# Baker’s Dozen III **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 22, 2022, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093 "2022-08-22T15:39:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 8358
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/8358 "2025-08-21T02:40:21Z")
**Guitar Players** 1. Jimi Hendrix 2. Donald “Buck Dharma” Roeser 3. Lindsey Buckingham 4. Peter Frampton 5. Ricky Wilson 6. Slash 7. Mason Williams 8. Gordon Lightfoot 9. Richard Thompson He’s discussed in this thread: > [@Yay, I'm gonna see Richard Thompson for the first time in May! \[fixed title\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yay-im-gonna-see-richard-thompson-for-the-first-time-in-may-fixed-title/1010919): > > I got into Richard Thompson relatively late, about 20 years ago a coworker lent me his sampler “Action Packed: The Best Of The Capitol Years”. I had known his stellar reputation, but nonetheless was blown away by that album. Since then I have studied his work, solo, with Fairport or with Linda, and now he’s in my pantheon of greatest singer/songwriter/guitarists of all time, actually I can’t name any other musician who’s as good as that in all these three categories at once. But I never had the … > **[Richard Thompson](https://thefestival.bc.ca/artists/richard-thompson/)** > > “A folksinger who (shreds) like an arena-rock star…and still writes songs that sting and storm.” – NPR “The finest rock songwriter after Dylan, and the best electric guitarist since Hendrix” – LA Times “Named by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of the Top 20 Guitarists of All Time” --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093)._