World's best guitarist?
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Andy Volk
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World's best guitarist?
After Pat Metheny said of Grasso ""The best guitar player I’ve heard in maybe my entire life is floating around now, Pasquale Grasso. This guy is doing something so amazingly musical and so difficult." people on the jazz guitar BB are tying themselves into knots with praise. He has amazing technical command of the instrument and, for a guitar player, horn-like facility with the bebop language but there is no "best" in art and his playing doesn't move me half as much as one sustained chord on a steel guitar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgJiWC1sSfM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgJiWC1sSfM
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Charlie McDonald
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This might be an example of turning a haunting melody into scary. His ability certainly is, a superb right hand.
And the ability to play fast diminished runs. Simply amazing, and he swings.
But I'm missing the melody for so many notes, and it's a beautiful melody.
Certainly on steel one might be able to embrace that and build chords around it.
And the ability to play fast diminished runs. Simply amazing, and he swings.
But I'm missing the melody for so many notes, and it's a beautiful melody.
Certainly on steel one might be able to embrace that and build chords around it.
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Bill Ladd
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Re: World's best guitarist?
Way to go Pat.Andy Volk wrote: Pat Metheny --- "but there is no "best" in art and his playing doesn't move me half as much as one sustained chord on a steel guitar."
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Andy Volk
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I said that. Pat said this:
The best guitar player I’ve heard in maybe my entire life is floating around now, Pasquale Grasso. This guy is doing something so amazingly musical and so difficul."
The best guitar player I’ve heard in maybe my entire life is floating around now, Pasquale Grasso. This guy is doing something so amazingly musical and so difficul."
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Obviously a lot of skill and dedication.
However it kind of makes me on edge listening hoping I can catch a few notes.
I drive a car slowly so I can enjoy the scenery.
I was missing a lot of the scenery there.
But then again race car drivers are always rich and famous. Who am I to judge?
However it kind of makes me on edge listening hoping I can catch a few notes.
I drive a car slowly so I can enjoy the scenery.
I was missing a lot of the scenery there.
But then again race car drivers are always rich and famous. Who am I to judge?
I have stuff.
I try to make music with it.
Sometimes it works.
Sometimes it doesn't.
But I keep on trying.
I try to make music with it.
Sometimes it works.
Sometimes it doesn't.
But I keep on trying.
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I just think there's something that Pat is keyed into about this guy's playing that reflects in some way a goal Pat might have had for himself...I really don't know. But we all hear players who speak to us in ways that they don't to others. Wayne Krantz is a guitarist who blows my mind.
The same thing with Oscar Peterson--I am not a huge fan of his, great as he may be, and I prefer to hear others.
The same thing with Oscar Peterson--I am not a huge fan of his, great as he may be, and I prefer to hear others.
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Bill Ladd
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That Julian Lage kid is kinda cool too. Plays a tele so you know he's alright. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA4cbr69LwA
(not a tele here obviously, but he does play a '54 blackguard or somesuch).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA4cbr69LwA
(not a tele here obviously, but he does play a '54 blackguard or somesuch).
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Graham
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"best" is a subjective term. Here is a Canadian boy who knows his way around a guitar neck as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUJgfBkV1jA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUJgfBkV1jA
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I'm a fan of Chet Atkins, Heath Wright-lead guitarist for the band Ricochet, Steve Wariner, Anita Cochran-she plays electric and steel guitar, Terri Clark-another great guitarist, Vince Gill, and Brent Mason to name a few. There are so many great guitar players.
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Competitions are for horses, not artists. Bela Bartok
whose the best....no one is....except for one instance in the history of music. JS Bach was at one time the absolute greatest pipe organist/clavier player breathing oxygen on the earth. his compositions for organ and keyboard are stunning, but....his sons said that they really were not true representations of the magnificence of his playing live concerts where he played written compositions and also improvised for sometimes hours at a sitting.
this guy on the guitar....he is a great player for sure. wish i had his left hand with those long spidery fingers. personally i would rather hear george van epps play in this style. its not what or how much you can play, but what you dont sometimes that makes the better music.
whose the best....no one is....except for one instance in the history of music. JS Bach was at one time the absolute greatest pipe organist/clavier player breathing oxygen on the earth. his compositions for organ and keyboard are stunning, but....his sons said that they really were not true representations of the magnificence of his playing live concerts where he played written compositions and also improvised for sometimes hours at a sitting.
this guy on the guitar....he is a great player for sure. wish i had his left hand with those long spidery fingers. personally i would rather hear george van epps play in this style. its not what or how much you can play, but what you dont sometimes that makes the better music.
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also, the cross-pollination these days is really wonderful. a string band playing Bartok:Bill Hatcher wrote:Competitions are for horses, not artists. Bela Bartok
whose the best....no one is....except for one instance in the history of music. JS Bach was at one time the absolute greatest pipe organist/clavier player breathing oxygen on the earth. his compositions for organ and keyboard are stunning, but....his sons said that they really were not true representations of the magnificence of his playing live concerts where he played written compositions and also improvised for sometimes hours at a sitting.
https://jakeschepps.bandcamp.com/album/ ... -la-bart-k
and of course, Chris Thile's performance of the Bach violin sonatas.
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EXACTLY!!Doug Beaumier wrote:He plays with machine-like speed and accuracy, that's for sure, but I get tired of hearing it very quickly. I'd like to hear more sustained notes, more soul, more feeling in the music. I think it was Chet who said "I wish I could play that fast, and if I could, I wouldn't."
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Tommy Emmanuel knocks my hat in the creek. I saw him live in Austin a little over a year ago and he puts on an amazing solo show.
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You're exactly right Lefty, my Mom thought I was the best, boy was she wrong. I was the best in her eyes.
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MSA Millennium, Legend, and Studio Pro, Reese's restored Universal Direction guitar, a restored MSA Classic SS, several amps, new and old, and a Kemper Powerhead that I am really liking. Also a Zum D10, a Mullen RP, and a restored Rose S10, named the "Blue Bird". Also, I have acquired and restored the plexiglass D10 MSA Classic that was built as a demo in the early '70s. I also have a '74 lacquer P/P, with wood necks, and a showroom condition Sho-Bud Super Pro.
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