What a super thread for us wannabie guitar heroes,
It's a funny old world indeed, there are are as many valid
choices of guitar heroes as there are people to choose them IMO. And as an
example marcel said
<< His one note
lead solos like in Down By The River were pretty banal next to the other
guys
mentioned above. marcel deste >>
Those self same one note guitar solos just blew me away, anyone who could
wring such emotion and supercharged feeling out of a lump of wood and metal,
was a damn fine virtuoso IMHO. The fact that he only played one note in some
of his solos was for me deliberate.
John Peel ( the UK's most respected DJ ) summed Neil's playing up for me, he
said "When Neil Young plays a solo he plays as if he knows that elusive note
is in there somewhere and he's damn well going to find it "
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<<i loved neil young. yet!!!! never did i consider him a lead guitar
player>>
.<< and he..in MY HUMBLE
OPINION...is no where even in the same league as any guitar virtuoso/i like
page or howe or hendrix or clapton or so on and so forth.>>
For me the number of notes per minute never comes into it, "It's not what
you've got, it's the way that you use it ". Clapton, Page and Howe are great
guitar players but not of the three play in a way that moves me like Neil
does.
Which brings me to Joni, where does she come in your list of virtuosos. She
doesn't play any solos.
Anyone, IMHO, who stands alone up on a stage in front of an audience with a
guitar, is a solo player. In my book, I must admit Joni's style of playing
washes sounds at my brain in a way that Clapton/Howe/Page etc never can.
In a poll of the 100 Greatest Guitar Players of all time, in Mojo magazine
June 96. Neil came 9th and Joni came in at No 77. All that proves is that
this was the choice of the couple of thousand readers of that magazine at
that time.Similarly in Guitarist magazine in Oct 98 in their Top Ten Female
guitar players, guess who came top ? But of course it was herself.
Which explanation gets me precicely nowhere and brings me back to where I
started.
But it surely is a great thread. So here's the players who rattle my cage
best.
My FAVE FIVE GUITAR PLAYERS OF ALL TIME ( well for today anyway)
1.Neil and Joni ( No kiddin, I can't separate them. Sychophant ! Do I
hear )
2.(This way I get to name 6 ) Stevie Ray Vaughan
3.Rory Gallagher
4.Peter Green ( as was)
5.Dickie Betts and Duane ( OK, so it's my thread)Warren was cool too.
" I don't know much about pickles, but I know what I like".........Tom
Paxton
Steve.............the impossible dreamer
NP. Neil Young and Crazy Horse .....Like a Hurricane
For a guitar lesson on one note solos check out the live netcast of Neil's
Bridge School Benefit this weekend at
http://www.intel.com/home/feature/bridge.htm
