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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I did a search on this topic, but found little treatment on it as a subject onto itself.
If you could wake up tomorrow and play like any guitarist (assuming one with more skill), who would you choose?
You get only one...choose well!
Richard Thompson for me. |
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Location: Central Florida | Glen Campbell... He's the guy that inspired me to want to play 37 years ago and he's still the standard by which I measure all other guitarists. Needless to say, he's also the reason I got turned onto Ovation guitars.
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Location: Minnesota | :confused: Chet Atkins?........Mark Knopfler?
Chet Atkins?........Mark Knopfler?
Chet Atkins?........Mark Knopfler?
Chet Atkins?........Mark Knopfler?
Chet Atkins?........Mark Knopfler?
Just one huh?
Gotta go with Chet!
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Location: SoCal | GC as well. He was part of the Wrecking Crew in L.A. in the 60's. Couldn't read music. Just a great player. Much better than Croce. But then Croce could write circles around Campbell (and many others as well). |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Diamond T...That is a tough choice... I would have fallen on the other side of the fence. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Me, only better. Really, my biggest regret/annoyance is that I had little to no encouragement when I was younger. I never had one guitar hero. It was always elements of many players. I'd love to wake up tomorrow and play as if I had been playing everday since I started 40 years ago. |
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Location: Minnesota | JeffW.....I'm really sitting on the fence but....Chet was around a long time and I was impressed by his playing early on in my guitar playing days.
Miles....I can relate! My father used to tell me I was wasting my money on guitars because no one else in the family had any musical talent. |
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Location: boulder | hank garland |
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Location: chattanooga tn | Mick Ronson |
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Location: Tennessee | Keith Richards |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | stonebobo
As a bluegrass picker and a person who would obviously choose Doc Watson and Mac Wiseman as my heroes, and maybe Chet, I have to admit that the times I have seen Keith Richards on some TV programs, I have been very impressed, he was on a Chuck Berry program, and one with Willie and in every case he stands out as being able to say a lot with a few guitar strokes and little posturing, he just hits it and what comes out is every rythym guitarists dream. |
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Location: Isle of Man, UK | I'd have to say the Eric Clapton of today. Versatile, from fingerpicked acoustic through to the heavier rock stuff. Still has the Blues roots in his playing, and also has emotion and subtlety in the solo.
Can play on his own, in front of his own band, or with random other people (ref "Concert for George" if anyone's seen that").
It's playing that you can't replicate without experience. Maybe in 30 years time... nah, never gonna happen!
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | All of the above...
Plus, Roy Clark. He just looks like he's havin' a ball when he plays! |
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| John McLaughlin.
BTW - Chet thought that Martin Taylor was absolutely the best guitar player he'd ever seen. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Steve Howe. |
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| You have got to be kidding.
Have another coffee and rethink that. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Good suggestion - I had a coffee and thought about it long and hard. Yup, Steve Howe. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Dave,
Try caffinated.
(sorry :D ) |
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Location: south east Michigan | Pete Townshend
There are some recent DVDs that show some decent acoustic work. Pete has been my "guitar hero" from the start. Clean, precise and technical? Nope, but alot of power and emotion.
"Pick up my guitar and play...just like yesterday!" |
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Location: Snellville, GA | Definitely Glen Campbell. I've wanted an O ever since the first Goodtime Hour show. |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | Guitar: Carlos Santana
Banjo: J.D. Crowe |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Maracas: Carmen Miranda
(There's a lob ball for hijacking the topic) |
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Location: East Tennessee | Chet........
He was not only a fabulous picker, he was an innovator, taking finger picking to a whole new level.
I saw him live once, (sat thru two shows), and he made it look soooo... easy.
Anyone who could play with Jerry Reed, Mark Knoffler,Les Paul and so many others has got to be great. I do love to watch Glen, Roy and the others. Also how about Kaki? She is truely an innovative picker. |
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Location: NJ | Martin Barre. |
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Location: closely held secret | Phil Keaggy. |
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