Favorite Virtuoso Musicians

Leon · **Posted:** Fri Feb 03, 2006 4:27 pm

What are your favorite Musicians who have insane chops. Mine are

Guitar
John Frusicante
Jimie Hendrix
Charlie Christian
Jimmy Page

Bass
Flea
John Paul Jones
Victor Wooten

Drums
Bonham
Dave Ghrol
The Guy From Tool

PopTodd · **Posted:** Fri Feb 03, 2006 4:31 pm

Guitar:
Robert Quine
Richard Lloyd
Jimi Hendrix

Bass:
James Jamerson
Larry Graham
Mike Watt

Drums:
John Bonham
Elvin Jones
John MacIntyre

Billzebub · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 10:26 pm **Posts:** 6459

I don't know if Robyn Hictchock counts as a virtuoso, but his guitarwork is great listening.

thisotherkingdom · **Posted:** Fri Feb 03, 2006 5:30 pm

Guitar: Jason Becker

Dusty Chalk · **Posted:** Fri Feb 03, 2006 6:03 pm

Guitar:

Hendrix
Steve Howe
Steve Hackett
Jeff Beck
Fripp
Belew
Satch
Vai

Keyboards:

Rick Wakeman
really, the entire keyboard players union is pretty embarassing -- I can outplay most of them

Drums:

Neil Peart
Bill Bruford

Bass:

Chris Squire
Stanley Clarke
Victor Wooten
Bootsy Collins

fuse · **Posted:** Fri Feb 03, 2006 6:08 pm

This thread is on its way to Dork Factor 5.

The Mayor of Simpleton · **Posted:** Fri Feb 03, 2006 6:20 pm

Guitar:
Bill Frisell
Wes Montgomery
Bruce Cockburn
Robert Fripp
Adrian Belew
Eric Johnson
Joe Satriani
David Gilmour
Grant Green

Banjo:
Bela Fleck

Bass and instruments like generally considered basses:
Trey Gunn (Warr guitar)
Tony Levin (bass and Stick)
Geddy Lee
John Entwistle
Victor Wooten
Mick Karn (questionable on the "virtuoso" label)
Rob Wasserman

Drums:
Bill Bruford
Pat Mastellotto
Neil Peart

Piano:
Matthew Shipp
Brad Mehldau

Trumpet:
Dave Douglas
Miles Davis

Saxophone:
John Coltrane
Tim Berne
Branford Marsalis
Wayne Shorter
Charlie Parker
(and on and on . . . there's a million)

tentoze · **Posted:** Fri Feb 03, 2006 6:35 pm

Guitar:

Ry Cooder
Leo Kottke
Richard Thompson

Those other things:

don't matter today

toots · **Posted:** Fri Feb 03, 2006 7:43 pm

metal and jazz seem to always appreciate the virtuoso

DRUMS
tony williams
buddy rich
charlie benante
dave lombardo
dimebag's brother
tomas haake

GUITAR
david gilmour
tommy iommi
frederik thordendal
dimebag darrell
scott ian

and i occasionally pop in steve vai "passion and warfare" from time to time...

shiv · **Posted:** Fri Feb 03, 2006 8:05 pm

toots · **Posted:** Fri Feb 03, 2006 8:17 pm

goes without saying

The Dreaded Marco · **Posted:** Fri Feb 03, 2006 8:24 pm

THEREMIN:

Pamelia Kurstin

Ex Lion Tamer · **Posted:** Fri Feb 03, 2006 10:18 pm

tentoze Wrote:

Guitar:

Ry Cooder
Leo Kottke
Richard Thompson

Second those choices, especially R. Thompson. I'll add...

Guitar:

Barney Kessel
Wes Montgomery
Al Dimeola
David Hidalgo
Roy Buchanan
Alvin Lee
Johnny Marr (don't know if he's virtuoso, but I sure like his sound)

Bass:

Brian Ritchie
Bruce Thomas
John Taylor
Fernando Saunders
Ray Brown

Drums:

Budgie
Pete de Frietas
Shelley Manne

jsh · **Posted:** Sat Feb 04, 2006 12:09 am

I prefer to think that Mike Watt is not virtuosic, and that's why he's so heavy.

Kid Koala is a virtuoso turntablist, unquestionably.

John McLaughlin.

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MontyTheMongoose · **Posted:** Sat Feb 04, 2006 3:23 am

Steve Drozd.

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

i don't think Jimi Page is a virtuoso.
dude flubbed every other chord change.

he's one of my favorites and was awesome, but i don't think of him as a virtuoso.

Dusty Chalk · **Posted:** Sat Feb 04, 2006 9:30 am

The Mayor of Simpleton Wrote:

David Gilmour

I love David Gilmour, but don't consider him a virtuoso. I mean, he hits every note perfectly, so maybe I ought to reconsider...

Almost threw these in, as well:

Quote:

Bela Fleck
Trey Gunn (Warr guitar)
Tony Levin (bass and Stick)
Pat Mastellotto

...not sure why I didn't.

Have you heard Sunday All Over The World? A must-have, from what I can discern of your tastes. I love that album. Toyah also has a poor-man's cousin follow-up to it (Fripp even co-wrote a song on it, though he didn't play on it). I forget which one, I think it's Prostitute. Chronology-wise, I think it's the one she did right after Kneeling at the Shrine.

The Mayor of Simpleton · **Posted:** Sat Feb 04, 2006 2:59 pm

montythemongoose Wrote:

Steve Drozd.

Love Drozd, but is he really a virtuoso? I never thought of him as a super-spectacular drummer, but one with a great sound and style (which is most often what I enjoy, really.)

The Mayor of Simpleton · **Posted:** Sat Feb 04, 2006 3:05 pm

Dusty Chalk Wrote:

Have you heard Sunday All Over The World? A must-have, from what I can discern of your tastes. I love that album. Toyah also has a poor-man's cousin follow-up to it (Fripp even co-wrote a song on it, though he didn't play on it). I forget which one, I think it's Prostitute. Chronology-wise, I think it's the one she did right after Kneeling at the Shrine.

I've got SAOTW, don't listen to it much, however - her voice gets on my nerves. But the music is great. I had the follow-up (which I think is Ophelia's Shadow, actually) long ago, but I really didn't get much out of it. Sold it back, but probably should have kept it - I think all of this stuff is out of print. There was a period where I went on a King Crimson side-project freak-out, but I found that I didn't like many of them (I'm talking some really obscure things, not just things Fripp & Belew guested on.) Ophelia got lumped in with that stuff when I dumped it all years ago - it's one of the few that I regret getting rid of.

pollysix · **Joined:** Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:56 am **Posts:** 5174

Hendrix

Singers:

Ella Fitzgerald (sh'es fucking insane)
Jeff Buckley

All-round musicality:

Rufus Wainwright (I'd say he counts)
Prince
Stevie Wonder

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