Posted on 06/15/2010 5:19:20 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Ha!!
Steve Howe was in Asia. Had a few decent songs.
Steve Jones rated above Robert Fripp?
Steve Morse? Buddy Miller? Andy Gill from Gang of Four?
“Page is a great producer but has been the sloppiest guitarist i’ve ever seen live.”
While I definitely respect his contribution to rock music via Led Zeppelin, I think Page is overrated as a guitarist.
Steve Howe did his best work with Yes, although Asia’s first album was pretty good (it has a special place in my heart as one of the first albums I ever bought).
My top 10:
1. Edward Van Halen (because of Eddie, I lost interest in piano lessons ;)
2. Jimi Hendrix
3. Eric Clapton
4. Joe Satriani
5. John Petrucci
6. Eric Johnson
7. Dave Murray/Adrian Smith (yes, I’m counting them as one; they’re on all the really good Maiden albums)
8. David Gilmour
9. Alex Lifeson
10. Stevie Ray Vaughan
I saw Yes a few years ago when eight band members were on tour. Trevor Rabin doing “Changes” live was also a highlight.
I was blasting maiden live after death today at the office. @hantom of the +pera live is a pure masterpiece.
They recently released that show on CD. Top notch.
Alex Skolnick (Testament, Savatage, Alex Skolnick Trio)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv6i8nU6_78
The top three should have been Wes Montgomery, Mike Bloomfield, and B.B. King.
Les Paul better be on that list.He is. And he should have come in way higher. So should Duane Allman and Charlie Christian. Come to think of it, T-Bone Walker, Albert King, and Peter Green should have been on the list, period.
Were you close enough to see his playing style? He plays a guitar strung for a right-handed player, but he plays it left-handed. IOW, the low E is where the high E would normally be. It's very peculiar.But not unheard of. Albert King played that way his entire life. (He also used some of the weirdest tunings I ever heard of---CFCFAD and DGDGBE.)
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Notice, though, that Otis Rush will string his guitar upside-down even when he uses a guitar made for a lefthander. (In his early days, he played either Fender Stratocasters or Epiphone Dots and just flipped them upside-down, as he did later with Gibson ES-335s or 345s . . .)
I should have mentioned, too, that if it hadn't been for Mike Bloomfield (who began playing one on the crack Butterfield album East-West in mid-to-late 1966), Eric Clapton (who used one on the legendary Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton set by John Mayall and for parts of Fresh Cream before it was stolen), Peter Green (who used one when he succeeded Clapton in the Mayall group), and Jeff Beck (who used one in his first Jeff Beck Group in 1967), the original Les Paul guitars would have remained a dead issue. (They'd been phased out in 1960 and the SG was Gibson's original attempt to upgrade the Les Paul line, an upgrade Les Paul himself despised.) Those four, finding their Les Pauls in pawnshops or secondhand shops (Bloomfield's first was a '55 gold top; he traded it for his more familiar '59 flameburst before he left Butterfield to form Electric Flag), sent enough people scurrying to find the vintage Pauls that Gibson finally brought them back into production to stay in 1968.
By the way, I'm a proud owner and player of a beautiful Les Paul Studio made four years ago. With the burstbucker pickups it gives me the classic Les Paul sound without the bells and whistles . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jII_tL-4vXE
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