New topic
Printable| Author | Message |
Guitar players you love, who might as well not exist! Andy Scott - Sweet (the band!)
Sweet was so much more than 'Little Willie' which is heard at every wedding reception. Check out Andy Scott's Page-Hendrix blowout on 'Sweet F.A.' 5 stars for balls-out rocking  | |
- E-mail - orgNote -  Report post to moderator |
robert randolph
henry garza (los lonley boys) jeff healey nuno bettencourt (extreme) o'dell (mint condition) nancy wilson (heart) jimmie vaughn ( fabulous thunderbirds) | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
I'm not sure I undrestand the "who might as well not exist" part, but I've always loved Steve Stevens. I was really into Billy Idol in high school, and a lot of it had to do with his playing on Billy Idol.
"Dirty Diana"? Michael who?  "Love Hurts. Your lies, they cut me. Now your words don't mean a thing. I don't give a damn if you ever loved me..." -Cher, "Woman's World" | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
chocolate1 said: I'm not sure I undrestand the "who might as well not exist" part, but I've always loved Steve Stevens. I was really into Billy Idol in high school, and a lot of it had to do with his playing on Billy Idol.
"Dirty Diana"? Michael who? Top Gun!  | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
chocolate1 said: ...but I've always loved Steve Stevens.
I gained a great deal of respect for him after finding out about this... 
...Flamenco A Go Go tA  Tribal Disorder
http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431 "Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all." | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
"Atomic Playboys" by Steve Stevens was also kewl.
The guy in Nazareth (Pardon the spelling) played some kewl stuff on their version of "Morning Dew" over on you tube. I prefer to think of this thread as "Guitar players worthy of greater recognition." I'll add my guitar bud from New Orleans Renard Poche'. He has played with Dr. John and many others. Google him. He's awesome. [Edited 9/11/06 19:42pm] "The first time I saw the cover of Dirty Mind in the early 80s I thought, 'Is this some drag queen ripping on Freddie Prinze?'" - Some guy on The Gear Page | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
I'm guessing what's being asked for are guitarists you like that folks aren't aware of or don't get discussed much.
That'd be the 1st Jazz guitarist I ever heard... 
...The Complete Roost Johnny Smith Small Group Sessions =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The world of jazz in the late '40s, '50s, and early '60s was graced with one of the most talented guitar virtuosos of all time: Johnny Smith. Unless you were a budding young jazz guitarist or a lover of guitar at that time, you probably don't own or haven't heard most of the incredible recordings that this great artist produced. Mosaic Records' release of The Complete Roost Johnny Smith Small Group Sessions is exactly that. http://www.allaboutjazz.c...p?id=10907 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Chances are good you’ve never heard of him. Yet, in his prime, Johnny Smith was responsible for a small treasure of extraordinary jazz, performed with some of the top players of the day. He even earned downbeat’s “Jazz Record of the Year” for a song on the very first session he led – a little thing called “Moonlight in Vermont” with Stan Getz on saxophone that’s become a classic. And when he wasn’t on the airwaves on NBC or backing the best at Birdland, he’d be performing under the batons of Arturo Toscanini, Eugene Ormandy, and Dimitri Mitropoulos, because Smith was an extraordinary technician who would get a call to come and cut the charts the long-hairs couldn’t handle. http://www.mosaicrecords....=216-MD-CD =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Guitarist Johnny Smith's career spans the decades of the 1940's through the 1990's. From the very beginning of his musical career he influenced the playing of other guitarists. In fact, other guitarists mention Smith almost as often as they mention Charlie Christian as a major influence on their playing. http://classicjazzguitar....?artist=29 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Supremely unpretentious and low-key, this jazz legend has lived in the same modest house in the same nondescript, working-class neighborhood since 1958. He places a lot of value, he says, in "staying out of everybody's way" and in enjoying the company of his wife of 41 years, Sandy, his three children, John, Dave and Kim, his three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Nothing in Smith's public bearing or conversational manner hints at his status as a music legend -- that he was a featured soloist with the Count Basie and Stan Kenton bands, that Charlie Parker was one of his biggest fans, that his 1952 recording of "Moonlight in Vermont" was one of the top-selling jazz records of all time, or that he was one of the top draws at Birdland back in its storied heyday as the mecca of jazz. http://www.csindy.com/csi...cover.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 4 different guitar manufacturers (Guild, D'Angelico, Gibson & Heritage) had... 
..."Johnny Smith" models tA Tribal Disorder
http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431 "Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all." | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
 Space for sale... | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
Here's a little rare BBA.
http://www.youtube.com/wa...BpSeyk1z4o I forgot where the earlier BBA thread is so enjoy. "The first time I saw the cover of Dirty Mind in the early 80s I thought, 'Is this some drag queen ripping on Freddie Prinze?'" - Some guy on The Gear Page | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
Phil Keaggy is one of the best guitar players in modern music (not just my opinion, though it is my opinion). A leading guitar mag recently did a story on Phil. I forget which, as I no longer buy the things. I caught his live, solo acoustic set a decade ago in Troy, NY. Phil flat-out astounded me with his playing. Prince is bad, but PK left me sitting there going: "Dang, he's the best I've ever seen!" He is extremely clean, blazing, smooth, jazzy, bluesy, fingerpicking-ish,  etc. The man is BAD.
He plays blues extremely well, does all sorts of exotic scales that confound me, can get all Malmsteen-ish and Vai-like, when he wants, and is equally at home out-Claptoning Slowhand. He sings like Paul McCartney, shreds like a monster on guitar and is extremely humble and approachable. He's the bomb. Everyone, run out and buy his records. Please.  | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
I agree on Phil Keaggy.
As I've said many times also. Shawn Lane. http://www.youtube.com/wa...2Bb67nem4U "The first time I saw the cover of Dirty Mind in the early 80s I thought, 'Is this some drag queen ripping on Freddie Prinze?'" - Some guy on The Gear Page | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
Excellent picks Threadbare & carlcranshaw
I thought of a couple more i'd add... 
...Del Castillo (the Del Castillo brothers, Rick and Mark, are incredible players) http://www.delcastillomusic.com/ 
...Tommy Emmanuel http://www.tommyemmanuel.com/ tA Tribal Disorder
http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431 "Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all." | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
carlcranshaw said: I agree on Phil Keaggy.
As I've said many times also. Shawn Lane. http://www.youtube.com/wa...2Bb67nem4U Phil Keaggy is AMAZING. He has his own sound, sort of like Eric Johnson. Almost horn-like in his runs. So fluid. As far as Shawn Lane - dude was just a guitar guru. Played in Black Oak Arkansas at the age of 14! Was friends with Eric Gales, my favorite "unknown" guitar player. Legend has it that Shawn Lane totally EMBARRASSED Ted Nugent when "the Nuge" tried to go head to head with Shawn onstage. He will be missed... [Edited 9/14/06 22:24pm] My author page: https://www.amazon.com/au...eretttruth | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
JesseDezz said: carlcranshaw said: I agree on Phil Keaggy.
As I've said many times also. Shawn Lane. http://www.youtube.com/wa...2Bb67nem4U Phil Keaggy is AMAZING. He has his own sound, sort of like Eric Johnson. Almost horn-like in his runs. So fluid. As far as Shawn Lane - dude was just a guitar guru. Played in Black Oak Arkansas at the age of 14! Was friends with Eric Gales, my favorite "unknown" guitar player. Legend has it that Shawn Lane totally EMBARRASSED Ted Nugent when "the Nuge" tried to go head to head with Shawn onstage. He will be missed... [Edited 9/14/06 22:24pm] http://www.youtube.com/wa...awn%20lane "The first time I saw the cover of Dirty Mind in the early 80s I thought, 'Is this some drag queen ripping on Freddie Prinze?'" - Some guy on The Gear Page | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
Shuggie Otis and Jeff Beck don't get 1\2 their props... | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
"Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all." | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
Once of Shawn's heroes Allan Holdsworth.
http://www.youtube.com/wa...0c-wEGRwig Shawn and Allan. http://www.youtube.com/wa...LGoYBSE6Gk "The first time I saw the cover of Dirty Mind in the early 80s I thought, 'Is this some drag queen ripping on Freddie Prinze?'" - Some guy on The Gear Page | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
More Allan Holdsworth...
...Road Games & Funnels tA Tribal Disorder
http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431 "Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all." | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
thurston moore of sonic youth - he completely blows me away every time, but i don't think he's ever gotten the love he deserves as a guitarist. | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
carlcranshaw said: I agree on Phil Keaggy.
As I've said many times also. Shawn Lane. http://www.youtube.com/wa...2Bb67nem4U Agreed. As I have said, Shawn was the best guitar player that I've ever known. I know a lot of guitar players, too. Dude was blessed. Shawn was no trickster, he was the truth. | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
"The first time I saw the cover of Dirty Mind in the early 80s I thought, 'Is this some drag queen ripping on Freddie Prinze?'" - Some guy on The Gear Page | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
...
 Nice choices!!
Here are two of my favorite "unsung" guitar heroes; Wayne Krantz (Solo albums, Steely Dan, Donald Fagen)    
and Jean Paul Bourelly (Solo albums, Cassandra Wilson, Miles Davis, Elvin Jones, Defunkt, Henry Threadgill, Vernon Reid, etc.)            
... [Edited 9/17/06 21:39pm] " I've got six things on my mind --you're no longer one of them." - Paddy McAloon, Prefab Sprout | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
Frank Gambale
Scott Henderson Johnny Marr Lisnday Buckingham James Mankey Elliot Easton Tom Scholz Charro [Edited 9/18/06 7:10am] a psychotic is someone who just figured out what's going on | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
. [Edited 9/18/06 7:09am] a psychotic is someone who just figured out what's going on | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
Tuck Andress is great too.
http://www.youtube.com/wa...ed&search= And Michael Hedges was great. http://www.youtube.com/wa...9CMRsWlDt0 [Edited 9/23/06 20:06pm] "The first time I saw the cover of Dirty Mind in the early 80s I thought, 'Is this some drag queen ripping on Freddie Prinze?'" - Some guy on The Gear Page | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |