Who do you guys think is the best guitar player?

[FishTank]

One more shot with Eddie Van Halen.

[jdw174]

Knock your self out and I hope you enjoy your Captin and Tonelle Records

It's "Captain and Tennille", and thanks, I will. 8-)

[senile1]

Few people know that, in addition to the ukulele, Tiny Tim could play a mean guitar.   :

[.dsaavedra.]

kirk hammet gets my vote

[dave]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN3i89Va3HE&feature=related

His fellow musicians called him "The Humbler" He has a Telecaster named after him.

He was from Washington DC.  Someone once called him the greatest guitar player that you never heard of.   A reporter from the Washington Post once asked him if he practiced.  He said that aside from playing in his band,  "no I don't."  He told the reporter that he was already the best guitar player in the world.  When he wanted to get better than he already is,  then he would practice.  He was very known in the industry but,  not by the public.  I got to see him play one time for the benefit of a musician that was one of my best friends in 1993.  He committed suicide a few years later.  Check out some of the other performances on you tube.  

[Guest muddy]

Your post reminded me a another guy that was great that took his own life

Roy Bucanhan

[fourbizz]

I forgot someone. BUCKETHEAD!

[senile1]

I forgot someone. BUCKETHEAD!

I thought of Buckethead, also, after I posted.  He's a mutant.  

[Dan:]

Anybody think Peter Frampton is as cool as i do?  "Do you feel like I do-oo-oo?"    

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I do-oo-oo

[Red]

i like stevie ray alot...didnt jimi play his guitar upside down?  i heard how that came about...dont know how much truth there is to it but i was told that he was very poor growing up and he bought his first guiter at a pawn shop, it was a "righty" and he taught himself to play it "lefty"  anyone know if there is anything behind that story?

Cliff

Yea Red its true. They didnt make Starts lefty so he restrung it and plyed it upide down. One of the managers from Hard Rock Cafe, got fired for buying one of Jimi's Strats for 10,000. When they got it it was a right handed knock off, wasn't even a Fender

so he restrung it to be a lefty? i thought he just played it strung like a righty but turned it upside down....so the "big" string for him would have been closer to his head.....does that make sense?

[Guest muddy]

Yea thats what I mean by restrung, he had the E string ( tophe lower one, in tone ) on the top

[senile1]

Yea thats what I mean by restrung, he had the E string ( tophe lower one, in tone ) on the top

Yeah, Jimi restrung it so the strings were in their normal place.

Low E, A, D, G, B, High E on bottom.  I think he started out on the right-handed guitar because it was what he had available.  Once of the main reasons Jimi stuck with the right-handed Strat was because this placed the whammy bar at the top of the guitar and he could engage it with his arm while playing notes at the same time, rather than having to reach down below the strings to engage it.  The smaller cutaway at the bottom would have limited most people's access to the highest frets, but Jimi's fingers were so ridiculously long I don't think he ever had this problem.  

[=Matt 5.0=]