Who's your favorite musician, not known to a lot of the general public?
Mine is Mike Portnoy, drummer for Transatlantic and Dream Theater.
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Who's your favorite musician, not known to a lot of the general public?
Mine is Mike Portnoy, drummer for Transatlantic and Dream Theater.
Well as far as singers goes - Leah Salonga - Filipina singer was the original "Kim" in the Broadway Musical "Miss Saigon" She is a beautiful lady with a beautiful voice.
Also a buddy of mine is really into Paul Westerberg - He is pretty well known but not in a "pop" way.
In terms of country music singer song/writer Skip Ewing
In terms of songs.... I really like alot of the stuff from the soprano soundtrack...one song from season 5 'Your'e Wrapped in My Memories like Chains"
Not sure of the Artist but really like the song.
Paul Westerberg is great, but he is acutally pretty well known. Anyone heard of James McMurtrey?(sp?) He is really good, has some really great songs.
sarah masen
Blues guitarist from Nashville, Dean Hall, an Eastern Kentucky native and son of country singer Tom T Hall
If you haven't heard him, you're missing out!
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Criss Oliva of Savatage
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Alexi "Wild Child" Laiho of Children of Bodom
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Jon Schaffer of Iced Earth
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Matt Barlow of Iced Earth
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Oscar Dronjak of HammerFall
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Magnus Rosen of HammerFall
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Joey DeMaio of ManOwaR
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Zakk Wylde of Black Label Society
And there is a good reason why the general public doesn't want to know these characters RL. ;)
One I have always liked, and is known in Chrstian circles, but not so much by the general public, is guitarist Phil Keaggy. Hendrix called him the greastest acoustic gutiarist he had ever heard. That's a complement. And especially to a guy who is missing fingers on one hand. He started out with the band Glass Harp. I still have his fisrt solo album "What a Day".
This goes back a few years, but.....
I remember seeing Stevie Ray Vaughan on SNL in 1986 and I was mezmerized. But, of course, he never had any songs that played on Top-40 radio, so he was virtually unknown to the masses and even the teenage aspiring guitarists like myself at the time.
From that time until his death four-and-a-half years later, I would force my friends to listen to him and I would force them to agree that SRV was placed here by divine intervention.
Of course, after his death, everyone suddenly claimed he or she had enjoyed SRV for many years.
Dan Melchior.
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Mustis of Dimmu Borgir
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Thomas Väänänen of Thyrfing
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Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead
Isn't Zakk Wylde pretty well known from his Ozzy Osbourne guitarist gig???Quote:
Originally Posted by Ravenlord
you'd think that. but unless a person is heavily into rock and metal or a guitar player, it would seem they have no idea who he is.Quote:
Originally Posted by dman
as part of my sociology research paper, i did a couple of tests. one of which was to ask 50 people who went to last year's OzzFest to answer the following questions:
1. Name 5 bands from the show not called, Black Sabbath, Slipknot, or Judas Priest.
42 of the 50 did.
2. Name one musician from the show other than Ozzy Osbourne, Judas Priest of Slipknot.
33 of the 50 did.
3. Name a member of Ozzy Osbourne's band (not Black Sabbath).
20 of the 50 did.
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Glenn Danzig
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Claudio Sanchez of Coheed & Cambria
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Hansi Kursch of Blind Guardian
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John Petrucci of Dream Theater
Eddie Hazel- guitarist, Funkadelic (listen to the track "Maggot Brain" and have your ass kicked, free of charge)
Paul Thompson--drummer, Roxy Music (okay, a lot of people have heard of him, but he really is the greatest drummer ever).
I was going to mention Phil Keaggy as well...great guitarist but the complement from Hendrix never happened...it is a popular folk story but again, it never happened...it has also been reported that Clapton said the same thing...which he did not.Quote:
Originally Posted by GAC
but...LISTEN....PHIL ROCKS!!!