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There are just so many different kinds of music and so many guitar players that are stuck in one type of music. You've got shredders that can just wear out any song, and you've got Chet Atkins type guitarists that play 3-4 different instruments on their guitar at one time. Jeff Beck can play any type of music of any genre.
Many names have been mentioned over and over. But nothing has been said about guitar players that were behind the scenes--music session musicians.
I was raised in the Music City, and there's never been any shortage of absolutely incredible guitarists there. The top Nashville guitar players off the top of my head were :
Grady Martin--Willie Nelson's lead guitar for his last 25 years.
Glenn Campbell
Duane Allman
Harold Bradley
Tommy Emmanuel
Jerry Reed
Hank Garland
Hank Garland was probably the most understated guitar players of all time. He almost died in a car wreck and never played guitar again. But in the late 1950s, he was the finest closet jazz guitar player of all times. He played on an incredible number of country records in the day to pay the bills. But jazz was his favorite.
If you ask all the Nashville musicians who is the best musician they've ever heard, and you will get one answer--Mark O'Connor. There's no musician that can touch him on the fiddle--but he's even better on the flat top guitar. Mark won the National Guitar Championship at age 14, and he's truly a virtuoso.
You simply wouldn't believe the list of names of musicians (all instruments) and movie stars that live in Nashville. I'm talking Justin Timberlake, Nicolle Kidman, Jim Horn, Michael McDonald, Steven Tyler, Kid Rock and many, many more.
Mark won the National Guitar Championship at age 14, and he's truly a virtuoso.
National Guitar Championship? Ive never heard of such a thing. I live in LA which is the epicenter of where those who want to rock live (want to live). Been around musicians my entire life, even have friends who teach at Musicians Institute (GIT) and have never heard of a national guitar championship. Maybe its just a country music thing. I am no fan at all of country music, even though Roy Clark is on my Top Ten Guitarist list and also that Aussie guy who is country singer (also a judge on American Idol) is a great guitar player. But, Im thinking this guitar championship thing is probably a country music thing.
Well, I consider the bass guitar part of the guitar family
But the bass guitar is not a guitar; it's a bass guitar.
When someone speaks about guitars, they are clearly talking not about bass guitars (or banjoes, or ukeleles, or sitars, etc.) but about guitars. Were they speaking of any of those other similar instruments, they would specify.
It's like someone talking about getting a cat - everyone knows perfectly well they're not thinking of getting a tiger or an ocelot or a lynx, despite the fact that those are all in the cat family.
But the bass guitar is not a guitar; it's a bass guitar.
It is truly sad you have to point that out. I'm thrilled that you did not have to waste your time explaining that lutes and sitars and ukes aren't guitars, either.
If the question was "Best String Player" then, yes, Roy Clark would have been #1 on my list.
On an episode of the Hee-Haw show he did a performance using a 6- and 12-string acoustic, 6-string electric, banjo, mandolin, ukulele, lute, and the violin. It was incredible, and he's a good performer anyway. He was truly gifted.
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Many names have been mentioned over and over. But nothing has been said about guitar players that were behind the scenes--music session musicians.
Then Steve Cropper should be on everyone's list. So should Teenie Hodges.
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Al DiMeola
Eddie Van Halen
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And Gary Moore wasn't the same way????
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1) Alex Lifeson
2) Carlos Santana
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Jeff Beck -- may he RIP.
I saw Gary Moore in concert at the Dortmund Westfallen Halle. He was awesome as you might expect.
I have tremendous respect for Al DiMeola, but he is limited to primarily classical/flamenco styles.
Many wrongfully attribute the finger-tapping technique to Eddie Van Halen.
You can hear Steve Hackett doing it on the Trespass album while Eddie was still a freshman in high school and also on Nursery Crimes, Foxtrot, Selling England by the Pound, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, Trick of the Tail and Wind & Wuthering.
I like Alex Liefson, Jeff Beck, and Carlos Santana, too, but part of my criteria is being an innovator.
Steve Cropper and Luther Perkins were good guitar players, too, but using the 1st and 2nd inversions to get the most out of your chops is just common sense, not innovation.
...I have tremendous respect for Al DiMeola, but he is limited to primarily classical/flamenco styles...
Fusion as well.
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