Favorite Insturmentalist
 

I'm not going to do a poll because there are way to many choices. I'm asking who is your favorite person at playing any specific instrument you chose. Guitar? Drums? Bass? Mine is Niccilo Paganini. He played Violin and Guitar. If you have seen crossroads you have heard his music. Ralph Macchiao (i'm sure i'm not spelling it right) beats Steve Vai with one of Paganinis pieces. Also one of my favorite guitarists, Jason Becker, plays the same piece but much better.

Right now I think it's Patrick Wolf, i'd never really thought much of the Ukulele until I heard his stuff like Godrevy Point or Tristan, he really brought a level of respect for the instrument i'd never had before. In addition to that I think he's a great violinist, The Magic Position, Overture stuff like that are beautifully arranged. I never really thought someone could approach pop music the way he did.

I would like to ask you, Crowquill & Exodiser, If either of you could give me the name of a few artist's, that are known as some of the best at the 'Chello'? The Chello is may favorite instrument next to Bass Guitar. I would enjoy learning about the Stand Up Bass also. If I am correct? I think Stanley Clarke played stand up bass, before he went to the electric. (Definatley Old School), VB.

As for stand up bass, you might not be able to find them, but there's a really great New Orleans Jazz band named Astral Project and the Stand Up bassist is amazing. His name is James Singleton. As for Cello do you mean composer or someone who actually played it. I don't know specifically about any Celloists. As for composers. Go look for Johannes Brahms Cello Sonata No. 1 Op. 38. The first movement is my favorite but the entire piece is very good.

My favourite instrumentalists include;

Guitar: Django Reinhardt, Biréli Lagrène, Johnny Marr, Jack White.

Bass: There can only be one...James Jamerson.

Drums: Keith Moon.

Many of the Chili Peppers more funk geared instrumentals, as long as a few by incubus. I modernizes funk and brink the rock feel into it, which i love to listen to and play.

this goes double for me.

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as well as all the members of tera melos.

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Toni Joy is my favorite guitarist.

Danny Thompson is an awesome stand up bassist. He plays for John Martyn as well as doing albums with his wife linda.

I think you might be confusing Danny with Richard Thompson, who was married to Linda. Danny and Richard often play together, Danny was also in the group Pentangle and is an excellent double bassist.

I like Ry Cooder's finger-picking and mandolin work, and I've been listening to Hermeto Pascoal (sic?) lately, perhaps THE instrumentalist

For me I would currently have to say Tom Morello or Audioslave, and RAtM because of his unique ways to make sounds with only a guitar and overusage of the killswitch.

Tom Morello is a really cool guy. And amazing.

My bad.

Xavier Rudd,
He's amazing at heaps of different instruments.

For electric guitar i have: Joe Satriani, Steve Vai and Fernando Miyata.
Acoustic guitar: Andy McKee, Adrian Legg and Miyavi.

They all have incredible skill and make good music :)

it's actually Nick Drake

amazing finger-picker

Seconded.

Thank you for bumping this thread. What a shame it's years old and only 2 pages deep.

I'd like to say, first to come to mind was Dave Schmidt aka Sula Bassana. He's a multi-instrumentalist. He's most known as a bassist, but does a bit of everything depending on what the project is and if/who he has any/for support.

But I don't find him to be the most technically proficient player or anything of that sort. But he is a favorite.

Might as well go ahead and say Buckethead on guitar (anyone heard his acoustic album? That's why I didn't say electric guitar... any guitar works for Buck)
Mattias "IA" Eklundh and Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal are up there too.

Drummers: Brian "Brain" Mantia, Danny Carey, Mitch Mitchell

Keys: Jordan Rudess, Travis Dickerson, Bernie Worrell, Derek Sherinian

All ties for favorites :D
Bass: Jean Baudin, Les Claypool, Victor Wooten

Including voice as instrument, each in their field:

Cecil Taylor, Angelo Debarre, Domenico Scarlatti, Tatsuya Yoshida, Elvin Jones, Evan Parker, Karou Abe, Kenji Haino, Charlie Parker, John McLaughlin, Richie Blackmore, Jimi Hendrix, Les Claypool, Janick Top, Christian Vander, Mike Patton, Jean-Luc Ponty, Grigoraş Dinicu, Sergei Rachmaninov, Buckethead, Klaus Blazquiz, Freddie Mercury, Tommy Iommi, Agata, Sun Ra, Carla Kihlstead, Marc Ribot, Fred Frith, Jimmy Page, Bach, Busoni, Brian Chippendale, Art Tatum, Don Cherry, Tim Smolens, Timb Harris, All Members of Gentle Giant, Zeena Parkins, Jelly Roll Morton, and more.

It's hard to really name all when you listen a lot of prog/zuehl type bands that require every member to be virtuoso, or every inhumanly skilled classical composer or jazz pianist.

Keys: Brian Eno, Ray Manzerak

Bass: John Entwistle

Guitar: Jimmy Page

Drums: Keith Moon

I think buckethead is one of the greatest all around instrumentalists of today. The Band is the greatest band of instrumentalists ever

Guitar:

• Preston Reed
• John Petrucci
• Jeff Loomis

Bass:

• Les Claypool
• Flea
• Aram Bedrosian
• John Myung

I really suggest you check out Aram Bedrosian and Preston Reed if you havent before. I would post some links but i can't yet because i am new here

I'm not totally sure whether you meant just guitars and drums but my definition of an instrumentalist would also expand to trumpet players and other instruments so mine must be Doc Severinson :)

drum : Mike Mangini

Igooooooor Presnyakov! I think that's how it's spelled.

Guitar is easy
 

Guitar: Yngwie Malmsteen easily

Bass: Jan-Olof Strandberg

Guitar: Johnny Smith