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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by Designzilla:
Jeff if you like Skip, Hop, wobble you might want to check out a CD from about the same time called Strength in Numbers. Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush, Mark o'Connor, Edgar Meyer and Belk Fleck. Have it! |
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| And still nobody has mentioned Duane Allman. |
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Location: NJ | . . . this can go on (and in the past, HAS) for days (and "pages"). |
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Location: NYC | No doubt at all - Tommy Emmanuel. |
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| what happened to bwojc numbers one and two? |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | AND.....nobody has mentioned ROBERT JOHNSON.....I just watched the DVD "Sessions for Robert J."....Eric Clapton tells about how HARD it is to play acoustic blues as well as R.J........
I'd also like to mention Rory Block....she is fabulous.
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| Now see Ya went and made me try and choose just one!............. Well I'm going to break the rules a little because I am working on three main instruments and they all have their hero's in my tiny mind!
Bass has become my central "Band" instrument and considering we are working out some Yes and Chris Squires solo stuff, and Peter Gabriel etc. stuff right now I guess My Choice would be Chris Squire every day and twice on sundays for bass technique!
For guitar man thats a killer......... I guess Joe Satrioni has hit just about every note on the neck a few thousand times each and he is so fast at times I can't figure out what he just did............ So It's Joe for me on electric's Although I can't get S.R.V. out of my mind while typing this.
On Acoustic Dam this is really hard!.......I watched Stevie Ray walk away from a 12 string guitar that was mounted on a guitar stand bolted to the floor on an MTV unplugged thing a long time ago and he tore that 12 string up! there were three strings hanging off it when he was done! I got out of my chair and clapped.
Steve Howe has had baffled me for many years with his acoustic pieces, but I guess It is Roy Clark who blew me away.... he played the flight of the bumble bee on an acoustic when I was a kid and That just has to be the hardest thing I have ever seen done on one. So Roy Clark! on Acoustic for me...
Not shootin to high am I? ....for my musical aspirations am I?
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Location: Scotland | Have to second James Taylor. Effortless doesn't even begin to capture his playing. My other choice would be Don MacLean ( remember him?) just because of his rather offbeat yet beautiful method of finger picking where he only seems to hit the notes that matter. Still listen to "Vincent" in wonder. |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Y'all can say what you want about all the others, but some guy named Estaban sure is gettin' a lot of Air Time lately... :rolleyes: |
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Location: Hyattsville, MD | Esteban; ha! Love those shitty infomercials. "World renowned guitar virtuoso..."
So, what do some folks have against Steve Howe here? I think he's a fantastic player, whether you dig the music or not. Heard his Not Necessarily Acoustic CD? Great. |
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Location: Isle of Man, UK | I'm going to jump in again with Brian May. Never does anything on an album that he can't do live, which is amazing.
Anyone who can back Freddie Mercury in full flight, and still manage to retain any form of spotlight has to be mentioned!!
Not to mention to abilty to switch straight from full-on rock to gentle ballad-picking.
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Location: Lawrence, KS | I absolutely love Trey Anastasio, he's probably my favorite guitarist. I love the way that he can just jam and improvise so beautifully. If I could play like anyone, I'd choose him :-) |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | God Damn
Schroeder has expressed some of my opinions, and he's a limey who supposaidly wouldn't kmow what he shows a great knowledge of, he has picked some of the pickers I would have if I was going to cheat and pick more than one. This whole thread has been a great memory path for me as I have heard for the FIRST time most of the artists mentioned. Some have left me saying WOW, some have left me saying WHaa but all were seminal. GREAT THREAD |
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Location: the Netherlands | For me, the King of strings is: Tommy Emmanuel
Watch this video and you know what I mean:
http://www.gitaarnet.nl/video/fingerpickers/boogie.wmv
This Australian guy is amazing.
June 24 he comes to Holland, and..I'll be there! |
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Location: NYC | Purple flame,
As I said a bit earlier, he's my pick. I also had a chance a while back to "talk" with one of your compatriots, Harald K., who is also an execellent fingerstyle player, and has performed with him. He tabbed out one of Tommy's tunes from an mp3 I'd sent him that is not yet released on any CD, and did a fantastic job! |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Anyone for John Fahey??? |
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Location: Snellville, GA | Terry Kath? |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Terry Kath..
Correct me if I am wrong (which I probably am) but wasn't he the guitarist for Chicago that killed himself? |
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Location: Omaha | Can't believe I read this whole thread (so far...shoulda jumped in earlier, but it's been A WEEK!).
No one's mentioned my absolute favorite yet: Canadian jazzer Ed Bickert - no one commands the fretboard (or theory, harmony, and just plain beautiful music) like him. And he does it all on a Tele...?
Since some of you are CHEATING and mentioning more than one, just one more; the best acoustic singer-songwriter PERFORMER I've ever seen is David Wilcox, hands down - go to his show; you'll leave a different person.
(Now...back to Easter sermon prep...)
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | David Wilcox is a MASTER of alternate tunings. The first time I saw him was probably 10-12 years ago at a little outdoor concert. Musta been less than a 100 of us there. David had me come on stage before the show and play on his guitar so that he could go out into the stands and adjust the sound on the PA system. He then proceeded to mingle with us fans before and after the show.
I saw him about 4 years after that when he was much more popular. Still very friendly and approachable. He was sitting in the adjacent outdoor eating area when my wife and I walked by and noticed him....said hello, etc. He said I looked familiar and I mentioned getting on stage with his guitar so he could adjust the sound system. He immediately remembered and talked about what a great show it was and how Denver was one of his favorite stops. We left him in peace to finish his meal.....and later enjoyed another terrific show (Karla Bonoff was the opening act). |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | If you like Karla Bonoff check out this site:
www.bryndle.com |
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| George Benson, Paco de Lucia, Davy Graham, Bert Jansch, Roger (I knew him when he was Jim) McGuinn......... |
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| Al DiMeola! :) |
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Location: Warren, OH | How bout Larry Carlton? |
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Location: Snellville, GA | Terry Kath was the original guitarist for Chicago who did in fact shoot himself when he said the gun wasn't loaded.
I didn't say he was the best, but he was pretty good, being musically illiterate. |
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