best guitarist

Pete Townshend was an awsome song writer, but his guitar skills were not that great. But he did play a mean banjo

For my choice it would be jerry, santana or george harrison. Think its because they have their own style. You can really tell its them when you hear em play. if you know what I mean.

 

BB King was awesome, but I haven't heard all that much of him... I have nothing on my computer from the other two... I'll fix that soon

 

Pete Townshend plays really great acoustic, though. He's kind of a bob dylan of rock, as opposed to what dylan did for folk music and folk-rock.

 

Yeah, I have a video of The Sky Is Crying on my computer of BB King, Albert King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Paul Butterfield on blues harp. It's great... Also, I have some awesome ones of Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton... Don't Think Twice, Crossroads... etc. I think it was recorded at Madison Square Garden. I've been there once...

 

I've been to MSG more times than I can remember

Only in the lobby tho... I never got to see a sports game or a concert ever

 

I've been in the sixth row and the lobby. I went to see Willie Nelson while staying with my cousins in upstate new york. I was on spring break a few years ago and my old neighbors had a son who worked at MSG and my parents told his parents, he got us tickets, and we stayed in NYC for a week at this odd, really abstract, hotel.

Where did you live in NYC?

 

I lived back and forth in between Stanten Island and South Harlem... the story behind that seems to confuse people, but I'll share if ya want to hear it

Where in upstate new york were your cousins? When my dad first got stationed there, we lived in military housing in ft drum and gouvernuer for a couple months.

 

I am glad to see Mr. Keller Williams listed before I could get to it. I have ever seen anyone play something that Keller cant play, most the time he makes it better!

Adam Aijala of Yonder Mountain String Band

 

My cousins lived a little bit west of Watertown, New York. Near Lake Erie, across from Kingston, Ontario. Oddly, I've never been to Lake Erie, though. One of my cousins moved to Rochester, I believe.

 

Yeah... Keller is the best 12, 10, and 16 string player I've ever heard.

 

not the best ever but my favorites remain Jerry Garcia, Trey Anastasio, David Gilmour, and Muddy Waters.

 

buddy holly....the origional 3-chord master

 

meh

 

http://www.ericjohnson.com/flash/bio.html

 

The most obvious answer is Mr.Jimi (technically speaking)

But my favourite is David Gilmour.

 

Steve Cropper is really good too... he's with Booker T and The MGs, Joe Walsh is also very underrated. Joe Walsh is one of my favorite funk/blues guitarists. Robbie Robertson and Rick Danko, as well.

 

I think the bassist (guy with fro in sig) or the guitarist (cody) of the blood brothers are one of the best... but mostly becuase its just so originall... all the time signatures and stuff, just makes it a lot more interesting.

 

I'm starting to doubt most people even know who a lot of these people were. A few are piano/shit harp players. Hell, some don't even play guitar, but were influential to me and many others, anyway. Most are folk and blues. The royalty, B.B. King, Albert King, Freddy King, and the likes... etc. Some I've already named but I just can't leave them out. I sat down an hour and a half or so ago and thought up the most influencial musicians in my life... I really don't care if they don't play guitar or not. I'd have to say our very own meg* marcella is a great inspiration to me. I listen to her and many others and I hear a foundation of generations and generations of history and music that some other people may or may not hear. I'd have to say Eric Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughan have done more for my musical tastes and inspirations than any other well-known musician, but truly, none of these people are the greatest ever. Two oddballs that have also inspired me are Jimmy Buffett and Alan Jackson, because, without them, I wouldn't have discovered some great blues, country, folk, and bluegrass. Alan Jackson's song, Midnight In Montgomery, first inspired me at the age of six. You go back, and back, and back. You can't always try to play like someone else, play like yourself. Some may see me as an egomaniac or a musical snob, but I don't think I can give up my meaning of life, nor do I really give a damn about what other people see me as, relating to music.

Hobart Smith
Woody Guthrie
Paul Butterfield
Maybelle Carter
Hubert Sumlin
Scrapper Blackwell
Fred McMullen
Skip James
Willie Dixon
Tampa Red
Will Rogers
Leroy Car
David Porter
Sonny Thompson
Junior Wells
Leadbelly
Chet Atkins
Merle Travis
Harlem Hamfats
Honeyboy Edwards
Curley Weaver
Joe Hill
Jerry Garcia
Tony Joe White
Muddy Waters
Lightnin' Hopkins
Big Maceo
Johnny Parth
Mel London
Pete Seegar
Pinetop Perkins
Charlie Spands
John Prine
Neil Young
Donovan
Roger McGuinn
CSNY
Josh White
Homesick James Williamson
Mabon Teenie Hodges
Guitar Slim
Phil Ochs
Doyle Bramhall
Django Reinhardt
Blind James Campbell
Alger Texas Alexander
Sam Chatmon
Mississippi John Hurt
John Jackson
Frankie Lee Sims
Mississippi Fred McDowell
Isaac Hayes
Joe Pass
Clarence Ashley
Peter Green
Eddy Kirkland
Buddy Moss
Ray Charles
Mance Lipscomb
Buddy Moss
Curtis Jones
Joan Baez
Sonny Boy Williamson II
Fulton Allen
Elmore James
J.J. Cale
Wes Montgomery
Sonny Landreth
John Hiatt
M. Levy
David Lindley
Ry Cooder
Bonnie Raitt
Charlie Christian
Larry Carlton
Robert "Junior" Lockwood Jr.
Johnny Winter
Tommy Emmanuel
Funny Paper Smith
Big Bill Broonzy
Blind Boy Fuller
Luther Allison
Leo Kottke
Robert Johnson
Jeff Healey
Son House
Albert King
Henry Glover
Brownie McGee
Doc Watson
Rory Gallagher
Danny Kirwin
Matt "Guitar Murphy"
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Buddy Guy
Walter Horton
J.T. Brown
Robert Cray
Chuck Berry
Jo Josea
Tommy Bolin
Jeremy Spencer
Simon Climie
Jimmy Page
Graham Bond
Willie Nelson
Lonnie Johnson
T-Bone Walker
Albert Collins
Otis Rush
Otis Spann
Sunnyline Slim
Jimmy Rogers
Little Walter
James Cotton
Lowell Fulson
Little Milton
Bobby Blue Bland
Jimmie Vaughan
Big Jack Johnson
Larry McCray
David Hidalgo
Memphis Slim
Howlin' Wolf
Magic Sam
Big Joe Williams
Tommy Johnson
Robert "Mojo" Elem
Bo Diddley
Willie Johnson
Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson
Charley Patton
Tommy McClennan
Doctor Clayton
Rev. Gary Davis
Louis Jordon
Jimmy Reed
Stevie Wonder
Blind Blake
John Lee Hooker
Rick Danko
Derek Trucks
Kokomo Arnold
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Sonny Boy Williamson I
Bukka White
Cisco Houston
Little Richard
Hank Williams Sr.

 

revised and edited my last post, scroll up.

 

i hate stevie ray vaughn however the hell you spell his name