Guitarists (not metal) that are real motherfuckers, but you don't realize it until you try and play their songs...

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I'm not talking about well known virtuosos here (Van Halen, Vai, Malmsteen, Satriani, Buckethead, et c.). I'm talking about guys that you just thought were good, and then you decided to cover one of their songs, and then a part came up and you thought to yourself, "What the fuck?", and had to look up the tab.

Myself, being a guy who knows his way around the penatonic and had no trouble recreating any of David Gilmour's solos, but has no chance at all at "Erruption" or the solo from "Crazy Train" (Although I do a pretty amusing attempt), I've found that Slash can be a motherfucker (that "So far away" part of Paradise City threw me for a loop when my band covered it in 1998) and Euroboy (Turbonegro) is definitely a motherfucker (the main lick to "Prince of the Rodeo" is still something I can only play at like 1/5 speed).

So who has suprised you by doing unpredictedly skillful licks?

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Sunday, 14 September 2003 06:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Mark, Bob, and Bob from Devo.

― Andrew Frye (paul cox), Sunday, 14 September 2003 06:25 (twenty-two years ago)

My aunt, uncle and cousins live in a house across the street from the Mothersbaugh's sister in Cuyahoga Falls. Really, with DEVO, it's the drummer who I think is a real motherfucker.

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Sunday, 14 September 2003 06:31 (twenty-two years ago)

vini reilly

― the surface noise (electricsound), Sunday, 14 September 2003 06:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Robin Guthrie maybe? Or is there too much reliance on pedals?

― Andrew Frye (paul cox), Sunday, 14 September 2003 06:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Really, with DEVO, it's the drummer who I think is a real motherfucker.

Point taken. I just like the guitars in Devo because they were doing not-terribly-difficult things that no one had ever thought of.

― Andrew Frye (paul cox), Sunday, 14 September 2003 06:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I spent countless hours as a teenager trying to figure out richard lloyd's riff from "see no evil" when I figured it out it became the basis for basically everything i can manage on guitar (ie squat).

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Sunday, 14 September 2003 07:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Billy Zoom

Duane Denison

Any of the guys that played with Beefheart

― earlnash, Sunday, 14 September 2003 07:08 (twenty-two years ago)

DEVO were doing new things with guitars, no doubt about it, I agree.

To go off on a tangent, a DEVO tangent, I'd like to say that DEVO did some completely standard stuff, instrumentation-wise, that was brilliant, like "Gut Feeling", which in my mind is up there with "Rock Lobster", "Slip It In", "I Walk on Guilded Splinters", and "Prince of the Rodeo", in being totally genius.

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Sunday, 14 September 2003 07:25 (twenty-two years ago)

bert jansch, allan holdsworth

― geordie racer, Sunday, 14 September 2003 07:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Mark Knopfler - doesn't use a pick, you know!

― dave q, Sunday, 14 September 2003 10:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Nick Drake, king of doing impossible things even in his crazy alternate tunings.

― Douglas (Douglas), Sunday, 14 September 2003 13:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Blind Lemon Jefferson, Tom Verlaine

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Sunday, 14 September 2003 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I was going to say Nick Drake. I fall over whenever I try to mimic his right hand in "Road."

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 14 September 2003 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Joe Perry, Elliot Easton, Denny Diaz, Jeff "Skunk" Baxter,Keith, Paul Westerburg

― Speedy Gonzalas (Speedy Gonzalas), Sunday, 14 September 2003 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Frank Zappa

― Brandon Welch (Brandon Welch), Monday, 15 September 2003 02:22 (twenty-two years ago)

John Fahey!

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Monday, 15 September 2003 02:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Of course you think he is good but try playing his stuff, from any period just about in his career and boom, you know Frank was a serious motherfucker.

― Brandon Welch (Brandon Welch), Monday, 15 September 2003 02:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Also try playing Snake Finger's music some time. He was another gifted man who died far to early.

― Brandon Welch (Brandon Welch), Monday, 15 September 2003 02:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Really, with DEVO, it's the drummer who I think is a real motherfucker.

I am proud that I can now drum to "Satisfaction." It was pretty tricky.

― Brandon Mitchell (A.H.), Monday, 15 September 2003 06:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Word on Elliot Easton. When I was 14 I tried playing the "Tonight She Comes" solo and couldn't masturbate for a week afterward, which is quite an ordeal any time, let alone at 14

― dave q, Monday, 15 September 2003 08:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I wish I could play the guitar.

― damian_nz (damian_nz), Monday, 15 September 2003 10:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Robbie Nevil, the solos on his second album (the one with "Back on Holiday") are incredible!

― dave q, Monday, 15 September 2003 12:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Victor Villartesatnorsyhnkrgrskgiugrgsriugbs4riug from the Owls. He is pretty fuckin good.

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Monday, 15 September 2003 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, word on Mark KNopfler. I want to hear "Why Worry" now.

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Monday, 15 September 2003 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

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