration in Ireland.

[@greatguitaristoftherockera2833]

Sorry for not knowing that Northern Ireland was part of the UK, not part of Ireland.