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Which slide players inspire you the most?

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  • scrumhalfscrumhalf Frets: 11403
    Dave Kelly from The Blues Band.
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  • axisusaxisus Frets: 28353
    I don't generally like the sound of slide guitar at all to be honest. Having said that, I have seen Eric (Sardinas?) twice supporting Vai and he was very entertaining.
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  • GassageGassage Frets: 31049
    Oh yeah...Robert Randolph!!! Seen him with Eric a few times...

    Amazing player- watch this for fun- he takes slide to new places.


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  • citizen68citizen68 Frets: 172
    Jack Pearson does some lovely slide in standard tuning 



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  • darcymdarcym Frets: 1300
    as someone who can't play good slide, but loves it when it's done well, you'll be hard placed to find someone who can do it better than Robbie McIntosh, not only a great slide player, but he knows how to write the slide parts, some so subtle you don't know they are there, others so in your face and attention grabbing its untrue.
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  • equalsqlequalsql Frets: 6223
    citizen68 said:
    Jack Pearson does some lovely slide in standard tuning 



    Holy shyte @citizen68 that was sublime :D Thanks for the post.
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  • citizen68citizen68 Frets: 172
    No probs @equalsql - check that whole series of Jack's - the man's a genius
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  • darcymdarcym Frets: 1300
    he's stunning, really pleased to see this here, never seen him before, researching him now.
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  • BigMonkaBigMonka Frets: 1792
    @EricTheWeary have a wisdom for bullfrog blues, it's so cool. As a teenager I used to occasionally play with an old-guy blues band and that was one of their numbers which really rocked. it was a few years later that I saw a video of Rory playing it live which took that song to a whole new level of kick-ass-ness.
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  • BigMonkaBigMonka Frets: 1792
    If you're after something current, then this is one of my all time favourite slide songs (Cardboard King by Martin Harley):
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  • thomasross20thomasross20 Frets: 4438
    Very cool topic!
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  • not_the_djnot_the_dj Frets: 7306
    Great thread. How about Kelly Joe Phelps.
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  • citizen68citizen68 Frets: 172
    edited April 2015
    darcym said:
    he's stunning, really pleased to see this here, never seen him before, researching him now.
    Stumbled across him by accident a few years ago - think he's done stints with The Allman Bros - serious musician. Well worth checking out the 5 'Performance & Style' videos he did for Gibson, the one I posted being one of them.


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  • digitalkettledigitalkettle Frets: 3349
    Ian Thornley of Big Wreck:

    http://youtu.be/1kqvCH6LMBs
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  • thomasross20thomasross20 Frets: 4438
    edited April 2015
    Maybe we should have another thread for inspiring fingerstyle/travis-picking guitarists. 
    Great Ian Thorley vid (never heard of the guy or the band)!!
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  • darcymdarcym Frets: 1300
    digitalkettle said:
    Ian Thornley of Big Wreck:

    http://youtu.be/1kqvCH6LMBs
    WOW - I've neer seen this guy, what a great video.
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  • GassageGassage Frets: 31049
    This is Lowell George explaining how it's done...very interesting....the German bits, punctuated with words like 'socket wrench' and 'bottleneck' amuseed me greatly


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  • GassageGassage Frets: 31049
    This has been doing my head in- Vince Gill's slide player...I couldn't recal his name...but he's bloody amazing.

    Jerry Douglas.


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  • rlwrlw Frets: 4751
    scrumhalf said:
    Dave Kelly from The Blues Band.
    Good call - spot on
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  • richardhomerrichardhomer Frets: 24863
    Gassage;611741" said:
    This is Lowell George explaining how it's done...very interesting....the German bits, punctuated with words like 'socket wrench' and 'bottleneck' amuseed me greatly

    He was a truly great player - the demos he does in this are so 'off the cuff' - you can tell it was just effortless to him. That's the mark of someone who's really mastered their instrument, to me.

    Thanks for posting the clip.
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