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    Lou_Ranko
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    Keith Richards
    Lou Reed
    Neil Young
    George Harrison
    John Lennon
    Paul McCartney
    Lee Mavers
    Roger McGuinn
    Walter Becker
    David Byrne
    James Honeyman-Scott
    Johnny Marr
    Eddie Cochran
    Gene Vincent
    Joe Strummer
    Mick Jones
    Nile Rogers
    Ricky Wilson
    Keith Strickland
    Thurston Moore
    Lee Ronaldo
    And of course, me.

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    • #70135
      shakedown_04092
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      [quote=”Tim”]I’m almost ashamed to admit…I’ve only just discovered Rory Gallagher…OMFG, I love blues anyway, so I like the songs to start with but he just totally locks into it, how could you not love the enthusiasm?

      Acoustic:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1zsRRt1FWE&mode=related&search=

      Electric:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyHymAxUVrc&mode=related&search=

      You have to watch both vids though, very different, he just kicks ass! Henceforth I am a huge fan…[/quote]

      Ha! In that acoustic video he kind of looks like a long-haired John Cusack!

    • #78659
      lee_UK
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      Hang your head low in shame young Tim, he was indeed one of the best.

    • #78694
      Tim
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      I’m almost ashamed to admit…I’ve only just discovered Rory Gallagher…OMFG, I love blues anyway, so I like the songs to start with but he just totally locks into it, how could you not love the enthusiasm?

      Acoustic:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1zsRRt1FWE&mode=related&search=

      Electric:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyHymAxUVrc&mode=related&search=

      You have to watch both vids though, very different, he just kicks ass! Henceforth I am a huge fan…

    • #78675
      lee_UK
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      Big kids my arse… has anyone seen my ‘Big Noob’ url??

    • #70153
      1bassleft
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      While old stagers and overgrown kids Tim and Lee learn to lace up their 12s (soon be into “big boy” size one shoes and out of the velcro) I’d like to say a big “hello” to Shake. Even though I dislike Knoppfler (but can see he’s very able). More “great player/slag off over-rated” posts very welcome 😀

    • #70149
      lee_UK
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      Just lacing them up..

    • #78606
      Tim
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      [quote=”lee_UK”]Does the case for the defence rest on that ‘note’ ?
      Im just polishing up the size 12’s..[/quote]

      Yes…the fact that he’s one of my fav’s and I listed him as one of my fav’s seems to cover it.

      BTW, I actually am a size 12 so 😛 again 😀

    • #70111
      shakedown_04092
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      Prepared to take a bath for some of these guys:

      Jerry Garcia
      Trey Anastasio
      Bob Weir (hugely underrated guitarist)
      Mark Knopfler
      Jimmy Page
      Brendan Bayliss
      Jake Cinninger

      Not a big fan of the last 2, but they are good. Glad somebody mentioned Django, really getting into him lately.

      And nobody menitoned ME yet?? Sheeshhhh…. 😆 🙄

    • #70078
      glw
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      How about:

      John Martyn

    • #70094
      Michael
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      Not ‘one’ person, but I have to give serious credit to The Wailers guitarists.

    • #70121
      lee_UK
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      Does the case for the defence rest on that ‘note’ ?
      Im just polishing up the size 12’s..

    • #70118
      Tim
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      Much as I fail to see the need to defend such an ‘genre-inventing’ icon…

      It maybe he’s the bassist’s guitarist but anyone who can write riffs that are so atmospheric but also foot-tappingly catchy is my kind of guitarist.
      I admit the solos frankly suck but for pure heavy-weight riffage the man cannot be beaten.
      In short I’m not particularly judging him on technical ability but on the actual writing and musical vision of what he did. And for kicking Glam in the ass.
      I won’t go into too much detail as I know you like Paul (strum stum, moan, moan, strum, strum) Weller but Iommi’s playing opened my eyes at an early age (about 7) to the heavier/darker sounds available to toy with, so yeah, he’s one of my favourites (the name of the thread is ‘My Guitar Greats’ so 😛 )

    • #70076
      lee_UK
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      Tony Iommi? im not going to ‘stick the boot in’ just yet, i will give you the opportunity to defend yourself first, queens bury rules and all that.
      So in the words of the much underrated actor who played the Lion in ‘The Wizard of Oz’ ‘Stick-em up, go on, stick-em up’ . 😆

    • #70116
      Tim
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      [quote=”Lou_Ranko”]

      Err, ah!
      Django Rheinhardt![/quote]

      My mate wants me to put a bass part to ‘Minor Swing’ 😕

      Anyway:

      Tom Morello
      Jimi Hendrix
      John Frusciante
      Tony Iommi

    • #70123
      Lou_Ranko
      Member

      [quote]And rightly so.[/quote]

      LOL! Me and Michael know the chops, mate!

      Forgot loads of others.

      Townsend
      Zappa
      JJ Cale

      Err, ah!
      Django Rheinhardt!

    • #70128
      glw
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      I was never a fan as such, but always loved Thin Lizzy, and I really like his Back On The Streets album.

      Worst Thin Lizzy guitarist has got to be John Sykes, surely.

    • #70102
      1bassleft
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      We could do an “overrated guitarists I feel the need to slag off” thread, then 😆

    • #70115
      lee_UK
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      He does nothing for me, I just read an interview with him in this months Guitarist magazine, seems like he has only just understood the importance of leaving ‘Space’ in a song, Something Gilmour is the master at.
      Pity he didn’t learn the lesson 20 years ago when he was trying to get as many notes as he could in the shortest time possible.

    • #70098
      glw
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      I saw Gary Moore last night. He’s one of those guitarists that leaves you feeling inadequate.

    • #70124
      lee_UK
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      And rightly so.

    • #70112
      Michael
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      We had a Best Guitarists thread a while back Lou and I put David Byrne in it… I got hammered for it.

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