Directors The Greatest Guitar Players: The Official Poll (1 Viewer)

[Jan H]

I'll second Eric Johnson.

 

[Rob Tomlin]

Thanks Jan!

 

[Jan H]

You got it, Rob. I wanted to save my nominations for a few less obvious choices, but I was definitely saving my second for EJ.

 

[Andy Olivera]

My last two seconds:
Steve Rothery
Neil Young

 

[Tom Ryan]

Well, looks like posting has slowed down...should I start the tournament, shooing in all the current noms and maybe adding a few to even out the numbers?

 

[Rich Romero]

Yeah, throw in Vinnie Moore to the list also.

 

[Tom Ryan]

Ok, let's kick this off:

Round 1, Matchup 1

The jazzers trade diminished chords in fierce attack! Who will come out on top?

Howard Alden

vs.

John Scofield

 

[Tom Ryan]

Unfortunately, I've never even heard of Alden before I looked him up today, so I'm going to have to abstain, hehe.

 

[JohnRice]

While I applaud the effort, I'm afraid this tourney will be dead in the water. It seems people will regularly watch widely varied films, but not listen to widely varied music. I'm not really familiar enough with John Scofield to vote. In the end, I expect you will have a lot of abstains in every round. Still, I'll be here to vote when I can.


BTW, my hat is off to you for getting Charlie Christian in there. That was one great guitarist who most people outside the real jazz fanatics have never heard of.

 

[JohnRice]

BTW, just to show my range of tastes, I'm also glad to see Kirk Hammett in there. I think he is sorely under rated.

 

[Tom Ryan]

Erg...I suppose it would maybe give it a jumpstart if I took out the more obscure guitarists? I guess it's my fault for wanting so many in...there are so many worthy guitarists that nobody knows about :frowning:

 

[MichaelAW]

abstain - I'm not a jazz-man

 

[george kaplan]

John Scofield

 

[Tom Ryan]

Alright, this thread's dead, so what I'm going to do is discontinue it. However, for the few of you who are interested in participating in a thread like this, I've started another one over on wholenote.com:
http://www.wholenote.com/fretbuzz/fb...&t=1&th=161806
It should work much better over there, since the place is chock full of guitar enthusiasts .

 

[JohnRice]

It looks like you are getting a better range of musicians in the tourney, which I'm glad to see. I would like to participate, but there will just be too many I don't know. I'm surprised to see there is no Mark Knopfler yet. I'm also hoping Howard Alden and Charlie Christian will make it in somehow.

 

[Bobbi*L]

Great list, but you forgot Ritchie Blackmore.

 

[Gabriel.H]

Ian Thornley (his best work IMO was when he was in Big Wreck)