10 Greatest Guitar Duos In Rock Music History

10. Joe Perry and Brad Whitford - Aerosmith

Whenever you have two guitar players in the band, you tend to have the one guy that gets overshadowed too often. Since there's only so much room onstage, it's up to one of them to play the big rockstar while the other guy fleshes things out in the background. Then again, no other guitar partnership works like a team in the same that Brad Whitford and Joe Perry do.

It would be easy to just bring up the riffs themselves for this one though, since songs like Walk This Way and Sweet Emotion have enough iconic guitar parts to put you in the category of guitar gods. You just have to remember how much Brad Whitford is doing the heavy lifting on some of these songs, being responsible for some of the heavier material in their catalog like the solo of Last Child and the pure bombast of Nobody's Fault.

That's not to take away from Joe Perry's chops too. In a sense, Perry feels like what Keith Richards would have done if he had the same kind of swagger of Jimmy Page, making stuff that's equal parts bluesy and experimental while still having that trademark boogie. Each of these guys could have made a respectable guitar player in a big band, but thank the gods of rock that they realized they were better together.