The friday five

[ericcoleman]

Top Five Favorite Rock Guitarists
1 - Pete Townsend - The Who
2 - Zal Cleminson - The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
3 - Paul Weller - The Jam
4 - Richard Thompson
5 - Johnny Ramone - The Ramones

Comments

[hardly-angelic.livejournal.com]

*shrug* Ever listen to the Late Nite album? How about Untold Passion (if you can get past the Jan Hammer wankery)? I also have a healthy amount of love for the first two Journey albums. Needless to say, I have a commensurate amount of revulsion for the Steve Perry as Lead Weasel years.

Actually, I was going to edit my comment anyway and substitute David Gilmour for Schon, but you replied just as I was making the attempt.

(By the way, my favorite Paul Weller moment is his solo on Oasis' Champagne Supernova - and it's also one of my favorite guitar moments overall.)

[ericcoleman]

Paul is a wildly underrated lead player. While I don't tend to like his solo stuff much (a friend said it best, if I want a friggin Steve Winwood record, I'll buy a friggin Steve Winwood record) his playing shines more and more.

The early Journey stuff is decent, but hardly anything I would ever listen to again. I'm firmly in the "Neil has one solo" camp. And I don't think it's that good of a solo.