thread for discussion of guitarists i have only heard of because i read guitar magazines in the late 90s

tommy emmanuel

i ended up watching this whole thing on palladia HD once, so ridiculous

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik0T9ivZVhk

Joe Pass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7mqDYTLGzI

Jennifer Batton - she was Michael Jackson's guitarist for awhile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewxQqpXprNA

Doug Mark's and his "Metal Method", I used to see those ads

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mpfFiYgaEs

did anyone notice the thing where every few months these magazines featured a sitarist no one had ever heard of who was working on some kind of sitar-blues fusion thing?

eric gales

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q-1KSW4BiM

All my knowledge of this stuff is secondhand but these types of instruments were a regular staple of guitar mags right

http://www.stick.com/instruments/

the stick is forever tied to Mr. Tony Levin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgUDDxFgL7I

ex-Billy Idol guitarist Steve Stevens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncOA5GbU-ZI

though Dokken was pretty famous, George Lynch was always a big deal in guitar mags

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0QCR06v0vw

sonny landreth

who knows what kenny wayne shepherd has been up to since then but in the 90s he broke as a (weedly weedly rock tradition) blues guitarist who was a teenager (thus golly talent etc)

doesn't really fit in w/ these weirdos at least not in their dotage

i think i bought an album by one of them once but i forget which one and anyway it sucked

I remember these mags constantly talking about Eric Johnson's tone. His big thing was tone.

It was great when alternative rock got big and Guitar Player would still have tabs for Stevie Ray Vaughan sings but they'd also have to interview Grasshopper from Mercury Rec about recording the sound of cats trying to eat tuna from under guitar strings.

michael schenker (you might've known him legitimately for other reasons, but his guitar magazine fame was something else altogether)

for a while guitar player mag was the cool alternative to guitar mag. their johnny marr cover story was formative for me.

doesn't really fit in w/ these weirdos at least not in their dotage

kenny wayne was on a g3 tour so he's in

i've always kinda dug "cliffs of dover"

Hey now, you're all missing a classic thread here that has a LOT of crossover with this:

John Petrucci brings you...ROCK DISCIPLINE (a picture thread if the pictures can fit)

The Petrucci and Gambale video reviews therein are astounding.

You can always go straight to the Petrucci review here. And you should.

good thread! how did i forget about zakk wylde

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S018IwrFd_4

^^^the best solo fyi

Left Hand Technique: Legato Playing
Exercising the left hand with hammerons and pulloffs. Some of it kinda sounds like "Eruption".
I forgot to mention that he is filmed with a purple lens filter for much of this. it really brings out his choadliness.
He wants us to massage ourselves again cuz now it's time to put it all together and shred!.
He makes like Steve Vai at the end of Crossroads for a few minutes, then plays some shit slow for a while, finally showing us again how fast A REAL ASSHOLE LIKE HIM can play it! Some VH tapping in there as well...

for a while guitar player mag was the cool alternative to guitar mag. their johnny marr cover story was formative for me.

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i found a ratty old copy of it somewhere when i was a kid, from the mid/late 80s and they actually did a story on the avant garde guitar scene! featured sonic youth, live skill, savage republic, rat at rar r, and bands like that - first exposure to any of that

guitar player was the only one of these mags that ever covered anything cool, much to their credit

I watched that Yngwie "Arpeggios from Hell" video last week. So rad.

Jeez Holdsworth's guitars are some of the ugliest I've ever seen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvouiDJSTUE

^Might be too old, but I know 90s guitar mags tabbed this song out all the time.

Holdsworth is the man. I love a lot of this music. Jeff Beck rules all, obviously

Oh Holdsworth can really play. Like Gambale. Has his own thing going on.

thread of badass guitarists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiXR9ggRdFI

did they talk about danny gatton in late 90s guitar mags?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGGE4CrPvjU

I think there's definitely a subset of players even in a technically minded field like this where you can go, yeah, maybe not my thing, but they've completely fucking mastered that. Be it the fluidity of the playing or not relying on speed or knowing exactly where to speed up. And so on.

xp fuck yes they did but he was dead so they couldn't interview him every other month

danny gatton was really good imo

I posted this in the Yngwie thread but in case you missed what is in my opinion the greatest single thing ever said by a musician in an interview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHZ48AE3TOI

pains me to say this as a good ilx brigade member but Leo Kottke

And here is the part of the thread where UMS breaks my heart into a million bits.

Kottke in his prime pre tendonitis could eat basically every one of these dudes alive. Also bonus points wrote listenable songs and stuff.

god bless yngwie xp

Ha I realize I am uh shall we say biased thx to family history, but I'm speaking from outside of that here.

JJ I love kottke!

re: kottke idk if the guitar press ever knew what to do with him, he's a weirdo and not really the ingratiating type.

also yes he wrote songs in addition to being able to shred.

http://thumbs1.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/mlJU-jYkubCgoyMTwjHabKg.jpg
peter lang

I know about like 95% of the dudes in this thread because of my high school guitar teacher. I always thought nearly all of them were terrible and used to just kind of grin and grit my teeth through listening to them/talking about them. He was also really into this duo called Tuck & Patti (guitarist Tuck Andress) who I continue to find pretty embarrassing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIVjCJ3jNDw

Even as my tastes have "mellowed" and "matured" I continue to find almost all of the music in this thread pointless.

Two things I know about Tuck & Patti:
* St. Vincent is related to one of them (a niece I think)
* Jim Carrey wrote a song for them that they recorded

tuck andress is def one of these guys. i lol'd when i found out he is annie clark's uncle.

He was also into this "unsung" guy called Danny Gatton (no one ever mentions Danny Gatton without talking about how unsung he was).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUpP7CnW4yA

Kinda cool, certainly could play, but honestly it's not really surprising why this no-style-having dude playing country-pickin and blues in the 80s was "unsung."

Tuck the uncle of Annie Clark iirc.

My guitar teacher was a nice and pretty cool guy and also had no style. His only criterion was "that cat can play." He would praise literally anyone who could play their instrument well.

Next level

"Can you show me on the doll where rock touched you?"