Okay, I don't know if this has been asked or not but who are your faves? Mine are:

Keith Richards
Angus Young
Mick Ronson
Mick Taylor
Ron Wood
Andy Summers
Robbie Krieger
Brian Jones

Keith Richards
Ron Wood
Jimmy Page
Eric Clapton
Jimi Hendrix
Jeff Beck
Buddy Guy
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Duane Allman
Jimmie Vaughan

in no particular order

just a few........being a guitar player i have many many others

Keith Richards
Eric Clapton
Jimmy Page
Mick Taylor
Mick Ronson (RIP)
BB King
Neil Young

KR.
I love many other guitar players, many of them mentioned already, some of them before Chuck Berry (a favorite also) and some lesser known, but it was KR's SOUND that made we want to PLAY music so there is no list for me.

Milo, NYC
Baby keep me Happy

Keith Richards (for the same reason Milo mentioned)
Jimi Hendrix
Chuck Berry
Freddy King
Albert King
Johnny Winter

I was talking to a guy (A Beatle Nazi) the other night about Keith Richards SOUND as being a big part of what makes him great, and, he says, "Ya man, and John Lennon was a great guitar player too. End of discussion, LOL



I ain't stupid, I'm just guitarded.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2005-09-08 09:04 by RankOutsider.

Here's a few of the more tremendously gifted guitar slingers out there:

Keith Richard
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Jimi Hendrix
Jerry Garcia
Jimmy Page
Mick Taylor
Wes Montgomery
Carlos Santana
Eric Clapton
Johnny Winter

These guys are all "in a league by themselves" I think... but then there's just a bunch of really talented people in their own right: the guitar front lines of The Eagles and Lynyrd Skynyrd are awesome, John Frusciante, Billy Gibbons, I thought Frank Zappa was really gifted... Neil Young and Steven Stills are incredible, Eddie Van Halen is awesome... there's a bunch of 'em.

Keith Richards
Robert Johnson
Steve Cropper
Pat Hare
Joey Long
Scotty Moore
Charlie Patton
Willie Johnson
Blind Willie McTell
Muddy Waters
Tommy Johnson
Blind Blake
Hubert Sumlin
Blind Willie Johnson
John Lee Hooker

ROCKMAN

The main one's that have influenced my playing are...
the first 6 being the most influential:

Keith
Ron Wood
Robbie Robertson
Chuck Berry
George Harrison
Mick Taylor

Plus...
Don Rich
Cliff Gallup
Jimmy Page
Hendrix,
Jeff Beck (Yardbirds only)
Duane Allman,
Steve Cropper
James Burton
Merle Travis
Scotty Moore
Peter Green
Bert Jansch

I'm sure I'm missing a few.

Guitar players are a dime a dozen, but it is only the very few that have such a distinctive sound that automatically identifies them and furthermore are able to have a successful and sustained career in music. Think about it...EVERYBODY plays guitar. The guys mentioned on this thread (aside from Lennon) have a gift and am 6th sense.

Milo, NYC
Make me feel at home

Robert Fripp
Blackmore 1970-71, 1984-85
the Edge 1980-83
György Molnár
Scott Gorham
Brian "Robbo" Robertson
Eric Bell
Franz Beckerlee
Jimi Hendrix
Csaba Hajnoczy (Kampec Dolores)
Kenny Håkansson
Rolf Wikström
Muddy Waters
B.B. King
K.R
R.W
M.T
... for a starter...

Besides the Stones, Joe Perry is very good. The Edge is probably the most unique player of the 1980's and now. Lindsey Buckingham is very underrated.

Lennon's guitar playing is better than you think it is.

Keith Richards
Mick Taylor
Tony Iommi
Jimmy Page

Someone who doesn't get talked about much and who smokes and burns...

Mike Campbell of Petty's Heartbreakers

How can it be better than I 'think' it is? I hear what I hear. I don't know man, I loved John, just never thought of him as a great guitarist.

I ain't stupid, I'm just guitarded.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2005-09-08 14:47 by RankOutsider.

Want to add Robben Ford.

John was one of the absoloute biggest in rock/pop ever. And definitely The Man in the Beatles. But I'm not impressed of his guitar playing.

Manny Charlton is the original Nazareth guitarist.
A hell of a dude!!!
[www.nazarethdirect.co.uk]
...Remember Naz offer you some full-length free mp3 downloads... !!

[mannycharlton.com] Manny´s got a mean web site too...

Those guys in Finnish Hurriganes are also some mean bastards,
I´ll return to them.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2005-09-08 10:24 by Baboon Bro.

Hey Baboon Bro, I totally agree with you about Robert Fripp, his playing on for instance Another Green World is a different dimesion in guitar playing. Unbelievable!

Keith Richards
Clarence White
Nick Drake
Mick Taylor
Ronnie Wood
James Burton
Carlos Santana
Sneeky Pete Kleinow
Richard Thompson
Francis Rossi
Jimmy Page

KEITH RICHARDS

Warren Haynes especially his David Allan Coe years



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2005-09-08 11:16 by skippy.

Milo, you are very right.

It is indeed a gift and has nothing to do with motoric skills.

The 'sound'doesn't come from an amp. a guitar, or whatever added gadget.
It comes from somewhere else and you defenitely have to be born with it.

The guys mentioned here are the best of the best so to speak. There's thousands of unknown guitarplayers with a great sound ( or soundcolor, timbre) who are able to make some sort of living out of it.

And then there's millions of players who sound like their guitar
is always out of tune..

It's one of god's little jokes

I've done extensive researchb and testing on this subject and came up with some
defenite but very new conclusions. You guys think there would any interest in
hardworking but no 'talented' guitarland?

1. Keith Reachards (68-82)
2. Jimi Hendrix
3. John Lennon (1966-1970)
4. Larsa (also ghostsong)
5. Leadbelly

Keith Richards - Before he became a slaphead.

Slash - During the wild days with Axl.

1 Ry Cooder
2 Eric Clapton
3 Jimmy Page
4 Rich Robinson
5 Niko (great rythm, great solos..)

JJ Cale

Jimi Hendrix
Keith Richards
Brian May
Ritchie Blackmore
Frank Zappa
Ry Cooder
Ben Harper
Jean-Marie Aerts
...



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 2005-09-08 22:50 by Koen.

Erik_Snow Wrote:
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> Hey Baboon Bro, I totally agree with you about
> Robert Fripp, his playing on for instance Another
> Green World is a different dimesion in guitar
> playing. Unbelievable!


its quite amazing on Bowie's "Scary Monsters" as well!

My favourite guitarists are Keith Richards and Ry Cooder. I like Prince too.

For the most part, lengthy guitar wankery bores me.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2005-09-10 03:42 by Gazza.

I think at one point in his career Robert took lessons from Robin Trower, I think I read that in a Trower interview years ago.

And somebody finally put Lennon on their list, (I'll bet thanks to the debate started in this thread) but, not George Harrison? The Beatle fans have spoken.

I ain't stupid, I'm just guitarded.

Keith for his century invention called "LICKS" (Guitarplayers know what i mean C/F )
Slash for his incredible work for G´n`R

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