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    Tom Desrochers because he gives me beer.
    
    Edd Cote

COTE!!!!!  HE LIVES...


Call PELKEY --- you shmuck!


My favorite Guitar player


Edd Cote, cuz he never changes his strings...

Seriously,,,  that answer for me would be
Ritchie Blackmore..

    
    	Yeah, it's aliiiiiiive...  ;^)
    
    	He drinks my beer and ranks on blooze all night.  He thinks
    	he's Donald Fagen, besides.
    
    	Pick one - Pat Martino.
    

    Pick one, and only one?   That's tough!
     
    My favorite guitarist is Mark Knopfler, because of his broad spectrum
    of musical tastes (rock to country to folk to jazz) and his impeccable
    taste and tone.
    
    Jim

    Pick *one*?
    
    I couldn't do it!
    
    Picking one I *don't* like would be easier.
    
    
    Fred (who likes 99.999% of the music out there)

    My favourite guitar player is an unknown dude from Berklee whos style
    had a significant affect on my playing -- Rick Campbell; Chicago, IL.
    
    Those familiar with the 80s Boston music scene will know his as the
    player for bands such as Athens and Gotham City.

    
    Jeff Beck
    

    
    	No one's putting in explanations, you notice that?
    
    	Mrs. What's-her-name also never gave credit for an answer with
    	no work shown to explain how you got the answer.
    
    	8^)
    

I think it's a bit ridiculous to try to pick just one, but if you held a
gun to my head I might have to pick:

	James Burton

He's not a showoff (although he's good enough that he could be if he wanted 
to), but his playing just fits the music so perfectly that it often brings 
chills to my spine.  Gram Parson's "Return of the Grievous Angel" album
is a wonderful example of his work.

-Hal

re: .8

>    	No one's putting in explanations, you notice that?
    
Hey, *I* did!  :-)

-Hal

    Because he show tremendous variety in playing many different musical 
    styles; plays electric and acoustic equally well to the point that he
    is rarely matched by his peers; is a great songwriter; is extremely 
    humble; and because we share many extra-musical interests/beliefs:
    
    Phil Keaggy

>     
    	Mrs. What's-her-name also never gave credit for an answer with
>   	no work shown to explain how you got the answer.

Mrs. Fishbreath - Calvin's - of the comic Calvin and Hobbes - teacher.

> I think it's a bit ridiculous to try to pick just one, but if you held

I know it's ridiculous, that's why I asked. 

    For proving time and time again that "leaving a few holes in your solos
    is the best way to ensure that some good music falls out" ;-)
    
    
    Peter Green
    
    Dom (actually, it wasn't his quote, it was Dizzy Gillespie's)

    
    My favorite is Kenny Burrell
    because of his great jazz sound in 
    combination with his very swinging 
    and melodic solos [1]. 
    
    
    Endnotes: 
    
    [1] This opinion is in part a reaction to  
    the recording "Ellington is Forever: Vol. 2" 
    cd, which features a nice digital remastering. 
       
    
    Dave - who plays by the rules! 
     
                                  

    Jimi Hendrix- 

    El Ke-bong.

    First it was Tony Iommi
    Then Clapton
    Then Garcia
    Then Joe Pass
    Now Martino

Exaplantions ???? You did'nt ask for one....


:)

Blackmore - why - two cuts,,.. Highway Star and Lazy
...  Still kills me, 20+ years later

    Yeah,El Ka-bong smokes! 
    

    
    Jeff Beck... The first time I heard "Blow by Blow" I was in total
    awe (still am, actually). It was on an 8-track (remember those??)
    and we must of looped thru the whole tape at least 10 times
    without stopping. I had never heard an album of instrumental guitar
    jazz-rock fusion like that before. It opened my eyes to the fact
    that 1-4-5 rock'n'roll was not the "know-all, end-all" of the 
    musical world. It led me to the likes of Retun to Forever, Alan Holdsworth, 
    Jean Luc-Ponty, Larry Carlton, Weather Report, etc. I still love r'n'r,
    and the blues (and I've even learned to tolerate playing the odd
    country tune) but no other player affected my musical outlook 
    like Jeff Beck's "Blow by Blow".
    
    Just my 2 cents,
    
    Bill_K
    
    
    

    Have you heard any Roy Buchanan? I had that same feeling listening to
    beck(and still do),but when first heard Buchanan i was floored. It kind
    of took Beck off the top shelf...well, may be moved him over a little.
    
    -k

    Just one
    
    	The one who caused me to pick up the guitar in the first place.
    
    Mark Knophler
    
    
    P.K
    

    David Gilmore
    
    I play bass, and I got there via Sousaphone - not guitar - so I don't
    base my opinion on any technical considerations. I just know that when
    I first heard the album "Momentary Lapse of Reason", several of the
    solos actually brought tears to my eyes. Even after hearing them
    hundreds of times there is still an emotional connection. No other
    guitar player has ever done that to me.

    JEFF BECK 

Speakin of Gilmore,,

I sort of lost interest in Floyd after 'The Wall',, I
don't know why, just never really took to it I guess,,

Anyway,,,  I just talked myself into picking up
Momentary Lapse of Reason, and The Division Bell last
week...

Both are excellent, but the comment on Gilmore,,,

I guess for me, he's been pink floyd's best kept
secret, (and chief Kahoona too,,)  but listening to 
Momentary,, and right after that, Dark side of the moon,
his style really hasn't gone through too many changes
since the early days,,  the guy is solid...  

So it's official,, i'm a reformed Floyd (gilmore) fan,,

    Tuck Andress, one man band.
    
    Rodney

    
    To help make it easier to choose just one....
    
    You win a competition in a guitar mag and are offered half a day with
    one guitarist of your choice to either talk, learn, play with or all.
    Who would it be?
    
    Alternatively you are offered the opportunity to play with a guitarist
    for a couple of numbers during an appearance somewhere locally.
    
    For me it would be Hank Marvin.

    Well, if you put it like that, I might have to plump for Richard
    Thompson. 
    
    Apart from being an authentic genius of the guitar, I'd be prepared to
    bet that he's an excellent teacher (in fact, he's released at least one
    educational video and a number of books). Furthermore, I've seen him live 
    twice and he comes over as being quite the nicest guy in the business. 
    
    That said, I think he'd struggle to teach me anything in half a day -
    my fingerpicking technique is a joke, and RT is renowned more than
    anything for his fingerpicking!
    
    So maybe my time would be better spent with Eric Clapton or James
    Burton ;-)
    
    Dom 
    
    

    I'd have a lesson with Mick Goodrick.  I would be
    too embarrassed to play for him, but I'd 
    find out what _he_ does to practice, how he
    came across his technique etc., any ideas he
    has about where jazz is going.  It might all
    be in his book "The Advancing Guitarist", but
    a lesson would be easier than reading the book.  
    
    I'd like to see a good interview with 
    him sometime.  Jazz Player has included
    two good ones in its last two issues: 
    Lester Bowie and Fred Hersh.
    
    Dave
     
    

    
    I think Satriani would make a good tutor ;-)
    
    Shaw 

    Richard, I like your 'thought experiment' take on this; really puts the
    question in a whole different light.
    
    For me, no question, the musician I would've liked to hang with for a
    day would've been Jaco.  I'd just make sure I had some bail money tucked
    away in my shoe :-)
    
    Now if you *forced* me to choose one of them 6-string guyz, the answer
    would be Jerry Garcia, preferably a mid-70's Jerry Garcia.  At least
    half the time I'd want to just talk and try to get inside his head;
    the rest of the time I'd have him show me some stuff on the guitar and
    we'd trade off on some space jams.
    
    /rick
    

    I'm surprised to hear you mention Jerry. I used to hang on Jerry's
    every note back in those day, around the mid 70's. His pedal steel
    playing was also incredible, perhaps more so than his guitar chops.
    
    If I had to pick someone to hang with these days it would have to
    be either Sonny Landreth, Paul Barrerre (not sure of the spelling,
    the dude from Little Feat) or perhaps Bonnie Rait. I'm sure I could
    learn a lot about their slide guitar techniques.  I also wouldn't
    mind hanging out with John Hiatt. I'd love to know where he gets
    the ideas for his songwriting. 
    
    It's hard to soar like an eagle when you work with turkeys!
    
    Mark

    
    >It's hard to soar like an eagle when you work with turkeys!
    
    
    	Hey, hey ... I resemble that remark!!
    
    	8^)
    

I've heard that John Hiatt has had a most unusual life that would provide
a life-time's worth of background material for songs (alcohol, women, travel,
ect. without much sense of moderation).

Jim

    Chet Atkins.
    
    He makes everything sound so smooth. And if you never picked up a
    guitar in your life you'd probably think it's easy!
    
    Don

    
    Bill Frissell does it for me currently. He can swing, saw, smash,
    twang, sqwaque, ethearate (made it up, really), bluesate and rip 
    like a chainsaw in D. 
    
    CERASO
    

Guitarist(s)		Named Favorite By: 
-----------		-----------------

Jeff  Beck 			3

Chet Atkins
Pat Martino		4-way tie @ 2
Richie Blackmore
Mark Knopfler

That leaves thirty guitarists with lone votes.

    -1
    
    I only saw one person vote for blackmore...
    
    /Steve

    I'd still vote for El-Kabong.
    
    But as that presents certain difficulties... my second choice would
    be Steve Morse (obviously).

    KEITH PARTRIDGE!!

    Well lets tip the scale or slant the survey...... :^)
    
    Pat Martino
    
    With Robben Ford a close second......
    
    

    
    	re: .41 - Rick - yeeessssss!!!!
    
    	Especially after talking with him a few months ago.  What
    	a soft spoken, mellow guy.  
    
    	How many people in here have never heard him??
    
    	Tom
    

>     KEITH PARTRIDGE!!

HA!  Peter Tork'll kick his ass anytime, anywhere.

    (What the heck, I'll brave the slings and arrows of the shredders...)
    
    Eric Clapton.
    
    But if he were alive, Django Reinhardt.
    
    
    								John

>    But if he were alive, Django Reinhardt.

Living or dead, makes no difference when naming a favorite.

To all the so-called shredders, Clapton's been dead for years anyway.

    > Living or dead, makes no difference when naming a favorite.
    
    I was using the system specified in .27 (you win a guitar magazine
    contest...), so without a time machine, Django was out.
    
    As to why Eric or Django, I still think their playing is/was incredibly
    melodic, and melody is the most important aspect of music to me.
    
    
    							John

    I've been watching and thinking about this...
    
    There are lots of guitarists I admire quite a bit.  Hendrix, Zappa,
    Harrison/Lennon/McCartney, whichever Stintson (sp?) played lead for the
    Replacements (incredible energy), Vernon Reid (yes, he's in outer space
    pretty often but sometimes he comes back to earth and says something
    just _perfectly_ with the guitar), to name a few that come to mind
    right now.
    
    But one guy who hasn't been mentioned in this string yet, who wastes
    few notes and has touch and taste, my one favorite for today...
    
    
    
    	Robbie Robertson

    John Pizzarelli (Bucky's son).
    
    
    He plays jazz guitar the way I like and can sing as well.
    
    
    Rich

RE: .47 

Note .27 created a scenario for selecting a favorite.  My intention
in the base note was to keep it as simple as possible.  Corny though 
it sounds, everyone's music lives forever on tape, CD, etc. 

-Steve

>   p.s. Still not much hope for me meeting El-Kabong though....


Now if El-Kabong doesn't forever live in our hearts, then no one
does.  

Nobody in the history of music ever touched his audience like EK.

-Sb

    Who's El-Kabong?
    
    Dave
    

    After watching my long-tape-shifted recording of this year's CMA award
    show (which showed a brief clip of this man playing a spiritual at
    Roger Miller's funeral a few years ago), I have to cast my vote for
    a man who plays guitar with beauty, dignity, and marvelous taste...
    
    
    
    
    ...... Chet Atkins.
    
    P.S.  Can I hedge my bet a bit?  If I won a contest with a living
    PEDAL STEEL guitarist, I would sure enjoy having Paul Franklin
    show me some stuff - the guy is incredible!  (And yes, he was also
    on the same CMA award show - he and a bunch of other Nashville pickers
    {including Mark O'Connor} were tearing it up doing a hot "Dixie Flyer"
    with Travis Tritt ... *wow*!)

    
    	I believe it was me with the "yesss".  But I was already in
    	the count for Pat.  
    
    	Does this mean you're not checking names?
    
    	Ok.  My pick is Pat Martino.
    
    	

    
    Well, I'll tip the balance (haven't been in this note for awhile).
    His rendition of "Stars and Stripes Forever" got me interested,
    and then when I listened to a lot more of his stuff, I realized 
    the guy's a genius.  One vote for Mr. Atkins (and I would
    love to spend a day with him).
    
    Al
    

    >  Who's El-Kabong?
    
    You don't know who El-kabong is and yet you call yourself a "guitar 
    player"????

    >  Who's El-Kabong?
    
    Maybe related to Bucket Head ????
    
    My vote would be for Chet also... saw him play a fretless acoustic once
    and an electric where the e and a strings were bass strings.
    
    later, 
    rj

    I most certainly _do not_ refer to myself
    in any way as a guitar "player".  I'm 
    mostly into the gear thing.  At least as 
    much as I can afford to be.  Or maybe a
    little beyond that.  And I like the
    magazines.  
    
    Still curious about this el-kahouka fellow. 
    
    Dave
    

    
    OHHH. I thought it might be bucket-head. 
    
    I once spoke with a lawyer who worked
    a negotiation involving the bucket meister. 
    He came in character.  She just did not
    get it at all.  Not at all.  I think
    they  dropped him.  I guess that pretty much
    guarantees that he rocks.  
    
    As I've always said - "you can tell the
    band is swinging when the club is empty."
    
    Dave
    

re: .58

>    >  Who's El-Kabong?
>    
>    Maybe related to Bucket Head ????
    
Wait a minute, I thought you guys were referring to the Quickdraw McGraw
character.  Has someone else usurped the name El-Kabong?

-Hal

    El-Kabong is a cartoon character played by Quickdraw McGraw (another
    cartoon character).
    
    He goes around fighting criminals by "Ka-Bonging" them over the head
    with a guitar.
    
    	db

re: .62

>    El-Kabong is a cartoon character played by Quickdraw McGraw (another
>    cartoon character).
    
Oh good, I'm *not* going crazy (although that might be debatable :-).

I always thought it was a nice touch having one cartoon character play 
another.  Quickdraw and his sidekick Baba-Louie (sp?) also sometimes played
"The Whip (and the Whippersnapper)", rather loosely based on Zorro.

-Hal

    > He goes around fighting criminals by "Ka-Bonging" them over the head
    > with a guitar.
    
    Kinda like the guy in Stone Temple Pilots...
    
    -b

    Steven Furst and John Belushi in Animal House.

	The one and only:

			Steve Hackett

	Poul

    
    	Qweeeksdrrraww!!!!   Qweeeksdrraww!!  Help!!!  Qweeeksdrraww!!
    
    	IIIII'mmmm  comin' Beanie Boyyyyy....
    
    	oops, wrong hero.
    

And another vote for the best makes the score:


Guitarist(s)		Named Favorite By: 
-----------		-----------------

Chet Atkins		4 votes - putting Atkins alone in first place

Jeff  Beck 		3 votes - making Beck and Martino tied for second		
*Pat Martino			  place

Mark Knopfler		2 votes -  and alone in third place


NOTE: One vote apiece: The honor system applies in tabulating votes.

    
    	Who does that guy "69" play for?  Never heard of him.
    

> 	Who does that guy "69" play for?  Never heard of him.

I think he plays for a band called The Divers.  They're getting
popular, but they still like playing at their local Y. 

    I'll vote for Pat Martino.  On another day, I might have voted for
    Mick Goodrick, though.  I waited until the answer was the same for
    two days in a row before casting my vote.  8^)
    
    There are some other people I'd consider, but they only recorded a few
    things I like a whole lot and then went on to mostly play things that
    leave me cold.  For me, Pat Metheny and Bill Frisell are on that list.
    If I could get the musical direction of the Pat Metheny who played on
    Gary Burton's ECM albums and recorded "Bright Size Life" together with
    the technique of the current Pat Metheny for a while, he'd get my vote.
    
    Paul
    
    p.s. Speaking of Mick Goodrick, I heard him play at Coffee, Tea and
         Melody recently, and asked him if he had any other gigs coming
         up in the area.  If memory serves, he's playing at Jordan Hall
         (NEC) on 11/15 and at The Willow (with Hal Crook!) on 12/1.

    Since I can't meet El-Kabong... I guess my second choice would be
    Phoebe Buffay.
    
    Perhaps she could show me the chords to "Smelly Cat" although I'm
    still having problems with Am to D.

    
    We need some more Beck-sters...  Chet Atkins and Pat Martino are
    pulling into the lead.
    

    I would vote for Beck ... but I just don't think I'm that good.

    
    	RE: Dave
    
    	Do you know "A"?  Do you know "D"?  Do you know how to go from
    	"A" to "D"?  Does your guitar have a strap?  Mine does.
    

This thing ended over a month ago, I reckon.  And I think it resulted
in a three-way tie for first: Chet Atkins, Jeff Beck, and Pat Martino.

That's two excellent guitarists and the best, Mr. Atkins.

-S

    Am I the only one to say SRV?
       Saw him about 2 weeks before the crash and he was HOT!
    

    Speaking of SRV... A new vid just got released of his TWO show on
    Austin City Limits......Awesome shows. It's about time.
    
    -kev

    His first Austin City Limits show is what made me a fan.
    
    I was blown away.
    
    	db

    I was then, and I still am. He was one very special player.
    
    -kev

    
    Check out DEMON::AFTER_HOURS note 32.43 for mojo magazine's(?) top
    fifty guitarists..
    
    /Steve