Damn who got me into this U-Tube thing. I 'm goin crazy now. What do you think of Bela Fleck not a guitarist but he could if he wanted. Early New Grass Revival

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHheEJuKapg

i love belafleck- victor wooten's solo bass playing is out of this world

Yup. He auditioned for Bela over the phone and was hired.

heres a good one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9a4ThBNacY

They don't come much more talented than that.

Here's a couple.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHQOWre8Htw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baDM3_6w8-E

Another Great jazz Guitarist

Another winner. I have an album or 2. Strange technique. I believe he was playing in the subways before he was finally discovered.

I had a great conversation with Vic Wooten one night. Amazingly enough we spent it all talking about computer graphics :)

Not joking.

-spence

I saw Stanley at teh Atlanta JAzz Festival, the highlight was him playing stairway to heaven, chords on one neck of a guitar and soloing on another guitar all at once.

You mean like this.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjXN3OLgoqs

Listen to Iron Maiden BF.Not speed metal by any means but Dave Murray,Adrian Smith and Janick Gers make most of the "Greats" look not so great.

See my reply to BF.

I'm very surprised there has been no mention of Alvin Lee...........unless i missed it.

Actually there is one hardcore insane Metal guitarist I will put against any of the "greats".

The late "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott of Pantera and Damageplan will put them all to shame.

How about a little love for Ritchie Blackmore...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiKhibA1an8

One of the best new generation (younger than me,37) guitarists I have seen in years is Zakk Wilde. Played with Ozzy and The Allman Bros. Band. Saw an acoustic show at the Paradise about 5 years ago.
Alvin Lee is on the list.
Blackmore too.
That was a tease. Child in time. Now I have to listen to it.
"Made In Japan" was the first TAPE I ever stole from my father when I was about 12 or 13.

I played the Grooves off that album.......Space Tr#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&g off that has to be one of the top ten live recordings ever

Bad Motor Scooter and Space Station #5 :D

Sammy Hagar when he was about 17.
I actually bought that tape.

sok, I still got that one on vinyl, buried in the back of the closet with all the other LP's :bl:

Was Hagar really that young?

Great Album. Smoke O T W has probably one of the most recognized riffs of all time . I also loved DP's "Burn" too. Steve Morse has stood in as guitarist for deep purple for the last few years on tour, although a little below him IMO, but hey you got to pay the bills.

Who said Bela fleck?
Duets is one of my favorites...
I like this thread.. it's like a slinky on one of those huge Mayan temples.. I just pushed the first step and then watch it go! :D

Great thread. I am the Fleck lover. I actually prefer his earlier progressive bluegrass stuff with New grass revival at his start and his Tales from the acoustic Planet Cds a few years back and all the studio stuff I can find he has done with all the greats of bluegrass. The flecktones are good, great I should say, but I like the acoustic stuff better.
I have more people but want some others to weigh in. Got to really start to dig deep now to find unmentioned ones now. I think we will need an underrated musicians thread next to cover all the other non guitar underrated people.

How about Leslie West?
Just saw mountain this summer in Newport, w/ corky Lang drumming. great show!

Spencer Dreyden:)

Thats embarrassing that Johnny Winter is #74. I think if you polled the guitarists on that list, most of them will talk about Johnny as big influences......if you could, just ask Muddy.

For proof, Johnny took the Bob Dylan tribute/snoozefest and woke everyone up with this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8siL...elated&search= . EVERYONE talked about that being one of if not THE highlight of the show.


I agree with everyone who mentioned Junior Brown. I've seen him 7 times and he is SO good. Plus, checkout the guitar/steel guitar or "Guit-steel" he had made and watch him go seemlessly back in forth between the 2........REALLY GOOD!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K46mSiLRjws

or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JzJW...elated&search=

Here is another. Les Dudek. Not one of his best but pretty good. Heard he did some lead work for the Allman Bros. after Duane left the planet .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzupiAewmNk

Another classicly trained college graduate. Mr. Morse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-CC2jOVNSI
with the DIxie Dregs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdbOj...elated&search=

Another, classical style
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIu7U...elated&search=

Sorry to hijack...awesome pics of deaner fishing!!!
Somebody please pm my brother, if you please...
if you please, on a kaiser bun!

Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush ----- Red House
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIr8Z...elated&search=

Robben Ford
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZKaR...elated&search=

Saw this guy at Chans last winter In Woonsocket great show. Smokin Joe Kubek . 1 a nite to keep thread alive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCRfurZEVDs

1 more, I know I got a problem:doh: , Joe Satriani
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO71E...elated&search=

Well its the next day.;) Everyone always talks about Hendrix, and rightfully so, but here's my vote for the white Hendrix. Robin T.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eldS9...elated&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0d1H...elated&search= Makes you want to break out the Bong

When hair bands made the scene I really started to embrace the older music......Procul Harum was one band that I really used to listen to a lot. Trower was spectacular then and when he broke from the band he really came into his own.

Virtuoso Joe Pass. Absolute genius
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgNca...e=user&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCoir...elated&search=
I just listened to them again. If you don't listen to anything I put up please listen to this guy it doesn't get any better than this. One more, 1 guitar and 1 little amp what else is needed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbT2a...elated&search=

HELL ya Paul....love Trower....underated for sure....reminds me of the bong days is right:rotf3: ...thanks for posting the link
a man that truly plays with feeling...cresendo...vibrato....feeling....
I bought BigFish a trower disc...ever listen to it Larry???

Yeah Matt you would have to say underrated. Hendrix got all the acclaim for pioneering that style, sound, as he should but I always thought Trower was right there with him. IMO he is just as good. Took his greatest hits to work last nite but too much concentration needed on job for that type of music, tonite I will be drowning out the guy next machine overs Jimmy Buffet, god I hate that music.

Randy R.
 

Trower was amazing no doubt!-- but I know who would've been the "white Hendrix" had he ONLY lived past age 23 or so...

I'm the #1 Hendrix fan I guarantee you! Love Clapton, Beck, Duane, Ronnie V.Z., David Gilmour, etc., etc. But I've never heard "heavy Metal" guitar- playing... OR gorgeous acoustic mellow pieces... like I heard on the first two Ozzy solo albums dominated by Randy Rhoads!

This kid went from unknown, to revitalizing Ozzys' career by a very young age! (Zack Wilde dreamed of being Randy-- didn't come close!) He was a child prodigy trained by his parents for a future in Classical music... 'till he decided the Electric guitar was his instrument... & that "Metal"/ power- Rock turned him on! His music on those 2 albums was not "Metal" really-- but the power chords & thunderous double- tracking solos produced some of the greatest guitar sounds ever heard certainly in the "hard" rock genre!

Talk Deep Purple... Iron Maiden... and Metallica or Eddie V. all you want-- in only 2 albums Randy blew them away!!-- and imagine what his 12th album WOULD have sounded like! Don't take my word for it: just put it on & play it loud! "Blizzard of Oz"... & "Diary of a Madman" are easily found. Tell me how many were better than he after hearing both!

Little known, is how Randy died so young: most figure drugs, choking on his own vomit, etc. Randy was a totally- clean California health- food/ wholistic- type raised by hippie parents... who didn't even drink! He was afraid his whole life of airplanes/ flying (as I admit am I too!)... yet he accepted a dare to go up in a small plane with others from the Ozzy tour to prove his bravery. He made the fatal mistake of overcoming his fear to say "yes," not knowing then that the pilot was (legally) drunk! That's what it took to stop the true next "modern/ white Hendrix"... :(