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Perrin 
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Posted: September 21 2005 at 06:46 |
I've always loved Ritchie Blackmore!
So, glad to learn Jimmy Page made so many errors  He 's just so brilliant and influential...I'm sure Jimmy will be most sad that you don't pick him up in your list, because of some dud notes in the "Heartbreaker" solo (it makes the song even greater...aaah "The Brown Bomber", what an album!!!
Ollie Halsall, from PATTO
Andy Powell
Eric Clapton, in his CREAM years
Django Reinhardt (unless it's progressive Gypsy jazz!)
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Eetu Pellonpaa
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Posted: September 21 2005 at 06:25 |
Ralph Towner & Pat Metheny! 
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SenorValasco
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Posted: September 20 2005 at 15:49 |
I like:-
Albert Collins
Jerry Donahue
Richard Thompson
Eric Clapton
Gary Moore
Buddy Whittington
Robben Ford
Eric Johnson
Robert Cray
Danny Gatton
Albert Lee
Sonny Landreth
The list goes on....
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barbs
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Posted: September 18 2005 at 05:48 |
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I had the pleasure of listening to a guitarist called Stephen Magnusson
about a week ago at a place called Bennets Lane Jazz club in Melbourne.
His contemporary jazz licks were sublime. Watching an artist close
their eyes and just go for it, feeling every note, he was able to take
you to another place with his solos. He was playing guitar in the Alison Wedding
Quintet; Alison being an expat from Ohio with a beautiful voice and an
excellent interpreter. Looks like Sigourney Weaver a bit.
Found out later Steven Magnusson is an award winning jazz guitarist who
has played for years in Europe with a free jazz group called Snag. He
plays on the Martin Breeze album 'Last man standing on earth" or 'Last
man on earth'. I am trying to get a hold of it. He will be playing on
the newest Alison Wedding Quintet CD out in about 3 months. If he plays
anything like he does live, in the studio, its going to be well worth
getting.
Another guitarist that I can't remember being mentioned here so forgive
me if I am repeating what someone else has already suggested, is Steve Morse. What is it about the name Steve and guitarists.
I thought he did some decent stuff on Deep Purples last album Bananas to.
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Eternity
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nousommedusolei
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Posted: September 18 2005 at 03:06 |
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Andres Segovia.
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I don't believe in demons
I don't believe in devils
I only believe in you
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Kubla Khan
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Posted: September 16 2005 at 10:24 |
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JIMMY PAGE, HE MADE GREAT ZEPP`S SONGS
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Throgh
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Posted: September 13 2005 at 05:32 |
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Pat Metheny
John Scofield
Alvin Lee (Ten Years After)
Jaroslaw Smietana
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Scrambled_Eggs
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Posted: September 11 2005 at 17:29 |
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I'm not sure who my favorite non prog guitarist would be, but Andres Segovia 'as my most respect. The man transformed the guitar from what was regarded to be a "peasant" intrument into an instrument worthy to play classical music. At the time, most people thought that was utter madness, but his unique playing style astounded them, and now the guitar is accepted in the classical community.
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And I am not frightened of dying, any time will do, I
don't mind. Why should I be frightened of dying?
There's no reason for it, you've gotta go sometime.
I never said I was frightened of dying.
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AngelRat
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Posted: September 11 2005 at 17:01 |
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Geordie (Killing Joke)
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philippe
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Posted: September 11 2005 at 12:12 |
the two jazz rock "world" inspired guitarists Volker Krieger and Steve Tibbetts.
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Ed_The_Dead
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Posted: September 11 2005 at 11:11 |
What bout Alexi form CoB? He is grand!!!!
Adrian Smith & Dave Murray are Damn underrated 2!
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porter
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Posted: September 11 2005 at 10:23 |
 BePinkTheater wrote:
Brian May.
I dont care what anyone says, they arent prog, and he is an amazing guitar player.
His harmonized solos are brilliant
+ he has the best tone of anyguitar player, except maybe gilmour
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Hail to you, BePinkTheater!!
(please include Gilmour in the list)
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"my kingdom for a horse!" (W. Shakespeare, "Richard III")
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salmacis
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Posted: September 11 2005 at 09:44 |
Mark Clarke is a real journeyman of rock- he also appears on 'Eager To Please' by Ken Hensley, and wrote some of the songs with Hensley like 'Through The Eyes Of A Child', and supplied 'Stargazer', from a Tempest album. I believe Clarke is also on 'Free Spirit', a Hensley solo album from 1980.
Mark Clarke was in Uriah Heep for a very short while, but stuck around long enough to co-write 'The Wizard', which brings me to ask a query about 'The Wizard' that has puzzled me for a while. Who sings the part 'why don't we listen to the voices in our hearts...' on the original studio version? It's certainly not Byron or Hensley...
Peter Green is one of my favourite guitarists, and is held in real regard by the old blues players like Buddy Guy and BB King, with good reason- you really get the sense Peter Green is putting everything into his solos.
Paul Kossoff is another brilliant player- but like Green, went off the rails in a major way, but unlike Green, didn't live to tell the tale. Still, his solos are amongst the most distinctive in rock.
Gary Moore I'd underrated for years for all of those Peter Green/Eric Clapton style albums he did in the 90s, but I'd listened to his work on the 80s hard rock albums he did and in Colosseum II, even Thin Lizzy on classics like 'Waiting For An Alibi', and see why he's so highly regarded. I really love the BBM album too- 'Where In The World' is one of my favourite songs of all time.
Michael Schenker is one of the finest hard rock players ever- his solo career should have been superb too, but he never bettered his solos on the UFO albums like 'Force It' and 'Lights Out'.
Bert Jansch is a favourite of mine- I love his folk/blues playing, and his guitar duels with another folk legend, John Renbourn, are out of this world.
Tony Iommi is arguably one of the finest riff meisters in rock, but for some really great solos, listen to his post Ozzy Sabbath stuff, especially the unsung 'Seventh Star' album where he was argaubly at a peak with some brilliant bluesy solos.
Ritchie Blackmore was one of the most fluid players in rock, with some astonishing solos on songs like 'Highway Star' and 'Burn', and Rainbow classics like 'A Light In The Black'.
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Tony Fisher
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Posted: September 10 2005 at 20:04 |
Phil wrote:
Jimmy Page for me |
Hmm, I used to think that. But I've been listening to Led Zep II a lot recently and have picked up on so many errors that I can't rate him as one of the greats anymore.
Oh, and Mark Knopler is another great guitarist I forgot earlier.
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BePinkTheater
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Posted: September 10 2005 at 11:43 |
Brian May.
I dont care what anyone says, they arent prog, and he is an amazing guitar player.
His harmonized solos are brilliant
+ he has the best tone of anyguitar player, except maybe gilmour
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I can strangle a canary in a tin can and it would be really original, but that wouldn't save it from sounding like utter sh*t.
-Stone Beard
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Phil
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Posted: September 10 2005 at 09:23 |
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Jimmy Page for me
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paulindigo
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Posted: September 10 2005 at 08:32 |
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Currently Jeff Beck (he could blow away Eric Clapton anytime), Andy
Powell & Ted Turner from Wishbone Ash
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MarkCsigs
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Posted: September 10 2005 at 08:18 |
I always thought Glenn Tillbrook of Squeeze played some very tasty licks that were lost under all those catch pop hooks.
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M. B. Zapelini
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Posted: September 10 2005 at 07:46 |
richardh wrote:
cobb wrote:
richardh wrote:
Yep great player.Seen him and Mountain live recently.Still great!
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Was it the old line up with Felix?
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Ermm...wasn't Felix shot dead in 1975? 
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NO! Felix Pappalardi was shot by his wife Gail Collins (which wrote some of Mountain's lyrics, and also served as cover designer and photographer for them) in 1983. Mountain recorde two studio albums in 1985 and 1997 with Mark Clarke (former member of Colosseum, Tempest, Uriah Heep and Rainbow - although he didn't recorded anything with the last two bands) on bass & vocals, and more recently (2002) they released "Mystic Fire" (another studio album) and "Eruptio" (2-CD live set, recorded in 1985 and 2003). Mountain's line-up today: Leslie West, Corky Laind and Ritchie "The Bat" Scarlett (bass & backing vocals).
About this thread, my favourites are:
LEAD GUITAR: Ritchie Blackmore, Jimmy Page, Tony Iommi, Leslie West, Joe Walsh, Andy Powell, Steve Howe.
RHYTHM GUITAR: Keith Richards, Malcolm Young, Tom Fogerty.
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"He's a man of the past and one of the present"
PETER HAMMILL
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Wolf Spider
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Posted: September 10 2005 at 07:35 |
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Al Di Meola - Paco De Lucia - Joe Satriani - Yngwie Malmsteen - Ritchie
Blackmoore - Carlos Santana - Michael Schenker - Tony Iommi - Jimmy
Page... the list never ends
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