Greatest Guitarist

[adonirum]

No one's mentioned Johnny Winter yet

[BrandNewGuy]

Another vote for Fahey. One of his more modern acolytes is William Tyler (former Lambchop guitarist). Wonderful stuff, but with feeling, too - unlike a lot of the fast tricksy players.

 

[El Pibe]

Do banjoes count?

Karen Dalton if so. And George Formby obviously!!!!

[KidKruger]

If banjos count then it's Roscoe Holcomb, Bascom Lamar Lunsford, Frank Proffitt, Wade Ward, Dock Boggs, Gaither Carlton, Ola Belle Reed, Doc Watson.

[Alan Medic]

I hate these so subjective threads where everyone knows who the Greatest Guitarist is, including me (though my entry was based on what my big brother told me years ago). Anyway, here's someone's top 100. Is your's there?

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-guitarists-of-all-time-19691231/kim-thayil-20101202

[hpsaucey]

Alan Medic Wrote:

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> I hate these so subjective threads where everyone

> knows who the Greatest Guitarist is, including me

> (though my entry was based on what my big brother

> told me years ago). Anyway, here's someone's top

> 100. Is your's there?

>

>

> http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greate

> st-guitarists-of-all-time-19691231/kim-thayil-2010

> 1202

Interesting - find them fascinating me'self ... Horses for courses and all that I suppose, just like guitarists...

[bob]

Banjoe's Earl scrugs lester Flatt's

Bob S

[BrandNewGuy]

Banjo: B?la Fleck.

[Parkdrive]

Ronnie Wood

[Mick Mac]

Mick Mac Wrote:

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> Good stuff Otta. I don't really know about music

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Rolling Stone - Its been mentioned already AM.

[Alan Medic]

Jeez Mick I didn't even mention the name myself. Besides if you wait long enough everyone will have been mentioned several times. I think I'll arrange a competition to decide who is the Forum's overall favourite Greatest Guitarist. I will have an open (not seeded) draw and everyone mentioned so far and up to midnight tonight will be included. So get nominating if you haven't already.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

No-one has mentioned my all-time hero, George Harrison. It was through him that I got into all sorts of other guitarists.

He's not even mentioned in that other Beatles thread.

I am I the only one who likes him?

[adonirum]

Alan Medic Wrote:

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> Jeez Mick I didn't even mention the name myself.

> Besides if you wait long enough everyone will have

> been mentioned several times. I think I'll arrange

> a competition to decide who is the Forum's overall

> favourite Greatest Guitarist. I will have an open

> (not seeded) draw and everyone mentioned so far

> and up to midnight tonight will be included. So

> get nominating if you haven't already.

Now there's an idea, AM !! Your quite right, if/when the thread has run for a while, most will have been mentioned several times. A lot of "usual suspects" mentioned on here, which I said wasn't the aim as some of them cannot possibly have their talent questioned. Did post earlier in the thread that really I was looking for guitarists that are maybe forgotten (so great rather than greatest), but it is all interesting, and fascinating, to read others viewpoints.

[Mick Mac]

adonirum Wrote:

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> Now there's an idea, AM !! Your quite right,

> if/when the thread has run for a while, most will

> have been mentioned several times. A lot of "usual

> suspects" mentioned on here, which I said wasn't

> the aim as some of them cannot possibly have their

> talent questioned. Did post earlier in the thread

> that really I was looking for guitarists that are

> maybe forgotten (so great rather than greatest)

Otta?

[redfan]

"Do banjoes count?

Karen Dalton if so. And George Formby obviously!!!!"

George played the ukulele.

[KidKruger]

No, George played the banjolele, a non-American banjo (no 5th, drone string) body and neck, with 4 strings like a ukulele.

[Otta]

Mick Mac Wrote:

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> > Now there's an idea, AM !! Your quite right,

> > if/when the thread has run for a while, most

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> > have been mentioned several times. A lot of

> "usual

> > suspects" mentioned on here, which I said

> wasn't

> > the aim as some of them cannot possibly have

> their

> > talent questioned. Did post earlier in the

> thread

> > that really I was looking for guitarists that

> are

> > maybe forgotten (so great rather than greatest)

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> Otta?

Haha, I wish!

[Otta]

Dave Davies of The Kinks was not a great technical player, but he went for it like no one else back in the early days.

[KidKruger]

One amazing guitarist/banjo player/harmonica player/bluesman I discovered a couple of years ago is Duster Bennett.

I would add him to the list.

[adonirum]

KidKruger Wrote:

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> One amazing guitarist/banjo player/harmonica

> player/bluesman I discovered a couple of years ago

> is Duster Bennett.

> I would add him to the list.

Freely admit, KK, had not heard of him, checked him out on Wiki, looks to have had a bit of a pedigree with associations with Fleetwood Mac and Alexis Korner. Gonna check him out on you-tube when I get a moment. Thanks for the suggestion, good to come across new artists ( well new to me I mean)

[healey]

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> Yes, Tomas Haake is ridiculoulsy good.

> Guitarists too, but not sure the greatest.

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No, but for me they are worthy of note for pushing their instruments into new sonic territory and working as a team to create that sound.

[nashoi]

I saw this the other and thought of this thread. A 1969 Rolling Stone review of a new band's first album. Good guitarist apparently, but obviously not destined to go very far.

http://m.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/led-zeppelin-i-19690315

[Jah Lush]

That's a great find Nashoi. Just goes to show that Led Zeppelin built their career on the back of the then recently splintered Jeff Beck Group. They didn't do too bad though did they.

[El Pibe]

Ha, brilliant. Nice one Nashoi.

Funnily enough it makes me think of the condescending muso reviewers on Pitchfork. I know when they write a scathing review then its probably worth listenig to.

"Here a jazzy introduction gives way to a driving (albeit monotonous) guitar-dominated background for Plant's strained and unconvincing shouting (he may be as foppish as Rod Stewart, but he's nowhere near so exciting, especially in the higher registers)."

Savage!!

[El Pibe]

or of an undisputed classic

""Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" alternates between prissy Robert Plant's howled vocals fronting an acoustic guitar and driving choruses of the band running down a four-chord progression while John Bonham smashes his cymbals on every beat. The song is very dull in places (especially on the vocal passages), very redundant, and certainly not worth the six-and-a-half minutes the Zeppelin gives it."

Ha, they did something to personally offend this chap!