After a short listening session last night I'd like to remove
Steven Page & Ed Robertson - Bare Naked Ladies from my list and substitute Nils Lofgren. Also, did anyone mention Waddy Wachtel?
Favorite guitar players not named......
We all know there names Hendrix, Page, Clapton, Beck Stevie Ray. But who are your favorite guitar players that are not house hold names? Here are a few of mine not in any order.
Robert Fripp
Martin Barre
Richard Thompson
Roy Buchnan
Rory Gallagher
Mason Ruffner
Neil Young and Lindsey Buckingham know but not so much for the guitar work.
also Dave Alvin and Alvin Lee
Robert Fripp
Martin Barre
Richard Thompson
Roy Buchnan
Rory Gallagher
Mason Ruffner
Neil Young and Lindsey Buckingham know but not so much for the guitar work.
also Dave Alvin and Alvin Lee
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Ralph Wash - Played with Paul Butterfield back in the day. I always thought I was the only one who liked him until I recently found out that BB King said Ralph was his favorite guitarist. Check him out on The Boxer with Paul Butterfield. The guitar solo is about 2 minutes in if you can't wait, but best heard within the context of the whole track. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt9Ok-TfpFE |
I thought it was 'not household names', well I asked my mom in her house and she is not familiar with almost all of the names as listed above, or any of the guitarists listed below, lol....................... Jonny Greenwood, -Radiohead. Tim Bricheno- Sisters of Mercy Johnny Marr - The Smiths. Manny Charlton - Nazareth. Birelli Lagrene- |
Johnny A Jim Campilongo Terry Oubre Future Blues Tim Miller Trio Vinny Valentino Jimmy Herring Alex Machacek Allen Hinds Antonio Forcione Badi Assad Chris Taylor Nocturnal Chuck Loeb Derrin Nauendorf Doyle Dykes Fareed Hak Graham Dechter Pat Martino John Jorgenson Sonny Landreth Rez Abassi Rodrigo and Gabriela Ron Affif Warren Haynes Derek Trucks |
Most of mentioned guitarists here are named and mentioned all overover the news and everyone in the world knows them. Rick Derringer? Pat Tavares? They're world's known ones... Tonerager58 mentioned great list of unknown and underground guitarists. Not sure if anyone mentioned Mark Ribot who used to accompany Tom Waits... Speaking of Tom Waits as multi-instrumentalist and guitarist as well. Oh well!.. |
The dual guitarist Marty Wilson-Piper and Peter Kopes of the Australian band The Church have a unique sound with great interplay. The best live guitar band I have seen. Reg Smithies and Dave Fielding of the 80s post punk band The Chameleons U.K. Johnny Marr Will Sargent-Echo and the Funnymen Robert Smith-The Cure |
Great choices garebear! Hearing Bloomfield on the What's Shakin' album in '66 was a game-changer. That's when he was in The Butterfield Blues Band, who introduced a lot of us white suburban kids to Blues. I saw Mike live in The Electric Flag in '68, and he was just great, as was drummer Buddy Miles. About as "punchy" a drummer as I've ever seen, along with Keith Moon. But Buddy could lay down a killer shuffle, which British guys aren't so hot at. No offense, Keith lovers! Hubert Sumlin is credited with creating the tone all Rock 'n' Roll guitarists wanted to get after hearing Hubert on the Howlin' Wolf albums. Jeff Beck used the Gibson Maestro distortion pedal to imitate that sound on "Heart Full of Soul", but that artificial distortion is nowhere as cool as Hubert's organic tone. It took awhile, but everybody finally found out it was using a low powered tube amp driven into clipping that was the secret. Great player, very influential. And Wolf himself, unmatched imo! |
