Some good old school Guitar.

[hvaclogic]

Yngwie Malmsteen, Jake E. Lee, Vito Brata, pretty much all of your 80's Rock God guitar players. How come nobody does a guitar solo anymore? I mean the new bands shred but no real solo's. Think Randy Rhoads doing "Mr. Crowley" that's what I miss the most.

[bluestone]

All what you guy's said, Carlos #1 in my book, but I saw Kenny Wayne Shepard at Amherst a while back with B.B. King. Kenny blew me away, we were sitting just behind the sound engineer with no more than 400 people, it literally brought me to tears, and that doesn't happen to me!

[hvaclogic]

I'm sitting here listening to "Jacobs Ladder" by Rush and I gotta say that Alex Lifeson doesn't get the props he deserves. He can make a guitar sing with the best of them.

[kslrr]

How about the guy who played with Huey Lewis?

Other names I have not seen: Phill Keagy, Mark Nopfler and Brian Sestzer (not sure of spelling of last names).

Also there was this little guy who played with the Daniel Amos Band (Christian rock).

"Jacob's Ladder by Rush", is that the same song as "Jacob's Ladder by Huey Lewis and the News"?

[classical]

This is a list compiled by Rolling stone. Duane Allman is one of my favorites can't beleive I forgot him.

1Jimi Hendrix
2 Duane Allman of the Allman Brothers Band
3 B.B. King
4 Eric Clapton
5 Robert Johnson
6 Chuck Berry
7 Stevie Ray Vaughan
8 Ry Cooder
9 Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin
10 Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones
11Kirk Hammett of Metallica
12 Kurt Cobain of Nirvana
13 Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead
14 Jeff Beck
15 Carlos Santana
16 Johnny Ramone of the Ramones
17 Jack White of the White Stripes
18 John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers
19 Richard Thompson
20 James Burton
21 George Harrison
22 Mike Bloomfield
23 Warren Haynes
24 The Edge of U2
25 Freddy King
26 Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave
27 Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits
28 Stephen Stills
29 Ron Asheton of the Stooges
30 Buddy Guy
31 Dick Dale
32 John Cipollina of Quicksilver Messenger Service
33 & 34 Lee Ranaldo, Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth
35 John Fahey
36 Steve Cropper of Booker T. and the MG's
37 Bo Diddley
38 Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac
39 Brian May of Queen
40 John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival
41 Clarence White of the Byrds
42 Robert Fripp of King Crimson
43 Eddie Hazel of Funkadelic
44 Scotty Moore
45 Frank Zappa
46 Les Paul
47 T-Bone Walker
48 Joe Perry of Aerosmith
49 John McLaughlin
50 Pete Townshend
51 Paul Kossoff of Free
52 Lou Reed
53 Mickey Baker
54 Jorma Kaukonen of Jefferson Airplane
55 Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple
56 Tom Verlaine of Television
57 Roy Buchanan
58 Dickey Betts
59 & 60 Jonny Greenwood, Ed O'Brien of Radiohead
61 Ike Turner
62 Zoot Horn Rollo of the Magic Band
63 Danny Gatton
64 Mick Ronson
65 Hubert Sumlin
66 Vernon Reid of Living Colour
67 Link Wray
68 Jerry Miller of Moby Grape
69 Steve Howe of Yes
70 Eddie Van Halen
71 Lightnin' Hopkins
72 Joni Mitchell
73 Trey Anastasio of Phish
74 Johnny Winter
75 Adam Jones of Tool
76 Ali Farka Toure
77 Henry Vestine of Canned Heat
78 Robbie Robertson of the Band
79 Cliff Gallup of the Blue Caps (1997)
80 Robert Quine of the Voidoids
81 Derek Trucks
82 David Gilmour of Pink Floyd
83 Neil Young
84 Eddie Cochran
85 Randy Rhoads
86 Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath
87 Joan Jett
88 Dave Davies of the Kinks
89 D. Boon of the Minutemen
90 Glen Buxton of Alice Cooper
91 Robby Krieger of the Doors
92 & 93 Fred "Sonic" Smith, Wayne Kramer of the MC5
94 Bert Jansch
95 Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine
96 Angus Young of AC/DC
97 Robert Randolph
98 Leigh Stephens of Blue Cheer
99 Greg Ginn of Black Flag
100 Kim Thayil of Soundgarden

[Catpower]

They forgot Steve Miller

[midhvac]

Not sure about that list.

There's a lot of mediocre musicians on there, and a lot of killer ones that aren't.

[classical]

Not sure about that list.

There's a lot of mediocre musicians on there, and a lot of killer ones that aren't.

Well it was just Rolling Stone, what do you expect.

[hvaclogic]

Jacob's Ladder by Rush", is that the same song as "Jacob's Ladder by Huey Lewis and the News"?



Not even close.

[scrogdog]

For the record, Kansas' guitarists were Kerry Livgrin (not sure I spelled that correctly) and Rich Williams. Kerry did most of the impressive guitar work as well as being the main songwriter for the band.

For me, there is Alex Lifeson and then everyone else. Hard to think of another who has as many textures and sounds as he does. But our favorites always depend on the backdrop that they play in front of.

Guitarists like Satch and Malmstien are somewhat impressive in a show-offy and pretentious way. If they only made music.

[midhvac]

As a longtime guitarist, there's only one thing that really floats my boat with the ones I listen to, and it's that sound that sends a shiver up your spine and gives you goosebumps when you hear it. I don't care what kind of crazy makeup or outfits they have on, and while lightning fast playing speed is somewhat impressive, it just ain't that big of a deal.

Clapton's a perfect example of an old school guitarist who has the speed but doesn't *need* it to impress you.

Terry Kath with Chicago was another one.

[DPSwitch]

I don't think I've ever mentioned Eddie Van Halen here.

The man is the greatest, still is, just saw him a few days ago.

[mlstark]

John Abercrombie, in his early years with a band called Stark Reality.