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    Certainly Moon and Entwistle.
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    Satchmo
    Charlie Parker
    Richard Thompson
    Dr John
    Albert Collins
    Wayne Shorter
    Michael Hedges
    Roy Haynes
    John Scofield
    Bill Evans
    Ralph Towner

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    Quote Originally Posted by markowitz
    Santana is pretty easy to pick out.
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    Immediately recognizable:
    David Gilmour
    Brian May
    Jimi Hendrix
    John Bonham
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    Perhaps finding the happy medium is harder than we know.

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    Quote Originally Posted by spellbound View Post
    Not sure your point
    Nice hat tho

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    Mike Oldfield

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    Quote Originally Posted by markowitz View Post
    Santana is pretty easy to pick out. Agree with Brian May. Andy Latimer from Camel emotes as does Gilmour. To me Dickey Betts’ clean melodic leads are pretty characteristic
    Harrison’s slide work yes!

    Chris Squire and John Entwistle on bass.

    Keith Moon on drums.
    All good examples, except Squire.

    Half the prog has copied his sound 100%...

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    Quote Originally Posted by jake View Post
    Booker Ervin .
    Absolutely.
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    Hans Reichel
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    Roine Stolt's guitar playing is quite unmistakable.
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    Derek Trucks
    Sonny Landreth
    Duane Allman



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    George Duke
    Johnny Guitar Watson
    John Mc Laughlin ( electric and acoustic)
    Billy Cobham
    Jan Hammer ( for the better and the worse he abused his crunchy lead sound, I forgot the name of the film where he composed the main theme based on a synth riff)

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    A friend and I used to joke that every great guitarist had a special tone or sound that only they and Todd Rundgren could make...

    Pete Townshend live.
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    The Canterbury organists (Mike Ratledge, Dave Stewart and David Sinclair) come to mind.
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    Edward Van Halen

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    Eberhard Weber
    David Fiuczynski
    David Torn
    Volker Kriegel
    Holger Czukay
    Michael Karoli
    Reeves Gabrels
    Ollie Halsall
    Sonny Sharrock
    Don Van Vliet
    Cecil Taylor
    Charles Heyward
    Fred Frith

    There was a time when it was pretty easy to spot Holdsworth, (already mentioned), Jan Akkerman, Larry Coryell and John McLaughlin in just a few notes.

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    Jack Bruce's bass sound (unfortunately he gave it up in 74-75):


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    Quote Originally Posted by walt View Post
    Terje Rypdal had a sound all his own.You knew it was him, straight away.
    He's still alive...so, please, present tense! He's still sounding like nobody else but himself, instantly recognizable...I definitely agree!
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    To the many additions, most of whom I totally agree with, I'd add:

    Pat Metheny
    John Scofield
    Nils Petter Molvær
    Arve Henriksen
    Ralph Towner (guitar, especially)
    Vince Mendoza (as a composer)
    Robert Fripp
    Ry Cooder
    Randy Brecker
    Michael Brecker
    Steve Khan
    Bill Bruford
    Dave Stewart
    Oregon (collectively, especially with Collin Walcott)
    Miles Davis
    Kenny Wheeler
    Tony Levin
    Joe Zawinul
    Steve Swallow
    Jan Garbarek
    Paul McCandless
    Pat Martino

    These are sometimes signature tones, sometimes signature melodic or harmonic approaches.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jkelman View Post
    He's still alive...so, please, present tense! He's still sounding like nobody else but himself, instantly recognizable...I definitely agree!
    Fair enough.
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    Quote Originally Posted by walt View Post
    Fair enough.
    Sorry...it's just that we're losing so many of the greats these days that I hate to see anybody referred to in past tense as their time will come, likely, far sooner than I'm ready for...
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    Quote Originally Posted by jkelman View Post
    Sorry...it's just that we're losing so many of the greats these days that I hate to see anybody referred to in past tense as their time will come, likely, far sooner than I'm ready for...
    I know Terje is still with us,i should have taken greater care in my choice of words.
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    No one sounds like Mike Oldfield on lead guitar. I swear he has two sounds and it's two sounds no one else ever uses.

    I also remember listening to a Pierre Moerlen CD, which I had no musician credits for, and suddenly a guitarist started playing and I said, "Oh, hi, Allan [Holdsworth]." Research proved me right.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jkelman View Post
    Kenny Wheeler
    Unforgiveable omission from my original posts.

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