Favorite Guitarist to Watch...

[Joe Guy]

Just off the top of my musical head, I've enjoyed watching Pete Townshend play the guitar from the Who days until present.

Eric Clapton is an excellent guitarist but is boring to watch.

I don't know any relatively new guitarists that are exciting to watch. I'm sure there are many.

Do you have a favorite guitarist that you like to see on stage?

[Sean]

Tommy Emmanuel. He puts everything he's got into his performance. You can tell when he's going to ad-lib something new into a piece as he gets a little glint in his eye as he thinks of it and then a beaming smile as he (inevitably) pulls it off to perfection. That is, if you can drag your eyes away from his fingers long enough to see his face. The guy obviously loves what he does and it makes it all the more pleasurable to watch him play.

[Rick]

Oh Oh I know! Eddie Van ....

[Joe Guy]

Just watched Tommy on youtube.

Very impressive.

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[Joe Guy]

Oh Oh I know! Eddie Van ....

....Susteren?

Me too. I like the face contortions she makes when she's really rockin'.....

[MajGenl.Meade]

The guy on the right



Javier Mas

[Lord Jim]

Was that photo taken at a "Come As Your Favorite Blues Brother" party?

[Sue U]

A couple of my favorites to watch:

Ira Kaplan:


Eugene Chadbourne:

[Joe Guy]

I see SueU is in to that mellow easy listening sort of music. It reflects her laid back middle of the road persona.

[Rick]

Junior Brown, I don't listen to much of his stuff but that which I do is pretty interesting, again not all that animated

Charo is an excellent Flamenco player, while she's playing she herself is not animated but she is accompanied by a background stage

Joe Satriani is a bit more animated, still nothing like Pete

[Sue U]

For sheer guitar showmanship and terror, I always thought the late great Bryan Gregory was the best. Unfortunately, there is shockingly little footage I could find of him on the Youtubes. If you never saw him live, you'll just have to take my word for it.

[Rick]

Angus Young, most folks head would have slipped their shoulders by now

[oldr_n_wsr]

I was always a big Pete Townsend fan as a guitarist, songwriter and overall muscian.
Way back I think it was his first solo album, Who Came First ? where he played all the instruments except drums. Keith Moon played those. IIRC PT put after the Keith Moon byline "Who else?"

I always though Carlos Santanna was a good guitarist.

[Gob]

Burt Jansch.