OT-- Whos your top 5 favorite Guitar player
 

I thought it might be fun to see the difference in opinions here. Maybe include a link to you favorite song.
#1 Eric Clapton
#2 Joe Satriani
#3 Eric Johnson
#4 Stevie Ray Vaughn
#5 Mark knopfler

Here is a link to a kickin song. Cliffs over dover "live"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5llfH...eature=related
or if you like it a little harder try this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGNgc...eature=related

It's almost impossible. I could make a list then find 10 players that deserve to be on it. So I will keep it to the greats.

1-Wes Montgomery
2-Chet Atkins
3-Jimmy Hendrix
4-Charlie Christian
5-Django Rienhardt.

Then a shout out to my favorite players BB KIng, Freddie King, Albert King, Albert Collins, Steve Cropper, Steve Lukather, Jeff Skunk Baxter, Joe Beck (no not jeff beck, joe beck), Steve Carlton, Eric Clapton.

Oh **** Robert Johnson has to be on there. So make it top 6. That's how hard it is to keep any list about great musicians to only 5.

So many genres, so many great players. Even some maybe you don't there songs as much as others, but have to tip your hat to there skill.

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Uh yeah the all time master who probably would be named by Eric Johnson as an influence.

It's amazing how easy these true masters make it look. Great thread by the way, music threads rule.

I was talking with some of the stage crew from the Eric Johnson concert and they said they F' with him just by changing his batteries in his effects boxes. ie Duracell to energizer. I guess they make his playing sound different and he just freaks out.

1. Jimi Hendrix
2. Carlos Santana
3. B.B. King
4. Eric Clapton
5. Slash

AHH Come on Slash?? I mean the dude is good but I don't know if he would make a top 5 pick. I think you could pick him up later like the 5th or 6th round.

1. Carl Verheyen
2. Michael Landau
3. Scott Henderson
4. Frank Gambale
5. Steve Lukather

If I didn't have to stop at five, I would continue with...

Mike Miller
Michael Thompson
Larry Carlton
Lee Ritenour
Paul Jackson Jr
Grant Geissman
Allen Hinds
Allan Holdsworth
Mike Stern
Hiram Bullock
Bill Connors
Dean Parks
Tim Pierce.... ;)

I was surprised how hard it was to try just to pick 5 but that's what makes it fun.

One of many...

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I was on youtube checkin videos and this has to be the sickest bass player I have seen in a long long time. My god man !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhwWBvlDfu8

Well I can tell the difference in my wireless AMT microphone on my sax when it's not a duracell.

Musicians are hip to duracell being a cleaner battery. Now can I hear a sound diff? I don't know for sure but I can tell a level difference on the meter so I know it's a tad better signal. Also they last longer.

I can get through a full gig on the duracell and often if im stuck using anything else it starts to fade hour 4 on me.

Yeah which is why you sort of have to pick them by era.

Just so many great players...especially guitar which is a glamor instrument in most bands. So many guitar players. Can't throw a rock in LA without hitting 3 of them in the head.

Sax players can come up with a list of the top 10 and will agree on about half of them usually.

It starts and End with Gilmour to me ...

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Of course LABF a thread on sax players would get 2 responses. Me making first post, and me then in 2nd post asking if anyone else is going to respond.......then maybe a joke from someone like Spider telling my the sax is gay, thread closed. :)

Love the Sax in Floyd ... I used to play Sax ...

Hey man I play the sax too, The dude from Spyro gyra is amazing David sandborn is quite good as well.

If I did that, I'd definitely be here all night.

I figured I'd just go with my current favorites.

You can just tell them you keep some sax records around for "profiling purposes," ala "Talladega Nights." Ha!

Steve Lukather though is known as one of the heavy hitters in the studio back in the day. He's on so many albums it's sick.

Classic that is a great joke. Another good sax one is when Elaine on Sienfield dates the sax player. She gets him to go down on her and it ruins his chops and he loses record deal. Classic.

Sanborn was my first influence on sax. I still dig him and yes he is one of the greatest as far as jazz fusion goes. For sax more so then many instruments it gets broken into:

funk- Maceo Parker, Lenny Pickett
Bebop-Charlie Parker, Coltrane
West Coast- Cannonball, Stan Getz
The Fusion where guys like Sanborn come in.

Sanborn sort of that guy who did all the R&B stuff, played with Bowie, played with Clapton, so I'm not surprised he makes a lot of lists. He's a great player though no doubt about it. Probably the most copied sound in the history of sax.

Come on guys...Check out Joe Bonamassa. He is top 5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL4iP...eature=rec-LGOhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL4iP...eature=rec-LGO

Jay Beckenstien is a fun player to listen to. Plus one of the great pop/fusion/smooth jazz bands of all time. That doesn't hurt.