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<blockquote data-quote="Cohiba" data-source="post: 2850076" data-attributes="member: 2550">Rolling Stone 100 Greatest Guitarists:#32.Billy Gibbons...&quot;Billy Gibbons was a guitarist to be reckoned with long before he grew that epic beard. In early 1968, his psychedelic garage band, the Moving Sidewalks, opened four Texas shows for the Jimi Hendrix Experience. According to local acidrock lore, Hendrix was so impressed by Gibbons&#039; facility and firepower that he gave the young guitarist a pink Stratocaster as a gift. Gibbons has since glibly described what he plays with his four-decade-old trio, ZZ Top, as &quot;spankin&#039; the plank.&quot;&nbsp;But from the muscular boogie of &quot;La Grange&quot; and the gnarly offbeat shuffle of &quot;Jesus Left Chicago&quot; to the synthlined glide of Eighties hits &quot;Legs&quot; and &quot;Sharp Dressed Man,&quot; Gibbons&#039; guitar work has been religiously true, in its thunderbolt attack and melodic concision, to his Texas forebears (Freddy King, Albert Collins) and the electric-Delta charge of Muddy Waters. &quot;You can definitely make someone wiggle in their seat a little bit,&quot; Gibson says of his solos, &quot;if you know where you&#039;re heading with it and end up there.&quot;[media=youtube]vMjqgIZ1_YM[/media]#19....James Burton the Master of the TelecasterJames Burton&#039;s trademark &quot;chicken pickin&#039;&quot; style bright, crisp and concise l is one of the most unique sounds in country music, and a huge influence on rock guitar as well. Burton got his start when he was 14, writing &quot;Susie Q,&quot; for Dale Hawkins, and became a teenage star when he joined Ricky Nelson&#039;s band in 1957. With Nelson, Burton created his distinct technique: He used a fingerpick and a flatpick, and replaced the four highest strings on his Telecaster with banjo strings, so that his guitar snapped, popped and stuttered. &quot;I never bought a Ricky Nelson record,&quot; Keith Richards said. &quot;I bought a James Burton record.&quot; In the late Sixties and Seventies, he convened Elvis&#039; TCB band and became a go-to guy on country-minded records by Joni Mitchell and Gram Parsons, and still tours today. &quot;He was just a mysterious guy: &#039;Who is this guy and why is he on all these records I like?&#039;&quot; says Joe Walsh. &quot;His technique was allimportant.&quot;Key Tracks: &quot;Hello Mary Lou,&quot;&quot;Susie Q,&quot; &quot;Believe What You Say&quot;[media=youtube]CdG8PyQ-a9w[/media]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cohiba, post: 2850076, member: 2550"] Rolling Stone 100 Greatest Guitarists: #32. Billy Gibbons... "Billy Gibbons was a guitarist to be reckoned with long before he grew that epic beard. In early 1968, his psychedelic garage band, the Moving Sidewalks, opened four Texas shows for the Jimi Hendrix Experience. According to local acidrock lore, Hendrix was so impressed by Gibbons' facility and firepower that he gave the young guitarist a pink Stratocaster as a gift. Gibbons has since glibly described what he plays with his four-decade-old trio, ZZ Top, as "spankin' the plank." But from the muscular boogie of "La Grange" and the gnarly offbeat shuffle of "Jesus Left Chicago" to the synthlined glide of Eighties hits "Legs" and "Sharp Dressed Man," Gibbons' guitar work has been religiously true, in its thunderbolt attack and melodic concision, to his Texas forebears (Freddy King, Albert Collins) and the electric-Delta charge of Muddy Waters. "You can definitely make someone wiggle in their seat a little bit," Gibson says of his solos, "if you know where you're heading with it and end up there." [media=youtube]vMjqgIZ1_YM[/media] #19....James Burton the Master of the Telecaster James Burton's trademark "chicken pickin'" style bright, crisp and concise l is one of the most unique sounds in country music, and a huge influence on rock guitar as well. [B]Burton got his start when [/B][B]he was 14, writing "Susie Q," for Dale Hawkins[/B], and became a teenage star when he joined Ricky Nelson's band in 1957. With Nelson, Burton created his distinct technique: He used a fingerpick and a flatpick, and replaced the four highest strings on his Telecaster with banjo strings, so that his guitar snapped, popped and stuttered. [U] "I never bought a Ricky Nelson record," Keith Richards said. "I bought a James Burton record."[/U] In the late Sixties and Seventies, he convened Elvis' TCB band and became a go-to guy on country-minded records by Joni Mitchell and Gram Parsons, and still tours today. "He was just a mysterious guy: 'Who is this guy and why is he on all these records I like?'" says Joe Walsh. "His technique was allimportant." Key Tracks: "Hello Mary Lou,""Susie Q," "Believe What You Say" [media=youtube]CdG8PyQ-a9w[/media] [/QUOTE]

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