She was on This Morning or something as well
My housemate shouted me in to watch it.

I'll have to have a look for that. I do enjoy Jeff Beck.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Wed 19 Jan 2011, 13:50, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

Best living guitarist, in my EXPERT AND UNARGUABLE opinion.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 19 Jan 2011, 13:57, Reply)

I am quite a fan of ELO
thanks to my dad. they got played in the car a lot when going on holiday, so have positive associations.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 19 Jan 2011, 14:02, Reply)

You're a big fan of 'ELO SAILOR'

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 19 Jan 2011, 14:14, Reply)

glorious

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 19 Jan 2011, 14:15, Reply)

Here's one for you then - what do you reckon to his slide cover of A Day in the Life?
*steeples fingers and raises eyebrow*
(BrianHequator was stretching owls, on, or around, Wed 19 Jan 2011, 14:07, Reply)

You mean to say...BETTER THAN CLAPTON?
*smirks*
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 19 Jan 2011, 14:08, Reply)

that dull twat
he looks and plays like a geography teacher

by which I mean a paedophile
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 19 Jan 2011, 14:10, Reply)

But he's God!
Someone wrote it on a wall back in the '60s so, you know, it must be true.
*enlarged smirk*
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 19 Jan 2011, 14:12, Reply)

so many better guitarists around
it's outrageous.

Not sure who my favourite is. For blues, I'd probably say Joe Bonamassa.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 19 Jan 2011, 14:15, Reply)

For Blues? Yeah, Bonamassa's good, but I find a bit over-twiddly on occasions
He's probably not in the same league for technique, but for tone, melody and passion I'm inclined to go with Son Seals.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 19 Jan 2011, 14:17, Reply)

he can be over twiddly
his tune blues deluxe is hilarious for it. Really really slow number with passages of ridiculousness that start and stop very suddenly. Makes me laugh.

I find it hard to pinpoint favourites because there are a lot of great ones out there who are excellent for different reasons.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 19 Jan 2011, 14:20, Reply)

This is also true
(And then do you go for a slide player or a regular fingerstyle player?)
It just seems a little ironic to rank blues guitarists on their technical ability, for a genre which is still very musical but derives so much from the raw passion in the playing - it's the only genre I can think of where two guitarists could play a one-note solo and one somehow play it better than the other because he was "feeling it" better.

EDIT: Although, to contradict all that, Ritchie Blackmore's well-thought-out playing on some of Deep Purple's bluesier numbers is also excellent, so who knows?
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 19 Jan 2011, 14:28, Reply)

I prefer fingerstyle on the whole
not to say that I dislike slide, but I don't dig it quite so much.

I get where you are coming from. Because I mostly come from playing rock and metal, and these days play a lot of blues based stuff it's tricky to seperate the two. It's a different approach. I'm only really now getting to the point where I'm good enough (and confident enough) that what I'm feeling comes through nicely, without sounding shite or like I'm rubbish.

One of my very favourite guitarists is Jerry Reed (of Eastbound and Down fame). Check out a video on youtube of him and Chet Atkins playing a tune called Jerry's Breakdown. Fucking marvellous. Then watch the video of two guys playing it on one guitar.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 19 Jan 2011, 14:34, Reply)

Blackmore is one of those who is a law unto himself
see also: Jimi, Dave Gilmour
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 19 Jan 2011, 14:35, Reply)

Or to bring it back to the blues theme,
see also Buddy Guy.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 19 Jan 2011, 14:55, Reply)

I heard Clapton was singlehandedly responsible for the whole Rock Against Racism movement.
On account of some 'send 'em all back' rant he launched into at a gig in the seventies.

This may or may not be true, but if it is it's fucking ironic from a man who built his career on the work of black American blues guitarists.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 19 Jan 2011, 14:21, Reply)

I have also heard he's a colossal racist - hadn't heard that particular story
But in any case it is, as you rightly point out, hilariously ironic.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 19 Jan 2011, 14:24, Reply)

Mate of mine, who's a musician
raised the point of Faecebook a few weeks ago as it was RAR's anniversary or something.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 19 Jan 2011, 14:26, Reply)

that rings a bell
the tosser.

Wonderful Tonight might as well have been written by Mick Hucknall it's that shit.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 19 Jan 2011, 14:26, Reply)