Favourite guitar players

[JOHNNYAITCH]

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Django Reinhardt, Charlie Christian. If you don't know their work, seek them out.

 

I did check out Django a few years back but found him hard going. Amazing story but not my cup of tea

[JOHNNYAITCH]

Nobody like Carlos Santana? I missed him off my original list,:doh:I've only seen him 4 times.With his band probably the most exciting I've seen.

 

Hmmm..I just think when you've heard few tracks you've heard all he does. he does it really really well but...again just not for me.

[JOHNNYAITCH]

Great shout.

 

Ritchie Blackmore? Brian May?

 

Have you heard any of Blackmore's recent stuff..interesting?

[dave46]

Mike Campbell (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) also George Harrison if he has'nt already been mentioned

[Rampant Zebra]

Karl Foster of Golgotha http://www.realgolgotha.com/ is one of my favourites, doesn't play much any more unfortunately.

[kevin_struggles]

I used to listen to a lot of Rockabilly in my younger days and there was a revival in the 80s which saw bands like the Polecats, Jets and Stray cats get into the charts. Of them all I think Brian Setzer has made the most of his talent and is a half decent guitar player.

[TheSage]

Have you heard any of Blackmore's recent stuff..interesting?

 

It is a bit different but still him! A prodigious talent.

[TheSage]

Still remember camping out at Knebworth in 1985 to watch my heroes. I had more hair then!

 

And the early line-up of Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord & Pace was sensational, as good as it gets. How talented were that lot? Gillan's voice was out of this world and Lord wasn't bad on the keys.

 

Slightly off topic - couldn't help myself - sorry.

 

Keith Richards was pretty decent in his time.

[Rampant Zebra]

Blackmore playing bass for the encore in the pouring rain?

[Houston Valiant]

Guitar players are overrated, as in the ones that drag out a song for ages. . They're only famous because we decide . I've never liked the self-centred 20 min. solo. Give me Depeche Mode , Pet Shop Boys any day. Dinosaurs are extinct.

[man in the pub]

Blackmore for me, first concert ever went Deep Purple at Trentham Gardens . The Burn LP had just come out and I was sold.

First guitar hero Hank Marvin from the Shadows, still remember standing in front of the mirror with my Tennis Racquet.

More recently my mate got me into Joe Bonamassa.

[Valiant62]

Roddy Radiation

[Rampant Zebra]

Guitar players are overrated, as in the ones that drag out a song for ages. . They're only famous because we decide . I've never liked the self-centred 20 min. solo. Give me Depeche Mode , Pet Shop Boys any day. Dinosaurs are extinct.

 

Why are you reading a "favourite guitar players" thread if you don't have any? This is supposed to be a discussion area for like minded individuals about music, we save the aggro for the "Port Vale Present" forum. Just saying..... :D

[JOHNNYAITCH]

Fabourite one finger keyboard player anyone? Nick Rhodes - Duran Duran ;)

 

Dinosaurs (and guitar heroes) may be extinct but they still arouse more interest than any 80s "keyboardist"

[JOHNNYAITCH]

Blackmore for me, first concert ever went Deep Purple at Trentham Gardens . The Burn LP had just come out and I was sold.

First guitar hero Hank Marvin from the Shadows, still remember standing in front of the mirror with my Tennis Racquet.

More recently my mate got me into Joe Bonamassa.

 

I find Bonamassa whilst he has great technique and plays all the right notes is just spectacularly unoriginal and..well.....boring. He's a sort of word perfect actor in a Shakespearean play doing a great impersonation of someone else's great performance..he's a tribute band playing original material. Which I know makes no sense.