Great guitar players

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by irv

Check out some other duels with Glen Campbell too. Another one who never really got the accolades for being so good, but then again, maybe we are too young to remember/know if they really did back in the day?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_kbgjsuCec

That was a great link. Yes we are probably just too young to remember. Then again neither played a style of music I listened to. I remember back in the 3 channel days(70s here) having to watch Hee Haw and Lawrence Welk as a little kid so never listed to those types of music when I got older.

Country music is actually pretty good when you only listen to the guitar player.

[irv]

Originally Posted by bnorth

That was a great link. Yes we are probably just too young to remember. Then again neither played a style of music I listened to. I remember back in the 3 channel days(70s here) having to watch Hee Haw and Lawrence Welk as a little kid so never listed to those types of music when I got older.

Country music is actually pretty good when you only listen to the guitar player.

That's the thing. There are so many different genres of music it is really hard for some people to pick out who is great and who isn't because they may have never heard of them before nor appreciate their style/talent?
Same goes for drummers, piano players, etc. If it is not your preferred genre of music, it might be really hard, unless you're a talented musician, to pick out who is really great and who isn't?
So many different styles, with some not appealing to others, but it still doesn't mean they aren't really good.
When I personally think of great guitar players, I think of Eddie Van Halen, Steve Vai, Randy Rhodes, Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, Michael/Rudolph Schenker and numerous other ones. If you had of posted your question without mentioning Roy Clark, I likely wouldn't have even thought about him even though he deserves just the same amount of accolades as many others.

[steve B]

Sister Rosetta Tharp.

I didn't know about her, but saw a video on facebook.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5weeyufMTXk


And, someone I never hear of in the "great guitar player" discussions, but who is famous anyway. George Harrison.
Back when I was trying to play, a friend got the guitar magazines with tab.ANd they had a beatles song or two one issue. Simple stuff right? NO, I looke dat he tab, tried to make my hand do what was needed for the chords. No dice, tried forcing my fingers into place with my other hand... Nope there was simply no way my hand could play that.
Went and watched a video, and yes that was what he was dong and making it look easy.

[Shoeless Moe]

I'll let ya'll fight over #2.


Because #1 is a no brainer.....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZBlqcbpmxY



Let Jimi take over

[Peter_Spaeth]

Chet Atkins.

[nolemmings]

I've always been a Hendrix and Santana fan, with a strong nod to EC, but my favorite guitar solo of all is probably this one from Terry Kath, starting at about the three minute mark and lasting for 2:20 or so (the whole song is great):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uAUoz7jimg

[irv]

Originally Posted by steve B

Sister Rosetta Tharp.

I didn't know about her, but saw a video on facebook.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5weeyufMTXk

Never heard of her either. Funny how that is but I'm sure racism, plus the age difference, obviously, has something to do with that?
Just recently heard this lady, Joanna Connor, and can she play. Not necessarily what I am into but their is no doubting her talent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWter1w4vWE

Originally Posted by Shoeless Moe

I'll let ya'll fight over #2.


Because #1 is a no brainer.....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZBlqcbpmxY


Let Jimi take over

There is no denying Jimi for sure. Sad that he left us so young as I think what we heard was just a start.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_whI9m0SFys

[bnorth]

Also a big Jimi fan. This is my favorite Hendrix song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpbBc30DbQw

[butchie_t]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Chet Atkins.

Chester & Lester is a great album.

[irv]

Originally Posted by bnorth

That was a great link. Yes we are probably just too young to remember. Then again neither played a style of music I listened to. I remember back in the 3 channel days(70s here) having to watch Hee Haw and Lawrence Welk as a little kid so never listed to those types of music when I got older.

Country music is actually pretty good when you only listen to the guitar player.

I like Country too, Was raised on it myself along with Hee Haw.
Was recently just told about this song sung by Hardy. Never heard of him before until a couple weeks ago. Could have something to do with the Canada/U.S. thing as I've discovered before but who knows?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsMB0i5YTOc
Live version is really good too. From the CMA's this year which I didn't watch, unfortunately.
https://youtu.be/_V74Ppu61-c

[Peter_Spaeth]

Cards.

[irv]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Cards.

Great cards, Peter.

[irv]

"Sometimes the greatest way to say something is to say nothing at all"

JT and Chris Stapleton. Excellent song!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MPbR6Cbwi4

This one is pretty tough to beat as well.
https://youtu.be/jZG82iqP06A

[irv]

This thread would be a failure if we didn't include the other Jimmy. Pretty tough not to name him one of the greatest guitar players of all time, if not the greatest ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFZy4ot2O2g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbhCPt6PZIU

[Cliff Bowman]

Alice Cooper was around all of them in the late 60’s and early 70’s and he said hands down Jeff Beck is the best.

[BobC]

Along the lines of the recent thread about the most underrated ballplayers out there, I'd like to put forth Tony Iommi as one of the greatest, and most underrated, guitarists of all time. Arguably the Father, Grandfather, and Godfather of heavy metal, all rolled into one. He is the Mordecai Brown of rock guitarists, to tie things into our beloved hobby.

Quite honestly, with no Iommi, there likely would have never been an Ozzy Osbourne as we came to know him.

Fairies Wear Boots - Entire song, but especially starting at 2:40
Paranoid - 1:27
Turn Up the Night - 1:50 (Not that great of a song IMO, but they stuck it in this online article for some reason.)
Snowblind - 2:35 - 3:40 - and especially 4:40
Iron Man - 3:10 and again starting at about 4:40
War Pigs - 3:25 and then especially stating at about 5:26 through the end of the song

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/tony-io...-guitar-solos/

And their entire debut album, titled Black Sabbath, is unreal and probably their most, and one of all of rock-n-roll's, most underrated albums of all-time. The rain, haunting church bells, and opening chords of the album's first and titular song, Black Sabbath, is to my thinking one of the greatest opening songs to ever launch an album and a band, and immediately let everyone know what they were all about. There really hadn't been anything like this before them. And if you like bass guitarists, listen to Geezer Butler on Bassically starting at about the 14:20 mark, which then rolls into N.I.B., one of Sabbath's best songs that no one really seems to know or ever talk about. At the 23:50 mark it goes into Sleeping Village/A Bit if Finger, which is well worth a listen. And then at 27:40 it morphs into the final song/movement of the album, Warning. You especially want to start listening to it at the 31:00 mark when Iommi takes over and it is basically his solo effort through the next 7 minutes to end the approximately 38 minute long album. Throughout the entire album you hear Iommi playing various styles and influences that aren't necessarily what you'd expect from a straight up, heavy metal, rock band. With the different styles and techniques used, I've always felt this album was more in line with, and deserved to be right up there with, the likes of the Beatles - Sgt. Peppers and the Beach Boys - Pet Sounds albums.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YztzNyDGcpc

And some honorable mentions I haven't heard brought up yet, Frank Zappa and Robert Fripp. I don't think any explanation is needed for either of them.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by irv

Great cards, Peter.

Thanks Dale, a few more.