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Andy Volk


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Post  Posted 13 Jan 2017 3:11 am    
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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
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Charlie McDonald


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Post  Posted 13 Jan 2017 5:32 am    
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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.
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Bill Ladd


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Post  Posted 13 Jan 2017 5:49 am     Re: World's best guitarist?
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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."


Way to go Pat.
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Andy Volk


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Post  Posted 13 Jan 2017 5:54 am    
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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."
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Bill Ladd


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Post  Posted 13 Jan 2017 5:56 am    
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Oops. Too early. Not enough coffee.

So I say, "well said Andy!!"
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Larry Carlson


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Post  Posted 13 Jan 2017 7:56 am    
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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?
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Mike Neer


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Post  Posted 13 Jan 2017 8:37 am    
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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.
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Bill Ladd


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Post  Posted 13 Jan 2017 9:22 am    
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That Julian Lage kid is kinda cool too. Plays a tele so you know he's alright. Surprised

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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Post  Posted 13 Jan 2017 2:09 pm    
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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
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Brett Day


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Post  Posted 14 Jan 2017 12:26 am    
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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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Bill Hatcher

 

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Post  Posted 14 Jan 2017 8:09 am    
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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.
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Doug Beaumier


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Post  Posted 14 Jan 2017 8:20 am    
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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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Donny Hinson

 

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Post  Posted 14 Jan 2017 5:54 pm    
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What I find really interesting is to just watch the Grasso and Piticco videos with the sound turned off.
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Lane Gray


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Post  Posted 15 Jan 2017 5:52 am    
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And is he as good as Lily Afshar?
And I think Al DiMeola got a LOT better after he slowed down...
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Jamie Mitchell

 

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Post  Posted 15 Jan 2017 12:16 pm    
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Bill Ladd wrote:
That Julian Lage kid is kinda cool too. Plays a tele so you know he's alright.


he's outta this world.
brought me to tears last time i saw him perform, in NYC.


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Jamie Mitchell

 

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Post  Posted 15 Jan 2017 12:21 pm    
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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.


also, the cross-pollination these days is really wonderful. a string band playing Bartok:
https://jakeschepps.bandcamp.com/album/an-evening-in-the-village-the-music-of-b-la-bart-k

and of course, Chris Thile's performance of the Bach violin sonatas.
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John Alexander

 

Post  Posted 16 Jan 2017 1:36 am    
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He sounds a little bit like Art Tatum:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0QD558TWSQ
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Steven Paris

 

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Post  Posted 16 Jan 2017 2:56 am    
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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."

EXACTLY!!
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John Peay


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Post  Posted 16 Jan 2017 3:49 pm    
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Subjective, of course, a matter of personal taste, sooo...Mother Maybelle Carter
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Darvin Willhoite


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Post  Posted 20 Jan 2017 8:34 pm    
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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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Rich Upright


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Post  Posted 22 Jan 2017 8:03 pm    
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For my money, it would hafta be Scotty Anderson & Tommy Emmanuel.
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Jack Hanson


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Post  Posted 28 Jan 2017 5:28 pm    
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Doug Beaumier wrote:
I think it was Chet who said "I wish I could play that fast, and if I could, I wouldn't."

If I could play that fast, I would. Just not all the time.
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Lefty


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Post  Posted 30 Jan 2017 3:03 pm    
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I would say also this is subjective, and there is no correct answer. It is like saying "The Best Music in the World is....." I have a lot of favorites that I think are the best in what they do. It is Art, no right, no wrong.
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Darvin Willhoite


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Post  Posted 30 Jan 2017 5:30 pm    
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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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Chris Sattler

 

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Post  Posted 5 Feb 2017 4:32 am    
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Tommy is a great player and fellow Aussie but honestly, sometimes I think he must be paid per note.
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