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Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 1:48 pm
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I remember watching him on Austin City Limits.


To the topic: Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, SRV, Leadbelly, Jimmy Page.


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Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 2:04 pm
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Of every forum I visit, the one guitarist who gets overlooked by just about every poster is Lindsey Buckingham. It's a shame there isn't more LB love, because he's an amazingly talented and accomplished guitarist. His solo from the "The Dance" version of "I'm So Afraid" ranks in my top 5 guitar solos of all time. I get chills every time I hear it.



Anyway, these are my favorites:

Stevie Ray Vaughan
Slash
Lindsey Buckingham
David Gilmour
Mark Knopfler
Matthew Bellamy


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Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 2:37 pm
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My favorite living guitarists are Eric Clapton and BB King. Eric Clapton's music and BB King's music is a pleasure to play and is demanding enough to keep playing. It's not like you pick it up and master it and then it's not fun to play. It's just great stuff to play and fun.

There's another really big reason I admire these guys tremendously. It's who they are. They never stop working and getting better. BB King practically invented a lot of the electric guitar we all love in the 40s and 50s and he's very influential on all the great guitar players. On Riding With The King, BB is like 80 and he's right in there with the great Clapton. BB knocks off some amazing soulful singing solos. I love his statement like I'll play my guitar until the day I die. Yes! That's how I feel, and you know that Kaiser commercial about buying a guitar when sick with cancer is true too. That's how it should be. BB King is an inspiration.

Clapton is just a tremendous musician. He's got some great videos on Google Video (youtube). Like, playing rhythm for Knoppfler on Sultans of Swing, Clapton's like a human metronome. His version of "Little Wing" gets better and better. Playing "Over the Rainbow" and a great blues/jazz version of Crossroad Blues, he's a true blues/jazz musician jamming with other blues/jazz artists. Al Dimeola's got nothing on him - and notice he uses the pick while he fingerpicks as well. That's new within the last 15 years and he just keeps growing. Playing Crossroad Blues with John Mayer last summer, Mayer's playing in the "BB Box" where I also play a lot and it's good. Clapton's got it covered from one end of the fret board to the other, and watch those hands - he doesn't just play the three fingers as is sometimes critiqued, although I've seen him do that at times. Nope Clapton plays with the little finger as fully a part of his technique. He gets great tone in the middle of the fret board around B, up in e, in the BB box of C and down around the 22d fret. He can play three fingered or four fingered. Al Dimeola's got nothing on him, and Clapton brings soul and feel and his love for the Blues, which are beautiful, into what he plays. He's never just a dry technique master, which is empty, but I don't think anyone's got anything on him when it comes to technique. Don't assume Clapton cannot read music because John Lennon couldn't. Lennon was a wordsmith who could play guitar. Clapton is a musician first and last. Since I can read simple music for guitar, I seriously doubt that Clapton lacks that ability. One thing that shows his musicianship that Clapton does a lot is he rearranges his songs. The song is written with the basic chords and the lyrics, but Clapton will revolutionize the arrangements in cool ways. By arrangement I mean the way he mixes the notes and chords, the mix of instruments. He often goes for a very, very cool pure blues/jazz feel. There's a lot more to Clapton than his greatest hits.

I also like Buddy Guy. I enjoy the way he plays.

My favorite deceased guitarist is SRV.


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Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 2:39 pm
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Location: Out there on the road
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Gilmour
Clapton
Hendrix


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Roger Waters
Geezer Butler
Jeordie White
Jack Bruce
Justin Chancellor


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Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 2:52 pm
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You know, the thing about the great studio musicians/producers like Lindsey Buckingham and Jimmy Page and Hendrix before either guy is that they are not purely musicians. They are very creative artists and I love what they do. LB might track like 5 guitars and make it work, like on the last Fleetwood Mac album. The stuff Page did with Zeppellin, and Hendrix even before that with his studio innovations, is amazing. LB playing lead live keeps getting better and better from when he says he was not comfortable playing lead, and I really respect that. Guys like Clapton, SRV the Blues greats are different - they are better live. It's not like they can't quite get that tone or that riff playing live. They will do something you've never heard before live, maybe with a totally new arrangement that they set up for that tour.


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