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Post by MartinT on Aug 2, 2020 21:41:20 GMT
Your Greatest... Guitar Player
Please give just ONE offering and state your reasons why you like this performer. No lists! Whittling it down to just one is part of the challenge. Lists and possibles may attract deletion - you have been warned!!
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Post by Slinger on Aug 2, 2020 22:43:14 GMT
I'm currently undertaking a "challenge" Jim White has set me on Farcebook to choose TEN guitarists who have influenced me in some way. To make it easier I've only allowed myself to choose British guitarists, I whittled my l*st of ten down from two or three times that many. And that was only British guitarists. World-wide I'd be working from a l*st of forty or fifty at least. To choose one would be, for me at least, impossible. Country, classical, jazz, rock, blues, pop, metal, acoustic, electric?
So, I'll choose the guitarist who I think has influenced more guitarists than anyone else (in this country at least). Eric Clapton, Brian May, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, John Lennon, Pete Townshend, Keith Richards, Sting, Hank Marvin, Robert Smith, Mike Oldfield, Mark Knopfler, Jimmy Page, and many more, all acknowledge this man as someone who either started them on the road to guitardom, or at the very least gave them the tips they needed to carry on, via his "Play In A Day," and "Play Every Day," instruction books - Mister Bert Weedon.
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Post by MartinT on Aug 3, 2020 6:11:13 GMT
While I have several favourites, the one who stands out as being out there in his own world, able to extract sounds and melodies from a guitar that are pretty amazing and has an almost unique sound, is Jeff Beck. I never tire of listening to him.
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Post by John on Aug 3, 2020 6:44:22 GMT
To pick out any single guitar player is just to hard for me I have been dreading this narrowing it down to one player. Do I go for who most inspired me, or the best player I seen live, or the player I most enjoy their phrasing, or the one who has the biggest influence in music. All of these would have a different favourite. I am really sorry I just cannot narrow it down to one greatest player.
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Post by jandl100 on Aug 3, 2020 8:58:30 GMT
This challenge seems to enter too deeply into the souls of folks here, guitar playing being the very heart of their music - personally I can't say I'm over-fussed about it, although it is great to hear a top flight player in action - so maybe it would be easier to make a choice by answering a slightly different question ...
... what would your single desert island guitar-featuring album be?
Mine would probably be Brothers in Arms, particularly the more ruminative tracks.
So Mark Knopfler would be my choice for the thread.
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Post by MikeMusic on Aug 3, 2020 9:02:18 GMT
Too many I want. All of them.
At least 10 that are essential to my life
Can't pick one as I want them all
Reminds me of years ago
Hendrix or Clapton ?
Both
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Post by MartinT on Aug 3, 2020 9:20:31 GMT
John and MikeMusic why not do it statistically? Which guitar player do you play the most often?
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Post by John on Aug 3, 2020 9:39:39 GMT
If you allow me to link a excel sheet I do it I promise to pick one on a point score But as Jerry says guitar playing is deeply embed in me
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Post by julesd68 on Aug 3, 2020 10:25:06 GMT
Ritchie Blackmore
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Post by Slinger on Aug 3, 2020 12:22:30 GMT
To pick out any single guitar player is just to hard for me I have been dreading this narrowing it down to one player. Do I go for who most inspired me, or the best player I seen live, or the player I most enjoy their phrasing, or the one who has the biggest influence in music. All of these would have a different favourite. I am really sorry I just cannot narrow it down to one greatest player. Go on, John. I took Bert Weedon as the biggest influence, and I left Hank Marvin, probably the second biggest, for you. He probably inspired most of the British guitarists on your spreadsheet.  |
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Post by MikeMusic on Aug 3, 2020 12:34:23 GMT
John and MikeMusic why not do it statistically? Which guitar player do you play the most often? Snap That came to me while out on the bike. Working............ |
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Post by Mr Whippy on Aug 3, 2020 16:56:09 GMT
What's wrong with you lot?
Isn't it obvious?
Do you really have to think about it?
It's Django bloody Reinhardt!!
Who else could it be?
Two bloody fingers for Christ sake.
Need I say more?
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Post by MartinT on Aug 3, 2020 17:10:42 GMT
Do you really have to think about it? Nope, because... Jeff Beck!  |
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Post by John on Aug 3, 2020 17:23:10 GMT
This is why it so hard for me to pick I love both for different reasons
Here is a Django story
One time Django was playing guitar at a party the famous classical guitarist Segovia asked Django where he could get the sheet music to the piece of music he just played. Django told him he was just improvising.
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Post by Mr Whippy on Aug 3, 2020 17:34:07 GMT
Do you really have to think about it? Nope, because... Jeff Beck! Smash two of his fingers and see what he could manage then !!😷!! |
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Post by Tim on Aug 4, 2020 19:04:24 GMT
If I was still 16, I reckon I'd say the same - now it's just too darned hard to pick just one, so I'm with John and I'll take the fifth! A cop out I know, but I just couldn't pick one But Ritchie is right up there for sure - I loved his flair |
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Post by ChrisB on Aug 4, 2020 19:27:59 GMT
I can't believe no-one has recognised Jimi Hendrix here. How could it be anyone else?
Innovation, showmanship, influence, musicianship, he had it all.
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Post by MikeMusic on Aug 4, 2020 19:31:36 GMT
Ry Cooder
ahead of a large pack of wonderful guitarists
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Post by Tim on Aug 4, 2020 19:33:53 GMT
Yup, Hendrix would be in the running too . . . Far too hard Martin to pick one - I could give you three, but I'd be disqualified 
EDIT:
Oh all right then, I'll pick just one . . . Stevie Ray Hendrix Hooker (delete away old bean) |
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Post by MartinT on Aug 4, 2020 19:39:40 GMT
Cheat!
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