Guitarists you didn't like/get until you heard/watched/saw them live.

Gassage

I have a few.

1. Gilmour. I NEVER got him on the record. Until I heard the live versions.
2. Lindsey Buckingham- a genius.
3. Craig Ross- as I'd never heard of him- my jaw dropped.
4. Jimmy Ripp - as per Ross.
5. Glenn Tilbrook- amazing
6. Reeves Gabrels- was sensational one night in Tourhout with Bowie
7. Porl Thompson- never realised just how good.

The guy that went backwards for me- Jeff Beck.

bingefeller

Gassage said:

I have a few.

1. Gilmour. I NEVER got him on the record. Until I heard the live versions.

I gotta say I'm very surprised to see Gilmour as number one on your list as I know how much you're into his playing.  What era of Pink Floyd did you get into him?

Gassage

bingefeller said:

Gassage said:

I have a few.

1. Gilmour. I NEVER got him on the record. Until I heard the live versions.

I gotta say I'm very surprised to see Gilmour as number one on your list as I know how much you're into his playing.  What era of Pink Floyd did you get into him?

Strange one- I listened to Dark Side and I'd never heard The Wall and C Numb. But I'd only just started playing and I didn't get the nauces of DG.

Then I went to a Sisters of Mercy gig and Bricheno and Andreas Bruhn killed C Numb as a cover- brilliant.....I was hooked- I then heard Delicate and hardly stopped listening to it.

Gassage

Ché

There's something about Jeff Beck I just can't stand. Might be the hair, the bitter attitude to his guitar peers... his stage demenor reminds me of Michael Angelo Batio... it must be the hair...

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, seeing him take what he did on record with the Mars Volta and improvise it into the live setting in a tasteful way really impressed me. I appreciate him more now as a band leader as well, not just a gutiarist. His solos were abundant but fit the songs and didn't sound like dissonant noddling as per some of the records.

EricTheWeary

Yngwie.
So not my cup of tea but I saw him live and totally blown away. Although, TBH, not gone out and purchased all his back catalogue yet...

Loobs

Jeff Beck bitter?

stimpsonslostson

Wes Borland of Limp Bizkit. The man knows how to play a HUGE riff!

randomhandclaps

Gassage said:

I have a few.

1. Gilmour. I NEVER got him on the record. Until I heard the live versions.
2. Lindsey Buckingham- a genius.
3. Craig Ross- as I'd never heard of him- my jaw dropped.
4. Jimmy Ripp - as per Ross.
5. Glenn Tilbrook- amazing
6. Reeves Gabrels- was sensational one night in Tourhout with Bowie
7. Porl Thompson- never realised just how good.

The guy that went backwards for me- Jeff Beck.

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Moss

Anna Calvi - thought her stuff was pretentious until I saw her live and was blown away - possibly my favourite guitarist now

Teetonetal

Tom morello
Raul midon
Ron sexsmith
Lindsey buckingham
Slash
Ben Howard
Richard thompson

I never realised just how good any of those were till I saw them.

The guys who dropped in my estimation were Keith Richards an Ronnie wood when I saw them in 1996/7

shaunm

I'm going for up in estimation -

Matt Scofield
Huey from the fun loving criminals

Down
The darkness boys
The Rolling Stones guys
EVH

meltedbuzzbox

stimpsonslostson said:

Wes Borland of Limp Bizkit. The man knows how to play a HUGE riff!

I really thought I would be the only one to post that. 

Wes is a beast!

and obviously Wes Borland is my entry too. 

mike_l

Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King - Slayer

Ricky Warwick/Pete Friesen - The Almighty

They're the first that spring to mind, I'm sure there's others.

 

TinLip

+1 for Morello

Saw Audioslave in Denver in '03 and the dude absolutely killed it. He had a tiny pedal board (maybe 5 pedals?) but the range of sounds he got was incredible. Everything was pitch perfect, on time and sounded exactly like it did on the album (even the helicopter effect from the beginning of Cochise). Got to meet him after the show too, such a gent.

underdog

Teetonetal;529174" said:

Tom morello
Raul midon
Ron sexsmith
Lindsey buckingham
Slash
Ben Howard
Richard thompson

I never realised just how good any of those were till I saw them.

The guys who dropped in my estimation were Keith Richards an Ronnie wood when I saw them in 1996/7

On Slash, always been a huge influence but that was more to do with his persona but seeing him live, not just his playing but his presence is huge, which is quite something when he rarely speaks to the audience.

My pick is Stone Gossard from pearl jam, always listened out for Mikes lead parts but seeing them live you appreciate just how brilliant the rhythm parts are that Stone provides, awe inspiring to me. Incredibly tight band all around.

Monstronaut

Brad whitford. I saw Aerosmith on the 'nine lives' tour. They opened with 'nine lives' which I loved and totally surprised that Whitford played all the leads. Throughout the gig he kept pulling off some show stealing solos.

rsvmark

Laurence Jones. Listened to the album, and I could take it or leave it. Saw him support Kenny Wayne Shepherd earlier this year and he was chuffing awesome

bingefeller

Gassage said:

Cool clip.  I didn't know Sisters of Mercy covered Pink Floyd (I'm not that familiar with their stuff).  Good cover!  

not_the_dj

rsvmark said:

Laurence Jones. Listened to the album, and I could take it or leave it. Saw him support Kenny Wayne Shepherd earlier this year and he was chuffing awesome

This...although to be honest I hadn't heard of him before the KWS gig. I'm seeing Laurence play again this week, supporting King King.

Nunogilberto

I saw a recent video of Andy Partridge blazing away Hendrix style on a Squier Tele - I like XTC anyway but it was very interesting to see him dropping all these licks, considering how angular and new wave XTC are...