I love great guitar playing and when you talk about the greats, the usual suspects generally crop up
Hendrix, Page, Beck, Santana, García etc.
all phenomenal in their own right but what I’m looking for are your greats who may have gone under the radar. I have a few candidates in the pipeline and I’ll be adding them to the thread but I was wondering whether you might have any thoughts as well.
If you can, it would be great to see recommended albums and a YouTube clip or several would be great to see. Also, any anecdotes or stories about them would be lovely to see
Hope to get a bit of traction going. If nothing else, I’ll get to share a few of my favs if only for my own amusement
Last time I made a list of my personal favorites, it looked a little different from this, mostly because I was unwilling at the time to admit that heavy metal players were any good. (Since then I've become more reasonable on the subject.) Still, several of these folks just never played music I really liked, and I haven't (and probably wouldn't) include any of their albums on a BEA chart. I still wish I could play like them, though...
I'm also not including XTC's Andy Partridge or Dave Gregory, because that would just be too obvious.
Kimberley Rew (Soft Boys, Katrina & the Waves, solo)
Charo
Brian May (Queen)
Jennifer Batten (Michael Jackson's touring guitarist)
Bob Mould (Husker Du, Sugar, solo)
And the great Richard Thompson. This is from a live songwriters circle. Suzanne Vega and Loudon Wainwright III look a bit uncomfortable knowing they have to follow this performance.
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(probably my favourite contemporary guitarist)
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