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Re: (TV) OT: Most distinctive guitar sound



The question is: tone distinctive? play distinctive? both?
I add: Boo Didley
Steve Cropper
Link Wray
Tommy Iomy
Kim Salmon (Scientists)
Glenn Mercer & Bill Million (Feelies)
Kevin Shields
Jack White
Marc Ribot
.................for example.




2009/3/10 Jesse Hochstadt <jesseh58@yahoo.com>

> I would think Allan Holdsworth would have to top the list (at least my
> list), followed closely by Fripp. Largely because both those guys use
sounds
> that don't even sound much like guitar. I never thought of Pete Buck as
> having a particularly distinctive sound - I don't know that I would
> recognize it was him without Michael Stipe's voice up front (and I speak as
> a once-huge REM fan who bought such Stipe-less novelties as the Hindu Love
> Gods and the Full Time Men).
>
> Are we including acoustic guitarists? Because Leo Kottke's pretty damn
> distinctive.
>
> - Jesse
>
> Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:46:35 -0400
> From: Maurice Rickard <maurice@mac.com>
> Subject: Re: (TV) OT: Most distinctive guitar sound
>
> Russ wrote:
>
> > My list:
> >
> > * Tom Verlaine
> > * Richard Thompson
> > * Robert Fripp
> > * Bob Mould
> > * Pete Townsend
> > * Peter Buck
>
> Interesting list, Russ.  Mine would be something like this:
>
> Tom Verlaine
> Robert Fripp
> Robert Quine
> Neil Young (does make the list for me)
> Arto Lindsay
> Bill Frisell
> Steve Hillage
> Ricky Wilson
> Steve Albini
> Rowland S. Howard
> Zoot Horn Rollo
> Tom Herman
> Jimi Hendrix
> Jody Harris
>
> Probably more when I give it some thought...
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