who is your favorite female guitar player ?

[pack-rat]

there are so many over the years.

 

[Jimi D]

Meredith Brooks, hands down! Talented, cool, very musical, and I really dig her music... doesn't hurt that she's AB-SO-FREAKIN'-LUTELY GORGEOUS either, but in my defense I was groovin' to her tunes long before I saw her live at Lilith and learned what she looked like...

Others high on my appreciation list include Debbie Davies and Susan Tedeschi, and Sean Colvin can really, really finger pick an acoustic (and she's probably my fave song-writer of the lot!)...

 

[hbucker]

I've got to go with Nancy Wilson. A great player and beautiful. And she peforms like she was born to do it. Not like a pretty girl holding a guitar on stage.

 

[pack-rat]

Not like a pretty girl holding a guitar on stage.

yes i know what you mean. It seems there are singers and the manager (?) gives them a guitar to hold. Just doesn't look right.

 

[kbaim]

This is easy...

Jamie Lee Curtis

Or maybe Charo.

 

[pack-rat]

This is easy...

Jamie Lee Curtis

Or maybe Charo.

LOL I was thinking about them

Actually Charo is pretty good flamenco player.
Ever see her mom on Carol Burnett ? funny stuff.

What i don't understand is how someone can play with long nails.
I cut mine right down past the tips on my left hand or else they get in the way. I find if I don't I keep snagging them on the strings but keep them long on my right so i can pluck classical style.
I wear no jewlery or even a watch when i play. I find they get in the way.

Joni Mitchell has done some really good stuff. She does alot of alternative tunings.

 

[Shnook]

As a female guitar player, it's sad to say that there aren't that many that rock my world. A few that do though are Jennifer Batten and Wendy Melvoin. Completely different players, but extremely talented in what they do. I went through a hardcore Prince phase in the early 90's and my friends started refering to me as 'Little Wendy.' I wish...

Another really good female guitar player I've seen live is Liz Melendez. She's the chick version of SRV, but she does it very well. She's been doing a lot of touring in little clubs in the south-east. Go see her if she's playing in a town near you. Very impressive.

 

[pack-rat]

Shnook do you keep your nails long ?

 

[Shnook]

Shnook do you keep your nails long ?

No, I'm a nail nibbler by nature. Not too proud of the fact, but oh well. I don't understand how anyone plays with long finger nails either. I can't stand the feeling of my finger nail touching the fretboard. Yuck!

 

[thindave]

Went to see Letterman on Monday - Felicia Collins is pretty darn good...

 

[pack-rat]

No, I'm a nail nibbler by nature. Not too proud of the fact, but oh well. I don't understand how anyone plays with long finger nails either. I can't stand the feeling of my finger nail touching the fretboard. Yuck!

I am a bit dubious of girls that are long nailed guitar players

 

[nobozos]

I like Lita Ford, and Nancy Wilson because they look GREAT. They are also pretty good, but I would have to give the best player prize to Bonnie Raitt. She is probably one of the best slide guitarists I've heard.

 

[nickdanger]

Jennifer Batten is amazing. I saw her a few years ago on tour alongside Jeff Beck and she almost upstaged the man.