10 Greatest Rock Bands With Two Guitar Players

At the end of the '60s, the British Invasion was starting to go through its own sort of Renaissance. After bands like the Beatles and Stones kicked down the door for what England's music scene was like, the clubs of the late '60s were dominated by more blues based bands, with acts like Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath cutting their teeth playing the same down and dirty blues that was born out of the Mississippi Delta. Blues was always born from America though, and the British blues was in for an American makeover from the first time you heard Aerosmith.

Despite being labelled as a ripoff of the Stones in the early days, both Joe Perry and Brad Whitford have far more weird guitar parts than what you would find out of Keith Richards. If you listen to the solo of a song like Walk This Way, Joe is all over the place, never playing anything too flashy and looking to create strange sounds out of his amplifier. The real madman here is Brad Whitford though, who's technical chops are a lot more apparent on tracks like Last Child or Nobody's Fault, which almost foreshadow metal music with how heavy they can be.

Outside of the few collaborations they have though, both Brad and Joe were never really thought of as partners in crime by any stretch. Keef and Ronnie Wood might have a telepathic way of communicating onstage, but the dueling guitars of Aerosmith almost feel like six stringed outlaws, always walking alone and blowing you away whenever a solo comes up.