“I don't think Jimi Hendrix was a guitarist. Eric Clapton is excessively tedious.” Robert Fripp on the shortcomings of his 1960s contemporaries — and the one guitarist he thought was fun

Guitar Player ^ | 7/10 | Phil Weller

[Raven6]

Agreed...

[Zack Attack]

“in contrast, someone like Guthrie Govan is a virtuoso”

Agreed. And my favorite who died way too soon, the genius of Shawn Lane.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw474w6jLVo

[dfwgator]

Any guitar-related thread must reference Rory Gallagher

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL80jFkLzQ0&list=RDCL80jFkLzQ0&start_radio=1

[BEJ]

Fripp seems to me to be a very angular guitar player. His music sounds like geometric patterns — very visual, straight line shapes on the guitar neck, too. He doesn’t make love to his guitar like an SRV. It’s cerebral noodling, like you’re waiting at the doctor’s office and playing Sudoku. Now, if SRV played King Crimson music like 21 Century Schizoid Man then that would be art. That would be like the Book of Revelation opening up one day. It could come close to making love to your woman but there are also a lot of other things going on. It certainly wouldn’t be noodling.

[Gene Eric]

>> I, to this day, *DETEST* Roger Waters.

lol... I do as well

[Gene Eric]

yeah, Shawn Lane was indeed the unspoken genius. When reviewing the videos of his later years, his health struggles seemed to be ignored by the industry

and that reminds me of Gary Moore’s early departure... however, his live immortal cover of Buchanons’ Messiah is bar none the best performance ever

[minnesota_bound]

#18 Here is Bugs Bunny.

I’m a Believer - The Monkees - 1967
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNyHix5oY4g

[.44 Special]

The world’s best guitarist that you never heard of; this is according to both Jimi Hendrix AND Eric Clapton (look up the quotes) - none other than Rory Gallagher.
If you ain’t seen him play live, you ain’t seen ....

[minnesota_bound]

The song opens great then skip ahead to approx 4 min mark where it is just playing the instruments. Then skip to 6:45 for the finish.

Eric Clapton - Layla
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX5USg8_1gA

[minnesota_bound]

Only 161M views

[rodguy911]

Jimi Hendrix was into drugs and it killed him. However, he was one of the finest guitarist of our times.

In the 60's and 70's he was always acknowledged as one of the top ten guitar players ever and deservedly so. He was a major contributor to the rock music of our time years ago still popular today even with the young guys and gals!

Here he is doing what he did best:

[mad_as_he$$]

Clapton has extra joints in his fingers.

[dennisw]

Robert Fripp always gets great and automatic PR, but I cannot say I have heard any of his tunes. While I have heard hundreds of Clapton and Hendrix. Fripp is less than a pimple on their butts.

Fripp is like Rand Paul. Principled mavericks who have their small cult cheering sections.

[circlecity]

I liked KC’s first album but more because of Greg Lake than Fripp.

[Sir_Humphrey]

Driven by what? Nihilism? I do not know.

More like professional jealousy because he never came close to the commercial success of either of them. Ironic he used the word tedious because that's how I find KC and most other prog groups.

[PIF]

Non-entity criticizes icons.

[Nervous Tick]

>> IMHO, “Starless” and “Epitaph” are two of the best songs in rock history.

I’ll find and listen. Thanks.

[BipolarBob]

Clapton has extra joints in his fingers.

Can he still play while smoking them?

[BipolarBob]

Glen Campbell was acknowledged as a natural guitarists by many artists.

[Palio di Siena]

Terry Kath