Favourite Guitar CDs

Although it is not strictly guitar, look for "Tone Poems II" by David Grisman (plays mostly mandolin) and Martin Taylor. This is a demonstration quality disk, which it was intended to be, and it will amuse and astonish you (with its sonics), unless you are strictly interested in classical guitar, which this most definitely is not.

Best guitarist in the world ever was Danny Gatton, Buy the Crusin' Deuces CD and sit back and enjoy. If yoy are a guitar player, hang it up and cry. Danny is kind of a country picker but not a guy who plays country music. It is like Eddie Van meets James Taylor in a sort of way. Oh yeah, go find one of his Hot Licks videos and then you'd be really depressed if you are a geetar player.

Happy Listening.

It may not be to everyone's taste, but I enjoy Surfing with the Alien form Joe Satriani, Love and relgion from Steve Vai and Minds eye from Vinnie Moore, although the latter gets a bit boring after a while. A complete different style is Friday night in San Francisco, Featuring Al DiMeola, Paco de Lucia and John Mclaughlin (I think. I might be wrong on John....). That said, everything from Jimi Hendrix is worth considering.

Wow, a coupla you guys stole my lines - Danny Gatton and Al DiMeola are two of the best I've ever seen. Danny was (and will always be) the best in my book - I saw him many times at a local club (for $5.00!!!) and was able to get up close for a good look - simply unbelieveable!

I also have an autographed guitar from Al DiMeola that I won at a concert and had to strap to the sissybar of my motorcycle to get it home [smile].

Other guitarists that I admire greatly:

1) Sonny Landreth - best slide player currently.
2) Eric Johnson
3) Ronnie Montrose - get "Open Fire", his best album, IMHO.
4) Christoper Parkening - classical guitar.
5) Egberto Gismonte - incredibly talented, multi-genre.
6) Steve Kimock - just saw him last week - schweet!!

-RW-