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?

[ferri]

how could you leave out Carlos? i just can't believe it. shocked. stuned. oh the huge manatee...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgpcpXCq3mw

and yes. i'm too stupid to make it clickable. LOL

[Beowulf9]

Jeff Beck is great. Should be on that list, and high up.

[rawcatslyentist]

What no Johnny Ramone?

Sure he didn't play too much lead, but none of these guys could play 3 two minute songs of his without cramping and crying.

[Captain Beyond]

Wow so many to choose from. These are just some of favorites that I took time the time to learn most of their songs. But the list is bigger than this. These are just some that don’t get a lot of reconignition and some that do I just tried to bring in a big cross section of what I like.

Kenny Wayne Shepherd-Deja Voodoo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CF4f9NdCFUU

Johnny Winter-Black Cat Bone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsiWjBZv_qE

Muddy Waters and Johnny Winter-Going Down Slow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFJuGGS_AWk&feature=related

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jeff Beck-Going Down
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj9zC1jMmiU

Led Zeppelin(Jimmy Page)-
Solo from Dazed and Confused from the movie the Song Remains the Same
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bc9m7nbMC4

Whole Lotta Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvd_ESeOQ2s&feature=related
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Skm0D9aN9c&feature=related

Jimmy Page with the Black Crowes-You Shook Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWOIeXzHLrs&feature=related

Black Sabbath(Tony Iommi)-Wicked World Jam Part I&II
Part I-(Wicked{pun intended} guitar solo begins @ 3:47 and evolves from rock to jazz and ends up a blues to a rock thing in part II)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raNI_y5ZYgM&feature=related
PartII(He also noddles around and goes into Supernaut one of the coolest Sabbath songs ever written.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raNI_y5ZYgM&feature=related

Rick Derringer-Rock’n Roll Hoochie Koo (He has a lot cooler works out there. If you can get your hands on Back to The Blues by him check out “Blues All Night Long” stellar guitar work there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wTXv9KPWeg

Uriah Heep(Mick Box)-Stealin’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6Ef8dEgHVk
The Wizard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq8nQOhZ3u8

Deep Purple and Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow-
Sixteenth Century Greensleeves
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoLVwUf-eoE
Blues/Classical Jam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKf7oYywdS8&feature=related

Deep Purple-Smoke on the Water 1973 live
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jp3de50_d8&feature=related

Blue Oyster Cult(Buck Dharma)-ETI Live
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0Yw4RMjK4o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAi1mIHb2FU

Godzilla Live 1980
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiHRm2DioMA

Five Horse Johnson-Soul Digger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWFQRZCEr2E
Mississippi King
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-NBX9M2kmE&feature=related

The Four Horsemen-Nobody Said It Was Easy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcveGZv799w
Rockin Is My Business
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKv_YYzdI2w&feature=related
I Need A Thrill/Something Good
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzcUvExpuBY&feature=related

Judas Priest(KK Dowing and Glenn Tipton)-You Got Another Thing Coming {Most Likely the best Guitar Duo in History}
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFT8pi0-ciI&feature=related
Victim of Changes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXqb_3fR6Ok
Genocide
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVXbRN1_jQA&feature=related
Sinner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2KReOnyc70&feature=related
Hell Bent For Leather
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPajyfDm9J4&feature=related

[Captain Beyond]

Thanks for the ping :)

[NewRomeTacitus]

wardaddy posted so according to the rules I can’t post on the same thread.

If I could I’d say Randy Rhoads.

[NewRomeTacitus]

Thanks Captain Beyond, really great stuff and I appreciate all the time it took to get that to us. I’d ask which one you thought was the best but there’s no real answer to that. Taste, art and talent are always, in this case, in the ear of the beholder.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Did you leave out Chet Atkins for a particular reason?

[knarf]

Not really guitar but an excellent head trip

[grey_whiskers]

Some one ask Jimmy Hendrix who was the worlds best guitar player.... Jimmy Hendrix said you better ask Phil Keggy.

Snopes disagrees. I tried to track that rumour to its source once.

Couldn't definitively find it...IIRC (it was a long time ago) I found it in Feb. 1975 or Feb. 1975 edition of The Saturday Evening Post...

If anyone knows where I can find back issues of that magazine, in an attempt to confirm this, please let me know.

Cheers!

[cashmaster]

Jon Butcher (sp?)

[grey_whiskers]

Amen.

[grey_whiskers]

Now *that*'s cool.

Cheers!

[Larry Lucido]

Who says music isn’t rocket science? :-)

[Red_Devil 232]

Mark Knopfler

Dire Straits

[more equal then others]

Feeling, Finesse.

He is not a favorite but Tony can do more with one note then Yngweenie can do with a billion.

Id take B.B. King over Yngweenie anyday.

[more equal then others]

They call it the “Haynes Handoff”. Thats when Warren jumps from on tour with the Allmans to the Dead.

Check out the Allmans “One way out-Live at the Beacon” The version of Whipping Post is the most intense blazing , most Jeff Beck like fluid guiter playing that stuns the listener.
Warrens the man!

[grey_whiskers]

The thing about Keaggy is not the amount of "feeling" -- he's somewhat lacking (compare for example Satriani) -- or speed (lots of fast players) -- but his sheer versatility.

He was doing volume swells back in the early 70's, E-bows in the late 70's, is an expert at using looping to accompany himself on the fly...

And he has done songs in the style of everyone from Larry Carlton to Holdsworth to Hedges to McCartney to...you name it.

Lots of great guitarists out there. But some of his music simply pulls you in.

The Reunion

Agora

March of The Clouds

His fingerstyle makes my jaw drop; the best (like Rush Limbaugh) make it look effortless, like anyone could do it.

Castle's Call/Pilgrim's Flight

He doesn't do enough to be "the best" at any *one* genre, but enough to merit respect from the best in *ALL* of them.

Cheers!

[DCPatriot]

Why, it’s Stevie Ray Vaughn! Hands down!

[grey_whiskers]

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.

As a lifelong adherent of Ready, FIRE!, Aim, I admire that kind of patience and craftsmanship.

Cheers!