[kj] Advice on picking up guitar

[Brian Whitehead]

Brendan,

Is there somebody missing from that list of favourite guitarists?

Brian.


On 25/09/2007, Brendan <bq at soundgardener.co.nz> wrote:

>

> Cheers all for your advice, appreciate it.

>

> I'll ask for some advice from two of my sisters' boyfriends (different

> sisters, both boyfriends called John, both musicians, go figure), one is a

> drummer and fellow Soundgarden freak, the other was lead guitarist in a

> moderately popular NZ band from back in the day (The Warners, remember

> them Bongo?) and he's a bit of a demon on the guitar, to my ear. Both owe

> me favours for computer and gym help but would help me anyways.

>

> My favourite guitarist is Kim Thayil from Soundgarden, other favourites

> are Hendrix, Page, Frank Zappa, Brian May, Pepper Keenan, Jerry Cantrell,

> Dimebag, Steve Morse, Slash, Joe Satch, Petrucci, Steve Vai,  Josh Homme,

> Jack White,  Angus Young, Adam Jones, Kirk Hammet, SRV, David Gilmour...a

> lot of whom would be regarded as sounding great but not technically the

> greatest.

>

> PS: (Not my words):

>

> My favorite Kim Thayil quote:

> "I can play guitar better than 95% of the guitarists out there.

> Unfortunately, the top 5% are in the music business, so that puts me at

> the bottom!"

>

> My favorite quote about Kim:

> "I learned a lot from Kim- like how to win an argument without being right

> (laughs)."- Chris Cornell.

>

> > On 25 Sep 2007, at 15:20, powens wrote:

> >

> >> Chuck Prophet has played the same Squire Telecaster all his life so

> >> nothing wrong with (the right one of) those

> >

> > someone was telling me that apparently early Squires are quite sought

> > after.

> > mark burgess played a Squire Precision when I saw the Chamelons a

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