Your favourite early prog guitarist?
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Topic: Your favourite early prog guitarist?
Posted By: WrytXander
Subject: Your favourite early prog guitarist?
Date Posted: October 02 2014 at 14:43
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Simple question, though hard to answer... No Magma as well, only because I can't keep up with their guitarists... Sorry... ------------- 20+ prog bands discovered and explored in 3 years, still going strong... |
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: October 02 2014 at 15:02
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Zappa over Fripp today. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: October 02 2014 at 15:22
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Jan Akkerman. Let it RIP! bud.
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: October 02 2014 at 15:37
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Why RIP?
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Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: October 02 2014 at 15:40
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: October 02 2014 at 16:01
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OK. I had not been aware of his demise...and Google had not told me otherwise.
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Posted By: Xonty
Date Posted: October 02 2014 at 16:27
| Lifeson, but a very close call |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: October 02 2014 at 16:37
So many excellent players on that list......might come down to one's favorite band.
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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: October 02 2014 at 17:23
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Lifeson, without hesitation. ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: October 02 2014 at 18:03
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Trower, whose work is too often overlooked, maybe because his best material is outside the progosphere. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: October 02 2014 at 18:12
Jan Akkerman one of the very best. Doesn't get enough recognition.
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Posted By: tboyd1802
Date Posted: October 02 2014 at 19:53
| I'll go with Gilmour on this one... |
Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: October 02 2014 at 20:30
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Steve!!!!!!!!!! (Howe)
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Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: October 02 2014 at 20:36
| Too many great ones to choose from. Martin Barre and Andy Latimer would get my vote, for personal reasons, even though I know neither will will this poll. |
Posted By: Wanorak
Date Posted: October 02 2014 at 22:42
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I've always loved the tone Oldfield gets in his playing. ------------- A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!! |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: October 02 2014 at 22:56
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Oldfield, Latimer, then Hackett. Roger Hodgson does seem a tad outclassed in this company.LOL
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Posted By: The-time-is-now
Date Posted: October 03 2014 at 01:08
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Latimer. -------------  One of my best achievements in life was to find this picture :D |
Posted By: b_olariu
Date Posted: October 03 2014 at 01:28
| all are top notch but I prefer a lot Martin Barre |
Posted By: iluvmarillion
Date Posted: October 03 2014 at 01:31
| If we're talking early here, why don't we include Jimi Hendrix in the discussion? |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: October 03 2014 at 03:16
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1. David Gilmour 2. Steve Hackett 3. Gary Green 4. Alex Lifeson 5. Andy Latimer ------------- 
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Posted By: friso
Date Posted: October 03 2014 at 04:04
| I have played guitar for 14 years, but when I saw Latimer playing last year I realised what the instrument is about. |
Posted By: Imperial Zeppelin
Date Posted: October 03 2014 at 07:10
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Gilmour ------------- "Hey there, Dog Man, now I drink from your bowl." |
Posted By: Cactus Choir
Date Posted: October 03 2014 at 07:54
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I voted for Steve Howe, though it could just as easily have been Jan Akkerman. It's a mystery to me how these two amazing musicians (who were in commercially successful bands) are consistently lowly ranked or ignored completely in Greatest Guitarist polls. ------------- "And now...on the drums...Mick Underwooooooooood!!!" "He's up the pub" |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: October 03 2014 at 08:02
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Gilmour and Latimer are my dual favorites, with Lifeson next. Voted Latimer for the purposes of this poll.
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Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: October 03 2014 at 08:16
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Oldfiled ------------- |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: October 03 2014 at 19:38
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Voted Jan Akkerman though John McLaughlin gets my vote if he were on this list. ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: October 03 2014 at 21:06
Between David and Robert ... Robert again. Both are capable of a great emotional range, but with Robert's playing acumen it seems like the greater the risk, the greater the reward ... and he rewards pretty much every time. However, when it comes to simplicity, there are times when David could beat Bob at his own game, but overall, my vote goes to Bob.
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BrufordFreak wrote:Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: October 03 2014 at 21:21
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I love the work of all these guitarists but has got to be Master Gilmour.
Also have to say Steve Hillage rocks too. |
Posted By: HackettFan
Date Posted: October 03 2014 at 23:32
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1. Steve Hackett
2. Frank Zappa 3. Robert Fripp 4. Jan Akkerman |
Posted By: Varon
Date Posted: October 04 2014 at 11:13
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As Fripp will win for sure, my vote goes to Barre ------------- Would you catch the final words of mine? Would you catch my words??? |
Posted By: O666
Date Posted: October 04 2014 at 11:40
| Mr FRIPP |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: October 04 2014 at 11:44
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Fripp or Submarine Captain ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: October 04 2014 at 18:09
doesn't like that so far.... ------------- Progrockdude |
Posted By: Rick Robson
Date Posted: October 04 2014 at 18:47
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Steve Hackett. I would give the vote to David Gilmour, as he already was my fave rock guitarist even before I knew what was real prog music, but obviously he isn't a genuine prog guitarist. -------------  "Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." LvB |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: October 04 2014 at 18:56
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Fripp Gilmour Oldfield Latimer Greene ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: uduwudu
Date Posted: October 14 2014 at 02:28
Sorry. Not obvious to me. What is a genuine prog guitarist? |
Posted By: WrytXander
Date Posted: October 14 2014 at 14:47
Dunno, but Gilmour definitely fits my definition of "genuine prog guitarist". ------------- 20+ prog bands discovered and explored in 3 years, still going strong... |
Posted By: Bitterblogger
Date Posted: October 22 2014 at 03:00
I guess he's considered psychedelic? And Ritchie Blackmore blues-based? But Peter Banks deserves to be on the list; even though he wouldn't get many votes, I'll cast one for him.
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Posted By: proggman
Date Posted: October 23 2014 at 20:59
David Gilmour.------------- When he rides, my fears subside. For darkness turns once more to light. Through the skies, his white horse flies. To find a land beyond the night. |