Who's your favorite guitarist or do you even have one?

Buddy Guy & Eric Clapton - Hoochie Coochie Man - video Dailymotion

 

Very nice.

Are you familiar with John Jorgenson?



This is a great album/CD:



It's funny, the first time I heard John was when he was pickin' and grinnin' with the Hellecasters:



Remarkably versatile guitarist....

 

Sure, great player. I have one of Jorgenson's Gitane Grande Bouches.



You know the story of Jimmy Rosenberg; already this good when he was 19. Scary at 9. Terrifying at 11. Drugs ruined him. (He's still hanging in there ... by a thread.)

 

Beautiful song.

I hate to ask, but did he get himself hooked on heroin?

 

Yes, by age 19. He used cocaine as well. And down he went.

 

That's what I figured.

This guy was a friend of mine - we went to art school together back in the 80s:

Gwar Frontman’s Death Ruled Heroin Overdose
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/gwar-frontmans-death-ruled-heroin-overdose-78847/

Apparently, there had been some hot heroin going around, and Dave got his hands on that sh*t. Some other people in Richmond OD'd on it, too.

I don't know what it is with artists and heroin. I've seen too many of them throw their lives away shooting smack....

 

Gypsy culture is so intense. Jimmy's father told him that if he went back to drugs he'd smash his (Jimmy's) hands with a hammer so that he wouldn't be able to play anymore.

Then Jimmy told HIS daughter that if SHE used drugs, he'd cut all her hair off.

You can hear that intensity in their music.

 

I always enjoyed BB king. He could make his guitar cry. There’s a video of him floating around playing a set with a broken string and doing an amazing job.

I was up in Milwaukee in the late 80’s at Summerfest where he was playing the main stage (the Marcus Amphitheater as it was called then, sitting back stage where we had set up a bar having a conversation with him (before he was diagnosed with diabetes) he was sitting on a stool with his guitar on his lap and during the conversation he was quietly playing some riff I had never heard ( I thought I knew everything he put to vinyl up ‘til then. I commented on it and asked what was it he was playing…. He looked at me and said “I don’t know”. Always amazed me, he never missed a beat of the conversation (pun intended) but some part of hos brain was playing or composing something. Watching him play was like watching an amazing guitar virtuoso that could get exactly what he wanted from a guitar at the moment he wanted it and you were lucky to take the trip with him.

for those that liked Robert Parker… there’re was another of his many protégés I got to see on Chicago not long after I got to the US, Lightning Hopkins. Not many left to follow in the footsteps of Blues’ Greats.

 

Daniel Larusso owned Steve Vai.

 

My favorite guitarists are Jerry Garcia, Slash, Jimmy Page, Hendrix,and Bradley Knowells, just to name a few.

 

Michael Schenker is my favorite, followed very closely by Adrian Smith, Eddie Van Halen, and Mark Tremonti.

 

Do you guys know Walter Rodrigues, Jr.? Fingerstyle jazz and popular songs.

 

They think they're 'special' and can handle it, because they see people who can handle it, not realizing that may not always be the case and that they may not be the same as those who can re internal chemistry and mental capacity to resist addiction and excess. It's not just musicians but a lot of the doper 'culture' is made up of halfwits with high self-esteem.

 

María Rosario Pilar Martínez Molina Baeza

AKA Charo
Among the best Flamenco Guitarists in the world, and damned fine cuchi cuchi girl too

 

I don't like neanderthal rock (or nerd rock like Rush).

 

Well, Rush is just screeching nonsense.

 

It's really difficult to name my favorite as the following all have their own unique styles. So in no particular order, some of my favorites:

Jimmy Page, Carlos Santana, David Gilmour, Pat Metheny, Jeff Beck, Peter White, Mark Knopfler, Andrew Latimer, Steve Howe, George Benson, Lindsey Buckingham, Al DiMeola, Eddie Van Halen, Pete Townshend, Leslie West, John McLaughlin.

 

Jimi Hendrix, Neil Young, Mick Taylor, Prince. Jeff Baxter, Billy Jones, Gary Rossington & Allen Collins. Stevie Ray Vaughn. Keef, George & EC. Dick Dale. Chuck Berry. Edge. Rodrigo y Gabriella. Pete Townsend.

Prince, ungodly musical talent. Mindboggling the way he shreds the guitar on this clip.

 

I may have told you before that a couple of guys brought the purple rain album onto campus in the 80s. I took one look and declared that Prince was a fraud, like milli vanilli. "No one can look that good, write that well, sing that well and play that well," I said, "so those must be studio musicians."

Then I saw him at live in the rain at a super bowl and I shut my mouth.

About that Guitar Gently Weeps video, I've watched it many times. I get the feeling the band knew he was blowing everyone away and that they didn't like it. Tom Petty looks none too happy.

 

Forgot some more (including 2 women):

Steve Hackett, Nancy Wilson, Joyce Cooling. And a Santana piece that's lesser known but quite amazing (Carlos hits it at 2:40):

 

Santana, one of the best guitarist.

 

And Van Halen is Neanderthal rock, er, the opposite of nerd rock.

 

You guys ever hear of Little Feat. Lowell George was the slide player and the genius behind the band. Nothing like them before or since.

 

This guy calls it "absolutely the best guitar solo ever made in the history of rock music" and I can't really blame him. I've heard many so I'm not going to judge. This is Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits) from "Sultans of Swing". There's a part 1 and a part 2 so don't stop listening when the music slows down.

 

Yep, this is excellent. I remember still that I came to appreciate MK’s achievement with this jam somewhere in my late 20s. Similar experience to recognizing the excellence of Eric Clapton’s The Core. This all too short melody MK creates for the Sultans of Swing is magical, no doubt. If my brain were wired just slightly different then I’d easily be able to call it the best.