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29 Aug 03 - 12:24 AM (#1010017) Subject: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Mark Clark According to Rolling Stone, these are the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. I'm guessing some choices on this list will surprise more than a few people. Espically those who have any knowledge of guitar and guitarists. I've reproduced the list here because the Rolling Stone site is plagued with really annoying pop-ups. - Mark
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29 Aug 03 - 12:52 AM (#1010023) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: musicmick Well, the list is more expository of Rolling Stone than of the history of guitar technique. I mean, they include non guitarists, like Joni Mitchell, and disregard those geniuses who played in the jazz, classical, flamenco and folk genres. What a joke. I suppose that each of us might come up with a list of our 100 best and, I suppose that every list would be different. I would hope, however, that Mudcatters, who profess a fondness for folk music (or, at leat, for accoustic music) would not emulate the good folk of Rolling Stone and their veiled suggestion that music was invented in the early 1950's by Sun Records. |
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29 Aug 03 - 12:53 AM (#1010024) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: katlaughing They missed Rick Fielding and Justa Picker. |
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29 Aug 03 - 01:11 AM (#1010028) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: DonMeixner Where do: Chet Atkins Merle Travis Tommy Emmanuel Ike Everly Jerry Reed Doc Watson Belong???? Easily half the people on that list fall in the "Come on! Are fuckin' Nuts!?" bin. Don |
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29 Aug 03 - 01:14 AM (#1010029) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Benjamin Gee, that's about the worst list I've seen. In addition to the things musicmic pointed out, almost all of them are either from and/or live(d) in America or Europe. Great guitarists don't just come from the "western" world. |
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29 Aug 03 - 01:18 AM (#1010030) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: catspaw49 Another worthless "Top" list.........Ya' gotta' love these things doncha'? Thanks for the laughs Mark!!! Spaw |
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29 Aug 03 - 02:18 AM (#1010046) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: mooman Tosh! As are all such lists! And Joni Mitchell is actually a very fine guitarist... Peace moo |
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29 Aug 03 - 02:46 AM (#1010049) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Jim Clark..London.England Charlie Byrd (Bossa nova guitar genius) Big Joe Williams (Mississippi delta bluesman genius) Django Reinhardt (Gypsy jazz genius) Leo Kotke (6 & 12 string fingerstyle genius) John Hammond (the greatest living exponent of Robert Johnson's music) Thats 5 that spring to mind.....Charlie Byrd was in my humble opinion the greatest ever acoustic guitarist...Big Joe was the greatest of all the bluesmen...The sheer depth of rhythm in his music raised country blues guitar to the levels of Flamenco.. Regards. Jim Clark. http://groups.msn.com/acousticmusiciansandpoetssoundarchive |
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29 Aug 03 - 02:48 AM (#1010050) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Margret RoadKnight Agree with mooman on both counts. Joni Mitchell definitely deserves to be there, as do quite a few other females, e.g.another great innovator Ellen McIlwaine (Jimi Hendrix was so impressed with Ellen he used to perform with her, for free!) Bit light on with the African wizards also, e.g. Jean Bosco Mwende, Sekou "Diamond Fingers' Diabate, Kante Manfila, etc.... |
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29 Aug 03 - 02:52 AM (#1010051) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: songs2play Where's Blind Blake? A Rolling Stone gathers no moss - just worthless lists. |
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29 Aug 03 - 03:00 AM (#1010054) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Jim Clark..London.England All those Jonah's out there....surely this is just a bit of fun,and gives us all a chance to nominate guitarists we admire.. Of course there can be no definitive list...Music isnt the Olympics..there is nobody to cross the metaphorical line first..just guitar players who in our opinions we think are good at whey do or did... So come on stop whinging and give us your lists ha ha. Regards. Jim Clark (Incidently no relation to the Mark Clark that started this discussion,though I do have a brother called Mark ha ha) |
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29 Aug 03 - 03:00 AM (#1010055) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: kendall What a crock! What do they mean by "Top" anyway? The greatest guitarist of all time, Andres' Segovia, is not even mentioned. |
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29 Aug 03 - 03:27 AM (#1010059) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Roger the Skiffler No Lonnie Johnson or Joe Pass? RtS |
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29 Aug 03 - 03:27 AM (#1010060) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Ghirotondo at work Bah! Where are John Rembourn and Stefan Grossman? |
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29 Aug 03 - 04:10 AM (#1010086) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Murray MacLeod I know MTed would be disappointed if I didn't point out their omission of Tony McManus (who, incidentally is described by none other than John Renbourn as the best Celtic guitarist in the world) Does the list purport to be in any sort of order of merit? Because if so, to rank Keith Richards and Kurt Cobain in front of a genius like Roy Buchanan is simply laughable. Murray |
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29 Aug 03 - 04:22 AM (#1010091) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: katlaughing Also, Jerry Douglas, Libba Cotten, and those Don mentioned, too! As well as John Williams and Gustavo Santaollala... |
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29 Aug 03 - 04:35 AM (#1010096) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: alanabit Rolling Stone is a magazine for rock and rollers. The list here reflects no more than the tastes of their readership. Of course you can't take it seriously. Even fans of the Rolling Stones (band) like me will be baffled why Keith Richard is on the list and Mick Taylor is not. However we try to measure the achievement of our favourite musicians, at the end of the day it all comes down to whether we like noise they make. Even in a field of music which I like, I can't say that one guitarist is better than another once they have reached a certain level of technique and musicality. I would rather hear Peter Green playing, "Man of the World", Eric Clapton playing, "Crossroads" and Mick Taylor playing, "Stray Cat Blues". None of them is the "best" guitarist. So how can we measure the achievement of Segovia against that of Bert Jansch or Charlie Christian? |
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29 Aug 03 - 04:57 AM (#1010104) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Sir Roger de Beverley But surely in even a rock and roll magazine list Buddy Holly should get a mention. It just shows how little regard he has in his own country compared to, for example, how we see him in the UK. I have only seen numbers 6, 14, 19, 64, 88 and 94 play live so I can't comment on the others. Roger |
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29 Aug 03 - 05:22 AM (#1010113) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: greg stephens Well, I cant be bothered with any list that hasnt got Eddie Lang on it. |
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29 Aug 03 - 06:21 AM (#1010120) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Strollin' Johnny Or Martin Simpson! |
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29 Aug 03 - 07:40 AM (#1010139) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Clint Or Rory Gallagher! |
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29 Aug 03 - 07:51 AM (#1010143) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Jack the Sailor Buddy Holly was a great songwriter, but no great shakes on guitar. Taylor vs Richards? The only people I'd put in Keith's league for writing licks and guitar hooks would be muddy waters and Jimmy Page. He'd be near the top of the list for me. Gimmie Shelter is far and away my favourite guitar song. Was Keith and Micvk or Keith and Brian? Its only Rock & Roll baby. I think that "The Mudcat's top 100 guitar players of all time" would be a far different list than Rolling Stone's and yes, I'd expect to see both Joni Mitchell and Rick Fielding near the top of that list. Its probably a list worth compiling. |
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29 Aug 03 - 08:06 AM (#1010147) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Dave Bryant What about a chap who I knew at achool - Albert Lee. Albert has backed and played with many big names (Emmylou Harris, Eric Clapton, Glen Campbell, Chris Farlowe, Dave Edmonds, Dolly Parton, Bobby Bare, Joan Armatrading, The Crickets, Ricky Scaggs, Joe Cocker, Willie Nelson, Linda Ronstadt, Rodney Crowell and Many many more) but has never really gone for the limelight preferring to enjoy just playing, and more recently, teaching guitar. |
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29 Aug 03 - 08:32 AM (#1010156) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Den No Rock guitarist's list should be complete without Gary Moore and you're right on the money Clint one of the most underestimated, under recognized guitarist's in rock, the late great Rory Gallagher. |
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29 Aug 03 - 08:34 AM (#1010159) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Den Forgot to mention Billy Gibbons, that guy can make two notes sound great. |
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29 Aug 03 - 09:14 AM (#1010177) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,John Hardly It's in print. It must be true. Thanks, Mark, for the enlightenment. I must go now and work on my Neil Young licks..... ....eeeeeeew. Is it just me, or does the juxtaposition of "Neil Young" with "licks" cause immediate revultion? Quick! Somebody give me something good to think about!!!!! |
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29 Aug 03 - 09:15 AM (#1010178) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Roger the Skiffler yeah, Dave, Albert Lee is still doing great things with Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings. RtS |
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29 Aug 03 - 09:17 AM (#1010179) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Murray MacLeod Albert Lee, absolutely, right up there with the best (incidentally James Burton who is a similar style to Lee should be much higher on the list). Dave , was Albert Lee a youthful prodigy on the guitar while he was in school, or did he develop later on ? Murray |
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29 Aug 03 - 09:24 AM (#1010181) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Midchuck But the title isn't "The Top 100 Pop/Rock Guitarists of All Time." It's just "The Top 100 Guitarists..." So the omission of Andres and Doc and Django, just to begin with, entitles it to the award for "The Stupidest Top 100 List of All Time." Peter. |
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29 Aug 03 - 09:39 AM (#1010189) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Nerd How about: Paul Brady Martin Carthy Txomin Artola Pierre Bensusan Pat Metheny etc, etc, etc.... You could even put Lonnie Donegan on as one of the most INFLUENTIAL, if not technically greatest, guitarists.... |
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29 Aug 03 - 09:42 AM (#1010192) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Willie-O What annoys me is that there is no explanation on the website (www.rollingstone.com of how the list was compiled, by whom, and what kind of criteria and methodology was used. Why don't they just say it's a rock guitarist popularity poll, with a few representatives of other genres thrown in if they have name recognition? #1 spot was a foregone conclusion; I was glad to see Duane Allman in #2, however he got there. You like to see your heroes get recognized. In fact, I think the Allman Brothers is the only band with three entries on the list (Duane, Warren Haynes, and Dickie Betts). W-O |
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29 Aug 03 - 09:51 AM (#1010196) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: ced2 What a list of old bollocks... No Segovia... John Williams.... Django etc. etc. Just goes to show how self serving such lists are, having buggar all to do with music... BS threads seem a more suitable place... come to think of it there is more merit in a decent game of Mornington Cresent. No doubt North Wales's most famous resident would agree... What say you Mrs T? |
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29 Aug 03 - 09:54 AM (#1010197) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Bill D that stupid list is 99% rock/pop..but it DOES mention Danny Gatton, who, according to many other guitarists, ought to be #1 in the electric/rock category. |
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29 Aug 03 - 10:30 AM (#1010219) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,nancyjo Am I the only one who thinks George Harrison deserves a mention? If "influence" on the field is a factor in "great", I would think so. nancyjo |
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29 Aug 03 - 10:34 AM (#1010223) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Jack the Sailor George is mentioned #21. Gosh folks, It is Rolling Stone Magazine. It is not so much self serving as serving their readers. They're just doing their jobs. |
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29 Aug 03 - 10:40 AM (#1010229) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Amos Fred Hellerman should be on it as well -- they missed so many boats it's ridiculous! A |
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29 Aug 03 - 10:44 AM (#1010232) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: The O'Meara Duane Eddy. |
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29 Aug 03 - 10:58 AM (#1010245) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Candyman(inactive) How about Lester Flatt? After all, flatt picking is named after him. Seriously, though, folks. When a list like this comes out, you have to consider where it's coming from. Rolling Stone is a narrow rock and pop magazine. Most of the great guitarists left-off their list, Doc Watson, Martin Carthy, Segovia, Joe Pass, and about a thousand more, aren't even, or are barely, on their radar. You gotta realize that a list like that in Rolling Stone is no more relevant than the many Best Folksinger, Best Female Voice, etc. lists that we see on Mudcat. It's all a very subjective relection of who is compiling the list. In Rolling Stone, most of the choices will reflect the major record labels that advertoise heavily in the magazine. |
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29 Aug 03 - 10:59 AM (#1010248) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Jack the Sailor Y'all need to make your own list. |
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29 Aug 03 - 11:00 AM (#1010250) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Candyman(inactive) relection Somebody stole the f from reflection. |
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29 Aug 03 - 11:11 AM (#1010260) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Bob Hitchcock Any list of guitarists which limits itself to 100 is bound to be incomplete. I agree that those on the list are good players and in some way deserve to be there, but of course there are many other great players missing, my additions would include:- Hank Marvin Wes Montgomery Tal Farlow Freddy Green etc, etc, Maybe there should be a Top 10,000 list so we could make most of us happy. |
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29 Aug 03 - 11:27 AM (#1010271) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Frankham One of my favorite guitarists was Burl Ives because he never let his guitar get in the way of a good song. Josh White because he integrated his playing so well that you couldn't separate his singing from his playing. Eddie Lang who was the most influential accoustic jazz guitarist. Django built much of his style on his (Django-Grapelli) (Lang-Venuti) For jazz accoustic style: Oscar Aleman needs a mention. Tal Farlow...electric jazz needs a mention. Jim Hall, Barney Kessel, Joe Pass Frank Vignola for accoustic jazz never made the list. Did Julian Bream make the list? As for electric jazz buffs, you don't have to look much forward to a an unknown (xcept in elec. jazz circles) Ted Greene. Did Hank Garland or Eldon Shamblin make the list? For all of these there must be a hundred more who didn't make the list. Rolling Stone is concerned with rock and popularity in that genre. THe whole idea of 100 best is a "straw man". Frank Hamilton Did Pierre Bensusan get mentioned for DADGAD? |
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29 Aug 03 - 12:33 PM (#1010306) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,pdq Eldon Shamblin was probably the best rhythm guitarist ever, and played in a style invented by Karl Kress, a true genuis. Genuis also applies to Lonnie Johnson. A list of Rock players without Randy California??? |
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29 Aug 03 - 12:41 PM (#1010314) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,SJ Emily Slade is a very hot guitarist. you should hear her new album 'Fretless' listen to the title track. WWWWWWWWWWooooooWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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29 Aug 03 - 12:57 PM (#1010318) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,pdq I saw Freddie King live and he outplayed all the various Kings, ever B.B. Joan Jett but no Steve Morse?? The list as presented needs a mojor overhaul. |
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29 Aug 03 - 01:06 PM (#1010323) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Candyman(inactive) In terms of rhythm and chording, three of the all-time best were/are Freddie Green, Ted Bogan and Jackie Washington (the JW in Canada, not the Boston folkie of the '60s). |
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29 Aug 03 - 01:46 PM (#1010343) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Don Firth Pat Metheny? How about Pepe Romero, Eduardo Fernandez, Julian Bream, John Williams, Carlos Montoya, Mario Escudero, Sabicas? Maybelle Carter? I think that the people who make up these lists don't get out much. Don Firth |
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29 Aug 03 - 02:26 PM (#1010369) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Benjamin If you want to bring up classical guitarists- David Russell, Roland Dyens, Ana Vidovic, Manuel Barrueco, Scott Tenant, Jorge Morel, Kaz. Yamashita and Fred Hand all deserve to be there. Many others including Martha Masters, Antonio Lopez, and Frederic Zigante at least deserve to be considered. As for popular guitarists they missed- Phil Keaggy, Prince (shut up Raed!!!!) |
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29 Aug 03 - 02:45 PM (#1010379) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,pdq Went over list again. No Tony Rice? Actually, the best guitarist working now, in the US, is David Grier. That is one man's opinon. |
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29 Aug 03 - 03:57 PM (#1010405) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: M.Ted Fred"Sonic" Smith and Wayne Kramer but no Dick Wagner? Hmmm. Even if it was just rock guitarists, where is someone like T-Bone Walker, who is probably the most copied electric guitarist,with Bo Diddly right up close to him? Mostly though, this list leaves off the studio guys like Tommy Tedesco and Steve Lukather who really created and played a lot of those memorable licks that we have been encouraged to believe came from some of the guys on this list-- And,thanks, Murray, where was Tony McManus? |
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29 Aug 03 - 04:45 PM (#1010422) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Benjamin M.Ted, T-Bone Walker is at number 47 on that list. And no one's mentioned Norman Blake yet! |
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29 Aug 03 - 06:27 PM (#1010454) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Murray MacLeod Interesting endorsements of Lukather and Tedesco there, Ted. I used to read Tommy Tedesco's diary in "Guitar Player" every month, fascinating stuff. I must try to hear some more of Steve Lukather. My ex's daughter was Toto-obsessed, and used to fixate on "Luke" as she called him. It kind of spooked me, but there is no question he is a huge talent. One more name that should have been on the list, in the first five, is Blind Blake. Murray |
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29 Aug 03 - 07:16 PM (#1010481) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: jaze Joni Mitchell a non-guitarist?? You can't be serious. |
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29 Aug 03 - 08:51 PM (#1010520) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,pdq More people who should be on some guitar player list are country greats Sam McGee, "Slim" Bryant, "Zeke" Campbell, Don Reno, and Jimmy Bryant. Studio and Rock and folk great David Bromberg is conspicuouly missing, as is Clarence White! |
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29 Aug 03 - 08:52 PM (#1010521) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Bee-dubya-ell Small correction to Willie-O's post: The Allman Brothers Band doesn't have three guitarists on the list, it has four. Derek Trucks is #81. Nice to see John Fahey ranked so highly on such a rock-heavy list, but that sorta makes Leo Kottke's absence even more peculiar. Bruce |
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29 Aug 03 - 09:43 PM (#1010546) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Midchuck Actually, Guest PDQ, Clarence White is on the list - #41. He's the only one of the great flatpickers who is. But they refer to him as "of the Byrds." I wonder if they even realized that he did fool around with an acoustic guitar once in a while. Peter. |
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29 Aug 03 - 10:05 PM (#1010552) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: kendall Lenny Breau. Chet Atkins once said, "Lenny Breau has forgotten more about the guitar than I ever knew." |
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29 Aug 03 - 10:10 PM (#1010555) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Frankham Groucho Marx played the guitar. He didn't get nominated. Luis Milan but he played the guitar before they called it a guitar. They called it a Viheula. Frank Hamilton |
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29 Aug 03 - 10:55 PM (#1010577) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Sandy Mc Lean Rolling Stone makes a stupid subjective judgement from a narrow perspective. |
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29 Aug 03 - 11:37 PM (#1010600) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: simon-pierre Gary Davis? Skip James? Big Bill Broonzy? Dave Van Ronk? Kelly joe Phelps? Or Tim Sparks? Now, it's just to mention some of my favorites, there's to many holes in this list. What a lack of musical culture, it's unbelievable. |
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29 Aug 03 - 11:46 PM (#1010606) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: musicmick Frank, I'm glad that you liked Burl Ives's guitar playing because I did, too. But that wasn't himself at all. His usual accompanyist was Millard Lampbell, who later worked with Belafonte. Lampbell's guitar was best displayed on the Burl Ives recording of "Golden Vanity". Back in those days, many wonderful singers used professional accompanyists. Those unsung heros were some of the finest and most tasteful artists. I'm sure you remember Ray Bogislav (who worked with Theo Bikel), John Stauber (Leon Bibb), Dick Weissman (Judy Roderick), Paul Prestopino (Judy Collins and the Chad Mitchell Trio) and Dick Rosmini (who played for everyone else). Some backups achieved fame, of course.(David Bromberg comes to mind). Some were famous first. (Fred Hellerman was a Weaver long before he met Joan Baez). But so many great ones sat on the side of the stage in proportional obscurity. I didn't mean to suggest that Joni Mitchell is less than superbly talented as a singer, composer and creative artist but unless she has gotten a hell of a lot better on her instrument recently, I find her inclusion on any list of great guitarists akin to adding Bill Clinton's name to the ranks of saxophone immortals. |
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29 Aug 03 - 11:51 PM (#1010611) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,pdq It took 60 posts to get to my all-time hero Dave Van Ronk! More conspicuous absentees are Dan Crary, Joe Maphis and Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith. Studio work by Glen Campbell deserves a mention, even if people question his Pop attitude in his personal music. Who did the guitar on Marty Robbins "El Paso"? Great stuff. Anyone heard Rich O'Brien? Martin Taylor? Frank Vignola................... |
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30 Aug 03 - 01:57 AM (#1010645) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Margret RoadKnight John Martyn Bruce Langhorne, accompanist extraordinaire |
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30 Aug 03 - 01:59 AM (#1010646) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Margret RoadKnight To treble the Australian content, add Chris Finnen and Bruce Mathiske |
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30 Aug 03 - 04:12 AM (#1010656) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: fat B****rd Scotty Moore, LEADBELLY, Chuck Berry, Elliot Randall if only for "Reelin' In The Years".................. |
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30 Aug 03 - 04:20 AM (#1010658) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: John Robinson (aka Cittern) If you are into guitarists, go out of your way to see/hear Woody Mann. Best regards John Robinson http://www.JulieEllison.co.uk |
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30 Aug 03 - 09:20 AM (#1010733) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Greycap Norman Blake got missed out again,Bryan Sutton. |
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30 Aug 03 - 12:05 PM (#1010787) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST 1.TONY RICE-My opinion the best Acoustic Guitarist ever. No Acoustic/ Electric crap. But straight ahead Acoustic. And Tone and Smoothness to die for. 2.Steve Vai- IM sorry, but Steve is so far ahead of Jimi Hendrix it is pathetic. Forget the hype and just listen to the solos and the speed and unbelievable technique. 3. Grady Martin-The guy who played guitar on Marty Robbins, "El Paso" 4.Paco De Lucia- Played on Bryan Adams- Have You ever really loved a woman? 5. George Benson- Simply Amazing 6.Bryan Sutton- Listen to his break on RawHide off of Ricky Skaggs CD "Bluegrass Rules" Even if You hate Bluegrass, just give it a listen.And be honest with Yourself about how great some of these hot shot players are, Sutton will bring them back to reality. Period!!!! |
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30 Aug 03 - 12:37 PM (#1010795) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Phil Cooper I'd second John Martyn. I'd also like to mention Dick Gaughan's instrumental work on both electric and acoustic guitar. Also, for rock guitarists, Tim Renwick was very good. I suspect a lot of the guitarists that we folkies really respect are not on Rolling Stone's radar. |
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30 Aug 03 - 12:48 PM (#1010798) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Don Firth Uh . . . not to nit-pick, but I think you'll find that it was Millard Thomas, not Millard Lampbell who was Harry Belafonte's main guitar accompanist early on. Ray Boguslav also accompanied Belafonte for awhile. Dick Rosmini and I crossed paths a couple of times, once when he was accompanying Bob Gibson and a few years later when he was accompanying Barbara Dane. He's one helluva guitarist. He and Gibson were in Seattle for a couple of weeks, and we had several chances to get together and jam. After the Barbara Dane concert, she, Rosmini, and a whole bunch of Seattle singers got together. She opened for Bob Newhart, and only sang about five songs, so she was rearing to go. Somebody offered their living room and we had a big songfest that went well into the wee small hours of the morning. The whole mob, Barbara, Dick, and all, went out for breakfast afterward. I learned a couple of songs from Barbara. Good times! Don Firth |
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30 Aug 03 - 02:38 PM (#1010838) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Benjamin Greycap, I caught Norman Blake earlier in this thread. Brownie McGhee. D'Gary, the Madagascarian Phenom. I've always thought that Paul Simon was a very under rated guitarist. |
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01 Sep 03 - 11:34 PM (#1010927) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,pdq Charlie Christian or Barney Kessell on list? Didn't see 'um. Steve Goodman probably out-played Paul Simon, but that type of guitatr work is not going to garner votes for "best ever", although composing a neat piece to accompany an individual song is a true art. |
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02 Sep 03 - 02:29 AM (#1010990) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: musicmick Mr. Firth is correct. It was Millard Thomas. May I add a lesser known name to the3 list. John Pilla was the lead guitarist for Eric Anderson and Arlo Guthrie. He was a favorite partner of Doc Watson's. (He was a dear friend who passed too soon). |
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02 Sep 03 - 05:46 AM (#1011072) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Dave Bryant Murray - Albert Lee was interested in the guitar at school (The Roan School, Greenwich). I can remember that when we had to paint murals in the art class, he did an excellent one of Elvis with Guitar. He was playng lead guitar in a group at school and I can remember playing several gigs with him (I played electric bass) - a couple when he stood in for the lead of the band I usually played with, and one in a scratch band for a school charity event. He was brilliant then - could play anything straight off - he didn't need to copy records as we all did - his lead guitar parts were much better than the records ! I can remember one master at the school telling him to concentrate on his school work, because playing the guitar wouldn't earn him a living - how wrong can you get ! |
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02 Sep 03 - 08:26 AM (#1011130) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Strollin' Johnny Has anyone mentioned James Burton? 'Hello Mary Lou' wouldn't be half the record without James' guitar. Also played with (amongst lots of others) Emmylou's Hot Band and, of course, Elvis in the '70s. |
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02 Sep 03 - 10:33 AM (#1011218) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Li'l Aussie Bleeder. To Candyman That's Dr Washington !!! Jackie Washington was awarded an honarary doctorate of letters from Hamiltons' Mc Master University, just this year. I'd like to mention Amos Garrett for the list. LAB |
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02 Sep 03 - 12:25 PM (#1011289) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Nerd Frank, we both mentioned Pierre Bensusan, but your post reminded me of Davy Graham, who really developed DADGAD in London in the 60s. Few guitarists in UK folk were as influential as he was, as an early influence on Renbourn, Jansch, Carthy et al. |
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02 Sep 03 - 01:02 PM (#1011321) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: M.Ted I never like saying"This great guy blow that great guy away"--but I do think Steve Vai is an incredible guitarist--one of his less well known talents: notating music for Frank Zappa, who said that Steve was the best of anyone ever at accurately notating those frenetic Zappa melodic/rhythmic phrases-- |
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02 Sep 03 - 03:44 PM (#1011462) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: C-flat I think we could make a terrific "Top 100 list" from all these ommissions! I enjoy listening to, and playing(attempting) many different styles and to try and rate them into some sort of order is impossible. I did intend to post a thread in memory of Stevie Ray Vaughan, the great bluesman, who died on August 27th, 13 years ago, but as that date coincided with my birthday I got sidetracked and forgot! Maybe next year. (if it doesn't clash with my birthday) |
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02 Sep 03 - 04:05 PM (#1011472) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Arkie The Rolling Stone List may have included a "who's who" of rock guitar but the compiler apparently knew very little or cared very little about other guitar styles. Merle Travis and Chet Atkins were very influential in country music and Travis also had some effect on guitarists in Great Britain as well as the United States. Travis' son, Thom Bresh, is an incredible guitarist by almost any standard. Travis, Atkins, and Bresh can bring almost any piece of music alive with a solo guitar. Nothing else is needed. Other fine guitar players deserving mention are Eddy Adcock, Jerry Reed, Comer Mullins, and Eddy Pennington. While Mullins and Pennington are not well known outside the Thumbpicker guitar circles, both are certainly masters of the instrument. Adcock is well known in bluegrass circles and Reed plays with a wreckless abandon in a style of his own. |
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02 Sep 03 - 04:50 PM (#1011510) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Tunesmith As always, such lists are a compromise. I remember telling Nick Jones that I thought he was a great guitarists, but he wouldn't have it. " If you call me great," he said, " what are you going to call Django".I know where Nick was coming from, but could Django have created the great guitar acompanyingments that Nick produced? Take another case: Bert Jansch -v-Davy Graham. Now I love Bert and I think he was so good way back when, but he is not a complete guitarist like Davy. I guess it's horses for courses. |
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02 Sep 03 - 05:22 PM (#1011538) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Herrington Corpustle Has anyone encountered Kaki King from (I think) New York city. I saw her at Winnipeg folk fest and she is well worth checking out. On technique at least she deserves to be in the top one hundred IMHO, despite being a far from well known name. Other than that, Ian Carr and Ian Stephenson from England both deserve a placing representing 'our' music and Martin Carthy wouldn't have been a bad choice either.- |
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02 Sep 03 - 05:38 PM (#1011551) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: alanabit You are right Tunesmith. At the end of the day it all comes down to what you want the musician to do with the bleeding thing. Not a bad guitarist has been mentioned on this thread. It is not the inclusion ofnames that causes problems - but the exclusion. |
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02 Sep 03 - 10:30 PM (#1011739) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,cheyenne medders derek trucks should be at least #2 django reinhardt should be in the top 10 jeff tweedy should be listed chet atkins is top 5 duane should remain around the top BB King and Eric Clapton don't belong on this list Where is Trey Anastasio? Neil Young belongs in the top third Ry Cooder could move up a notch or four The rolling stone list is a terrible list aimed to please everyone |
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02 Sep 03 - 10:53 PM (#1011745) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Steve Latimer Where's Willie Nelson? Bob Dylan? |
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02 Sep 03 - 11:55 PM (#1011778) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: wlisk Three of my favorites: David Bromberg, Pat Flynn (who will be at Winfield this year), and Maybell Carter who was and still is one of the most influential guitarists of all time. Bill |
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03 Sep 03 - 12:13 AM (#1011788) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Mark Clark Since starting this thread I've been out of town. I assumed many Catters would have contrary opinions and I'm not disappointed. Many truly great guitarists have been proposed and it's hard to argue with people's suggestions. I get the impression that when people are moved by a particular band, they automatically assume the musicians must be world class. My own opinion is that the most popular bands can have some of the poorest quality musicians if you're talking about any music outside of their particular niche. Kurt Cobain comes to mind. I'm not a fan of grunge—although my daughters were—so I just took the trouble to listen to some Nirvana clips. The guitar playing sounded sophomoric to me, both the electric and the unplugged. Even though I can enjoy music in which the guitar plays only a few throbing chords, I don't think of the technique as being a skillful use of the instrument. In addition to the names everyone has contributed (and many of my favorites have been listed), I think we should add
The first guitarist to create and master an important style should have recognition but the myriad average players who couldn't possibly have invented it but can learn to immitate it don't get any special consideration from me. I may enjoy their music a great deal but they don't rank among the “greatest of all time.” They're just good competent journeymen making a living. Now if they add something important to the canon… that's different. - Mark |
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03 Sep 03 - 01:17 AM (#1011803) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: BO in KY A few more to add to the mix: I second the motion on the inclusion of Glen Campbell and Ledbelly - awesome 12-string stylists. Mark Knopfler should be further up the list Spider John Koerner and Mississippi John Hurt, who define acoustice blues. Joe Satriani, in a class by himself in realizing the melodic potential of the electric guitar; And finally, where is Phil Keagy? Saw him in concert about 15 years ago, blew me away with his virtuosity; he had more sounds coming out of that electric guitar than I thought possible. Of course, his religious stance may not have "fit" with whoever judges these things at Rolling Stone... |
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03 Sep 03 - 04:41 AM (#1011852) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Mario Shame on Rolling Stone! They forgot (among many others) Tony Rice! I like so much Scott Nygaard (who played with Tim O'Brien's O'Boys). Do anybody know that guitar player? |
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03 Sep 03 - 09:10 AM (#1011958) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,James Paco de Lucia, Martin Carthy, Dave MacIsaac, Martin Simpson, Leo Kottke,Carlos Montoya, Julian Breem, Doc Watson, Ellen MacIllwaine,Eric Clapton, Stephen Stills, Jimi Hendrix, Mississippi Fred Macdowell, Bukka White..tons more..but these are my favourites, in no particular order. |
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03 Sep 03 - 10:38 AM (#1011997) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Dano Why is Lowell George not there??? |
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03 Sep 03 - 01:10 PM (#1012085) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: simon-pierre And me? They forgot me?? (I'm just an average guitarist, but I'm far better than Kurt Cobain you know.) |
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04 Sep 03 - 04:48 AM (#1012531) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Mario simon pierre, I know what you mean! |
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04 Sep 03 - 06:59 PM (#1012945) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST What about Ian Carr and Ed Boyd (Flook)???? |
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04 Sep 03 - 08:46 PM (#1013019) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,pdq We have to keep this going to atleast 100 posts! No mention of jazz player Jim Hall, not to be confused with rocker John Hall, another fine player in his own right. Fingerpickers are in short supply. I nominate Dave Laibman for his outrageous tone, and his cousin Ricky Schoenberg or all-around mastery of the ragtime revival of the 1970's. Acoustic Disc just released a live concert ('65?) of George Barnes, whom I know only from a very old and very worn-out LP. Barnes should make top 10 on the list of anyone who hears his work. |
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04 Sep 03 - 09:13 PM (#1013025) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Ely Third vote for Norman Blake . . . Etta Baker Paul Geramia Memphis Minnie Brownie McGhee Bonnie Raitt (well, if you put Joni Mitchell and Joan Jett on there, you have to have her) and I just saw Wayne Hancock in concert and the two electric guitarists he has in his band kick butt (Wayne himself is mostly limited to flailing away on the rhythm). |
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04 Sep 03 - 09:20 PM (#1013028) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Ely Which reminds me: Cordell Jackson Jean Shepard |
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04 Sep 03 - 09:27 PM (#1013031) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Midchuck Jack Lawrence Chris Newman P. |
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04 Sep 03 - 09:49 PM (#1013040) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,pdq Memphis Minnie was one of the great blues singers of all time, but believe it or not, a very young George Barnes played the lead guitar on her best sessions. |
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05 Sep 03 - 04:18 AM (#1013182) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: mooman Oh...OK then (to make it 100!) (In no particular order) some of my favourites: Pat Metheny Paco Pena Steve Tibbetts Taj Mahal (simple but so tasteful Eric Bibb Ani DiFranco (highly original and underestimated a master of unusual tunings and dynamics) Isaac Guillory (one of the best I saw live - brilliant bass runs and lead played together - very sadly R.I.P. not long ago) Blind Blake Re: the Keith Richard discussion above, not a showy guitarist but I personally rate him as a melodic genius! Peace, moo |
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05 Sep 03 - 05:46 AM (#1013213) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Ralphie So Mr Moo...Lets get to 101 with David Rawlins.. (Gillian Welch co- hort) |
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05 Sep 03 - 05:56 AM (#1013216) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: mooman Hi Ralphie! Anything in Ypres this year? Peace moo |
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05 Sep 03 - 01:35 PM (#1013457) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,pdq Some south o'border folks need mention, especially the late Bola Sete, the long gone Oscar Aleman, and the current Enrique Coria. All these guys have their own style and don't just play "classical" or "flamenco". |
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05 Sep 03 - 06:00 PM (#1013579) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Stooball Absolutely George Barnes, also Dick McDonough, solo and for duets with Carl Kress, Buster B. Jones, said to be Jerry Reed's spiritual successor, almost impossible to get his recordings, he has one with Thom Bresh, Joe Pass for sure, the Argentine genius Barrios, who was so good that Segovia would not allow his students to speak his name and did his best to block his concert tours, George Van Eps, who invented 7-string guitar, Jimmy Raney, Ed Bickert who plays fabulous jazz on an ancient Telecaster, and on and on and on, each to his own taste. |
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06 Sep 03 - 11:31 AM (#1013912) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Jim There's a guy here in Canada named Don Ross ...... He'll leave you speechless. |
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06 Sep 03 - 02:01 PM (#1013976) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,pdq Don Ross is on Nirada, a label he shares with many of the finest players in World Music. Nirada also has several fine releases by Artie Traum. Have people heard him lately? Artie Traum is brilliant and controlled at the same time. A "thinking man's" musician. |
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07 Sep 03 - 04:44 AM (#1014227) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Murray MacLeod There's a guy here in Canada named Don Ross ...... He'll leave you speechless. I watched Don Ross play for a couple of hours a few months back. He was on stage with Tony McManus, Beppe Gambetta, and Dan Crary. I have to say that of the four , Don Ross was the one who left me least speechless. Maybe I was expecting too much, having seen him being hyped here on Mudcat so much. Still a decent player, just not as phenomenal as I had been led to expect. Murray |
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07 Sep 03 - 05:03 AM (#1014241) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Murray MacLeod While on the subject of Canadian guitarists, one player who did leave me speechless (several times) is JP Cormier. Murray |
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07 Sep 03 - 08:23 PM (#1014605) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Frankham One word: Ted Greene. Musicmic: Burl did play his own guitar earlier and it sounded great. It wasn't Lampell then. Millard couldn't sound that simple. Frank |
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08 Sep 03 - 11:10 AM (#1014776) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Sandy Mc Lean Murray, What you say about J.P. Cormier is very true. He has to be one of the best. We have a few others in Nova Scotia/ Cape Breton who ain't bad either. J.P.Cormier , Dave MacIsaac , and Scott Macmillan will all be on stage together on Oct.16 at the Judique Guitar Summit for the Celtic Colours Festival. Sandy |
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08 Sep 03 - 07:20 PM (#1015045) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Frankham Mundell Lowe, Herb Ellis, Hank Garland, Bucky Pizzarelli, George Barnes, Jimmy Bruno, Taylor (from Scotland), Pierre Bensusan, Alirio Diaz (taught with Segovia in Sienna), Barry Galbraith, Grant Green, John Pisano, Phil Upchurch, George Benson, Joe Diorio, Pat Donahue, Guy Van Duser, Laureindo Almeda, Bob Bain (guitarist for the Tonight show), Dennis Budimer, Charlie Byrd, Steve Lukather, Glen Campbell,Wes Montgomery .....all these guys make the "list" look like lightweights. There is another guy who plays a Caravelle guitar and comes from England, Alan ? (avante guard fusion). And there are probably so many more that we don't know about. The guitar has gone through an immense transformation...it defies any top 100. Frank |
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08 Sep 03 - 07:30 PM (#1015053) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Murray MacLeod ........"There is another guy who plays a Caravelle guitar and comes from England, Alan ? (avante guard fusion)......." That would be Alan Holdsworth. |
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09 Sep 03 - 08:19 AM (#1015365) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,BUTTERFLY What, John Fahey only No. 35 (I suppose I should be grateful he was in it at all!). Of course comparisons are invidiuous; however he is one of the few musicians whose tunes you always get more and more out of no matter how many years you listen to them. He also could take a well-known almost twee song (he virtually never sung himself on record) and set it to instrumental guitar, often with a slightly uptempo rhythm, and give it a new lease of life (eg Camptown Races, Bicycle Built for Two, My Grandfather's Clock, etc; he also fid this with hymn and Christmas tunes). Such a pity he died in February 2 or 3 years back. BUTTERFLY 9.9.2003 13.20 FROM AN INTERNET CAFE IN BALLYVAUGHAN, CO. CLARE, REPUBLIC OF IRELAND |
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27 Sep 03 - 11:59 PM (#1025686) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Axis of Axes Partial list of guitar players who outplay Kurt Cobain and Joni Mitchell: Dale Adkins Travis Alltop Jeff Autry Russ Barenberg Richard Bennett Dix Bruce Dix Bruce & Jim Nunally Norman Blake Norman & Nancy Blake Norman Blake & Tony Rice Gary Brewer Luke Bulla Mo Canada Joe Carr John Carlini John Carlini & Tony Rice John Chapman Jamie Clifton Gary Cook Mark Cosgrove Ray Craft Dan Crary Roy Curry Brad Davis Dan DeLancey Dan Edmonds Beppe Gambetta Adam Granger David Grier Jimmy Haley Slavek Hanzlik Bull Harman Jim Hurst Chris Jones Curtis Jones, Jr. Steve Kaufman Robin Kessinger Cody Kilby Steve Kilby Jack Lawrence John Lowell Tim May Mike Maddux John McGann Peter McLaughlin John Moore Jim Nunally Scott Nygaard Mark O'Connor Steve Palazzo Rob Pearcy Steve Pottier Don Reno Tony Rice Wyatt Rice Doug Rorrer Phil Rosenthal Charles Sawtelle Allen Shadd Robert Shafer James Alan Shelton Jon Sholle George Shuffler George Shuffler & James Alan Shelton Kenny Smith Larry Sparks Tim Stafford Orrin Star Richard Starkey Bryan Sutton Eric Thompson John Tindel Chuck Tinsley Dan Tyminski Craig Vance Sean Watkins Doc Watson Clarence White Jeff White Mike Whitehead Various Artists Flatpicking Samplers Dave Hull Massoubre & Seguret |
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28 Sep 03 - 01:01 AM (#1025694) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Benjamin John Jackson deserves to be on that list. Not only was the man a brilliant musician, but he was also the nicest man I met. |
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28 Sep 03 - 09:37 AM (#1025789) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: belfast Bert Weedon? Or, to be slightly more serious, Arty McGlynn? |
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28 Sep 03 - 09:57 AM (#1025796) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: s&r Richard Starkey?....AKA Ringo? |
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28 Sep 03 - 10:07 AM (#1025801) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: s&r Only one mention of Isaac Guillory - shame on you. And surely Eric Roche is familiar to some 'catters? |
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28 Sep 03 - 03:31 PM (#1025892) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: pattyClink I just heard some Lonnie Mack for the first time this week. These maroons need to revise their list, or at least remove 'of all time' from the title. |
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28 Sep 03 - 05:30 PM (#1025961) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,pdq If Peter Green was mentioned, it was not adamantly enough. |
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28 Sep 03 - 06:30 PM (#1025992) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,SeaKing Archie Fisher.. |
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28 Sep 03 - 06:46 PM (#1026000) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Phil Cooper Michael Chapman |
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28 Sep 03 - 07:28 PM (#1026013) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Ely What's your beef, GUEST pdq? She was hardly a three-chord plunker and there are few enough women in the genre as it is. I hate having separate categories ("Top 100 *Women* Guitarists"); if you have a daughter, buy her a guitar for Christmas and help us do better. |
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28 Sep 03 - 08:46 PM (#1026060) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: CraigS Over a hundred posts and I can still mention Arthur Alemann, Steve Tilston, Dave Ellis, Dave Farrar, Fapy Lafertin, Birelli Lagrene, Robert A Johnson, Howard Roberts, John Williams, Philip John Lee, Alvin Lee, Brian May, Sacha Distel, Hans van Theesink, David Qualey, Richard Gilewitz, Johnny Marrs, Big Jim Sullivan ( who has never heard of Bernie Marsden), Geoff Whitehorn, Richie Blackmore, Tony Iommi, Pete Townsend, Snowy White, Stan Webb and Jeff Beck ... I could go on. |
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28 Sep 03 - 09:04 PM (#1026066) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,pdq ELY, what are you talking about. Peter Green??? |
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08 Oct 03 - 12:16 AM (#1031580) Subject: Rolling Stone Top 100 guitar players From: City Crow Any thoughts on the Rolling Stone Magazine top 100 guitar players? I do not know if this was a thread before this or not but is seems to be the list that sparked 1,000 arguements.
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08 Oct 03 - 09:05 AM (#1031716) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Beverley Barton yo ely my daughter has three guitars, a telecaster, a yamaha semi and a rafael morales nylon strung, AND YOU ARE ALL WRONG paco delucia is best guitarist, closely followed by manolo sanlucar and vicente amigo.ps why don't many women play guitar? |
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11 Oct 03 - 07:10 AM (#1033609) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: John Robinson (aka Cittern) Re: Women playing guitar. One of the motivations for my partner's route in music was to be told as young girl - "you play well, for a girl". She has spent a great deal of time since proving that she plays well, full stop! Best regards John Robinson http://www.JulieEllison.co.uk |
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11 Oct 03 - 07:13 PM (#1033878) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,pdq I don't know if any of these women qualify as Top 100, but in the name of diversity: Ely's list: Etta Baker Memphis Minnie Bonnie Raitt Joni Mitchell Joan Jett Rolling Stone list: Joan Jett Joni Mitchell ADD: Libba Cotton Melissa Ethridge Cheryl Crowe Cyndi Cashdollar (OK, "slide") Charo (no joke) |
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11 Oct 03 - 07:22 PM (#1033882) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: early got to say Issac Guillory was one of the finest acoustic guitarists i ever saw live remember travvelling to york from swindon after a days work there - that night he appeared with john renbourn and together they were brill!! |
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12 Oct 03 - 03:24 PM (#1034195) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,pdq Another nod to the women guitar players: Glenda Faye, a flatpicker rooted in the Doc Watson Style. She was a regular in the Grand Ole Opry stage band. Now, it's off to get examples of as many of these people as possible. What a list! |
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12 Oct 03 - 06:23 PM (#1034262) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Ian Thank God the good folks on this board didn't have to come up with there own "Top 100 Guitarists of all Time"...it would have caused more controversy than "Rolling Stones" These things are all subjective, (and as long as Richard Thompsons included on any list, I'm happy!...and thats an objective view!!!!!) Ian |
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13 Oct 03 - 12:25 PM (#1034698) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Andrew Haven't seen a mention of John James. Now I have ! |
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14 Oct 03 - 09:23 AM (#1035322) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Roger the Skiffler Thread creep for fans of Peter Green: he & the Splinter Group are appearing (yes you guessed it!) at JAGZ, Station Hill, Ascot, Berks, UK this Thursday Oct 16th. Band on c9pm. Details 01344 878100. RtS (Guess who has tickets #1 &2?) |
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24 Jan 07 - 01:54 PM (#1946829) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Pluvio this list missed a lot of name in the blues, bluegrass, hawaiian, jazz, fingerpicking, slide&steel, flamenco etc. etc. but there are many great names. thanks to youtube, only 3 years later, we can listen to thousands of undiscovered talents. cheers! pluvio |
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29 Jan 07 - 01:13 PM (#1951398) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST Where is Bruce Cockburn, Martin Simpson, Paco delucia, Ellen MacIllwaine, Yangwe Malmsteen. My Top man would be Lenny Breau. |
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29 Jan 07 - 01:16 PM (#1951402) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST With all due respect, how can any list that puts George Harrison above Mark Knopfler be taken seriously. As for Hendrix as the all time best, I would disagree and put Eric Clapton, Ellen MacIllwaine and Stevie Ray ahead of him. Just my opinion tho. |
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29 Jan 07 - 05:49 PM (#1951679) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Big Al Whittle So we're all agreed .....complete load of crap. some journalist talking bollocks for this weeks paycheck. too much of that stuff going on. |
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30 Jan 07 - 06:50 AM (#1952184) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Nick What about Steve Vai - stunning guitarist (who I think eclipses his teacher Joe Satriani) Or Jan Akkerman... Or Eric Johnson... |
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30 Jan 07 - 06:55 AM (#1952186) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Alec Or Somebody nobody has ever heard of... (Well it could happen) |
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30 Jan 07 - 08:38 AM (#1952287) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST I have always felt that Jimi was highly over rated, a lot of great playing but lacking in any inate subtlety or understatement. He is a great rock player but not a great guitarist. |
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30 Jan 07 - 08:59 AM (#1952314) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Nick >>I have always felt that Jimi was highly over rated, a lot of great playing but lacking in any inate subtlety or understatement. He is a great rock player but not a great guitarist. I don't think he was overrated in his own time but I think listening to a lot of his material now it sounds limited, dated and often too rooted round pentatonic blues scales with some over the top pyrotechnics thrown in. However... and it's a big one Some of his playing is beautifully understated,lyrical, melodic and subtle. Wind Cries Mary - Little Wing - rhythm playing on Angel - 1983 on Electric Ladyland - unaccompanied piece at the end of Woodstock - are a few that immediately come to mind. And as a straight blues player (when he does it) he stands up there with the best. |
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30 Jan 07 - 09:07 AM (#1952324) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: John Hardly stumbled upon this top 100 acoustic players... 1. Michael Hedges 2. Leo Kottke 3. Chet Atkins 4. Phil Keaggy 5. John Fahey 6. Adrian Legg 7. Merle Travis 8. John Renbourn 9. Bert Jansch 10. Tommy Emmanuel 11. Norman Blake 12. Doc Watson 13. Preston Reed 14. Nick Webb 15. Tony Rice 16. Jorma Kaukonen 17. Laurence Juber 18. Martin Carthy 19. William Ackerman 20. Sandy Bull 21. John Martyn 22. Don Ross 23. Billy McLaughlin 24. Doyle Dykes 25. Steve Tibbetts 26. David Bromberg 27. Peter Lang 28. Kelly Joe Phelps 29. Alex deGrassi 30. Davy Graham 31. Martin Simpson 32. Monte Montgomery 33. Muriel Anderson 34. G.E. Stinson 35. Pierre Bensusan 36. Bill Mize 37. Al Petteway 38. Peter Finger 39. Craig Chaquico 40. Greg Carmichael 41. Tim Reynolds 42. Pat Kirtley 43. Peter Huttlinger 44. Benjamin Woolman 45. Stephen Bennett 46. Richard Smith 47. Roy Harper 48. Edward Gerhard 49. Peter Rowan 50. Sam Pacetti 51. Kaki King 52. Stefan Grossman 53. El McMeen 54. Miles Gilderdale 55. Eric Tingstad 56. Sean Harkness 57. Doug Smith 58. Peter Ostroushko 59. Tommy Jones 60. D.R. Auten 61. Dirk Freymuth 62. Dan Schwartz 63. Peter Roller 64. Paul Geremia 65. Douglas Niedt 66. William Coulter 67. Tim Farrell 68. Arlen Roth 69. Joni Mitchell 70. Chris Smither 71. Andrew York 72. Jerry Reed 73. Gayla Drake Paul 74. Artie Traum 75. Richard Johnson 76. Thom Bresch 77. David Wilcox 78. Kenny Sultan 79. Steve Baughman 80. Buster B. Jones 81. Robbie Basho 82. Peppino D'Agostino 83. Pat Donohue 84. Mike Dowling 85. Tony McManus 86. Dave Mallany 87. Tim Sparks 88. David Grier 89. Orville Johnson 90. Brooks Williams 91. George Villiers 92. Rick Ruskin 93. Greg Neaga 94. Dorian Michael 95. Charles David Alexander 96. Tom Long 97. Richard Gilewitz 98. Jim Earp 99. Tracy Moore 100. Michael Dunn and this top 100 pre-war acoustic guitarists... 1. Kokomo Arnold 2. Pink Anderson 3. Ed Andrews 4. Son Becky 5. Ed Bell 6. Black Ace 7. Scrapper Blackwell 8. Kid Bailey 9. Willie Baker 10. Blind Blake 11. Billy Bird 13. Ishman Bracey 14. Big Bill Broonzy 15. William Brown 16. Willie Brown 17. Bo Carter 18. Joe Callicott 19. Rev Edward Clayborn 20. Kid Cole 21. Bob Coleman 22. Walter Coleman 23. Sam Collins 24. Blind Teddy Darby 25. Rev. Gary Davis 26. Little Buddy Doyle 27. Honeyboy Edwards 28. Frank Edwards 29. Sleepy John Estes 30. Blind Boy Fuller 31. Blind Roosevelt Graves 32. Richard "Hacksaw" Harney 33. Blind Willie Harris 34. Willie Harris 35. Buddy Boy Hawkins 36. Johnnie Head 37. Barbecue Bob Hicks 38. King Solomon Hill 39. Lightnin' Hopkins 40. Son House 41. Peg Leg Howell 42. Mississippi John Hurt 43. Bo Weevil Jackson 44. Skip James 45. Blind Lemon Jefferson 46. Blind Willie Johnson 47. Lonnie Johnson 48. Robert Johnson 49. Tommy Johnson 50. Coley Jones 51. Little Hat Jones 52. Charley Jordan 53. Rube Lacy 54. Furry Lewis 55. Mance Lipscomb 56. Robert Jr. Lockwood 57. Carl Martin 58. Tommy McClennan 59. Charlie McCoy 60. Kansas Joe McCoy 61. Mississippi Fred McDowell 62. Blind Willie McTell 63. Memphis Minnie 64. William Moore 65. Buddy Moss 66. Sonny Boy Nelson 67. Isaiah Nettles 68. Hambone Willie Newbern 69. Robert Nighthawk 70. Blind Benny Paris 71. Charley Patton 72. Robert Petway 73. Eugene Powell 74. Willie Reed 75. Blind Joe Reynolds 76. Walter Rhodes 77. Mooch Richardson 78. Sonny Scott 79. Johnny Shines 80. Jaydee Short 81. J.T. "Funny Paper" Smith 82. Frank Stokes 83. Blind Joe Taggert 84. Tampa Red (Hudson Whittaker) 85. Johnnie Temple 86. Elvie Thomas 87. Henry Thomas 88. Ramblin' Thomas 89. Henry Townsend 90. Walter Vincson 91. Otto Virgial 92. Uncle Bud Walker 93. Willie Walker 94. Rev. I. B. Ware 95. Curley Weaver 96. Sylvester Weaver 97. Casey Bill Weldon 98. Peetie Wheatstraw 99. Bukka White 100. Robert Wilkins |
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30 Jan 07 - 09:31 AM (#1952352) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Rusty Dobro Roy Harper - Diz Disley - Ike Isaacs - Blind Blake - Ivor Biggun. |
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30 Jan 07 - 11:38 AM (#1952513) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Paco Rabanne Jeronimo Maya Vicente Amigo Paco de Lucia Sabicas Diego del Gastor Nino Ricardo Paco del Gastor Moraito Tomatito Gerardo Nunez Resistance is futile.... |
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30 Jan 07 - 04:02 PM (#1952817) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Blindlemonsteve How about the late great "Carl Perkins", or even "Brian Setzer", and how on earth could eddie Cochran have been no 84, every Electric guitar in England had a wound "G" string until he showed us the way, he was a god, and possibly one of the greatest losses in the world of music in the last 50 years. |
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30 Jan 07 - 04:17 PM (#1952842) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: M.Ted Easier, by far, to make a list of a hundred "top" guitarists than to lay out the criteria for what constitutes a "top" guitarist. |
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30 Jan 07 - 04:19 PM (#1952845) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Scoville That's what I was thinking, M.Ted. Sort of an exercise in futility, really. |
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30 Jan 07 - 05:00 PM (#1952879) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Tunesmith Brent Mason is the most fabulous guitarist in the world. He is Hendrix,Django,Benson and Albert Lee rolled into one. |
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30 Jan 07 - 05:21 PM (#1952899) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Zany Mouse Mick Pearce does it for me (and he is getting better all the time!) Rhiannon |
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31 Jan 07 - 12:41 AM (#1953156) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: DriveForever Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter (Steely Dan) definitely deserves to be in the top 5. Eric Johnson also, one of the best fusion guitarists ever. It was good that Ms. Mitchell was not overlooked; though not a 'lead' guitarist in the traditional sense, she contributed greatly with her system of open tunings. XJapan's Hide ! |
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31 Jan 07 - 01:39 AM (#1953168) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Tim theTwangler Buffy Saint Marie,Bonny Raitt,Dick Appleton. |
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31 Jan 07 - 03:51 AM (#1953224) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Brakn Top 100 Guitarists of All Time - LOL |
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05 Feb 07 - 07:43 PM (#1958476) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,mrguitar Angus Young rocks! he's the greatest! |
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05 Feb 07 - 07:50 PM (#1958486) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,mick metalhead i agree! Angus Young is the alltime greatest! No question!his solo in "Razor's Edge" is freakin sweet. He's the only one i know of who can roll around on stage and not mess u. 4 those of you who don't agree, DEAL WITH IT!!! |
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05 Feb 07 - 08:02 PM (#1958494) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Chip If Hendrix is #1 I am the Duke of Earl. For the a list to be meaningful it would have to be divided by genre, you can't compare a flat picker to a rocker. |
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05 Feb 07 - 08:21 PM (#1958500) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,r.i.p dimebag Darrell why isn't dime bag darrell?I think he should be #30 |
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05 Feb 07 - 08:43 PM (#1958513) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: fumblefingers I don't like any guitar picker who: 1. destroys his instrument on stage. 2. Relies on a wave stick, fuzz box, wah-wah, etc. 3. Sets fires on stage. 4. Can't keep his dope dosage straight. |
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05 Feb 07 - 09:05 PM (#1958526) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Greg B Don't forget that Leo Kottke credits Pete Seeger playing 'Living in the Country' for inspiring him to take up the 12-string. |
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05 Feb 07 - 09:30 PM (#1958544) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: LukeKellylives (Chris) I, personally, think Paul Brady, my brother's friend from The Tony Danza Tap Dance Extravaganza (wish I knew his name; amazing player), and Adam from Murder by Death (folk rock/strange as hell band). |
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05 Feb 07 - 09:52 PM (#1958557) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: frogprince I've been fortunate enough to hear Carlos Montoya, Doc Watson, and Pat Donahue live. My only regret was that Doc wasn't playing solo, so I couldn't pick out just how much of the gorgeous stuff was him personally. I would put Pat Donahue way, way up the list of those in the business today; absolutely stunning in a small concert setting. But I've heard so many lesser-known people with beautiful individual styles, god only knows who the best thousand guitar players are! |
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06 Feb 07 - 07:46 AM (#1958844) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Billy Nord The WORST list I ever saw........ Where are : Allan Holdsworth Al Di Meola Steve Vai Yngwie Malmsteen Paul Gilbert Frank Gambale Pat Metheny John Petrucci Are people getting payed to make the list ??? Earn your money next time !!! Geee....... |
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06 Feb 07 - 08:46 AM (#1958913) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: dj bass Have a look at Andy Mckee http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddn4MGaS3N4 The guitar has moved on a lot. dj |
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06 Feb 07 - 09:30 AM (#1958960) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,mike I was just about to post the last comment. Moving on indeed! |
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06 Feb 07 - 09:28 PM (#1959827) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,282RA I can't see Kurt Cobain on any such list over guys like Cliff Gallup (Gene Vincent's axe man) or John Goodsall of Brand X. And a few others have wondered why there's no mention of Django or Carlos Montoya. Indeed. |
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06 Feb 07 - 10:06 PM (#1959848) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Don Firth Andy McKee (link just above) does some pretty interesting stuff on the guitar and he obviously does what he does with a great deal of facility. But when I see something like that, I'm reminded of a classic guitarist who was playing at a restaurant where my wife and I ate a couple of years ago. He played pretty well, but I noticed that I had never heard any of the pieces he was playing before. And after he played four or five pieces, they all started sounding the same. When he took a break, I got to talking with him. He'd taken about six months worth of lessons from a teacher in town that I knew (good teacher) and from that point on, he was self-taught. Everything he played, he'd written himself, he said with a touch of pride. I pressed the questions a bit. Could he play, say, "Recuerdos de la Alhambra," Tarrega's "Tremolo Study?" No. Could he play "Romance de Amor," a lovely, but fairly simple piece by Anonymous, that almost everyone, classic guitarist or not, takes a shot at? No. Could he play, say, Tarrega's "Lagrima" (a piece my teacher had me playing about two months after I started)? No. How about a Fernando Sor study or two? Uh. . . . No. In fact, all he could play were pieces he had worked out himself. They consisted primarily of moving the three bar chords he knew reasonably well up and down the neck while he played arpeggio patterns with his right hand. Not, I would say, on anyone's very long list of "top guitarists." So when I see someone playing stuff he fairly obviously worked out himself, I tend to wonder if he can play anything written by someone else. Don Firth |
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19 Feb 07 - 11:15 AM (#1972538) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Jon What about dave mustaine from megadeth he is way better than kirk from metallica i dont see him on the list and randy rhoads 85 tony iommi 86 eddie van hallen 70 there behind all these no names and chuck berry wasnt even that good same with kurt kurban jimmy page should be first or 2nd |
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20 Feb 07 - 01:12 PM (#1973862) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: jojofolkagogo Oh, No dont tell me there are at LEAST one hundred of them !!! Jo-Jo |
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25 Feb 07 - 07:32 PM (#1979358) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Alex Unrein horrible list, cobain at 12 and eddie van halen at 70, all cobain did was play chords and slow acoustic, eddie put together maybe the best solo of alltime-ERUPTION, if you told cobain to play eruption it would take months maybe for him to even come close to it, now if you told eddie to play any nirvana song he would just listen to it and have it down |
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25 Feb 07 - 07:47 PM (#1979372) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Lord Soken No-one ever saw this bloke as a popular performer - including me - but his books encouraged many a spotty teenager to pickup a guitar and go on to great things. Let's give Bert Weeden a bit of credit. |
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25 Feb 07 - 07:55 PM (#1979377) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Dartford Warbler Good to see Tommy Emmanuel there, but where the hell is Richard Thompson this time? |
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25 Feb 07 - 08:00 PM (#1979383) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Lucius Considering that most of the ÒguitaristsÓ that Rolling Stone included are of the genre that requires amplifiers endowed with large wattage, they should at least be intellectually honest. Either lose Bert Jansch and Joni Mitchell and add Martin Barre, or some other rocker like Ian Hunter, or as someone else said, explain the criteria. Personally, IÕm waiting for next monthÕs feature ÒWhat is the most popular stripe on the american flag?Ó. |
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06 Mar 07 - 04:44 AM (#1987867) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,in the flesh my fucking god, fuck you, you poser geek, your list affends me, where is david gilmour, why is there no talk on him, fuck all these randoms, 1. hendrix/page 2.clapton 3.gilmour 4.tommy emanuel |
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06 Mar 07 - 02:49 PM (#1988486) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,in the mind This forum is intended for the use of articulate people able to construct proper sentences, expressing valid points of view. It's not for irrational adolescent outbursts. You need three things 1. counselling 2.dictionary 3.spellcheck. |
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12 Mar 07 - 04:22 PM (#1994658) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,preben vey good list, but i think Kirk Hammet of Metallica shoul be number 2! you got to hear him over and over again and studdie him a bit more. |
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12 Mar 07 - 04:49 PM (#1994688) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Wayne 1. Stephen Stills 2. Gary Richrath 3. Davy Graham 4. Julie Ellison 5. Dan Fogelberg That's my fave five, for what it's worth. What they have in common is the ability to play convincingly in a number of styles. Richie Blackmore would have been in there if he hadn't influenced all those fret-wank shredders. |
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12 Mar 07 - 05:12 PM (#1994705) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Dartford Warbler
That is my current top 6. But RT will always be there in first place! |
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13 Mar 07 - 05:29 AM (#1995124) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: MikkinNotts There are some good player in the Top 100 Acoustic List BUT….. Richard Tompson of course has to be very near the top of this list as well. And the exclusion of these mighty fine players is a travesty of justice. The late great Issaac Guillory The sadly missed Eric Roche Roy's there but Nick knocks socks off his Dad Little known but world class player and luthier Steve Hicks I suppose that is the very nature of compiling lists. Somebody is always going to be excluded. Mikk |
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13 Mar 07 - 07:03 AM (#1995172) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Tunesmith I not sure Richard Thompson should be near the top of the acoustic list. I've always been disappointed with his tone. It's probably because he plays electric guitar so much. To be a really great acoustic player, a guitarist would really need to totally devote themselves to being "un-pluged"! |
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13 Mar 07 - 09:47 AM (#1995318) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Eric BEN HARPER .....is the man on top |
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13 Mar 07 - 10:26 AM (#1995363) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Dartford Warbler Dear GUEST,Tunesmith (13 Mar 07 - 07:03 AM) If this isn't acoustic, then I'm the Hokey Pokey man! : Beeswing |
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13 Mar 07 - 10:34 AM (#1995375) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Dartford Warbler Or this! 1952 Vincent Black Lightning |
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13 Mar 07 - 11:15 AM (#1995415) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Stringsinger Burl Ives...he could do more with less. Frank Hamilton |
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13 Mar 07 - 11:26 AM (#1995430) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: MikkinNotts Tunesmith "I not sure Richard Thompson should be near the top of the acoustic list." I most certainly am !! " I've always been disappointed with his tone." Wot!! Have you seen him play live!! " It's probably because he plays electric guitar so much. To be a really great acoustic player, a guitarist would really need to totally devote themselves to being "un-pluged"! " Now your just being silly !! Thanks "Dartford" for pointing the uninitiated in the right direction Mikk (Beating a very hasty Retreat!!) |
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13 Mar 07 - 03:26 PM (#1995673) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: cptsnapper What about John James? |
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14 Mar 07 - 04:51 PM (#1996834) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,ash_mchash haha i only agree with 1 on this list, nobody can deny the absolute genius of the reat Jimi Hendrix, anyone who challenges that is a fool. but... where's Django Reinhardt? John Squire? Johnny Marr? Pat Methany? Rory Gallagher? Syd Barrett? David Gilmour? Valiant effort but too many holes mate sorry. |
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14 Mar 07 - 06:49 PM (#1996947) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Bob Ryszkiewicz YIKES! bob |
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14 Mar 07 - 07:06 PM (#1996967) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,ib48 check out isaac guillory,he is incredible |
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16 Mar 07 - 04:15 AM (#1998238) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: MikkinNotts Sadley "GUEST,ib48" your post should be in the past tense "check out isaac guillory,he was incredible" As very sadly Isaac died on the last day of 2000. I had the great pleasure of seeing him play not to long before he passed away. I went to see John Renbourn & Isaac played solo and with John too. I had not heard of him before and I remember being absolutely amazed by his fantastic playing (he had a great voice too) I have found this on "Wikipedia" "Isaac Guillory passed away in 2000. His legacy is immeasurable; the music that he could cause to come forth from a guitar with such apparent grace, pleasure and ease - The man who could visualise an unlimited warmth and love for life and take us to that very special place..." I read about Isaac's sad death in the pages of "Guitar Techniques". In an article written by Eric Roche's, when he used to write an acoustic column for the magazine. Eric & I exchanged emails at the time writing about our sadness at such a great loss. How ironic was it to be that Eric to is now no longer with us. Two fantastic players who will always be at the top of my list. Mikk |
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18 Mar 07 - 06:55 PM (#2000582) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: gnu This guy was "first" to a lot of homes in NA with his style. He was right on his time back then. |
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19 Mar 07 - 03:11 PM (#2001314) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,harryrages There wil be some of us old enough to recall Bert Weedon - probably had more influence on aspiring guitarists than anybody in his time. How many people sat in their bedroom in the 1950's with a Bert Weedon Teach Youself Guitar. cheese cutter strings and bleeding fingers. |
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20 Mar 07 - 03:39 AM (#2001787) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Tunesmith Bert Weedon's book were/are dreadful, and he wasn't a very interesting player, either! |
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20 Mar 07 - 08:51 AM (#2001977) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,henry Tunesmith, you are right. But Bert was all there was at the time - well, Bert and Lonnie Donegan. Myself and three pals entered a skiffle competition in a local church hall, we were all eleven years old and Bert Weedon was judging. We played I Shall Not Be Moved and Mama don't Allow. We must have been awful but Bert wrote on the bottom of our "report" sheet - "Good effort for such youngsters". Trouble is, I never got any better! |
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20 Mar 07 - 04:33 PM (#2002464) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Tunesmith henry: Inspite of my criticism, I have a "soft spot" for Bert. He used to teach guitar on some pre-Blue Peter childrens' tv show way back when. Also, I saw him live many years ago, and, although I wasn't impressed, the audience loved him. |
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21 Mar 07 - 11:42 AM (#2003158) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GoodNightGracie Joseph Spence |
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21 Mar 07 - 09:36 PM (#2003709) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: oggie If you allow that a dobro is a guitar then Jerry Douglas must surely be in there somewhere? All the best Steve Ogden |
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22 Mar 07 - 09:31 AM (#2003995) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Sea Dew DECLAN SINNOTT by all means ! |
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22 Mar 07 - 06:09 PM (#2004439) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Tunesmith A lot of posters here are listing their favourite guitarists rather than the best! For example, I have a soft spot for the painter Lowry, but I know he is certainly not one of the best artists of all time. |
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23 Mar 07 - 04:28 PM (#2005274) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,henry Yes, but did he play guitar? |
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23 Mar 07 - 05:02 PM (#2005299) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Tunesmith Lowry played fanastic guitar on his big hit "Matchstick Dogs and Cats"! |
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23 Mar 07 - 09:35 PM (#2005520) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST ANDREW HARDIN |
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19 Apr 07 - 03:46 AM (#2029728) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,fat-t John Mayer should definetly be here. Even though most of the songs he writes are quite tame compared to some. He can still rip off a Hendrix or Vaughn cover, I think better than the originals. Keep setting the fret board on fire man. |
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19 Apr 07 - 09:28 AM (#2029893) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST J.P. Cormier, Dave MacIsaac, Joni Mitchell,Adrian Legg are some of my faves. |
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26 Apr 07 - 07:49 PM (#2036698) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Chris G I totally agree with the comment a few up. John Mayer should definitly be up there somewhere. He shreds it up right alongside of Hendrix, Guy, and Stevie Ray. But at the same time he can slow it down to a nice mellow acoustic jam. I mean hes all over the place. And the blues stuff on TRY! along with the colaborations with King and Guy, like damn man. Then he goes right back to his mellow stuff. I'm not saying number one or anything but he definitly needs to be up there. Also, Kurt Cobain and Jack White need to be knocked down a few and James Taylor, and Jim Croce should at least be on there. And Robert Johnson, i get it hes good, king of the blues, sold his soul to the devil and all, that has to get him somewhere. But randonly put on a few of his songs and try to tell them apart without the words, there might be some confusion. You have to admit a lot of his stuff sounds the same, its good, but all the sam. And the guy that said Tommy Emmanuel, dude I agree, hes no john Mayer though. |
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01 May 07 - 08:11 PM (#2040781) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,theProfet Wgat about Buckethead? |
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02 May 07 - 07:34 PM (#2041793) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,DBVOICE Look, even if this is a list of the "greatest rock and roll guitarists" how in the h-e double toothpicks did Ike Turner get on it? He was okay, but top 100? In the Rock genre here should be the top 5: Steve Howe (Yes) Alex Lifeson (Rush) Where is he on the list? Steve Hackett (Genesis, early days) Jimi Hendrix ( this is what burning a guitar on stage gets you, top 5 recognition for all eternity, and usually number one although not deserving) Eddie Van Halen (for technical innovation) Rolling Stone's list is obviously popularity based and should be ignored. I agree with all of those who said that the list should include a larger, more diverse range of guitar players from all genres. Andre Segovia, Les Paul, Chet Atkins, Roy Clark to name a few who would make such a list. D |
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03 May 07 - 02:06 PM (#2042489) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Captain Colin The Gledill Brothers. Here's two of them, so one place each. |
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03 May 07 - 06:46 PM (#2042720) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Captain Colin. Sorry, typo. I meant THERE'S two of them of course. |
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04 May 07 - 12:08 AM (#2042898) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,person x Are you a complete idiot or just half a one? Do you have any idea what a guitarist is let alone the greatest of all time. First of all you have complete retards that just play basic chords in your top five. Were you high when you made this list or are you just fucked in the head? Where is Eddie Van Halen, the boys from Iron Maiden and lynyrd Skynard, what about ted nuggent or micheal schneker? Your are a dickhead who knows nothings? And even bigger one for not changing the list even though you know it's fucked. Thank You for wasting my time in looking at list, and also thanks for the laugh. |
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04 May 07 - 10:08 AM (#2043171) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Tunesmith person x: One could call you an idiot for not mentioning Alan Holdsworth. A guitarist that Eddie Van Halen - and a lot of critics - say is the greatest player ever to pick up an electric guitar. |
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22 Jul 07 - 08:43 PM (#2108882) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST Where the hell is David Gilmore from Pink Floyd. One of the most soulfull players of all time. And the creativity, well it speaks for itself. And I'm wondering how Robbie Robertson didn't make the top 20 at least. I would put him in the top ten to be honest. |
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22 Jul 07 - 10:01 PM (#2108926) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: firemonkey Billy Zoom |
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23 Jul 07 - 02:09 PM (#2109418) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Big Al Whittle What of the immortal Donkey Dick and the Bulging Y-Fronts, and the incandescent Salvador Diddley and his Surrealist Bent Timepieces? Will we see their likes again? |
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24 Jul 07 - 10:22 AM (#2110046) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Jim Barney Kessel |
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29 Jul 07 - 04:27 PM (#2114181) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Dennis in Quebec, Canada I would bet if you put the front page of each issue of Rolling Stone Magazine side by side and made a list of every guitarist either in a front page picture or mentioned on the front page, you would eventulally get to realize that there is a top 100 most mentioned, or mentioned as an influence. |
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29 Jul 07 - 05:08 PM (#2114206) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Little Hawk The easiest way to assess "person x"'s stature as an idiot is simply to look at his post, his use of the English language therein, and his general attitude toward others. Self-explanatory. He's definitely, undeniably an idiot. I love the rhetorical questions... "Are you a complete idiot or just half a one?" Is that a trick question? Wait. Let me get a protractor, and I'll check. Be right back. "Do you have any idea what a guitarist is let alone the greatest of all time?" Uhh...yeah. A guitarist is someone who plays the guitar. The greatest of all time, well..."all time" isn't over yet, is it, so I think we'll have to wait on that, won't we? "Were you high when you made this list or are you just fucked in the head?" LOL! I love that one. It's your best rhetorical question yet. Let me answer it with another one of my own: "Were you brought up in a cave by inbred neanderthals with 6 toes on each foot or did you learn to relate to people that way later, when you went to Yale?" "Where is Eddie Van Halen, the boys from Iron Maiden and lynyrd Skynard, what about ted nuggent or micheal schneker?" I think they're probably on tour, except for Lynyrd Skynard. Ted Nugent might be hunting, though. You never can tell. "Your are a dickhead who knows nothings?" That's not even a question. It's an assertion. Nevertheless, you ended it with a question mark. Perhaps it is just a very badly worded question. The word "nothing" does not need an "s" on the end of it, and makes no sense when you put an "s" on the end of it. I also had to add a question mark to one of your above questions, which you had ended with a period. Is something seriously wrong with you? Have you considered consulting a doctor regarding your frequent episodes of incoherence? Or are you still learning English as a second language? "And even bigger one for not changing the list even though you know it's fucked." You see? You did it again. You left the article "an" out of your sentence. It should have read: "And an even bigger one for not changing the list even though you know it's fucked." Get help, man. There is still time to reach a 4rth grade level of English writing proficiency before you die. "Thank You for wasting my time in looking at list, and also thanks for the laugh." Likewise. Thanks a bunch to you too, Roscoe! It's been very amusing. ;-D By the way, you left the word "the" out of that last sentence. It should go right in front of the word "list". |
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30 Jul 07 - 01:10 PM (#2114869) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego Since the list was, apparently, not "qualified" as pop-rock or any particular genre, I imagine Andres Segovia, The Romeros, Chet Atkins, Joe Maphis, Charlie Byrd, Django Reinhardt and any number of other late artists (nearly any of whom could roundly outplay most folks on the list) are rolling over in their rosewood coffins - if they are not snickering, that is... |
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01 Aug 07 - 02:25 PM (#2116683) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,rone all you guys out their listen to one of the all time greats guitarist little jimmy dempsey then you know that is guitar playing buy a cd titled the legendary guitar of little jimmy dempsey you can get it at www.littlejimmydempsey.com you will enjoy it. Ron. |
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02 Aug 07 - 11:48 PM (#2117961) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Guest, Nick WHAT ABOUT 2 PEOPLE!? 1.Buckethead-amazing. Anyone ever heard Nottingham lace? how about too many humans? evan jordan is amazing, you try playing while tapping a killswitch the whole time. and another... 2.Herman Li (DragonForce)- COME ONE!! voted fastest guitarist ever! hes awesome, just listen to fury of the storm and through the fire and the flames. These need to be top ten both, theyr amazing |
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03 Aug 07 - 04:17 AM (#2118078) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Genie I agree it's kind of silly to "rank" a classical guitarist, a jazz guitarist, a folk/bluegrass picker, and a rock guitarist on the same list. It's like comparing Nureyev with Gregory Hines with Fred Astaire. There are very few guitarists that I've heard play in a variety of genres, so I wouldn't be so bold as to rank most of them, but I do think some of these folks probably deserve as much recognition as some on that list, if not more: Chet Atkins, Django Rheinhardt, Andres Segovia, John Williams, Doc Watson - Duh! I can't believe they were left off the list in favor of Joni Mitchell, Eddie Cochran, and Kurt Cobain. Others I'd nominate for inclusion: Pat Donohue - definitely - extremely versatile too Charo - she's excellent Paul Simon - very versatile Paul Stookey - one of the best folk pickers I've ever heard Roy Clark - pretty impressive pickin' there too Christopher Parkening - another longhair, so I guess that doesn't count And two women I'd nominate: Nina Berger -- I wonder if the Rolling Stone folks even have a clue about Nina Chrissy Hynde - Isn't she at least as good as some of those rock guys on the list? Anyway, I'd rank her at least as high as Joni M I've also been quite impressed with: Jason Mraz John Mayer Brian Setzer Roy Clark Dan Fogelberg not to mention quite a few studio musicians and jam buddies I've known, whose names are unknown to most of the general public. The "best" and the "best known" are not the same thing. |
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03 Aug 07 - 11:45 AM (#2118335) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Rusty Dobro Apologies if he's already credited above, but in the space of one late-night TV programme, Dave Rawlings, on and off-stage partner of Gillian Welch, went from 'never heard of him' status to my all-time top five list. Amazing accompanist and soloist, on a 1935 Epiphone Emperor. Also, have a listen to the astounding Steve Hicks via the samples on the K.Yairi guitars European website. |
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04 Aug 07 - 08:26 AM (#2118944) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: van lingle Scotty Anderson has a number of clips on Youtube and he is beyond belief technically but really swings as well. Check out his "Sweet Georgia Brown" and "A Taste of Honey" with another great player, Bob Saxton. Ditto on David Rawlings, Rusty. One of my favorite flatpickers. |
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26 Feb 08 - 09:29 PM (#2273248) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST Where is Saul "Slash" Hudson in this top 100 list....what a joke |
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26 Feb 08 - 09:31 PM (#2273251) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Bill D do we take it that is a nomination? Or just a complaint? |
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26 Feb 08 - 11:55 PM (#2273346) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Lonesome EJ Assuming this is a rock/pop/country list only... Jeff Baxter of Steely Dan ought to be on the list somewhere, if the break from My Old School was the only thing he ever did. Agree about Randy California. John Fogerty ranked above Clarence White? Nice to see Cipollina in the top 35. I disagree with the disparaging Neil Young comments. He's been a hugely influential guitarist. Freddie King nowhere to be found, nor Son House. |
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27 Feb 08 - 08:26 AM (#2273585) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Tunesmith Certain guitarists have big reputations amongst general fans but are not highly regarded amongst people really deep in to a particular genre. For example, general guitar fans seem to love Manitas De Plata amd Carlos Montoya, but within the flamenco community they are not rated very highly. |
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27 Feb 08 - 08:31 AM (#2273588) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Mr Happy '........of All Time?' How can anyone possibly know this? |
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27 Feb 08 - 10:54 AM (#2273716) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: bankley that's cuz Manitas is the bad boy of Flamenco... a bit rough and very improvisational... but he did more to bring this music to the world than a boatload of purists... a true Rom Baro.. and very much alive in his mid-eighties... gadji si dilo...... |
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27 Feb 08 - 01:45 PM (#2273921) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,The Mole Catcher's unplugged Apprentice in no particular order: 1. Charley Patton 2. Alan Holdsworth 3. John Williams (guitarist) 4. Martin Carthy 5. Nic Jones 6. Justin Hayward (he's a guitar techie as well) 7. John Fahey 8. Brian May 9. Jerry Donahue 10. John Jorgenson Charlotte (guitarists seen from Ma and Pa's piano stool) |
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27 Feb 08 - 04:05 PM (#2274026) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,OLD -TIMER Opinions are only opinions and do not even bring a licence to entitlement unless they are informed , balanced and impartial. Subjectivity yawns me to death !!! |
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27 Feb 08 - 04:21 PM (#2274038) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,The Mole Catcher's unplugged Apprentice "Opinions are only opinions and do not even bring a licence to entitlement unless they are informed , balanced and impartial. Subjectivity yawns me to death !!!" and that's YOUR informed opinion? *LOL* Charlotte (laughing at you, not with you) |
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27 Feb 08 - 04:39 PM (#2274053) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,OLD -TIMER Its not my opinion ---its an unalterable universally accepted FACT without subjective or objective bias.Whats the *LOL* about ? |
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27 Feb 08 - 05:01 PM (#2274085) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,The Mole Catcher's unplugged Apprentice well, sunshine, some people like to have a bit of fun, this thread is that bit of fun....now, the question you need to ask yourself is this Do myself and the rest of the posters look bovvered? and..... "Subjectivity yawns me to death !!!" right and you post here...or are you, as I suspect, just a wind up merchant? Charlotte (the fun from Ma and Pa's piano stool) |
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28 Feb 08 - 04:08 PM (#2275094) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego I'll only mention a few that have influenced me personally and whose work has passed the test of time. So, I'm eclectic... Josh White Chet Atkins Merle Travis Jerry Reed Django Reinhardt Charlie Byrd Andres Segovia Red Shea Gordon Lightfoot Laurindo Almeida Sabicas Carlos Mentoya Bud Dashiell Travis Edmonson Paul Prestopino Wes Montgomery Leadbelly |
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28 Feb 08 - 04:45 PM (#2275140) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,OLD -TIMER So sorry to impinge on your fragile pomposity Lotty.Does that piano stool do a 360 turnaround ?If it does and if you keep rotating in a clockwise direction it can actually elevate a flagging sense of humour,that is, if you dont get too self-esteemed and fall into the morasses of opinionated drivil . |
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28 Feb 08 - 04:53 PM (#2275152) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Little Hawk Look, everybody knows that Nigel Tufnel is the greatest guitar hero of all time. End of story. Don't make me say it again. |
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28 Feb 08 - 05:11 PM (#2275170) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,The Mole Catcher's unplugged Apprentice a revolving piano stool...now there's a stereo-type...those went out with the old music hall jokes...which you as an old timer must surely have witnessed, and which, it appears, you are attempting to emulate, albeit very unsuccessfully.. Charlotte (Goodbye Dolly Grey) |
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28 Feb 08 - 05:16 PM (#2275176) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: The Mole Catcher's Apprentice (inactive) Oh...while I'm about it...on topic...after the interuption from the nusery school crowd Alun Davies the guitar player for Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam) Charlotte (the view from Ma and Pa's piano stool) |
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28 Feb 08 - 05:58 PM (#2275211) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: number 6 Looks like everyone I can think of has been mentioned here with the exception of Randy Bachman. biLL |
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28 Feb 08 - 06:29 PM (#2275243) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Little Hawk Here's Nigel, showing off his guitars and other equipment. The man is simply the ultimate axeman of all time, and this clip makes that crystal clear. "You can't touch this one..." |
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28 Feb 08 - 06:38 PM (#2275252) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: number 6 taht's Kewl L.H. Geeeesh. Actually this is one of my favourite scenes from the movie ... he has Jeff Beck down to the 'T'. biLL |
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28 Feb 08 - 06:39 PM (#2275253) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Little Hawk Yeah. (grin) Isn't his haircut just perfect? Not to mention the way he talks? |
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28 Feb 08 - 06:52 PM (#2275257) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: number 6 Or that tank top ... LOL yup ... he certainly is one hell of an axeman. biLL |
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06 Mar 08 - 05:47 PM (#2281597) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: gnu Randy Bachman... ya know. Not only is he amazing on guitar, look at the history, the collaborations, the tunes.... SO many tunes... it's like he wakes up spitting them out. |
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06 Mar 08 - 05:59 PM (#2281611) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: gnu Perhaps, as Spaw so eloquently alluded to or maybe not, we could simply impart some of the guitar work we consider masterful? This guy is one of my favs. But, all time fun masterful guitar for me, are these guys. Hey, it ain't folk, but... or is it? Hehehehehe. |
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26 May 08 - 08:47 PM (#2349714) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,stevie baby Rik Emmett, Triumph 'nuf said. |
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27 May 08 - 07:50 PM (#2350579) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Dave MacKenzie I started redaing this with a long list of omissions, but as far as I can see the only one no one's mentioned is Leon McAuliffe of Bob Wills' Texas Playboys. (Someone even mentioned Kazuhito Yamashita) |
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28 May 08 - 04:52 PM (#2351354) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Stringsinger All folk and rock makes Jack a dull boy. Jazz guitarists: Joe Pass, Tal Farlow, Barney Kessel, Ted Greene, Martin Taylor, Tommy Emmanuel, Jimmy Bruno, Herb Ellis, Bola Sete, Lenny Breau, Chet Atkins, Alan Holdsworth, Jimmy Raney, Phil Upchurch, George Benson, Tuck Anders ......oh man! This list goes on forever. I just scratched the surface. You want more...visit You Tube. Then there's the classical guitarists and lutenists. Rolling Stone doesn't know s-----t! |
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29 May 08 - 04:36 PM (#2352379) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST Joao Gilberto anyone? |
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29 May 08 - 05:08 PM (#2352401) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: irishenglish Alan Prosser, Malcolm Jones, Dan Ar Braz-three worth mentioning if they haven't already been! Although Nigel Tufnel is pretty good too I hear.... |
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10 Jan 10 - 07:38 PM (#2808672) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,bob Shawn Lane?? Monte Montgomery? Kottke???? Wes Montgomery?? John Williams???????? |
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11 Jan 10 - 09:24 AM (#2809011) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: mattkeen Agree that these sort of lists are a wate of time, but it did get me thinking about my favourites Martin Carthy Bert Jansch Steve Cropper Lowell George Ry Cooder Davey Graham Jimmi Vaughan Neil Young |
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05 Sep 11 - 10:17 PM (#3218808) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST Jose Feliciano? |
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06 Sep 11 - 01:38 AM (#3218841) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Azoic Ralph Towner,Allan Holdsworth,Martin Simpson,Alex Machacek. |
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06 Sep 11 - 04:56 AM (#3218878) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Bluesman T-Bone Walker B.B. King Stevie Ray Vaughan Robert Johnson Albert King Eric Clapton Buddy Guy Mike Bloomfield Peter Green Johnny Winter Otis Rush Muddy Waters Ronnie Earl Hubert Sumlin Duane Allman John Lee Hooker Son House If I only had the choice of one, it would have to be,Blind Lemon Jefferson |
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06 Sep 11 - 05:56 AM (#3218900) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST Gordon Giltrap and young 'un Clive Carroll |
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06 Sep 11 - 08:22 AM (#3218940) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: tonyteach1 For technical ability as guitarists I would put most gypsy flamenco and jazz players ahead of most commercial guitarists The best technical fingerstyle guitarist I have met on a regular basis in the UK is a guy called Steve Homes who is a professional flamenco player |
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06 Sep 11 - 09:10 AM (#3218956) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Woodsie Being able to play flamenco guitar at breakneck speed doen't mean that you are better than anybody, only maybe another flamenco guitarist who can't match the speed! Personally I find it boring after a couple of numbers and would rather listen to the average strummer at my folk club! I'm also not sure what technically better means - the same thing I suppose that a jazz guitarist is technichally better than another jazz guitarist that is not as good at playing the same jazz stuff, but that doesn't mean he is better at playing 3 chord folk stuff does it. I've heard proffesional metal guitarists flounder when trying to strum a folky song. Load of bollox really - I'm the best guitarist inside my own head ... |
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06 Sep 11 - 09:33 AM (#3218963) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker Here's a positive shout for Marc Bolan... Purveyor of perfect pop culture boogie riffs and compelling classic tone. It's interesting to consider how so many technically excellent guitarists are obscure to all beyond an elite coterie of devoted acolytes; yet a barely competent player such as Marc Bolan [who was way too vain and arrogantly unaware of his limited rudimentary soloing abilities] somehow harboured a spark of innate genius that inspired a generation of many thousands of youngsters to learn to play guitar. I definitely rate him high up in my personal "Top 5" list of significant influential guitarists from the 1950's to the 1980's.. Headed in 'No 1' spot by Mick Ronson... |
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06 Sep 11 - 09:57 AM (#3218979) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker .. and for what it's worth, here's the last personal highly changeable & flexible 'Top 10' I compiled some time in the last year or so to help me work out in which direction I was going with my own 'guitar & amp tones'.. This time no 50's Rock 'n ' Roll or Blues icons were included as their influences inform and are encapsulated by the chosen 60's & 70's influences.. So in no particular order.... MICK RONSON MARC BOLAN BRIAN MAY WILKO JOHNSON PETE TOWNSHEND BILL NELSON STEVE HILLAGE JIMMY PAGE ALBERT LEE JERRY DONAHUE TED NUGENT |
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06 Sep 11 - 10:41 AM (#3218992) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Midchuck Here's the iconic picture of two of the very best (by some peoples' reckoning) as one was just hitting his stride and one was some years away from it... Peter |
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06 Sep 11 - 12:13 PM (#3219028) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: tonyteach1 Most flamenco players play at various tempos depending on the number the the dancer or singer Also most create their own melodic ideas so not just technicians The best technical electric player I have seen is Scotty Anderson who leaves everyone standing as a fingerstyle electric player on a Tele |
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06 Sep 11 - 01:46 PM (#3219070) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Stringsinger musicmic, I grew up on Burl Ives before Millard Lampell, John Stauber and all the other guitarists you mention came on the scene. Burl did his own guitar playing in concert and on early recordings and in my opinion, some of his best work. Simple um-plunk that fit his voice like a glove, never getting in the way of the lyrics, unlike some of the guitar players today whose message is "to hell with vocalist, look at me". Nobody, so far, has mentioned the father of the electric guitar, Charlie Christian. He was the first to bring it to the forefront of jazz and dance music via Goodman. You have to separate the guitar skills (chops) from the musicianship, bringing into the equation Joni Mitchell, David Crosby, Fred Hellerman, Sam Jones (with Miriam MacKeba) and others whose guitar accompaniments supported the song. The Rolling Stone article should have said "Top 100 Rock Guitarists of All Time" and then it would have had more credibility. Guitar playing must combine technique with musicianship (which can be a very subjective opinionated subject) but nonetheless, there are those guitarists who have the potential of moving an audience in one way or another, and they don't all have "chops". Early folk music performers such as Blind Lemon Jefferson, Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie (before he succumbed to Huntington's), Sarah and Maybelle Carter, obscure blues artists such as Laughing Charley, Son House, all these and more who made up the powerful music we call American folk (I left out Sam Hinton, shouldn't have or Pete Seeger for that matter) may not have dazzled audiences with gymnastic finger action but gave the guitar a meaning in the music we now enjoy, including Burl's "um plunk". The guitar can't be separated from musical values on its own and to claim a monopoly on being the "best" is unsupportable, subject to opinion, and to ignore some musical aspects in favor of others. I would say that the guitar is one of the greatest musical instruments of all time, its flexibility, versatility, emotionally moving expression and worldwide acceptance being "greater" than any one person who plays it. |
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06 Sep 11 - 02:01 PM (#3219080) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,josepp No mention of Joao Gilberto?? What kind of stupid list is that? Kurt Cobain? Come on, the guy was a non-guitarist if anything. Jimi Hendrix the greatest of all time? Well, I love Jimi and there's no doubt he was extremely influential but he was doing what Buddy Guy was doing a decade before and Jimi even admitted it and played onstage with Buddy because he wanted people to know how important Buddy is. And you can't excuse the omission of Django for any reason whatsoever and certainly not so you can include guys from Moby Grape, Soundgarden and Radiohead who are not exactly setting the guitar world on fire. Joan Jett?? Come off it. I mean, where's Johnny Guitar Watson? Where's Jimmy Reed or, for that matter, Jerry Reed? Both were certainly better guitarists than Lou Reed. |
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06 Sep 11 - 02:47 PM (#3219113) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Don Firth When I first started out learning folk songs and how to accompany them on the guitar (1952 or so), I took a few months' lessons from Walt Robertson, whose folk song accompaniments were fairly "eclectic." But whole basis of folk song accompaniment, he said, was what he called "Burl Ives Basic." "Um-plunk," as Strings puts it. Or, of course "um-plunk-plunk." That's all you really need and you're in business. Walt taught me a whole bunch of other stuff, and when I wanted more, he'd sort of run out of things to teach me, so he recommended that I take some classic guitar lessons, which I did. But with Walt's warning: "Remember the acronym KISS. 'Keep It Simple, Stupid!'" With a classic guitar teacher with the oddly rural sounding name, Joe Farmer, I really learned how to use my fingers. He had me working on technical exercises, and very quickly into simple pieces, including the graded studies by Fernando Sor. While I was doing all this, I got a summer job working for a picture framer. All the local big name artists came to this guy because his frames were always just right for whatever painting they contained. I learned probably the most valuable lesson I ever learned about song accompaniment from him. "When you're deciding how to frame a painting, don't just slap it into any frame. Study the painting. Look at the colors, look at the shapes within the painting. Chose a molding that reflects a shape in the painting. Then examine the colors and paint the frame a neutral blend of those colors. But—NEVER distract from the painting itself. If people look at a painting and say, 'Isn't that a beautiful frame?' then the frame is a failure. The frame should set the painting off in space, but must never distract from the painting or draw attention to itself." Same with song accompaniment. It's not the main thing. It is supposed to accompany the song. If it becomes the main thing, then you blew it! You can do all kinds of stuff such as working countermelodies into an accompaniment, restatements of or variations on the melody line between verses, fancy arpeggio patterns, all kinds of virtuoso stuff. BUT—if people notice the accompaniment more than the song, it's a flop! Lots of folk singers don't get that. I sometimes slip a classic or flamenco solo into a set. It's kinda ego gratifying to hear someone mutter, "Hey, he can really play that thing!" But my main focus is on the songs and the stories they tell. With "Burl Ives Basic," you can't go wrong. Don Firth |
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06 Sep 11 - 03:25 PM (#3219143) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Smokey. Them's wise words, Don. Accompaniment is an art in itself. I've never sung, so I had to learn it as a separate thing, which may have made the distinction clearer. I've always seen it as providing the right setting for a precious stone, but I like the picture frame better, I think. |
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06 Sep 11 - 04:13 PM (#3219160) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,josepp Another guitarist that's never talked about is Philip Catherine. |
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06 Sep 11 - 04:15 PM (#3219162) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: olddude Someone may have already said Chet Akins ... but I like that guy from the 80's stray cats .. Brian Selzer or something like that ... he can rockabilly for sure ... |
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06 Sep 11 - 05:17 PM (#3219186) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Don Firth Yep. Upthread, Chet Atkins is mentioned a couple dozen times. Don Firth |
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06 Sep 11 - 05:29 PM (#3219191) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Smokey. Reverend Gary Davis deserves a mention. |
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06 Sep 11 - 05:34 PM (#3219193) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Mavis Enderby "The Rolling Stone article should have said "Top 100 Rock Guitarists of All Time" and then it would have had more credibility." It should really say Top 100 Rock Guitarists of All Time so far... |
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06 Sep 11 - 05:49 PM (#3219203) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,josepp What about John Goodsall of Brand X? That guy is fabulous! |
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06 Sep 11 - 05:58 PM (#3219208) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Mavis Enderby ...also that 100 could actually be in binary - that would provoke a whole lot more argument... |
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06 Sep 11 - 06:33 PM (#3219225) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,Curtis I would have thought Bruce Cockburn's name would have come up more in this discussion. |
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07 Sep 11 - 02:24 AM (#3219349) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Big Al Whittle There has not as yet been 'all time' - whatever the fundamentalists would have you believe. And anyway I couldn't even begin to limit the number of guitarists who have impressed me to a mere hundred. I feel sorry for anyone who would want to. And anyway Bruce Murdoch, Jack Hudson, Lightnin' Hopkins - what they do, may not be technically as hard as Joe Pass or Yyngwie Malmsteen - but its a hundred per cent 'right' - a perfect accompaniment for what they do. That's a sort of 'top' - isn't it? As Martin Carthy said about the late Peter Bellamy - people often lament that Peter never had accompanists who understood his vision fully. Then Martin said, Those peope are wrong. Peter did have one wonderful and perfect guitar accompanist - himself. |
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07 Sep 11 - 10:52 AM (#3219521) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,josepp What about Junior Brown? |
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07 Sep 11 - 11:57 AM (#3219554) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Dennis the Elder Not sure about Junior Brown, unfortunately never heard him play, but I cannot believe no one appears to have mentioned the following gentleman Joe Brown |
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07 Sep 11 - 02:41 PM (#3219635) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Sir Roger de Beverley I went to see Michael Chapman play on Friday night. Now, there is a guitar player and a half. Only 40 people turned up to listen though. R |
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07 Sep 11 - 09:57 PM (#3219844) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Seamus Kennedy Danny Gatton |
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08 Sep 11 - 07:04 AM (#3219957) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Tootler I really don't know what you are all whingeing about! After all the list is a comprehensive one including guitarists from both types of music: rock and roll. |
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12 Sep 11 - 08:45 AM (#3221893) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST I don't see Tommy Emmanuel, but as long as Joan Jett made it I suppose that will do...... Going to see #23 this weekend in New Brunswick (Warren Haynes, the Great). |
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12 Sep 11 - 12:15 PM (#3222002) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,GUEST MArkyB Not a mention of django,John Martyn,Richard Thompson,JJ Cale,Rory Gallagher,Syd Barret. I agree with the poster who mentioned rollingstones 'top 100 guitarists' ^ chaaa. =====================================================================Barr chords hurt my girly fingers :( |
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12 Sep 11 - 12:51 PM (#3222029) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker ... considering so many of us have enjoyed the performances of literally thousands of accomplished guitarists in our life time's obsession for discovering new music, there's hardly any point moaning that so and so's been left off a list compiled by a few hack mainstream music journalists with such an obviously narrow perspective on global music culture.. errrmm.. and they did'nt mention Vic Flick or Chris Spedding..... |
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13 Sep 11 - 12:48 PM (#3222600) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: Smokey. Tim Renwick Al Stewart Jeremy Spencer Danny Kirwan |
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13 Sep 11 - 03:05 PM (#3222681) Subject: RE: Top 100 Guitarists of All Time From: dick greenhaus Has anyone heard Sam McGee? or TOm Paley? or Andy Cohen? |