Best Slide Guitarists ?

dazedcola · 10.05.2006, 01:23 PM

Ive really started digging slide guitar since I heard the Gun Club and fell iin love with it again when i heard Muddy Waters. I want to know who everyone thinks are the best of the lot.

Savage Clone · 10.05.2006, 01:27 PM

Brij Bhushan Kabra and Debashish Bhattacharya are the two best slide guitar players I have ever heard.

Also, check out the 60s band The Misunderstood for some great middle eastern lapsteel-inflected psychedelic rock action.

swenson clane · 10.05.2006, 01:31 PM

silverfreepress (sdasher) · 10.05.2006, 01:32 PM

D e r e k T r u c k s

he's on tour with Eric Clapton right now

but he's also the Derek Trucks Band
and the Allman Bros' Band

"bEst slide guitarists?"

Music ain't olympics you can't have a best but what Trucks does with his band is pretty damn wild and new and what the Allmans and Clapton do having him on their tours is highlight him as a super talent.

Savage Clone · 10.05.2006, 01:33 PM

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Originally Posted by swenson clane

...contemporarily, probably Ben Harper

...but then there is the problem of Ben Harper's actual songs being totally unlistenable.

Bhattacharya is totally contemporary, by the way. I saw him play last week.

atari 2600 · 10.05.2006, 01:35 PM

Robert Johnson
Duane Allman
Debashish Bhattacharya
George Harrison
Mike Bloomfield
Son House
Bob Brozman
Mick Taylor
Ry Cooder
John Fahey
Muddy Waters
Kenny Brown
Leo Kottke

atari 2600 · 10.05.2006, 01:44 PM

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Originally Posted by silverfreepress (sdasher)

D e r e k T r u c k s

he's on tour with Eric Clapton right now

but he's also the Derek Trucks Band
and the Allman Bros' Band

"bEst slide guitarists?"

Music ain't olympics you can't have a best but what Trucks does with his band is pretty damn wild and new and why the Allmans and Clapton do having him on their tours is highlight him as a super talent.

His band came to the Georgia Theater in Athens a lot. I first saw him when he was only twelve. He's technically proficient, but what is his contribution? Is it that his talent excites some into guitar playing maybe? That's all I can think of since he hasn't ever written a memorable song. If I go putting Derek Trucks on the list, then I have to include Bonnie Raitt, Robbie Krieger, Dickie Betts and perhaps even Jeff Healey before him.

Rob Instigator · 10.05.2006, 01:51 PM

I fully agree about ben harper's unlistenability!

Muddy waters was a great slide guitarist!

atari 2600 · 10.05.2006, 02:38 PM

this album has some nice pedal steel/slide

Japancakes (debut) - If I Could See Dallas (Kindercore, 1999)

Everyneurotic · 10.05.2006, 02:45 PM

sonny sharrock
syd barrett used to play a mean slide too.

atari 2600 · 10.05.2006, 02:47 PM

That's a good mention. I was thinking about Syd, because I listed George who didn't play slide all that often too.

Everyneurotic · 10.05.2006, 02:52 PM

yeah, george slayed whenever he played slide, which was sadly not often. i'll remember more, there was a time in my formation that i obsessed over slide playing.

finding nobody · 10.05.2006, 03:40 PM

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Originally Posted by atari 2600

Robert Johnson
Duane Allman
Debashish Bhattacharya
George Harrison
Mike Bloomfield
Son House
Bob Brozman
Mick Taylor
Ry Cooder
John Fahey
Muddy Waters
Kenny Brown
Leo Kottke

Good list. But I can't forget
Blind Willie Johnson
Beck
Jack White

Sheriff Rhys Chatham · 10.05.2006, 04:00 PM

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Originally Posted by atari 2600

Robert Johnson
Duane Allman
Debashish Bhattacharya
George Harrison
Mike Bloomfield
Son House
Bob Brozman
Mick Taylor
Ry Cooder
John Fahey
Muddy Waters
Kenny Brown
Leo Kottke

this is deff. a list to go by. My favorite would be john fahey and leo kottke

Cantankerous · 10.05.2006, 04:03 PM

duane motherfucking allman.

Savage Clone · 10.05.2006, 04:14 PM

The Allman bros kinda make me throw up in my mouth a little bit.
They could jam, but...yuck.

Except for this gem, of course:

Cantankerous · 10.05.2006, 04:15 PM

I don't particularly care for them but goddamn he was a good slide player/

Cantankerous · 10.05.2006, 04:15 PM

PJ harvey is a good slide player as well. just thought i'd add that.

atari 2600 · 10.05.2006, 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Savage Clone

The Allman bros kinda make me throw up in my mouth a little bit.
They could jam, but...yuck.

I don't like them either and have remarked on it in the past, but Duane was undeniably an extremely gifted player. I suggest Layla. Yeah, sure as shit, I did forget Blind Willie Johnson. I swear he was in my mind and then I just made a mistake of omission while trying to remember the others. finding nobody is quite into the blues...which is cool. I'm certain I forgot lots of great Hawaiian and Indian players too.

Everyneurotic · 10.05.2006, 07:07 PM

i take the allmans everyday before i take layla.

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Savage Clone invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 11,289	Brij Bhushan Kabra and Debashish Bhattacharya are the two best slide guitar players I have ever heard. Also, check out the 60s band The Misunderstood for some great middle eastern lapsteel-inflected psychedelic rock action.
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silverfreepress (sdasher) the destroyed room Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: NYC Posts: 588	D e r e k T r u c k s he's on tour with Eric Clapton right now but he's also the Derek Trucks Band and the Allman Bros' Band "bEst slide guitarists?" Music ain't olympics you can't have a best but what Trucks does with his band is pretty damn wild and new and what the Allmans and Clapton do having him on their tours is highlight him as a super talent.
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atari 2600 invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 8,212	Robert Johnson Duane Allman Debashish Bhattacharya George Harrison Mike Bloomfield Son House Bob Brozman Mick Taylor Ry Cooder John Fahey Muddy Waters Kenny Brown Leo Kottke __________________ Robert Rauschenberg, Canyon, 1959. Combine on canvas 81 3/4 x 70 x 24 inches.
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atari 2600 invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 8,212	this album has some nice pedal steel/slide Japancakes (debut) - If I Could See Dallas (Kindercore, 1999)
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Everyneurotic invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mexico Posts: 15,713	sonny sharrock syd barrett used to play a mean slide too. __________________ Richard Clayderman found alive and still bland! Repo Man has all night! Photographic evidence of Monosodic's existance! New Kiddieriot shit after all! Never too late to share fave rex from the year before! David Keenan is a douchebag! Ron Asheton missed!
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atari 2600 invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 8,212	That's a good mention. I was thinking about Syd, because I listed George who didn't play slide all that often too.
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Everyneurotic invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mexico Posts: 15,713	yeah, george slayed whenever he played slide, which was sadly not often. i'll remember more, there was a time in my formation that i obsessed over slide playing. __________________ Richard Clayderman found alive and still bland! Repo Man has all night! Photographic evidence of Monosodic's existance! New Kiddieriot shit after all! Never too late to share fave rex from the year before! David Keenan is a douchebag! Ron Asheton missed!
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Savage Clone invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 11,289	The Allman bros kinda make me throw up in my mouth a little bit. They could jam, but...yuck. Except for this gem, of course:
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Everyneurotic invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mexico Posts: 15,713	i take the allmans everyday before i take layla. __________________ Richard Clayderman found alive and still bland! Repo Man has all night! Photographic evidence of Monosodic's existance! New Kiddieriot shit after all! Never too late to share fave rex from the year before! David Keenan is a douchebag! Ron Asheton missed!
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