Favourite Guitar Players: NOT a "who's the best" thread.

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Mike Campbell
Elliot Easton
Billy Gibbons
Phil Manzanera
Chris Whitley

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 2 June 2006 02:19 (twenty years ago)

Andy Gill
David Rodríguez (from the Spanish band Beef)
Roger Miller
Clapton (OK really just 'Layla' - NOT the acoustic version)
Cobain - because I love artists who know exactly what they want to do but lack the technical proficiency to exactly create it.

― davelus (davelus), Friday, 2 June 2006 02:39 (twenty years ago)

Keith Levene, James Blood Ulmer, Vince Martin, Bert Jansch, Fred Neil, Ed Kuepper, Johnny Ramone, John Fahey, John Lennon, Grant Green, Ernest Ranglin, Barney Sumner, and Peter Hook. I know that Hooky's a bassist, but he often played lead in Joy Division and New Order. Which brings me back to the David Fair's thread, both Hook/Sumner were entirely self-taught. If they had been formally trained in proper technique Joy Division would have been a lot less interesting musically. Since I mentioned Hooky, I may as well toss Jah Wobble in their too.

― Ice Cream Electric (Ice Cream Electric), Friday, 2 June 2006 02:47 (twenty years ago)

you know who get's no fuckin respect? Carlos fuckin' Alomar. What the fuck? He's seriously been my guitar hero since I was three.

― tonyD (noiseyrock), Friday, 2 June 2006 03:12 (twenty years ago)

Loren Mazzacane Connors

― Shoes say, yeah, no hands clap your good bra. (goodbra), Friday, 2 June 2006 03:26 (twenty years ago)

In no way a token female mention, but Nancy Wilson is really quite amazing when she chooses to be.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 2 June 2006 03:28 (twenty years ago)

Should that read "when she chooses to be Jimmy Page"?

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 2 June 2006 03:32 (twenty years ago)

When Dexter Romweber is hot, I swear he sounds like a whole orchestra. His covers of Sing Sing Sing and Brazil do this especially. He's so good at implying the presence of other instruments.

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 (twenty years ago)

Viiiiiiniiiii Reiiiiilly

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ is a GE Money Genie (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Friday, 2 June 2006 03:53 (twenty years ago)

Franco Mussida of P.F.M. is amazing. The records don't necessarily reflect that, but I saw P.F.M. live - up close - towards the end of the 70's, and Mussida absolutely fried my brain.

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 (twenty years ago)

rowland s. howard & mick harvey
kevin shields & belinda butcher
lou reed
frank black & joey santiago
duane denison
jimmy page
johnny ramone
lee ranaldo
angus & malcolm young
neil young
dave payne
brian may
steve malkmus

― 6335, Friday, 2 June 2006 04:49 (twenty years ago)

Steve Cropper
David Byrne
Will Sergeant
Jimmy Nolen
Alfonzo Kellum
Graham Coxon
Pete Townshend
Malcolm Ross
Freddie Stone

― David Bachyrycz (David Bachyrycz), Friday, 2 June 2006 05:15 (twenty years ago)

I'll second/third/fourthd Vini Reilly and Fripp.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 2 June 2006 05:21 (twenty years ago)

my pixxxx:

Guitar players: POX

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 2 June 2006 05:23 (twenty years ago)

ooh yeah how did i forget rowly

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Friday, 2 June 2006 05:25 (twenty years ago)

Fripp and Ribot are reliably exciting when they play on other people's records.

I think you should listen to Exposure again. Fripp brings the jamz on that album.

― sleeve (sleeve), Friday, 2 June 2006 05:25 (twenty years ago)

Eric Clapton. Steve Howe.

― Sean Robison (yaratnam), Friday, 2 June 2006 05:39 (twenty years ago)

Nice idea. I still have Exposure too.

x-post

― Taylor, Friday, 2 June 2006 05:45 (twenty years ago)

I *just* watched an instructional vid with Brian Setzer. He's great fun! Love his attitude: "Just boppin' through it... Having a general disregard for music" :)

― shorty (shorty), Friday, 2 June 2006 05:47 (twenty years ago)

John Petrucci (Dream Theater)
Herman Lee (Dragonforce)
Sam Totman (Dragonforce)
Jimmy Page
Robert Johnson
Jake Shimabukuro
Django Reinhardt
Stephen Malkmus
Itou Shinichi -- this guy is -great- (Sparta Locals)
Tabuchi Hisako (Number Girl, Toddle)
Mukai Shutoku (Number Girl, Zazen Boys)
Yoshikane Sou (Zazen Boys)
Doug Martsch (Built to Spill)
Joe Asher (Mock Orange)
Ryan Grisham (Mock Orange)
Spencer Seim (Hella)
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez (At the Drive-In, The Mars Volta)

― Zedd, Friday, 2 June 2006 06:23 (twenty years ago)

just a few that haven't been mentioned yet but deserve to be:

Ricky Gardiner (on Low, Lust for Life)
James Williamson (o so efficient yet creative on his songs with Iggy Pop)
Michael Rother
Michael Karoli

― willem -- (willem), Friday, 2 June 2006 07:14 (twenty years ago)

-richard thompson
-clarence white

― Arnar Eggert Thoroddsen (arnart1802), Friday, 2 June 2006 07:39 (twenty years ago)

No-one's mentioned him yet, so Syd Barrett. And Keith Rowe of course.

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 2 June 2006 08:14 (twenty years ago)

Stacy Sutherland

― willem -- (willem), Friday, 2 June 2006 08:39 (twenty years ago)

... seconded

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 2 June 2006 09:00 (twenty years ago)

The only possible answer:

http://gordfynes.com/images/derek_bailey.jpg

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 2 June 2006 09:03 (twenty years ago)

Mr Baileys was better when playing melodic musics with the Wise & Morecambes

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 2 June 2006 09:09 (twenty years ago)

How could I forget this guy, Michio Kurihara, the guitarist from White Heaven and Ghost. Great scorched earth feedback and squall. I also really love Sterling Morrison's playing on the thirs Velvets album.

― Ice Cream Electric (Ice Cream Electric), Friday, 2 June 2006 09:12 (twenty years ago)

What bits does Sterling Morrison play on the first album? Lou does all the lead work.

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 2 June 2006 09:14 (twenty years ago)

My favourite is Steve Hackett, and he's not technically "best" (just I like his way of playing better than, for instance, Jimi Hendrix' or Alvin Lee's)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 2 June 2006 09:21 (twenty years ago)

Too bad he couldn't "Hackett" in Genesis ho ho etc.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 2 June 2006 09:23 (twenty years ago)

first: which of these are the Verlaine and Lloyd of meh-tull?
Dave Murray & Ade Smith or KK Downing and Glenn Tipton?

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 (twenty years ago)

Zane Drain!

Abby Shabby!

Giles Godounov!

Tam Dukakis!

Shug Brecht!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 2 June 2006 11:29 (twenty years ago)

My all time favourite is Daniel Fichelscher from Popol Vuh, his rhythm playing is brilliant, his lead playing hits the spot emotionally like nobody else ever. Most of the lead breaks from "Das Hoheleid Salomos", I can replay in my head, I've listened to it so many times, yet I never tire of playing it. His lack of recognition is terrible, as is his seeming total dissapearance from music in recent years.

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 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, John McGeoch as well, fuckin' outstanding on Magazine's albums.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 2 June 2006 11:38 (twenty years ago)

Kaki King, Preston Reed, Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, Trey Azagthoth

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Friday, 2 June 2006 11:53 (twenty years ago)

favorite? pete townshend, without whom there'd be no velvet underground, no mc5, no stooges, no sonic youth, no amm (major influence on keith rowe), no noise scene whatsoever.

another? magic sam. mind-bendingly lyrical.

― Lawrence the Looter (Lawrence the Looter), Friday, 2 June 2006 11:58 (twenty years ago)

pete townshend, without whom there'd be no velvet underground, no mc5, no stooges, no sonic youth, no amm (major influence on keith rowe), no noise scene whatsoever

Aye, right

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 2 June 2006 12:02 (twenty years ago)

Really? Last time I spoke to Mr Rowe, he seemed to be under the exact opposite impression, i.e. he influenced Townshend, viz. came to AMM gigs, then ~~ripped them off~~ adopted some of their strategies for the Who.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 2 June 2006 12:05 (twenty years ago)

Pete Townshend, without whom there'd be no Chris Langham

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 2 June 2006 12:07 (twenty years ago)

"Robert Fripp - not so much for what he does on King Crimson records, but more for when he is given free rein on other people's songs. His solo on Eno's "St. Elmo's Fire" is possibly my favourite guitar solo of all time."
OTM - it fits the song so perfectly, evoking a burst of colour and light across the night sky.

Robbie Robertson
James Burton
Ira Kaplan
Dave Davies
Zoot Horn Rollo
Thurston & Lee
John Fahey
Verlaine and Lloyd
Bob Stintson
Curtis Mayfield

― Stew (stew s), Friday, 2 June 2006 13:34 (twenty years ago)

Ira Kaplan
Greg Ginn
Blixa Bargeld
Tom Watson
Jim Jones
Daniel Ash
Max Eider
Grant McLennan
Barney Sumner
Lindsey Buckingham
D Boon

― dave's good arm (facsimile) (dave225.3), Friday, 2 June 2006 13:46 (twenty years ago)

Since no one else did, I'll toss in Tom Herman (of Pere Ubu and Tripod Jimmie) as one of my favorite guitar players.

― James, Friday, 2 June 2006 13:50 (twenty years ago)

ooh, forgot:
Quine
Fripp
Gill
Levene

― dave's good arm (facsimile) (dave225.3), Friday, 2 June 2006 13:51 (twenty years ago)

My favourites :

1. T. Verlaine
2. R. Lloyd
3. Townshend
4. Michael Karoli
5. Nile Rodgers
6. Michael Rother
7. Vini Reilly
8. Jo Callis
9. early David Byrne - especially on the live stuff.
10. Eric Clapton - Cream era

― Dr.C (Dr.C), Friday, 2 June 2006 14:24 (twenty years ago)

Andy Gill
Joey Santiago / Frank Black
Greg Ginn
D. Boon
Ed Crawford
Dean Ween
Issac Brock
Tom Verlaine
Richard Lloyd
Robert Quine
Jerry Garcia / Bob Weir (at times, at least)
Trey Anastasio (too much at times, but really distinctive)
I'm not a big Dire Straights fan, but Mark Knopfler, damn.

― joygoat (joygoat), Friday, 2 June 2006 14:27 (twenty years ago)

Martin Carthy!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 2 June 2006 14:28 (twenty years ago)

Daniel Fichelscher seconded!
Has anyone mentioned Fred Frith yet? Technically great but doesn't shove it in your face, incredibly versatile, knows how to be a background or foreground player, maybe my all time fave.
Others : Nels Cline, Keith Rowe, Seichi Yamamoto, Agata, Robbie Basho, King & Hannemann (I think of them as one), Taku Sugimoto.

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Friday, 2 June 2006 14:34 (twenty years ago)

Carrie Brownstein, why not?

― Jimmy Mod: NOIZE BOARD GRIL COMPARISON ANALYST (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 2 June 2006 14:43 (twenty years ago)

Nick Drake for his unrepeatable touch and sense of.....hell, I don't know what. The guy was a genius and no one will ever be able to convince me otherwise.

Jimmy Page for all those riffs and cuz he could pretty much do rhythm and lead at once.

Nick McCabe. Fuck.

― PB, Friday, 2 June 2006 14:44 (twenty years ago)

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lately Peter Lang

― l0u1s j0rdan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 16:13 (fourteen years ago)

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 (fourteen years ago)

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 (fourteen years ago)

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 (fourteen years ago)

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 (fourteen years ago)

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 (fourteen years ago)

Earnest Beauvine from Jon Wayne
bernerm-bernerm-bernerm-bernerm

― Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Thursday, 3 May 2012 02:49 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWsIXsMjfu0&feature=related

― Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Thursday, 3 May 2012 02:51 (fourteen years ago)

Victor Jara.

Colin Newman + Bruce Gilbert.

― collardio gelatinous, Thursday, 3 May 2012 05:20 (fourteen years ago)

Johnny Marr. No one else comes close.

― Bryan, Thursday, 3 May 2012 05:50 (fourteen years ago)

right now Buck Dharma (and he may BE the best too)

― l0u1s j0rdan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 3 May 2012 17:49 (fourteen years ago)

Johnny Marr. No one else comes close.

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 (fourteen years ago)

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 (fourteen years ago)

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