Good point. lol That's like dashboard drumming. On that, I'm a combination of Ginger Baker, John Bonham and Buddy rich.
250 Greatest Guitarists
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I included Big Joe Williams and Randy Jackson who play the nine and 12 string respectively. As well as Michael Hedges who played the odd harp guitar.
But to answer your question: I guess that in the Western music that I've followed (rock, jazz, folk country, classical), most of my favorites mostly played a six string guitar.
And Anthony Phillips can dazzle with whatever he chooses to play.
I hope to meet him in the next few years......Followed him from 1977 on.I included Big Joe Williams and Randy Jackson who play the nine and 12 string respectively. As well as Michael Hedges who played the odd harp guitar.
But to answer your question: I guess that in the Western music that I've followed (rock, jazz, folk country, classical), most of my favorites mostly played a six string guitar.
And Anthony Phillips can dazzle with whatever he chooses to play.
@butterscotch Okay, you want your mind blown by a multi-string player? A friend sent some of Evangelina Mascardi's playing a few years back. I was stunned at her virtuosity. A person wishes to be as good on anything as she is on the lute. Just wow.
so why do long hair guys on six string get 96% of the wows
The universe is not fair.
If anyone knows this it is jet fans
How about Mr. Rutherford? All those great passages on Lamb and SEBTP. Not the same without him
For 12 string, there was always Ralph Towner
Love this addition, @Fudbutter. I have not listened to Towner's stuff in a long time. Thanks for that video. Just read that he is still going strong at age 83.
you are right as Ant has said that he is one of the best in the world. he is so underrated, but he seems to have put his 12 string away the last 30 years.
Going back to a six string, but played in an uncommon way. How about the late great Jeff Healey?
EDIT: Just check out his solos in the video. No idea how he gets those long, ringing sustains playing this way. Goddam he's fantastic. And check out the friggin' band. Legendary guys.
EDIT: Just check out his solos in the video. No idea how he gets those long, ringing sustains playing this way. Goddam he's fantastic. And check out the friggin' band. Legendary guys.
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lol In all seriousness, he was an inspiration to so many. Can't imagine losing both eyes as a baby from a rare form of eye cancer. But yet becoming that level of musician.must have been on drugs
I agree, Look at Wilson he has two good eyes & he can't hit a receiver five feet away
In his first season, we should have dubbed him "Scuffie" for all the passes he scuffs in the dirt to open receivers.
Another worthy guitarist is the late Larry Coryell. Saw him way back when in a NYC club playing jazz and jazz fusion.
Here he is with two other legends, Paco De Lucia and John McLaughlin. They all stretch out creating fretboard magic as only they can.
Here he is with two other legends, Paco De Lucia and John McLaughlin. They all stretch out creating fretboard magic as only they can.
wow
always forget about Coryell. Great band The Eleventh House (Mouzon on drums, Mandel on EP, Randy Brecker etc)
Good player but not the very top level. Good example is how badly he got smoked cutting with DiMeola on Lenny White's Venusian Summer. His Hagstrom Swede (yuck)/Mutron combo was unique though and sold a lot of Mutrons
time to switch instruments here? How about greatest keyboard players or drummers, that's much larger lists or if we're lazy, best electric violinists, list has got to be somewhat shorter:
Jerry Goodman
Jean-Luc Ponty
Mark Wood
David Cross
Stepane Grappelli
Michael Urbaniak
always forget about Coryell. Great band The Eleventh House (Mouzon on drums, Mandel on EP, Randy Brecker etc)
Good player but not the very top level. Good example is how badly he got smoked cutting with DiMeola on Lenny White's Venusian Summer. His Hagstrom Swede (yuck)/Mutron combo was unique though and sold a lot of Mutrons
time to switch instruments here? How about greatest keyboard players or drummers, that's much larger lists or if we're lazy, best electric violinists, list has got to be somewhat shorter:
Jerry Goodman
Jean-Luc Ponty
Mark Wood
David Cross
Stepane Grappelli
Michael Urbaniak
I just mentioned Coryell as someone who should have been considered over many of the lesser players on the RS list. I always thought he was an excellent jazz/jazz fusion guitarist.
You need to take the lead on electric violinists. Other than Grappelli and Ponty, I don't know much about that world. Maybe I would add John Cale of the Velvet Underground as an electric violist.
Oops sorry, didn't mean to defame Mr. Coryell. What I meant was still guitar Hall of Fame, but the Mazeroski to McLaughlin's Gehrig. Of course, neither one is Joni Mitchell
Coryell used to advertise in the Village Voice to give lessons. That would have been interesting