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Best professional guitarists - gryphon - 25-09-2010
^ I agree with Andy Latimer !! Excellent choice!
Best professional guitarists - Tiggi - 25-09-2010
I like him too.
Am I right in thinking that he's been very ill recently ??
Best professional guitarists - Jerome - 26-09-2010
Yes he was ill. Not sure of the situatiion at present.
Best professional guitarists - repeater15 - 06-11-2010
Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Best professional guitarists - Tiggi - 06-11-2010
Jerome Wrote:Quite a long piece but the solo at the end is awesome - Andrew Latimer - totally underrated. Fantastic tone too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhRgelkyeyo
Just done an interweb search to find out about his illness (blood and bone marrow abnormalities), and discovered that he auditioned as a guitarist for Roger Waters' band in '06, for the role taken by Dave Kilminster.
Apparently his health is now improving...
Best professional guitarists - Jerome - 06-11-2010
Would really like to see him turn out another 'Nude' or 'Rajaz'. I like the way his pieces lead into each other and form a defined cohesive structure as opposed to just being a bunch of joined-up songs. 'Dust & Dreams' is something I always take on holiday for some or other reason. Long May He Run. Gets the most amazing tone out of his instrument, really moving, and he's not trying to play 4000 notes a second to prove that he is 'competent'. Less is definitely more. His sound and phrasing on 'Pressure Points' is bloody marvellous. The actual melody is deceptively simple but well placed and spaced. (Did I just say that?)
Best professional guitarists - JTRiff - 02-04-2011
Uh-oh. I'll try and stay short.
Yes, Jimi is, and will always be, the greatest rock guitarist, a fantastic innovator and an actual, genuine, real, great blues player, a league clear of any artschool brit types like Beck, Crapton, Page, all of whom Rory Gallagher beat up on any time I ever saw him. There's too many others between 60-70 to even start mentioning, but Johnny Winter or Duane Allman made Clapton run away to be a pop star by the early 70s.
Then it gets tough. Staying with ROCK guitar (and you have to because otherwise no rock players but Hendrix makes the top twenty guitarists) we run into Yngwie and friends.
Malmsteen showed up 81-82 on the West coast. I was teaching (guitar) fulltime in a store at that moment and we heard about this kid Dingway or whatever and I went yea, uhuh, the next Van Halen.(over-rated)
Then we saw him, someone brought a tape in and said: what is this guy doing? I couldn't play it. Too fast. This was the first time this had ever happened w/a rock player. VHalen and Randy Rhoades, Alvin Lee etc. were good, but not at all difficult to pick up their stuff.
Couldn't touch Malmsteen. Then Vai, Satriani, and the rest of the music college graduates appeared, but after all the G8 stuff was over, they all looked at Yngwie, who could sort of knock them all over if he got excited and really blasted off.
The clones since are countless and don't much like it. These guys are over their heads, musically, all in pursuit of speed! which is utterly ridiculous, as no guitarist is ever going to catch up with Sax or Piano. Well, Scotty Anderson (probably the greatest electric guitarist ever) can get into that speed range. And he's clean. I could go on but my fingers hurt. )
Best professional guitarists - Amy Chan - 26-06-2011
I like more modern fun stuff, the guitarists here are fun but their solos are freaking technical, while the chords are still understated. what do you guys think? i play guitar too, and im a musician, and jimi hendrix is the winner of all time awesome. or hide from x-japan
or seikima. [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnAEzphJ2Yw][/url] xxx
Best professional guitarists - Jerome - 26-06-2011
Carlos Santana!
Best professional guitarists - SteveO - 26-06-2011
The thread says "professional guitarists " so I'll throw in a few blues players just to be diifferent as most of the rockers have been mentioned., B.B. King and Buddy Guy ( who Eric Clapton described as the best guitar player in the world). Albert King was a decent blues player - left handed and always used a capo ! Also Roy Buchanan is great !
There are countless incredible jazz players - John Abercrombie, John Schofield, Al DiMeola, John McLaughlin,etc.
Another rock axeman would be Robin Trower.