Crap guitarists

Listening to Slash on GnR Sweet Child of Mine... and how he could make the guitar 'sing', I flashed on another guy who made the claim.. in fact did the trick.

Which I thought was crap 30 years ago and havent changed my mind.. but i couldnt remember his name.

So I entered the Google search
lamest guitarist of the seventies

And one of the results was the 2003 Rolling stone mag article;
Top 100 guitarists.. figuring since it was Rolling Stone, he would be on that list.

Sure enough I found Dick Dale and Link Wray, neither of which should have any problem playing as good at age ninety as they did in their prime.
- yeah, they were THAT bad.

At least Chet Atkins {style} and Les Paul {Technology} were on there
- here's the question for Don.. who was the Atkins contemporary who was a master at five-finger?

But it took me another hour of paging thru lots of searching and dross to find Peter Frampton.
But ..always a fair guy... i then set out to figure out WHY i thought he was crap.. i mean I knew why, but not the issues around it.

Turns out Frampton (seeing his other work) wasnt a bad guitarist.. it was his use of the

Talkbox that was so lame
Yep.. Frampton live
His guitar was good... it's his mouthwork that sux!

Freaking gimmicks.. why not bring back the Theremin?

/pointless rant

 

RE: Crap guitarists {paging hatterdon}

I love effects pedals! Actually, effects in general...as long as they aren't modelling effects like Line6 and such. My personal favorite is my Dunlop Crybaby.

The Theremin is still around from time to time. I remember the Cherry Poppin' Daddies used one on a few tracks.

 

THAT'S who I was wondering about... in Navy with a Indiana farmboy, whose hero was Travis! And he was good, himself.

Note Travis' name was nowhere on that list.

Man, I ALWAYS loved good improv Rock Geetar... but some wear out quick... that's why I slight One-Way wonders like Link Wray. Not even good music to get stoned, by.

I consider welcome to the jungle, one of GnR's lesser attempts.

 

my favourite pickers

Steve Vai
Eddie Van Halen
Brian May
Tony Iommi
Jimmy Page
Jimi Hendrix

Top Two..
Mick Ronson
ALEX LIFESON.

bass players.. Stu Ham, Les Claypole, Geezer Butler,
Fav.. GEDDY LEE

Drummer's....NEIL PEART

 

Old 'slow hand' Clapton couldnt wipe the snot of Jimi's Kaftan (in this Redhouse at least)
Oldie's but Goldies
Pete Townsend, Steve Marriot, Ray Davis, Joe Walsh
Acoustic pioneers..Adrian Legg, Paco di lucia

http://youtube.com/watch?v=fFakxe-ykEA
Steve Vai's ....For The Love Of God

 

It's not how fast you move, VB.... and I didnt mention clapton because I figgered that was redundant.

 

I tell you what, there are a LOT of good guitarists out there. A lot of modern rock is written such that guitarists don't get to display their chops but when you hear them play other things besides their own music, they can smoke.

I really like a good rhythm guitar part, partly because I can't solo worth a crap and partly because I just love good heavy rhythm guitar. So guys like James Hetfield, Dimebag Darrell, Dave Mustaine, etc are some favorites.

I also enjoy great blues players and guys who write great riffs, so guys like Jimmy Page, SRV, Slash, Tony Iommi, etc.

I agree with 'fog that speed isn't everything; BB King can get more out of one note that I can with twenty.

Some other favorites include Tom Morello, Jim Martin, the guys from Meshuggah, the guys from Dropkick Murphys, the list goes on and on...

I know Hatterdon plays and I do as well. Anyone else here a guitar player?

 

Eh.. BC you exaggerate a little, BB needs one note either side of the great one, just to show how he got there and where he's going with it.

No.. I cant play a lick - literally. I could {and did, as a kid} practice a single chord for a week and still screw it up. But I think I could tell if a guitarist had a hangnail on his middle finger.

I swear.... I gonna have to fix it so only I can put up avatars?
Unfortunately, the code is broken somewhere... and, normally an outsize pic just wouldnt display, in our case it does.
And we DONT wanna be messing with the code.

BC, if you want me to reduce that pic, I will ...but it's gonna lose detail if I crop and reduce it.

 

VB--After seeing your list of favorites I take it you're a Rush fan?

Out of curiosity, when you hear Clapton's name, do you picture him playing a Gibson ES-335, Fender Strat, or acoustic? I tend to picture him playing a Stratocaster, but I know others who still think of him as a Gibson guy.

Me too! Me too! I started playing in 1990 (I was in 6th grade). BTW: I take it you go to Wabash?

 

I've been playing the bass and gigging nearly 20 year's in various type's of music and still am not very good, its amazing , i dont practice either,

sorry i missed you at the Everton game, because err i didnt go. could'nt get out of bed (late friday knight session, the one's i told you about)
are you still in blighty or have you crossed over already?

 

sorry I missed you before you go home, i was up to about 4 in the morning (( friday night), you should have come out ) still i expect a full report of your escapades while you was over here. and no telling porky's about me :wink:


didnt go back to work until wednesday, thank's for the excuse to have a couple of days off :lol:

 

Someone got a new Pacman high-score! Who broke 60,000? Oh yeah... 8)

I couldn't have said it any better myself. :roll:


wheeeee

 

Sorry about that! I didn't realize that my avatar had actually changed. I was uploading a different picture and I didn't see any difference. I will change it back to something more appropriately sized.

Yeah, I graduated from Wabash in 1998. Monon Bell is this weekend. Can't wait. I started playing guitar at about the 6th grade level as well. What sort of stuff do you like to play?

 

mmm, well I had to try. that's cool.

When playing guitar alone I tend to play a little bit of everything. But, my previous bands always fell into the pop-punk/rock/alternative type thing. Now I'm trying something new...playing all the intruments myself along with a Roland MC-505. I have no idea what it will sound like when I'm done.

What type of stuff do you like playing?