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video vertigo 
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Posted: September 10 2005 at 02:55 |
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My favorite guitarist in Pop music is Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac, he's got some pretty good songs such as "Big Love"
In Southern Rock I really like Gary Rossington of Lynyrd Skynyrd (spelling?) just listened to Free Bird yesterday, definitely overplayed classic but still really cool.
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"The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse." - Zappa
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Raff
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Posted: September 10 2005 at 03:10 |
Off the top of my head, I'd say Ritchie Blackmore and Gary Moore. I'm sure there are many others who are technically better; however, as I'm no musician, I tend to judge in terms of feeling and melody.
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Kohllapse
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Posted: September 10 2005 at 03:29 |
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Phil Keaggy(hands down the best acoustic guistarist)
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Tony Fisher
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Posted: September 10 2005 at 03:31 |
Gary Moore is superb; versatile and very technical.
Tony Iommi is also very underrated. His playing is even more remarkable given that he has parts of 2 fingers missing on his fret hand!
Wishbone Ash have had a number of brilliant guitarists over the years (Ted Turner, Laurie Wisefield) but Andy Powell is the king.
Another fantasic player is Graeme Duffin, often regarded as the 5th (unofficial) member of Wet Wet Wet (howls of derisive laughter from many, I guess). In a previous life, he played with a folk rock band called New Celeste and his playing with them had to be heard to be believed. The whole band could improvise endlessly.
And finally, Malcolm Jones of Runrig is not only a superb guitarist but can also play almost anything that can be plucked, bashed, blown or poked.
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richardh
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Posted: September 10 2005 at 03:40 |
Leslie West (Mountain)
Ritchie Blackmore
Pete Townsend
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cobb
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Posted: September 10 2005 at 03:45 |
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Richardh- Leslie West: a very much forgotten and underated guitarist. I
still remember the first time Mississipi Queen blew me away.
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richardh
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Posted: September 10 2005 at 03:47 |
 cobb wrote:
Richardh- Leslie West: a very much forgotten and underated guitarist. I still remember the first time Mississipi Queen blew me away. |
Yep great player.Seen him and Mountain live recently.Still great!
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cobb
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Posted: September 10 2005 at 03:51 |
richardh wrote:
Yep great player.Seen him and Mountain live recently.Still great! |
Was it the old line up with Felix?
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richardh
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Posted: September 10 2005 at 03:53 |
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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cobb
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Posted: September 10 2005 at 03:55 |
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Sh*t! No wonder I've never seen him since
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DACE
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Posted: September 10 2005 at 04:13 |
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Not a heavy rocker, I know, but Mark Knopfler is a favourite of mine. I also love Albert King.
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samhob
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Posted: September 10 2005 at 06:30 |
Definitely Ritchie Blackmore, a good mix of virtuosity and feeling ....
Another guitarist with his technical talent would not be able to have this feeling ...
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: September 10 2005 at 07:13 |
- Eric Johnson
- Danny Gatton
- Greg Koch
- Scott Henderson
- Paul Gilbert
Just a few names that come to my mind when I think about non-prog, skillful and emotional guitar players.
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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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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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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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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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Phil
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Posted: September 10 2005 at 09:23 |
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Jimmy Page for me
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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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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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