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08-20-2006, 07:14 PM
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| "My" top 50 guitar players The October 2006 issue of Guitar World arrived on my doorstep a few weeks back. I just got around to digesting it, and low and behold...Yet Another list.. The top 100 Guitar Albums of all time.. All in all, a good list, I have over 50 of them so, I guess my taste are OK. So, I though to myself... Why not post a list of my own.. damn it.. I know whereof I speak.. so why not.. These are players that I keep coming back to over and over, big influences on my playing and have given me a lifetime of enjoyment. Behold... MY top 50 guitar players of all time.. #'s 50 - 21, I'll just list them... they are mostly in order.. you could swap a few around in the list and it wouldn't matter much. #'s 20 - 6: Solid order.. I really thought about my top 20. #"s 5 - 1: I'll editorialize a bit.. 50) Michael Hedges 49) Adrian Legg 48) Huey Thomasson (The Outlaws, Lynyrd Skynyrd) 47) Nils Lofgren 46) Michael Allsup (Three Dog Night) 45) Peter Frampton 44) Roy Buchanan 43) Elvin Bishop 42) Jimmy Page (Yup..he's way down here) 41) Robert Fripp 40) Rick Neilsen (Cheap Trick) 39) Dick Dale (THE KING of surf guitar, indeed) 38) Chris Duarte 37) Al DiMeola 36) Albert "Iceman" Collins 35) Lowell George (Little Feat) 34) Robbie Robertson (The Band) 33) Bonnie Raitt 32) Lil' Ed Williams (Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials) 31) Andy Summers (The Police) 30) Roland Orzabal (Tears for Fears) 29) Joe Walsh 28) Terry Kath (Chicago) 27) John Hiatt 26) Leo Kottke 25) Buddy Guy 24) Greg Lake (Emmerson Lake and Plamer) 23) Darryl Sturmer (Jean-Luc Ponty, et-al) 22) Kenny Wayne Shepherd 21) Brian Setzer 20) Pat Metheny 19) Tommy Shaw (Styx, The Damn Yankees) 18) Dicky Betts (Allman Brothers) 17) Duane Allman (An Allman Brother) 16) Waren Haynes 15) Brian May (Queen) 14) Donald Rossler.. aka Buck Dharma (Blue Oyster Cult) 13) Carlos Santana 12) Davey Johnstone (Elton John Band) 11) Lindsay Buckingham (Fleetwood Mac) The Top 10 10) Adrian Belew (King Crimson, Frank Zappa Band, Solo works) 9) Jimi Hendrix 8) Pete Townshend 7) Ry Cooder (Little Village, Solo works) 6) George Harrison (A Beatle) The BIG 5..... 5) Stevie Ray Vaughan... The finest blues player to EVER come out of Texas IMHO. Add to that, amazing touch and versatility. 4) Mark Knopfler: A unique style and approach, No one is more evocative and caries so much soul into the fretboard. 3) Eric Clapton: Hell... He's Clapton.. 2) Alex Lifeson: I swear we'd be best buddies if he'd just return my calls and come over.. Great natural feel for tone, tempo and NOBODY can play "In the moment" like Lerxt... From the lilting ease of the intro to La Via Strangiato to the staccato buzzsaw of Driven... Alex rules.. Trumpets please.. 1) David Gilmour: What can I say.. BDG is the Man... The touch of WYWH, the power of the opening of Sorrow, the solo of CN, all of Dogs.... that says it all right there.. Feel free to ask question if you have any... post your own.. If you haven't heard of some of these guys, go give them a listen, expand your listening range.. Enjoy.
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#2
08-20-2006, 08:02 PM
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| Re: "My" top 50 guitar players Thats quite a list Fulghs I'll have to get back to you as I build my list. Alright here goes 50 to 20 in any order Ace Freley-Kiss Joe Strummer-The Clash Syd Barrett Johhny Ramone Andy Sumners-Police Brad Nowell-Sublime Dick Dale Jerry Garcia Vince Gill James Burton-Elvis Juinor Brown- Guit-Steel Mick Ronson Alvin Lee Glen Campbell Jerry Cantrell Warren Haynes Robbie Robertson Scott Gorham=Thin Lizzy Steve Jones-Pistols Mick Taylor Carlos Santana John Fogarthy Brian Robertson-Thin Lizzy Angus Young John Fruscitte- RHCP Tony Iommi Gary Rossington Eric Johnson Keith Richards Martin Barre Top 20 20 Duane Allman 19 Buddy Guy 18 L. Buckingham 17 Joe Walsh 16 Steve Howe 15 Joe Satriani 14 Robin Trower 13 Robert Fripp 12 Rod (The Bottle) Price-Foghat 11 Brian Setzer 10 Pete Townsend 9 Steve Vai 8 George Harrison 7 Eddie Angel- The Masked one 6 Eric Clapton 5 Jimmy Page 4 Dave Gilmour 3 Jimi Hendrix- Jimmy James and the Blue Flames 2 Brian May 1 Jeff Beck
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08-20-2006, 10:50 PM
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| Re: "My" top 50 guitar players Quote:
Replace Lifeson with Jimi Hendrix and you got my top 5. Overall, not a bad list IMO.
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08-21-2006, 04:20 AM
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| Re: "My" top 50 guitar players Short comment.. Id put Brian Setzer way up in top 10, and the same with Eric Johnson. Clapton would have been put where Page is, and ehrm, Page would have been put, eh, dunno... Hehe, off to school... |
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08-21-2006, 07:57 AM
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| Re: "My" top 50 guitar players No Gary Moore?
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08-21-2006, 08:37 AM
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| Re: "My" top 50 guitar players Quote:
__________________ "The sound of music in my ears" “The great error of earlier ethics is that it conceived itself as concerned only with the relations of man to man." - Albert Schweitzer Last edited by Melo : 08-21-2006 at 08:41 AM. |
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08-21-2006, 08:51 AM
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| Re: "My" top 50 guitar players Quote:
He is insanely good!
__________________ Shine on, Syd... Ut Prosim |
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08-21-2006, 08:54 AM
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| Re: "My" top 50 guitar players Micheal Schenker and Andrew Latimer are two I would consider as well
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08-21-2006, 08:59 AM
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| Re: "My" top 50 guitar players I'm compiling my list. Steve Howe is pushing his way into my top 5.
__________________ Taking away from you for the greater good. "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery".-- Winston Churchill "Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant" - Omar Ahmed, C.A.I.R.) |
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08-21-2006, 11:01 AM
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| Re: "My" top 50 guitar players Who played guitar for the Sex Pistols?
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#11
08-21-2006, 11:20 AM
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| Re: "My" top 50 guitar players I bought a Guitar World magazine a couple years ago with the feature "100 Greatest Guitar Albums". It was a pretty good selection. The split it up into 10 genres and did 10 records for each. I'm not going to make a list, but some of mine are on Fulghum's. The rest...maybe I'll mention sometime.
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08-21-2006, 12:11 PM
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| Re: "My" top 50 guitar players Quote:
Steve Jones was the Sex Pistols guitar player.
__________________ come on you painter,you piper,you prisoner,and shine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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08-21-2006, 12:21 PM
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| Re: "My" top 50 guitar players Nice.
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08-21-2006, 03:39 PM
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| Re: "My" top 50 guitar players Nice list, i agree with most of it except i proboly would have put peter frampton closer to the teens and jimi hendrix in atleast top 10 if not 5.
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08-21-2006, 08:09 PM
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| Re: "My" top 50 guitar players I'd put Cobain on, maybe towards the 40's. He was good in his own right.
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