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At The Back => Time Out => Topic started by: Mr. Air on August 20, 2009, 10:06:10 AM
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I thought this could be an interesting subject. Who's you favourite guitar player/players and why?
I guess most of us have a long list of names of players that we enjoy listening to, but I'll start of simple with only three :D
Tom Morello: I'm really impressed with they way Morello can cut a simple but hyper efficient riff. RATM isn't exactly rocket science, but they just ROCK. Like Walther says in the Big Lebowski: "The beauty of the plan is the simplicity." I also admire Morello for being innovative soundwise. His whammy pedal and kill switch work is fantastic.
Mike Einziger: He may not be a virtuoso, but I find him creative and to me he doesn't really sound like any other guitar player. I love his versatility too. He goes from funk/fusion over pop, rock, to hard rock.
Uffe Steen: Here we're talking virtuoso! Makes me proud to be Dane. He mostly plays blues and jazz and he's just so outrighteous good. Plays left hand, but with the strings upside down. CRAZY!
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We had a thread on this not long ago I think?
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Here's one from last year:
http://bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=13502.0
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Yeah, there have been a few threads like this before, but not for a while! And it might be interesting to reply to this one without reading what we wrote before, to see how different we're feeling now! :D
Sometimes I could reel off long lists of players I like, but today I'm only going to say one:
Robin Trower. Difficult to explain why.... his playing is just so powerful and emotional in a way that I don't hear from anyone else. You can see it in his face, too, when he plays - nothing to do with technique, it's like he just picks up the guitar and it channels his soul! And yet he seems a very quiet, reserved, totally non rock'n'roll person (maybe that's why I identify with him). He's the guitar player I'd want to be.
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My tastes and preferences change with the wind...
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We had a thread on this not long ago I think?
And lazy as I am, I didn't bother to check this even though it did cross my mind :D
I think I'll have a look at the old thread.
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Fear that my tastes remain reasonably constant , but I'll throw a few different ones in there
Matthias Jabs - the best guitar ist the Scorpions ever had
Michael Schenker - UFO and MSG stuff - when he is on form he is top notch
George Lynch - still pushing the boundaries of his style but a tasty player
Brian May - watching old clips always remind me how amazing he was/is
Ace Frehley - especially on his solo projects away from Kiss - live he is great to see
Joe Perry - I can't get a grip on how he plays but he does it so well (and Brad Whitford is so underrated)
Billy Gibbons - cant undertand a word he says , but when he plays guitar - WOW!
Paul Chapman - lived too long in Schenker's shadow , but his UFo and Waysted work was ace
Satchel (Russ Parish) - shows that Steel Panther are about the music and not just the gags
Mick Mars - a lot better than he was ever given credit for - and how he coped with the back pain I'll never know
Tom Kiefer & Jeff Labarr - Cinderella had such a great guitar playing team
Punky Mendoza - (Heavy Pettin) - because he was always great fun on stage and a tasty player too
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Jimmy Page
Angus Young
Jimi Hendrix
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Well at the minute:
JJ Cale - Just something about the way he plays and the music, I love it.
The bloke out of the Black Keys - who's name completely escapes me now. My type of mucis palyed in my type of way.
Not sure who to put in third, was listening to Ry Cooder the other day so maybe him at the minute. I'm not a shredder type, fair enough it's very impressive but guitar is more than playing 300 notes a second, making people shut and and listen is far more important which I think the three above do very well.
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Always Frusciante for me. Very predicatable although BFG, SRV, Joe Bonamassa, Jimmy Page, Hendrix and Matt Schofield have spent a lot of time on my CD players this year.
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Hmm.. I don't remember what I wrote, or if I even did, but I still like Paul Gilbert, Satch, Searle from Architects (woo!), Steve Morse, mostly all the virtuosists (is that a word?) and Ben Orum from All Shall Perish and just the various people in guitar shops, workers and customers alike who can dish out guitar licks like speaking a fluent language. God the envy, lol..
So there, from really famous to not then to the general public, I think that's a good enough answer.
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Adrian Smith - Plays the perfect solo for every song (IMO) - Wasted Years, Man of Sorrows, Aces High, Paschendale etc
Alex Skolnick - Amazing techinque, Phrasing and note choice.
John Sykes - because i can now convince the other guitarist in my band that pentatonics ARE metal!
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I think, comparing to the other thread, I still appreciate that Zakk was the reason I started playing, but most of that influence has now gone. Jake E Lee and Steve Clark are firm favourites now.
Also going to have to have Sykes + Rush Parish too
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I didn't even mention this guy in my last thread, don't know why!
Bily Gibbons
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Fredrik Thordendal!!!
the Meshuggah phase I'm going through will never end!!!
5 years ago when I didn't have a clue I'd be saying Alexi Laiho cos he's the first shred monkey I discovered and main influence for picking up a guitar
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Steve Vai
Joe Satriani
SRV
Robbern Ford
Greg Howe
Eric Johnson
Marty Friedman
Andy Timmons
Reb Beach
Though it changes all the time.
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Randy Rhoads
Kaki King
M Ward
J Mascis
Bill Steer
Five off the top of my head without overthinking it - it'll be different tomorrow (apart from RR).
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Rory Gallagher
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I go through phases but there is a group of players I am fond of-namely Robben Ford, Sonny Landreth, Jimi, SRV, Clapton, Joe Bonnamassa, Derek Trucks, Duane Allman, T Bone Walker and not forgetting Mr Riley B King.
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Rory Gallagher
Jimmy Page
Jimmi Hendrix
SRV
B.B. King
Billy Gibbons
David Gilmour
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Angus, live.
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Fredrik Thordendal!!!
Good choice! Not a band i listen to very much anymore, but i've always admired him as a guitarist. Reminds me a lot of Alan Holdsworth.
As for me, its gotta be Rory Gallagher, the tone, the mastery of that beaten up Strat and of course, the excellent playing and songwriting.
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I did a list of 10 for another website recently, it's not particularly in order, but generally these would be my favourites...
1.Slash
2.David Gilmour
3.Randy Rhoads
4.Gary Moore
5.Rory Gallagher
6.Joe Satriani
7.Jimi Hendrix
8.John Butler
9.Brian Robertson, Scott Gorham
10.Dave Murray, Adrian Smith, Janick Gers.
(I cheated a little...shhh :lol:)
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iommi, downing, tipton, montalo, tatler, schenker, roth, blackmore
there we go, no idea what i said last time :)
edit: i said
Tony Iommi
Montalo (from Witchfynde)
Brian Tatler (from Diamond Head)
KK Downing
Pete Townshend
not bad for consistency!!!
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My all time favorite guitarist is Chris Degarmo, formerly of Queensryche. He encompassed a great many things I like in a great guitarist, wonderful technique, great songs and tastefull solos without too much of that widdly for the sake of it stuff. It's a shame he packed it all in, the rest of the band have hardly written or played anything worthwhile since.
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Shawn Lane
Jeff Beck
Adrian Belew
Brad Paisley
Ron Thal
Guthrie Govan
and loads more
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Uffe Steen: Here we're talking virtuoso! Makes me proud to be Dane. He mostly plays blues and jazz and he's just so outrighteous good. Plays left hand, but with the strings upside down. CRAZY!
I believe my guitar teacher told me about him. They were in conservatory together, only back then he played clarinet.
Currently (and for quite a while) my favourite player is Shawn Lane. Then people like Gilbert, Holdsworth, Jason Becker, Guthrie Govan. The great thing about Shawn is that not only did he have a very diverse playing style (could do alternate picking as good as Morse, di Meola or Gilbert as well as Holdworth style legato) but also an extremely diverse compositional style. His career spans from classic rock (with the Willies) to jazz fusion (most of the Powers of Ten and Tri-tone Fascination albums) to classical (Powers of Ten Suite) and even Indian music (Personae, Temporal etc, Good People etc, Icon). I know of no one else who could do that as comfortably as he could.
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obviously me :)
When I find another guitarist who will-
change my strings
set-up my cables
fix my trem
then maybe i'll consider them my #2
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Surely the point of this thread is to name only one person? And your reasons why it is that player and none other.
That's why I haven't posted, what you guys have done is too easy :p
I'd almost definitely say Guthrie Govan, he's blown me away since I first saw his videos etc, the guy's the best I've ever seen by a wide margin, superb chops, superb musicality, and a lovely guy.
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I choose Simon Neil from Biffy Clyro. The progression he's made as a guitarist is one of the main reasons. The band's first album was a simple affair guitar wise, the second was a little more off the beaten track, and the last two he has turned into a very technical player.
Throw in a long standing of odd time signatures and well crafted choruses makes him my favorite guitarist. Oh and he plays strats, played really high up on the strap, and still rocks like a mofo. Impeccable live and s a great frontman. I saw them the first time they headlined the Barrowlands in Glasgow, best gig of my life and he managed the biggest stage dive ever. No shite, he ended up from a running jump HALF WAY INTO THE AUDIENCE. Legend.
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If I had to choose just one, I'd probably forgo the obvious (for me) choice of Gary Moore, and I'd have to instead go for Reeves Gabrels.
More than anything I like the way he can switch between ugly, avant-garde prog type stuff to really sweet blues in a single solo. And I love his tone.