Who is your favorite, fairly obscure guitar (or bass) player. This can be some one we have heard of, or know about, but no one like Clapton, Page, Jeff Beck, Dime bag, Van Halen, SRV....you get the Idea.
I will start with----
Junior Brown-Stupid Blues, Guit-steel blues
Robert Fripp- Starless and bible Black, Red, 21st century Schizoid man
Leo Kottke-Busted Bicycle, vaseline Machine gun
Luther Perkins- All the early Johny cash -Sun record recordings(Cry Cry Cry et al) :D :D
Jimmie Vaughan- Just a killer technician. Great feel too.
Bob Margolin- Great player, great slide. Good enough to back Muddy for a decade. Damn good enough for me.
Hubert Sumlin-Played for both Muddy and Howlin. 80 something now and can still lay down a blistering groove like he's 30.
I'm sure there's several I've missed already.
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming -- "WOW--What a Ride!"
Ed Bickert...Jazz guitarist extrordinaire
Justin King, but after some of his videos were posted here most of you have probably heard of him by now.
Mike Bloomfield
Roy Buchanan
Both fantastic blues guitarists.
buck dharma
nigel tuflin
"I got a woman, stay drunk all the time!"
-Led Zeppelin-
Phil Keagy
The king of rock, some say lives
the lizard king, is surely dead
the king of France, lost his head
the King of Kings... bled
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Yea, I love Roy Buchanans Hey Joe 8) 8)
Shawn phillips is a great live performer, I saw him 3 times in the late 70's. He was a one man show who sounded like a whole band.
Gary Moore, blues guitarist. He was new to me a few months back anyway. Perhaps he's not so obscure to the rest of you.
Well we all shine on--like the moon and the stars and the sun.
-- John Lennon
I would say Gary Moore the rock guitarist. Up untill about a year ago I only knew him as a blues player, and had no idea he was an extremely accomplished hard rock-player in the 80's. His live album "We want Moore" from this period is a rock lead guitar bible!
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yeah, love Junior Brown, Fripp and Kottke.
Add Adrian Belew and Jorma Kaukonen and Blind Joe Death (John Fahey, RIP).
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i'll play...
mike oldfield (note the avatar image, 'five miles out')... not that he is that obscure but i feel often times overlooked and underappreciated... and i am not talking simply tubular bells, either
and i agree with the fripp nomination
Allan Holdsworth. Great whammy technique.
Justin King, but after some of his videos were posted here most of you have probably heard of him by now.
If you're going to mention Justin...... you've GOT to mention his daugher, Kaki King.............. amazing in her own right!
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"Don't wanna ride no shootin' star. Just wanna play on the rhythm guitar." Emmylou Harris, "Rhythm Guitar" from "The Ballad of Sally Rose"
Roy Buchanan :twisted:
