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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | there are several guitar players some of whom include:
mark knopfler
Leo kotke
chris smither
and of course rt
Who i can identify nearly instantaneously because of their very distinctive sound...
That an impressive feat as a guitar player |
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Location: Vernon CT | How about Lindsey Buckingham and Carlos Santana??
I'm sure this group here will come up with many names. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Keif |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Andres Segovia
Hank Marvin |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | I think James Taylor has a very distinctive style also. |
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Location: Gardnerville, NV | David Gilmour. He amazes me by being able to express an amazing range of emotion with an effortless sound. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Kaki King is "Different" if that is the criteria...
Peter Frampton was different before his career went down the tubes and he ended up doing car insurance commercials...
Just a reminder, for those who forgot (or fried it out)...
This is part II, which is the better part! |
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Location: Whitecourt, Ab | Jeff Healy
StevieRayVaugn
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Hendrix of course
Chet Atkins was always distinctive to me |
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Location: Tidal Mudflats of Virginia | Brian Setzer
George Thorogood
Jimmy Page
Eric Clapton
Melissa Etheridge |
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Albert Collins
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Location: Brighty in Blighty | Frank Zappa
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Location: NW Washington State | Some that I think I could identify by sound/style:
John McLaughlin
John Scofield
Wes Montgomery
Charlie Christian
Terry Kath
HumblePie, do you think you could identify Segovia in a blind test, compared to other classical players? I couldn't, but I haven't listened that carefully to different classical artists.
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craig chaquico
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Roy Buchanan
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Speedy West |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | I thought Bo Diddley might have rated a mention seeing as he's just gone to the "ol chord chart in the sky". |
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Location: Chicago | Metheny, of coure. John Abercrombie. |
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Location: Jet City | Originally posted by AussieJames:
I thought Bo Diddley might have rated a mention seeing as he's just gone to the "ol chord chart in the sky". Very distinct indeed.
At the other end of the spectrum, I can usually tell when it's Zakk Wylde playing. |
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| I have always liked joe satrioni, although I think he has a little heavier sound than the ovation. |
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Location: UK | Chris Rea |
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Location: Tidal Mudflats of Virginia | Me...I don't sound like anybody ~ no matter how much I try :) |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Me? I play just like John Belushi in Animal House! |
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Location: Las Vegas, Nevada | Inimitable: Bob "Skippy" Blechinger:
The Skippydelic Experience does Bohemian Rhapsody |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | When I first posted this, I was thinking along the lines of "Name That Tune"... in that, of those guitarists I listed (and others, Keef), I can, within just a coupla notes, know that it is them- even if I haven't previously heard the tune they are playing. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | SRV |
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Location: Las Vegas, Nevada | Okay, seriously, I can pick out Michael Landau and Dean Parks on any of the stuff they record as studio musicians. |
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Location: Tennessee | I'm with you, Jeff. Tom Scholtz and Dick Dale. |
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Location: Columbus Ohio | Duane Allman
Leo Kottke
Robert Smith of the Cure (it's not complicated stuff, per say- it's just unique)
Pete Townshend
Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains
Tom Morello (who else hides behind tons of effects)
Prince
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Location: Jet City | I can tell Vai a mile away too. |
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Location: UK | Robbie Robertson |
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Location: Kentucky | Django Reinhart
Wes Montgomery
Roy Buchanan
Leo Kottke
Les Paul
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Location: Jet City | Merle Travis
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | George Harrison's licks are instantly recogniseable. |
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Location: NJ | 'specially his Slide. . . . |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Vince Gill (instantly recognizable)
Bonnie Raitt (esp. her slide) |
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Location: GA USA | Brian May |
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Location: North Carolina | John Scofield
Distinctive because he has the lousiest tone I've heard from a guitarist at that level. However, I haven't heard every last track he's recorded, so I'm still hoping . . . |
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Location: Orlando, FL | Sonny Landreth
Eric Johnson
Steve Morse
BB King
Jeff Beck |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Well for slide guys Duane is always recognizable as is Sonny and Lowell George. Derek is good with many Duane touches.
One of the best slide solos is the one on Seger's song, Like a Rock. |
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Location: CA | My heroes and their catagories:
lead solos — David Gilmour
Incredible rhythm — Knopfler
master of the universe — Hendrix
It's not possible made possible — Eddie
Who puts the biggest smile on my face no matter how many times I see a video of him playing: Brian Setzer. I'm sure most of you are aware that he uses both a pick and fingerpicking interchangeably in his playing. When he switches to fingers, he kind of 'palms' the pick like a magician, which he is. Plus he always seems to have such a great time doing what he does. Check out his YouTube videos sometime. |
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Location: GA USA | Who read this issue of RS? The cover featured Kirk Hammett, Santana, Buddy Guy, John Mayer, EVH, Jimmy Page, BB King and Omar Something-or-other.
The interviews were interesting, but no Clapton, Keith Richards or Slipkid? And the response I've read has been pretty universal... John Mayer???
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | -Jerry Douglas
-John Campbell
-Lonnie Mack
-Roy Buchanan |
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Location: Montréal, québec, Canada | Eric Clapton |
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Location: Indiana | This year marks my 39th year with a guitar in my lap... 35 years since I got my first paycheck. Yes, I can list numerous guitarists with "names" that heavily influenced me. But there are far more "no-names" that have blown my doors off and walked me through their licks. Most of those were destined to remain unheralded working musicians, many have been session players known inside music circles, but unknown to the world at large.
Studio musicians could arguably be the most influential "distinctive" guitarists of all time... even when the names are unknown.
Take for instance the infamous "Wrecking Crew" group of LA studio musicians who played on literally thousands of records in the 60's. From Sinatra to the Mamas and the Papas. Nat Cole to the Beach Boys. Elvis to the Ventures. Simon and Garfunkel to Merle Haggard.
The first call guitarists in that elite group, with the exception of Glen Campbell, are still relatively unknown names. Tommy Tedesco, Al Casey, Jerry Cole, James Burton, and Billy Strange. Their distinctive guitar licks were devoured by musicians from my era, never knowing the name of the studio guitarist who actually authored the part. (Musicians were rarely credited back then, so you are to be forgiven if you believe The Monkeys actually played on their records...)
I have to admit, my affinity for the "unknowns" stems from my nearly 30 relationship with Billy Strange. Billy literally took me in when I first moved to Nashville and my education began. At 77, Billy and I are still in business together and it has stopped surprising me to uncover yet another hit that he played on, even after all these years.
There's a great story in one of the Brian Wilson biography's. Brian called Billy and asked him to come over and over-dub an electric 12 string part on a track they'd recently worked on together. Billy told him he didn't own one, so Brian called a local store owner and had a Fender 12 and amp delivered to the studio.
Billy showed up, tuned up, and laid down the classic intro to Sloop John B in short order.
As Billy was leaving, Brian gave him $500 bucks cash, over and above the union card, and gave him the guitar and amp.
I have to be totally honest, since this is the OFC... Billy doesn't care for Ovations. It's been a long running, good natured topic of disagreement between he and I. As a result though, I acquired what I consider to be a pretty special instrument. Billy was playing with both Nancy Sinatra and Elvis in 1968, and since his stage guitar of choice was a 335, Ovation sent him a comp Thunderhead... which he used one night in Vegas with Nancy, then promptly stuck it in his closet. I found it one day 20+ years later, my eyes lit up, and he gave it to me.
I can honestly say my life has been a treasure of distinctive guitarists, most of which you've never heard of. And I'm grateful for every one.
(When Billy comes to my house, he has no choice but to play my Ovation's. He grumbles... but obliges.)
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Location: SoCal | Johnmark, very cool story. You need to post some picks of your guitars in a gallery and tell us the stories behind them. For example, that classical you're playing in the pic looks very interesting... |
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Location: GA USA | Okay, time for somebody to host a TN jam so I can come and meet this fine young man. |
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Location: south east Michigan | I'm guessing the the guy in the pic is "Billy". |
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Location: Indiana | Yeah, that's Billy playing my gut string.
And yes, it has a checkered past.
I bought it new in '78, a stock Classic 1613.
The vine fretboard, headstock and bridge inlay were added in the early '80's... pearl to match the original rosette.
A dry, sub freezing night in the Rockies split the top in '95 and I asked the guys at the factory for a ceder top with the (then new) Folklore rosette.
In hindsight, an inlaid pearl rosette would have been neater, but what the heck. At least she lived to sing another day, and this guitar won't be sold until the post funeral fire sale anyway. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Great post(s) Jonmark Stone. |
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