Best Guitarists Evah!!!

[Multicore]

Wow! I'm not sure I could stomach 25 CDs of Fripp nowadays but some of it could be interesting to hear. The League of Gentlemen period was very good as far as I remember. That was probably the first Fripp stuff I really cottoned on to aside from the KC Schizoid album.

Yeah, most of it seems best left on the shelf but there are some things in there that I gotta get my mitts on somehow. Like a proper digital mix of the LoG album. Remaster of Let the Power Fall. few others

If you care for the Frippertronics of that era, I recommend the album Washington Square Church. They finally managed to match and synchronize tapes of some solos with the well known loops by noticing that the guitar's pickups were sufficiently microphonic on the solos tapes that, with care and isolation in the DAW and lots of gain, they could hear the loop being played. Afaik, that makes this album the only collection of soundboard-quality representing the performance experience the audience had. There are bootlegs and DGM has issued some audience recordings of smelly audio quality that give the idea but Washington Square Church is new. I know some people who were at those gigs but I was a schoolboy in Glasgow at the time.

https://www.discogs.com/master/2664728-Robert-Fripp-Washington-Square-Church

 

[bluefuzz]

the guitar's pickups were sufficiently microphonic on the solos tapes that, with care and isolation in the DAW and lots of gain, they could hear the loop being played.

LOL. The wonders of modern science ... !

 

[Sonny1]

So many guitarists I’ve admired over the years. None more than the great Tony Rice. He played impossible stuff and did it effortlessly. Great player and singer.

 

[Chaconne]

There are great guitarists and there are great musicians. They are not often found together in one person. Which is why I'm surprised that no one in this 26-page thread has mentioned Ana Vidovic. A shame.

 

[xanalog]

Oh dear!

Naw, Jimi was pretty good at sticking his guitar into the amp and turning the Star Spangled Banner into a bunch of ear bleeding noise.

Your statement was a bunch of eye bleeding text!
Sir, I wish your ears forced MQA music listening for 29 minutes!

 

[TimF]

The posted video of Jimi Hendrix, are you sure he's not just suffering a seizure? And how about North Korean rockers?

 

[Multicore]

So many guitarists I’ve admired over the years. None more than the great Tony Rice. He played impossible stuff and did it effortlessly. Great player and singer.

Tony Rice is one of the bluegrass greats. But who else is there? The one and only Gerry Douglas! In the youtube you shared i like his solo better than Tony's.

Since we were allowed to discuss lutes, may I ask one question about the mandolin? In his solo (starting 2:20 in your youtube) the player uses a strumming right hand technique. How does this work? He can mute treble strings with the left hand but doesn't look like he mutes bass strings with the left.

 

[PristineSound]

Kinda hard for me to list since I'm not a guitarist and wouldn't be able to tell you what makes a good guitarist good. But my favorite is equally Santana and Jimi Hendrix.

 

[Robin L]

Tony Rice is one of the bluegrass greats. But who else is there?

Billy Strings:

 

[Multicore]

There are great guitarists and there are great musicians. They are not often found together in one person. Which is why I'm surprised that no one in this 26-page thread has mentioned Ana Vidovic. A shame.

The thread is mostly about the best known rock-n-roll lumberjacks.

Billy Strings:

Strings can play 'em but I meant by "who else is there?" was: Who is the other guitarist is on stage standing beside Tony in that video? It's Gerry Douglas!

 

[Robin L]

Perhaps what you mean my nuance is expression through an instrument that permits relatively little.

Something like that—the dynamic range of solo instruments used to be a lot more restricted, at least in the top of the range. Forgot to mention the theorbo, a larger instrument than the lute with more bass. It would frequently be used as part of a chamber group's B.C.:

 

[Robin L]

The thread is mostly about the best known rock-n-roll lumberjacks.

To be expected 'round these parts.

Strings can play 'em but I meant by "who else is there?" was: Who is the other guitarist is on stage standing beside Tony in that video? It's Gerry Douglas!

Going back historically, there is String's inspiration, Doc Watson:

. . . not to mention Clarence White with the Kentucky Colonels:

And as a bonus track, here's Tommy Emmanuel with Billy Strings:

 

[Multicore]

Something like that—the dynamic range of solo instruments used to be a lot more restricted, at least in the top of the range. Forgot to mention the theorbo, a larger instrument than the lute with more bass. It would frequently be used as part of a chamber group's B.C.:

That's a cool recording. Can you see where the mic is?

Here's a theorbo youtube I shared previously where you can see the mics clearly. Not so clear how big the room is.

What are we listening to right now..

www.audiosciencereview.com

 

[Robin L]

That's a cool recording. Can you see where the mic is?

Here's a theorbo youtube I shared previously where you can see the mics clearly. Not so clear how big the room is.

What are we listening to right now..

www.audiosciencereview.com

Looks like a pair of Neumann KM 184s, kinda close and near-coincident. Room looks and sounds small.

A theorbo player I recorded over 30 years ago. David Tayler now plays an ensemble—Voices of Music"—with his wife, Hanneke van Proosdij and also shares responsibility for the technical quality of their fine videos. Here he plays Bach, solo, on the archlute:

The same piece played on the modern guitar, Julian Bream:

 

[Robin L]

I looked at all the posts—to quote Multicore: "The thread is mostly about the best known rock-n-roll lumberjacks". I really think those that primarily avoid electronics are better musicians, but that's my preference, right? And to paraphrase David Letterman, this is an exhibition, not a contest—no wagering!

In any case, a few guitarists who are at the top of my list who might not have had such a good sonic representation here.

First, Andres Segovia when he had lots of technique:

Some early Leo Kottke:

John Renbourn (lots of overdubbing here):

 

[ahofer]

until this day

Guthrie Govan can, and then some.

 

[bluefuzz]

Marisa Anderson: Deep Gap

 

[bluefuzz]

Gwenifer Raymond: The Three Deaths of Red Spectre

 

[Chaconne]

The thread is mostly about the best known rock-n-roll lumberjacks.

My apologies, but I don't recall that stipulation having been made in the original post. If we eliminate classical guitarists, we're not really talking about "the Best Guitarists Ever" (to quote the OP), are we?

 

[Robin L]

My apologies, but I don't recall that stipulation having been made in the original post. If we eliminate classical guitarists, we're not really talking about "the Best Guitarists Ever" (to quote the OP), are we?