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i was just listening to david lindley's incredible solo on "late for the sky", the jackson browne song (which appeared in "taxi driver", just before travis brickle went on his shootout). damn thing was so purty i nearly cried. talk about playing with emotion.... |
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Few favorites here ;
Earl Klugh, George Benson, Larry Carlton, Tommy Emmanuel and Francis Goya. Love 'em all! |
Santana . my favorite since Supernatural . |
Joe satriani is on my top 5 list. :D |
Of late, Chuck Berry has been hogging the spotlight at my place. His playing just defined so much of what makes rock n roll music...well... rock n roll music.
Marty |
I'll take Dave Laibman in his prime. |
Paco De Lucia, John Williams, Tommy Emmanuel |
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So many, including: Hendrix, Clapton, Page, Santana, Robin Trower, Buddy Guy, BB King, SRV, Albert King, Chuck Berry....Yes, Chuck Berry, he's absolutely amazing IMO, Muddy Waters, George Benson, Al Di Meola, Paco Di Lucia....too many others to mention. |
George Benson and Santana, good call. |
Not real familiar with him but some old Earl Hooker on Sun Records stuff just played. Hot stuff!!! |
For jazz it's Bireli Lagrene
For classical it's Jason Vieaux
For rock it's Frank Zappa.
No overall yet... |
Plectrum--John McLaughlin. Fingerstyle--Paco de Lucia. |
Coming up to date...I have to go with Joe Bonamassa .
Check out An acoustic Evening at the Vienna Opera House .
Happy Tunes |
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Paco de Lucia
John McLaughlin
Julian Lage |
Easy question. Barney Kessel. |
Well, on second thought its Barney Kessel for jazz, John Williams for classical and Manita de Playa for flamenco. Glen Campbell isn't too shabby for country either. |
Oregonpapa you just reminded me - checkout the youtube performance of Barney Kessel, Grant Green & Kenny Burrell...Blue Mist - fantastic! These guys are tops |
Pehare ..
They are all great. The guitar is one of my favorite instruments. Oh, on the last post I made, I made a mistake. It should have been ... for flamenco guitar, its Manita de Plata. Here's a link to a three LP set that I own. Found one that is currently for sale on Ebay. If you like this stuff, buy this one ... fabulous sound and performances.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Manitas-De-Plata-Flamenco-Guitar-3-x-LP-1965-SRL-8643-/261802030128?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cf49df430
Take care ... |
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Strunz & Farah!!!! Americas |
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Joe Bonamassa hands down. |
Joe Bonamassa is the best of all of them. Hands down no one can play like this kid, no one. |
I have to say, for all his obvious talent I see nothing remarkable about Bonamassa. He's been a head-scratcher so far for me. Can someone tell me what I'm missing? |
Their are a lot of great ones. A few I like you don't hear often - Tommy Emanuel, Paco de Lucia, John McGlauphlin, Ry Cooder, and James Gurley. |
Grant green for jazz. I live jerry garcia. For texas roadhouse blues anson finderberg. Fir modern blues rock big head todd is outstanding. The guitarist in the cure - simon gallup- is outstanding if you see them live. |
I have more recordings in my collection featuring Steve Hackett than any other so there you go, the numbers don't lie.
Next in line on taht count would be Chet Atkins I suppose.
I also do love listening to Robert Johnson play guitar, but so few recordings there to choose from. |
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Joe Pas is the best jazz guitar instructor. Have time I always hook up to his videos for practice. |
Tostadosunidos,I feel the same as you do about Joe B. ,,,I just don't understand what everyone sees in him.I downloaded one of his albums for free online,and soon deleted every song. Each to his own I recon,,,
There are so many great players ,that I would have a hard time naming just one! I would say Jimi is still my all time favorite.
I have been enjoying a jazz artist named Paul Musso of late,,Very tasty stuff indeed! |
Bruce Cockburn is an underrated player,listen to Wondering Where the Lions Are. |
Leo Kottke. I've liked every song he's played. |
Bob Dylan and Larry Packer. |
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I haven't read through all the answers, so forgive me if I'm duplicating others. For lyricism and funkiness it's hard to top Ry Cooder. His solo on John Hiatt's "Lipstick Sunset" is the most poetic I've ever heard. For Chuck Berry style Rock 'n Roll it would be Dave Edmunds (he plays like Keith Richards wishes he could, and in fact was one candidate for Brian Jones' replacement in The Stones). For virtuosity, there is a relatively obscure guitarist from the Washington D.C./Virginia area named Danny Gatton, a guitarists guitarist if there ever was one. Vince Gill (a fine guitarist himself) nick-named him "The Humbler"! Then there is a guy I'm sure others have already named, Jeff Beck. |
I neglected to mention that Danny Gatton committed suicide years ago. But there are a number of his CD's available, the first one to get probably being the double-CD collection on WB, I believe it is. His sometimes-partner Evan Johns (also a maniac on guitar) told me Danny just wanted to stay home and work on his hot rods (something he had in common with Jeff Beck), playing around locally in bars, but that his nagging wife would not stop pushing him. Evan said Danny shot himself to get away from her! |
Roy Clark is always a refreshing change of pace.Jawdroppinly good |
Bdp,
Gatton holds a special place in my heart. What a player! His name brings a funny story to mind:
It may have been in the 1970s or 1980s at Fat Tuesday's (a club in NYC) that our group saw him play. On one song, Gatton tuned his guitar by ear while staring at the ceiling. We were close enough that my friend asked what he was looking at. He replied that, for the dropped tuning in that song, he tuned his low e string to the 60hz hum from the fluorescent lights. (Don't ask what he did at clubs without fluorescent lighting, I have no clue).
I understand that he injured himself in IIRC a welding accident and was never the same afterward. Some stories attribute his suicide (at least in part) to that as well. |
I hadn't heard that one, Marty. I met Evan in the late 90's, and learned that he and Danny had played together in the 70's. Evan was the songwriter, singer, and second guitarist (everyone is second guitarist in Danny's presence!) in a group they had together in DC. Evan said Danny was the best musician he ever played with.
I did an album with Evan in the late 90's, getting to spend some time with him. He made a bunch of albums, three on Rykodisc, but I don't know how many are still in print. He's a true madman on guitar---he recorded with his Telecaster plugged straight into a blackface Super Reverb on 10. His first choice is a blackface Deluxe, but the studio didn't have one. The Super was in an isolation closet, and the engineer opened the door briefly with Evan playing---it sounded like a jet taking off. The loudest thing I've ever heard, and I saw Hendrix and The Who with Keith Moon! Actually, the loudest band I ever heard were The Kinks---Ray Davies' Telecaster plugged into a Hi-Watt stack was intensely painful.
Evan ate only once the entire week in Atlanta, the rest of the time sustaining himself by chain-drinking room temperature Bud in cans. He got to Atlanta a day before the rest of us, and when we passed the door of his room leaving the hotel our first morning, there were two 18-packs of empty Bud cans laying on the floor. We were supposed to go on the road to support the album, but upon getting back home to Vancouver B.C. (where he lived at the time), Evan didn't feel well and checked himself into the hospital, where he fell into a coma. The doctor told his woman to make funeral arrangements, Evan was in the final stage of liver failure. Three weeks later he woke up and walked out of the hospital. Turns out this had happened a couple of times before. Whatta nut! He lives in Austin Texas now, in what shape I don't know. If you ever get a chance to see him play, don't pass it up---who knows how much longer he'll be around! |
Ah, the abusive lifestyle of rock musicians. I guess it comes with the territory sometimes, but you just gotta keep your fingers crossed that it doesn't catch up with the guys you care about. |
I have no real favorite but........ Two Emily Remler albums I highly recommend
are "East To Wes" and "Firefly" |
Rarely mentioned, or even thought of (because of our focus on technique rather than musicality?), is George Harrison. His song parts are exquisite, as are some of his solos. A particular favorite of mine is that in "Nowhere Man"---very simple, pretty much just the melody, but magnificent. Cool little harmonic played right at the end---so cool! And his tone---fantastic! |
Bdp,
I think it's easy to get lost when your bandmates are John Lennon and Paul McCartney. I also think that George is one of those understated players that tends to get overlooked/underrated, anyway. It's kinda the same same deal with his songwriting. In the case of "Something", I'd say that it's under appreciated on both fronts. Great song, fantastic little solo, but both might be sufficiently understated that neither gets its full due. |
You're spot on Marty. There's the story about Sinatra introducing a song during a live show, calling it one of the greatest love songs ever written, attributing "Something" to L & M. Because it's a Beatles song he naturally assumed they wrote it. George is like Rodney Dangerfield.
I also love George's humility; when he would meet starstruck musicians he would say to them "Hey, I'm just like you. I just got lucky." Contrast that with Lennon's pronouncements that he was an "Artist". You're supposed to leave that to other people to say, John. Geez, have a little class, will ya?
There's another little guitar break (as opposed to a "solo") I have always loved, and which I would not be surprised to learn was George's model for his in "Nowhere Man". It's James Burton's in Ricky Nelson's "Young World". Same deal, just playing the melody, but it sounds SO great. And with tone to die for---the best I've ever heard! |
Just yesterday I learned that Bill Pitcock IV died of Cancer back in 2011 at age 58. He was the guitarist in The Dwight Twilley Band, and played the great flurry-of-notes break in the middle of "I'm on Fire". Give it a listen---I'll guarantee you've never heard anything like it! His set-up was a Gibson ES335 directly into (no pedals) a stacked pair of Fender Deluxe Reverb amps with a digital delay between them. His tone was superb! |
I'm on Fire is one fantastic tune. I remember hearing it on the slopes at Whistler mountain while skiing. What a riff! |
