Best Live Guitarist

[Stubs]

And I'm just assuming that the responses will fall in the rock/blues genres. Obviously there are classical guitarists who could eat all of these guys' lunches without breaking a sweat.[/quote]

And there is a Flamenco guitarist, Paco De Lucia who is considered the best in that arena. He did the guitar on Bryan Adams' song "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman".

My all-time favorite song with Flamenco Guitar is "Hotel California" (Don Felder) from "When Hell Freezes Over".

[Skarp]

And there is a Flamenco guitarist, Paco De Lucia who is considered the best in that arena. He did the guitar on Bryan Adams' song "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman".

Only since the death of Andres Segovia, I would warrant.

[coolstuff]

Phil Keaggy is the best guitarist you have never heard of. He's considered to be one of the best finger-style guitarists in the world - but you never hear about him because he is a Christian and releases music only to that market. He has released a bunch of instrumental CDs through the years, if you're not into the Christian message. The most popular being Beyond Nature, but I also have Master & The Musician, Acoustic Sketches, 220 (really rocking electric guitar), and a few others I can't remember right now. You will likely have to go online to order the CDs from Amazon or something. I can't even find his CDs in Christian bookstores.

I saw Phil perform solo once. At first I thought he was performing to some kind of backing track because it sounded like this one guy was an entire band. He has something in front of him that looked like a keyboard with a bunch of pedals under it. It took me a while to figure this out, but what I discovered was that he was playing a lick on the guitar, recording it on the spot, and playing it back in a loop. Then he would "drum" on the guitar body and loop that back as percussion. But this was so seamless and integrated into the performance that you didn't really notice what he was doing. At one point he sang into the guitar pickup, looped that as background vocals, and kept playing the song all in time and in melody! It was just incredible to watch.

[softballaddict]

Duane Allman, Clapton, Carlos Santana, Warren Haynes, a whole host of blues legends ie BB King, Albert King, Muddy Waters etc.
Derek Trucks - young nephew of Allman Bros drummer Butch Trucks - sounds eerily similar to Duane Allman.

On the female side: Bonnie Rait and Susan Tedeschi

[GIMNEPIWO]

I just re-read the title of this thread ... Skarp, did you mean LIVE or ALIVE ?

Live...so Stevie Ray Vaughan, for instance, is an acceptable choice.

And I'm just assuming that the responses will fall in the rock/blues genres. Obviously there are classical guitarists who could eat all of these guys' lunches without breaking a sweat.

I was at the show, and admired his guitar playing but left early and never saw him ... ( Jerry Jeff Walker opened,weird genre mix ) had to get back to a party ( horn-dog ) ... but Jorma Kaukonen from Hot Tuna could light up the frets also ...

And jumping genre's again to Bluegrass ... Tony Rice of course

And since dead live is okay ... I'm sticking with Roy Buchanon for blues/rock

[3'sDad]

Dicky Betts and Duane Allman were a great one two punch !!