In order to participate in the GunBroker Member forums, you must be logged in with your GunBroker.com account. Click the sign-in button at the top right of the forums page to get connected.
Options
Count your blessings
austin20
Member Posts: 35,018 ✭✭✭✭
Comments
The best Rock and Roll guitar player who ever plucked a string..
I went to see them in concert quite a few times back in the day.. I can only remember a couple of the shows though. 😎
without a doubt
I think Jeff beck is the best guitar player out there. But that's just me.
Beck is a good one..along with Clapton and Hendrix...But Eddie was the best..and Randy Rhoads was probably next to him..
Ry Cooder deserves honorable mentions fir sure.
Can't forget Stevie Ray Vaughn either.. but he was mostly a blues player..
Call me whatever but Steve Winwood sure can play.
...Carlos Santana...
We all have are favorites and all mentioned are excellent but my choice is Knopfler;
He seems bored because he makes it look so easy. Bob
I think that look on his face is because he has a blister on his little finger
I agree BobJudy. Dire Straits wouldn't have been what they were without him.
or without his brother
what about Roy Clark???????
He was one of the best country/crossover geetarr players of all time. IMH0 he never got the credit he was due. Bob
I remember "Tiny Tim" . . . .
Did ya spend a lot of time tippy toein' out in the tulip patch, Asop?
Celebrity success has nothing to do with talent. Tiny Tim was living proof of this! It must have been a case of who he knew, over what he knew that paved his way to his brief stardom.
He did always carry a ukulele but I can't remember if he actually ever played it when he sang.
I do remember Johnny Carson enjoyed interviewing him on his show quite a bit and did air his marriage to Miss Vicky back in the day.
A lot of people don't realize what a great guitar player Glen Campbell was. That guy was a session musician back in the day that played for so many great singers and bands. He toured with the Beach Boys, he played most of the music for the Monkey's songs as a member of the Wrecking Crew that did most of their music in the studio, the song "You've lost that loving feeling" by the Righteous Brothers which had the Wrecking Crew playing the music and Glen was a member playing on that one. Frank Sinatra's "Strangers in the Night" he played on that whole album. He played for Roger Millers Dang me and Merle Haggards Mamma Tried album, He play on a lot of Elvis's songs. He was playing for Sonny and Cher. A lot of those early rock bands had him playing guitar and was uncredited so it's hard telling how many songs and bands he actually played for.
Speaking of Glen Campbell, I remember when he had Mason Williams on his show and he accompanied him playing the song Mason made famous; " Classical Gas"
Glen really impressed me on that one!
Musta been after my time. I liked Dire Straits and Little Feat.
4.5 Billion Years... isn't that how old Keith Richards is?
I didn't recognize the name Bobjudy but when I heard him play I knew it was a Dire Straits song. I loved that group. I learned of them when one showing of Miami Vice used Brother in Arms was the background music.
Dire Straits song "Ride Across The River" got me through a bout of depression back in the day.
I can still close my eyes and hear that song playing as if I was wearing headphones!
I thought someone would have added Jimmy Page by now.
Pete Townshend
Billy Gibbons
Yngwie Malmsteen... George Lynch...Dimebag Darrell.. Ritchie Blackmore... There are a bunch of good ones...But there will never be another Edward Van Halen...
They are all playing for second place.
Third maybe..Randy has second pretty much sewed up .
You gotta put Alex Lifeson of Rush in the top five.
So, where would you rank Les Paul and Chet Atkins?
Don't know why but guitar players were my hero's growing up.
Who draws the crowd and plays so loud
Baby, it's the guitar man
Who's gonna steal the show?
You know, baby, it's the guitar man
He can make you love
He can make you cry
He will bring you down
Then he'll get you high
Somethin' keeps him goin'
Miles and miles a day
To find another place to play
Night after night who treats you right
Baby, it's the guitar man
Who's on the radio
You go listen to the guitar man
Then he comes to town
And you see his face
And you think you might
Like to take his place
Somethin' keeps him driftin'
Miles and miles away
Searchin' for the songs to play
Then you listen to the music
And you like to sing along
You want to get the meaning
Out of each and every song
Then you find yourself a message
And some words to call your own
And take them home
He can make you love
He can get you high
He will bring you down
Then he'll make you cry
Somethin' keeps him movin'
But no one seems to know
What it is that makes him go
Then the lights begin to flicker
And the sound is getting dim
The voice begins to falter
And the crowds are getting thin
But he never seems to notice
He's just got to find
Another place to play
Either way
Got to play
Either way
Got to play