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Location: 6 String Ranch | You know Duane has to be high on the list.
Another favorite of mine actually covers two.
Paul Butterfield. I love his early and middle stuff. And of course his guitar player, Mike Bloomfield who is the guy who brought back the Les Paul after it was discontinued although he never gets credit for it. He was playing one and that's where Clapton and all the English guys saw and "had to have one". |
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Location: Glendale, AZ | Warren Zevon
I always liked his quirky, dark songs.
"Werewolves of London"
"Excitable Boy"
"Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" |
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Location: Jet City | SRV
Randy Rhoads
Duane Allman
Jimi Hendrix
George Harrison
Zappa
yer run-o-the-mill dead guitar guys. |
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Location: Jet City | Well I guess this isn't confined to guitar players, so there's lots more now, and many some have never heard of I'm sure, but to start...
Lowell George comes to mind. |
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Location: SoCal | Jerry Reed / Chet Atkins...... |
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| After reading this thread.....I am confident my music heroes who are gone will be mentioned. Instead of posting an answer, I'd like to mention I need to buy some good books on Music History from the early days to the modern era. Well Rock History anyway and the electric guitar era. I have been reading some individual bands history but there is a lot of industry history I know nothing of.
I did not know about the Les Paul guitar being cancelled by Gibson.....I find that amazing! Between the Stratocaster and the Les Paul you have the two biggest instruments to post sales ever, I think.
Interesting stuff. Anyone got a good book to help this poor ignorant man?
"History Dam It" Clint Eastwood, Thunderbolt & Lightfoot. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | John Lennon & Ronald Regan |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Louis Armstrong has got to be near the top of musicians ...
In terms of guitar influence (on me):
Johnny Ramone
Bo Diddley
Mother Maybelle Carter
Gosh there are a lot more ... |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Oops Carter's not a guy so let me substitute two:
Hank Williams, Sr.
Johny Cash |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Morbid thread.....I would tip Andres Segovia .
Vic |
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Location: Tennessee | Jeff Buckley. Roy Buchanan. Danny Gatton. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | lowell george
kevin gilbert |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Jim Croce
Maury Mueliesen?? however it was spelled |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Warren Zevon, Frank Zappa, Randy Rhoads |
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Location: closely held secret | Jackie Gleason |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | John Lee Hooker
Luther Allison
Paul deLay ( local blues harmonica player )
R.L. Burnside
Johnny Cash
Ted Hawkins
Jeff Healey
Roy Orbison
Townes Van Zandt
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Jimi Hendrix
John Lennon |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Jackie Gleason..??..
WABB , you really need to change the sparkplugs on yer " tow - truck " more often... :D
Vic
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Location: New South Wales, Australia | John Lennon for me too as well as the Big O |
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Location: florida | John Lee Hooker
Robert Johnson
Rick Danko
Richard Manuel
T Bone Walker
Mike Bloomfield
George Harrison
Townes Van Zandt
Tim Buckley
Waylon Jennings
Ronnie Van Zandt
Steve Gaines
Frank Zappa
Jerry Reed
Chet Atkins
Nick Drake
Tchiakovsky
Leonard Cohen
Jeff Buckley
Allen Collins
Duane Allman
John Bonham
Tommy Caldwell
Chas Chandler
Gene Clark
Phil Lynott
Keith Moon
Berry Oakley
Carl and Dennis of the Beach Boys
and many many more (including Jimi Hendrix even though i dont care for his "guitar music" much he was wonderful songwriter when he would just do it for the songs sake and not the guitar..so who knows where the hell he would be musically and doing musically now?!)
all of them extremely infulencial on music,poetry, and society in general |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | good news, Leonard Cohen is still with us. |
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Location: NJ | Hari Georgeison. |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | John Entwhistle
Keith Moon
Harry Chapin
Dan Fogelberg
My 401K |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Interesting and a little predictable.
Maybe it is a bit morbid but I heard "Work Song" by Butterfield on the radio and it got me think about this.
How about the more obscure guys, and of course, why. |
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Location: Scotland | Ronnie Lane. Founder member of the Small Faces with Stevie Marriot, later of the Faces with Rod Stewart. Then Slim Chance and The Passing Show. A truly unique songwriting talent and a vastly underrated musician. |
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