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Gibson.com Top 50 Guitarists of All Time
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Posted on 06/15/2010 5:19:20 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

And, so it begins. You voted and so did we, and at the end of a month-long process, we’re ready to start revealing Gibson.com’s Top 50 Guitarists of All Time.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: chat; entertainment; guitarists; music; rockandroll
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To: Mashood
Wait a minute....Steve Howe and Dave Stewart were MLB pitchers.

Ha!!

281 posted on 06/16/2010 1:36:58 PM PDT by Osage Orange (MOLON LABE)
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To: rfp1234

Steve Howe was in Asia. Had a few decent songs.


282 posted on 06/16/2010 2:33:11 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement (Obama "acted stupidly.")
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To: culpeper

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyBIfgj2jrY

Try some Rick...


283 posted on 06/16/2010 3:40:44 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Steve Jones rated above Robert Fripp?


284 posted on 06/16/2010 3:45:39 PM PDT by GSWarrior (Be wary of all politicians..... especially ones that you admire.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Steve Morse? Buddy Miller? Andy Gill from Gang of Four?


285 posted on 06/16/2010 3:47:45 PM PDT by GSWarrior (Be wary of all politicians..... especially ones that you admire.)
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To: sonic109

“Page is a great producer but has been the sloppiest guitarist i’ve ever seen live.”

While I definitely respect his contribution to rock music via Led Zeppelin, I think Page is overrated as a guitarist.


286 posted on 06/16/2010 3:54:15 PM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (Just leave this long-haired conservative alone.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Steve Howe did his best work with Yes, although Asia’s first album was pretty good (it has a special place in my heart as one of the first albums I ever bought).


287 posted on 06/16/2010 5:15:30 PM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (Just leave this long-haired conservative alone.)
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To: Mashood

My top 10:

1. Edward Van Halen (because of Eddie, I lost interest in piano lessons ;)
2. Jimi Hendrix
3. Eric Clapton
4. Joe Satriani
5. John Petrucci
6. Eric Johnson
7. Dave Murray/Adrian Smith (yes, I’m counting them as one; they’re on all the really good Maiden albums)
8. David Gilmour
9. Alex Lifeson
10. Stevie Ray Vaughan


288 posted on 06/16/2010 5:19:47 PM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (Just leave this long-haired conservative alone.)
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers

I saw Yes a few years ago when eight band members were on tour. Trevor Rabin doing “Changes” live was also a highlight.


289 posted on 06/16/2010 5:22:37 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement (Obama "acted stupidly.")
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers

I was blasting maiden live after death today at the office. @hantom of the +pera live is a pure masterpiece.


290 posted on 06/16/2010 5:23:13 PM PDT by GlockThe Vote
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To: sonic109

They recently released that show on CD. Top notch.


291 posted on 06/16/2010 5:33:29 PM PDT by culpeper (He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people,)
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To: wastedyears
...players like Petrucci are technically flawless, but lack soul in their playing.

Umm, 'Under a Glass Moon', 'Learning to Live', 'Hollow Years' (Live at Budokan), 'Ministry of Lost Souls' and a whole host of other solos are not only technically flawless but contain feeling that matches any player on that "list" as well. Then there is 'An Evening With (Rudess)' Petrucci's solo stuff, and Liquid Tension Experiment to make his absence on any list a disgrace which shows how much PR/radio "hits" goes into any "Top" 50/100 list.
292 posted on 06/16/2010 5:33:36 PM PDT by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians)
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To: wastedyears
I'll give you Dave Murray. I'm a big Maiden fan.

Alex Skolnick (Testament, Savatage, Alex Skolnick Trio)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv6i8nU6_78

293 posted on 06/16/2010 8:45:39 PM PDT by nonliberal (Graduate: Curtis E. LeMay School of International Relations)
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To: ConservativeStatement

The top three should have been Wes Montgomery, Mike Bloomfield, and B.B. King.


294 posted on 06/16/2010 8:51:46 PM PDT by BluesDuke (Another brief interlude from the small apartment halfway up in the middle of nowhere in particular)
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To: PJ-Comix
Les Paul better be on that list.
He is. And he should have come in way higher. So should Duane Allman and Charlie Christian. Come to think of it, T-Bone Walker, Albert King, and Peter Green should have been on the list, period.
295 posted on 06/16/2010 8:55:51 PM PDT by BluesDuke (Another brief interlude from the small apartment halfway up in the middle of nowhere in particular)
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To: OldDeckHand
Were you close enough to see his playing style? He plays a guitar strung for a right-handed player, but he plays it left-handed. IOW, the low E is where the high E would normally be. It's very peculiar.
But not unheard of. Albert King played that way his entire life. (He also used some of the weirdest tunings I ever heard of---CFCFAD and DGDGBE.)
296 posted on 06/16/2010 8:57:53 PM PDT by BluesDuke (Another brief interlude from the small apartment halfway up in the middle of nowhere in particular)
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To: BluesDuke

bump


297 posted on 06/16/2010 9:02:22 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: OldDeckHand
Otis Rush also plays upside down, has since he first hit the Chicago blues scene in the late 1950s . . . though I think he uses standard or more conventional open tunings, not the unusual tunings Albert King (who may have learned them in part from some of the tunings of Hawaiian music) liked to use.

Notice, though, that Otis Rush will string his guitar upside-down even when he uses a guitar made for a lefthander. (In his early days, he played either Fender Stratocasters or Epiphone Dots and just flipped them upside-down, as he did later with Gibson ES-335s or 345s . . .)

298 posted on 06/16/2010 9:05:40 PM PDT by BluesDuke (Another brief interlude from the small apartment halfway up in the middle of nowhere in particular)
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To: Liberty Valance
Thanks Lib!

I should have mentioned, too, that if it hadn't been for Mike Bloomfield (who began playing one on the crack Butterfield album East-West in mid-to-late 1966), Eric Clapton (who used one on the legendary Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton set by John Mayall and for parts of Fresh Cream before it was stolen), Peter Green (who used one when he succeeded Clapton in the Mayall group), and Jeff Beck (who used one in his first Jeff Beck Group in 1967), the original Les Paul guitars would have remained a dead issue. (They'd been phased out in 1960 and the SG was Gibson's original attempt to upgrade the Les Paul line, an upgrade Les Paul himself despised.) Those four, finding their Les Pauls in pawnshops or secondhand shops (Bloomfield's first was a '55 gold top; he traded it for his more familiar '59 flameburst before he left Butterfield to form Electric Flag), sent enough people scurrying to find the vintage Pauls that Gibson finally brought them back into production to stay in 1968.

By the way, I'm a proud owner and player of a beautiful Les Paul Studio made four years ago. With the burstbucker pickups it gives me the classic Les Paul sound without the bells and whistles . . .

299 posted on 06/16/2010 9:10:26 PM PDT by BluesDuke (Another brief interlude from the small apartment halfway up in the middle of nowhere in particular)
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To: Liberty Valance; mylife; Brucifer; All

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jII_tL-4vXE
Why Worry Now ~ Chet, Mark and the Everly Brothers ~


300 posted on 06/16/2010 9:14:14 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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