who are you a fan of the most as a guitar player

[Vulconizer]

Am I allowed to say I am a fan of myself when I pull off something that I never thought I could do? I even sign my own boobs when I do something spectacular that makes Klingons run away.

I'm not afraid to admit it.

Yep, Mike Campbell never gets any real recognition for all he does ( more importantly maybe, what he doesn't do ) with The Heartbreakers.

[TravisBean]

Mike Campbell is great in the sense that he plays the obvious very well. Meaning that if I was in his band, playing on their songs, my riffs would come out pretty close to what he plays, and those riffs are a perfect fit for those songs that probably couldn't be played any better than the way Mike Campbell plays them.

[Vulconizer]

I agree, but the flipside is he is such an outstanding guitar player, but he never plays to show off his skill. He plays just what the song needs. Nothing more, nothing less.

Holding back sometimes takes more skill, I think.

[lcjones]

Go beyond the Heartbreakers,,,,,

Dirty Knobs..... Blue Stingrays

Mike really wails!
Mike is my hero. And I'd particularly like to visit his guitar room, rather, museum!

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[crash]

Originally Posted by lcjones

Go beyond the Heartbreakers,,,,,

Dirty Knobs..... Blue Stingrays

Mike really wails!
Mike is my hero. And I'd particularly like to visit his guitar room, rather, museum!

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Mike is one of my favorites. Understated, plays completely for the song, his slide playing has been getting better and better through his whole career (on 'Highway Companion' he plays slide on almost everything).

There is a really good interview with Tom and Mike in GP magazine just after the release of 'Echo', which they self produced in Mikes home studio. It is about the next best thing to actually going into Mikes guitar room. At the end of the article they both said they probably wouldn't do that again because it was way too much work. Which is sort of a shout out to all of us who have no other way of making recordings

IS Mike actually in Blue Stingrays? We're all pretty sure, but...

[lcjones]

Originally Posted by crash

IS Mike actually in Blue Stingrays? We're all pretty sure, but...

...a mystery to be sure .... hmmm .... also to note ..with a couple of mp3's.




and not to fawn all over Mike ... but

[Chad_Rushing]

Oh jeez... favorite guitarists? Biggest influences? Well... let's see...

Hendrix would be the obvious one. Right along with B.B. King. Good god that man's a genius on the guitar. One of my favorite acoustic artists that I've recently discovered is a guy named Andy McKee. The man's incredible. James Hetfield, oddly enough. Not a big Metallica fan, but I just like his bluesy metal riffs. /shrug

Jim Croce probably had a pretty big influence on my guitar playing... Grew up listening to my mom playing "Time In A Bottle" on her old Harmony acoustic, lol.

Dave Matthews... He showed me that the acoustic doesn't have to be about nothing but chords and simple strumming...

And that's all I care to think of at the moment...

Oh, whoever the guitarist for Planet X is... Actually that whole band blew me away and got me wanting to play like them on everything from drums to guitar.

[skua]

While I'm not too sure their influence can be heard in my playing there are certain guitarists that inspire me to play. My favorites include:

Ritchie Blackmore, Gary Moore, Michael Schenker, Uli Roth, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Yngwie Malmsteen and Steven Wilson. I've also been a long-time fan of the twin guitar attack a la Dave Murray & Adrian Smith, Chris DeGarmo & Michael Wilton and Joe Perry & Brad Whitford. Early inspirations included Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, BB King, Freddie King and Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown. Oh yeah... can't forget Rick Neilsen!

[JusSumguy]

Ry Cooder, Leo Kotke

[emtel]

If I could only listen to Doc Watson and Chet Atkins for the rest of my life, I might never get bored.

A less flashy, but absolutely brilliant and underrated player in my opinion is Elliot Smith.