IceCreamMan
Eddie v H
Tony Iommi
Marc st john
Ace Frehely
Sebastian
in order (which swill have changed by the next time i watch a youtube clip) ?
1) Steve Vai (so much more than a guitarist)
2) Eric Johnson (the ultimate perfectionist)
3) Joe Bonamassa (a guitarists guitarist)
4) Stevie Ray Vaughan (fairly obvious)
right i'll stop there ?
Tauriq
Ian D'Sa - Billy Talent
Matt Bellamy - Muse
John Mayer
Buckethead
Jason Mraz ?
Fingerpicker
Mark Knopfler.
There are guitarists who are good to watch, because of their technique, and those who are good to listen to, because they seem to induce dreamlike state or a trance almost. Often with these guys you don't even hear the end of the song because you're mind is wandering off somewhere...
Mark adds these little touches that may only appear for a split second in a song.
I am working out an acoustic version of Sultans of Swing and intrigued to see how simple some of his riffs are, usually part of a chord that gets hammered, pulled, slid, bent or something.
Squonk
@ Fingerpicker
I agree with you , Mark is very underated.
And he plays with his FINGERS!!!
But have a look on Youtube for Monte Montgomery doing sultans of swing, it's incredible.
One of my favourite acoustic players.
Ray
I think Mark K is fitting homself more into the songwriter role for quite a while now. He does it good I think. His guitar work seems to take a backseat to his message.
Bob-Dubery
Ray wrote
I think Mark K is fitting homself more into the songwriter role for quite a while now. He does it good I think. His guitar work seems to take a backseat to his message.
Or maybe the message is more than the guitar playing.
I am getting increasingly allergic to "music" where the only three things going on are technique, technique and technique.
Technique is good, but it should be an enabler, a tool, not the point.
My favourite Knopfler album is actually the first Dire Straits album. There's some great playing on there where the guitar parts fit into and enhance the greater structure or message of the song. I think particularly of "In The Gallery" (my favourite Knopfler solo), "Lions" and "Six Blade Knife".
Later on he did "Private Investigations" where, again, the guitar solo fits the mood and story of the song.
Ray
First one is also my favorite I guess. But I liked all after that except maybe communique didnt grab me. Ragpickers Dream is wonderful as well with some songs that for me, even though I have no connection to the geographies and people he is talking about, you feel the situation and understand. Well, that's how I can put it anyway. Get Lucky is lekker but I havenet got a grip on the songs yet.
Squonk
X-rated Bob wrote
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My favourite Knopfler album is actually the first Dire Straits album. There's some great playing on there where the guitar parts fit into and enhance the greater structure or message of the song. I think particularly of "In The Gallery" (my favourite Knopfler solo), "Lions" and "Six Blade Knife".
Brilliant songs, "Down to the Waterline" also does it for me
Fingerpicker
Whoa that's serious stuff. He loses his timing now and again but it's given me plenty ideas.
I could see Keira doing a version of this as there seems to be some flamenco technique there. She would need a cutaway classical for this. (I can hear her saying ..mmmmm...yeah....hehhehheh)
A very very exciting version, thanks, I think I am a Monte Montgomery convert now. Similar vein to Doyle Dykes, not as precise as Doyle, but the flamenco touch adds that edge and real excitement.
Hope this attaches for those who want to have a look
3ight8all
Sho...this is one of the longest running posts I've seen and still no mention of Duane Allman ??? I put him in my top 5, along with a few others that have been continuously repeated.
gtrnoise
Interesting question! I will divide my list into three categories and I think that you will understand why!
1) Jimi Hendrix
1) Richie Blackmore
2) Eric Clapton
3) Jimmy Page
1) Joe Satriani
2) Steve Vai
3) Yngwie Malmsteen
Sebastian
Hahahaha gtrnoise has been watching the G3 dvds??? ?
Jack-Flash-Jr
gtrnoise wrote
Interesting question! I will divide my list into three categories and I think that you will understand why!
1) Jimi Hendrix
1) Richie Blackmore
2) Eric Clapton
3) Jimmy Page
1) Joe Satriani
2) Steve Vai
3) Yngwie Malmsteen
I like the way you think.
Ray
Well, I may have mentioned it before but I am quite a fan of John Fogerty. I get this little mail every so often from acoustic guitar mag I think and they did a little interview with him which I pasted down here and it's quite relevant for me. I dont have his background and only just been playing about a year now but ya, I found some of the things that he said pretty relevant.
Is recording these classic songs a way for you to refuel as a songwriter?
FOGERTY I’m sure there’s some of that. But I’ve been working on my guitar playing for a long time. I got the guitar bug as a very small boy, and then because of all the baloney that happened in my career, I wasn’t moving forward in my playing for a long time. But somewhere in the early ’90s, I discovered Jerry Douglas, the dobro player, and that was the catalyst for me. And one day that little molecule of consciousness in my brain that was the moment when I was 14 or so and thinking, “I’m going to grow up and be really good like Chet Atkins” . . . Well, that little molecule got light shone on it again, and here I was 48 years old, all because of Jerry Douglas. It was one of those moments when you either wave a hand across your face, like swatting a fly, “Nah,” or you receive it as a gauntlet being thrown down: “I’d better get busy,” which is what I did. So I’ve been serious about my own daily improvement ever since.
Are you talking specifically about dobro or any kind of guitar?
FOGERTY At first it was slide guitar on a traditional acoustic in various tunings. And after about a year of that I decided the sound I really wanted was dobro—so I did that for about three and a half years, working my way up to Blue Moon Swamp. But then somewhere after that I transferred that desire back to guitar, meaning acoustic and electric. Around 1998 it finally occurred to me what I was trying to do. I wanted to be able to do the free-hand thing that bluegrass guys, flatpickers, and jazz guys do, where you can just roll your hand and all these notes come out of your hand. And I was nowhere near that.
So I got real busy, because I couldn’t do that to save my life. I started practicing open C position and G position scales, that kind of stuff. Rock ’n’ roll position scales, but not just blues boxes, in other words—much more like what flatpickers play. And it was so slow going. It was horrible. When your ears are professional but your ability is amateurish, it’s really hard to get through, but I stayed with it. I thought it might take me two or three years—it took ten to 11 years to get fluid. I am able to do a lot of really cool stuff on electric now, but I’d give my eyeteeth to be able to [flatpick] like Bryan Sutton. I have a lot of company.
By Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers
Bob-Dubery
Ray wrote
But somewhere in the early ’90s, I discovered Jerry Douglas, the dobro player, and that was the catalyst for me. And one day that little molecule of consciousness in my brain that was the moment when I was 14 or so and thinking, “I’m going to grow up and be really good like Chet Atkins” . . . Well, that little molecule got light shone on it again, and here I was 48 years old, all because of Jerry Douglas.
Well there's one of
my favourite players. Jerry Douglas is such a fab player.
His web site lists 765 albums by him or featuring him, and notes "this does not represent Jerry's complete discography." Ja.
Marsi
Rhandy Rhoads.
Not only was he a pioneer ,but he was a good and impressive pioneer.
Allot better than Tony Iommi. Tommy might have started it, but Rhandy perfected it!!!!!
Tamago
My favourite guitarists are, (in some order)
Tom Scholz (Boston)
Gordon Sumner (aka Sting, The Police)
Andy Summers (The Police)
Ron Strykert (Men At Work)
Phil Collen (Def Leppard)
Vivian Campbell (Def Leppard)
Noel Hogan (Cranberries)
Mark Knopfler
Lindsey Buckingham (Fleetwood Mac)
SpeedStar
Steve Vai
Godspeed
Kurikinton Fox
Hellman Jigogotouku
A2C (Mintjam)
Sizna (Sugar)
Paul Gilbert
All Japanese except Gilbert and Vai of course
josh
JIM ROOT & JOHN MAYER!!!
