Your Favorite Guitarist

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  • BinFrog
    BinFrog MA Posts: 7,314
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    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


    Saying he is a superior songwriter to Nick Drake. Eh...
    Bright eyed kid: "Wow Typo Man, you're the best!"
    Typo Man: "Thanks kidz, but remembir, stay in skool!"
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    BinFrog wrote:
    Saying he is a superior songwriter to Nick Drake. Eh...

    I hate to compare, but if I tell the truth, yeah. It's like comparing Bob Dylan to Phil Ochs.

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

    JM wrote this song in 1970. This is a 1978 live recording.
  • Glorified Irish Guy
    Glorified Irish Guy Posts: 350
    Iv learned a shitload from listening to eric clapton,dave gilmour and joe bonomassa, And learned even more from ripping off mike mccready :D

    When anybody asks you to pick your favourite guitarist its pretty easy cause a name just comes off the top of your head, but when they ask you to explain why it really makes it fuckin difficult to pick a favourite
  • tama_drummer91
    tama_drummer91 Posts: 205
    Dave Mustaine.
    My first PJ show to witness was at Bonnaroo. How is that for lucky?
  • abhi101cru
    abhi101cru Posts: 223
    1. Mike McCready
    2. Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimmy Paige, Tom Morello, Slash, Eric Clapton and so many more
    Sorry is the fool who trades his soul for a corvette, thinks he'll get the girl he'll only get the mechanic...

    Atlantic City: 09/30/05, 10/01/05
  • LukinFan
    LukinFan Florida Posts: 29,119
    Robby Kreiger has to be up there
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  • Jooooosh
    Jooooosh Posts: 74
    Jooooosh wrote:
    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.

    a few I forgot to add:
    buckethead
    jason becker
    darrell abbott
    david gilmour
    robin trower
    jerry cantrel
    tony iommi
    angus young
    dave navarro (yeah he's a douche but I like some of his guitar work)
    larry lalonde
    jeff hanneman
  • lucylespian
    lucylespian Posts: 2,403
    No-one has mentioned Billy Gibbons. It was a rainy Sunday yesterday, and I was home alone, so I sat down with the Tascam CD Trainer, and a tab to Gimme All Your Loving, and hammered out the first page of the solo.

    He is just the man for grungy harmonics, and deceptively quick too, while always fluid and melodic. Testing, but approachable for complete amateurs.
    Music is not a competetion.

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