Mark Knopfler should be in the top 5 guitarist list...

[raysachs]

Originally Posted by Rockysdad

If you're a fan of Mr. Knopfler as I am very much so, then you should give a listen to the album *Love Over Gold* if you haven't already.

The only song on it I don't care for is *Industrial Disease*, the rest are great!

Industrial Disease has one of the great lines in any song - "two men say they're Jesus, one of them must be wrong". I never loved that album - I compare everything to their first two and as good as some were, nothing ever came close to those first two for me. But I always dug that song. Well, maybe the Notting Hillbillies did, but that's about it to my ears...

-Ray

[rokdog49]

Originally Posted by Joe Beamish

Yep. Monkey on a typewriter.

That’s pretty harsh and downright rude of you.
Maybe if you listened a bit more closely you can hear what he’s doing. It’s called “chicken pickin” and Brad’s as creative as it gets.
Then again, you probably won’t. It doesn’t matter. A lot of very, very good and well known players of all genre’s admire his skills and rate him top notch.

[Joe Beamish]

Originally Posted by rokdog49

That’s pretty harsh and downright rude of you.
Maybe if you listened a bit more closely you can hear what he’s doing. It’s called “chicken pickin” and Brad’s as creative as it gets.
Then again, you probably won’t. It doesn’t matter. A lot of very, very good and well known players of all genre’s admire his skills and rate him top notch.

This dude already licked that plate clean.

https://youtu.be/Jn77ZraSZ8A

[mr. beaumont]

Originally Posted by frankmcr

You sound like a Cubs fan.

Cubs fans have better ears?

[Talk2Me]

Originally Posted by mr. beaumont

Cubs fans have better ears?

Could be. They waited over 100 years listening out for someone to say "Cubs win the World Series" so maybe they're just better tuned into hushed/non-existent sounds.

[frankmcr]

Originally Posted by mr. beaumont

Cubs fans have better ears?

"He took a really good swing at the ball!"

[bfm612]

Originally Posted by rokdog49

That’s pretty harsh and downright rude of you.
Maybe if you listened a bit more closely you can hear what he’s doing. It’s called “chicken pickin” and Brad’s as creative as it gets.
Then again, you probably won’t. It doesn’t matter. A lot of very, very good and well known players of all genre’s admire his skills and rate him top notch.

Here's my sanctimonious input, since nobody asked. I am probably the farthest thing from a Brad-Paisley fan as you can find, based admittedly on a very small sampling of his songs I've actually listened to. BUT, when it comes to guitar skills, I do think he has at little bit of a reputation for being a good player, and probably deserves not to be so easily dismissed, at least by me. I think it's especially challenging to recognize talent in someone whose music you don't like.

This makes me think of Vince Gill, who I used to dismiss as just another dude in a genre that I really never listened to, and who I associated with infomercials for 5-disc country music compilations. It wasn't until fairly recently that I realized what everyone else knew that he's really incredible with the guitar. Still, his songwriting is not my cup of tea, but as a guitar player, he's no slouch.

No way I'd put Brad Paisley among my top 50 players, primarily because I don't like his songs, but I can see myself underappreciating his technical abilities because he's just not someone I listen to. He's in good company. I'd really include in this category guitar royalty like Santana, who I know is "good", but I can't really stand his music.

[KevWind]

Originally Posted by rokdog49

That’s pretty harsh and downright rude of you.
Maybe if you listened a bit more closely you can hear what he’s doing. It’s called “chicken pickin” and Brad’s as creative as it gets.
Then again, you probably won’t. It doesn’t matter. A lot of very, very good and well known players of all genre’s admire his skills and rate him top notch.

Well ya know what they say --"Those who can do and those who can't ridicule"

While honestly in that particular video the recorded sound is so poor, it hardly does his playing justice

That said I would call that solo sort of "chicken' shred "

And in general sometimes the notes come so fast and furious that the level of skill involved can get lost.

Myself I am alway in awe of Johnny Highlands chicken picken' he seems so effortless at it even at speed ..



But I agree,,To say one does not care for it is one thing, but to dismiss Paisley with such a cavalier comment is fairly narrow minded

Particularly when you listen to this part of Paisley's talent

[rokdog49]

Originally Posted by Joe Beamish

This dude already licked that plate clean.

https://youtu.be/Jn77ZraSZ8A

So Paisley isn’t good enough for you.
I think we’re done here, I am anyway.

[Joe Beamish]

Originally Posted by rokdog49

So Paisley isn’t good enough for you.
I think we’re done here, I am anyway.

Albert Lee > Brad Paisley.

[Rolph]

I've been very fortunate to see many of my guitar hero's up close: Beck, Page, Clapton, Knopfler, Setzer, Gallagher, Richards and Taylor, Mandel, and Gibbons. By far the BEST, was Peter Green. The only other guitarist with as much soul and magic was Django Reinhardt.

[Rolph]

Originally Posted by mr. beaumont

And just to show how silly these lists are, Emmanuel wouldn't make my top 100. And he's great!

Heartily agree: people like me are odd. I can play many things and sound much like Knopfler, but Emmanuel's playing is universe's beyond me, so I wouldn't put Tommy on my list.

[J Patrick]

“Well there’s thirteen hundred fifty-two guitar pickers in Nashville”…….and that was in 1966…

[Joe Beamish]

Originally Posted by J Patrick

“Well there’s thirteen hundred fifty-two guitar pickers in Nashville”…….and that was in 1966…

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