Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
At The Back => Time Out => Topic started by: hunter on March 25, 2011, 12:55:59 PM
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How come? You Brits guys have anything special about you?
My top 3:
-Gary Moore (admittedly Irish)
-Jimmy Page
-David Gilmour
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and then:
-Blackmore
-May
and then the rest ...
and then the rest
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It's US and Ozzie guys for me!
-Billy Gibbons
-Malcolm Young
-Angus Young
(OK, the Young brothers were Scottish born...)
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I'm sure gwEm would agree with me that there are some pretty decent German players too! :wink:
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I'm sure gwEm would agree with me that there are some pretty decent German players too! :wink:
oh did you think of ME?
Just kiddin LOL
I like the Schenker man too, and a few other Germans ...
But if you look at how many great players per capita there are comparably, the awesomeness ratio is higher on the island.
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I'm sure gwEm would agree with me that there are some pretty decent German players too! :wink:
oh did you think of ME?
Just kiddin LOL
I like the Schenker man too, and a few other Germans ...
But if you look at how many great players per capita there are comparably, the awesomeness ratio is higher on the island.
Well you're certainly about 10,000 times better than me! :lol:
Apart from the Scorpions, Accept, Helloween, Blind Guardian, Bonfire etc you seem to have some pretty decent blues players like Thomas Blug and Gregor Hilden (although I do find those guys' styles a bit too "perfect")
But you're right, there does seem to be a disproportionately high number of guitar greats from the British Isles... or at least there were, in the '60s and '70s. Not sure if it's still true.
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I'm sure gwEm would agree with me that there are some pretty decent German players too! :wink:
A few of my favourites are German :
Michael & Rudolph Schenker
Matthias Jabs
Wolf Hoffman (Accept)
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I have to confess most of my all time favourites are not british but american:
robert johnson,
jimi hendrix,
frank zappa,
joe satriani,
pat metheney,
eddie van halen,
john schofield...
changing the subject slightly but another thing I recently noticed just now is all my guitar pedals, recording gear, studio monitors, midi keyboard, the whole lot is from USA....
I may as well just move there!
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Small point but EVH was actually born in Holland
Best thing to come out of there since the ferry to Harwich!
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Small point but EVH was actually born in Holland
Best thing to come out of there since the ferry to Harwich!
His dad was Dutch and his mum was from Indonesia, if we want to complete the picture! :wink:
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Small point but EVH was actually born in Holland
Best thing to come out of there since the ferry to Harwich!
His dad was Dutch and his mum was from Indonesia, if we want to complete the picture! :wink:
So all thanks to our imperialistic nation! :)
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It's Scandinavians for me mostly. Mainly Swedes and Finns, that Norwegian black stuff doesn't appeal.
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we do well here for great guitarists, but not just that - i'm always surprised how musically innovative the british music scene is in general (including modern electronic stuff etc) - for such a small place comparatively. i've thought about it, and maybe its because of the rain and tough london life.. but i don't really have an answer :)
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we do well here for great guitarists, but not just that - i'm always surprised how musically innovative the british music scene is in general (including modern electronic stuff etc) - for such a small place comparatively. i've thought about it, and maybe its because of the rain and tough london life.. but i don't really have an answer :)
No I think that torch goes to the Germans, Kraftwerk started it all.
I gotta give you The Orbital though, they are/were pretty genius. :)
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we do well here for great guitarists, but not just that - i'm always surprised how musically innovative the british music scene is in general (including modern electronic stuff etc) - for such a small place comparatively. i've thought about it, and maybe its because of the rain and tough london life.. but i don't really have an answer :)
No I think that torch goes to the Germans, Kraftwerk started it all.
I gotta give you The Orbital though, they are/were pretty genius. :)
yes, kraftwerk are well, as close as you can be to legends in these modern times, they are probably more important than black sabbath.
but i thiink about the prodigy, the drum'bass scene, garage, grime, dubstep.. all coming from uk.. but other countries have alot to say too its true - Germany, Holland, Italy, France, US etc
(and if we talk about German guitarists, my liking of uli jon roth is well known)
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I'm always surprised on these kinds of threads how Kossoff rarely gets a mention - he was a monster player and has shaped my style along with Angus and early Clapton.
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I've no favourite guitarists, and I'm completely uninterested in where they come from :lol:
Most of my favourite bands are European though, but vary in nationality a lot.
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I am not even sure if I have "favorite" guitar players any more, but some names that jump to mind:
Ike Turner
Jimmy Page
Muddy Waters
John Lee Hooker
Duane Allman
Mike Bloomfield
Skip James
T-Bone Walker
Kenny Burrell
Jeff Beck
Jimi Hendrix
Tommy Bolin
Some English, mostly Americans. Almost all old.
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What's even worse, most of my gear is British, too!
Amp
Cab
Speakers
Pickups
...
:?