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| I've just been sorting all my cds out and split them into "guitar albums" and "everything else" (pretty sophisticated database you'll agree).
Turns out that I have more Pat Metheny albums than any three other guitarists put together.
I have (I think) every Django track ever recorded but that is a lot less than Metheny's output which now is into it's third decade (and still getting better). And I don't have all of Metheny's cds.
Again I have all of Tal Farlow's recordings and all of Lonnie Johnson's but they don't add up to Pat.
I've got a pile of Joe Pass, of John McLaughlin, Di Meola and Paco de Lucia (individually and collectively) - but not as much as PM.
So who's the number one in your collection? |
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Location: NJ | Edit-out Lyle Mays' annoying synth solos and the amount (time-wise) will decrease considerably . . . |
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| Mays only plays in The Pat Metheny Group - not on the solo/duo/trio/quartet stuff.
And the bad news is that most of what you're hearing as Mays on a synth is actually Metheny playing synth guitar............ It's very rare that Mays plays solos on anything other than an acoustic piano or a recognisable electric piano/organ. He's not quite the villain he's made out to be. Blame the curly dwarf. |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | My "collection", admittedly lame as it is, is all over the place (blame that damn add, ocd and just plain lack of real committment here - btw, where can I get a curly dwarf?) but if I have to narrow it to guitar cd's, the bulk probably center around SRV and Lukather. |
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Location: NJ | frank zappa |
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Location: GA USA | Bob Mould, with Husker Du, Sugar, and solo, even with the Golden Palominos |
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Location: closely held secret | Phil Keaggy |
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Location: Gardnerville, NV | John Petrucci, anything David Gilmour plays on, and Roy Buchannon are my favorites. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Acoustic Alchemy and Paco DeLuca |
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| That is some spread of favourites across this board.
I was amazed at how many metheny albums I own.
My cds were stacked up in just about every room, the trunk of the car, the glove box......
It's been years since they were all in one place and sorted. I was surprised that I hadn't bought any of them twice. |
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Location: PDX | I'd have to look but it's either Van Eps or Wes.
But i have way more CD's of classical composers for the guitar like Sor, Aquado, and the like -- just by different guitarists.
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | I sort by songwriters, not guitar players. Sorry.
It's a many-ways tie, I think, between
McCartney/Lennon, Elvis Costello, Jimmy Buffet, NRBQ, XTC/Partridge, and Weird Al Yankovic.
But I may have missed a few. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I heard on the radio that cd's will be extinct in a year.
Once upon a time it would be Jerry Garcia and the Dead, but I sold all of them except the Old and in the Way albums. I suppose the next would be Duane Allman, but I sold those too. Then there was Santana, but sold his too.
Right now I'm listening to the work of Johnny Rivers, classic rock guitar, and I'm getting hankering for Los Lobos. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | I heard a record executive once told The Beatles that guitar bands were dead....so...?
If vinyl ain't dead yet, and it isn't, I would think (like Mark Twain) the reports of cd death are greatly exagerated. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Looking at it just a little differently, I look at who the soloist is that I have the most of. And the winner is David Sanborn. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | If I had to pick a guitarist I guess it would be Robbin Ford. |
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Location: Tennessee | Not sure how one categorizes, but I think I've got more John Hiatt than any other guitarist. I'm excluding The Beatles and all their follow-on work here. But if it's primarily instrumental guitar work, it's Miles Corbin/Aqua Velvets. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I don't have more than a couple of anybody, so I'm not in the same league as you guys. (I know you knew that.) |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | A tie between The Ventures and Greg Koch. |
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Location: PDX | I have to add: if Ted Greene had put out more than just one CD he would definitely dominate the collection.
Oh, and it's Wes by two CD's.
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Location: Bluffton, SC | I've seen Sanborn twice, Bill, and while I'm not really a huge horn fan, he was incredible both times. Great bands and both times I was nowhere near done listening when the bands left the stage. A great musician. Always wanted to hear him with Carlton. |
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Location: Orlando, FL | I got pissed off paying high prices for cds and have been mostly an iPod/iTunes junkie for a few yesrs now. When I scan my playlist I have a lot of different artists but the biggest playlists from any single guitarist are Jeff Beck, Steve Morse, Tommy Emmanuel and Eric Johnson. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by Designzilla:
the biggest playlists from any single guitarist are Jeff Beck, Steve Morse, Tommy Emmanuel and Eric Johnson. That's not bad company. |
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Location: big island | Originally posted by stephent28:
Originally posted by Designzilla:
the biggest playlists from any single guitarist are Jeff Beck, Steve Morse, Tommy Emmanuel and Eric Johnson. That's not bad company. |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | I've gotta get out more.
90% of the musicians mentioned, I've never heard of. |
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