(pauses, scans records)
I forgot Richard Bishop, the guitar team on Angry Samoans' "Back From Samoa (Gregg Turner and P.J. Galligan), and Andy from the Dog Faced Hermans. I think that covers an off-the-cuff top ten pretty well.
― sleeve (sleeve), Friday, 2 June 2006 00:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 2 June 2006 00:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― douglas eklund (skolle), Friday, 2 June 2006 00:20 (seventeen years ago) link
speaking of which, i'm a huge jeff cotton fan.
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 2 June 2006 00:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 2 June 2006 00:24 (seventeen years ago) link
Elsewhere, Fripp and Ribot are reliably exciting when they play on other people's records.
― Taylor, Friday, 2 June 2006 00:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 2 June 2006 00:33 (seventeen years ago) link
I Always enjoy hearing the likes of good straight-ahead rockers such as Cub Coda & Joe Perry too.
But if I could play like anyone else, it would be Mark Knopfler. I'm not very adept at describing technical abilities, but his sense of touch, if you will, is what I'm trying to get at here. I just don't quite hear that sound anywhere else.
― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 2 June 2006 00:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― nerve pylon (flat_of_angles), Friday, 2 June 2006 00:48 (seventeen years ago) link
People who I'm sure are quite good but don't understand why or how: Marr, Coxon.
And sometimes you just want to hear people with their own very specific voice, like Knopfler and Gilmour.
― pleased to mitya (mitya), Friday, 2 June 2006 01:56 (seventeen years ago) link
Beyond that: Richard Thompson, Nile Rodgers, Bill Frisell, Wm. Berger (Uncle Wiggly), Mary Timony, Richard Thompson some more, Robt. Quine/Ivan Julian team, Tom Verlaine/Richard Lloyd team, Catfish Collins, Johnny Marr, Erin Smith, Pete Fucking Townshend.
― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 2 June 2006 01:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 2 June 2006 02:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― davelus (davelus), Friday, 2 June 2006 02:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ice Cream Electric (Ice Cream Electric), Friday, 2 June 2006 02:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― tonyD (noiseyrock), Friday, 2 June 2006 03:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shoes say, yeah, no hands clap your good bra. (goodbra), Friday, 2 June 2006 03:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 2 June 2006 03:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 2 June 2006 03:32 (seventeen years ago) link
Kim Thayil got great range of textures going in Soundgarden, editing out the predictable moves in metal, bringing it back to the riff. He's the anti-van halen, if you will.
Cheetah Chrome is the definative early punk guitarist for me. Glam, but mean instead of slinky.
― bendy (bendy), Friday, 2 June 2006 03:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ is a GE Money Genie (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Friday, 2 June 2006 03:53 (seventeen years ago) link
Thomas Diethelm is a wonderful Swiss 'nylon' player - try his "Valleys In My Head" CD (with Santino Famulari).
Glen Phillips ("Lost At Sea" etc.) is also very hot.
― So Ho La (So Ho La), Friday, 2 June 2006 04:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― 6335, Friday, 2 June 2006 04:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― David Bachyrycz (David Bachyrycz), Friday, 2 June 2006 05:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 2 June 2006 05:21 (seventeen years ago) link
Guitar players: POX
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 2 June 2006 05:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Friday, 2 June 2006 05:25 (seventeen years ago) link
I think you should listen to Exposure again. Fripp brings the jamz on that album.
― sleeve (sleeve), Friday, 2 June 2006 05:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sean Robison (yaratnam), Friday, 2 June 2006 05:39 (seventeen years ago) link
x-post
― Taylor, Friday, 2 June 2006 05:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― shorty (shorty), Friday, 2 June 2006 05:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zedd, Friday, 2 June 2006 06:23 (seventeen years ago) link
Ricky Gardiner (on Low, Lust for Life)James Williamson (o so efficient yet creative on his songs with Iggy Pop)Michael RotherMichael Karoli
― willem -- (willem), Friday, 2 June 2006 07:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― Arnar Eggert Thoroddsen (arnart1802), Friday, 2 June 2006 07:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 2 June 2006 08:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― willem -- (willem), Friday, 2 June 2006 08:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 2 June 2006 09:00 (seventeen years ago) link
http://gordfynes.com/images/derek_bailey.jpg
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 2 June 2006 09:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 2 June 2006 09:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ice Cream Electric (Ice Cream Electric), Friday, 2 June 2006 09:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 2 June 2006 09:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 2 June 2006 09:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 2 June 2006 09:23 (seventeen years ago) link
wa-hurrrd re: Thompson and Fripp…
Rick Nielsen!
James Williamson!
Ernie Isley!
Neal Schon!
Phil Manzanera!
Junior Brown!
James Honeyman-Scott!
Big Al Anderson!
Dimebag!
Todd Rundgren!
Brian May!
Ricky Skaggs!
Johnny Mac!
Snakefinger!
Wayne Kramer and Fred Smith!
Alex Lifeson!
Ritchie Blackmore!
Billy Zoom!
Dean Ween!
― veronica moser (veronica moser), Friday, 2 June 2006 11:18 (seventeen years ago) link
Abby Shabby!
Giles Godounov!
Tam Dukakis!
Shug Brecht!
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 2 June 2006 11:29 (seventeen years ago) link
Other guitarists I really dig are Roger McGuinn, Randy California, Steve Howe, John Cippolina, John "Charlie" Whitney, Tony McPhee, Bill Nelson.
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 2 June 2006 11:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 2 June 2006 11:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Friday, 2 June 2006 11:53 (seventeen years ago) link
another? magic sam. mind-bendingly lyrical.
― Lawrence the Looter (Lawrence the Looter), Friday, 2 June 2006 11:58 (seventeen years ago) link
Aye, right
― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 2 June 2006 12:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 2 June 2006 12:05 (seventeen years ago) link
Bob Mould (of old) Robin Guthrie Westerberg That guy from MBV Ira Kaplan, when he lets rip
seconded all ^^
― stephen, Sunday, 1 June 2008 17:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Also, Ronnie Montrose
― Bill Magill, Monday, 2 June 2008 20:33 (fifteen years ago) link
I was thinking of posting Bo Diddley here just yesterday...(I know he's been mentioned before)...
also: David Gedge, James Honeyman-Scott and Richard Hawley (who I just heard explaining the great man on BBC).
― 2for25, Monday, 2 June 2008 21:35 (fifteen years ago) link
here's an article on my friend and bandmate Ava Mendoza: http://www.tinymixtapes.com/features/ava-mendoza
she's awesome
― Dominique, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:09 (eleven years ago) link
Ash Bowie and Dave Brylawski!!
― Evan, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 05:04 (eleven years ago) link
lately: Nels Cline, Jenn Wasner (of Wye Oak), Lewis Pesacov (of Fool's Gold and Foreign Born)
― caulk the wagon and float it, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:22 (eleven years ago) link
Not the 'best' but my recent favourite has really been Mark Kozelek.
worrrrrrrrrrrd
― caulk the wagon and float it, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:23 (eleven years ago) link
kozelek can do cool classical guitar/complex acoustic fingerpicking stuff really well but also has, imo, a really unique way of playing electric guitar. maybe it's as much about the guitar tone as any actual technique, but the guitars on the more sprawling RHP/SKM songs (Make Like Paper, Between Days, Salvador Sanchez, Lily & Parrots, The Light, Tonight the Sky) is pure fucking heaven. sounds like little else out there aside from Neil Young/Crazy Horse
― caulk the wagon and float it, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:26 (eleven years ago) link
Steven R. Smith, Roy Montgomery, Carl Hultgren, Dylan Carlson, Dave Pierce (or is it Pearce?), Fripp as played for Eno, etc.
― Matt M., Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:26 (eleven years ago) link
though if there's some band that has the same satisfying guitar crunch as "Make Like Paper" and i don't know about them please let me know
― caulk the wagon and float it, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:27 (eleven years ago) link
my all-time fave guitar playing might be Bill Frisell on the first disc of "East/West". his backing is also phenomenal, but I could listen to him set the heavens ablaze on "Shenandoah" with no backing for all eternity
― caulk the wagon and float it, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:32 (eleven years ago) link
lately Peter Lang
― l0u1s j0rdan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 16:13 (eleven years ago) link
Folks should go check out some Ava Mendoza, she really is a phenomenal player (I hadn't heard much to be honest, but checked out a bunch of stuff recently and was really into it).
Second Ash and Dave of Polvo, love them to death.
Another recent discovery for me is Chris Forsyth, whose album "Paranoid Cat" kinda blew me away.
Not mentioned yet: Tom Carter. His playing on the recent Charalambides record "Exile" is stunning.
(love lots of the other stuff everyone else in this thread has mentioned of course)
― grandavis, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 16:22 (eleven years ago) link
Guys I like listening to who never pop up on those stupid lists: Mick Ralphs, Mark Farner, Uli Roth, Jerry Garcia, Deniz Tek, Catfish Collins, Robertson/Gorham, Tommy Bolin, Buck Dharma
― Bill Magill, Friday, May 30, 2008 10:21 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
OTM
― One Way Ticket on the 1277 Express (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
Roy Montgomery seconded. I've gotten into that dude lately in a major way.
― the endless white snow has never felt more textile (loves laboured breathing), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 17:02 (eleven years ago) link
Adrian Belew's broken-fax solos on that live Talking Heads in Rome film.
Eric Clapton Unplugged taught me about phrasing and touch when I was 15 and learning to play on a borrowed classical guitar.
Alex Lifeson's evil fuzz tone on early Rush, though I find most of his solos plotless.
― SongOfSam, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 18:14 (eleven years ago) link
David Sylvian playing a lead guitar, really?― iago g., Sunday, 1 June 2008 02:40 (3 years ago)
i think david sylvian played some nice stuff on Propaganda's A secret wish
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 18:34 (eleven years ago) link
Earnest Beauvine from Jon Waynebernerm-bernerm-bernerm-bernerm
― Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Thursday, 3 May 2012 02:49 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWsIXsMjfu0&feature=related
― Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Thursday, 3 May 2012 02:51 (eleven years ago) link
Victor Jara.
Colin Newman + Bruce Gilbert.
― collardio gelatinous, Thursday, 3 May 2012 05:20 (eleven years ago) link
Johnny Marr. No one else comes close.
― Bryan, Thursday, 3 May 2012 05:50 (eleven years ago) link
right now Buck Dharma (and he may BE the best too)
― l0u1s j0rdan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 3 May 2012 17:49 (eleven years ago) link
Marr had aspirations to be a professional football player, and was approached by Nottingham Forest and had trials with Manchester City (which he supports). In an interview with FourFourTwo magazine, Marr said "I was good enough for City, but they didn't follow up because I was probably the only player out there wearing eyeliner."[citation needed]
― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Thursday, 3 May 2012 18:00 (eleven years ago) link
was listening to this show yesterday and um YES www.wolfgangsvault.com/link-wray/concerts/record-plant-september-25-1974.html
― tylerw, Thursday, 3 May 2012 18:33 (eleven years ago) link