Since you seem to have forgotten to include Thomas 'McRocklin' McRocklin, I suppose I better fix it.

Style, speed, sophistication and taste. Paedo-metal.

John McLaughlin. There's emotion in his playing, it's not all soul-less tweedling.

Jack Grassel, too. He's a local monster that still plays gigs at the Uptowner in Riverwest, Milwaukee.

that damned fly wrote:skill just means you blew a lot of time on it. which means you probably didn't have a lot of friends. certainly not a lot of lady friends. probably a fair amount of dough blown on lessons too.

doesn't mean you're making art.

i can't think of one skilled player aside from jimi that i like. even then, jimi bores me from time to time.

What an unfortunate shame that he passed away and will never learn of his tendency to bore you (from time to time).

I also like the first statement, seems to be spoken from experience.

Marsupialized wrote:
The dude from Weird War, he's a motherfucker with that guitar man.

His music I do enjoy very much.

Alex Minoff, from Golden, Extra Golden, Make Up and 6 Finger Satellite. An excellent human.

Paolo Angeli. Plays prepared guitar in a loosely Sicilian style.

One the few "free" guitarist that I've really enjoyed seeing and hearing.

His instrument is just fantastic:

Which reminds me, there's a good Richard Thompson documentary on YouTube.

First part.

sunlore wrote:Paolo Angeli. Plays prepared guitar in a loosely Sicilian style.

One the few "free" guitarist that I've really enjoyed seeing and hearing.

His instrument is just fantastic:

i need to hear stuff from this guy.

pwalshj wrote:Albert Lee always amazes me. His live work with the Everly Brothers is stellar. I did a quick youtube search and found this clip of him cutting an overdub.

I can't get excited about that. The song sounds fucking horrible.

And the Ventures?

I've found that a lot of times that virtuoso guitar player have absolutely no sense of taste, and do nothing really interesting. Stevie Ray Yawn, Steve Vai, and of course the most blatant example of musical douchebaggery to walk the planet, Micheal Angelo Batio.

None of them really do anything musically adventurous, or truly expressive.

Thatt being said there are also some really good guitar players that did some really good work in their prime, but now pretty much suck completely, they choose not to burn brightly.

In this camp, I would place:

Al DiMeola
John McLaughlin
Last vids I saw of these guys, they were both playing horrible Kenny G. smoooothe Jazz shit on acoustics.

Carlos Santana
Eric Clapton
No Kenny G shit here, but still, what they play isn't much better.