Rolling Stone Top 100 guitarists 2011

[JF]

As people have been talking about the pick/fingerpick thing

I think there are several styles of picking/flatpicking :


- Guitarists who are playing only with fingers :
Ry Cooder (mostly in the MK fingerstyle)
Robbie Krieger (classical -spanish-flamenco-style, but adapted to electric guitar)
Jeff Beck (just for know of course, since he played with a pick during a long time, till mid 80 I guess)
a lot of blues players, mainly with thumb and index (JL Hooker, Muddy Waters, Albert King, Son House, etc...)



- Guitarists who are playing some entire songs with fingers, and some entire songs with a pick :
Eric Clapton (since few years for fingers)
David Gilmour (fingers on Cluster one, and on the tune with the Gretsch on Remember that night)
Even Hendrix used finger picking (ala JL Hooker): Midnight Lightning


- Guitarists who are playing some parts with fingers, some parts with pick (I mean both styles in a same song)
Mike oldfield (custom technique for fingers, and pick in the mouth or hidden in the palm e.g. Tubular bells II live)
Chris Rea (the pick is in a little adhesive plate above the PUs : http://www.volubilis.net/concerts/chris_rea_2006/chris_rea_2006032_01.php)
Mick Taylor (mainly fingers for slide and pick for fret, but not always : http://www.micktaylor.net/Mvc-173f%20copy.gif)
Duane Allman (idem : http://jasobrecht.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Duane-allman.jpg)
Brian May (rarely, but at the end of the Bohemian Rhapsody clip, you can see him just touching a string by his finger at 5:14 : )


- Guitarists who are playing fingers and pick at the same time :
Albert Lee
Steve Howe
Chet Atkins (ok, it's not a "pick" but an "onglet" as we call it in french, I didn't find the english word )
Tommy Emmanuel (idem)
Freddie King (several "onglets")
Jimmy page (not often, but sometimes he uses his right ring and pinkie to pick the high strings, and I must admit I do the same  )

- Guitarists who are playing only with a pick :
I think there are few guitarists who have played ONLY with a pick
all guitarist has at least one or few times used his fingers for some songs, or at least at home, even if he is a well known flat-pick player : SRV, Santana, Richards....



Of course the liste isn't exhaustive, but it was just to give some examples  


Edit : MK, it depends.....

[boboDS]

I would put Steve Howe into the 4th category, because he plays with a pick and then uses his 2nd and 3rd fingers for picking.

[JF]

I would put Steve Howe into the 4th category, because he plays with a pick and then uses his 2nd and 3rd fingers for picking.

Yes you are right  
Si I edited my previous post  

And I must admit I've done another mistake about........MK  
he should be in the third category :

In 1980 on News (e.g. Dortmund) he played the first part with fingers and the final part (which later became Private Investigations) with a pick

Also in 2001, on Speedway, he played the acoustic part with a pick, and the final solo with fingers





Another special thing about Mark is that sometimes, he's doing a "virtual" pick with his nail, e.g :

( if you look at Ingo's videos, he's doing often the same http://www.youtube.com/user/IngoRaven#p/a/u/0/9EBaFRKD-Ec)

- first part of Tunnel of love (you can see it on Alchemy)
- last power chords on Money for nothing (you can see it on Live aid or Wembley 85)

- intro on So far away in 2001, 2005, and 2010
in 1985 he played only with fingers, while J. Sonni did the intro
in 2006 he played the entire song with a pick, ala H. Marvin
in 2008 he seems to play with pick and fingers at the same time
 
 

so he should be also in the 4th category  
well maybe should I create a special category only for MK  

[Love Expresso]

...it's all in the fingers....
there's Davey G. and there's Marky....then it is quite for a long time...

I am not very much into Pink Floyd/David Gilmour, but every now and then, when Another Brick In The Wall is played is played on radio, I must admit that this is the greatest guitar solo I can think of. I am not sure if Mark has done something similar... It is really perfect, the best possible and coolest Strat sound there is. I am just talking about this solo at the end. I know all from Mark of course, and Sultans is the better song with much better guitar work over all, but the solo... hmmm. Maybe Mark's solo on Expresso Love on Alchemy comes to mind, similiar in it's perfection, but otherwise...

It was just that the song was played again a few minutes ago, made me think of this thread again. 

LE

[Pottel]

dude, this is why....
got 22 min to spare??
 

[Pottel]

gives me the same shivers those gazillion forever young video's do.
watch out for the part as of..

[Pottel]

4:19
and..

[Pottel]

6:37, omg, gone to heaven and died,....

[Pottel]

10 and everthig after

[Pottel]

13:25 my favorite part...

[Pottel]

the part where it all breakes loose and the lasers blast away is where i literarely cried, and i have seen it a gazillion times.

[Jackal]

And by logical deduction, my dear Dr Watson, we arrive at the conclusion that Pottel has a strong affinity for, no, is obsessed with Pink Floyd.

[vgonis]

the part where it all breakes loose and the lasers blast away is where i literarely cried, and i have seen it a gazillion times.

...by chance two separate glances meet, and i am you and what i see is me...

[Hophead]

They should have never dropped the suit against Webber..that six-chord progression was sooooo ripped off. Imho of course.   

[Pottel]

And by logical deduction, my dear Dr Watson, we arrive at the conclusion that Pottel has a strong affinity for, no, is obsessed with Pink Floyd.

yep. they rule. and i am a gilmour man rather then a wates man. still got a few hundred GB of the man though...