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Posted: 9/3/2014 8:26:53 PM EDT

Of all the guitarists I like, I think I'd love to have a few hours with Steve Howe from Yes

Posted: 9/4/2014 2:21:16 AM EDT

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Slash and AFD are the reasons I wanted to pick up the guitar in the first place. However, if I had to chose just one I think it would be SRV. The way he played is a lot different than how I try to play. It would be really cool to sit and get a closer look at how he did it.

Posted: 9/5/2014 12:20:56 AM EDT

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SRV, BB King and Robert Johnson for a few hours....then I'd like to just goof around and jam for an hour or two with Adam D from Killswitch Engage. That dude is hilarious but also a genius, and my style in most like his.

Posted: 9/5/2014 12:03:55 PM EDT

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SRV, Jerry Reed, James Taylor and Mark Knopfler.

My playing style is most like James Taylor and Mark Knopler

Posted: 9/5/2014 2:31:07 PM EDT

[#4]

Adam D would be funny, but I'd probably pick Paul Gilbert.

Posted: 9/5/2014 2:43:06 PM EDT

[#5]

Chuck Schuldiner. RIP

Posted: 9/5/2014 4:03:02 PM EDT

[#6]

Mark Knopfler

Chet Atkins

Roy Clark

EVH

Dominic Miller

Etc.

Posted: 9/5/2014 9:39:38 PM EDT

[#7]

Not a guitarist, but I'd love to play with Chicago, Tower of Power or the Gordon Goodwin Big Phat Band.

Posted: 9/5/2014 11:02:41 PM EDT

[#8]

Rufus Reid
Jaco Pastorius
Geezer Butler
Steve Harris

Posted: 9/6/2014 12:17:44 AM EDT

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I wish I could have made the trip to NYC and played with Les Paul before he died.

Would have been weird getting on stage with him though.

Posted: 9/7/2014 2:18:24 AM EDT

[#10]

Anyone who sucks really bad and makes me feel superior

Posted: 9/7/2014 10:20:15 AM EDT

[#11]

Gone now, but Chet Atkins.

Posted: 9/12/2014 11:10:58 PM EDT

[#12]

Piggy R.I.P.

Posted: 11/16/2014 12:25:59 AM EDT

[#13]

ZZ Top or the Allman Brothers.

Posted: 11/16/2014 10:14:55 AM EDT

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Next time your in town swing by, I got you.

Posted: 11/19/2014 1:11:52 AM EDT

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Hetfield. I have several interests in common beyond just guitars with him. Plus his rhythm playing has had a big influence on my playing.

Posted: 11/19/2014 12:54:44 PM EDT

[#16]

Gilmour for those who are unfamiliar with "The Black Strat".

Posted: 11/19/2014 2:57:23 PM EDT

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That long trem arm threw me off for a second... doesn't (or didn't) he use one cut down pretty substantially shorter?

Posted: 11/19/2014 7:40:43 PM EDT

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That long trem arm threw me off for a second... doesn't (or didn't) he use one cut down pretty substantially shorter?

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Gilmour for those who are unfamiliar with "The Black Strat".

That long trem arm threw me off for a second... doesn't (or didn't) he use one cut down pretty substantially shorter?

Yes. I have yet to sick the Dremel on it. It also has the wrong color trem arm tip. GC gave me the arctic white one and it's was supposed to be the aged white like the knobs and pup covers.

Posted: 11/19/2014 10:24:25 PM EDT

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Gilmour for those who are unfamiliar with "The Black Strat".

That long trem arm threw me off for a second... doesn't (or didn't) he use one cut down pretty substantially shorter?

Yes. I have yet to sick the Dremel on it. It also has the wrong color trem arm tip. GC gave me the arctic white one and it's was supposed to be the aged white like the knobs and pup covers.

I thought it was re-bent as well.

Posted: 11/19/2014 10:36:58 PM EDT

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Jimmy Page is who I would love to meet and just hang out with..talk,about Marshalls, etc

I have been fortunate to spend time with a number of guitarists

Schenker, Blues Saraceno, Jimi Bell, Macalpine, Amir Derakh

Posted: 11/19/2014 10:37:33 PM EDT

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Definitely gotta agree with you. And you want to talk about common interests, before he came out with the white Iron Cross, I had been thinking of doing a replica of the Iron Cross, but I figured I'd do one that was white so it'd be a little different. Like 3 days later he started playing his white one.

Posted: 11/20/2014 6:26:33 AM EDT

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Jimmy Page is who I would love to meet and just hang out with..talk,about Marshalls, etc

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Schenker, Blues Saraceno, Jimi Bell, Macalpine, Amir Derakh

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Jimmy Page would be cool...The latest issue of Guitar World has an interview with him. He makes it seem like he doesn't like to talk much about how he got his sounds. He would rather not get specific about guitars. effects, and such. That would suck to actually be able to hang out with him but not ask the questions that most fans want to know.

I would add Scotty Moore to my list. Running over those early Elvis lines would be fun.

My wife used to work with a lady that had a friend who was close friends with Ronnie Milsap. They would jam together all the time. I asked if he could show me some things (I offered to pay), but he said he played by ear. He could listen to a track and play just about anything, but he didn't know much about chords or scales.

I really wish I had that same talent...

Posted: 11/25/2014 8:31:14 AM EDT

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Did you hear the Jimmy Page interview on Sirius? It was awesome...him taking questions from the audience....

I have HUGE respect for Page for crafting the concept of Zeppelin...he isn't the best player...I actually think he is a much better composer / visionary.

I still recall reading an interview with him years ago where he said the concept behind Zeppelin was "soothe then pulverize"

I think that comment sums up Zep very well

when you talk about Ronnie Milsap playing by ear...I can tell you Schenker is the same way. Schenker knows VERY LITTLE about theory....but he knows what he wants to play BEFORE he plays it. He knows the neck so well that he knows exactly where to go for what tone of the note...not just the note...but which position sounds the best for what he is doing.

Most of the truly talented players play from the heart rather than a sheet of music or theory of what sounds best.

Posted: 11/25/2014 10:27:40 AM EDT

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Did you hear the Jimmy Page interview on Sirius? It was awesome...him taking questions from the audience....

I have HUGE respect for Page for crafting the concept of Zeppelin...he isn't the best player...I actually think he is a much better composer / visionary.

I still recall reading an interview with him years ago where he said the concept behind Zeppelin was "soothe then pulverize"

I think that comment sums up Zep very well

when you talk about Ronnie Milsap playing by ear...I can tell you Schenker is the same way. Schenker knows VERY LITTLE about theory....but he knows what he wants to play BEFORE he plays it. He knows the neck so well that he knows exactly where to go for what tone of the note...not just the note...but which position sounds the best for what he is doing.

Most of the truly talented players play from the heart rather than a sheet of music or theory of what sounds best.

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No, I didn't catch that interview. I will have to try and dig it up... Sounds interesting.

I never actually spoke with Ronnie Milsap. I was only an acquaintance of his buddy that played bass and guitar. He wasn't in Ronnie's band because he was loyal to a guy that had played with him for awhile. The guy I knew would just get together with Ronnie and play whenever they could because they were close friends.

I'm sure Ronnie played by ear a lot as well considering he is blind. He probably hears notes a lot better than most good musicians do. If I remember correctly, I think he said that's why they liked playing together so much. They could just jam out for a couple of hours without thinking about it.

Posted: 11/29/2014 9:02:51 PM EDT

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I spent time with Rufus Reid around 1980 or so as part of being a work study student in college organizing and running jazz education workshops. Rufus Reid was a reserved, yet well-spoken man who was very correct, polite and willing to help anybody. He was a breeze to work with. Rufus and Ric Petrone used to run workshops for HS kids. These two had the patience of Job when dealing with those kids. They were amazing and inspiring to watch.

Never met Jaco, but a musician I knew actually bumped into a weird, mumbling homeless guy who literally smelled like shit in NYC in the 1980s. Halfway down the next block he said to himself, "Fuck, that was Jaco Pastorius!"

Posted: 12/10/2014 9:26:01 PM EDT

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Hetfield. I have several interests in common beyond just guitars with him. Plus his rhythm playing has had a big influence on my playing.

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Gonna second that. One of my guitars is a Kirk signature model because I liked the looks better, but I honestly think Hetfield is a better guitarist. You can feel what he was feeling in his playing, especially his solos. Kirk? Not so much.

Posted: 12/10/2014 10:09:33 PM EDT

[#27]

I'd have to say good ole Dime Bag Darrel. along with Buddy Guy, Albert King, hound dog Taylor, and I can't forget B.B.King.

Posted: 12/10/2014 10:44:24 PM EDT

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I'd have to say good ole Dime Bag Darrel. along with Buddy Guy, Albert King, hound dog Taylor, and I can't forget B.B.King.

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Holy shit, Dime would've been a blast to jam with, and drink with, ect.

Posted: 12/11/2014 12:23:03 AM EDT

[#29]

Keith Richards

Posted: 12/11/2014 3:23:12 AM EDT

[#30]

Mark Knopfler

Posted: 12/11/2014 3:58:23 AM EDT

[#31]

Dimebag

Posted: 12/11/2014 4:24:10 AM EDT

[#32]

How about Brian May? Glenn Tipton and K.K. Downing would be cool to hang out with just to hear stories. I'm thinking of Pete Townsend, Eric Clapton, Toni Iommi also. The rest have already been mentioned or are unfortunately dead.

Posted: 12/11/2014 7:43:43 PM EDT

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I don't think my liver could handle being that close to him...

Seriously though - I bet hanging out with Keith & Ron Wood would be a helluva good time.

Posted: 12/19/2014 12:52:42 PM EDT

[#34]

J Mascis
No talking just playing

Most of the guitarist I'm influenced by seem like attention whores or assholes, and I think I'm good with watching them on video or from a crowd. If I wanted to play with an asshole I would just quit buying toilet paper.

Posted: 12/19/2014 1:35:34 PM EDT

[#35]

I got to open for Fallujah, which was cool. But I wish I could have played on the In Flames / Lamb of God tour in 2012.

That show was fucking killer.

Posted: 12/19/2014 4:58:56 PM EDT

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No talking just playing

Most of the guitarist I'm influenced by seem like attention whores or assholes, and I think I'm good with watching them on video or from a crowd. If I wanted to play with an asshole I would just quit buying toilet paper.

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We're all attention whores.

Posted: 12/19/2014 5:00:13 PM EDT

[#37]

Jerry Garcia - RIP

Posted: 12/19/2014 6:15:55 PM EDT

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No talking just playing

Most of the guitarist I'm influenced by seem like attention whores or assholes, and I think I'm good with watching them on video or from a crowd. If I wanted to play with an asshole I would just quit buying toilet paper.

We're all attention whores.

yes... yes you are.

Meanwhile bassists just hang out in the back and wish people paid them any mind

Posted: 12/20/2014 9:17:08 AM EDT

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yes... yes you are.

Meanwhile bassists just hang out in the back and wish people paid them any mind

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J Mascis

No talking just playing

Most of the guitarist I'm influenced by seem like attention whores or assholes, and I think I'm good with watching them on video or from a crowd. If I wanted to play with an asshole I would just quit buying toilet paper.

We're all attention whores.

yes... yes you are.

Meanwhile bassists just hang out in the back and wish people paid them any mind