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Favorite Guitarists
April 19, 2010 at 10:19 am
When people ask me what kind of music I like, the only accurate answer is simply, 'guitar'. I love Rock, Metal, Jazz, Rockabilly, and most of all, Blues. As long as it contains great guitar playing, I'm gonna dig it. Listening to an amazing guitar solo is like staring into the face of God to me (<-- in the colloquial sense of the phrase). My list of favorite guitar players is quite long, so I figured I would try to narrow it down to my three all time favorites. Here are four...
This is a 58 second solo by John Petrucci, the lead guitarist of the band 'Dream Theater'. He is, by far, my favorite rock/metal guitarist.
And now the immortal Buddy Guy, Blues guitarist from way back. This is the man that Jimi Hendrix idolized. Here is 'Best Damn Fool' from his new CD (at the age of 73).
This next one is Joe Bonamassa. He is, quite possibly, the best living Blues guitarist. Not too shabby for a white guy from New York. Here he plays 'Blues Deluxe' live. It is 9:26 long, but worth every second.
And finally, Gary Moore. He's a Blues Rocker that never ceases to awe me. Here he plays 'Still Got The Blues' live. If you are impatient, the awesome begins at 3:45 and travels through various stages of amazing until the end at 6:47.
Are there any other guitar fans here? Who are your favorites? For those of you that play guitar, I mean other than yourself!
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RE: Favorite Guitarists
April 19, 2010 at 6:48 pm
I've got to mention that I'm a big guitar fan, but I've been neglecting guitar music a lot lately. The only guitar-driven music I've been listening to lately are the new Hendrix releases and the Gipsy Kings. Quite honestly, for a while, all I've been listening to is Bach, The Pixies, electronica and Michael Jackson.
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RE: Favorite Guitarists
April 20, 2010 at 2:54 pm
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+1 On John Petrucci. I've been fortunate enough to see Dream Theater play live twice, the first time they played with Symphony X and the second time was with Opeth and both events were awesome.
- Michael Romeo (Symphony X)
- Django Reinhardt
- Mattias IA Eklundh (Freak Kitchen, Freak Guitar)
- Mikael Åkerfeldt (Opeth)
- Devin Townsend (Strapping Young Lad, Devin Townsend Band)
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- Guthrie Govan
- Jeff Loomis (Nevermore)
- Antti Hyyrynen & Pekka Olkkonen (Stam1na)
- Tony MacAlpine (Devil's Slingshot, MacAlpine Brunel Chambers, M.A.R.S.)
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RE: Favorite Guitarists
April 20, 2010 at 3:11 pm
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Nice. I particularly liked the ones by Guthrie Govan and Tony MacAlpine... and I've always been a Nevermore fan, especially the 'Dead heart in a Dead World' CD.
Two more that make my list are Buckethead and a jazz guitarist by the name Stanley Jordan.
My favorite Buckethead song: 'Soothsayer'
And an example of Stanley Jordan's unique style. This song is simply beautiful and amazing.
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RE: Favorite Guitarists
April 20, 2010 at 10:11 pm
I'm not a musician .
First guitarist I noticed: Hank Marvin (The Shadows)--saw him live once with The Shadows.
Chet Atkins ,from 1966 onwards. If you haven't heard of him,listen to Tommy Emmanuel.
Eric Clapton
Jimmi Hendrix
early 70's: Andre Segovia, Paco Pena
Only recently discovered Django Rheinhardt
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RE: Favorite Guitarists
April 21, 2010 at 2:34 am
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- Paco de Lucia
- Arjen A. Lucassen (Ayreon, Vengeance, Stream Of Passion etc.), one of the best songwriters in my opinion when it comes to Ayreon, which I'm most familiar with. He's a multi-instrumentalist and singer but he's also a pretty damn good guitarist.
All guitars except for the solo in the following song are, to my knowledge, played by Arjen Lucassen while Michael Romeo plays the solo. Russell Allen (Symphony X) is lead singer.
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RE: Favorite Guitarists
May 17, 2010 at 1:32 am
Danny Gatton, hands down. Check him out on YouTube - try the Sleepwalk Solo (I can't post links yet.) I used to go hear him play several nights a week here in the Washington/Maryland area, and youtube can't possibly capture the experience of just listening to him play night after night. I miss him.
I also like Django.
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RE: Favorite Guitarists
May 17, 2010 at 1:40 am
Paul the Human Wrote:and most of all, Blues. Dammit, Paul, I knew there was reason I liked you.  I'm not really in the know when it comes to guitarists or specific guitar players, but my favorite genres of music usually do include uitar. Among them are Rock, Rock N' Roll, Punk-Rock, Folk, and Blues. 
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RE: Favorite Guitarists
May 17, 2010 at 10:47 am
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May 17, 2010 at 11:32 am
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