Instrumentalists who are truly inimitable.

[Flamencology]

Any instrument. Excluding vocals, for obvious reasons.

Players who are so distinctive that even the best impressions are doomed to failure.

 

[Coralkong]

Steve Vai.

 

[Tralfaz]

Ornette Coleman.

 

[Coralkong]

Jaco Pastorius.

 

[Kerouac]

David Rawlings. :(

 

[Tiltsta]

Miles Davis.

 

[Coralkong]

Neil Peart.

 

[mongooz]

Tommy Emmanuel

 

[Alex W]

I have always thought Les Claypool was one hell of a bass player

 

[Foo]

Jaco Pastorius.

one of my students. he's not bad.

 

[Foo]

I have always thought Les Claypool was one hell of a bass player

another one i taught. he's not bad either

 

[Coralkong]

one of my students. he's not bad.

He's been dead for 30 years.

 

[Foo]

He's been dead for 30 years.

what's your point?

 

[Coralkong]

Nothing. He wasn't bad.

 

[Foo]

Nothing. He wasn't bad.

cuz i taught him.

 

[rsadasiv]

Rashaan Roland Kirk. There may be other players who blow two horns at once, but if they do, I'm just going to identify them as Rashaan Roland Kirk anyway.

 

[Scott Powell]

James Burton is so original,and so badly imitated. I love love love his chicken pikin style. EVERYBODY cops his licks,but i have yet to hear anyone sound like him

 

[Mark Wein]

 

[B Valley]

For me, Leo Kottke.

 

[Phil513]

I'd like to think i could recognize Billy Gibbons playing if i heard it. I'm not sure if it's true, but i dont think anyone quite sounds like he does.