Great thread...
1. Bernard Butler (Suede, The Tears) - guitar pyrotechnics, melody melody melody, great songs. a fiery collision of glam and classical, guitar hero.
2. Nick McCabe (The Verve) - what he did on 'A Storm In Heaven' shattered my world and any notion i had of what a guitarist did. What he did on 'A Northern Soul' and the subsequent tour blew my fucking mind...
3. Johnny Greenwood - the man was in the throes of reinventing the electric guitar...completely. threw traditional scales out the window, armed with his homemade envelope filter composed some of the most inventive, acrobatic, enthralling guitar music in existence...
4. J Mascis - there's nothing to say, really. just listen to the guitar solo on 'Start Choppin'', or to his joyful bludgeoning of 'just like heaven'...
5. Jimmy Hartridge/Adam Franklin (Swervedriver) - they really work together as one...beautiful noises, groaning and creaking and roaring and exploding guitars, masterful use of guitar effects to enhance well-written songs. i've never tired of hearing them, never will (check out Mezcal Head if you haven't heard it yet and you'll see what i mean...).
Adam
Jim
that's the list for today, tomorrow's might be different. then again, it might not...
good call on Coxon, by the way..
