stuart@ssc-vax.UUCP (Stuart Lewis) (04/06/84)
As far as great guitarists go, the absolute best (!!please now, this is only my personal opinion - no flames!!), my vote goes to Dickey Betts of the Allman Brothers. Who can forget his firey solos on "Ramblin' Man" or the tearful wails on "Melissa". If you've ever heard or seem him live you might agree with me - very controlled and steady performer. For the ABSOLUTE pinnacle of any guitar passage/solo by ANYONE in my opinion (*note: opinion), it's got to be his work on "Jessica". Ranking right up there I'd have to include Chuck Berry, Bo Diddly and the nu- mber one deciple of his, George Thoroughgood. As far as breakthrough pioneer, Jimi Hendrix. Stuart Lewis ssc-vax!stuart
hxe@rayssd.UUCP (04/18/84)
Great Guitarists? Why, Stevie Ray Vaughn and Roy Buchanon, of course!
But don't forget John McLaughlin and Carlos Santana, especially together.
Heather Emanuel {allegra, decvax!brunix, linus, ccieng5} rayssd!hxedmf@whuxi.UUCP (FLANAGAN) (08/15/84)
My roommate and I were discussing the alltime GREAT guitarists. Several names and bands came up; our BARE list consists of: Dire Straits - Mark "Knopfler" or however you spell his name Pete Townsend Ronnie Lane Jeff Beck Eric Clapton Andy Summers We did not feel need to include Eddie Van Halen; since we think he's over rated. Any additions? Post to net.
etan@tellab1.UUCP (Nate Stelton) (08/16/84)
Great guitarists of all time? Everyone sees it differently. Here's how I
see it:
All-time greats--
Andre Segovia Carlos Montoya
Django Reinhardt Pat Metheny
John McLaughlin Allan Holdsworth
Nominees that almost made it--
Charlie Christian Barney Kessel
John Williams Steve Morse
Les Paul Jimi Hendrix
George Benson Tal Farlow
Ralph Towner
I'm talkin' 'bout names that will be remembered for many years to come.
I probably forgot one or two that I wanted to include.
-etanbill@apl-uw.UUCP (Bill Hanot) (08/16/84)
I'll throw these in for consideration...
Jerry Garcia
Al DiMeola
John McLaughlin
Jimi Hendrix
I give points for originality as well as technique...
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"love Seattle weather...10 million slugs can't be wrong!"sean@zinfandel.UUCP (Sean Gilligan) (08/17/84)
[Just in case...] Nobody has mentioned Ronnie Montrose yet, so I will. Has anybody heard him LATELY?!
gtaylor@lasspvax.UUCP (Greg Taylor) (08/18/84)
Since I just turned 30, I guess I must be an old fart already. This posting is not an attempt to mention my favorite, but rather to reiterate a point that comes up nearly every 6 months or so (every time a bunch of new folks get on the net, maybe). This sort of cheerleading by list is a real waste of time, and we've gotta sit through it with nearly every instrument every time someone starts it. If we've got to sit around talking about "who's the best" (note that I find this sort of chatter equally offensive in net.classical....maybe even *more* so there, since the tendency to elitism is occaisionally a bit higher -just a *feeling* mind you ;-) ), let's at least try it as if we're tryng to introduce someone who doesn't know the person's work at all. Give some examples or pointers (to an array of albums) for the people who *might* be really interested in the question. The other kind of name dropping is just a bunch of wank. Flame off. Now, let's try an interesting question. Anyone want to try talking about the "unsung genius of the thrash guitar?" I've oftern wondered why thrash guitarists don't use those cheapie Univox guitar synthesizers. THey do the nicest job of laying down the buzz of doom (though perhaps not intentionally) of any device I ever heard. Does the good thrasher sneer at the synthesizer in general principle? Okay: catharsis and questions. That's about the best I can do. Your turn. ________________________________________________________________________________ Traditionele communicatie is een controlemiddel omdat het gestructureerde, omlijnde visies opdringt. Door die communicatie te versplinteren halen we ook de controle eruit, en krijgt persoonlijke intuitie weer en plaats. ________________________________________________________________________________
hunt@pyuxo.UUCP (J Hunter) (08/20/84)
[Yummmmm..........................Yummmm..............................] Here's my nomination for GREAT guitarists (I found that I had to categorize them): CLASSICAL: Andres Segovia HEAD-BANGERS: Eddie Van Halen FOLK-SOFTER ROCK: Paul Simon, Stephen Stills COUNTRY: Roy Clark, Glen Campbell SOUTHERN ROCK: Dickie Betts ROCK'N'ROLL: Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck JAZZ: Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass BLUES: Matt "Guitar" Murphy, B. B. King, John Lee Hooker This was definitely tough....It'll be interesting to see what the NET comes up with.... ..."I'm wasted and I can't find my way home...." Ace pyuxo!hunt
marantz@null.DEC (Josh HL01-1/S07 DTN 225-4835) (08/20/84)
In addition to the ones you mentioned, I would consider the following guitarists to be great. In no particular order, and with no attempt at completeness: Steve Howe Robert Fripp Steve Morse BB King (I just got back from the Newport Jazz festival) Pat Metheny Jimi Hendrix Phil Manzanara -Joshua D. Marantz Mon 20-Aug-1984 09:26 EST
elf@utcsrgv.UUCP (Eugene Fiume) (08/21/84)
Enough already. If you're going to rave about a guitarist, talk about specific and novel contributions that aren't well known. An example follows. Eugene Fiume U of Toronto
jdb@qubix.UUCP (Jeff Bulf) (08/22/84)
Jorma Kaukonen
Jerry Garcia
(the late) Reverend Gary Davis
(controversial) John Cippolina
"His mind remains un-bended; he has to die"
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Dr Memory
...{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!decwrl!qubix!jdbandrew@inmet.UUCP (08/22/84)
#R:whuxi:-9500:inmet:6600200:000:292 inmet!andrew Aug 20 11:52:00 1984 Ronnie Lane plays bass, not guitar. (In his present condition, he probably doesn't play much of anything.) How could you forget Jimi Hendrix? I haven't forgotten him... matter of fact, I postponed my wedding by a week so it wouldn't fall on the anniversary of his death! Andrew W. Rogers
jmd@aluxe.UUCP (Joseph M. Dakes, AT&T Bell Labs, Reading, Pa.) (08/24/84)
Add Frank Marino (Mahogany Rush) to the list. Joe Dakes Set the music free..
rkp@drutx.UUCP (Pierce) (08/24/84)
>Ronnie Lane plays bass, not guitar. (In his present condition, >he probably doesn't play much of anything.) >Andrew W. Rogers BOOOOOO!HISSSSSSS! That was in really poor taste! -- Russell Pierce AT&T Consumer Products Denver, Colorado ...!drutx!rkp
boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian) (08/27/84)
Didn't we play this game just a few months ago? OK, here we go again. Top flight
guitarists, in my opinion, are:
Andres Segovia, Carlos Montoya, John McLaughlin, Carlos Santana, Guy Van Duser,
Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Alvin Lee, Mike Bloomfield,
Les Paul, Brian May, Eddie Van Halen, Brad Gillis [listen to him on the live
Ozzy Osbourne album, rather than his Night Ranger stuff], Steve Stevens, Freddy
King, Neil Geraldo, Mark Knopfler, Danny Carnahan. There are probably other that
I've forgotten for the moment.
However, *the* absolute *best* guitarist around today is Stevie Ray Vaughan. I
have heard this guy in concert twice this year. He sounded, in all seriousness,
like he was Jimi Hendrix come back from the dead. He even played "Third Stone
from the Sun" *better* than Hendrix did! The man is phe-NOM-enal. Even if you
play his albums twice a day for the rest of your life, you haven't really heard
him until you've gone to one of his concerts.
--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA)
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ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPAbllklly@uwmacc.UUCP (08/31/84)
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A great guitarist not mentioned so far:
Bill Nelson: Formerly of BeBop Deluxe, a rock(?) band that got lots of good
reviews, but never really caught on. He's very fast (when
he wants to be) and fluid, a very lyrical rock sound.
Sunburst Finish is probably the best BeBop Deluxe record as
far as his guitar playing. (The album title refers to the
red/yellow guitar stain, of course, and as a visual pun,
the guitar on the album cover has burst into flame.)
It includes a lot of great songs, including Fair Exchange, the
only BBD song I've heard on the radio more than once.
Drastic Plastic is another good album, but with much less
guitar. Nelson is now doing solo work, but don't buy his
solo albums expecting to hear his incredible guitar--they're
almost entirely keyboards. Sigh.
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Bill Kelly
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1210 West Dayton St/U Wisconsin Madison/Mad WI 53706steven@ism70.UUCP (09/06/84)
He of the $100.00 guitar sound: David Lindley
muller@inmet.UUCP (09/06/84)
** Hey, what about Norman Blake or Tony Rice (or the late Clarence White - a great acoustic player too, y'know)?
rob@ctvax.UUCP (09/18/84)
#R:ism70:-4200:ctvax:39000030:000:1080 ctvax!rob Sep 18 09:34:00 1984 Re: Chet Atkins. For a real treat of two old fogies who can still blow the socks off Def Priest, Quiet Leppard, Motley Riot, Judas Crue etc, try the "Chester and Lester" album featuring Chet Atkins and Les Paul. I wonder how many of the "Modern Masters of Metal" who have played a Gibson Les Paul guitar, have actually listened to Les play. A couple of other examples of Atkins' work are the sixties' single "Boo Boo Stick Beat" which sounds like one of the first examples of a wah-wah or a volume pedal or somesuch effect. Another album to find is one called something like Chet Atkins' Workshop. I recall that's the one where he wired the fingers of his left hand to provide a bass effect from the vibrations picked up by his left hand! I remember one Prairie Home Companion where Atkins announced he was going to play a punk-rock song. Laughter ensued and then he played a beautiful rendition of the Blondie song "Heart of Glass". His comment afterwards was that one can find good melodies anywhere. And he doesn't bite the heads off bats! Rob Spray ...convex!ctvax!rob
rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen) (09/20/84)
Without Les Paul, we wouldn't have the electric guitar as we know it today (some may seek to go back in time and alter history for this alone! :-), we wouldn't have multi-track recording (he virtually invented the notion of multitrack recording and overdubbing), and I think he also developed a number of sound processing techniques (like tape echo and, I think, tape flanging). Modern music owes this man a debt that approaches unpayability. He once gave a seminar in London to which he invited rock guitarists. The only one who showed up was Steve Howe. His work is greatly underappreciated. He used to have his whole house wired for sound. His wife, the singer Mary Ford, would often sing all the parts (overdubbed, of course). In fact, there were microphones in so many places that she could put on a pair of headphones and sing into a microphone while he engineered the recording in the basement and she washed the dishes in the kitchen. When his elbow joint was shattered in an automobile accident, he insisted that if the doctors had to set his arm permanently in one position, it should be slanted in just the right position for him to play the guitar. His arm is still set that way. Enough trivia. If you find one of the Les Paul's greatest hits type albums floating around in budget bins, pick it up, and check out the overdubbed vocal harmonies and unusual guitar sounds on "How High the Moon", and "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles", and remember this was over thirty years ago. It still stands up. -- WHAT IS YOUR NAME? Rich Rosen WHAT IS YOUR NET ADDRESS? pyuxn!rlr WHAT IS THE CAPITAL OF ASSYRIA? I don't know that ... ARGHHHHHHHH!
strock@fortune.UUCP (Gregory Strockbine) (09/21/84)
Does Link Wray fit into this category?