re: #4 RealityBasedSteve

I’ll admit he’s not bad, but is he the most evil acoustic guitarist ever? Well…

RBS

Do you play Steve?

And, I agree with you to a degree that I always have said has the world ever heard the best guitarist ever? Just like any instrument. Some guy sitting in a house somewhere that just loves to play and is too shy to go out and gig may be the best.

But, to Charles’ love of Tommy…I can see where it comes from. I’m a rank amateur but love the instrument. I am actually more a drummer…but use the guitar for creating ideas to turn into songs. And using my knowledge of the guitar, I’d say Emmanuel is right up there with the best for sure.

I think he can make a lot of “greats” jealous with his speed, precision and one thing that I always look for, rhythm! Lots of guitarist can crank out speed notes as runs and leads. Some of them fall way down when they shift to having to carry the rhythm and along with it the melody. The reverse can also be true, great rhythms and decent but not great scales and runs.

Tommy has that all covered. And he does it all on an acoustic. I’d love to see his neck sometime as to how low the action is set. I’m thinking it is low, but not like can be done on an electric.

By the way, I came across a video of his where he is taking questions from the audience and tells them that he is really a drummer first. He does tap a nice beat on the body of his guitars.