Guitarists Who Are Better Than Most Would Think?

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Dave Edmunds

daveyh

IanSavage said:

Huey Morgan (Fun Lovin' Criminals and solo). Admittedly gets overlooked because he's just generally cool, but that motherfucker has some chops...

Hell yes! One of my favourite guitarists, in one of my favourite bands.

Bellycaster

Deadman said:

Bellycaster said:

Some good suggestions here. I'm going to have to check out Captain Sensibles playing now as I've not heard much Damned before.

And that Bertie bloke too ;-)

@Deadman

Lol, one of my favourite programmes. I do recall that one now. I think Eloise is the only other Damned song I know and that's a cover (Without C.S, I think).

Which one's Bertie, BTW?

 

steamabacus

Wicked psyche guitar solo...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhGDG8p0k4w

breakstuff

Always rated Boz Boorer and Alain Whyte,not just as guitarist but also a great writing team.

Bucket

Maybe Dave Keuning?

I think people have the impression that his stuff is easy to learn, fuck knows how he does it.

HAL9000

Glen Campbell

jaygtr

FelineGuitars;48080" said:

Mick Mars of Motley Crue - very talented player without whom that band wouldn't have been the same.

Rossi and Parfitt of Quo - much maligned but few could make it work like they do.

Good call on Rossi and parfitt

Kebabkid

C'mon - Michael J Fox in Back to the Future and Ralph Macchio in Crossroads - the skinny guitarist with the long black hair wasn't bad either. Given they had to learn guitar for their respective roles.

HAL9000

I don't think "the skinny guitarist with the long black hair" (played by Steve Vai) needed to learn guitar for this role! My understanding though is that his part took several takes as he struggled to play that last note 'wrong'.

Kebabkid

Ooh, I didn't know Adam Levine, singer of Maroon5 played guitar -

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-uffZddHuw

EricTheWeary

as I understood it Ralph Macchio had to learn how to fake the guitar he didn't actually play any of the parts?

I will also give a +1 to The Edge despite that I can't stand U2. He does cleverly construct parts that carry the whole song and has a fairly distinctive style.

Whilst I'm here I will throw in Paul Rogers - often seen with a guitar and whilst there might be the assumption it is little more than a prop he is a pretty handy player. And what a great voice of course. Although that budget transvestite docker look he has adopted in recent years doesn't do him many favours.

HAL9000

Eric, have a LOL for 'budget transvestite docker look'.

Also my understanding that Ralph 'karate-kid' Macchiato faked the guitar parts (and that they were actually played by Ry Cooder if memory serves).

TPReggie

Probably not recognised as a great guitarist because of the poppy rubbish he plays, but when you get to see him play the Blues - John Mayer can play with the best of them really.  

ICBM

Bucket said:

Maybe Dave Keuning?

I think people have the impression that his stuff is easy to learn, fuck knows how he does it.

He never comes across as anything but great to me! And like The Edge he has a very complex and distinctive playing style (and great tone).

So does Mark Stoermer for that matter.

The thing that's always really impressed me about them is that they're both about nine feet tall . Keuning's Starcaster and Stoermer's Jazz bass look like toys when they're holding them.

mike_l

 EricTheWeary said:

as I understood it Ralph Macchio had to learn how to fake the guitar he didn't actually play any of the parts?

IIRC, Mr Steven of Vai played all the guitar parts

daveyh

HAL9000 said:

Eric, have a LOL for 'budget transvestite docker look'.

Also my understanding that Ralph 'karate-kid' Macchiato faked the guitar parts (and that they were actually played by Ry Cooder if memory serves).

Cooder played the slide, Vai played the rock, the classical was played by someone from Juilliard IIRC.

EricTheWeary

As Macchio's character played quite a variety of stuff (classical, blues slide, rock) I am pretty sure he was covered by at least three guitarists.

I gather there was an original version of the final head cutting scene when he won playing blues slide ( supplied by Ry Cooder). This was cut in favour of the neo-classical rock thing and which is why Cooder now hates the film. 

I really loved that film at the time. Spike Lee was supposed to be making a proper biopic of Robert Johnson, I wonder what happened to that? Googles - seems to be an HBO film in the works with P Diddy as Johnson.

Back on topic - Mike Harding? Mostly known as a mad old git but if memory serves me well he can play a mean bit of folk guitar.

streethawk

Suzzana Hoffs from the Bangles

In a rush so will have to pick a video at random.

mudslide73

^^ Gulp. Almost got caught out watching that at work!

 

Didn't Arlen Roth have something to do with teaching Ralph Macchio how to mime in Crossroads?