Favourite guitarist:

OK, similar threads have been done, but they all seem to end up being about who is most technical or can play the fastest. What I want to know is: which guitarists have inspired the way you play?

Personally, I'd say Victor Villarreal, ex-Capn Jazz, now in about fifty bands, all of them damn good. Every moment of my playing life goes toward being more like him. I've been playing eight years and I still don't understand how he does what he does. The guy can make the notes he plays (clean, mind, with very little in the way of effects) sounds so fluid you can barely tell it's a guitar at all.

OK, that's my self-indulgent bit done. Now do yours.

 

Neil Young mostly, I love his guitar playing. Listening to those long jams, Cowgirl In The Sand, Down By The River, Over and Over.... etc. I just love the way he can get such a good groove on his playing, and those one note solos that sound so perfect..... just awesome.

 

It was listening to Jimi Hendrix last summer that made me want to pick up a guitar, but it was the finding out that John Lennon didn't start playing until he was 17 that made me start to play seriously. I started out by learning John's rhythm parts to a ton of Beatles songs, and I can pretty much play all of them from Please Please Me up to Help!... the only Hendrix song I can play/have tried learning is "Purple Haze".
I've fallen in love with Noel Gallagher... I think most of whatever my style is comes from him, since it's Oasis that has taught me the most..
I've started teaching myself fingerstyle, by replacing Bob Dylan's strumming with arpeggios in his songs... I dunno how that'll turn out.
I learned my first solos from George Harrison, and can play them exactly like they are on record, so I obviously take from him.. but the most I learned about soloing (moving your fingers around quickly, etc etc) was from watching Eric Clapton and Lou Reed videos.

Haha, I don't know anymore. I'm probably gonna get embarrassed by other people who've been playing for years post.

 

whoever plays guitar for tom waits, i forget his name, i think hes cuban

 

Steve Howe is so amazing I hardly consider him a guitarist anymore. Also check out Andre Segovia... I think he's like 90 years old (if he's still alive), and he puts all them heavy metal shredders to shame.

 

stevie ray's rythym got me into the guitar.
Jimmy Pages style made me want the guitar.

 

Steve Howe trancends all musicians on any form of stringed instrument used in any style. except maybe violin, i never heard him play one of thoes.

 

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Don't criticise what you can't understand.

 

lmfao

 

The Beatles pretty much inspired me to take up the guitar.
Metallica and other metal inspired me to get an electric.

and so on...

 

My favorite guitarist has always been and will always will be Major Applewhite or some shit like that. We can smell desperate losers like David Matthews a mile away. In fact, even my neighbors whose favorite musical artists were the Dave Matthews Band, Barry Manilow, and this newfangled Shania Twain could recognized how much people like Hubert Sumlin would fall down and down and down again. Perhaps it was the lighting that made and influence on the sound. Normally, if you so much as play a few power chords in front of someone who doesn't play guitar, they'll look at you in the most freed, magnificent, and stupified awe and think you're some kind of fucking god. You are not Eric Clapton. You are not Jimmy Page. You are not SIDDHARTHA GAUTAMAAAA. This is just rage. Turn the page. Quit playing what's my age...again.

Fucking guitars.

 

steve howe will smoke eric clapton

 

wtf?

edit: i think i gotcha... maybe....

 

Here.. have a grand-mal.

 

And he smokes you too, always will. but not me though.

 

Oh man, I've got so many...

Steve Howe would definitely be at the top of my list; "Roundabout" blew me away the first time I heard it.
Django Reinhardt is God, plain and simple.
Trey Anastasio of Phish is one of the most gifted funk guitarists I've ever heard.
Dickey and Duane's work on "Blackhearted Woman" got me started with country guitar.

This is just the top of my list.

 

Keller Williams is the most orginal player. I have never seen anyone pull off a K-dub song!

 

...Wha?



In unrelated news: who the fuck is Steve Howe?

 

Steve Howe is the guitar player for YES