Who are your favorite guitarists?

Subject: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: 53
Date: 25 Jun 01 - 07:32 PM

Bob's favorites are: Lindsey Buckingham, John Lennon, Don Rich, Pete Anderson, Chet Atkins, Keith Richards, Luther Perkins, Willie Nelson, Mark Knopfler, Paul Simon, James Burton, Scotty Moore, John Fogerty, Keith Urban, Brent Mason, Mick Ralphs, George Harrison, Leroy Parnell, Marty Stuart, Junior Brown, Ricky Skaggs, Eddie van Halen, Eric Clapton.

Would love to hear from some of you about favorite guitarists.

Glenda and Bob (in South Carolina)

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Matt_R
Date: 25 Jun 01 - 07:37 PM

GREAT list there!! I'd concur with all of them! Some of mine:

Brian May, Jeff Lynne, Johnny Greenwood, David Gilmour, Noel Gallagher.

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 25 Jun 01 - 08:03 PM

Don Ross, Stephen Fearing, Bruce Cockburn, Mark Knophler, Martin Barre, Dan Holland...

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: kendall
Date: 25 Jun 01 - 08:04 PM

Gordon Bok

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Justa Picker
Date: 25 Jun 01 - 08:25 PM

(In no special order): Lee Ritenour, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Peter Frampton, BB King, Roy Buchanan, Rory Gallagher, Joe Pass, John Schofield, Charlie Christian, Wes Montgomery, Barney Kessel, Les Paul, Chet Atkins, Merle Travis, Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santanna, Steve Cropper, Amos Garret, Ry Cooder, David Bromberg, Mark Knopfler, Pat Donahue, Chris Proctor, Leo Kotke, and myself. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: ddw
Date: 25 Jun 01 - 08:39 PM

Josh White, Mance Lipscomb, Blind Boy Fuller, Blind Blake, Rev. Gary Davis, Big Bill Broonzy, Big Joe Williams, Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Bukka White, Doc Watson, Merle Travis, Norman Blake, Joel Mabus, Jorma Kaukunan (Sp?), Roy Clark. And that's just for starters.

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 25 Jun 01 - 08:46 PM

I'm sure we've had similar threads before but Chris Newman remains my favourite. Another favourite of mine: Paul Airy from the Bangor (N Wales) session - a complete unknown but the best accompaniest of Irish music in a session environment that I have ever met.

Jon

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Matt_R
Date: 25 Jun 01 - 08:49 PM

And of COURSE Tom Scholtz!

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: 53
Date: 25 Jun 01 - 09:10 PM

I know there are similar threads and the "What do u like" thread today is what got me to the point of asking. Glenda listed a lot of the groups we play with when I work with her for practice but I particularly like the above listed guitarists.

Thanks for answering. I see several I know and some I do not.

Bob

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Benjamin
Date: 25 Jun 01 - 09:35 PM

David Russell!!
After him, Ana Vidoic, Paul Simon, Brownie McGhee, Doc Watson, Norman Blake, Joe Pass, Phil Keaggy, Brian May, Steve Lukather. Too many names! Get back to me!

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Matt_R
Date: 25 Jun 01 - 09:38 PM

Wasn't Steve from Toto, Ben?

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: 53
Date: 25 Jun 01 - 10:02 PM

I'm not Ben, but yes. He was.

Bob

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: RangerSteve
Date: 25 Jun 01 - 10:13 PM

A lot of the above. Also, Sam McGee (of the McGee Brothers). I was listening to John Lee Hooker today on the radio - a tribute program - I was stunned. I never paid much attention to him before, I was really missing something.

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 25 Jun 01 - 10:18 PM

B B King, John Renbourn, John Williams, Segovia, Julian Breem, Eric Clapton, Peter Frampton, Jimmy Page, Liona Boyd. Too many to name all.. Yours, Aye. Dave

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Bugsy
Date: 25 Jun 01 - 10:48 PM

Off the top of my head - Wizz Jones, Martin Simpson, Big Bill Broonzy, Joh Martyn, Ry Cooder.

Many more buried deeper in the brain.

CHeers

Bugsy

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Bert
Date: 25 Jun 01 - 11:22 PM

Actually I HATE the whole lot of them - Rotten Showoffs;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Benjamin
Date: 25 Jun 01 - 11:34 PM

Yes Matt, Steve was in Toto. But he was also one of top studio guitarists around before, during, and maybe after Toto. His webpage is Here! I haven't actually looked at it yet (just found it on google).

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: raredance
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 12:04 AM

I saw Dean McGraw and Peter Ostroushko Saturday night. It was billed as their final concert together after 14 years. I had never seen McGraw before. The range of sounds he coaxed out of his acoustic guitar was quite incredible. Ostroushko is a superb mandolinist and fiddler.

rich r

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: MarkS
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 12:19 AM

David Bromberg, John Renbourn, Django Rheinhart, Preston Reed, Joe Beck (went to high school with him), and many others.

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Chip2447
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 01:01 AM

Ry Cooder, B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, Jimi Hendrix, Chet Atkins, and just about a million others. Anyone that can make me say...DA-YUM!!! I wish I could play like that.

Chip2447

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Mudlark
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 01:12 AM

Manuel Barueco, Julian Bream, Laurindo Almeida, Barney Kessel, Mundell Lowe, ... just for starters..

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: GUEST,Terry Blankenship
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 01:26 AM

Electric guitarists: Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, David Gilmour, Brian May, Adrian Belew, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton w/ Cream, Leslie West, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Johnson, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai.

Acoustic guitarists: Pierre Bensusan, John Renbourn, Martin Carthy, Dick Gaughan, Richard Thompson, Michael Hedges.

And of course John Lennon and George Harrison on acoustic and electric.

Terry Blankenship

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: GUEST,Margret RoadKnight
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 02:01 AM

Jean Bosco Mwenda, Kante Manfila and so many other West African stylists, trad & contemporary Flamenco practitioners, Martin Simpson and ELLEN MCILWAINE!! And Australia's Chris Finnen.

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: flattop
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 02:12 AM

Hard to argue with Ry Cooder but Rick Fielding and Tony Quarrington are also world class even if most of the world doesn't know it. They played together in Toronto tonight like they do most Mondays (except for next week which is a holiday) at Hugh's Room.

Even Duckboots, who has heard a bit of picking over the years, couldn't believe the sounds Rick and Tony got out of their guitars tonight when they played without the band. They seemed to be encouraging each other to new heights.

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 04:18 AM

Most of my favourites already in there, even Joe Pass, but regular 'Catters know my fave bottleneck player is Fred McDowell.
RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Jim Cheydi
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 05:26 AM

Fruitbat, Steve Jones, Andy Taylor, Henry Cluney, Stevie Butcher, Johnny Marr and Stuart Adamson.

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: GUEST,nick
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 05:42 AM

... and NOBODY has yet mentioned Jerry Reed?! unbelievable :) Nick

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: pavane
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 05:59 AM

More outstanding English acoustic guitarists - Nic Jones, Martin Simpson, Tom Gilfellon. Martin Carthy has already had a mention - Paul Simon used his arrangement of Scarborough Fair, of course, and Bob Dylan based Hard Rain on hearing him sing Lord Randall, as well as Bob Dylan's dream on Lord Franklin.

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: IanC
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 06:10 AM

Actually, I like Kevin McGrath's guitar playing; unconventional but nice. I also have a friend whose name is Alan. Before he got his new Yamaha, he had an old guitar which was coming to pieces. The face got lower and lower and so did the bridge, so the strings made a sort of "slappy" sound (before it got too bad). I really miss that one.

Cheers!
Ian

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 06:33 AM

...and if we're including amateurs then, of course, my friend, Yorgos Glinatsis of Emborios, Kalymnos. I hope to be "singing" with him on Thursday evening and for the following fortnight.(British Foreign office warns holidaymakers to avoid this part of Greece for the next two weeks because of severe noise pollution and possible kazoo infection)
RtS ("There is a house...")

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: John P
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 07:14 AM

Soig Seberil
Nic Jones
Martin Carthy
Martin Barre
John Renbourn
Gabriel Yacoub
Steve Hackett
George Harrison
William Pint
John McLaughlin
Jimi Hendrix
Dick Gaughan
Steve Hackett
me

John Peekstok

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: M.Ted
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 07:15 AM

Add to the list Bola Sete, Ricardo Baillardo(Manitas de Plata), Link Wray, Dick Dale, Nic Lucas, Eddie Lang, Frank Zappa--

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: LR Mole
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 07:45 AM

Grant Green.A jazz cat never given his due, and gone too soon. Old story.

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 07:55 AM

Davy Graham, Leadbelly, Django Reinhart, Chuck Bery, John Martyn, Ry Cooder, Jimi Hendrix, anyone who can play slide better than me i.e. anyone, Elliot Randall the list is endless.........

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 08:01 AM

A couple of Steves: Steve Tibbets - Steve Morse.

The Duane Allman/Dickey Betts duo.

A couple of Als: Alvin/Albert Lee.

Mickey Baker...Johnny A. .... Eric Johnson.

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Midchuck
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 08:29 AM

I second Chris Newman.

Two that I don't think anyone's mentioned, who are incredible:

Jack Lawrence (Doc Watson's touring partner), and Andrew Hardin (Tom Russell's lead guitarist).

Peter.

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: kendall
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 08:33 AM

And, for serious music, Segovia. Head and shoulders above all those others.

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Matt_R
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 08:44 AM

Well, as us classical guitarists go, Segovia was a groundbreaker but certainly not "head and shoulders" above the rest. That position is filled by John Williams, Pepe Romero, Julian Bream, and Andrew York. 9 out of 10 classical guitarists will tell you that Williams is the greatest ever (so far).

I forgot to mention Bernard Butler and Arty McGlynn!

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: mooman
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 08:49 AM

Having heard him play live a couple of times ....let's not forget our own 'Catter Ian Stephenson, a very young and fine player of incredible potential.

mooman

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Grab
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 09:08 AM

Thank god, someone else for Davey Graham - I was beginning to think ppl had forgotten about him! And no-one's yet mentioned Bert Jansch.

In no order: Davey Graham, Bert Jansch, Mark Knopfler, John Williams, Brian May, Bernard Butler, some Chris Rea.

Graham.

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: GUEST,Kim C must reset cookie
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 10:32 AM

Eric Johnson, Susan Tedeschi, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Norman Blake, Doc Watson, Dan Crary, Leo Kottke, Chet Atkins...

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: GUEST,SharonA
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 10:43 AM

Phil Keaggy.

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: JulieF
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 10:44 AM

May I recomend one of our local guitarists - Keith Hinchcliffe. He's done some wonderful arrangements of Celtic music. He gave a workshop for us a couple of years ago which was , unfortunately , badly attended. He managed to teach to everyone's level and my daughter came home and retuned all the guitars in the house.

Julie

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: kendall
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 10:53 AM

Matt my boy, opinions are like assholes, everyone has one.

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: GeorgeH
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 11:03 AM

Someone who's much under-rated . . Ed Boyd of Flook! Extremely versatile and a wonderful accompanist of Irish (or thereabouts) music. Ian Carr. Martin Simpson still stands head and sholders above most of those I know from the lists . .

And, Kendall, unlike arse-holes, other people's opinions can be interresting . .

G.

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Pinetop Slim
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 11:03 AM

Dean Stevens, mostly because there's so much conscience in all he does.
Doc, because he gets me where I live.
Andy Solberg, because he gets me in that other place where I live, and for so generously sharing his musical wisdom.

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: pavane
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 11:04 AM

Wouldn't it be interesting to have a site where you could hear a demo (or complete recording) of each (with permission, of course) - a kind of guitar showcase

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: mooman
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 11:09 AM

I agree George, Ed Boyd is a brilliant player whether driving things along like a steam train or playing the most sensitive slow melodies.

mooman

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: Matt_R
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 11:18 AM

Gerry O'Connor! How could I forget!

Subject: RE: BS: Who are your favorite guitarists?
From: GUEST,Geordie
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 11:38 AM

Ellen Macillwaine, Bruce Cockburn, Martin Carthy, Adrian Legg, Bonnie Raitt, BB King, Eric Clapton