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Sunday Fun Favourite Guitarists

It occurs to me that many of my favourites come in pairs
Verlaine / Lloyd (Television)
Cipollina / Duncan (Quicksilver)
Jones / Leonard (Man)
Thompson / Nicol (Fairport etc. Simon Nicol is IMO a very underrated player with great taste in how to support a song)
Oh, and some guys called Garcia and Weir :)
 
Johnny f**king Marr
Buddy Guy
Peter Green
Dan Auerbach
Kurt Vile
SRV
Ernie Isley
David Gilmour
Hendrix
Page
Jack White
 
Hendrix is a given.

Yep.

Favourite living guitar player is Thurston Moore - unsurprisingly given I'm a massive SY fanboy. I doubt most people will agree but I hear a lot of Hendrix in Thurston's playing - something to do with the looseness and use of noise and distortion.

Also adding J Mascis, my favourite guitar solo-er ever.
 
Yep.

Favourite living guitar player is Thurston Moore - unsurprisingly given I'm a massive SY fanboy. I doubt most people will agree but I hear a lot of Hendrix in Thurston's playing - something to do with the looseness and use of noise and distortion.

Also adding J Mascis, my favourite guitar solo-er ever.

I agree !!
 
Some great artists already mentioned.

I went to see Martin Taylor at the Sage, Gateshead quite a few years ago. He was in the smaller Hall Two. Just him, his guitar and some amps/speakers. Superb musicianship.

I wish all musical venues were as good acoustically as The Sage. It was designed for that, so it should be.
 
Too too many...

John Martyn for the echoplex stuff.
Manuel Gottsching (Ash Ra Tempel, Ashra) for the electronics and the echoplex stuff.
Steve Hillage for the echoplex stuff, the soaring leads and The Golden Vibe.
Reg SMithies (Chameleons) for the delay stuff.
Dave Brock for being a riff machine and making a few notes sound good in a solo (Orgone Accumulator)
Edgar Froese for the phased / distorted lead tones.
Marty Wilson-Piper for the jangly 12-string arpeggios.
Roger McGuinn for teaching Marty everything he knows.
Robert Smith for being being an underrated guitar player.
Nick Saloman / Bevis Frond for the psych blues.
Alex DeGrassi for the beautiful acoustic playing he does.
Toni Iommi for heaviness.
Derek Bailey for being so unfathomable.
Michael Rother for Neu! Harmonia.
Mike Oldfield for fostering my interest in guitar.
Adrian Belew for showing me it's about the sound, not the notes.

I'm sure there's more...
 
David Gilmour

I'm really only an early Floyd fan, but there is no denying that David is a fine guitar player.

Oh, and Toni Iommi too; that first Black Sabbath album has never been bettered!


...and I reckon that in those days, Ozzy would be up for top vocalist too!
 
To fill in some gaps:

Roger McGuinn – The Byrds (so many bands owe so much to him)

Stephen Stills – what couldn’t he play

Richard Treece – Help Yourself/Green Ray (an amazingly accomplished and atmospheric guitarist)

Steve Miller – a guitarist who embraced innovation (think of those first two albums for starters)
 
Jimi Hendrix
Peter Green
Jimmy Page
Paul Kossoff
Grant Green
Kenny Burrell
Richard Thompson
Nic Jones
Mark Knopfler
Jeff Beck
 


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