There's a similar character over here. Drummer in a wedding band that thinks he's a rock star. One of his hobbies is banging on about how bands are better than DJs.
I earn between 5-7x more per gig than him
Top 10 guitarist of all time per Guitar World!!! So You know it’s fact
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There's a similar character over here. Drummer in a wedding band that thinks he's a rock star. One of his hobbies is banging on about how bands are better than DJs.
I earn between 5-7x more per gig than him
rhino
Kick Henry Jackassowski
There's a similar character over here. Drummer in a wedding band that thinks he's a rock star. One of his hobbies is banging on about how bands are better than DJs.
I earn between 5-7x more per gig than him
Get out of here with your DJ logic!
But seriously, anyone who is playing casinos, weddings, or corporate parties is doing it for the money. There’s nothing wrong with that, but pretending you’re somehow more better than a DJ is about as dumb as getting worked up about this weeks greatest guitars of all time list.
Lerxst
spaghetti and blankets
I used to know a guy that played trumpet in a band that almost exclusively played casino gigs in Atlantic City. Very professional act and they made bank. He took an extra cut as the booking agent.
DdBob
Dogue in teh desert
They are the one with the newspaper quality middle section that has lessons from Zakk Wylde
Monson
Sonic Automatist
Maybe that very narrow time period in the history of music we were musing about before was the zenith of guitar playing, and it's really all over and done with. It reminds me of the old Messerschmitt versus Spitfire debate. I mean who cares which was the better piston-engine WWII fighter when even nuclear missiles went out of vogue ages ago in favor of shutting down hospitals and traffic lights with a few lines of clever code, and of course the appropriate countermeasures?
Maybe Beck, Hendrix, Page & Co were the Schneider Trophy competitors of the late '60s that took it to a certain level, and then later on, just like in WWII, things got slightly out of hand and everyone but a few true believers realized that, like the atomic bomb, rock music is in fact bad for your health, which is why sensible people prefer keeping things tidy with a click track and generous administration of autotune and master compression.
Andrew Sak
Even Andy Deserves Good BEans
There's some exciting news coming down the pike for the Guitar World list. They are going to let a "young buck' guitarist into the club. This guy was a baby when Eddie Van Halen hit the scene. He will be the youngest guitar player by far on the Greatest Fucking Guitarist of all time list. He's 44 now. I sure hope they don't wait too long for his exciting inclusion on a list in need of fresh blood.
The man who needs no introduction, Joe 'Massiveboner' Bonamassa!!!
P.S., who knew this guy wasn't as old as Eric 'Big Johnson' Johnson?
The man who needs no introduction, Joe 'Massiveboner' Bonamassa!!!
P.S., who knew this guy wasn't as old as Eric 'Big Johnson' Johnson?
Peen Simmons
Let’s Get Obtuse!
THE BONERMASTER! I heard he owns 60% of the world’s guitars. The other 40% are just cycling through Reverb to Mystixboi’s house and back.
Andrew Sak
Even Andy Deserves Good BEans
That's a much better nickname. More power to this guy. He's worth 20 million from playing his guitar.
B Valley
Rattlesnake Shaker
Dogsinplastic
avuncular to no one
Derek Trucks is far "better" than most of the folks on that list. Changing how people play/approach an instrument can be overrated (e.g.: Eddie) and/or amazing (e.g.: Jimi).
This list is obviously just a popularity contest, that's literally what reader's polls are. Popularity contests don't mean anything, but they are merely that and not necessarily a list of most influential. I like a lot more musicians that haven't directly influenced my playing...some vastly more than those that most influenced my playing (at least initially). Now I'm a miserable hodgepodge of various licks, motifs, and other some such that I used to practice and bits I picked up here and there. I can no longer tell you who I might sound like to others, outside of someone that needs to practice...a lot.
I either like or liked music from eight of these guys, but I only still listen to Queen regularly. May is one of my favorite guitarists, but I've never really learned any of his solos and only the riffs to a handful of their tunes. It's always been more about the tunes for me...so much so that I never really thought much of or about the guitar playing in the Beatles, I just love their music. George, John, and Paul are really three of my favorite guitarists, but I never thought/think of them in that way.
So, should we try to compile a "top 25 guitarists of all time" list at MWGL to see how different our list would be? Everyone selects their top 10 with the top 25 vote getters "winning"? You can justify your selections or not, using your own parameters be it influence on you, playing, music, etc.?
This list is obviously just a popularity contest, that's literally what reader's polls are. Popularity contests don't mean anything, but they are merely that and not necessarily a list of most influential. I like a lot more musicians that haven't directly influenced my playing...some vastly more than those that most influenced my playing (at least initially). Now I'm a miserable hodgepodge of various licks, motifs, and other some such that I used to practice and bits I picked up here and there. I can no longer tell you who I might sound like to others, outside of someone that needs to practice...a lot.
I either like or liked music from eight of these guys, but I only still listen to Queen regularly. May is one of my favorite guitarists, but I've never really learned any of his solos and only the riffs to a handful of their tunes. It's always been more about the tunes for me...so much so that I never really thought much of or about the guitar playing in the Beatles, I just love their music. George, John, and Paul are really three of my favorite guitarists, but I never thought/think of them in that way.
So, should we try to compile a "top 25 guitarists of all time" list at MWGL to see how different our list would be? Everyone selects their top 10 with the top 25 vote getters "winning"? You can justify your selections or not, using your own parameters be it influence on you, playing, music, etc.?
LeftyTom
I am not just another pretty face.
Now, hold on a cotton-pickin' minute! Are there actually 25 guitar players, who get paid for playing, on MWGL?
DFB
Kick Henry Jackassowski
Who doesn't need a stratoscratcher?And from selling everything under the sun with his name on it.
Modern Saint
Starve your Fear, Feed your Dream!
Probably a rehashed article where the author has changed their name to make it look like somebody else has written it.
jp_nyc
Kick Henry Jackassowski
But is that because Guitar World keeps telling its readers that the best guitarists all play classic rock and metal?
Dogsinplastic
avuncular to no one
Now, hold on a cotton-pickin' minute! Are there actually 25 guitar players, who get paid for playing, on MWGL?
I dunno, but apparently I wasn't clear. I thinking a list of OUR favorite guitarists. Regardless of genre, era, etc. Maybe Mark and Baimun are on that list, but maybe our list looks closer to the GW list than we might expect. Again, set aside the notions of "best" or most influential (be it to you or more globally) and just vote for your 10 favorite guitarists.
It would benefit from its own thread and then someone would need to aggregate the data... Sorry, that sounds too much like work...I didn't think this through very well. It would need to be a passion project and I don't have the passion for spreadsheets...
LeftyTom
I am not just another pretty face.
Gary Blanchard
beloved, local musician
That's very kind. I am not really a guitar player, I just play the guitar. I have never tried to master it.
There are some great players on this forum, and I would be remiss if I didn't mention those who aided my Professor Sorghum project: @DinoMikeSr , @smurfco, @Mark Wein, @Peen Simmons, @Modern Saint, and @sonik. Also @Frank Prince and @WilmerTheWhite who have also added to my songs in the past. Then the many others who have shared their music here. Talent and fame are sadly not linked all of the time, and neither is financial reward and talent.
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Modern Saint
Starve your Fear, Feed your Dream!
Sounds like the primary audience.