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Old 07-13-2008, 10:25 PM   #1 (permalink)
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My top 5, no order. Just my preference.
Robert Fripp
Kevin Shields
Ry Cooder
Phil Ochs
Mick Ronson
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Old 07-14-2008, 01:38 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Well I consider SRV blues rock, he played on Lets Dance too which was very much a pop album.

I just feel like drawing a line, adding BB would mean having to add Buddy Guy and Albert King and all the other big electric blues guitarists, and then people will say "you might as well throw in all the fusion guys too".

This is just my opinion, I'll add a few more names to it and then I want to start my little blog project.
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Old 02-27-2009, 01:25 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Well I consider SRV blues rock, he played on Lets Dance too which was very much a pop album.

I just feel like drawing a line, adding BB would mean having to add Buddy Guy and Albert King and all the other big electric blues guitarists, and then people will say "you might as well throw in all the fusion guys too".

This is just my opinion, I'll add a few more names to it and then I want to start my little blog project.
Like I said in an earlier post, nice list. When I first read it, I was a bit surprised that BB King and Buddy Guy weren't on the list, but I read your above explanation and accepted it. THEN, I heard BB King and Buddy Guy together on the Grammy's (with John Mayer and Keith Urban), and was blown away by Buddy Guy especially. So, I'm making a pitch for Guy to not only be on the list, but to be in the top 10! If you consider Stevie Ray Vaughan as blues rock, then Guy HAS to be, too. Just take a listen to tracks from his latest album--there are 3 songs on this site, and especially "Best Damned Fool" rocks.

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If that isn't blues rock, then I'm...well...heterosexual. Name: t2626.gif Views: 317 Size: 1.1 KB I'm willng to draw the line with BB King as strictly blues, but Buddy Guy is a maniac on the guitar, and it ain't just the blues....
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Old 07-14-2008, 08:36 AM   #4 (permalink)
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And Robert Johnson! He became a guitar virtuoso when it was still uncool to do so, when even playing guitar meant you were poor or insignificant. I think he claimed to have met "the Devil at the crossroads" and sold his soul to learn how to play. (This is the same man the character Tommy Johnson is based upon in the movie O Brother Where Art Thou). Now that's badass for a 20's era-guitar player.
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Old 07-15-2008, 02:45 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Actually, Tommy Johnson was a real guy, a delta blues musician who according to legend ALSO sold his soul to Satan to learn how to play guitar, that and his last name is just a big coincidence, he wasn't related to Robert Johnson in any way.
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Old 07-15-2008, 03:36 AM   #6 (permalink)
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nice list but ur missing Herman Lee
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Did you just google and end up over here?

Anyways, Malmsteen @ 20 seems a bit high to me.
And i would certainly have Gilmour in the top 10.
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Malmsteen, I'm no fan of the guy, but he was the first shred guitarist to use a very neoclassical dominated style and he's influenced countless guitarists, so he gets his props for influence and originality.
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Why isn't Fredrik Thordendal of Meshuggah on there?
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Why isn't Fredrik Thordendal of Meshuggah on there?
...after-all his solos are very Allan Holdsworth-like, as well as slinging an 8 string.
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