Battle of the best Guitar heroes

Battle of the best Guitar heroes

although I think best players are more like Steve Morse, Eric Johnson and Robert Fripp.

Excellent mention! I chose another Texas, SRV. I met him once, actually a few months before he died. My girlfriend at the time and his girlfriend were friends.

Eric Clapton is decent to me too and Carlos Santana

definitely Hendrix.

Jimi Hendrix and Jeff Beck.

I'd also go with Robert Fripp, Peter Green when he had it together, Michael Bloomfield, Rory Gallagher, Link Wray, John Cippollina, Eddie Hazel, John Mclaughlin

and although not really technically great -- Roky Erickson.

on the Miles Davis 5 CD 'Complete Jack Johnson Sessions'.

it's always been one of my favorite albums by Miles so when I found out about the 5 CD set, I HAD to have it.

still havn't quite got over the price though, but still worth it. :-)

Even though Satriani has the album called "not of this earth" Vai is so good on so many levels. No one surpasses him in techical ability, obviously. I get really pissed at people that call him a shredder. They know nothing of actual guitar music theory. Nothing.

:D

Is this like when a guy picks on a girl on the playground because he cant let the others lnow he likes her? :shrug: edited to add: Dont you have some bandwidth to go steal?

I bear such for WilliamPitt after he quoted Sting in GD2004, and NightTrain for leaving 'Don't Worry Baby' out of one of his polls. A day of reckoning shall one day come for these grievances!

:D

:bounce:

But trying to think of a witty rejoinder to that has left my coffee cold. :(

:bounce: runs

;-)

Youll have to do better than that to rile me. sorry :shrug:

You'll have to give me some pointers, or otherwise this blood vendetta won't get very far.

I also despise cute little kittens. Post many pix of them often.

And he is the best player on this list by a huge margin. Hendrix is so overrated it's pathetic.

in history. To me this poll is apples and oranges. Steve Vai is my one stand out. Yngvie has chops, but he mostly sticks to his neo-classical style. Steve Vai incorporates many styles. Also after getting arthritis @ 19 and that car accident, Yngvie lost a bit. He also is the WORST song writer in this poll. However I did ask for playing.

Rising Force and Marching Out had some good songs but he went total cheese after that.

who's a crappy guitar player & utter hack (no relation to J).

:yourock::headbang:

When mentioning Yngwie J. Malmsteen.

:shrug:

If you don't want to include the "J" at least spell it right. Heh.

<--as a woman this is my fave pic. Im thinkin sig line. Not sure yet.

Stevie over B.B. King...but just by a drop...

BB cannot hold a candle to Stevie!

guitar heroes poll (heroes are men) , not guitar Avatars poll.

otherwise would have to bring in Robert Johnson, Charlie Patton ....

no comprendo

Thats why he replaced Adrian Vanderberg, Eddie Van Halen, and Yngvie in his early band called Alcatraz . Also Steve Vai played with Zappa when he was 17. Eddie is a rock player. The other players here have more depth, sorry:hurts:

Didn't know that. Never heard that. Google search didn't provide any info.

"Are you kidding? Eddie is brilliant, I wasn't even trying to compete with Ed. You're an idiot for even trying to compete with him... I mean, he's really, really good." -- Steve Vai

Was that in anyway unclear? :shrug:

Steve Vai is better ... Thats why he replaced Adrian Vanderberg, Eddie Van Halen, and Yngvie in his early band called Alcatraz...

I read that as Steve Vai replacing the above mentioned guitar players in Alcatraz.

Adrian Vanderberg - Whitesnake
Eddie Van Halen - didnt replace him in van halen, but Roth made new band with him.

but your wording confused me a little.

was a Guitar God.

You forget the truly great ones.

Nobody can play like Lee and its too bad he's not with the so-called Ten Years After that is touring.

I saw Alvin Lee around 15 years ago. The rhythm guitarist was Mick Taylor.
It was downright scary.
Lee was playing all these superfast licks and Taylor was playing all these chords in between. They complemented each other perfectly.
& I bought tickets half an hour before the show and by some fluke they were only 10 feet from the stage.

Thanks 56kid. It must be an age thing.

I've never seen anyone play so fast.

I see at the website that a group is touring calling themselves the original group, without Alvin.

http://www.alvinlee.com/

sad

How can such a thing be?

:-)

or Johnny Marr?

One of the greatest unsung guitar heroes.

Guitarist for Bad Brains. Listen to the albums "I Against I" and "Quickness" and let me know how much of his dust you ate.

OK. Who voted for Hammet?

My...My...My!!!

lemme see

I already voted and can't vote again!!:cry:

You said your piece for Dave. We know where your heart lies.

I am so ashamed I didnt include Dave at first. :cry:

Best effects guitarist that ever existed, and i'm all about the effects :P

:headbang: the secret of his power lies right here:




that and a shitload of skill, but just TRY playing the bulls on parade or testify solos or many other of his works without one of these things, it cant be done, ive tried.

-LK

Chuck Berry, Albert King, Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell, Julian Bream, John Williams--too many to name.

...He's not even a choice in this poll? Un. Believable. Like, right, Hammett is just SO more important than Page in the rock guitar pantheon. And Vai, yeah, he single-handedly changed the face of rock, ever so much more than Page ever did...

Come on, man. I admire all the people on this list, and all are supreme virtuosi, but not even MENTIONING Page? That's just wrong...

Still would pick Vai

Can it be true?

Sorry I have an anti Eddie thing. He has a shitty attitude.

lol...

Check out this discussion thread on the pro's and cons of Guitar Heroes, especially Mr. Van Halen.

http://www.rockmagic.net/forum/topicDisplay.php?topicID=681

one solo with noother instruments to keep time with? Please, Vai has chunks of Van Halen in his stool.

"Are you kidding? Eddie is brilliant, I wasn't even trying to compete with Ed. You're an idiot for even trying to compete with him... I mean, he's really, really good." -- Steve Vai

Yngwie is like" you are all underlings to my supreme chops" kind of stuff. And no he's not trying to compete with Eddie. Just because Roth made a band with him after being dumped by Van Halen :eyes: He's alot different, alot more diverse. Sorry. No dice. Not swayed.

And as you said, you have something against Eddie Van Halen.

That's your boat, how ever it floats!

But Eruption is awesome, one of the great guitar solos. If you think it's easier to keep time flying a capella than if you had a drum and a bass to lay down the beat, you are mistaken.

Vai is great, but I hear Zappa whenever i listen to him, and I'm not much of a Zappa fan (not as a guitarist at least).

Eddie Van Halen. One of the greatest, and I say that without trashing any other guitarist.

and you can listen to it. I dont think you have listened to him much. You need to hear "For the Love of God", "Blue Powder", "Bad Horsie", "Erotic Nighmares".......................

6 fucking classic albums. Well, OK 5 3/4 in terms of guitar because there were too damned many keyboards on 1984. And I won't even count the Van Hagar shite.

BTW deleting Randy Rhoads in favor of Gilmour?? bad move. You never would have seen Randy put out a solo record and call it "Ozzy Osbourne". Gilmour's attitude about Pink Floyd is as bad if not worse than Eddie's about VH.

But I will concede that Comfortably Numb has one of the best solos in the history of recorded music.

Les Paul, Robert Fripp, Sonny Sharrock, Michael Hedges, Adrian Belew and Jimmy Page all seem to me like they'd be deserving of a spot in the poll. Your taste seems to lean heavily towards flashy players, which is fine, hey, it's your taste.

However, I have to take exception to the "real guitarists" comment - so a guitarist isn't real if s/he doesn't play soaring, "heroic" leads? So Leadbelly wasn't a real guitarist? Luther Perkins? Maybelle Carter? Were those guitars they played unreal, or were they just not "really" playing? </rant>

Just so I feel a little better, indulge me in a quick list of some of my fave guitarists whom I haven't already mentioned:
Dylan Posa, Andy Gill, Blixa Bargeld, Mark Shippy/Todd Rittman, Rowland S. Howard, Steve Albini, Ash Bowie, Doug Gillard, Thurston Moore/Lee Ranaldo, Michael Karoli, Roger Miller.

OK, I'll relax now. Sorry 'bout that little rocker-geek hissyfit, there. We'll do that sometimes.

n/t

Thanks!

LOL:bounce:

Fred Frith, Derek Bailey, Tom Verlaine, Buddy Guy, Steve Hillage, Richard Thompson....

....we COULD be here all night....

in personal preference, anyway. morello has been a role model for me personally, harvard poli sci grad and a kickass musician, he and rage's music helped shape me into the left wing radical i am today.

-LK

He hasn't been equaled, yet, IMO.

He's the best of the electric guitarists.

plaster-powdering, over-driven, psychedelic blues in London a year and a half before Hendrix. Sorry but there wouldn't have BEEN a Hendrix (as a phenom) had Beck not laid the groundwork. Also, Sonny Sharrock gets NO credit for his groundbreaking electric work, nor James Blood Ulmer. Clapton has said he believes Beck is the greatest player in the world - that may be overstating it, but if so, not by much. Beck and Dave Davies pretty much invented metal.

I think Vai is overrated, but I'm told it's a generational bias on my part; Satriani is a better player, but not in my Top 10. Page is consistently overrated, although I've always liked his compositions and his acoustic playing. Steve Morse, Al DiMeola, John McLaughlin and Bill Connors are all in my top 10.

Mark Knopfler is arguably one of the most tasteful, if not technically spectacular, players out there. Gilmour is a fluent, uncommonly poised player.

Rory Gallagher was elegant and passionate, as was Tommy Bolin. RIP x 2. Ritchie Blackmore is lamentably forgotten, but a superb player in his day. Steve Howe is a superb player. Steve Hackett is an unparalleled sonic craftsman.

But sorry...Fripp is God.

Buck rulez...

Unforgettable style, hyper articulation, and he can shred with the best of 'em.

Say what you will. You will not piss me off, you will only show your smug ignorance. There are few true guitar gods. Hendrix is one. Clapton is another. Hendrix died way too young. Clapton has been around, still creating, for decades.

Bake

And really good music at that, over the long haul. Sad to say that, had EC od'd in 1971 or so, he would have a huge cult following that would speak of him reverently and in hushed tones.

He, Duane Allman and the rest of the Dominos put out the best guitar-based rock album ever made.
If Clapton had died young and Hendrix lived, this board would be filled with Clapton encomiums and complaints about Hendrix's lost potential.

all the way to the most esoteric and oddball stuff, Ry can play it with authenticity and authority -- guitar, slide guitar, mandolin, odd stringed instruments, the gamut. Incredible range, musical scholarship and all-around know-how.

Who even knows the vast number of artists he's appeared with, recorded with, and thus helped to define?

from Iron Maiden. The best.

V

but you left out some awesome guitarists from other music genres. Chet Atkins was a masterful musician; did anyone ever hear him play "Dixie" and "Battle Hymn of the Republic" at the same time? It was awesome.

There are too many bluegrass guitarists to even start to list, but there are some fabulous guitar breaks and hot licks in bluegrass music.

And how about classical guitar? Anyone ever heard John Williams play classical guitar? Andres Segovia?

Flamenco? Charo is amazing.

Expand your horizons, folks.

My horizons are quite expanded thank you. The catagory is guitar heroes. I have only 10 options. If my poll irritates you, make your own;)

Are guitar "heroes" limited only to rock & roll and blues? I think you took offense where none was intended. Are you upset because of the musicians I listed?

ever here that story about Django and Segovia meeting?
from
http://www.hotclub.co.uk/html/djangorev.html

" there was the time he met Andrés Segovia. He played for the Spanish classical maestro a short jazz crepuscule on his Selmer guitar. When Django finished, Segovia was dazzled by the piece and asked for a transcription. Django laughed and shrugged, saying that it was merely an improvisation."

:-)

Good Mention.

he's an interesting guy...kind of like that wierd uncle we all have

Although, that is quite a list you have there anyway. So it is very hard to choose.

ok thats a lie :evilgrin: I did touch him though, several times. One time I saw him in Milaukee, I thought it would be a good idea to wear all white to get noticed by him. (I knew almost everyone would be wearing black). It worked, he picked me out of the masses to direct his band, yes I was on stage with steve vai. I was scared shitless.

Both of them are too brilliant for words.

...their own good. :)

I've seen them play as a duo....they were exceptional!

lots of times.

Amazingly they're just as amazing live (100% of the time) as they are recording. (A lot of ECM recordings are defacto live anyway.)

Interestingly about 20 years ago, I once had an opportunity (rudely I confess) to eavesdrop on one of John's conversations in a restaurant. He was telling his date that he often felt like he sucked live. Amazing, but true.

The best guitarist I've ever seen live. And I saw Zappa about five times.

I envy you seeing Zappa though...

....the rest of 'em are just wankers.

for putting Kirk Hammet in instead of Eddie Van Halen. Oh well, cant please everyone.

just kidding.

I was about to burst a blood vessel. ;-)

Alvin Lee of the original and not the bums currently touring Ten Years After.

Duane Alman. the real Alman brother who will be forever missed.

Mountain Jam

nt

there's also Larry Carlton, Russ Freeman, Johnny Winter, and a cast of thousands!

oh well, you cant please evryone :shrug:

I love Hendrix as much as anyone but Trey can make up licks on the spur of the moment in a jam that other musicians would take a week to master. He truly proves that you don't have to play a lot of notes to be good.

I hate Vai, Mangstream, Satriani with a passion. They are techincally very skilled but it comes off very boring. Just because you can play a lot of notes fast doesn't mean anything.

I think a very underrated guitarists are Tim Reynolds, Jimmy Herring, and Derek Trucks. These guys could run circles around Clapton now.

Inventor of the heavy guitar sound!

I may be wrong but I think the Flying V guitar was made for him.

Stevie Ray loved Lonnie Mack.

Eric Clampton, Mark Knopfler, Mick Ronson, Chuck Berry, link Wray, and Glen Campbell.

Why talk about rock when we can listen

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