10 Greatest Rock Bands With Two Guitar Players

10. The Clash

When it comes to the best punk music ever made, you never really had to be the most technical player in the world to get by. If you had just a handful of guitar lessons and knew what a power chord was, you could probably get away with playing the Ramones' entire discography in just a few days. Regardless of how easy they were though, it was all about the power behind the song, and Mick Jones and Joe Strummer may as well have been the punk rock version of Lennon and McCartney.

When the Clash were first getting started, Joe was really the driver of the group, penning songs like White Riot and Complete Control about the injustices that both artists and punks have to deal with and how things needed to change. It took Mick to turn them into something a lot more radio friendly though, taking the hooks and cramming them into songs like Remote Control and even shifting the focus to something that a man on the street could understand, like the Rolling Stones style sound of Lost in the Supermarket.

Throughout their career, you can also see them learning from one another as well, like Joe getting into pop material on Rock the Casbah and Mick Jones getting more and more into the avant garde style of writing, which he would incorporate later into Big Audio Dynamite. The entire aesthetic of punk may have been about changing the corrupt parts of the world, but listening to the Clash was the first time when the revolution actually looked like it was succeeding.