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One of the most influential Folk Rock musicians of all time, Neil Young is an extremely prolific artist. Besides being part of bands like Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, he recorded 45 studio albums until 2025. Besides being a successful songwriter and singer, Neil Young is also a praised guitar player. Over the decades he talked about many guitarists that he admired and once mentioned two who impressed him the most. The 2 guitarists Neil Young said impressed him the most Bert Jansch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is1uCyTJ_DA&pp=ygUSQmVydCBKYW5zY2ggbmVlZGxl The first one Neil mentioned in an interview with Jas Obrecht for "Guitar Player" magazine in 1991 was Bert Jansch. (Transcribed by Rock and Roll Garage) "For acoustic guitar Bert Jansch is the best acoustic guitar player is my favorite. I like his first ones (records), that very first record that he made. Then he remade that record, different versions of the same songs with someone else. I don't know, this record came from England and I heard it. I was particularly inspired by a song called 'The Needle of Death', a really outrageous song, beautiful." "This guy was just so good, I don't know what he is doing now but then years later I wrote 'Ambulance Blues' for the 'On The Beach' album and I picked up the melody from his record, the guitar part exactly, without realizing I had completely copied the whole thing. Then years later, someone mentioned it me and I went back and heard him playing. Sure enough, it's almost like a note for note copy of this thing. I mean, I wrote a whole new lyrics on top but it's his thing. I mean, he was great," Neil Young said. Born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1943, Bert Jansch was a very influential Folk musician who was also a founding member of Pentangle. During his long career, he recorded more than 28 albums and toured from the 60s until 2011, when he passed away at the age of 67. At the time, Neil Young released a statement, saying: "With deep regret, Pegi and I acknowledge the passing of Bert Jansch. Pegi and I were lucky to play with him on all of our shows for the last couple of years. He is a hero of mine, and one of my greatest influences. Bert was one of the all time great acoustic guitarists and singer-songwriters. Our sincerest sympathies to his soulmate, Loren. We love you, Bert." Besides Neil Young, other artists influenced by him are Paul Simon, Donovan, Mike Oldfield and Johnny Marr. Jimi Hendrix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AyVXGHxHec&pp=ygUgamltaSBoZW5kcml4IHRoZSB3aW5kIGNyaWVzIG1hcnk%3D Neil Young's choice for the electric guitar was, of course, Jimi Hendrix. "For the electric guitar would be Jimi Hendrix. (I met him) a long time ago, wasn't really very memorable. (He endures so much) because he is so good. He was the one with his instrument, no one else had brought the electric guitar to that level. (...) As the guitar freak that I am, he's maxed out but as much as a great guitar player as he is or was," he said. Neil was actually the one who inducted Jimi Hendrix into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame back in 1992. During his speech he also praised the drummer Mitch Mitchell and the bassist Noel Redding. (Transcribed by Rock and Roll Garage) "When you play guitar, you can play guitar or transcend and you can go as far as... there's no boundaries. Jimi showed me that, I learned that from Jimi and he was at one with his instrument. (There was) no technique that you could take note of or recognize. I didn't know what any of it was, I just looked at it and I heard it, I felt it and I wanted to do it. I said to myself maybe someday I can, you know, go to that neighborhood and feel what that's like." Neil Young continued: "But you can't make it there by yourself, so lucky for me I had Crazy Horse and lucky for Jimi he had Jimi Hendrix's Experience. Because without that, without Mitch (Mitchell), it's hard to say what would have happened. Even though Jimi is a legende and groundbreaker, everything everyone said, it's hard to say whether he could have done that without these other two guys." "Because I know that it doesn't matter whether you can play or not, it doesn't matter whether you're together or what everybody hits it at the same time or what they in key or anything. It just matters if it's the right chemistry and every time they played together Jimi took off. I only really, really heard him do that with them to the point where it took me completely away. It's not just Jimi, it's the other guys there with him, Mitch and Noel (Redding)," Neil Young said.

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