favorite guitar players

[pavementtune]

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[pavementtune]

serious answer:

Ali Farka Touré
Django Reinhardt
Paco de Lucia
Al Di Meola
Robert Johnson
Elmore James
Eric Clapton

[toase]

Yes, Al di meola
also Rene Thomas

[LaBelle]

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This guy is pretty awesome, with a fantastic live sound.
Also, LOOK AT THAT OUTFIT!!!!!!

[The exploding boy]

I'll just give my usual boring Robert Smith, Johnny Marr and pre 90's Edge (should actually probably ******* Achtung Baby though) answer. Oh and Reg Smithies/Dave Fielding from Chameleons.

Clearly i give little (no) value to technical skills.

I could be convinced to add Andy Sumner and maybe Mick Jones on the list.

[Elphenor]

Have you ever tried to play Marr's stuff?

I can't do it

[The exploding boy]

I haven't tried much of it but what i did i can.

Not as well as he would though. It's possible there is some of his songs i couldn't play, like i said i haven't tried to play that many. Mainly I figured if i learned This charming man it would be a perfect distillation of his style and just that could teach me a thing or two. I feel it has.

But yeah in this list he's clearly the more technical one. I mean in comparison. So is Sumner on occasion.

And i would contend that edge has such a unique style that it's hard to replicate sometimes. All these fast echoey mutes... they never sound right when i attempt them anyway. You can play his stuff but you can't rely do it justice, a lot of it anyway.

[Elphenor]

This Charming man is probably the easiest one to play

Stuff like Girl Afraid or Barbarism Begins at home I really struggle to play in a way that makes it sound effortless like he does

[The exploding boy]

Yeah part of the reason i didn't try many is hes very often using a capo (like girl afraid) and until very recently...i didn't even have one. I had no use for it.

[brutechinasky]

robert fripp and keith levene

[slunken]

in chronological order as best as i could

sylvester weaver
john hurt
fred mcdowell
chet atkins
duane eddy
cliff gallup
scotty moore
luther perkins
hank marvin
robert fripp
manuel gottsching
daniel fichelscher
michael rother
vini reilly
steve hillage
arto lindsay
john fahey
glenn jones
james blackshaw
ilyas ahmed
mark mcguire
jon porras
evan caminiti

probably forgetting a bunch

[opera de nuit]

Originally Posted by The exploding boy

Robert Smith... Oh and Reg Smithies/Dave Fielding from Chameleons.

definitely on those.

also:
vini reilly
robin guthrie
maurice deebank
robert fripp
john mcgeoch

[slunken]

shoot i forgot richard pinhas

[slunken]

love this quote

Originally Posted by vini reilly

In the end, I don't know if it's good music or bad music or indifferent music. I have no idea. I don't really care too much, it's done with and over with. People would say, why do you release it anyway, if you don't really rate it? The answer is, whatever music it is, bad, good, indifferent, stupid, boring, whatever, – it's truthful. At the time, it's the truth, and it's honest. There's no attempt to portray an image or a career or anything. It's what it is. And truth can be painful. It's about losses close to me, and about my own depression, but it's cathartic. But you have to be truthful. If you're not true in what you do, if you're creative, then you should forget it. All I've ever tried to do is be truthful.

emphasis mine

[teh b0lly!!1]

that makes me feel like a douche for endlessly writing and rewriting my songs

[Trotskilicious]

carrie fucking brownstein

[Trotskilicious]

johnny marr, bill corgan, jimmy page, hendrix, the guy from deafheaven, emma ruth rundle, michael gira, andy summers, ted leo

[Trotskilicious]

jack white, jamie hince

[Trotskilicious]

lockett pundt

[Trotskilicious]

ritzy brian there jesus i knew there was another woman to mention, maria paternoster is good but i haven't listened to the screaming females enough to really say that honestly but jesus christ:



(4:30)

on the album she launches into it like the best of j. mascis and i forgot to mention him

[dreams of glass]

trots was the only one to say Jimmy Page

c'mon guys

[Trotskilicious]

jimmy page is to thank for so so much

[dreams of glass]

[Sonic Johnny]

I kinda just assumed it was a given that anyone from Zeppelin was in the top 5 for their respective instrument

[dreams of glass]

Bonzo just rips it up there

[Trotskilicious]

Originally Posted by Sonic Johnny

I kinda just assumed it was a given that anyone from Zeppelin was in the top 5 for their respective instrument

honestly i usually leave page and hendrix off the list because so much cum has been wanked on them but i wanted to make it an all inclusive list of people i enjoy

[Sonic Johnny]

Bonzo was the greatest ever. Jussayin. When I used to teach kids drums once they had learnt to play a basic straight 4/4 i'd put on Kashmir and tell em "Now you gotta learn to play it like THAT"

[Mals Marola]

can't believe i forgot to list graham coxon

blur & its associated side-projects (gorillaz in partic obv) has been some of the most formative alternative music for me since i was 13, a lot of his stuff guitar-wise was otherworldly to me

[dreams of glass]

Bonzo played lead drums

like how you say lead guitar or lead singer

[Trotskilicious]

Originally Posted by Sonic Johnny

Bonzo was the greatest ever. Jussayin. When I used to teach kids drums once they had learnt to play a basic straight 4/4 i'd put on Kashmir and tell em "Now you gotta learn to play it like THAT"

after punk there's jim, stewart copeland, and janet wiess for me, but yeah bonzo can't be beat and keith moon was very good also