Im just curious of who is (in your opinions) the definitive English Blues or Blues/Rock guitarist of the 60s?
Peter Green for me
Im just curious of who is (in your opinions) the definitive English Blues or Blues/Rock guitarist of the 60s?
Peter Green for me
Eric Clapton who quit the Yardbirds to pursue the blues.
Trick answer, since Hendrix went to England to make it, Hendrix.
Gotta be John Mayall or Clapton, doesn't it?
Probably Green, but I dig Kim Simmonds and Mick Taylor. Davy Graham on acoustic.
Hell, they ain't even old-timey ! - Homer Stokes
Peter Green
Eric Clapton
Jeff Beck
Jimmy Page
Bert Jansch
B.B. King once said about Peter Green, "He has the sweetest tone I ever heard; he was the only one who gave me the cold sweats." That's authority enough for me.
Lou
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Wow, I'm a Pea Green voter myself. Surprised at the amount of company. Good show!
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Surprised nobody has mentioned the great Alvin Lee.
Ian
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I blame Wynton, what was the question?
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Wow... I think the obvious choice is Keith Richards; and I'm not even a Rolling Stones fan.
Probably any guitarist who went through the Mayall or Korner "Schools"
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Greeny for me. Eric didn't play Blues with a capital B, he played blues-rock. And Mick played more Blues in the movie "Performance" than Keith played in his entire career.
Actually the best English blues guitarist is David Gilmour
The 'big three' that came up with John Mayall are hard to get away from. Eric Clapton, Peter Green and Mick Taylor. I've been listening to lots of the 'Stones lately and his playing with them is stunning- it's almost hard to believe just how fantastic a live band they were with Taylor there, I don't think they ever played better than things like that 'Brussels Affair' show.
Don't know whether Jeff Beck qualifies in that he moved into very different realms more than the above names.
I think Tony McPhee is right up there as well.
Yeah, but that wasn't until the '70s. He qualifies.
I don't really qualify to answer the question; I've never heard Tony McPhee and I've hardly heard any Peter Green. As a music listener, I'm a jack of many genres, expert at none.
Out of the Yardbirds' Trinity of guitar players, Beck was (and is) my favorite, but I think Clapton was more blues oriented. So from my limited frame of reference, I'll say Clapton.
Miller Anderson
Clem Clempson or Jeremy Spencer was'nt bad either.
Rory Gallagher, Gary Moore - or were they too irish?
Would probably go with Peter Green.
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