Who was the greatest exponent of ELECTRIC slide guitar?*

Derek Tucks has taken slide guitar to places Duane might have gone had he lived.
He has the magic touch.
His incorporation of jazz and exotic foreign scales simply cannot be equaled. Also not too shabby a blues player.

Many slide players are one trick ponies.
Derek Trucks is not and just might be the future of slide guitar.

(full disclosure - Allman Brothers Live at the Fillmore is still in my top three favorite albums and depending on mood sometimes number one)

 

Derek Trucks is unbelievable

 

Love: Lowell George, Mick Taylor, Bonnie Raitt, Ry Cooder and many many more.

 

Should have set the poll up by decades, 50's, 60's, 70's etc.

 

It's an overrated skill at best. Tune your guitar to an open chord and take a piece of glass or metal and slide it up and down the fretboard. Big whoop. I voted for Clapton.

 

No, it is not an overrated skill.

 

Ronnie Wood. Maybe not the absolute greatest, but certainly one of them. Plus for me totally addicting, especially when I'm drinking.

 

I was just trying to be funny. Fail. If the guy in my avatar played electric, I would have voted for him.

 

Analog-Digital-Digital?

For me...have to go with Duane Allman, though Lowell George is right up there.

 

It helps to use a smiley when conveying your humor

 

Bonnie Raitt. Slide guitar lends itself to inject a lot of the player's soul, and Bonnie has always done that in spades. Her vocals are nothing to sneeze at either.

 

I can't argue with that list. As long as SL is at the top. No one else really comes close to him.
Try to play in his style and you will know what I mean.

 

Gary Moore. Jeff Beck. Jimmy Page...I believe there is this rare track called In My Time of Dying

 

Love Sonny Landreth and David Lindley. Could listen to both of them all day. Rusty Young is very good also that I don't think has been mentioned.

 

Great video... Sonny really has taken it to another level. Derek obviously is a great player, but that thing he does (or doesn't do?) not damping when he is changing position on the fret board really drives me nuts, it's almost like the slide guitar equivalent of a Keith Jarrett vocalizing - it's a non-musical tic that makes it harder for me to enjoy his music.

Somebody above mentioned Lindley - also a monster - when I think of him I think of lap steel first not exactly the same thing. Great great player of course.

Anyway to the poll question I voted DA. Yeah I've heard the pioneers but I think Duane was the guy that brought slide into the rock vocab, that's got to count for something. Plus he was a bad mofo at it

 

"Love In Vain" from "Stripped" is exhibit A here.

 

Well, some "whoop" better than others. When Clapton manages to get his head out of his butt, he is a pretty good player, but still doesn't "whoop" that great...

 

I watched the Sonny L. video, if thats representative of his best - I' m not impressed. Doesn' t sound musical to me, no touch- where is the subtleness .

 

Other:

Warren Haynes

 

there are three I like:
Eric Clapton
Brian Jones
and David Gilmour (he played slide only on very few songs, if that counts... nah, not the pedal steel)

 

I like Tony McPhee a lot, forgot about him.

Elmore is the base unit, I often find the first or earliest the most interesting and inspiring despite being primitive in some respect. Brian Jones was slightly ahead of the curve in 1962 but he would never stick to one thing long enough to really develop into a master at it, always a jack of many trades.

 

Six pages and no mention of this guy?

 

Jeremy has some excellent "How To" vids on YT.

 

Forgive me, but who is that guy?