[fredgarvin]

Ronnie Montrose - Town without Pity on Open Fire

Hell, anything on the album "Montrose"  (lead singer was Sammy Hagar!!)

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSss and check out the remasterd version....get on your bad motor scooter and ride over to the cd store

I saw Montrose in Portland when they were touring on the first album. I remember Hagar was one of the best frontmen I had seen and the drummer was outstanding. Ronnie, goes without saying...

[jackman]

I'm really enjoying this thread and I'm having a hard time picking my favorite 20 guitarists let alone favorite 20 solos.  One relatively obscure guitarist who I would add to the list is the late Danny Gatton.  Here is a live clip that shows some of his amazing guitar skills.  No offense to the late Roy Buchannon's fans (sp?) but no one ever played a Telecaster like Danny Gatton.  He was a smokin' guitarist who played music I actually enjoyed listening to.  Check out this live clip:

http://www.dannygatton.com/Video/gallaghers.mov

[Daygloworange]

Danny Gatton was unreal. His untimely passing is a great loss.

Cheers

[jdoyle]

I'm more of a lurker here, and rarely post... but I felt a need to chime in here.  While I'm a huge fan of Beck, DiMeola, Metheny, Hendrix and countless others, with most of them mentioned in the previous postings, I have to say that I really believe my favorite (not the greatest, pardon me), is "All Right now" by Free. 

I almost can't believe I'm saying it  , but it gets me every time I hear it.  It's sooo simple, it just keeps building, the more I analyze it, the more I agree on its genious... there's just something about it that I really love (and I never even owned it!).  I guess I should buy it!

JD 

[Dmason]

Danny Gatton ANYTHING.   Pure soul/gold.

Guys like Duane Allman, and Steve Howe are spiritually connected to the fretboard. Fact.

Honourable Mention: Mr Mark Knopfler.

Forget, "best" guitar solo; there is only two kinds of music: good and bad.

[lonewolfny42]

I'm more of a lurker here, and rarely post... but I felt a need to chime in here.  While I'm a huge fan of Beck, DiMeola, Metheny, Hendrix and countless others, with most of them mentioned in the previous postings, I have to say that I really believe my favorite (not the greatest, pardon me), is "All Right now" by Free. 

I almost can't believe I'm saying it  , but it gets me every time I hear it.  It's sooo simple, it just keeps building, the more I analyze it, the more I agree on its genious... there's just something about it that I really love (and I never even owned it!).  I guess I should buy it!

JD 

That would be Paul Kossoff.....after Free broke up he formed Back Street Crawler....another good group....Link....

[fredgarvin]

I'm more of a lurker here, and rarely post... but I felt a need to chime in here.  While I'm a huge fan of Beck, DiMeola, Metheny, Hendrix and countless others, with most of them mentioned in the previous postings, I have to say that I really believe my favorite (not the greatest, pardon me), is "All Right now" by Free. 

I almost can't believe I'm saying it  , but it gets me every time I hear it.  It's sooo simple, it just keeps building, the more I analyze it, the more I agree on its genious... there's just something about it that I really love (and I never even owned it!).  I guess I should buy it!

JD 

Totally. "All Right Now" is on my home burned all time great rock cd, along with "Suffragette City", which sports a great solo in the British rock vein of the time.

[Scott F.]

That would be Paul Kossoff.....after Free broke up he formed Back Street Crawler....another good group....Link....

Hey Chris, didn't Paul Rogers split from Free too and start Bad Company?

[GregC]

This thread is fun and makes us all recollect a lot of our historical listening.  Here are a few other guitar players that really get my foot tapping. 

Jose Feliciano - Alive-O (side 1 of LP 1 of the double live album).
Bert Jansch - most anything
Jorma - Quah

[jdoyle]

I'm more of a lurker here, and rarely post... but I felt a need to chime in here.  While I'm a huge fan of Beck, DiMeola, Metheny, Hendrix and countless others, with most of them mentioned in the previous postings, I have to say that I really believe my favorite (not the greatest, pardon me), is "All Right now" by Free. 

I almost can't believe I'm saying it  , but it gets me every time I hear it.  It's sooo simple, it just keeps building, the more I analyze it, the more I agree on its genious... there's just something about it that I really love (and I never even owned it!).  I guess I should buy it!

JD 

That would be Paul Kossoff.....after Free broke up he formed Back Street Crawler....another good group....Link....

Interesting!  Thanks!

[lonewolfny42]

That would be Paul Kossoff.....after Free broke up he formed Back Street Crawler....another good group....Link....

Hey Chris, didn't Paul Rogers split from Free too and start Bad Company?

Yes Scott, Rogers started Bad Company - good group, and another good guitarist there....Mick Ralphs. He started out in Mott The Hoople, then moved to Bad Company, then some solo recordings, and some gigs and albums with Ian Hunter (Mr. Mott The Hoople.. )....like a full circle.
Now speaking of Ian Hunter...a good guitarist as well, he later hooked up with Mick Ronson, who had worked with David Bowie (Aladdin Sane cd). Ronson also put out a few solo albums.....just one big happy family.

[Tweaker]

There are so many rock guitarists I admire for what I believe were absolute displays of genius and it's tough to not make a huge list. Two I've always held as favorites would be Andy Powell's intro lead to Warrior from Wishbone Ash's Argus album (the rest of the soloing is also superb, as well). Another would be Danny Weis's guitar work in the Iron Butterfly Theme Song from Heavy, their first album. And then there's the amazing playing by Gary Duncan and John Cipollina from the song The Fool off of Quicksilver Messenger Service's first album.

[lazydays]

right now I'm listening to Four Generations Of Miles Davis, and I'll have to say that Mike Stern isn't exactly bad. To be exact he's outstanding!
gary

[fredgarvin]

I listen frequently to Mikes' "Who Let the Cats Out?", agreat disk from a great player.

[PhilNYC]

The first time I ever even heard of Mike Stern was at a show at The Bottom Line in NYC...went to go see Michael Brecker, and Mike Stern was the guitarist in his band.  Stern stole the show...thought he was tremendous...

[fredgarvin]

I saw the Brecker bros. in Larry Coryells' band many years ago in Portland, one of those I remember well, it was hot. They were the openers for Return to Forever. Alphonse Mouzon was the talented high-energy drummer.