Name some good guitarists..

[chuckywang]

Originally posted by: CraKaJaX
I'm looking for some sweet guitarists that aren't really big in the music world. I recently found out about Kenny Wayne Shepard... love this guy. Deja Voodoo is an amazing song.

So anyway... name some for me

While We Cry is a better Kenny Wayne Shepherd song.

 

[Pepsi90919]

billy howerdel
adam jones
jerry cantrell
claudio sanchez
mark tremonti
mike einziger
mike mccready
jeff martin

 

[Rudee]

Michael Angelo Batio

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG74eVb6V10

 

[imported_yetti]

Jeff Loomis of Nevermore
Guthrie Govan
Vince Lupone

 

[Tom]

Maybe some of you haven't heard of..

Dick Dale
Glen Campbell (master of the 12 string)

 

[flxnimprtmscl]

Not one mention of Robert Fripp??? *shakes head*

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Can the OP keep a list of artists in the first post? I'd like to look over a compiled list later on.

 

[Oscar1613]

Originally posted by: Platypus
Also, since people are mentioning people that ARE mainstream, throw Warren Hayes, Lindsay Buckingham and John Mayer into the mix.

JM kind of rips off SRV a lot (who doesn't have a few SRV licks in their work?) but he's slowly becoming his own musician and I expect nothing but good things from him.

his grammy performance (right-click save-as)

 

[CraKaJaX]

Originally posted by: IHateMyJob2004
Can the OP keep a list of artists in the first post? I'd like to look over a compiled list later on.

Sure, I'll do that right now.

 

[davestar]

Originally posted by: marincounty
Roy Buchanan (rip)

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[imported_quasi]

Originally posted by: SViper
Monte Montgomery is pretty awesome. He does some things with an acoustic guitar that make you think it's actually an electric.

I've been learning how to play Little Wing, and while searching YouTube for some clips of the song, I found a few of him playing it. Good Stuff :thumbsup:

Oh, and add Rory Gallagher to the list.

 

[Excelsior]

Originally posted by: Platypus

Originally posted by: CraKaJaX

Originally posted by: Platypus
Robben Ford
Allan Holdsworth (prob best living)
Robert Cray
Andy Timmons

Saw Robert Clay with Clapton this past October.... needless to say, fvcking amazing concert.

His 'Time Makes Two' song from that concert DVD is one of the most emotion drawing performances I've ever seen.. just his face, how he feels the music. Tell Satriani and the other fingerboard wizards to pay attention.. you can say a lot more with fewer notes than a string of 60 that have no feeling whatsoever in them.

Gilmour is also a master of 'saying a lot with very little' as is Steve Miller.

I'll have to check that out. I saw Robert Cray on some TV program last year and was floored. I really love his style and his voice is nice too.

 

[ShOcKwAvE827]

Originally posted by: Rudee
Michael Angelo Batio

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG74eVb6V10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKMYeXkYcgs

the guitar noob, or the guy that like painted jesus on the ceiling and stuff?

 

[Excelsior]

Has anyone mentioned Paco De Lucia? He is a pimp-ass flamenco guitarist.

 

[SWScorch]

Or, how about one of the best rhythm guitarists, Jon Schaffer of Iced Earth? He may not be able to shred but his playing is tight and precise.

 

[mrzed]

Perhaps not surprising that the selection here is very heavily weighted towards hairbands and blues rock, but IMO, the best guitarists are almost always jazz or classical. I've seen jazz guitarists pull off shredding hard rock stuff, but rarely does it go the other way.

Still, I'm somewhat surprised nobody came up with John McLaughlin yet. Not only is he one of the most gifted technical guitarist of our time, he also changed music. Something few others on the list have.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Steve Hackett
Jeff Healy
I'll get back to you on some more
I believe that Steve Hackett was the first to do triplets (the thing that made EVH so famous.)

 

[Linflas]

Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple)
Glen Buxton (original Alice Cooper lead guitarist)

 

[Gibsons]

Wow, I almost forgot: Junior Brown

 

[Electric Amish]

Some are big, some are not...none are on the list. All rock.


Popa Chubby
Ian Moore
Rob Thorworth
Nuno Bettencourt
Hamilton Loomis
Eric Johnson
Martin Barre
Chris Duarte
Ted Nugent
Bugs Henderson

 

[Cadop]

No one has mentioned Prince yet?

 

[Electric Amish]

Originally posted by: Cadop
No one has mentioned Prince yet?

I was going to, but he is kinda "known".

 

[mrzed]

Originally posted by: Electric Amish

Originally posted by: Cadop
No one has mentioned Prince yet?

I was going to, but he is kinda "known".

This thread long ago abandonded the notion of being about obscure guitarists.

 

[Unmoosical]

Michael Hedges. One of the best acoustic guitarists ever. Some consider him the "Hendrix" of acoustic guitar because of how innovative he was.

 

[davestar]

Originally posted by: Sheik Yerbouti
Steve Hackett
Jeff Healy
I'll get back to you on some more
I believe that Steve Hackett was the first to do triplets (the thing that made EVH so famous.)

got your terms mixed up? hackett is credited w/tapping and sweep picking.

triplets are three notes played in the space of two