Your Favorite Guitarist

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  • hendrix78
    hendrix78 Posts: 507
    Hendrix
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    John Mclaughlin
    Eddie Hazel
    Frusciante
    J Mascis
  • hendrix78
    hendrix78 Posts: 507
    brain of c wrote:
    you are dq'd.......he can't play.

    me, too.......mark bryant


    The Edge invented a guitar style of his own that has been hugely influential. He is one of a handful of players whose sound is instantly recognizable within a few notes. To say he can't play is ignorant.
  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,704
    Steve Via not mentioned i hope i spelled he's name or Frank Zappa .......
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • PJamGrunge10
    PJamGrunge10 California Posts: 596
    Well it might seem biased on a Pearl Jam board but Stone Gossard is my favorite.
    Stone Gossard...riffmeister extraordinaire!

    I am a man, I am advanced.....I am the first man to borrow Stone's leather pants!
  • Gardenparty
    Gardenparty Posts: 1,910
    Django Reinhardt
    Trey Anastasio
    Frusciante
    MM
    Hendrix

    are (were) all pretty damn good
    “I know this song so well, I can smoke a cigarette, have a drink, brush my teeth, take a shit, and mow the lawn while singing it. But I'll only be doing a couple of those things during this version.”
  • EddiesGuitarGirl
    EddiesGuitarGirl Posts: 96
    im glad some of you agree =) edge rocks


    ...BB King!!
    Adge
    12.9.06= Rockin In The Free World
  • lucylespian
    lucylespian Posts: 2,403
    I really like John Lee Hooker a lot too. He had this growly skanky thang going, and you can hear his influence in a lot of later players.
    Music is not a competetion.
  • hendrix78
    hendrix78 Posts: 507
    John Lee hooker is probably my favorite old school blues player. His playing just sounds so raw and dangerous.
  • deadnote
    deadnote Posts: 1,678
    i will say my kids my brothers sisters my cousins and mcready
    set your laughter free

    dreamer in my dream

    we got the guns

    i love you,but im..............callin out.........callin out
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    hendrix78 wrote:
    The Edge invented a guitar style of his own that has been hugely influential. He is one of a handful of players whose sound is instantly recognizable within a few notes. To say he can't play is ignorant.


    Nah, John Martyn invented The Edge's style, but he could play:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt2i-otENqk
  • gue_barium
    gue_barium Posts: 5,515
    None of you have ever heard of this guy: Ranier Ptacek.

    Edit: Wow, he's got an entry on Wiki.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Ptacek
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  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 11,175
    gue_barium wrote:
    None of you have ever heard of this guy: Ranier Ptacek.
    Possibly one of the most underrated players out there. Pure awesomeness. There was a clip floating around some time ago, of him playing Life is Fine, on Jools years ago. Hauntingly beautiful. He was very emotional at the end, i guess because of his illness, but omg he still nailed it. Really moving.
  • BinFrog
    BinFrog MA Posts: 7,314
    Depends on what kind of guitar I am in the mood for.

    Mike/Stone
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y61jItPx4hg

    Alex Lifeson
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iONLKn5VHY4

    Trey Anastasio
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVBj37f7RMk

    Tommy Emmanuel
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft9LVWoLSwQ (imo the greatest living guitarist)

    Joe Satriani
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIDss4_IoaQ (Wait for about 1:40 into it....insane)
    Bright eyed kid: "Wow Typo Man, you're the best!"
    Typo Man: "Thanks kidz, but remembir, stay in skool!"
  • Jamal
    Jamal Posts: 2,115
    Stevie Ray Vaughan

    Steve Vai
    Surf little waves big... Charge big waves hard

    - Antwerp '06, Nijmegen '07, Werchter '07
  • Jooooosh
    Jooooosh Posts: 74
    page
    hendrix
    dave mustaine
    marty friedman
    james hetfield
    scott ian
    tom morello
    slash
    chris poland
    zakk wylde
    randy rhoads
    kim thayil
    alex lifeson
    adam jones
    and me


    to name a few.
  • hendrix78
    hendrix78 Posts: 507
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    Nah, John Martyn invented The Edge's style, but he could play:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt2i-otENqk

    That was really freaking cool. Is all his stuff that good?
  • Drew263
    Drew263 Birmingham, AL Posts: 602
    lucylespian wrote:
    and there was a guy called Danny Gatton, aka "The Humbler", who other guitarists used to travel for miles to see to be shocked and awed. I ahev never heard anything, but he is supposed to be the ants nipples !!

    My instructor actually took lessons from Danny. Says he is w/o a doubt the best that has ever played. Also that while we are all thinking on the neck..Danny was thinking on and off the neck. I guess you'd have to see him explain that part. lol
  • intodeep
    intodeep Posts: 7,249
    My Favorite is J Mascis.
    Charlotte 00 | Charlotte 03 | Asheville 04 | Atlanta 12 | Greenville 16 | Columbia 16 |Seattle 18  | Nashville 22 | Ohana Festival 24 x2 | Atlanta 25 x2
  • jamtemplechains
    jamtemplechains Posts: 117
    i'd say as far as straight technical skill goes, there's little competition that can hang with yngwie malmsteen or jason becker, but those are both far from my favorite sounds or styles. i love listening to hendrix because of the soul that meshed so well with the insane talent. also, andy mckee is UNBELIEVABLE. go here and check out any one of these vids/songs (don't worry, none of them are epic 15 minuters or anything ;) ) :
    http://youtube.com/results?search_query=andy+mckee&search=Search
    Do you see the way that tree bends?
    Does it inspire?
    Leaning out to catch the sun's rays...
    A lesson to be applied.

    Best night of my life. . .
    Noblesville, IN 06-22-03.

    myspace.com/justonemorebottle
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    hendrix78 wrote:
    That was really freaking cool. Is all his stuff that good?


    Avoid his eighties stuff like the plague, but I'd definitely recommend all his albums from his second release, The Tumbler (1968) to One World (1977). His latest album, On The Cobbles (2004), is pretty fine, too, although he doesn't like it much.

    He was very good friends with Nick Drake, and their styles mesh a lot (though I consider JM the superior guitarist, singer and songwriter).

    Here's some more.

    The drum machine is very primitive, but John's playing is beautiful and moving:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYLVM560Fok

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