Top 105 Guitarists - The Winner page 33

threespires said:
So looks like just me and Bimbo had the good taste to pick Steve Cropper :-)

Now I know this is about favourites rather than best but the fact that only one other person had Buddy Guy in their list caused me some sadness; but then I saw that he is below Bernard (and i say this as someone who has seen New Order more times than any other band) and JDB in this list and my sadness turned to rage as frankly this is a crime against music!!

But more seriously, if you like bluesy stuff at all and you are not familiar with him check him out, Buddy is in his mid 80's now and is still going at it. The people he got to guest on his 2022 album tells you all you need to know about the esteem in which he is held. Absolute legend.

Glad to see Duanne Allman in the list, one of the great "what could have been"s of popular music.
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Legend doesn't begin to describe Buddy Guy , unless you don't appreciate the guitar.

Coming to Melbourne again in April sold out it would be 50 times over without a need to advertise I doubt I will ever see a performer like Buddy or want to see another performer aged 85 doing his or her stuff.

Damn Right he is great.
 
mancity1 said:
Legend doesn't begin to describe Buddy Guy , unless you don't appreciate the guitar.

Coming to Melbourne again in April sold out it would be 50 times over without a need to advertise I doubt I will ever see a performer like Buddy or want to see another performer aged 85 doing his or her stuff.

Damn Right he is great.
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85 you say..
 
mancity1 said:
Legend doesn't begin to describe Buddy Guy , unless you don't appreciate the guitar.

Coming to Melbourne again in April sold out it would be 50 times over without a need to advertise I doubt I will ever see a performer like Buddy or want to see another performer aged 85 doing his or her stuff.

Damn Right he is great.
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Just the one European date :-( Really hope it's not a total farewell
 
The Lightbowne Cowboy said:
Dave Davies #42. You really got me changed music forever. Nothing like it had ever been heard. The Yardbirds and Animals had a go(even the Beatles hadn't cracked that sound yet)but this was different gravy. for that alone, he should be higher. When you hear so many musicians say that it was this song that inspired them, 42 seems a bit shite. Quite a distance behind
Hendrix, Page and Claptons of the world, but his gift to music can never be underestimated. God bless his razer blades. P.S Anybody who says it was Page who played You really got me will be laughed at.Thats utter bollocks!
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Why should anyone be higher? This is a list of favourites.
 
OB1 said:
BS wouldn't make my Top 100 but Zappa does.

Frank is one of 12 guitrists on today's listing that I have seen live in concert.
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He's also on the list of people I had the opportunity to see and didn't take the chance then they croaked-Gutted.
Add to that Queen, Rory Gallagher...Also miffed I didn't go and see Gary Moore in his later years. The still got the blues tour in the early nineties was the last. Saw him from the back on the streets era right through till then.
Also gutted I didn't go to the Thin Lizzy farewell gig at Reading festival (I think) when they were joined on stage by all the ex guitarists. Had the chance, didn't take it for some reason. Grand Slam, Phil Lynotts last band, was another I regret not seeing...Come to the think of it, Laurence Archer deserves a mention in dispatches too. Excellent guitar player.
 
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