OT-- Whos your top 5 favorite Guitar player

[Cito Pelon]

Hendrix ruined his talent with drugs and alcohol. A lot of his stuff was discordant and shouted lyrics. His cover of Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower" is a classic, though, IMO.

[Smiling Assassin27]

Another overlooked and underrated guitarist:

Jim Campilongo

Do yourselves a favor and check out The Little Willies. Dude's guitar work is tasteful yet filthy. Favorite Tele player.

[baja]

Django Reinhardt

Jeff Beck

Eric Clapton

[Rohirrim]

Originally Posted by Cito Pelon

Hendrix ruined his talent with drugs and alcohol. A lot of his stuff was discordant and shouted lyrics. His cover of Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower" is a classic, though, IMO.

I was just relistening to Electric Ladyland last week (my favorite Hendrix album). I love 1983 (A merman I should turn to be). That whole album is amazing.

[Quoydogs]

Originally Posted by Rohirrim

Every guitar thread on the Mane devolves into a Clapton-bashfest.

Clapton is Tebow ! While every guitar player on here has there own nitch. Clapton played it all and played it well.

[broncosteven]

Guys I like

Richard Pick - More for his teaching method, arrangements and finally his recordings. Real Classical guys might know who this is.

I love what Page did back in the day.

I love what Slash did with simple modal tricks and double stops. His solos were not harmonicly difficult but they really made the songs better. He played with more feel than harmony.

I like all of Cutthemdown's guys:
1-Wes Montgomery
2-Chet Atkins
3-Jimmy Hendrix
4-Charlie Christian
5-Django Rienhardt.
Recently I have listened to all but Christians CD's.

Alex Liefson(sp?) is very good.

I like anyone who played in Genesis or Yes.

Albert King, Buddy Guy, robert johnson are all great blues players.

Love anyone who played with Steely Dan, Skunk Baxter, Larry Carlton (For Kid Charlemagne solo among others).

I really love Joe Walsh, it is a guilty pleasure though.

Bernie Leadon is my Favorite Country guy for his work with Eagles and John Hiatt" Slow Turning album.

James Taylor is Quality

Hard to say top 5 but this would be mine if Pinned down

1) Hendrix
2) Pick
3) Page
4) Rienhardt
5) Johnson

[broncosteven]

Originally Posted by Cito Pelon

Hendrix ruined his talent with drugs and alcohol. A lot of his stuff was discordant and shouted lyrics. His cover of Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower" is a classic, though, IMO.

I was shocked when my Classical guitar teacher said she thought Hendrix was the greatest guitarist ever. She can't stand Led Zep though she teaches Stairway so I thought she would **** all over Jimmy but she said she loved his playing and thought it was a shame that he didn't live longer, he had the shot to be the next Beethoven in her eyes. Surprised the **** out of me.

Just listen to his chord selection on Purple haze. He starts with E augmented 9th and goes back to stock G and A chords. Who else at the time was using Augmented 9ths in pop?

He was 5 years ahead of the recording times also.

[Quoydogs]

Originally Posted by Smiling Assassin27

Another overlooked and underrated guitarist:

Jim Campilongo

Do yourselves a favor and check out The Little Willies. Dude's guitar work is tasteful yet filthy. Favorite Tele player.

Underrated

Sonny Landreth -Insane slide paler

Steve howe --Yes///asia

Alex lifeson -- Rush

Joe walsh-- Eagles/ solo

Neil shon -- Journey

[Rohirrim]

To me, Hendrix was at his best when he found a good groove and then just started riding it like in "Rainy Day, Dream Away."

[broncosteven]

BTW you Denver locals or those into Summer Festival Jam Bands should check out the Band Cornmeal, one of my friends "Wavy Dave Burlingame" back in HS is the Banjo player. They cover classic rock songs in a Jam/Jerry Garcia & David Grisman/Grateful dead/Appalacian type sound.

They are getting hot and breaking out. They are playing Denver and Festivals more this summer than their hometown of Chicago.

[C130Herkload]

In no order.....
Richard Thompson (Makes it look easy--see vid above)
Ry Cooder
Alex Lifeson (Rush IS variety!!!!........fanboys.)
Howlin Wolf/Muddy Waters (tie)
Hendrix (like to listen to "Machine Gun" at top volume while Im flyin'...Just kinda fits the old Hercules)\
David Hidalgo from Los Lobos
Tuck Andruss ( Kind of a dork, but he's sick with a guitar)
Stevie Ray (slam dunk here...)
Chuck Berry
and yes......Clapton ( before he got all feminine)
Duane Allman

[Pony Boy]

Originally Posted by Cito Pelon

Hendrix ruined his talent with drugs and alcohol. A lot of his stuff was discordant and shouted lyrics. His cover of Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower" is a classic, though, IMO.

I'm thinking the drugs and alcohol brought out his true talent, it may have laid dormant without it.

[Pony Boy]

Originally Posted by Rohirrim

To me, Hendrix was at his best when he found a good groove and then just started riding it like in "Rainy Day, Dream Away."

I purchased an 8-track tape of Jimi Hendrix “Are You Experienced” in 1968 and had the privilege of sitting front and center in the third row and watched Jimi play live at The University of Oklahoma field house in 1970. Life didn’t get much better than that….

[Cito Pelon]

Originally Posted by Rohirrim

To me, Hendrix was at his best when he found a good groove and then just started riding it like in "Rainy Day, Dream Away."

Hendrix could go at it, but I resent him to this day because of the drug culture he led people into with his talent and charisma. Those were crazy days, people thought he was a god of some kind, tried to imitate him. Dude OD'd on heroin and who knows what else. Those years in the late-60's, early-70's were really bad, just plain crazy. You have no idea what it was like.

[epicSocialism4tw]

My personal favorites:

Lyle Workman
Jonny Greenwood
Steve Howe
Billy Corgan
Joey Santiago

[broncosteven]

Originally Posted by Pony Boy

I'm thinking the drugs and alcohol brought out his true talent, it may have laid dormant without it.

I would argue that drugs limited his true potential. In the end they took his life just think how much more music we would have if he lived as long as Paul McCartney or others of his Generation have.

I have read many an article where an Artist has said that drugs and Alchol caused writting blocks and degraded their performance. Look at Page around the "In through the out door" album, Plant said that he and Jones were the only 2 in the studio keeping the album going.

Everything in moderation.

[broncosteven]

Originally Posted by Pony Boy

I purchased an 8-track tape of Jimi Hendrix “Are You Experienced” in 1968 and had the privilege of sitting front and center in the third row and watched Jimi play live at The University of Oklahoma field house in 1970. Life didn’t get much better than that….

Did he piss on your guitar amp? Sorry "Young ones" reference.

That must have been very cool indeed.

[Quoydogs]

Originally Posted by broncosteven

I would argue that drugs limited his true potential. In the end they took his life just think how much more music we would have if he lived as long as Paul McCartney or others of his Generation have.

I have read many an article where an Artist has said that drugs and Alchol caused writting blocks and degraded their performance. Look at Page around the "In through the out door" album, Plant said that he and Jones were the only 2 in the studio keeping the album going.

Everything in moderation.

I saw a documentary on the beatles. The Paul McCartney you speak of said and I quote.

" John and I never wrote one song when we were not on some kind of hallucinogenics. I mean you can tell the really good trips were strawberry fields forever and we all live in a yellow submarine"
End quote.

[Rohirrim]

Originally Posted by Cito Pelon

Hendrix could go at it, but I resent him to this day because of the drug culture he led people into with his talent and charisma. Those were crazy days, people thought he was a god of some kind, tried to imitate him. Dude OD'd on heroin and who knows what else. Those years in the late-60's, early-70's were really bad, just plain crazy. You have no idea what it was like.

No, I have a pretty good idea.

[Cito Pelon]

Originally Posted by Pony Boy

I purchased an 8-track tape of Jimi Hendrix “Are You Experienced” in 1968 and had the privilege of sitting front and center in the third row and watched Jimi play live at The University of Oklahoma field house in 1970. Life didn’t get much better than that….

You must have fond memories of those days, I don't. Where I lived we had to assemble a gang every morning to fight our way into school. Kind of pathetic kids have to fight their way into school. Too bad it continues to this day.

Didn't mean to hijack, carry on.

[Pony Boy]

Originally Posted by broncosteven

Did he piss on your guitar amp? Sorry "Young ones" reference.

That must have been very cool indeed.

No, but he did open the show with possibly the most famous version of the song "Machine Gun" ever recorded. Started out with a flamenco-sounding riff at the start. It was dedicated to the Kent State students slain on May 4th 1970, that had happened 4 days earlier.

I believe tomorrow will be the 40th anniversary of Kent State.

[broncosteven]

Originally Posted by Quoydogs

I saw a documentary on the beatles. The Paul McCartney you speak of said and I quote.

" John and I never wrote one song when we were not on some kind of hallucinogenics. I mean you can tell the really good trips were strawberry fields forever and we all live in a yellow submarine"
End quote.

Lennon was stoned out of his head from like the White album on. McCartney used but wasn't strung out like John was he carried the Let it be sessions. If you read the Beatles by Bob Spitz Lennon spent most of the last 2 years with the band stoned on heroin doing sound collages in his mansion.

When he had to play live for the 1st time post beatles he had kick on a plane while going over songs with Clapton to pull it off. I don't know how he managed that.

I think their stuff prior to the heavy drugs was better and stronger than the stuff after Lennon became a junkie. Plus the drugs drove a wedge in between them and they stopped writing together throw in a weird GF sitting in studio sessions and it crashed.

Again everything in moderation, if they want to blow some weed here and there fine but being strung out on Heroin is not cool. Ask James Taylor.

[orangenblue2]

One of my personal favorites...Alvin Lee. If you haven't checked out the band "Ten Years After", do yourself a favor...and go with the live stuff

[Garcia Bronco]

Originally Posted by cutthemdown

Well the threat is top 5 favorites, not really top 5 best. Some gues make favorites list because they had a lot of big songs, played with a lot of people.

Clapton fits that bill.

It's an impressive body of work even if others didn't cover it. I guess I play one scale as well(Major Scale), but I guess many other scales are derivatives of the Major scale.

[Garcia Bronco]

Go see Phish if you like Hendrix. Trey and Phish make great live music.