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

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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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

my pixxxx:

Guitar players: POX

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

ooh yeah how did i forget rowly

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Eric Clapton. Steve Howe.

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

Nice idea. I still have Exposure too.

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

-richard thompson
-clarence white

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Stacy Sutherland

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

... seconded

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

The only possible answer:

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

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

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Zane Drain!

Abby Shabby!

Giles Godounov!

Tam Dukakis!

Shug Brecht!

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

"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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

ooh, forgot:
Quine
Fripp
Gill
Levene

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Carrie Brownstein, why not?

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Martin Carthy yes!! Sterling Morrison yes as a rhythm player too!!

― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 2 June 2006 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Keith Richards and Ron Wood, because they sound so Stonsey.

Johnny Thunders -- the only guitarist whose wake I've been to. He had short, stubby fingers. Maybe the most original rock guitarist I've ever heard.

Mick Ralphs / Mick Ronson. I wish I could add Mick Taylor, but he's not in their elite company.

Johnny Smith -- OMG, Johnny Smith.

― Sang Freud (jeff_s), Friday, 2 June 2006 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I like Lonnie Johnson, I don't know how all those sounds come from two hands...

I also like John Woo from the Magnetic Fields... understated, but very good.

― silence dogood (catcher), Friday, 2 June 2006 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Argh, how could I miss my two absolute favourites - Neil Young and Richard Thompson.

Also gotta mention: Davey Graham, Bert Jansch, Dick Gaughan, D Boon, Mick Ronson, Michael Karoli, Michael Rother, J Mascis, Eddie Hazel, Steve Cropper, Ben Chasny, Lindsay Buckingham (the guitar sounds on Tusk are nuts - how does he get his axe to sound like phased out rubber bands?), Jack White, Kevin Shields, Carlos Alomar, Adrian Belew (on Talking Heads and Eno albums at least), Howe Gelb...

― Stew (stew s), Friday, 2 June 2006 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link

PAUL LEARY
Peter Laughner
Duane Dennison
Steve Albini
Bob Mould
Greg Ginn
Kevin Shields
Robert Quine
Eddie Hazel
John Reis
Greg Sage
Helios Creed

― W Gary (Schade), Friday, 2 June 2006 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Matthias Jabs and Ted Falconi

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Friday, 2 June 2006 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Anyone like Freddie Roulette?

― shorty (shorty), Friday, 2 June 2006 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link

1 more for Richard Thompson. Equally great on acoustic and electric.

A guitar player buddy of mine put it best when he told me that after seeing Richard Thompson play live one time, he stopped playing for 5 years because in comparison, my friend felt like he was "playing with his feet."

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Friday, 2 June 2006 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link

All of my faves have been mentioned except for (and I'm sorry if I missed it) The Dark Horse, George Harrison aka The Quiet One.

― MadMaryWilliams (MadMaryWilliams), Friday, 2 June 2006 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link

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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

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 (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

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