Never heard of this guy until my guitar teacher showed me a YouTube clip on Saturday…

We were talking about harmonics, and how / where on the fretboard to get them, so out comes the following YT clips…

Tommy Emmanuel
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obh1x2z6cOI[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vxfgSDMDCg[/video]

Not my style musically, but got to hand it to the man in terms of skill and technique

Pffft. He’s no John Squire, is he?

😉

I believe that since faking his death, and subsequent extensive plastic surgery, Jimi Hendrix has made a good living as a private music teacher in Peterborough

Ever heard of Tommy Emmanuel?
His version of classical gas is A. Maz. Ing.

Jaco Pastorius

Lead guitarist from Strung Out can certainly shred.

little axe, aka skip mcdonald .

Willy. Guitarist of the house band, Ice Box, at the rather marvellous Amazonia in Hong Kong (Wan Chai if you know the area).

He is, quite simply, superb.

Buckethead?

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PsxU6G0rew&feature=related[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86DEKFissl4[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdg1hwYeJwc[/video]

Trevor Gordon Hall
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGGvH3WK-5c[/video]

Sister Rosetta Tharpe – The Godmother of Rock n Roll.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeaBNAXfHfQ[/video]

I’ve always really rated Michael Messer;

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MglabZtDKXo[/video]

Nels Cline…..

Solo starts at 3:48 if your impatient 🙂

8 String!
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt-RoSzsEKA[/video]

Claire, the guitarist/singer in a local band, Mortedelamer, has just got an eight-string very much like that one. I’m waiting to catch up with them at a gig, ‘cos I’m dying to know how you tune the bloody thing!
I know how to tune a Bass, a regular six-string, and a twelve is just octave pairs, but and eight-string leaves me flummoxed.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-WV6DTlH0s&feature=related[/video]

Right, after watching that video of the eight-string, I can see how Claire would love it, the band are somewhat along the lines of Muse, and she does a fair bit of fretting, then hammering the strings on the neck, plus harmonics and stuff.
Fabulous guitar, if only I could play…
I’ve always been incredibly impressed by this guy:
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUpeQytOCLE&feature=youtube_gdata_player[/video]
Adrian Legg

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tLsFsGxLmE&feature=related[/video]

Tim pierce

You will probably never have heard of him but you will certainly have heard a lot of his work

Premier studio guy

I’ll also mention dan huff though he’s more a producer these day

Classify as missing in action but Phil solem and Adam Schmitt are unbelievable song based guitarists rather than ‘shredders’

Frank Usher plays with ex Marillion vocalist Fish. Quite superb musician and makes his own guitars which have the most fantastic sound

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB2POWSnStU&feature=youtube_gdata_player[/video]

CZ, the 8-string tuning Charlie Hunter uses is EAD (bottom three from 4-string bass) ADGBE (top five from 6-string guitar). Very cool if you’re very much a groove merchant.

Some of the most underrated but listened to guitarists were the ‘Oreo Cookie’ trio of Robert White, Joe Messina and Eddie Willis who played on much of Motown’s output as part of the Funk Bros. house band.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkX7Q2J7k48&feature=youtube_gdata_player[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnQTC5ICGik[/video]

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[video]http://youtu.be/6VAkOhXIsI0[/video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VAkOhXIsI0

The Chameleons ftw!

John Scofield, just brilliant

Cgg, thank you for that, it makes sense now. I’m no musician and can barely fumble my way through three or four chords, so I’m envious of those who can, and especially those who can wring amazing sounds out of slightly more unconventional instruments.

IMO Tommy Emmanuel is the greatest technically but John Fahey is the greatest guitarist in terms of originality and musicality on an acoustic.

I’m liking some of the above, I’ll throw Larry Carlton and Steve Luthaker into the mix…..

I’ll throw Big Jim into the mix. Not many can touch him for the sheer breadth and influence he may (or may not) have had on other rather better known guitarists.
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYQIBg-5OMo&feature=related[/video]

Jack Pearson. blends jazz and blues and what tone.

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As the general theme seems to be acoustic:

Daryl Kellie

And a really nice guy too.

Others worth looking up, Oli Brown, Aynsley Lister, Ron Sayer. All excellent artists!

…… oh and you’ve all heard of Joe Bonamassa?

Oli Brown – Evil Soul

John Martyn always coaxed amazing sounds out of a guitar.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8YfTzgtazA[/video]

Henrik Freischlader.. saw him live at this gig this week. good stuff!

Give Will Killeen a listen…very good.

Preston Read

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjVyBVqztLI[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzssF1gWmDo[/video]