[Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!]

On Sep 29, 7:23 am, John Atkinson
wrote:
On Sep 28, 7:35 pm, Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!

wrote:
As far as rock, 2pid recently brought up ZZ Top. Billy Gibbons
consistently gets some of the tastiest electric guitar tones.

Gibbons is also a fine blues player, thoug of course,
that's not what made him the big bux.

On the subject of Texan guitarists, I very much like
Eric Johnson, who keeps his enormous technique
under control and doesn't descend into shredding
(well, most of the time).

As far as Texas guitar players go, Johnny Winter was a great rock lead/
slide guitarist back in the 60s and 70s. His bass player from his band
"And" was Tommy "Slut" Shannon, who ended up with Stevie Ray Vaughn,
and his second guitar was Rick Derringer (another huge player IMO).

Johnson is a monster player, plain and simple. Jeff Beck is another
one, IMO.

30 seconds? Tell that to Steve Howe or Duane Allman.
They're also rock greats IMO.:-)

And Warren Haynes.

And Dickie Betts. His solos were always very tasty. Is Haynes still
with Gregg Allman? I think I heard he left some time ago.