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Best Guitarists Evah!!!

Larry Carlton: Steely Dan - Kid Charlemagne (solo)
 

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If Scofield is one of the great guitarists, what about the duo Scofield + Metheny?
Legendary album, produced by legendary artists.

In this case, technique, interpretation, taste for sound and the right note at the right time, played in the best way.

I don't know what you think but I think they're fantastic!

 
Winemaker said:
If Scofield is one of the great guitarists, what about the duo Scofield + Metheny?
Legendary album, produced by legendary artists.

In this case, technique, interpretation, taste for sound and the right note at the right time, played in the best way.

I don't know what you think but I think they're fantastic!

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Speaking of Pat Metheny. One of the best jamming sessions I've seen. You can tell the musicians enjoy it and give it their best. The icing on the cake is that they do it in a good song: :)

 
I used thread search and didn't see his name. Cory Wong has chops!

He has a talented crew (The Wongnotes)
 
I believe that we need to couch our consideration taking into account the genre. It is in my mind impossible to put forth any one best individual.

I'll bet few people would think about the wonderful and extremely talented Canadian rocker Kim Mitchell. For anybody interested in his music you would do well to listen to the entire album Universal Juveniles. There is a treat track on the album, Battlescar, where Rush joined them in studio.
 
Some of my favorites...
Andrés Segovia

Roy Clark

Prince

Rodrigo y Gabriela

Martin
 
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I've seen this video dozens of times and every time I'm amazed, both by the technique and by the taste he gives to the notes he plays.


Every note is in the right place, never an end in itself and never cloying.
 
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ivayvr said:
nobody ever played or will ever play like Jimi Hendrix!
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I'm not sure about that. Stevie Ray Vaughn famously made a career of playing Hendrix arguably better than Hendrix ever did, and there are by now thousands of guitarists who can easily 'play like' Hendrix at the drop of a hat. The difference is of course that Hendrix originated those riffs and stylings while SRV et al. only have to imitate ...
 
Winemaker said:
I'm amazed, both by the technique and by the taste he gives to the notes he plays.
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It's certainly impressive being able to play along note for note with DeBarre's solo with that precision, especially fingerstyle*, but it's not really in the spirit of the genre. Another case of standing on the shoulders of giants and still falling short. The original is more marvellous:


*) The only other player I can think of who played Gypsy Jazz fingerstyle is Oscar Alemán, but he did use a thumbpick.
 
bluefuzz said:
Stevie Ray Vaughn famously made a career of playing Hendrix
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Hummm…I’m not so sure about that. Ok Stevie did (and could at the drop of a hat) throw Hendrixisms around, and also seemingly liked the same Tailor! But he was very much more Blues based than Hendrix, Hendrix near invented a genre. Stevie reinvigorated a fading genre (guitar based blues). You are right that many an act stood on the shoulders of Hendrix but Stevie spent more time on the shoulders of the kings/alberts etc
 
Greenman said:
he was very much more Blues based than Hendrix
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I wouldn't say SRV was more blues based than Hendrix but he came to prominence at a time when 'The Blues' had become far more codified and its boundaries more rigidly policed than in Hendrix' time. And SRV was by nature a far more conservative musician than Hendrix. But still I don't think there is a Hendrix track that isn't deeply inhabited or informed by the blues. As to whether SRV 'reinvigorated' the blues probably depends on your perspective. As far as I remember 'The Blues' was having something of a renaissance long before SRV appeared on the scene. I know I was listening to a lot of blues at the time. I saw SRV in the mid 80s, and hearing Voodoo Chile and Little Wing done well live was revelatory – I certainly learned more about playing the guitar in those two hours than probably any other time – his Freddie/Albert/BB-isms were as on point as his Hendrixisms – but there was still an aura of pastiche over the proceedings ...
 
bluefuzz said:
I wouldn't say SRV was more blues based than Hendrix but he came to prominence at a time when 'The Blues' had become far more codified and its boundaries more rigidly policed than in Hendrix' time. And SRV was by nature a far more conservative musician than Hendrix. But still I don't think there is a Hendrix track that isn't deeply inhabited or informed by the blues. As to whether SRV 'reinvigorated' the blues probably depends on your perspective. As far as I remember 'The Blues' was having something of a renaissance long before SRV appeared on the scene. I know I was listening to a lot of blues at the time. I saw SRV in the mid 80s, and hearing Voodoo Chile and Little Wing done well live was revelatory – I certainly learned more about playing the guitar in those two hours than probably any other time – his Freddie/Albert/BB-isms were as on point as his Hendrixisms – but there was still an aura of pastiche over the proceedings ...
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I guess we will have to agree to disagree then.

But it’s not just me…Wikipedia the font of all truth ;) says the following:

“he is considered one of the most influential musicians in the history of bluesmusic”
“Vaughan became the leading figure in the blues revival of the 1980s.”
“Vaughan throughout his career revived blues rock and paved the way for many other artists”
“sounded like no other guitarist, regardless of genre”

Either way, he is much much more than some pastiche of Hendrix or anyone else that preceded him IMO.
 
This guy plays Bach as precisely and passionately as anyone I've ever heard -- including Segovia, Bream, and Williams.
 
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