nearly forgot:

Misfits!
Fugazi
Derek Bailey's last few recs
Television
first few Helmet recs
(along with the ealier mentioned Fahey and Jansch:] Robbie Basho, Davey Graham (prf. with Shirley Collins) and Leo Kottke (6 & 12 string guitar)

Andy Cohen's solo on "Miracle Mile"

does anyone know if you can still get the Butterglove single? or if Maurice released anything? i lost the Butterglove, i've never heard Maurice but someone said they sounded like Sabbath and Slint (i think the kinghorse singer and britt walford were in this) and this was before Slint, it seems pretty interesting. also there was a first Crain tape with a different singer and the music sounded totally different, i lost my copy and i've never seen it anywhere else.


any help?

Sonny Sharrocks solos on Ask The Ages are basically as emotive and vivid as anything i have ever heard. also his atonal slide work on "Guitar" is breathtaking. all these noise guitar players just seem to miss it when compared to Sonny.

The huge guitar sound on Action Park

Any Fripp solo/melody/whatever before 1980

Fred Frith deserves his props especially henry cow lp's.

Marc Ribots solos on those Tom Waits records.

Vernon Reids guitar solo on cult of personality.

Tony Joe White

Lightnin Hopkins almost always has it going on.

I know he's really cheezy, but for cheesyguitar wank Uli Jon Roth simply has a better tone and more to say than the ynvies and vies and satrianis.

Jim Hall is amazing, especially "undercurrent" with Bill Evans

Leo Nocentelli of the Meters

and for pure tone- David Gilmour

and as mentioned before, all those classic rock lp sound great. angus, page, billy gibbons-especially ZZ Tops 1st, alex leifson- all you math rockers owe early rush records a blow job, brian may, mark knopfler, and on and on and on.

for sheer bravado jon mclaughlins solos on the first shakti record will pretty much blow everything else away in terms of speed and complexity.

As mentioned all ZZ Top up to DeGuello. AC/DC too, favourites for guitar sound being: Jailbreak 74, Live at Atlantic & Live at the BBC pt1. Gotta agree with Goat from the Jesus Lizard too. Amazing sound altogether really.

Others,

Jeff Beck : Blow by Blow, Wired, Guitar Shop.
Frank Zappa : Black Napkins, Zoot Allures.
Rory Gallagher : All
Fucking Champs : All
MC5 : Live
Hendrix : Everything.

and so on in that fashion.

AC/DC "Powerage" holds it's own in a big way. Zeni Geva's "Total Castration" does it's fair share. Also Nick Drake's "Five Leaves Left" and "Pink Moon" are dazzling. How many fingers does that guy have?

fellow geeks

during pete cosey's solo on side one of _agharta_ by miles davis

there is a particular sequence where cosey peaks and then immediately outdoes the peak about four times in a row

this would be right around where the drums drop out

it is astonishing

the greatest thing i've ever heard come from an electric guitar, either live or on record

Kyuss-'Blues for the red sun' -this is a sci-fi movie soundtrack ready to go.

Anything by THE SMITHS.

Marr was truly a genius guitar wiz back in those days. He certainly isn't anymore.