Your Favorite late 60's and 70's guitar players

[billhart22]

Just for discussion and reasons. Please give reasons that you like these guys. You know, this is just something interesting and a good way to kill time.

Thanks,

Bill

[jujisque]

Jimmy Page - I've never heard anyone play better riffs. Solos don't really stand out to me, but his 'riffage' is incredible.

Denny Dias - I just love Steely Dan. You can't argue with the solo in Reelin' in the Years

Joe Walsh - very imaginative player. I really like his writing and playing style.

[wgarces]

Jimmy Page - I've never heard anyone play better riffs.  Solos don't really stand out to me, but his 'riffage' is incredible.

I wasn't really a Page fan but you cannot deny the solo he does in "Since I've Been Lovin You". That's a classic.

Nobody does it better than Schenker. His UFO and his early MSG playing was untouchable! Eddie who?

And NO ONE writes heavier riffs than Iommi! NO ONE!

[belikerick]

+1 for Iommi - Master of the Heavy Metal Riff!!

[hamertek98]

I've always loved Jimmy Page for his finesse (sp). I like D. Gilmour for everything he's ever done....very tasty chops (not pork chops). Brian May was good, even though most people didn't realize that till the eighties. Jeff Beck... just because he always got left out. R. Blackmore cause he didn't give a shit. Joe Walsh for his story telling. George Harrison....just because. Eddie because of Gene. J. Perry (the American Stones). There's too friggin' many. I only listed rock faves.

R. Nielsen for Hamers!

[Submariner85]

Leslie West - Fat Dude with Fat Tone.

Brian May - Queen is one of my favorite bands. (not for Bohemian Rhapsody)

Mark Farner - Just cause

Glen Frey & Joe Walsh - Eagles are another favorite of mine.

Ritchie Blackmore - Rocks

Iommi - The father of dark tone.

Ace Frehley - Come on, he was cool.

[iownit4]

Ace was rock & roll ..........

[Steve Haynie]

Ace Frehley was my hero in the 70's. I still like everything he did back then.

[Willie G. Moseley]

RANDY CALIFORNIA (1951-1997): Oozing, snarling tone that preceded "Journey to the Center of the Mind" and "American Woman" + harmonic twin leads (overdubbed, but still innovative and valid) that preceded the Allman Bros. and Wishbone Ash. I never get tired of hearing "Mechanical World". "Dark-Eye Woman", etc.

CLAPTON IN CREAM, OBVIOUSLY: I managed to see 'em live.

PETER GREEN: Epitomized British blues, IMO, not just musically. B.B. King said Green was the only guitar player who could make him sweat, and when Fleetwood Mac was recording their live-in-the-studio album with Chicago greats like Willie Dixon and Buddy Guy, one of the Windy City participants opined that Green sounded "...like a Negro turned inside out."

LESLIE WEST

FRANK MARINO: Wrote, played and sang like Hendrix while still sounding like he was not ripping off Hendrix.

MIKE OLDFIELD: Boy genius

DAVID GILMOUR: Like Steve Cropper, Gilmour could hit one note and you'd know who it is.

ANDY POWELL & TED TURNER

DUANE ALLMAN & DICKEY BETTS

[Disturber]

Fav 70's would be:

Ace Frehley - for major influence in making me pick up a guitar in the first place.

Angus Young - same as above.

Fave 70's players that I like listen to today.

Steve Jones, Johnny Ramone, Tom Verlaine for playing cool & being cooler.

Nile Rogers is a current favourite for his extremley slick & great playing.

[raymund]

Jimi Hendrix: Reinvented guitar playing.

Jimmy Page: Riffmaster

Leslie West: Fattest tone

Jeff Beck: Incredible

Frank Zappa: Professor for 12-tone music

[jjguitarranch]

Paul Kossoff-Killer feel. Excellent vibrato. Interesting chord voicings. Les Paul+Marshall=Good

[Guest slim]

Joe Perry: Definintely deserves a place among the alltime riffmasters.

Page: Would he still be considered to be "that good" if he didnt use so many guitar tracks? Hell ya.

Joe Walsh: Give James Gang a listen.

[Willie G. Moseley]

I left out

RORY GALLAGHER: Utterly unique blues tones

BILL NELSON (if one goes further into the '70s): sounded like Steve Howe with an edge

[Scottcrud]

David Gilmour-show me a more emotional player, you can't.

Joe Walsh-plays from the heart and soul and has a great sense of humour.

Iommi-one of the men responsible for me even playing guitar, the RIFF king.

Angus Young-the other guy responsible for me playing guitar

Alvin Lee-at the time, there wasn't a faster player than Alvin Lee.

[princeofdarkness56]

Toni Iomi for tone and riffage

Glen Buxton and Michael Bruce for ATTITUDE.

[biffrythm]

Joe Perry and Steve Jones: They are the ones that made me want to play

Jeff Beck: I don't think there is anything he cant do

Ross the Boss from the Dictators 'cause he is just so cool

[Brooks]

a fave time of music for me.

hendrix, page, ace, & iommi ; early influences on me, great swagger feel, great tunes.

beck & dimeola - bridged the gap between rawk guitar tone & jazz chops/writing.

mike schenker & uli roth - along w/ dimeola, wrote the harmonic minor/diminished vocabulary of 80's shred back in the 70's.

holdsworth & van halen - amazing legato at lightspeed.

[billhart22]

Here's some of my favorites -

Jeff Beck - Rock and Roll coupled with jazz

Jimi Hendrix - A mind like nobody elses

Alvin Lee (Ten years after) - One of the fastest guitar players alive and makes sense all at the same time

Johnny Winter - Tremendous Blues guitar player and bellowing voice

Terry Kath (Chicago) - Before he blew his head off, he was so smooth and rich with scales, especially when they were the Chicago Transit Authority

Juda Priest - KK and Glenn Tipton, they don't even have to look at each other to know what the other one is playing

Joe Walsh - James gang days, a father of creating original licks

Eric Clapton - Cream, Derik and the Dominoes (what a group!)

Leslie West - A big man with a big sound....he just wanted to play good enough so people wouldn't say that he sucked

Carlos Santana - "Mister Diversification" smooth and lightning fast and melodic

Tony Iommi - Especially the Paranoid album

Peter Townsend - The wild man! My fave is my generation on the Who Live at Leeds album

Richie Blackmoore - really plays a creative set of licks

John Entwistle - Bass player extrodinaire, especially on the Quadrophenia album

That would be a few that I can readily think of....I know there are tons more of my favorites.

[pesocaster]

Tommy Bolin..... love everything about his playing... Poast Toasty Kills me

Joe Walsh... great tone and phrasing

Jeff Beck... just gets better and better and better

Hendrix... obvious ... brilliant!

Billy Gibbons ... tone, phrasing, style.. I'm Bad / Nationwide still blows me away

Clapton.. post Cream ...(Blackie and Brownie years) LOVE the 70's stuff... great songs

Steve Morse... Dixie Dregs.... his whole aproach...

Edited to add: All the players in Steely Dan .... always the perfect parts to move the song... Larry Carlton's playing on "Don't take me alive" still gives me goosebumps

[acb]

Jorma is still teaching and kickin' it in smaller venues.

[belgian]

Paul Kossoff-Killer feel.  Excellent vibrato.  Interesting chord voicings.  Les Paul+Marshall=Good

+1

His Free stuff is really awsome and very under-estimated (I'am trying for 35 years to copy it - ). And he was just 18 when he did it.

[Jeroen]

Jimmy page and Billy Gibbons....

Jeroen

[BCR Greg]

Peter Frampton. BEFORE the glamour.

[lonote049]

Alvin Lee, Leslie West, Kim Simmonds (Savoy Brown), Peter Green, Clapton and Rory Gallagher all drove me wild...and still do!