The greatest guitar player

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_3ir8nSvv4 ^ | May 23, 2009 | knarf

[knarf]

Rambling through youtube ... guess what I stumbled upon?

[berdie]

I don't think “The Best” lists are any good, especially in music. Too many genres..too many different styles.

There are so many great guitar players, how can anyone say one is better than the other? From rock to flamenco.

Like you, I kind of add up the other accomplishments of the artist. Can he write, sing, produce, discover?

I went to Clapton's four day Guitar Fest in Dallas a couple of years ago in Dallas. No way could I decide who was the best in those four days. They were all spectacular.

[berdie]

My brothers took me to see Cheap Trick not long ago. Their vocals were....less than they were as young guys.

But Nielson played a five deck guitar. I was impressed. I couldn’t have held the darn thing up...much less play it.

This has been a very fun thread to read!

[tflabo]

Check out my junior high school buddy Little Toby Walker.
(that ain’t his real name). We use to jam in his basement as teenagers from Long Island, NY...He’s a finger pickin’ fool....

http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=little+toby+walker&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=POIYSv-ON93JtgfguNHwDA&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title#hl=en&q=little+toby+walker&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=POIYSv-ON93JtgfguNHwDA&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title&start=10

[prismsinc]

What a terrible list. Alex Lifeson of RUSH is easily in the top 5.

[Squantos]

This guy is good but plays weird venues......a local music store in Amarillo invited customers up to watch him play and tell stories etc about 3 years ago when I first met him. Won a guitar in a raffle that night too !!

........he’s sort of a Kottke fan and here he plays a little Kottke.....(this video is not from his TX tour)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiGfgilNU3E

Richard Gilewitz !

[Prophet in the wilderness]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrlqQ1_vZVE&feature=related

[prismsinc]

If we’re going outside of rock, then Pat Metheny is easily in the top 3 with Segovia. Metheny is literally a living breathing modern day Mozart.

[Grizzled Bear]

That’s Yngvie Malmsteen!! He was HUGELY popular back in the 80’s. I saw him in concert. Amazing doesn’t begin to describe him.

I saw Yngvie J. Malmsteen in a club near Boulder in the early 90s. They advertised two opening bands, but three performed.

When Yngvie's turn finally came around, a big sweaty guy in a suit stepped up to the microphone and announced that "Yngvie isn't sure if he wants to come out, but if you shout 'Yngvie, Yngvie...'"

I lead the crowd with "Refund, Refund..."

He got his primodona butt out on stage quickly!

[Prophet in the wilderness]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl9DXGSjTZg&feature=PlayList&p=4C2EBF9FC7399AF3&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=44

[cva66snipe]

A lot of good ones in Rock, Country, and even Folk were or are good guitar players and among the best. Johnny Rivers, Roy Orbison, Kerry Livgren {Kansas}, Jeff Hanna & John McEuen of Nitty Gritty, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Don Felder of The Eagles and as good a player as Walsh, Marty Robbins, David Allen Coe, Emmy Lou Harris, Ricky Skaggs, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Don Williams, Peter Yarrow, John Fogarty {minus his politics}, Bob Seger good on keyboard also, Toy Caldwell & George McCorkle of Marshall Tucker, Charlie Daniels, Hank Jr the man can play almost anything including piano as good as Jerry Lee Lewis, and believe it or not John Denver was a highly talented player likely among the best during his time.

[roamer_1]

meh~

Thought it would be Jerry Reed, Chet Adkins, or Roy Clarke

[rbmillerjr]

Jimmy Paige

BB King

[manic4organic]

Monte Montgomery is amazing and soulful. My daughter has opened for him a few times. I heard Darryl Hall (Hall & Oates) liked his version of Sarah Smile so much he invited Monte out to the house. See him live if you haven’t yet.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Here is a better version.... check out the drummer... this drummer really pounds those drums,,, lol....

One day ? this will be the worlds best guitar player.

the song FREE BIRD by 8 year old Yuto

[smalltownslick]

“I don’t think “The Best” lists are any good, especially in music.”

I so agree with you. There are so many people with so many different skills. And we all hear them differently. But music is the thing that has always meant the most to me. NO, it’s not “the best” - just who did the most interesting this week?

[CowboyJay]

Jeff “Skunk” Baxter who played with Steeley Dan

Awesome soloing on 'Do It Again'. Gets so far out there, you think there's no way he can tie it back together, but just keeps thowing down aces bar after bar. Think maybe he was playing a sitar. Whatever, he was playing the bejeezus out of it, and it sounded good.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

Everybody forgets that this guy could really play...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX6kCqgBffY

[wardaddy]

bttt...mate

[Blind Eye Jones]

This is what I hope I’ll never sound like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSLqahC94fo

[Southbound]

I have to agree, Chet was one of the greatest. I got to spend an afternoon with him and Jerry Reed back in 1963 or 4, and talk about sitting there in Hog Heaven!! Chet, BTW, said (before Reed showed up) that Reed was the best he ever heard. They did at least two albums together, “Me & Jerry”, and “Me & Chet”. Any guitarist should look those up and listen, at least. Chet - C.G.P.(Certified Guitar Picker) - a ninth-grade drop-out, was about the cleanest guitarist I've ever heard, a perfectionist who once worked on a “lick” for two years before using it in public. Listen for it in “Copper Kettle”. The title “Mr. Guitar” was well earned, IMHO.