RobbieReverb
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San Jose, Ca.
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Posted on Jan 15 2008 12:44 AM
JakeDobner
Knopfler is another of my favorites although I've caught crap for liking him on this board. Amazing songwriter great guitarist. He gets lumped in with Clapton, SRV, and that ilk way too often. Knopfler is much more of a Chet Atkins, Hank Marvin type of player.
I'm a huge fan of Knopfler's guitar playing. Bare fingers all the
way: incredible. I totally agree that there's a strong Hank Marvin /
Chet influence. I liked a lot of his work with Dire Straits, but his
solo stuff has really left me cold. To me it's mostly watered-down
country-pop-fluff.
Bob
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Mr_Reverb63
Joined: Jul 10, 2007
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San Pablo, CA
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Posted on Jan 15 2008 01:39 AM
paco de lucia
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SURFmole
Joined: Nov 22, 2007
Posts: 901
Portland, OR
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Posted on Jan 15 2008 02:24 AM
How about Al Di Meola or John McLaughlin?
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Spud
Joined: Jul 23, 2007
Posts: 666
Oz
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Posted on Jan 15 2008 04:13 AM
Robert Johnson, B.B. King, Buddy Guy and maybe Duane Eddie.
As a quartet, the only question is, who plays which guitar...
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WR
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netherlands
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Posted on Jan 15 2008 05:11 AM
chuck berry - mean, sloppy and with loads of attitude.
Id also like to hear Pavement as a band try some surf, because of their weird but great sense of melody, and raw yet sweet tones, and wild sounding drums.....
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surfer
Joined: Apr 12, 2007
Posts: 428
South Florida
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Posted on Jan 15 2008 07:32 AM
Todd Rundgren, he's been living on Kauai, something should have rubbed off by now.
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tenderfoot
Joined: Feb 01, 2007
Posts: 308
Ellicott City, Maryland
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Posted on Jan 15 2008 07:37 AM
How about Sonny Sharrock.
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Ruhar
Joined: Jun 21, 2007
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San Diego, CA
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Posted on Jan 15 2008 08:59 AM
SURFmole
How about Al Di Meola or John McLaughlin?
McLaughlin, definitely!!
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IvanP
Joined: Feb 27, 2006
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southern Michigan
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Posted on Jan 15 2008 11:32 AM
For me, Ritchie Blackmore, absolutely. In the Dio-fronted seventies version of Rainbow he extensively used the Byzantine and Hungarian Minor scales (check out the main riff and the lengthy solo in Stargazer), pretty much the only guitarist back then to use those scales. He used single-coils and Strats, and was fond of his tape echo. And he could tremolo pick with the best of them (check out Kill the King solo).
Ivan
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Ruhar
Joined: Jun 21, 2007
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San Diego, CA
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Posted on Jan 15 2008 11:39 AM
IvanP
For me, Ritchie Blackmore, absolutely. In the Dio-fronted seventies version of Rainbow he extensively used the Byzantine and Hungarian Minor scales (check out the main riff and the lengthy solo in Stargazer), pretty much the only guitarist back then to use those scales. He used single-coils and Strats, and was fond of his tape echo. And he could tremolo pick with the best of them (check out Kill the King solo).
Ivan
Even the album artwork for Rainbow Rising would make the perfect surf cover:
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Stormtiger
Joined: Dec 12, 2006
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Ventura, CA
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Posted on Jan 15 2008 11:58 AM
Robert Fripp.
OK, I don't really want to hear him do surf.
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surfinreverb
Joined: Mar 13, 2006
Posts: 108
Flemington, NJ
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Posted on Jan 15 2008 12:04 PM
Steve Morse might come up with something totally different while still sounding surfy. I saw him last year with Deep Purple and watching him is like attending a guitar clinic, whether he's palying a Deep Purple song or one of his own compositions......he's just amazing!
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dp
Joined: Feb 26, 2006
Posts: 3546
mojave desert, california
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Posted on Jan 15 2008 12:26 PM
i'd like to hear kraftwerk and royksopp join forces with turbonegro...
and do some killer surf...would that be "turboroykswerk" ?
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MattCrunk
Joined: Apr 19, 2007
Posts: 92
Town Creek, Alabama
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Posted on Jan 15 2008 02:39 PM
1. BRIAN SETZER!!!!Absolutely!
He's already delved into Surf a little bit with Hawaii Five-O, Pipeline, and other covers. His instrumental "Jade Idol" off of Choo Choo Hot Fish sounds like a surf ballad to me. But I'd love to see him do a surf album of original material.
2. Junior Brown.
He's also touched on Surf with a couple of surf medleys, but I'd like to hear an album of surf orginals from him.
Both these guys mix a lot of "surf" elements into their playing no matter what type of music they are doing. They also happen to be my two favorite guitarists.
3.Danny Gatton
With the volume of unreleased material he left behind, maybe there's an undiscovered surf album in there somewhere.
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Decatur, Alabama
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P2gee
Joined: Jul 05, 2006
Posts: 264
Waco Texas
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Posted on Jan 15 2008 02:53 PM
Junior Brown.
He's also touched on Surf with a couple of surf medleys, but I'd like to hear an album of surf orginals from him.
Holy crap......I fergot about JR....definitely. I would like to see him do Sleepwalk......I mean ....he's got the guitar for it!! Junior was in Austin last weekend sure wanted to go but other obliges.
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MattCrunk
Joined: Apr 19, 2007
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Town Creek, Alabama
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Posted on Jan 15 2008 03:01 PM
P2gee
Holy crap......I fergot about JR....definitely. I would like to see him do Sleepwalk......I mean ....he's got the guitar for it!! Junior was in Austin last weekend sure wanted to go but other obliges.
Setzer's cover of Sleepwalk off the Choo Choo Hot Fish album (the most underrated Stray Cats album ever, IMHO) is the best version I've ever heard.
I'd also love to hear Brown do it.
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Decatur, Alabama
Founder: North Alabama Surf Alliance (NASA)
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CaptainSensible
Joined: Nov 08, 2006
Posts: 650
Leesburg, VA
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Posted on Jan 15 2008 03:05 PM
East Bay Ray from the Dead Kennedys.
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JoshHeartless
Joined: Jun 17, 2006
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Bay City, Michigan
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Posted on Jan 15 2008 03:12 PM
MattCrunk
P2gee
Holy crap......I fergot about JR....definitely. I would like to see him do Sleepwalk......I mean ....he's got the guitar for it!! Junior was in Austin last weekend sure wanted to go but other obliges.
Setzer's cover of Sleepwalk off the Choo Choo Hot Fish album (the most underrated Stray Cats album ever, IMHO) is the best version I've ever heard.
I'd also love to hear Brown do it.
setzer has a crappy guitar tone in all of choo choo...sounds too modern and lacks that rockabilly charm. the acoustic in sleepwalk and my heart is a liar sounds better than any of the gretsch parts in the entire album. definetely the worst stray cats work i've ever heard, but it has some alright songs.
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zak
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Posted on Jan 15 2008 03:27 PM
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JoshHeartless
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Bay City, Michigan
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Posted on Jan 15 2008 03:32 PM
zak
CaptainSensible
East Bay Ray from the Dead Kennedys.
He already did that, the band was called "Jumbo Shrimp" and featured Ray and DKs bassist Klaus Fluoride both playing guitars. They put out a record called "Thingie" and that's the last I heard of 'em.
from what i hear that album is extremely rare...
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