Favorite Clean/effect-less guitarist

[Gearmond]

who is your guyseses favorite guitarist that never really uses effects much, if ever?

mine is slowly becoming Victor Villareal

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czpthYgOF9g[/youtube]

[D.o.S.]

Off the top of my head: Gary Arce.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TevISMxtck8[/youtube]

Of course, he uses a straosphere's worth of 'verb.

And I guess he's got some drive in there too, but I still consider it "clean."

[Achtane]

Smiths-era Johnny Marr. Clean most of the time
Andy Rourke is also one of my favorite bass players.
Fuck I love The Smiths.

[kbit]

First two that come to mind:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV0LJ0Dnl7A[/youtube]
(I know it's two guitars, but it just sounds awesome)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFWsU0NJvVY[/youtube]
(He usually uses effects, but this is a great example that he doesn't have to)

[nieh]

Greg Ginn.

[Rygot]

Carson's beard...

I'm sure it alone could play better than most of ILF.

[kbit]

Carson's beard...

I'm sure it alone could play better than most of ILF.

Seriously. I would bow to this.

[StudioShutIn]

would have to say it's a tie between Bill Frissell (ok not always effect-less, but usually clean) and um....:EDIT: I remembered the other one's name... Robert Cray.

[Gearmond]

frisell is my #2 clean player of all time

[foomanfat]

I'm lame and the only person I can think of is Dave Davison from Maps And Atlases.

[kbit]

I'm lame and the only person I can think of is Dave Davison from Maps And Atlases.

Just because you can't think of any others means it was a bad choice

[Alicetheenigma]

Jeff Buckley (If he counts.... there are some moments on Grace that are heavy as shit), Johnny Marr, Elliot Smith, and Dave Matthews.

[Mudfuzz]

[Gearmond]

thats just cheating

[Adoom]

Erik Mongrain.