favorite guitarists

“Frank Zappa
Jeff Beck
Steve Khan

Play on! (Except Frank. Sorry he had to go so soon!)”

“I dig the (?GAP?) commercial where some chick is wailing out an AC/DC tune, then stops and says "My first love was Angus young!"

How 'bout dis list!”

“I was always a bassist in the bands i played in growing up, so I tended to notice bass players more.. but you guys have named off every guitar I would have mentioned.

Was John MacLaughlin in there somewhere?

If I had to pick ONE.. and only one guitarist.. Beck's Blow By Blow work with George Martin as engineer is about as good as it gets.”

“Damn Skippy on that whole Blow by Blow thing! Wow those tunes have some groove!”

“How 'bout dat list? Well...let's just say that my mileage varies. ;-) IMESOWIDEATS*, it gives way too much space to a lot of heavy metal morons, downplays the contributions of greats like Dale and Wray, and (worst of all) doesn't even mention Tom Verlaine. On the other hand, it does mention two that I didn't think of: Johnny Marr and Ry Cooder.

*In my extremely subjective opinion which I don't expect anyone to share”

“Glad someone brought up Angus Young, and he makes quite a guitar duo with his brother when AC/DC bangs it out. For some reason, there was a time after we moved to northern Wisconsin when all the jukeboxes in the taverns seemed to have one AC/DC disc on them, amidst about 1,000 country-western tunes. For fun, I'd slip in a quarter and drop "Back in Black" in amongst the twangers and watch the bar talk come to a screechin' halt. Love the crunch of a good power chord, LOL.”

“anybody ever listen to Earl Klugh?”

“lol pekka. And you had your nose broken how many times? Wanna go to Norton's Corner with me jest 4 fun? Ü”

“Due to my post on the wedding thread I did a search for guitar threads and found this one. Anyone else here dig classical guitar?”

“Yes and I like flamingo guitar too.”

“Flamingo guitar? Is that when you stand on one leg and play?”

“I think they do. Here's a vid of the amazing Paul Gilbert (perhaps the fastest guitarist on earth) playing some.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11KaKhGAa3I”

“That's pretty nice. I have a friend that plays that style. He graced us with it at one of our parties a year or so back. Blew everyone away...”

“I figured Nigal for a Hendrix fan.
;-)”

“Treebeard, I was at that party.”

“Good gawd ya had to go there didn't ya? I like my guitar heros alive.

”

“LOL. Sorry, I couldn't resist.”

“That's true, Mark-O! His name was Mark, too. Pretty good finger picker!”

“Ya, he was!”

“Definitely, my favorite guitarist is my daughter Rachel. :)”

“George Lynch
Tony Iomme
Jake E Lee
Mick Mars
Dave Murry
Randy Rhodes”

“"Jake E Lee"

Damn! There's a name ya hardly ever hear. Badland's Voodoo Highway is one of my favorite albums!”

“John Williams”

“Nigal, thanks for the link. He's awesome!”

“I just remembered another one: Ry Cooder.”

“Neil Young”

“heeheeheehee...Ruby said cooder.”

“Dunno if Django Reinhardt has been brought up yet or not, but worth checking out if youre a fan of guitar music”

“My favorite acoustic guitarist is Trace Bundy. www.tracebundy.com

He's from Colorado and a super-cool guy.”

“I found a bunch of sweet accustic stuff today!

Justin King:
I’ve never seen someone this good at acoustic tapping and he’s nearly the fastest I’ve ever seen too.


Amazing! He’s playing a double neck kind of like a Chapman Stick bass.

Kotaro Oshio:

>Destiny
>Cannon
Last Christmas

John Butler Trio:

>Something’s Gotta Give
>Home is where the heart is
>Ocean
>What you want
>You better treat yo mama with respect!

Erik Mongrain:
>PercusienFa
>Air Tap

In the electric but still blowing my mind section is Stanley Jordan (hey anyone who can play two guitars at once gets props!):

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3956267841830506346&q=stanley+jordan”

“gonna drag out the electric and play "COME ON BABY LET'S GO DOWNTOWN" 2nite and drink too much and it aint even friday.”

“Wes Montgomery.”

“bucket head”

“Two years ago I saw Dick Dale and his then twelve year old son at my university......five minute walk from home.

That old geezer(67) kicked ass as did his kid.
They were sitting in chairs with plugged-in acoustics.

The kid was with him note for note......and that S.O.B. plays a lot of notes.

Even without a band Dale's surf rock makes a non-dancing guy like me want to jump up and shake a tail feather.....very percussive!!”

“jack white rocks the house”

“my ears are ringing but the neighbors didn't call the cops so that's good. man am i drunk however.”

“Your typing's pretty good... Your fingers must not be as drunk as the rest of you, LOL”

“google spellchecker”

“a......Ha!

I had a neat trick when I first started playing... I'd come home when the bars closed and play for a few hours while I sobered up... I got better and better every night!

G7!”

“Alex Skolnick, Al DiMeola, Randy Rhoads just to name a couple.”

“Magic Sam(he be dead now) I'm playin' along with an album called West Side Soul.....

"One and one is two
Six and two is eight
Come on baby
Don't make me late!"”

“oh my head”

“Buddy Guy
Clapton
Mike Bloomfield
Hendrix
EVH”

“SRV, Buckethead, Les Claypool (bass is a guitar!)”

“Sinister Gates - one of the best new young guys out there right now - at least in the heavy rock genre.”

“You're a heavy guy, Roam.

Check out Ana Popovic.
http://www.anapopovic.com/

Not only is she hot..............SHE'S HOT!!!”

“yeah, but i'm trying to lose weight. ;)”

“I'm totally out of the loop, I suppose but I was just at Ritz picking up photos and the manager was showing me pictures of Bucket Head that he took at a concert here last week...was awesome pics but I had not clue how the guy was!”

“Probably one of the most under rated and unheard of guitarists is Devin Townsend from Straping Young Lad. He plays everything from speed metal to prog. Here's a cool song from his latest CD. Not only is he good but he's got a great sense of humor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6fdS2ny1J8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieH53-bDFCA
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“Angus.....nuff said.”