Best Guitarist

[Bluesberry]

Buckethead


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgXIiHg2qTs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8akmP6Sjv2o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEDB4xJsXVo

[Gritter]

I used to listen to Bruce Cockburn a lot in my late teens and then stopped listening to him for a long time. I really appreciated what a good songwriter and lyricist he was but now after revisiting his music 20+ years later, I realize that he's a heck of a guitar player too and a great Canadian (of course!).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z02J_kPincA

[henwrench]

Malcolm Young is THE reason why I picked up a guitar. His playing style, to me, is second to none. The discipline to play rhythm guitar so tight and so focused, never wavering and always on top of the beat is something that I've carried in to my playing style, be it guitar, ukulele, triangle, whatever. Malcolm Young, he de MAN!!!

                                                     henwrench

       

[Kevin Mammoth]

Malcolm Young is THE reason why I picked up a guitar. His playing style, to me, is second to none. The discipline to play rhythm guitar so tight and so focused, never wavering and always on top of the beat is something that I've carried in to my playing style, be it guitar, ukulele, triangle, whatever. Malcolm Young, he de MAN!!

       

Good call!  And he knows just how the get the best out of his equipment - read on (courtesy of Wikipedia):

"Malcolm Young plays a 1963 Gretsch Jet Firebird guitar handed down to him by Harry Vanda, along with elder brother George Young, of Easybeats fame. He calls this guitar "The Beast". The guitar has the neck and middle pickups (the middle was a humbucker which had been added by Malcolm) removed and only the stock Gretsch "Filtertron" bridge pickup remains. For a short time, Young placed socks in the cavities to prevent feedback. Prior to that, he used a white piece of plastic to cover the pick-up cavities.

During the Let There Be Rock era, he stripped off the original Firebird Red finish to the maple top. Also during the "Let There Be Rock Tour", he played a Butterscotch Fender Telecaster. During the Powerage era, Young again removed the plastic and stuffed socks in the pick-up cavities, and also changed the tailpiece from the stock Burns vibrato to an all-in-one Badass bridge, and put a black piece of plastic over the cavity where the original tail-piece was.

During the Highway To Hell era, he removed the socks. The guitar stayed like this until 1995, when, during the Ballbreaker tour, he replaced the Badass bridge with the original tailpiece, and removed the pick-up ring for the bridge pick-up. This is how the guitar has been since then.

Malcolm also owned a 1959 Gretsch White Falcon that was used during the tours that supported the albums Back in Black and For Those About to Rock We Salute You. But he said that after someone 'fixed' it, it lost its distinctive sound, and thus got rid of it"

Long Live Rock & Roll!!!

[Geir]

This guy is not only one of Norway's most famous guitarist, he's also one of the funniest comedians. His lyrics are brilliant and funny and often on a current topic (or one of his many hobbies).

found one with little lyrics (as he always sings ing Norwegian). Ths one is "The Night-train"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wpWFIvTvbQ

[Gritter]

found one with little lyrics (as he always sings ing Norwegian). Ths one is "The Night-train"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wpWFIvTvbQ

That totally reminded me of this:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k0uPCTChpg

[Gritter]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqnU83wPmfc


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipweRXwPFiQ


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEEgWDDFVtY


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZfQUYOEzpg

[bruno]

Probably the greatest guitar song ever recorded, for me, it doesn't get any better than this ....



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55nAwmVLQSk

Well its a fave of mine - and have tickets to see him soon!

[T.C. Elliott]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKLgXgVRqjk

[Gnasty]

Sandy? Where do you get this shit?