Bob Welch isn't fit to shine Peter Greene's shoes. Or Lindsay Buckingham's for that matter.
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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Mike Cambell...the Heartbreakers....if you ever see him live you'll know what I mean. also, he has concocted some of the best riffs in rock. Ex: Breakdown, Boys of Summer (which he wrote for Henely and played most of the instruments, btw), The Waiting, Running Down a Dream...the list goes on!
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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Gotta agree with sgtnull and Cail about Vernon Reid.
Very different kinda player.
Another under-rated one IMHO is James Mankey out of Concrete Blonde. I read somewhere years ago that he used to use the fleshy part of his right thumb to pick notes, and I can't believe he got such a great tone by doing that, although I've also heard that Jeff Beck does something similar.
Seen him in concert (and puked on the side of the stage--I was having a really good time that night ) and shook his hand in Greenwich Village. Y'all know I'm a major Traffic-head so I dearly love this guy.
Well, ten pages of Guitar-Gods and not one post mentioning Keith Richards (or so I believe), so I'll put him up there with the rest of them, not the fastest or the most technically driven but has his own inimitable style besides beeing a composer of a hell of a lot of songs, an icon...and while I'm into blues I go for Buddy Guy, a hell of a guitarist with the fattest sound on earth, just listen to Sweet Tea...Muddy Waters, great guitarplayer too...and from blues to blues...Nick Drake, one of the greatest, only three albums in a very mellow folk tradition (he took his own life at 24), but the songs, his voice, and his playing!
But I'd still go for Jimi as No 1 and Eletric Ladyland as his masterpiece!
Expansion is meaningless without restriction; restriction is useless without expansion. But put them together and you get, well, a balloon.-SRD
angel came down from heaven yesterday
stayed with me just long enough to rescue me
you're more advanced than a cockroach,
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
Start to think about it several cool guitarplayers come to mind; James Williamson for instance, played with Iggy And The Stooges on the ultracool and heavy Raw Power, the only album he made(almost), now there's some heavy riffing! A Les Paul Custom straight into a Marshall stack, nothing more...perfect...
Kurt Cobain actually is in his own way very experimental, the same way Colin Greenwood is of Radiohead (or was it his brother?), creating strange sounds, controlling feedback, much noise and definitively influential...[/img]
Expansion is meaningless without restriction; restriction is useless without expansion. But put them together and you get, well, a balloon.-SRD
you're more advanced than a cockroach,
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~