Gosh I love Nashville shredders...

[daveg777]

Man, the Brent Mason/Brad Paisley/Vince Gill stuff is so awesome to hear. My first guitar heroes were Roy Clark, Jerry Reed and Don Rich. I think the new guys are really carrying the torch with pride. I could name Bill K and Red V and the list goes on and on...These guys smoke!! Paul Gilbert eat your heart out! (KIDDING! Paul is almost without peer as a shredder..)


Dave

[h20man]

I'll agree 3 months later. I am on this big country/Tele kick recently and the guys you mentioned are indeed great and its humbling to try and play that style of guitar but I will keep trying!

[shredhead7]

Scotty Anderson for the win, that dude is peerless.

[Anthony Gring]

I'm mesmerized by a lot of it. I would like to play 1/20th as well.

[Frank Prince]

Scotty Anderson for the win, that dude is peerless.Scotty Anderson is a stunning player, just unbelievable.

I bought his instructional video hoping to gain some of that level of chops, and basically just ended up watching it like a concert video, with the undeniable urge to applaud wildly after each example. :D

[robelinda2]

Scotty Anderson is just not human. Intense fun player.

[drgonzoguitar]

Scotty Anderson is just not human. Intense fun player.

Oh hell yes!

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[drod2045]

^^jesus. that is all

[Jahn]

that's some sweet melodic shredding, he's tossing in so many country licks and motifs to keep it grounded too, flowing so nicely!

[Marc Roy]

Oh hell yes!

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I've watched that video countless times, and it's still the scariest thing I've seen yet. Scotty pulls off that stuff like it's nothing, on an accoustic!:)

[esoteric pete]

scotty anderson is by far once of the most amazing guitar players...just a freak of nature.

[Drifting]

Why the fu** did I read this thread.

I don't even want to pick up my guitar anymore. After watching that, I don't know if I have actually even 'played' it before.

[SRVTWO]

Guthrie Trapp and Greg Koch (the fender guy) are another couple monsters.
Mike

[telelion]

No diss and I have Scotty's scary DVD too but here are the masters. I can listen to these guys all night, any night. Check out Jerrry's comping(nylon) in the last one. Chet on resonator guitar.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni8KBhnebwE


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAuI1B8zRFY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIOF8jeXh8I

[robelinda2]

Oh hell yes!

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Isnt that vid just the best? Ive watched that one countless times over the past year, and I show that one to my students sometimes when I get told that acoustic guitar is easy, or jazzy country stuff is too easy. No-one could see that vid and say they can do that!!!!!!!

[Jamar]

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what kind of trick is he pulling at 3:20?!? it made me think, "what the hell?" that's oh so cool!

[Wagster]

Gotta love the original country burners that paved the way.
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And last but not least the Godfather of country guitar, James Burton
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[LavaMan]

Check out Guthrie Trapp - amazing player.

http://www.guthrietrapp.com/

[Ocelot]

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what kind of trick is he pulling at 3:20?!? it made me think, "what the hell?" that's oh so cool!

He's trilling the high E with his pinky, playing a part on the B or G string with his ring finger and hitting the bass with his thumbpick, I believe. I think he has two brains, actually. :jo

[drod2045]

what kind of trick is he pulling at 3:20?!? it made me think, "what the hell?" that's oh so cool!


An act of defiance is what I call it. using all 5 fingers. He does the same thing ~30 seconds also

[Cuthbert]

Thanks for the Scotty Anderson video. Guess I'm quitting now. For Sale:
Various Fender, Gibson, Marshall, Fender and Vox stuff, best offer

[drod2045]

Thanks for the Scotty Anderson video. Guess I'm quitting now. For Sale:
Various Fender, Gibson, Marshall, Fender and Vox stuff, best offer

Can i offer you a dream in which you play like scotty anderson for payment?


edit: I will take the dream on second thought.


double edit: damnit. back to reality!

[Dickie Fredericks]

No diss and I have Scotty's scary DVD too but here are the masters. I can listen to these guys all night, any night. Check out Jerrry's comping(nylon) in the last one. Chet on resonator guitar.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni8KBhnebwE


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAuI1B8zRFY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIOF8jeXh8I

I miss Jerry. One of the greatest and very under rated IMO.

Many of the vids posted, I have posted here before. All of them, stunning players.

[Road King]

I'll confess to just now really getting into these guys. I spent the better part of my life as a jazz and fusion guy, with a short stint in hair metal back in the eighties, (girls loved the hair so what was I supposed to do?).
I got an offer several months ago to join a country blues outfit and have been listening and researching since. I had really been missing out on some outstanding and sometimes freakishly good players.
BTW, if you haven't already, you guys should check out some of Dickie Fredericks links. The boy knows his way around a Tele. In a redneck EVH kinda way. I dig it.

[gennation]

Just remember, most of those guys only ended up in Nashville, but came from Any Old Town, USA. Some of them, like Ray Flacke and Albert Lee, even came from across the pond.

[SuhrFan]

I looked up some Guthrie Trapp vids on YouTube. KILLER player!

[crawdad]

my brother and i were in roberts a couple of months ago watching an amazing guitar player tearing up country standards. he turns to me and says "this guy is the best guitar player i've ever seen"! to which i replied "at ten o'clock we're going to go across the street and see guthrie trapp. after that you can say whatever you want". it took one song.

that guy knocks everyone's d**k in the dirt.

[crawdad]

except scotty anderson...

[RGB]

What a great thread!

My goosebumps have goosebumps!

[Eric F]

Guys like this make me glad I'm a bass player. :)

[Bob Maximus]

[QUOTE=drgonzoguitar;7236522]Oh hell yes!

I hate Scotty. I mean, at least make it look like you're working at it! :bong Yeah, he is about the best.

[Bobby D]

nashville will humble you and send you home with your tail between your legs fast :bumpbump

[drod2045]

Guys like this make me glad I'm a bass player. :)


Quote of the day!

:roll:rimshot:rockin:beer:band

[telelion]

I miss Jerry. One of the greatest and very under rated IMO.

Many of the vids posted, I have posted here before. All of them, stunning players.

I know you posted them but you can't have a thread about the great pickers of all time and not have Chet and Jerry. Tons more great videos of each, all musical and I cannot agree with you more about Jerry. He virtually invented the open string style and was a genius. Chet cetainly thought so.

[robelinda2]

Trapp is great too, one of the newer guys. Never get tired of Albert Lee, Brent Mason, Vince Gill.

[67blackcherry]

Why the fu** did I read this thread.

I don't even want to pick up my guitar anymore. After watching that, I don't know if I have actually even 'played' it before.

After watching those videos, I don't even know what a guitar is!

I think it's all trickery and sleight of hand; honestly, everyone knows it's impossible to shred like that without distortion...

[Broken Cord]

An act of defiance is what I call it. using all 5 fingers. He does the same thing ~30 seconds also
Thumb frettin the high E,,,,, What!

[strattele335]

wow!
He makes me wonder why I even own a Tele......

Craig