For those who can and cannot play a guitar...

[highlandsflyer]

BB put more in one note than Vai has in a career.

Beck know what he is doing.

On a good day, Clapton can still put it out there.

Page, as a player who is a songwriter beyond reckoning, is beyond any earthly description.

Neil Young has a nerve strand attaching his brain and heart to his guitar.

Prince is one of the most complete musicians since Stone, he has a mastery of the guitar that can only emanate from the soul.

Lots to choose from, but some of my favourite guitar players..

Walter Trout

Greg Koch

Tom Verlaine

 

[Mike Muz]

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I just got me some muff,

http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/ ... -398998/46

And I'm looking forward to trying it out LOUD in the warehouse at work tomorrow morning!

Sorry, just thought I'd put that out there!

As you were

mike

 

[highlandsflyer]

The thing is that Vai presents these techniques as art, as music, when in the classical arena they would merely be techniques.

Most classical music promotes composition over technique, Paganini and the ilk aside.

Once Roth got hold of him he put him in his place. Look at me, you dolt.

I am a rock god, and you need to emulate my spirit.

1984 Donington VH were everything I hoped for, and thirty years later I can still hear Roth's put down for a bottle thrower, "Hey man, if you throw another bottle at me I am gonna come down there and f... your girlfriend!"

Legend!

 

[66 triumph daytona]

BB put more in one note than Vai has in a career.

Beck know what he is doing.

On a good day, Clapton can still put it out there.

Page, as a player who is a songwriter beyond reckoning, is beyond any earthly description.

Neil Young has a nerve strand attaching his brain and heart to his guitar.

Prince is one of the most complete musicians since Stone, he has a mastery of the guitar that can only emanate from the soul.

Lots to choose from, but some of my favourite guitar players..
Your omitting one of the finest guitarists and a Scot to boot-John Mc Geoch of the Banshees-sheer genius.

Walter Trout

Greg Koch

Tom Verlaine

 

[Mike Muz]

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+1 for Walter Trout,

No-one heard of Buddy Guy? Saw him a few years ago, in his 70s, and still as good as ever

mike

 

[highlandsflyer]

Baturally I am going to be omitting a lot of players, given I presented a tiny list.

Kris Drever is worth an ear if anyone has the energy too.

Richard Thompson is literally God.

 

[66 triumph daytona]

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Buddy guy is unreal.Richard Thompson is my favourite acoustic guitarist.Such an all round talent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxKTzwaEa2o

 

[Mike Muz]

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Buddy's biography is also a very good read, very humbling given the era and lifestyle of his family.

mike

 

[grumpycommuter]

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I get the impression when watching Tina play that these videos are for her, the equivalent of Neil's endless scales, a means to an end. In the Comfortably Numb solo there are glimpses in her phrasing and articulation, even though it is a facsimile of Gilmour's, of her real ability. I'm sure her aloofness and seeming reliance on technique stem from being trained to peform pieces rather then compose. A quick google search indicates that she has spent the last year working on nothing but technique.

The first 7 or 8 bars of Two Fools a Minute are what I love about Vai...pure funk.

Technical and pure emotion, look no further then the purple one....

3RDEYEGIRL - Let's Go Crazy (Manchester, UK - Feb…: http://youtu.be/YMABC22tfwg

 

[66 triumph daytona]

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When Hendrix was asked what was it like to be considered the best guitarist in the world his reply-"I dunno go ask Rory Gallagher".It may be legend but God he`s good.