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Greatest guitar player of all time!
La Creme:
Disclaimer: This means greatest guitar player, not greatest song-writer who played guitar, not fastest guitar player, not best-toned guitar player. Just best.
I have to go with McLaughlin despite my love of all things Hendrix, Joe Pass, and Petrucci. I mean, he's a total virtuoso in rock, jazz, and a lot in between. The only reason not to choose McLaughlin really is that he has no feeling for the blues, and thusfor, his blues solos lack soul.
NOTE: I had to delete a whole bunch of other greats because of the poll-options-numbers-limit-thang. So if you get all "nurrr why wasn't so-and-such on here nurrr" it is seriously not my fault.
Inlander:
My vote went to "Other", in the form of Charlie Christian. Just off the top of my head. I'm sure somebody like Hendrix was probably more technically gifted (though Christian was no slouch in that regard), but Christian's melodies and tone are just so gorgeous. If you haven't heard Columbia's remastering from a few years ago of his recordings with various Benny Goodman small groups from the '30s and '40s . . . Damn.
La Creme:
He was one of the ones I deleted.
Inlander, your jazz tastes are eff - the - double V.
Inlander:
And yet strangely I don't listen to nearly as much jazz as I used to. I haven't bought a jazz C.D. in months. I guess that's what happens when you live for a year just down the road from one of the best indie record shops in the country.
La Creme:
Still, you listen to good jazz.
I am pissed with myself and want to re-vote Robert Fripp. I mean, cause he's the Robert Fripp. Seriously.
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