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nousommedusolei 
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 Topic: Best acoustic guitarist
Posted: July 01 2005 at 19:33 |
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Where is Ian Anderson?!
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AcostaFulano
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Posted: July 01 2005 at 18:14 |
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HOWE: pure feeling and creativity.
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boo boo
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Posted: July 01 2005 at 17:19 |
 70sSoundquality wrote:
howe is the only real guitarist here |
yea, steve hackett blows....alex lifeson didnt do anything for rock guitar, other than the whole inventing pinch harmonics and influencing shred guitar thing...david gilmour also sucks despite making some of the most beautiful guitar solos ever...
seriously, do you even know what you are talking about?, that being said howe is the best prog guitarist on accoustic.
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King of Loss
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Posted: July 01 2005 at 15:35 |
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Its gotta be Howe!
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Zargus
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Posted: July 01 2005 at 15:11 |
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DolphinFan
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Posted: July 01 2005 at 14:51 |
Don_Frog wrote:
I've been playing a lot of Blackmore's Night lately and really like Ritchie Blackmore's style. |
Agreed. Blackmore is one of the tastiest players I've ever heard on acoustic. Di Meola's best I've ever heard though. As good as McLaughlin and De Lucia are, Di Meola smoked em on Friday Night in SF...ever heard that one?
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Don_Frog
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Posted: July 01 2005 at 12:24 |
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I've been playing a lot of Blackmore's Night lately and really like Ritchie Blackmore's style.
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TheProgtologist
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Posted: June 27 2005 at 23:02 |
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On your list,Howe.But the best acoustical guitarist ever was Andres Segovia.period.
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Posted: June 27 2005 at 14:53 |
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Posted: June 27 2005 at 05:20 |
Ralph Towner!
OK, he's not a progger...  But much more talented guitarrist IMO that any other mentioned on the pol list (though I like their work too). And he does only acoustic!
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Anonymous2112
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Posted: June 26 2005 at 20:18 |
For Acoustic its Steve Howe (also for electric)
but Alex Lifeson is really good. He is incredible. If you don't think so you probably haven't heard much Rush. (I'm clearly a big fan)
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BaldJean
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Posted: June 26 2005 at 18:54 |
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One only has to listen to the classical guitar output of Steve Hackett to know who rules on this instrument.
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Posted: June 26 2005 at 17:55 |
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Probably Howe, but that's only because we are restricting it to prog. Compared to the greatness of Pierre Bensusan, Howe stands up well.
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Cesar Inca
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Posted: June 26 2005 at 17:41 |
Moogtron III wrote:
Jan Akkerman is very talented too.
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How culd we all skip this master guitarist? On acoustic guitar and lute he reveals himself as an excellent performer, as refined as Hackett and more refined than Howe. I would have voted for him, indeed!!
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Moogtron III
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Posted: June 26 2005 at 14:00 |
ivan_2068 wrote:
Steve Howe? Please, for 34 years he's been playing the same two accoustic songs in every concert (Clap and Mood for a Day) with the exception of the one played in Yes Symphonic and a pair more.
Listen A Midsummer Night Dream by Steve Hackett, that's accoustic guitar.
Of course none of them remotely compares to Paco de Lucia, but I assume we're talking about Prog' guitar players.
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He's done more acoustic stuff than that, and I attended a Yes concert that he did play another acoustic piece. In this list Steve Howe is my favorite. Almost the only one who can really send a shiver down my spine while playing acoustic. Steve Hackett is a close second. Cliche, but true nonetheless.
Personally I find A Midsummer's Night's Dream quite boring. But he's a master in acoustic guitar, no doubt.
Jan Akkerman is very talented too.
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Posted: June 26 2005 at 13:57 |
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Steve Howe by far!
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laztraz
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Posted: June 26 2005 at 13:56 |
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Does anyone here play guitar?? Has anyone tried to play The Clap or Mood for a Day? They are intricate songs. I'm a mediocre guitarist so probably not the best measure but I'll say Howe is excellent.
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Posted: June 26 2005 at 13:48 |
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Steve Howe, VERY closely followed by Steve Hackett. After that I'd go for Mike Oldfield. Then there are the 3 guys in The Californian Guitar Trio.
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Posted: January 26 2005 at 13:58 |
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Hacket / Howe very close - I gave it to Howe because I think he just edges it on Turn of the Century
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Cesar Inca
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Posted: January 26 2005 at 13:55 |
I think that HACKETT has got the most exquisite taste and most amazing skill on acoustic guitar playing regarding prog guitarists - only equalled by another former Genesis axeman, ANTHONY PHILLIPS.
The rest of the ones listed in this poll have also done excellent jobs (Howe on 'The Ancient' and 'The Clap', Lake on 'The Sage', Gilmour on 'The Narrow Way', Lifeson on 'A Fareweel to Kings' and 'The Trees'), but I don't have and never will have the prototypical fan's attitude of "voting for one single man just for the sake of it or in the name of some sick conception of loyalty". For instance, Genesis is not my No. 1 in my prog band list: yet I have no problem at admiting that, IMHO, Hackett as an individual acoustic guitarist surpasses the other contenders.
Regards.
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