" guitar is all that's left now." name your players

Tommy Emmanuel. Great technical guitarist.

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for me:

JJ Cale
Paul Kossof
Micheal hedges

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Now:

John McLaughlin
Grant Green
Kenny Burrell
John Scofield

Younger me:

Jimmy Page
Carlos Santana
Jimi Hendrix

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Zappa

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Leaving aside the obvious Clapton, Gilmour, etc., I’d nominate:

Glen Campbell

Bill Nelson

Dan Fogelberg

Malcolm Jones (Runrig)

We’re just writing down the names of guitar players, lads.

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Yep, as opposed to footballists, cricketingers, egg chasists, political twats etc etc yadadda yadadda

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Yeah you’re right, just listening to Dead Souls, his guitar riff is wonderful.

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I’m at the caravan with very little internet cover. I put Tommy Emmanuel forward. Look up his guitar tutorial for Lady Madonna. He shows how to play first bass, then rhythm and then lead at the same time on his acoustic guitar. Very clever.

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Carol Kaye is superb

Sean Costello.
Albert Cummings.
Melvin Taylor ….very well regarded in the music world as a guitarist guitarist.

Danny Gatton

Bert Jansch

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Noel Gallagher

Danny Kirwan

Bet he can’t do this

Yes, that is just one person playing.

VB

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Peter Green


Blind Lemon Jefferson
Charlie Patton
Robert Johnson
Hubert Sumlin
Elmore James
Robert Jr. Lockwood
Chuck Berry
Bo Diddly
Frank Zappa
Jimi Hendrix
Peter Green
Jimmy Page
Jeff Beck
Eric Clapton
Dave Davies
Pete Townshend
Brian Setzer
Steve Hackett
David Gilmore
I could keep going and going, every player does something that makes me say “Fuck yeah”,

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I was always impressed by the work of Phil Free

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