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! |
........what about Michael Bloomfield just take listen to that guy's stuff on playing the blues. Hubert Sumlin is another one that comes to mind. |
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
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Electric - you know who
Acoustic - Paco de Lucia |
Alex Skolnick
Akira Takasaki
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Here's a couple more.
Lee Ritenour
Melvin Taylor
John Scofield
Brian Setzer
Clarence White
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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 one and only Joe Bonamassa.
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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 |
Adrian Belew -King Crimson
Steven Wilson - Porcupine Tree and solo
and many others above. But do yourself a favor and check these two guys out!! |
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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-
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Gary Moore
One of the best blues guitarists EVER!😎
R.I.P
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radfrad, you may already know, but Derringer was in The McCoys, known for their 60's hit single "Hang On Sloopy". |
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Pat Travers
Vinnie Moore
Malmsteen😎
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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 |
Michael Landau
Steve Khan
Buzz Feiten
Tony Macalpine
Frank Gambale
Steve Howe
Birelli Lagrene
Charlie Hunter
Oz Noy
Andy Timmons |
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? |
Give Joe Bonamassa a listen |
Jerry Garcia, David Bromberg, Derek Trucks, David Lindley, Larry Campbell.
On Acoustic guitar:
Jorma Kaukonen, Doug McLeod, Chris Smithers, Leo Kottke |
Not only with guitarists: Tony Levin... |
Apparently some guitarists are not household names on the 'gon:
The Dark Riff Master: Tony Iommi
The Crunch Meister: Tony Bourge
What is it with the name Tony and guitarists?? :) |
I think it's great that many of the artists named here, famous and not so much, are not by definition "shredders."
I saw Buckethead mentioned earlier here, and while he is indeed a shredder when and most often he is inclined to be, there are cuts within his prolific output over the years that are restrained, melodically emotional, beautiful.
I actually research the posts here in order to broaden my appreciation - an often time consuming albeit enlightening endeavor - and it should be said that many names here can be found in the used cd/vinyl sections of those dwindling number of bricks and mortar shops for a pittance!
One more addition...Bill Nelson of Be Bop Deluxe. Specifically "Live In The Air Age."
A little bit of pyrotechnics and flash, but on "Adventures In A Yorkshire Landscape" everything comes together in a gorgeously rendered song. It's also an excellent live recording to boot.
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Many names mentioned are known by the casual "mainstream" music crowd. Many music lovers would know and respect the following but are IMO still overlooked or unknown.
Vito Bratta
Glen Buxton
Paul Gilbert
Eric Johnson
Frank Marino
Rickey Medlocke
Gary Moore
Criss Olivia
Dave Prichard
John Sykes
Mark Tremonti
Vinnie Vincent
Congrats on mentioning Michael Bloomfield(vinylvalet) he is probably the most overlooked of the first wave of great rock/blues players!!!
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Classical:
Ana Vidovic
Emanuel Baruecco(her teacher)
Rolan Dyens
Folk:
Doc Watson
Tommy Emanuel
Jazz:
Bill Frisell
David Torn
Terje Rypdal
Vlatko Stefanovsky
Miroslav Tadik (classically trained Macedonian guitarist that plays any style of music)
Fred Frith
Eivind Aarset
Andy Summers (Police acts)
Allan Holdsworth (Soft Machine)
Marc Ribot (most of Tom Waits acts)
Jan Akkerman
Torsten De Winkle (played with Pat Metheny)
Arto Lindsay
Manuche:
Bireli Lagrene
Stochelo Rosenberg
Angelo Debarre
Rock:
Andrew Latimer -- Camel
Buckethead
Steve Stevens (Billy Idol acts and great solo works)
Adrean Belew
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I don't remember seeing Billy Corgan being mentioned yet.
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A few of my favs not listed:
Mark Selby
Dave Gonzalaz (The Paladins)
Gordie Johnson (Big Sugar)
Rick Miller (Southern Culture On The Skids, a.k.a. SCOTS) |
Earl Klugh
Gary Moore
Tab Benoit |
Joe Pass
James Burton
Frank Gambale
Steve Masakowsi
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Don't think I'm crazy but Frank Zappa was a fantastic guitar player! Mary Flower. |
I would add Jim Stafford to the list.
Also recently saw a perhaps lesser-known but hugely talented touring guitarist named Ed Berghoff in a backyard venue. He could play everything from Hendrix to Lindsay Buckingham. Very impressed. Check him out on Youtube and Google. |
Dweezil Zappa - chip of the old block
Steve Hackett
Seconds (or thirds) for:
Fripp
Belew
Holdsworth
DiMeola
Benson
McLaughlin
Howe
Bonamassa
George
Santana
Coryell
Gilmour
and Frank himself |
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As someone said, many greats mentioned already. But would like to mention some I didn't see on here....
Phil Keaggy
Robert Cray
Kazumi Watanabe
Ty Tabor
Ian Moore
Lonnie Mack
Neal Schon
Popa Chubby
Tinsley Ellis
Kevin Eubanks
Mike Stern
Allan Holdsworth
Stanley Jordan
Leo Kottke
and many more, but I'm too lazy to go downstairs and look through my albums. |
Richard Thompson should be at the top of anyone's list...
Mark Knopfler, although he may be more of a "household name" than not.
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Richard Thompson
Danny Gatton
Eva Cassidy
Andy McKee
Trace Bundy
Ry Cooder
Harry Manx |
Lowell George
Eric Stewart
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Everyone's list is awsome!!! An instrument that can be so different in each's hands, each time...
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Emily Remler - incredible
Wayne Kramer - solo stuff ultra
Ed Mundell - monster magnet
Steve Tibbetts - get Yr
Pat Metheny -
Steve Stills
Pat Martino - a master
Billy Gibbons
Scott Henderson - heavy, tight
Nels Cline -
Steve Khan - a fav
Lenny Breau
Kenny Burrell
Tommy Iommi
Andy Summers - solo work super
Jim McCarty - Cactus
Randy Bachman - check out Undone and Guess Who
Peter Frampton - recent solo stuff
Tony McPhee - Groundhogs, SO underrated 70s psych blues rock
Bob Welch - mid Fleetwood Mac
Ted Nugent - great rock played on a traditional jazz hollowbody
Mike Stern - outer space fusion
Leni Stern - lyrical jazz on a tele
Carlos Santana - emotional wail
Randy California - one of Americas lost treasures - Spirit
Wayne Krantz - unique style who played with Leni S - beautiful duets on Separate Cages
Kim Simmonds - a major Fav
Robbie Krieger
Larry Reinhart - check out Captain Beyond self titled , real cosmic rock ,
George Harrison - so underated
Glenn Campbell - an american treasure
John McLaughlin - Inner Mounting Flame
Pete Townsend - check out acostic on Tommy and sonic industrial machine of Live at Leeds
Johnny Winter
Tal Farlow - ultra jazz, from NC
Phillip Catherine -euro jazzer duets with Coryell
if you like great guitar you should google these....to original post-er...great topic!!!
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Pat Donohue
Vince Gill
Duke Robillard
Terry Kath
Lenny Breau
Brad Paisley
Jim Hurst
Steve Morse
Robben Ford
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Bireli Lagrene
Ulrich Roth
Gilberto Gil
Prince
Alex Lifeson
Jack White |
An old high school buddy turned me onto this artist over the weekend:
Joe Bonamassa
Unbelievably good.
Did I miss his mention earlier in this thread? |
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Four of my choices (John Renbourn, Richard Thompson, Tommy Emmanuel, and Lindsey Buckingham) are superior acoustic guitar players. |
Shawn Lane, Steve Morse, Paco Pena. |
