My Favorite Musicians

Hello guys how are you doing? Hope you're doing better than me because I'm writing from the sick bed. I've not been feeling fine since yesterday. My head aches and it's been long since I felt this weak. I wish my girlfriend were here because she knows how to take care of me best. But I've gotten drugs and I only hope I'll be fine.

I opened the writing page this morning, and I was a little blank maybe because of the illness, but it never happens to me that I don't know what to write. But it came to me slowly, and in the end, I decided to write something related to my passion. Today I bring you a list of my favorite guitarists and little stories about some of them.

This list is in no particular order as they are all guitar beasts. If you have a favorite guitarist feel free to say guys. I hope I'll know them or at least their bands.

1) Tommy Emanuel

This guy is an absolute guitar demon!!!! When he plays, he sounds like multiple instruments at once. When he goes for concerts, he goes solo. He doesn't need a piano, out a bass guitar, or a rythm. Tommy is everything all by himself at the same time. I don't know if any of you is from Australia and can help me confirm in the comments that he's indeed a house hold name over there. He goes all over the world to play, and always takes business class. He's simply more than comfortable as far as finances are concerned. When he was six years old, he heard a great Guitarist by the name of Chet Atkins play. He told his dad that he knew the man was doing everything at once but his dad told him no that it was a recording trick. But Tommy was convinced Chet was doing it all at once, so he went home and wouldn't rest until he had mastered the style. Initially, he was using diverging called a flat pick to play fingerstyle (As far as I can tell, he was living in a remote area). He had never seen a thumb pick. In fact, at some point in his life, he had never seen a bass guitar. The first time he went for a competition (I think it was), he saw the bass and was laughing at the person carrying it with brother. They were wondering why it had four strings and how those ones were going to play as good as them. When he grew older he bought a Chet Atkins cd and in the back he saw the thumb pick and that was when it hit him!!! Up till then he had been doing it the hard way, but that was a turning point for his playing. Because he learnt a lot with his flat pick, he developed a unique brand of hybrid picking that's he still uses in a lot of his compositions. He's a very good bless blues player. But I've seen very few guitarists that sound as sweet and melodious as Tommy. You can check out Rachel's lullaby, and it's never too late. Other I live would be Angelina, Madonna, classical gas, and Lewis and Clark.

I could just talk about Tommy emmanuel all day long. He's witty, funny, makes lots of jokes on and off stage, principled and gets the job done one way or the other. He also does percussive works with the guitar, and he's just a hot to watch. He hits his head in the microphone too produce the sound of the kick of the drums. Like I said, he does anything to entertain. I need to mention that after he heard Chet, he practiced for 13 or 14 years and when he 20 he went meet Chet and he was one of the few guitarists that Chet ever certified.

Tomorrow, maybe I'll discuss George Benson who has a little bit of a similar story in that he also started early.

I'm sorry about the title if you were expecting vocalists or something, but I am not into vocalists at all, so I believe the greatest musicians are guitarists. Not necessarily true, but just my opinion.

Thanks for reading guys. I don't like writing overly lengthy write ups, so maybe I'll continue tomorrow. Much love... You're awesome guys.