c'mon man, you never watched the Behind the Music episode on Danny?
c'mon man, you never watched the Behind the Music episode on Danny?
6 pages of posts and only 1 mention of Steve Morse. What is wrong with you people??
Homework for the day-go out and listen to anything by Dixie Dregs or Steve Morse Band. If you need mainstream find the new Deep Purple (although I don't recommend it because not enough Morse on it).
If this guy ever comes anywhere near where you live it is your duty as a human with ears to go see him. First time I saw the Dregs I scraped my jaw off the floor 2 hours later. 2nd time I saw him I drove from Vermont to Santa Cruz, CA to make it work. No need to say more than that.
Props to John Scofield too. Musicality to the nth degree.
Vai, Satriani, etc...good sounds but it's "stunt guitar" to me. I want to hear musicality, not wanking off a solo over the top of a melody.
J.R. Burnsides - slide
P.J. Harvey - electric
Billy Bragg - accoustic
isn't it R.L. Burnsides?
Well said my friend. I also got to see Morse with Kansas back around 87 or so. What a combination. It was during the Power and Spirit of Things days. Damn good.
I was surprised more wasn't said about Morse or Chet Atkins. Everyone wants to talk about innovative and not mention him? I don't get that. Ask most if not all of the "classic" players who they looked up to and see how many say Atkins.
I can't believe it took Evel Knievel to bring that up when so many on here claim to be musical geniuses.
easy there big guy... nobody's claiming to be geniuses here, we're all just offering our own opinions (mostly forcefully, mind you)
Joan Baez
OK. Lots of good guitarists mentioned but the real monsters of guitar play flamenco.
Vicente Amigo, Paco de Lucia, Tomatito and Gerardo Nunez play the instrument as if they were born with it attached.
Amigo is the Prince, but Paco is the KING!
To put it simply Eliot Fisk is to Paco de Lucia as Torres is to H.Geb.
You would have to be a serious muppet to put 99% of the guitarists mentioned in this thread on the same level as Paco.
TheNut wrote:
but Paco is the KING!
To put it simply Eliot Fisk is to Paco de Lucia as Torres is to H.Geb.
You would have to be a serious muppet to put 99% of the guitarists mentioned in this thread on the same level as Paco.
Is that the guy who does his shows on Home Shopping?
Yeah, it is R.L. Burnside
No one has mentioned Richard Thompson, so I will.
Here's a great name from the past that 99 percent of you have probably never heard of... Zal Cleminson of The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Monti wrote:
It kind of scares me that Malmo knows who Danny Gatton was.
Why would it scare you? Jason and Freddy are scary - I grew up 15 miles from Gatton's home. Seen him play small clubs.
Just getting at you man. I saw Gatton at I believe it was called the 55 Club in Washington (could be wrong on that it was 1988 or '89) and as a player myself briefly considered taking up another profession. At one point he produced an authentic Hammond B3 sound, using just his fingers and no effects as far as I could tell. Truly astounding. Thing is I really doubt he could have run a good mile...
I don't know about you guys but I think this penguin and squirrel are just scratching the surface of their talent. They play "dueling banjos" the way it was meant to be played.
Buddy Guy
Les Claypool has phenomenal talent, and when he quits screwing around with that dumbass voice and just plays, he can be awesome-check out the Frog Brigade live CDs as example. Other great bassists are the late Jaco Pastorius (his solo on Weather Reports' "8:30" record is just beyond belief), Victor Wooten, Dominique Bertram and Bernard Paganotti (find out about them, as well as Janik Top), Jack Casady (who finally has a solo CD out after more than 30 years in the industry), Miroslav Vitous, Eberhard Weber and the astonshing Phillipe Bussonette of Magma's current incarnation. I saw him play live and he was playing so hard and fast that he had to shake his hands out after the end of Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh (if you need to ask, you will never know). Stanley Clarke has been out sight for some time.
I have a couple of CDs by Marc Ribot, one on the Tzadik label and excellent. Some of that uptown NY avant punk stuff.
I am listening right now to the new Butch Trucks CD and if you like Stevie Ray Vaughan, you should love this one.
As long as people are bringing up drummers and bass players (two instruments that I DO play), for rock:
Bass-
Tony Levin (King Crimson, Gabriel, etc.)
Chris Squire (Yes)
John Wetton (King Crimson, UK, etc.)
Percy Jones (Brand X, OK kinda jazz-rock fusion but close enough)
Scott Thunes (Zappa)
Drums-
There is only one rock drummer worth mentioning:
Bill Bruford
(Yes, King Crimson, Earthworks, etc.) This guy has 5 brains: The normal one each of us has plus one each for his hands and legs. The things he does are just mind boggling, but if you're not a drummer, you'd probably never know it. Besides, the man is just so explorative in both musical and technical terms. A drummer's drummer.
The second string includes:
Chad Wackerman (Zappa)
Vinnie Coliauta (Zappa, Sting, etc.)
Neil Peart (Rush)
John Weathers (Gentle Giant)
Carl Palmer (ELP)
For Jazz drummers, my favorite would have to be Joe Morello (Dave Brubeck Quartet) although I was always fond of the stuff Jon Christensen did with Eberhard Weber. (No need to mention Buddy or Gene.)
I have no idea if Bruford or Morello have ever run a mile or a marathon, but if they ever do, I want to tag along.
Jim- you have tons of prog there, so how come you do not list Christian Vander? Bruford is an excellent choice, though. I saw him with Crimson and with Yes. Now is playing jazz.
Vander is very good and I almost put him in the list. Actually, there are LOTS of guys I like in that second pool and the real list would be quite long! For example, someone who was not flashy or an outrageous technician, but who played what needed to be played and did it very very well was Joe Vitale of Joe Walsh's old group Barnstorm.
You can't discuss bassists without mentioning John Entwistle, who was so good and creative that Pete Townshend ended up writing many of The Who's songs with bass leads.
I think Eberhard Weber's "Colors of Chloe" is one of the great jazz compositions. This is before he started using Soft MAchine's John Marshall on drums, still used all those nordic gusy.