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Location: Chicago | In musical taste and playing efforts who is THE central figure in your "guitar playing" life? Setting aside "originality", who comes closest to being DA MAN?
(For me, of course, the model has always been early 70s ACOUSTIC McLaughlin from Spaces to Shakti.) |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Too many!!
Choosing one, David Gilmour
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Location: VENISE-EN-QUEBEC CANADA | Roy Clark ;)
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Location: GA USA | For me it's Kevn Kinney , as a solo artist and with Drivin\' n Cryin\' . |
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Location: big island | in my opinion, tommy emmanuel is the finest overall guitar picker in history. |
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Location: SoCal | finger style - Jerry Reed
flat picking - Glen Campbell
But there are lots of others..... |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Jim Stafford |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Stephen Stills. |
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Location: Vermont | I'm with lanaki. Tommy Emmanuel is DA MAN. |
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Location: Location Location Location | For showmanship, speed, creativity, precision, harmonic knowledge, sense of melody...I gotta go with Tommy Emmanuel as the best overall player I'ver ever heard or seen..But hero I'd reserve for Lennon & McCartney in terms of just raw musical talent that came through in songwriting and unusual (for the time) chord voicings, and whose guitar playing I'd try to emulate. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Johnny Ramone |
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Location: London, UK | Robert Fripp
And he my reason for choosing Ovation way back when. |
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Location: Missouri | Very simply, Tommy Johnston of Doobie Brothers fame. |
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Location: Newington, CT | John Mclaughlin -- the whole package.
Tommy Emmanuel is just spectacular...I just haven't known of him for long enough, or else he certainly would be up there.
Then, there are just so many others who are simply outstanding. Command of the fretboard, expressiveness, power, style, articulation. Man! When I listen to them, I can't EVEN imagine "how ANYONE could top THAT!" (whatever I'm listening to at that time, that is).
Then someone astonishes me still further.
What a GREAT world is the guitar world, eh?!?!?!? |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Tommy E |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | . . . no longer with us, may he RIP. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Interesting question. We have nothing in common musically but for some odd reason I've always had a lot of respect for Jose Feliciano. |
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Location: Newington, CT | Originally posted by ProfessorBB:
. . . no longer with us, may he RIP. Ummmmmmm...WHO's no longer with us? |
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Location: GA USA | I imagine he's talking about Mr. Paul, now enjoying fishsticks in the sky with Mrs. Paul. |
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Location: PDX | Can't name just one really, because i play a number of styles. In no particular order and leaving out too many to mention:
Lenny Breau
Ted Greene
Chet Atkins
John Knowles
Jerry Reed
Robert Johnson
Rev. Gary Davis
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Location: London, UK | Only one, eh? Rats!
Then it has to be the man who got me into playing bass in the first place:
Jack Bruce. :cool: |
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Location: ms | Growing up on live TV i have o say Chet, jerry and the rest of those guys. But if i have to name one it would be Fogelberg. He just did so many styles of music. You have to listen to full albums not just cuts to understand just how good he was. Go buy "High Country Snows" or "Twin Sons Of Different Mothers" if you don`t like them i`ll give you your money back. |
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Location: Reisterstown, Maryland | I'm with Moody, Glen Campbell. Seeing him with that Ovation I was in love.....with the O's and then listening to him play wow. And he couldn't read music.
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Arnold Palmer |
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| The problem is "Your Hero IS". Well, there is no is. A couple of wases, sure, but nobody I look at now and say, "WOW! I want to play like that!" Now there are a few people whose work I admire, but they're not heroes. |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | The guitarist whose playing mine most resembles is Michael Johnson. Jazz with a classical influence. I've been told we have the same "touch". (I was HIGHLY complimented). Now if I could only learn to sing half as well as he does... |
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Location: Hanau, Hessen, Germany | My alltime hero is and will be until I die:
Tommy Emmanuel
cheers
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Georges Claude . . . died in 1960. |
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Location: big island | love this smokin\' electric guitar playin\'...
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Love this guy's creativity and skill . . . the middle number in this medley, starting at about 1:47 reminds me of his early CDs, just after Fender signed on as a sponsor.
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Location: South of most, North of few | Beal. | |
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Location: Ohio | Tommy Emmanuel
Jim Croce and his sidekick Murray
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | Originally posted by Beal:
Arnold Palmer ....he did make some sweet music with his clubs! | |
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Location: Michigan | dweezil isn't this your hero?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vs2P9e18jg
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Location: big island | Originally posted by ProfessorBB:
Georges Claude . . . died in 1960. only a neon freak would know of georges :D | |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | +1 David Gilmour | |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | Y'all know my hero is an unassuming fellow named Bob Peterson, who gave us our Gertrude. He's my hero because he taught me to play, for free--no formal lessons, just a sit-down-with every once in awhile to explain something I needed to know. He is also a hospice chaplain, who takes a guitar to work with him every day to play for and encourage those facing the most difficult transition of all. He has essential tremor syndrome now, which medication can't quite control, so his best playing days are behind him--the last time we got together he said that I now can play better than he does. :( :(
Sure, those incredibly-gifted, well-known players can be adored all over the place, and I know that they've earned it--but Bob built time into my life, and it's thanks to him that I can play at all; he will always be my hero. | |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by Jewel's Mom a/k/a Joisey Goil #1:
Bob built time into my life Karen, what a great way to express one's gratitude! Very touching story... | |
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Location: NJ | Phil Keaggy is an inspiration to me...his arrangements are so good and his playing is masterful. | |
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Location: Newington, CT | Originally posted by Jewel's Mom a/k/a Joisey Goil #1:
Y'all know my hero is an unassuming fellow named Bob Peterson, who gave us our Gertrude. He's my hero because he taught me to play, for free--no formal lessons, just a sit-down-with every once in awhile to explain something I needed to know. He is also a hospice chaplain, who takes a guitar to work with him every day to play for and encourage those facing the most difficult transition of all. He has essential tremor syndrome now, which medication can't quite control, so his best playing days are behind him--the last time we got together he said that I now can play better than he does. :( :(
Sure, those incredibly-gifted, well-known players can be adored all over the place, and I know that they've earned it--but Bob built time into my life, and it's thanks to him that I can play at all; he will always be my hero. Beautiful story! He IS a hero! | |
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Location: Newington, CT | Originally posted by Handmadeguitars:
Phil Keaggy is an inspiration to me...his arrangements are so good and his playing is masterful. Amen! March of the Clouds? Shades of Green? Wow! | |
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Location: Newington, CT | Originally posted by Handmadeguitars:
The Star of County Down Yep. He's relaxed, in command, fluent, and VERY aware of melody. He's GREAT! | |
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YOUR HERO IS ______