how'd chuck get to be considered a guitarist? (just kidding)!

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you can save the world with your guitar one love song at a time it's just better, more fun, easier with a fender solid body electric guitar or electric bass guitar.

good question.

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you can save the world with your guitar one love song at a time it's just better, more fun, easier with a fender solid body electric guitar or electric bass guitar.

Ahhhh ... that must be the answer! Since we guitarists are practicing our fingers off all night, we don't get to enjoy the delightful late night TV advertising. Thus, Esteban is forever doomed to not-quite-also-ran status on the forums.

Never seen him being in the UK and all that but this guy has tone to die for.
http://www.estebanmusic.com/shop/reflections-guitar-d/

I'd rate him well above slash any day of the week.

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I think Estebon is a great guitarist or he has to be to make those crappy guitars sound as good as he does. Then again Slash is pretty good it just he plays more mainstream music and has a very recognizable sound that alot of rock fans like. If we're talking the best guitarist ever i would have to go with Ricky Scaggs simply because he plays acoustic and still pulls off what most speed metal players do using amplfied tone and electronic help. If you want to see how good you really are unplug and give it a go.

I sort of know Esteban, although he doesn't know me. His real name is Stephen Paul, he's from Pittsburgh, and he's the luckiest man alive.

He got his start as the "artist in residence" at the Hyatt Gainey Ranch resort hotel in Scottsdale Arizona, where I, about 13 years ago, was music director for the Bank One annual sales conference. In addition to writing the show's theme songs and scoring videos shown through the week, I booked all the bands for parties and such. (I looked into booking E himself for one such gathering, and when he quoted me a price, I laughed and said, well, there was no way THAT was gonna happen when conference attendees could hear him for free in the lounge.)

Esteban played several nights a week in the hotel's fairly spectacular lounge, which was open to the lobby and therefore also open at night to the courtyard and pool area. The locals jammed the place, and the women (you have to know these Scottsdale wives to understand) swooned over his silent Zorro bit (back then, he didn't speak from the stage, for reasons that his TV appearances make obvious... it kind of blows the mystique). One night, Joy Mangano, who owned a company that sold crap like the Miracle Mop on QVC, was in town for a conference and was knocked all the way out by Esteban's "charisma." She signed him, started small by selling the records, and when her company was bought out by HSN, well... the rest is history.

Over the course of planning, rehearsing, and staging the show, I heard him and his band 20 times or so. He displays a kind of ossified competence... playing the same songs over and over every night for many years (he still does the tunes on HSN that I heard in Scotssdale 13 years ago), he definitely has his mojo working on his limited rep. His flamenco right hand is excellent, and he gets a good, solid nylon string tone. But his claims to have studied with Segovia are most likely made up to impress Arizona retirees. He is not mentioned in any of Segovia's writing or biographies, he does not play in a style that would indicate tutelage by the maestro, and his only evidence of a connection is an autographed photo of Segovia that reads... "To Esteban... one who loves the guitar." Segovia is known to have signed thousands of photos in this way, and this casual use of the Spanish for "Stephen" is the source of Esteban's stage name.

It could have been anyone of you... any competent guitar player in a black hat who pulled the strings of Joy Mangano would have his career.