Guitar Players (post not BB related)

I've heard that some (all??) Samick guitars are now being made down Indonesia way........
I'll have to check them out. What I really need to do is go find a guitar dealer in Seoul who speaks English........and if I'm the first customer of the day, superstition/tradition dictates the owner must give me a very good deal

MN-Mom: I guess you could look at it as a reverse dowry. I pefer to use a baseball phrase: Reverse the Curse. I've pleaded with her,"Please don't make the same mistake your mother did by marrying anyone connected to the music business".

Krak,
Have junior listen to Chet Atkins,SRV,Gary Moore,Wes Montgomery, and Robben Ford. I was a drummer, but I could listen to good guitar players ad infinitum.

My favorites have always been Michael Schenker (UFO days), Angus, Alex Lifeson, pre-mainstream George Thorogood, Rossington & Collins, and Ulrich Roth (pre-mainstream Scorpions - what a maniac!)

My favorites

Eric Clapton
Ricky Derringer
Angus
Jeff Beck
George Benson
BB King


Addhow did I forget these guys)

Eddie Van Halen
Ron Wood

Take your guitars and listen to the new album from Kenny Chesney--_WO#W !!!!

Title--The Road and the Radio

A gem of the nth degree

1. Eric Clapton
2. Brian May
3. Eddie Van Halen
4. Angus Young
5. Joe Satriani

Eric Clapton
Carlos Santana
Eric Johnson
Stevie Ray Vaugn
Eddie Van Halen
Chet Atkins
Les Paul
Robert Cray

Not necessarily in that order....

My Dad owns a Les Paul Jr. original. Only 500 of them made. He bought it and didn't even really know what he was buying until he took it to the guitar shop to buy new strings. My self, used to play an Alvarez Banjo. I had hand surgery and now, if I try, the old hand swells. Dad now has that also along with a dobro, upright bass, Gibson Hummingbird, and a mandolin. HE CAN'T PLAY ANY OF THEM! lol!

Alex Lifeson
Carlos Santana
Buddy Guy
Steve DalPorto

Alex Lifeson is the best... And if you include songwriting along with playing talent, Jimmy Page floats to the top.

Just released is the LEGEND OF JOHNNY CASH--on here you can hear the young Carl Perkins who was his backup guitar man-- great retrospect with solid pickin

You can hear it free on AOL this week

For your consideration:

Joe Pass
Charlie Christian
Pat Metheny
Bill Frisell
Andres Segovia

dbg

going back to Segovia brings back memories-- my Dad took me to see him at Carnegie Hall in NYC back in the 50's -- I was totally blown away by his technique

Best dead guitar players:

Jimi
Stevie Ray
Randy Rhodes
Duane Allman
Keith Richards (oh wait, he's not dead...is he?)

Tom Morello
Page Hamilton

In my opinion they are two of the most innovative guitar players in the modern era.

TR and dbg,

I've discovered Segovia in the past year because my 06 son plans to major in classical guitar in college. But he also fell for Julian Bream - are you familiar with him? The limited edition DVD, Julian Bream "My Life In Music" is awesome. My son is auditioning to study under a Dr. of Music who studied with Julian Bream and also played with Segovia once.

MNMOM

Bream is excellent

Lets add another guitar "giant" Lesley West of Mountain

Gosh MN-Mom.....good luck to your son at his audition. This is an important step....isn't it?

Forgot to mention Jim Hall.

Let's keep this thread alive:

MY FIRST CONCERT

I still can't believe my parents let me go to downtown Detroit to see RUSH at Cobo Arena at age 17. But they did, and it changed my life! If anyone starts a best drummer topic, there's my vote - Neil Peart. Unsurpassable!!

Jimmy Page - Led Zeppelin.

Carlos Santana

Eric Clapton

BB King

MY FIRST CONCERT:

Boston, The Animals, "House of the Rising Sun"

I'm going to age myself quickly here.

First concert attended was the Temptations in 1968.

First concert we opened was Three Dog Night at Gaelic Park in NY in 1970.

First road tour was opening for the Guess Who in 1972.

Suggest you look at the Gibsons. Les Paul custom (mine but they weigh A TON), ES-335 for weedings and such or the SG for the double cutaway. Epiphone is a decent house rig but not really a stage guitar. It's lows are not that great.

Good luck.

Rush, 1982 @ The Rosemont Horizon, IL.

Next day, my parents bought me a Lotus Les Paul copy, a little Traynor amp, and Rush Anthology.

Mike F's guitar player awards...

Most skilled #3: Eric Clapton
Most Fun to Watch: Ted Nugent
Most Stoned (allegedly): Joe Walsh
Most skilled #2: Jimmy Hendricks
Ugliest: Keith Richards (not surprisingly, also placed 2nd in Most Stoned catagory)
Most skilled #1: Steve Howe from Yes
Personal Favorite (Tie): Jimmy Page and Pete Townsend

Upon further review, it is apparent that I am living in the past (please no Jethro Tull jokes).

Mike F

Aqualung, er, I mean Mike -- good list!! I hope no one goes off on a tangent of "Best Rock Floutist". The moderator would have to close the thread.

Okay, SJM, please spill the beans. What group were you in?? I bet you have some great stories!

There's one guy I forgot to mention, and he's actually the most electrifying and versatile guitarist I have ever seen (Ventura Theater, Ventura, CA, "Thunder and Fire" Tour, 1989?):
Warner Hodges (Jason and The Scorchers out of Nashville, TN).

If you have ever heard this man play guitar, you know exactly what I'm talkin' 'bout! If you haven't heard him play, start downloading - try anything from the Jason and The Scorchers album "Fervor", or anything from the Live Scorchers album "Midnight Roads and Stages Seen".

"Help me, Warner, go!"

What about Chet Atkins!?! Now he could play a guitar!!

Talk about showing my age, I'll slow the thread down a little. Being Pueblo is in the middle of nowhere (see Frapper site), not many big name groups came through.

Best concert: Gary Puckett and the Union Gap (also still one of my favorite groups)

Second concert: Glen Cambell

First college dance band: Dennis Yost and the Classics IV (great slow dance music, if you catch my drift ).

Rowdyist (is that a word) and first concert: Jimmy Gilmore and the Fireballs (Sugar Shack, Bottle of Wine)


Those were the days!

Frank - Ivy Leaguers spell the word 'rowdiest'.

Krak -

quote:

a best drummer topic, there's my vote - Neil Peart. Unsurpassable!!

Umm - not even close.

dbg,

Now you know why I had to show my ID before they let me on campus when I went with my son on his visit.

KRAK

Funny how as good Jason and the Scorchers were they ended up just being a shooting star

As for concerts I was not a big attender mainly because we were playing every weekend:

Some highlights:

Opened for Monte Rock III
Opened for the Moody Blues
Onstage with Joe Cocker and the Mad Dogs and Englishmen also joining me was Bob Dylan

Great times to say the very least, what I can remember anyway

FrankF-I think you and I may be on a short list on this site I learned to play listening to Chet Atkins and Glen Campbell(he was a back-up guitarist for a lot of C/W vocalists in Nashville before he made a name for himself). I could listen to Chet Atkins
all day long and not get tired of him. Music you can actually "listen" to IMO.

Campbell was also a Beach Boy for a bit

I'll repeat from TR's "Observation" post from a while back: My first concert was in 1964--The Beatles! Memorial Coliseum, Portland, Oregon.

My second concert--Bread! (girlfriend related) Not a big fan of either band!


I know what happened to the Beatles, but whatever happened to Bread? Didn't they become the Pita's? I think much later they reemerged as a reunion band known as The Croutons.

gotwood, I think Bread became Toast .

My first concert--America

The concert that I really wanted to see but my parents wouldn't take me--The Monkees

Best current concert--The Ides of March. Awesome rockers for young guys but phenomenal for "old guys!" They've been around for 41 years--all original members! See and hear The Ides of March imitate Bo Bice imitate the Ides of March singing Vehicle!

Add Jim Peterik to the list of groovy guitar players.

This thread is actually making me feel young (and I've been accused of being trapped in the 70's)!

First concert small venue...Styx at a high school. My intro to strobe lights.

First concert large venue...Crosby, Stills & Nash (can't remember if Young was there) at the old Chicago Stadium. What was that smell?

Signing off from the 70's,

Mike F

Mike F:

Yep, Styx and Reo Speedwagon at high school "mixers," admission 50 cents! Remember me? I was the girl with the long straight hair parted in the middle, wearing bell bottoms. Ya gotta remember me. I really stood out in the crowd!

Mike F:

The "aroma" was probably the burning leaf.

The "smell" was most likely urine and vomit.

Did the Bulls or Blackhawks play there the night before?