Guitarists

Y

yorick

Rookie
Joined
Mar 2, 2018
Messages
1,030
I've long been an admirer of electric guitar playing so I thought I'd start the ball rolling, if anyone fancies it.

Here's one from one whom I considered to be the best electric blues player this country produced: Peter Green. It's a longer version of the chart hit and all the better for it since it includes a middle solo, which is a big plus for me. That blues tone and phrasing. Shows that yo don't need to play at a million miles an hour to be brilliant. Blimey.


..
 
Last edited:
What about the late Tommy Bolin, who was mentioned as a fave by someone in another thread? Totally different from the above and super proficient. A different bucket of blood altogether. Here's a track from Billy Cobham's album 'Spectrum', a track called Stratus, where Tommy shows a little of what he can do. Aged 22-23 at the time. Blinking heck!

 
There are a lot of obvious ones I love that everybody would know but if I was going for someone who doesn't get much credit for how good she actually was it'd probably be Nancy Wilson from Heart. This intro to crazy on you blew my mind.

 
In my opinion the best rock guitarist the UK ever produced: Mr Jeff Beck. This an instrumental jazz/rock fusion cover of 'She's A Woman'. I love his freedom and touch as a player.


 
F we're talking blues and genius we look no further than Jimi, do we? This is a studio version that sounds live, free and showed everybody who's the blues boss.

Clapton saw Jimi play a live gig when he first arrived here in England. After the show, Eric famously said "we'd better go home and practice"

A simple blues here, performed as only Hendrix could do it. Genius. 27 when he died.




..
 
Last edited:
Love Mr hendrix myself yorick. Wait until tomorrow and dolly dagger amongst my favourites. Didn't realise he was that young when he died unbelievable impact for such a young man to have made.
 
Yeah, unbelievable is right.

Talking of White Room, Len, Eric shows off his fantastic wah work, doesn't he. Hendricx's wah skills were equally blinding, as well, I think.

👌
 
There was a story once where a reporter was in the back of a taxi in remote region and Hendrixs was being played and he said its a pity he died and the driver said what do you mean and the reporter said he died 3 yrs ago and they didn't know.he said they had 3 days of mourning.
 
Hendrix has topped GOAT polls for years but there are dozens who were just as good or better...he was the most innovative but compare him to Stevie Ray Vaughan and immediately the Hendrix fallacy doesn't hold water. There are so many great guitarists out there like Mark Knophler who makes his guitar sing..Angus Young who somehow never puts a foot wrong despite his crazy antics..Jeff Beck who many great guitarists rate as the GOAT..the list is endless and the search for the GOAT impossible
 
Tanlic said:
Hendrix has topped GOAT polls for years but there are dozens who were just as good or better...he was the most innovative but compare him to Stevie Ray Vaughan and immediately the Hendrix fallacy doesn't hold water. There are so many great guitarists out there like Mark Knophler who makes his guitar sing..Angus Young who somehow never puts a foot wrong despite his crazy antics..Jeff Beck who many great guitarists rate as the GOAT..the list is endless and the search for the GOAT impossible
Click to expand...
Depends what you look for, I’d say. There maybe a difference between who you prefer to listen to, and who is the most technically proficient. The most technically proficient may float your boat, despite them not quite having the “sound” of your favourite guitarist. All about personal taste - there are no right or wrong answers.
 
Outsider said:
There was a story once where a reporter was in the back of a taxi in remote region and Hendrixs was being played and he said its a pity he died and the driver said what do you mean and the reporter said he died 3 yrs ago and they didn't know.he said they had 3 days of mourning.
Click to expand...
On Hendrix & remote regions, here's a true story that a (lucky) friend of mine could himself dine out on. R & his wife went to see Hendrix play in March 1967 at the Troutbeck Hotel in Ilkley. He believes that there must have been double the allowable numbers in the audience when the band stepped on to the stage, the place was heaving. The band started the set & were well into the first number when the police (not the band:LOL:) got up onto the stage & called off the gig for safety reasons. Hendrix & the band, realising their night was over, packed everything away then drove up to nearby Guiseley & sat down for a Harry Ramsden's fish & chip supper.

Whilst we're on the subject of guitarists I could never tire of listening to Mr. Andy Fraser, especially on this one

 
Last edited:
Len Madeiros said:
Depends what you look for, I’d say. There maybe a difference between who you prefer to listen to, and who is the most technically proficient. The most technically proficient may float your boat, despite them not quite having the “sound” of your favourite guitarist. All about personal taste - there are no right or wrong answers.
Click to expand...
Absolutely.

There's no doubt, Tan, that there will and have been guitarists who can fly across a fretboard at the speed of light and their proficiency is fantastic but the point you make about innovation is the point, for me. His Woodstock rendition of Star Spangled Banner was out of nowhere, unrehearsed and used the Stratocaster to 'paint' a war picture: incredible, I thought. I might even put it alongside Picasso's 'Guernica' painting.

As for GOAT, so much depends upon genre, likes and dislikes, as you both point out, Tanlen.

I'd add that technology does have some say in all this. Hendrix wouldn't have been able to get that Star SB sound at Woodstock without the Stratocaster and latest Fender amp that gave him the technology to get that highly distorted 'bombing' and 'crash' effect. Then again, he recognised how to use that new stuff in a ground-breaking way.
 
2017diary said:
On Hendrix & remote regions, here's a true story that a (lucky) friend of mine could himself dine out on. R & his wife went to see Hendrix play in March 1967 at the Troutbeck Hotel in Ilkley. He believes that there must have been double the allowable numbers in the audience when the band stepped on to the stage, the place was heaving. The band started the set & were well into the first number when the police (not the band:LOL:) got up onto the stage & called off the gig for safety reasons. Hendrix & the band, realising their night was over, packed everything away then drove up to nearby Guiseley & sat down for a Harry Ramsden's fish & chip supper.

Whilst we're on the subject of guitarists, I could never tire of listening to Mr. Andy Fraser, especially on this one

Click to expand...
Don't you mean Paul Kossof Al? Or is it the bass guitar you mean? Fraser's bass playing on this pretty nifty, mind; certainly puts Noel Redding to shame, don't you reckon?
 
I was lucky to see them in '69 thanks to two older Hendrix fans who told this then-16 year old about a band with the most amazing guitarist (Koss) then took me with them to Leeds Uni to see Free
 
I'm not a huge fan of feedback or amps turned up to 11 but 2 memorable concerts from the early 70s were Deep Purple at the Albert Hall and Mountain at the Rainbow, Finsbury Park. Ritchie Blackmore and Leslie West in fine form but my hearing was affected for hours afterwards!

Personal favourites would be the technicians, Mark Knopfler and Carlos Santana.
 
archie said:
I'm not a huge fan of feedback or amps turned up to 11 but 2 memorable concerts from the early 70s were Deep Purple at the Albert Hall and Mountain at the Rainbow, Finsbury Park. Ritchie Blackmore and Leslie West in fine form but my hearing was affected for hours afterwards!

Personal favourites would be the technicians, Mark Knopfler and Carlos Santana.
Click to expand...
Thanks mate, I was looking for an old film to watch this weekend
 
2017diary said:
I was lucky to see them in '69 thanks to two older Hendrix fans who told this then-16 year old about a band with the most amazing guitarist (Koss) then took me with them to Leeds Uni to see Free
Click to expand...
Kossof another one lost to drugs. The son of David Kossof, who we used to see on our screens, wasn't he.
 
Back
Top