jw8830 Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 I'd go with Johnny Winter. I feel that the solo on Highway 61 Revisited (Johnny Winter Captured Live) is unequalled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ralphtown Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 George Harrison does it for me every time. RALPH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doth Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 These are all great slide player without a doubt. The strange thing is that I have heard that the best slide guitarist that Lynrd Skynrd and the Alman bothers band's have ever heard was Tom Keifer. You may know him from the 80's band, Cinderella. The dude can play some slide guitar and has been onstage with both bands I mentioned. Goes to show you, you never know where the talent comes from. Doth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
layboomo Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 You Guys hit on most of the greats. I'd add Robert Randolph to the list........that boy plays some sick pedal steel! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Summerisle Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 How to turn a pop song into a real blues! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kj6tj6H67A&feature=related Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stan 58 Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 Duane Allman Brought it to a whole new level, and has never been bypassed. Stan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LHC- Jr. Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 How to turn a pop song into a real blues! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kj6tj6H67A&feature=related Great link, but not on account of Brian's slide playing. This video is the first evidence I've come across, which indicates that Keith Richards wasn't always cool. LOL, it looks as though he wanted to lay an egg! He's definitely come a long way since then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frenchie1281734003 Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 Someone not mentioned yet, but whom I really like, Chris Rea! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad Juju Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 I don't know if I'd put him up with the best of the best but I love listening to George Thorogood slide. - Shaun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrighty3693 Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 Buddy Whitington. And im not even 30 yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostindesert Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 All of the players mentioned in the posts before mine. But ya'll forgetting this guy; Rory Gallagher!!! Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stan 58 Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 Ya Rorys song" in your town"is a great slide song. Stan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parabar Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 What --- nobody's mentioned Robert Randolph yet???? He is a MONSTER! Derek Trucks, Robert Randolph, David Lindley, Bonnie Raitt, and an Indian player named Brijbhusan Kabra who plays classical Indian music on an acoustic archtop quitar with a slide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostindesert Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 Robert Randolph is great, but you can't call that thing he's playing a guitar, can you lol. Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freak show Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 Looks like there aren't many Robert Johnson fans here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostindesert Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 Wrong.....oops! Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PapaMidnite Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 Johnny Winter ,See in him in the late 70's early eighties...Man , .Also Ry Cooder, Bonnie raitt ain't bad, Jeff Beck Duane A, Derick Trucks And My own Band Mate Matt Dunn Like em all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgrasso Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 I have to add in Ronny Wood and Ronnie Lane from Faces. Woody has been sliding for years. Here is a great video: Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
layboomo Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 What --- nobody's mentioned Robert Randolph yet???? He is a MONSTER! Derek Trucks' date=' Robert Randolph, David Lindley, Bonnie Raitt, and an Indian player named Brijbhusan Kabra who plays classical Indian music on an acoustic archtop quitar with a slide.[/quote'] Guess I'm nobody?....look up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parabar Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 Whoops! Sorry, layboomo, so you did! I musta been reading too fast --- and good call, btw! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
layboomo Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 Whoops! Sorry' date=' layboomo, so you did! I musta been reading too fast --- and good call, btw![/quote'] Just kidding....yeah he is absolutely great in my book! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rextasy Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 I don't know if I'd put him up with the best of the best but I love listening to George Thorogood slide. - Shaun Thorogood was "good" enough to be invited to be a Rolling Stone. My favorite slide players, Duane, Joe Walsh, and Waddy Watchel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 Jackson Browne's "Running on Empty". The slide work was David Lindley on steel if you can count a steel player as a slide guitarist. He also did Dobro and acoustic slide. Really great slide work on that song. My favorite current players are Warren Haynes and Derrick Trucks (when he's not playing the off the wall stuff). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captmidnight Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 I gotta agree with all the other greats that have been listed...but in thinking back to the back seat of a '67 GTO, trying to get farther than 2nd base, listening to the 8 track playing Bad Finger's 'Day after Day', Pete Ham didn't do to bad on slide either. Hell might even have helped get me to 3rd base that night! Capt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntelligentAl Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 I'm a big fan of Jimmy Page's slide work, but I would say that my favourite slide player would be Arlen Roth. I watched some of his slide lessons on the Gibson website and I was so impressed that i didn't even attempt to learn what he was teaching, I just watched and listened instead! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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