non-prog guitarists
Printed From: Progarchives.com
Category: Other music related lounges
Forum Name: General Music Discussions
Forum Description: Discuss and create polls about all types of music
URL: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=11340
Printed Date: February 27 2025 at 09:55
Software Version: Web Wiz Forums 11.01 - http://www.webwizforums.com
Topic: non-prog guitarists
Posted By: video vertigo
Subject: non-prog guitarists
Date Posted: September 10 2005 at 02:55
|
Guitar- ------------- "The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse." - Zappa |
Replies:
Posted By: Raff
Date 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. |
Posted By: Kohllapse
Date Posted: September 10 2005 at 03:29
|
Phil Keaggy(hands down the best acoustic guistarist) ------------- 
|
Posted By: Tony Fisher
Date 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. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: September 10 2005 at 03:40
|
Leslie West (Mountain) Ritchie Blackmore Pete Townsend |
Posted By: cobb
Date Posted: September 10 2005 at 03:45
| Richardh- Leslie West: a very much forgotten and underated guitarist. I still remember the first time Mississipi Queen blew me away. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: September 10 2005 at 03:47
|
Yep great player.Seen him and Mountain live recently.Still great! |
cobb wrote:Posted By: cobb
Date Posted: September 10 2005 at 03:51
Was it the old line up with Felix? |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: September 10 2005 at 03:53
Ermm...wasn't Felix shot dead in 1975? |
Posted By: cobb
Date Posted: September 10 2005 at 03:55
| Sh*t! No wonder I've never seen him since |
Posted By: DACE
Date Posted: September 10 2005 at 04:13
| Not a heavy rocker, I know, but Mark Knopfler is a favourite of mine. I also love Albert King. |
Posted By: samhob
Date 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 ... |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: September 10 2005 at 07:13
Just a few names that come to my mind when I think about non-prog, skillful and emotional guitar players. ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa" rel="nofollow - Release Polls Listened to: 
|
Posted By: Wolf Spider
Date Posted: September 10 2005 at 07:35
|
Al Di Meola - Paco De Lucia - Joe Satriani - Yngwie Malmsteen - Ritchie
Blackmoore - Carlos Santana - Michael Schenker - Tony Iommi - Jimmy
Page... the list never ends
------------- http://www.lastfm.pl/user/tomash33 - Last.fm |
Posted By: M. B. Zapelini
Date Posted: September 10 2005 at 07:46
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.
------------- "He's a man of the past and one of the present" PETER HAMMILL |
Posted By: MarkCsigs
Date 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. |
Posted By: paulindigo
Date Posted: September 10 2005 at 08:32
|
Currently Jeff Beck (he could blow away Eric Clapton anytime), Andy
Powell & Ted Turner from Wishbone Ash |
Posted By: Phil
Date Posted: September 10 2005 at 09:23
| Jimmy Page for me |
Posted By: BePinkTheater
Date 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 ------------- 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 |
Posted By: Tony Fisher
Date Posted: September 10 2005 at 20:04
|
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. |
Posted By: salmacis
Date 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'. |
Posted By: porter
Date Posted: September 11 2005 at 10:23
(please include Gilmour in the list ------------- "my kingdom for a horse!" (W. Shakespeare, "Richard III") |
Hail to you, BePinkTheater!!
)Posted By: Ed_The_Dead
Date Posted: September 11 2005 at 11:11
|
What bout Alexi form CoB? He is grand!!!! Adrian Smith & Dave Murray are Damn underrated 2! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ed_the_dead/?chartstyle=asimpleblue5"> 
|
Posted By: philippe
Date Posted: September 11 2005 at 12:12
|
the two jazz rock "world" inspired guitarists Volker Krieger and Steve Tibbetts. ------------- 
|
Posted By: AngelRat
Date Posted: September 11 2005 at 17:01
|
Geordie (Killing Joke) -------------  |
Posted By: Scrambled_Eggs
Date Posted: September 11 2005 at 17:29
|
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. ------------- 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. |
Posted By: Throgh
Date Posted: September 13 2005 at 05:32
|
Pat Metheny John Scofield Alvin Lee (Ten Years After) Jaroslaw Smietana |
Posted By: Kubla Khan
Date Posted: September 16 2005 at 10:24
| JIMMY PAGE, HE MADE GREAT ZEPP`S SONGS |
Posted By: nousommedusolei
Date Posted: September 18 2005 at 03:06
|
Andres Segovia. ------------- I don't believe in demons I don't believe in devils I only believe in you |
Posted By: barbs
Date Posted: September 18 2005 at 05:48
|
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. ------------- Eternity |
Posted By: SenorValasco
Date Posted: September 20 2005 at 15:49
|
I like:- Albert Collins The list goes on.... |
Posted By: Eetu Pellonpaa
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 06:25
Ralph Towner & Pat Metheny! 
|
Posted By: Perrin
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 06:46
|
I've always loved Ritchie Blackmore! So, glad to learn Jimmy Page made so many errors Ollie Halsall, from PATTO Andy Powell Eric Clapton, in his CREAM years Django Reinhardt (unless it's progressive Gypsy jazz!) |
