Some Amazing Guitarists

A bunch of great guitarists mentioned. Here's a couple of lesser-known guitarists more people should know about:


Monte Montgomery - An amazing acoustic guitartist from Austin.


Phil Keaggy - He's been around since the 60's, but seems to have a small cult following. I saw Phil perform a wonderful one-man show at my Southern Baptist church a few years back. Like Vivi's story a few posts back, there were two distinct groups of people at the show. On one side of the aisle were a bunch of evangelical Christians who'd mostly heard of Phil through his contemporary Christian pop hits. The other side of the aisle had a bunch of whiter-than-white dweebs who looks like they hadn't seen daylight in decades. When you hear the phrase "underground following" these were the guys that really were underground. Think Milton from Office Space. :eek:



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I'm glad to see that knife knuts have good taste in musicians.

I played guitar long before becoming a knife knut. Been playing about 12 years. Took classical for 6. Practiced for 5-8 hours a day for several years, and 3-5 hours a day for the other years. I was obsessed with guitar to the point that the pressure eventually got to me and I don't play much anymore. Not to brag, but I am a very decent guitar player. I can play most of what my idols can play. Listing all the guitarists I like would take forever, so here are some of my top picks from a few genres.

Joe Satriani. He plays well (duh), but I especially like his melodies and song-writting. Catchy and beautiful.

SRV. So much emotion. Of course the players that he drew influence from deserve respect (notably Albert King), but I think SRV really nailed it.

Jeff Loomis. His riffs and solos are just insane. He keeps getting better and better each album, and that is scary since he started out great. He may not be *THE* most technical metal guitarist, but his leads really sound scary. He also does some very melodic stuff.

Andrew York. Great composer, great player. His range of techniques is very large. Learning some of his songs forced my hands to do things no other song had before.

Segovia. He may not be the most technical, but he really does well with dynamics and phrasing. He plays a simple song and makes it sound sweeter than anyone else.

I also have to mention Carlevaro (off-beat modern style), Scott Henderson (from Tribal Tech- awesome fusion jams), Eric Johnson (great song writing- blending rhythm and lead), and Steve Morse (county rock fusion, VERY versatile, great picking technique).
 
I didn't see Les Paul mentioned, he was one of the inovaters of the modern electric guitar back in the '50s I think. But for out and out blow you away is this guy from Poland who made it with the speed rock crowd, Ingvey Malmstein (sp?) a trained clasical guitarist, just picture Beathoven's 5th symphony played in it's entirety in 30 seconds flat.:D
 
Hendrix remains the only God chose as a conduit for his thunder and lightning...

Roy Buchanan was the most amazing guitarist nobody ever heard of...he taught Beck, Gibbons, Gatton and many others some of his tricks...his use of pinch harmonics to create squealing and wailing rather than feedback trickery remains one of his big contributions...Listen to La Grange by ZZ Top sometime to hear Gibbons use what Buchanan taught him.

Jimmy Page is another fave...what he lacked in technical perfection he made up for with an ability to rock the blues like nobody else. I prefer artists to technicians. Page was an artist.
 
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