my 3 favourite guitar players are....

Gassage

Philly_Q said:

Gassage said:

Gilmour ......daylight.... Gary Moore, Eric, Hon mentions to Jobo, Lindsay B, Glenn Tilbrook, Reeves Gabrels, Buck Dharma, Porl Thompson, Adrian Belew ,Stacey Hayden (big raps fro telling me who he is without googling), Don Felder, Neil Young

@Gassage OK, I did have to Google him.... but the name's been nagging at me all week, and I knew it wasn't for the reason you've listed him.

Apologies... a bit of OCD weirdness coming up now:

So I was searching away, trying a different spelling - Stacy Haydon - and I found a couple of producer credits which were obviously the same guy, but not what I was thinking of.  Something was telling me it had to do with an early '80s Canadian hard rock/metal album(!), so I was digging out Lee Aaron albums and looking at the credits, no luck there.... then I found he'd produced the band Hanover Fist (aka Hanover), I have their album.  But I still thought he'd played guitar on something I knew.... the Hanover album mentioned a guy called Doug Baynham, a singer/bassist, and that rang bells, so I searched on him... and I finally found it!

Stacy Heydon was on a great album called Timing by the band Urgent, in 1984.  He mixed (and probably engineered) the album but only played guitar on my favourite track, "You're Not The One".  I'm looking at the album now, I can hear the songs in my head, but I can't play it - I wish I still had a turntable!

There you go.  Sorry that got a bit weird.

@philly_q

His work on Bowie's 1976 tours after Slick pulled out was amazing. He was fret tapping 3 yrs before Eddie.

There's a fair bit of live footage of him and he was incredible.

Philly_Q

@Gassage  I just found Mr Heydon on LinkedIn.  Seems he spent a few years as a golf professional(!) and is now combining his music and golf activities as president of "Sunset Links Inc".

kossofffan

Alive,
Pat McManus
Doug Rappoport
Pete Thorn

Deceased,
Paul Kossoff
Gary Moore
Randy Rhoads

rossi

Ed Bickert
Young Clappers
George Barnes

Lew

@Philly_Q he was probably getting his par with Kahlers :-p

Philly_Q

Lew said:

@Philly_Q he was probably getting his par with Kahlers :-p

Nah, I think they're allowed for club players but professionals can only use vintage Fender tremolos in competition.

kevt141

No 1 - head and shoulders above everybody - Michael Schenker

 

2 and 3 will change day to day, week to week

Any 2 from

Alex Lifeson

Angus Young

Tony Iommi

Slash

James Hetfield

Adrian Smith

Michael Poulson

Richie Blackmore

Mark Knopfler

David Gilmour

Wolf Hofmann

I could go on but you get the idea, pretty predictable I suppose.

Schenker's the man though.

 

Bucket

Any three from this list:

John Petrucci

Guthrie Govan

Nuno Bettencourt

Gary Moore

Brian May

Brad Paisley

Bill Nelson

Josh Middleton

Vogg

Steve Vai

Buckethead

Ron Jarzombek

Paul Gilbert

Jakub Zytecki

Billy Corgan

Johnny Marr

Steve Lukather

SRV

Jeff Waters

Devin Townsend

Dann Huff

Pete Ham

Jerry Cantrell

Shawn Lane

Marco Sfogli

Jason Becker

Nile Rodgers

Frank Marino

Michael Schenker

If you held a gun to my head, probably the top three. Then I'd change my mind half an hour later.

xSkarloey

steveh said:

Martin Carthy

Gilmour

Beck

Clearly, two of those are predictable choices, but there's a reason for that...

Martin Carthy. What a superb call. Wisdom that man.   =D>

Lew

@Philly_Q

http://s278.photobucket.com/user/cviladev/media/fdac82a2.jpg.html

Philly_Q

@Lew  Ack!  I can't see the picture!

Loobs

Chappers

Captain Lee

I can't pick a third.

IanSavage

Keith Richards

Ian Siegal

Ani di Franco

 

Am I the first person to include a woman?

welshboyo

Steve Lukather - massive, massive influence on me and I've met him on numerous occassions
Mike Landau - another influence, for me this guy is the modern Hendrix, some will disagree as his style can be a marmite thing
Rory Gallagher - nuff said...