Greatest Jam Guitarist Alive Today

[Taverner]

OK...I've always felt it was wrong to compare apples and oranges...say to compare Jimmy Page to Jerry Garcia. The two had completely different styles, and their bands, although similar at first, evolved into totally different beasts.

So, in the realm of JAM bands, who's the best still alive?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. Vernon Reid

[Taverner]

3. I always pegged Living Color as more of a funk/metal band

like Fishbone or Red Hot Chili Peppers, not exactly a 'jam' band.

Granted, he is good...very good...

[bo44]

20. without a doubt it is Vernon Reid

:thumbsup:

[flamingyouth]

2. If we're talking about The Jam

I'd have to say Paul Weller, even though he doesn't play Jam songs anymore (bad flamingyouth, hijacking this thread):spank:

[Taverner]

4. Double spankin' for you, FY!

That's it! You have to watch really bad Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan movies...ALL DAY LONG!!!!!

[flamingyouth]

6. NOOOOO! Stop the cruelty now!

:evilgrin:

[NashVegas]

5. Another Vote for Paul Weller

:D

[Radical Activist]

7. Bela Fleck

But guitar isn't his main instrument is it? So maybe he doesn't count, but he's still amazing.

[Taverner]

8. I guess If I can count Chris Wood

Bela would be OK....but only as a write in ;)

Did you see the new DVD of him where they have the mounted 'fret cam'?

F'n AMAZING!!!!

[Radical Activist]

11. No

I haven't heard of that but I'll check it out.

[PoliticsSportsMusic]

9. ERIC CLAPTON IS GOD!!!

[Taverner]

12. YEAAAARGH! Why won't anyone stay on topic???

Do I gotta spike the net with ritalin or sumthin!!!

Clapton is a blues guitarist - NOT JAM!!!!!

That's it - SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE FOR THE LOT OF YA!!!!

[PoliticsSportsMusic]

14. Define jam for me...

I've been playing guitar for over twenty years and you can stretch out on the blues and jam...hard...soft...inbetween....maybe you are putting the blues in a little box...sterotyping it. Jerry Garcia was a very bluesy player(just not as skillful as EC or say SRV) and so is Warren Haynes.

[Radical Activist]

13. That was another thread

from a few days ago.

[PragMantisT]

10. Gotta go with Neil Young.

He can still make a solo say much with just one note.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

15. Is this just limited to rock-and-roll?

because otherwise most jazz players should be dominating this, guys (and girls) whose main performance is blowing over changes. Mark Elf, Jimmy Bruno, Larry Coryell, John McLaughlin, Robert Conti, Kenny Burrell and hundreds of others should somehow figure in.

[Taverner]

16. But that would be true jazz

And we know most jazz guitarists blow the rock ones away...

Be like Mike Tyson vs. Paul Begala in a fight...

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

18. I guess I'm behind the times

as I've been playing guitar since 1966. I thought "jam" meant "to jam" or to improvise over changes. I didn't know that "jam guitarist" denoted an entirely separate type of music.

[LifeDuringWartime]

17. other

CHUCK GARVEY

guitarist/vocalist/talkboxist for the band moe.

go to http://www.archive.org/audio/etreelisting-browse.php?collection=etree&cat=moe. to download some free, legal, live moe. shows

[Neoplatonist]

19. Kirk Hammett is in Other, Steve Vai, E. Mulmsteen in Other?

What the hell kind of poll is this? A farsical one!

[LifeDuringWartime]

24. those are metal guitarists

in case you didnt know, jam bands are those that have been heavily influenced by the Grateful Dead. they were the first "jam" band that i know of.

current jam bands:
phish
moe.
the dead (remaining members of grateful dead)
disco biscuits
string cheese incident
galactic
widespread panic
umphrey's mcgee

[Neoplatonist]

25. As Britney Spears said, "Oops...I did it again."

Sorry about that. I had no idea the connotations of the denotation of the term "jam." Being a fan of metaphysical heavy metal and hard rock, bands such as Rush, Metallica, Dream Theater, Bruce Dickinson, etc., I had drawn an invalid inference about the definiens of the definiendum "jamming." I study symbolic logic, metaphysics, epistemology -- philosophy in general -- so I should have known better than to leap before I looked.

Please accept my sincere appology.

[Maestro]

21. I like Eric Johnson

http://www.ericjohnson.com/

[bushwakker]

22. Robert Randolph

Family Band rocks

[Swamp Rat]

23. I pick ME. I haven't a clue as to who the other guys are.

I also pick my brother and another friend. We're the best jam guitarists in our universe... which could include any number of musicians that happen along.

[PittPoliSci]

26. John Petrucci.

of the great DREAM THEATER