Best modern guitarist
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Keep in mind the days of becoming a radio star are largely done unless you're a Taylor Swift / Beyonce type
Keep in mind the days of becoming a radio star are largely done unless you're a Taylor Swift / Beyonce type
Ah but that's always been the case. Hot guitar players very rarely make it into the radio sweetheart role.
I don't think I've heard as many successors to the guitar thrown in the last 20 years as we did back a few decades ago. I'm sure there are still great ones, I'm just not aware.
WSS
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Keep in mind the days of becoming a radio star are largely done unless you're a Taylor Swift / Beyonce type
Ah but that's always been the case. Hot guitar players very rarely make it into the radio sweetheart role.
I don't think I've heard as many successors to the guitar thrown in the last 20 years as we did back a few decades ago. I'm sure there are still great ones, I'm just not aware.
WSS
Ah but that's always been the case. Hot guitar players very rarely make it into the radio sweetheart role.
Exactly.....probably some of the very best aren't even in a known band per se and could just be studio studs.....being a drummer, I would use Hal Blaine as an example.....he never was the drummer in a famous band and very few people(except us drummers) even know who he is....
But....he is the most recorded drummer in history and even drummed on many albums for bands that had drummers.....just to make it right......including most of the hits from the Beach Boys, Frank Sinatra, Simon and Garfunkle, Tony Bennet, Herb Alpert, John Denver, Barbara Striesand, The Monkees, The Supremes, Neil Diamond and hundreds of others.....
A few of the songs he played on were Mr. Tamborine man....Monday Monday....I got you Babe...Strangers in the night....The way we were....Love will keep us together....Good Vibrations....Bridge over troubled waters.....and hundreds more...
Same with Steve Gadd.....the best drummer EVER....yet, everyone is like....Steve who?......if you dont know him, think about that wicked opening shuffle on Paul Simons 50 ways to leave your lover.....or Steely Dans Aja.....or just about anything from Eric Clapton.....simply a drum god!
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I didn't ask for top five and I posted it at 8 this morning. If you don't have anything to add and you can't speak on it why don't you go elsewhere and let sone other people decide if they do or can
Because this is a silly thread and deserves to be nuked.
You asked for who the best guitarists of the last 25 years....yet you don't want anyone to list even like their top 5?
Here are a few that I do know just off the top of my head.....and I am by no means an afficionado of current guitar players....just a few I have seen bits and pieces of:
The local guy from Firestone High: Dan Auerbach
Jack White (riff from Nine Mile nation or whatever that song is now a staple at sporting events)
Derek Trucks...considered top blues guy
Skrillex. ...don't know his shit, just know his name.
What about Vai/Satriani/Bonnamassa.......I assumed these guys have been around too long to qualify for you.
Because this is a silly thread and deserves to be nuked.
You asked for who the best guitarists of the last 25 years....yet you don't want anyone to list even like their top 5?
Here are a few that I do know just off the top of my head.....and I am by no means an afficionado of current guitar players....just a few I have seen bits and pieces of:
The local guy from Firestone High: Dan Auerbach
Jack White (riff from Nine Mile nation or whatever that song is now a staple at sporting events)
Derek Trucks...considered top blues guy
Skrillex. ...don't know his shit, just know his name.
What about Vai/Satriani/Bonnamassa.......I assumed these guys have been around too long to qualify for you.
Jesus Gipper lawyer much? You can name as many as you want as long as they're not the sainted 60s and 70s guys. Even the van Halen heyday was 30 years ago. Just because you don't like a topic and it's not your idea doesn't make it stupid.
This shit ain't nothing to me, man. -
Kenny Wayne Sheppard is another and, somewhat surprisingly, john mayer.
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Because this is a silly thread and deserves to be nuked.
You asked for who the best guitarists of the last 25 years....yet you don't want anyone to list even like their top 5?
Here are a few that I do know just off the top of my head.....and I am by no means an afficionado of current guitar players....just a few I have seen bits and pieces of:
The local guy from Firestone High: Dan Auerbach
Jack White (riff from Nine Mile nation or whatever that song is now a staple at sporting events)
Derek Trucks...considered top blues guy
Skrillex. ...don't know his shit, just know his name.
What about Vai/Satriani/Bonnamassa.......I assumed these guys have been around too long to qualify for you.
Jesus Gipper lawyer much? You can name as many as you want as long as they're not the sainted 60s and 70s guys. Even the van Halen heyday was 30 years ago. Just because you don't like a topic and it's not your idea doesn't make it stupid.
Jesus Gipper lawyer much? You can name as many as you want as long as they're not the sainted 60s and 70s guys. Even the van Halen heyday was 30 years ago. Just because you don't like a topic and it's not your idea doesn't make it stupid.
I didn't say it was stupid....I said it was silly because it was so esoteric. Nothing wrong with the question albeit very narrow. It just seems like you want to control the answers.
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No I just want them to be in the last 25 years. I didn't shit on any answer you had that met the qualifications. We already know eddie van Halen is a virtuouso.
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Mud I think there have been a string of flashy drummers over the years you stand out in the bands they are in. People might not know Hal Blaine or Steve Gadd, but they know Neil Peart Keith Moon Carl Palmer Ginger Baker Mitch Mitchell Etc. I'm sure there are newer guys.
WSS
www.westsidesteve.com www.myspace.com/westsidestevemusic www.cdbaby.com/artist/westsidestevesimmons -
Ah but that's always been the case. Hot guitar players very rarely make it into the radio sweetheart role.
Exactly.....probably some of the very best aren't even in a known band per se and could just be studio studs.....being a drummer, I would use Hal Blaine as an example.....he never was the drummer in a famous band and very few people(except us drummers) even know who he is....
But....he is the most recorded drummer in history and even drummed on many albums for bands that had drummers.....just to make it right......including most of the hits from the Beach Boys, Frank Sinatra, Simon and Garfunkle, Tony Bennet, Herb Alpert, John Denver, Barbara Striesand, The Monkees, The Supremes, Neil Diamond and hundreds of others.....
A few of the songs he played on were Mr. Tamborine man....Monday Monday....I got you Babe...Strangers in the night....The way we were....Love will keep us together....Good Vibrations....Bridge over troubled waters.....and hundreds more...
Same with Steve Gadd.....the best drummer EVER....yet, everyone is like....Steve who?......if you dont know him, think about that wicked opening shuffle on Paul Simons 50 ways to leave your lover.....or Steely Dans Aja.....or just about anything from Eric Clapton.....simply a drum god!
Exactly.....probably some of the very best aren't even in a known band per se and could just be studio studs.....being a drummer, I would use Hal Blaine as an example.....he never was the drummer in a famous band and very few people(except us drummers) even know who he is....
But....he is the most recorded drummer in history and even drummed on many albums for bands that had drummers.....just to make it right......including most of the hits from the Beach Boys, Frank Sinatra, Simon and Garfunkle, Tony Bennet, Herb Alpert, John Denver, Barbara Striesand, The Monkees, The Supremes, Neil Diamond and hundreds of others.....
A few of the songs he played on were Mr. Tamborine man....Monday Monday....I got you Babe...Strangers in the night....The way we were....Love will keep us together....Good Vibrations....Bridge over troubled waters.....and hundreds more...
Same with Steve Gadd.....the best drummer EVER....yet, everyone is like....Steve who?......if you dont know him, think about that wicked opening shuffle on Paul Simons 50 ways to leave your lover.....or Steely Dans Aja.....or just about anything from Eric Clapton.....simply a drum god!
Many, including perhaps the likes of Hendrix, Townshend said that Phil Keaggy was the best guitarists they ever saw, better than them.
Yet he was NOT very well known. His band did not get that much overall attention: Glass Harp. But he got the attention of the top name guitarists of his age.
When Jimi Hendrix appeared on The Tonight Show (Flip Wilson was guest host) he was asked what it felt like to be the greatest guitarist in the world. His response supposedly was "I don't know, you'd have to ask Phil Keaggy that".
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No I just want them to be in the last 25 years. I didn't shit on any answer you had that met the qualifications. We already know eddie van Halen is a virtuouso.
No I just want them to be in the last 25 years. I didn't shit on any answer you had that met the qualifications. We already know eddie van Halen is a virtuouso.
You have no ability to shit on any answer I give to any question anywhere ever.
As every answer I give is a pure pearl of wisdom and knowledge....and you would only be shitting on yourself by denying yourself such wisdom and knowledge.
So, think about that pilgrim.
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Mud I think there have been a string of flashy drummers over the years you stand out in the bands they are in. People might not know Hal Blaine or Steve Gadd, but they know Neil Peart Keith Moon Carl Palmer Ginger Baker Mitch Mitchell Etc. I'm sure there are newer guys.
WSS
Mud I think there have been a string of flashy drummers over the years you stand out in the bands they are in. People might not know Hal Blaine or Steve Gadd, but they know Neil Peart Keith Moon Carl Palmer Ginger Baker Mitch Mitchell Etc. I'm sure there are newer guys.
WSS
True....and, actually, a lot of the young modern era drummers have mad mad skills....so technically proficient its sickening....of course, they couldnt swing if they had too....but its a different time.....
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No I just want them to be in the last 25 years. I didn't shit on any answer you had that met the qualifications. We already know eddie van Halen is a virtuouso.
You have no ability to shit on any answer I give to any question anywhere ever.
As every answer I give is a pure pearl of wisdom and knowledge....and you would only be shitting on yourself by denying yourself such wisdom and knowledge.
So, think about that pilgrim.
You have no ability to shit on any answer I give to any question anywhere ever.
As every answer I give is a pure pearl of wisdom and knowledge....and you would only be shitting on yourself by denying yourself such wisdom and knowledge.
So, think about that pilgrim.
More like a pure nugget of shit coated in pearl Jam
This shit ain't nothing to me, man. -
Yes, John Mayer, that's one of the guys I was thinking about.
WSS
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You have no ability to shit on any answer I give to any question anywhere ever.
As every answer I give is a pure pearl of wisdom and knowledge....and you would only be shitting on yourself by denying yourself such wisdom and knowledge.
So, think about that pilgrim.
More like a pure nugget of shit coated in pearl Jam
More like a pure nugget of shit coated in pearl Jam
And you would be wise to swallow every ounce.
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Exactly.....probably some of the very best aren't even in a known band per se and could just be studio studs.....being a drummer, I would use Hal Blaine as an example.....he never was the drummer in a famous band and very few people(except us drummers) even know who he is....
But....he is the most recorded drummer in history and even drummed on many albums for bands that had drummers.....just to make it right......including most of the hits from the Beach Boys, Frank Sinatra, Simon and Garfunkle, Tony Bennet, Herb Alpert, John Denver, Barbara Striesand, The Monkees, The Supremes, Neil Diamond and hundreds of others.....
A few of the songs he played on were Mr. Tamborine man....Monday Monday....I got you Babe...Strangers in the night....The way we were....Love will keep us together....Good Vibrations....Bridge over troubled waters.....and hundreds more...
Same with Steve Gadd.....the best drummer EVER....yet, everyone is like....Steve who?......if you dont know him, think about that wicked opening shuffle on Paul Simons 50 ways to leave your lover.....or Steely Dans Aja.....or just about anything from Eric Clapton.....simply a drum god!
Many, including perhaps the likes of Hendrix, Townshend said that Phil Keaggy was the best guitarists they ever saw, better than them.
Yet he was NOT very well known. His band did not get that much overall attention: Glass Harp. But he got the attention of the top name guitarists of his age.
When Jimi Hendrix appeared on The Tonight Show (Flip Wilson was guest host) he was asked what it felt like to be the greatest guitarist in the world. His response supposedly was "I don't know, you'd have to ask Phil Keaggy that".
Many, including perhaps the likes of Hendrix, Townshend said that Phil Keaggy was the best guitarists they ever saw, better than them.
Yet he was NOT very well known. His band did not get that much overall attention: Glass Harp. But he got the attention of the top name guitarists of his age.
When Jimi Hendrix appeared on The Tonight Show (Flip Wilson was guest host) he was asked what it felt like to be the greatest guitarist in the world. His response supposedly was "I don't know, you'd have to ask Phil Keaggy that".
saw an interview on guitar sessions the other night with chicago...they were asked when did you start getting noticed and one of the members said that they were playing at some small venue and they noticed hendrix was there watching them...hendrix came up to them and said quote...your guitar player is better than i am, how would you like to open for my band....from there the rest is history...the guitarist's name was terry kath who committed suicide in the early 80's i think..but i remember seeing them and never expected what i saw from him...the guy was fucking incredible...when you thought of chicago back in the early 70's it was their horns and harmonies and lyrics of course...but that just blew me away...
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Many, including perhaps the likes of Hendrix, Townshend said that Phil Keaggy was the best guitarists they ever saw, better than them.
Yet he was NOT very well known. His band did not get that much overall attention: Glass Harp. But he got the attention of the top name guitarists of his age.
When Jimi Hendrix appeared on The Tonight Show (Flip Wilson was guest host) he was asked what it felt like to be the greatest guitarist in the world. His response supposedly was "I don't know, you'd have to ask Phil Keaggy that".
saw an interview on guitar sessions the other night with chicago...they were asked when did you start getting noticed and one of the members said that they were playing at some small venue and they noticed hendrix was there watching them...hendrix came up to them and said quote...your guitar player is better than i am, how would you like to open for my band....from there the rest is history...the guitarist's name was terry kath who committed suicide in the early 80's i think..but i remember seeing them and never expected what i saw from him...the guy was fucking incredible...when you thought of chicago back in the early 70's it was their horns and harmonies and lyrics of course...but that just blew me away...
saw an interview on guitar sessions the other night with chicago...they were asked when did you start getting noticed and one of the members said that they were playing at some small venue and they noticed hendrix was there watching them...hendrix came up to them and said quote...your guitar player is better than i am, how would you like to open for my band....from there the rest is history...the guitarist's name was terry kath who committed suicide in the early 80's i think..but i remember seeing them and never expected what i saw from him...the guy was fucking incredible...when you thought of chicago back in the early 70's it was their horns and harmonies and lyrics of course...but that just blew me away...
He was a great vocalist too.....they had a few of them, so he didnt sing much, but he was my favorite of the 3....
and Danny Seraphine was another amazing and under appreciated drummer.....top of the heap in my books...
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saw an interview on guitar sessions the other night with chicago...they were asked when did you start getting noticed and one of the members said that they were playing at some small venue and they noticed hendrix was there watching them...hendrix came up to them and said quote...your guitar player is better than i am, how would you like to open for my band....from there the rest is history...the guitarist's name was terry kath who committed suicide in the early 80's i think..but i remember seeing them and never expected what i saw from him...the guy was fucking incredible...when you thought of chicago back in the early 70's it was their horns and harmonies and lyrics of course...but that just blew me away...
He was a great vocalist too.....they had a few of them, so he didnt sing much, but he was my favorite of the 3....
and Danny Seraphine was another amazing and under appreciated drummer.....top of the heap in my books...
He was a great vocalist too.....they had a few of them, so he didnt sing much, but he was my favorite of the 3....
and Danny Seraphine was another amazing and under appreciated drummer.....top of the heap in my books...
great photo mud...makes me tear up a little...
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Could you delete this thread steve? I'm disappointed in how it's degenerated into same old same old
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