Guitar Hero Thread
 

No, not the video game

Okay, so there is probably already a thread like this out there, but how about a guitar player thread

Knopfler and Atkins

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Reed and Atkins

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De Lucia, Di Meola and John McLaughlin, their fingers move faster than my eyes

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That was awesome. I had no idea sweep picking existed in Chet's day. He did that with the best of any of the 80s shredders.

And a "Tribute to Jerry Reed."
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I've been watching a lot of Rush videos lately (and have been a fan since "Fly By Night" came out) and keep coming back to Alex Lifeson in these GOAT-type discussions. The internet is chocked full of people who can flat play guitar, but Alex does it with skill and humor and it just looks like he is enjoying himself so much while he plays. Infectious.

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Can't have a thread like this without Eddie!

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The Humbler

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Roy

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Rory

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John Mayer has totally earned my respect . I had no idea he was this good. All I knew about him before his stint with dead and co , was the poppy stuff that got radio play. Just wow !
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No one ever seems to remember Frank. One of the greatest guitar pieces ever, from anyone, anytime, anywhere:

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Frank Zappa lived right down the street from my aunt and uncle when he was a kid. Aunt Esther said he was a very nice, polite young man.

Yngwie Malmsteen
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Michael Schenker
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Tony McAlpine
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Otmar Liebert
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https://youtu.be/zBEbYXa6Cik

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Tommy Emmanuel takes it to an entirely different level.

According to Eddie, he invented everything on a guitar.

If you watch that video he says he does not claim to have invented it, just perfected it for his use.

Yes, by all accounts, polite to a fault even as a successful rock star. Interestingly, as bizarre as his stage persona was, and in spite of most folks' assumptions about him, as strait laced as they come. Vehemently anti-drug, to the point of throwing one Lowell George out of The Mothers of Invention for his drug use.

I'm as big of a fan as anyone, and even I will say that one of the reasons he never got more popular was because of his schtick - he was certainly no comedian, although he thought he was. Too deep, too irreverent, too laced with irony for most. If he would have just shut up and played his guitar I think he would have been much more popular than he was. But, then, it wouldn't have been Frank...

More of his guitar work, preceded by that schtick... Oh, and that's Captain Beefheart sitting there with him:

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I like rock.

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Brian Setzer's technique is quite amazing - the way he hides a pick away and finger picks, and then back again.

Yes, Brian Setzer, he can wail on a banjo too

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