http://www.guitar-forum.com/blog Electric and Acoustic Forums Thu, 03 Jan 2008 06:58:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Guitar-forum.com Forum List: The Green Room - Talk about anything you like here, does not have t..... Bass Guitars - All bass guitars. Also visit www.BassDogs.com The Blues Lounge - All blues all the time. Also visit www.BluesTalk.c..... Carvin - Also visit www.CarvinTalk.com Country Music - Also visit www.Country-Music-Talk.com Drum and Percussion - Also visit www.DrumDogs.com Fender ... http://www.guitar-forum.com/blog/2006/12/guitar-forumcom-forums/   1. Comfortably Numb - David Gilmour (Pink Floyd) 2. Stairway To Heaven - Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin) 3. All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix 4. Freebird - Allen Collins (Lynyrd Skynyrd) 5. Maggot Brain - Edie Hazel (Funkadelic) 6. Texas Flood - Stevie Ray Vaughan 7. Eruption - Eddie Van Halen (Van Halen) 8. Highway Star ... http://www.guitar-forum.com/blog/2008/01/top-100-greatest-rock-guitar-solos/ 1. Jimi Hendrix* - Jimi Hendrix Experience 2. Eric Clapton - Yardbirds, Cream, Derek & The Dominos, Solo 3. Jimmy Page - Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin, The Firm 4. Jeff Beck - Yardbirds, Jeff Beck Group, Solo 5. Eddie Van Halen - Van Halen 6. Stevie Ray Vaughan* - Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble 7. Joe ... http://www.guitar-forum.com/blog/2007/07/top-200-rock-guitar-players/ Guitar players that were not listed in the top 200 list - in no particular order. John 5 - Marylin Manson, Solo Johnny A. - J.Geils Band, Solo Jan Akkerman - Focus Dave Alvin - Blasters Sam Andrew - Big Brother Jeff "Skunk" Baxter - Doobie Brothers Brendan Bayliss - Umphrey's McGee Brian Benoit - Dillinger Escape Plan Steve ... http://www.guitar-forum.com/blog/2007/06/top-rock-guitar-players/ "I've always felt that blues, rock 'n' roll and country are just about a beat apart."-Waylon Jennings (1937-2002) "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." -Decca Recording Company rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "It's much too late to do anything about rock & roll now ..." - ... http://www.guitar-forum.com/blog/2007/05/music-quotes/ While Chuck Berry introduced the world to "the guitar hero", and The Beatles standardized the four piece band, it would be bands like Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and The Jimi Hendrix Experience who would most exemplify the guitar hero as a member of band rather than a solo artist (although ... http://www.guitar-forum.com/blog/2007/04/jimmy-page-and-the-gibson-les-paul/   The Guitar in Vermeer's Paintings Vermeer portrayed the guitar only one time in his oeuvre, in the late Guitar Player. "Vermeer's compositional organization of this picture may be linked to his decision to depict a guitar player rather than a lute player. The guitar was just coming into vogue in the ... http://www.guitar-forum.com/blog/2007/03/the-guitar-in-vermeers-paintings/ The Beatles: Introducing the World to the Rickenbacker Although all of The Beatles are more well known as songwriters rather than guitar heroes, their guitars and guitar playing have had a huge influence on nearly all music released since their existence.  No other guitar brand has had more of an impact ... http://www.guitar-forum.com/blog/2007/02/the-beatles-introducing-the-world-to-the-rickenbacker/ Although many guitarists have maintained true to the few instruments mentioned above, some guitars have popped up as fairly popular over the years and some guitarists have made relatively unheard of guitars their own.  Most notably in this second category is Brian May of Queen, and his Red Special.  What ... http://www.guitar-forum.com/blog/2007/01/notable-guitars-and-guitarists/ Without question, the first guitar hero was Chuck Berry. Without him, the music of today and the "guitar hero" may have never existed.  By the mid Fifties, he had practically invented rock and roll, or to quote John Lennon, "If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you ... http://www.guitar-forum.com/blog/2007/01/chuck-berry-the-beginning-of-the-guitar-hero/