JGJR wrote:jaybird wrote:JGJR wrote:jaybird wrote:Not a list of "The Best" (well, maybe Glen Campbell would qualifiy), but of guitarists who interest me and make me want of hear more of what they do:
Brian Baker - I think a lot of his talent and unique style has been completely lost in his playing with Bad Religion for 25 years, but there's still some flashes of the old brilliance in his various side projects.
Stephen Egerton - Will always give a listen to anything the man plays on. in an addendum to my ALL tangent post on the Fugazi thread, I think he's kinda been working his way back to his earlier style and approach on the last few Descendents' releases... more sensitivity and feel for texture and tone rather than just heavy typical "punk" thrashing he was doing more typically with ChadALL in the 90s and early 00s.
Dylan Carlson - opened my mind and ears to entirely different approach to guitar in rock music - using it for moods or soundscapes and atmosphere... how a long, sustained, droning note or chord can carry as much musical impact as any fretboard shred-wizardry.
Bill Frisell - more recent, but similar to Dylan Carlson (who is the route by which I started listening to Frisell) in taking a nearly minimalistic approach to playing. I am more versed in his late-career records, still digging into his back catalog.
Glen Campbell - just a vastly, vastly under-rated guitarist. He wouldn't have had all those decades of session work under his belt if he had been just extremely, extremely good. one of the legit greats.
Great list; couldn't agree more about Campbell. I really love some of his '60s/early '70s work and his 2008 album Meet Glen Campbell, which It hink scannest recommended on here back when it came out? I'm a Beach Boys freak, though, so I have that bias. Ha ha.
Frisell - I just listened to Deep Dead Blue (his collaboration with Elvis Costello) yesterday for the first time in a while. Do you know that one? It's from the Meltdown festival in London that Costello curated back in 1995. It's an incredibly beautiful record. I may put it on again now.
Carlson - I saw Earth play in Asbury Park back in 2011 and thought it was quite great. I don't know his music well, but have listened to a few things here and there over the years. Where should I start? Earth 2? Something else?
BB- his most inventive playing by far was in '80s Dag Nasty; couldn't agree more.
I don't know that Frisell record you reference - I just picked up his 2xLP Harmony from last year a couple months ago... lots of old traditional standards and spirituals and such, just guitar, bass, violin and vocals... Petra Haden sings on it too.
The Earth record I would recommend to anyone looking to jump in would be 2008's ...And the Bees Made Honey in The Lion's Skull... just a beautiful collection of music. it's also what spurred my interest in Bill Frisell, as he guests on a few tracks:
I think I've heard that one; may have even had it on CD at one point re: the 2008 album by Earth. I remember liking it, in any case. I wouldn't think there would be a connection between Carlson and Frisell, but again, there you go. That's very cool.
The Frisell record I referenced (Deep Dead Blue) is really much more of an Elvis Costello record and Frisell is the accompaniest. It features deconstructed guitar, and vocal versions of 3 EC deep album tracks and a few covers along with a rare song of his that's not on an album that IIRC was co-written with Ruben Blades.
i only know Ruben Blades from Predator 2
