100 greatest rock guitarists

Moe!!!! dang, where ya been? Wish you would post more in these music threads.

Alvin Lee put on a show at Woodstock, even Jimi said
"That guy is from another Planet"

Bloomfield is awesome, love his solo stuff. "Don't Say That I Ain't Your Man" Micheal Bloomfield Essential Blues 1964-1969 is a must have for any Blues Guitar Fan.

Have only heard a few Savoy Brown songs. Will have to check them out more.

 

Wow! I am impressed Dubious. Not many people ever heard of Jimmy James and the Blue Flames. Randy California was a hell of a player

Here is a GREAT interview with RC talking about those days playing with Hendrix:

http://www.bostream.nu/johanb/spirit/blfl.htm

 

I just know people that know things.

I know Robert Leroy Johnson sold his soul to the devil

 

Well, I lurk a lot, but don't post too much. I'm going to have to dig out my Essential Blues. Haven't listened to it for awhile. Do you own a copy of the soundtrack of "The Trip"? Bloomfield does some fine work on the instrumental "Fine Jung Thing". I can listen to that repeatedly.

I can't say anything bad about Alvin Lee. He plays guitar like Ginger Baker plays drums. Several of my friends had those albums, and I listened to them quite a bit, but I always spent my money on someone else.

 

Turned 26 a couple of months ago. My intro to Mike, like a lot of guys, was the Super Session album, and that gorgeous tone. From there, I went nuts, from the solo to the Dylan to the Paul Butterfield to spending 40 bucks on a barely-used Electric Flag LP when I was 17. I'm not a big Les Paul fan, save for the Clapton/Blues Breaker album, which makes it even stranger.

Just that cutting, BB King'ish but better-informed tone. Love it, love it, love it.

 

I have "Fine Jung Thing" on one of my mixed Bloomfield CD's. Good stuff.

I highly recommend this Alvin Lee compilation:



You can listen to samples here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...=pd_bbs_1/102-4656192-5399340?ie=UTF8&s=music

And I have been checking out Savoy Brown songs for the last couple hours. "Street Corner Talking," "Tell Mama," "I'm Tired" and "Needle and Spoon" are all impressive. Thanks for mentioning them, i am hooked

 

Have you heard Kooper Sessions Volume 2?

A very underrated and gifted guitarist plays on that album.

Shuggie Otis

 

Thanks, Bob. I will check into that. Anything off "Blue Matter" or "A Step Further" represents pretty doggone well.

Kelly, uh yeah, I'm a few years over 26 myself. You might try some very early Fleetwood Mac with Peter Green's leads. Bob can back me up on this. Maybe you already have some of those, or the Chicago sessions with Otis Spann.

 

I just got a Fleetwood Mac bootleg CD of a concert from Amsterdam in 1968.

Peter Green is the best guitarist to come out of Britain IMHO.

 

Thanks for passing along the link, Bob. There is an excellent LP by Randy California performing as Kap'n Kopter and the Twirly Birds that really invokes the Hendrix connection. I haven't heard it in years but now I'm gonna have to order it.

I really like the way this thread is turning out. It's good to see Bloomfield and Kim Simmons get some recognition

 

Wow. Where do you get such a thing? I'm trying to shake the cobwebs. I think it was 68 or 69 I saw them in the old Music Hall. Great concert. I remember they had those theatrical curtains which were closed. The band was warming up just a little before the start of the concert. Green played a few warm-up licks and bent a few notes and I knew right then they were going to be great. And they were. That place had great acoustics. I saw Iron Butterfly and Vanilla Fudge there as well. Oh, yeah. I'm just a few years older than 26.

 

Nice.

 

Love Green, though not as much as Beck.

Randy California, from Queens, taught the guy in my sig how to bend notes.

 

It's because all the geezers are checking in, and Kelly, who has been reincarneted from somebody who had good taste.

Really the featured rock guitarist is a rare commodity in the 21 st. century.
One young hotshot carrying his own is Derek Trucks. He's not my favorite stylist but he is very original and very technicaly proficient. Finger picking slide players just stun me (Sonny Landreth!)

But I love Jimmy Vaughn too, and he is a bare minimalist, he doesn't play note more than he needs.

And, we need the obligitory Elmore James mention. As well Bloomfiled's running buddy Nick Gravenites

 

Will Billy Duffy ever get any respect?

 

I found that concert on Limewire.

Here is an awesome website with tons of bootleg concerts:

http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/


Here is a Fleetwood Mac concert from 1968 in San Francisco

http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/fleetwoodmac1968-06-09carousel.asx

(Link will open Windows Media player and show set list and other info about concert)

 

I like Jimmie Vaughn better than his brother. Not saying he's better or as accomplished more, I just like that style.

The problem with a lot of the English guys is that they seemed like they were dying (literally and figuratively) for excuses to put down the guitar. Beck loves his cars, Green his acid, Mick Taylor hasn't really done anything earth-shattering since the mid 70s.

Some other lily-white favorites;

Cropper, Rory Gallagher, Gary Moore, Robbie Robertson (even if he is a blankety-blank), Larry Carlton (a weenie since the early 80s, but he can still sting), Peter Frampton (can't stand the solo stuff, but his work with Humble Pie is awesome), Jorma Kaukonen, Nels Cline, Dave Edmunds ... more after the nap ...

 

100 greatest rock bassists according to digitaldreamdoor:

1. James Jamerson (Funk Brothers, session man)
2. John Entwistle (The Who)
3. Larry Graham (Sly & The Family Stone)
4. Chris Squire (Yes)
5. Jack Bruce (Cream)
6. Tony Levin (King Crimson, session man)
7. Geddy Lee (Rush)
8. Paul McCartney (The Beatles)
9. Louis Johnson (Brothers Johnson, session man)
10. Anthony Jackson (session man)
11. Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
12. Marcus Miller (session man)
13. Les Claypool (Primus)
14. Chuck Rainey (session man)
15. Billy Sheehan (Niacin, Mr. Big, Steve Vai)
16. Geezer Butler (Black Sabbath)
17. Will Lee (session man)
18. Michael Manring (Attention Deficit, session man)
19. Nathan East (Eric Clapton, session man)
20. Rocco Prestia (Tower Of Power)
21. John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin)
22. Abe Laboriel (session man)
23. Stuart Hamm (Joe Satriani)
24. Donald "Duck" Dunn (The MGs)
25. Dave LaRue (Dixie Dregs)
26. Bob Babbitt (Funk Brothers, session man)
27. Phil Lesh (Grateful Dead)
28. Steve Harris (Iron Maiden)
29. Jack Casady (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna)
30. Cliff Lee Burton (Metallica)
31. John Myung (Dream Theater)
32. John Deacon (Queen)
33. Willie Weeks (session man)
34. Carol Kaye (session woman)
35. Aston "Family Man" Barrett (Bob Marley & The Wailers)
36. Verdine White (Earth, Wind & Fire)
37. David Hungate (Toto, session man)
38. Robert "Kool" Bell (Kool & The Gang)
39. Joe Osborne (session man)
40. Phil Chen (Rod Stewart, session man)
41. Oteil Burbridge (Allman Brothers Band)
42. Freddie Washington (session man)
43. Nathan Watts (session man)
44. Louis Satterfield (Earth Wind & Fire, session man)
45. Andy West (Dixie Dregs)
46. Bootsy Collins (Funkadelic)
47. John Wetton (King Crimson)
48. Greg Lake (ELP)
49. Tim Bogert (Vanilla Fudge)
50. Mark King (Level 42)
51. Mike Watt (Minutemen)
52. Bernard Odum (James Brown, session man)
53. George Porter Jr. (Meters, session man)
54. Mike Gordon (Phish)
55. Bernard Edwards (Chic)
56. Ryan Martinie (Mudvayne)
57. Willie Dixon (session man)
58. Andy Fraser (Free)
59. Trey Gunn (King Crimson)
60. Dave Schools (Widespread Panic)
61. Berry Oakley (Allman Brothers Band)
62. Jerry Jemmott (session man)
63. Roger Glover (Deep Purple)
64. Bill Black (Elvis Presley)
65. "Sweet" Charles Sherrell (James Brown, session man)
66. Phil Lynott (Thin Lizzy)
67. Billy Cox (Band Of Gypsys)
68. Bruce Thomas (Elvis Costello & The Attractions)
69. Gary "Mani" Mounfield (Stone Roses)
70. Felix Pappalardi (Mountain)
71. Mike Rutherford (Genesis)
72. David Ellefson (Megadeth)
73. Matt Freeman (Rancid)
74. Ronnie Baker (MFSB)
75. John Alderete (Racer X, Mars Volta)
76. Robert Trujillo (Suicidal Tendencies)
77. Duff McKagen (Guns N Roses)
78. Marshall Lytle (Bill Haley & The Comets)
79. Bill Gould (Faith No More)
80. Ray Pohlman (session man)
81. Me'Shell NdegéOcello (session woman, solo)
82. Doug Pinnick (King's X)
83. Tommy Cogbill (session man)
84. Glen Cornick (Jethro Tull)
85. Pino Palladino (session man)
86. Randy Coven (Steve Vai)
87. Tim Commerford (Rage Against The Machine)
88. Doug Wimbish (Living Color)
89. Thomas Miller (Symphony X)
90. Mick Karn (session man)
91. Jeff Ament (Pearl Jam)
92. Ron Wood (Jeff Beck Group)
93. Michael Lepond (Symphony X)
94. Dave Hope (Kansas)
95. Bill Wyman (Rolling Stones)
96. Leo Lyons (Ten Years After)
97. Timothy B Schmit (Eagles)
98. Rex Brown (Pantera)
99. Bobby Sheehan (Blues Traveler)
100. Tom Hamilton (Aerosmith)

http://www.digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_bassguitar.html

 

George Porter's a sweet guy.

Ron Wood? What the hell? He did fine work on those two Beck albums, and I think he's played some Stones bass since then, but is that enough to be included? Seems like someone's trying a little too hard to be clever.

 

And one hell of a bass player. I am a big Meters fan.

I was in New Orleans for a long weekend during the summer of 1998, and I went to the original Tiptina's in the Garden District to see George Porter and Runnin' Pardners. They did a 20 minute, funkified Meters style version of Neil Young's "Down By The River" that freaking blew my socks off. They were incredible.