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Not a favourite, not the best, but a sound you identify immediately.

Gilmour
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Dave Gilmour is the one that immediately jumps to mind
And are there two g’s in Bugger Off?
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The banjo
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Sandstorm wrote: Tue Apr 06, 2021 3:16 pmThe banjo
Now thinking sandstorm

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laurent wrote: Tue Apr 06, 2021 2:54 pm SRV
Rory Gallagher
Good call :thumbup:
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Tom Morello
Adam Jones (not the rugby player, the Tool guitarist)
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Gary Moore
Mark Knopfler
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Nile Rodgers..
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Django Rheinhardt
Wes Montgomery
John McLaughlin
Roy Buchanan
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Suppose you have to add Eddie van Halen, and

Robert Fripp
Adrian Belew
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And 1 guest wrote: Tue Apr 06, 2021 2:36 pm Not a favourite, not the best, but a sound you identify immediately.
George Harrison for That chord.

Jimi Hendrix

Steve Cropper
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Oxbow wrote: Tue Apr 06, 2021 5:31 pmGeordie Walker
Good shout.

And better add...
Johnny Marr
Roger McGuinn with the legendary 12-string Rickenbacker
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TB63 wrote: Tue Apr 06, 2021 3:58 pmNile Rodgers..
Very much this
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I wonder how many guitarists could be identified simply by ear: assuming they were not playing a well known piece of theirs?

Johhny Marr would be among very few I suspect. Hendrix simply because very few people could do what he could.

Neil Young and Jimmy Page perhaps?
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Torquemada 1420 wrote: Tue Apr 06, 2021 6:21 pm I wonder how many guitarists could be identified simply by ear: assuming they were not playing a well known piece of theirs?

Johhny Marr would be among very few I suspect. Hendrix simply because very few people could do what he could.

Neil Young and Jimmy Page perhaps?
That's kind of what I was getting at when I started the thread. Page is so brilliant he could play anything, likewise Clapton, but I was thinking about people who made their own sound.
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Stuart Adamson ( for the Scottish contingent )
Lager & Lime - we don't do cocktails
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There's very few I could identify simply by listening to them play something I don't associate with them.

Hendrix
Santana
Billy Gibbons, maybe.
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Dogbert wrote: Tue Apr 06, 2021 7:07 pm Stuart Adamson ( for the Scottish contingent )
He can't be that distinctive, that's twice now he's appeared on this thread.

Though his output was extremely limited, John McKay.
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Allan Holdsworth, with those freaky finger stretches
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SaintK wrote: Tue Apr 06, 2021 3:34 pm
laurent wrote: Tue Apr 06, 2021 2:54 pm SRV
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Good call :thumbup:
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Very famous in the area, there is a great little Concert venue Called "Le Plan" in Ris Orangis. He played there and has a street named after him not far from the venue.
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Tony Iommi.
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Hendrix, Shirley. Unmistakeable.
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Un Pilier wrote: Tue Apr 06, 2021 9:00 pm Hendrix, Shirley. Unmistakeable.

She is Unmistakeable.


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Pretty much every well known recorded guitarist that comes to mind has their own unique, recognisable style. From Josh Homme to Hendrix, Buzz Osborne to Bo Diddley, Kim Thayil to Clapton, Adam Franklin to Frusciante.
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Joey Santiago has a unique style that is incredibly distinctive. Not a technical wizard but provides the key textures that make the Pixies what they are.



one of the best gigs I ever went to was The Pixies at the crystal palace bowl. 16 jumping around at the front there somewhere...

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Keith Richards
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yermum wrote: Tue Apr 06, 2021 10:50 pm Joey Santiago has a unique style that is incredibly distinctive. Not a technical wizard but provides the key textures that make the Pixies what they are.



one of the best gigs I ever went to was The Pixies at the crystal palace bowl. 16 jumping around at the front there somewhere...

Wow, incredibe that you got to experience that 30 years ago. Such an important band. Such creativity with songwriting and... such space.
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Mr Bungle wrote: Wed Apr 07, 2021 7:02 am and... such space.
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yermum wrote: Wed Apr 07, 2021 7:50 am
Mr Bungle wrote: Wed Apr 07, 2021 7:02 am and... such space.
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They allowed their songs to breathe. I found them quite stripped back and the playing economic, while still creating interesting melodies.
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