I don't know any guitar player, any of the real greats, who don't rate Joni Mitchell up there with the best of them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Great guitar players are a dime a dozen. It is sometimes your very limitations as players that set you apart from the crowd.
Steve Van Zandt, the poor guy, doesn't get to play enough as it is with me hogging a lot of the solos. Steve has always been a fabulous guitarist. Back from the day when we were both teenagers together, he led his band and played lead and was always a hot guitar player.
Charlie Christian played amplified guitar with Benny Goodman's quartet. He was the greatest guitar player that ever was. But he never looked up from the guitar. But I put a little dance to it. They appreciate seein' something along with hearin' something.
It's definitely true that Stevie Ray Vaughan is one of my all-time favorite guitarists.
I've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that good, thank them. Thank God for them. But I don't think so.
Without question Gibson guitars are the finest, most revered guitars on the planet.
I think guitar is the best thing in the world.
I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.
I'm surrounded by great guitar players.
Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived.