Pick Only One #2 - Favourite Guitarist |
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Valarius
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Topic: Pick Only One #2 - Favourite Guitarist Posted: April 26 2015 at 07:17 |
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The first edition of Pick Only One seemed to go well, so here's the second edition of your new favourite series of threads! Although I promised in the last edition to visit some obscure subjects in time, for now we're still gonna stick with the simple, more obvious subjects. (If you didn't already, check out #1 here http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=102064). Also, good stuff to everyone who got it right in the last thread, and especially those of you who posted explanations/reasons for your choices. Fun to read! Keep it up!
So with that out of the way, welcome to the second edition of "Pick Only One". If last weeks topic, favourite band, wasn't a tricky one, let's see how well people do with this. A subject near and dear to me, favourite guitarist. The rules are simple (as if the name of the thread doesn't give it away). No runners up. No second best. No honorable mentions. No join firsts. No "I couldn't decide between...". This is a thread series where we seperate the boys from the men (and the girls from the women). Where you have to suck it up, grow a pair, and pick only one answer. (Ladies, do whatever the female equivalent is of "growing a pair"...) So to start of, here's mine: The Duke of Metal, Rich Ward. Whilst not actually a prog musician, Rich Ward is my favourite guitarist and officially my hetero-sexual man-crush. Known as the guitarist and main song-writer of rap-metal band Stuck Mojo and hard rockers Fozzy, Ward has never been known as a virtuoso guitarist. He never gets any form of acknowledgment. But what he lacks in "shred" credentials, he more than makes up for as a songwriter and as a performer. His playing is tight, his tone is unmatched, and his onstage antics make him a live force to be reckoned with. I've met him twice before Fozzy gigs, and he is a super cool, super humble human being. He gave me his plectrum after the first gig, which is incredibly awesome. Although Dream Theater are my favourite band, I know full-well I will never be as good as John Petrucci (to date, I can play about six DT songs on guitar), so I get a lot of my guitar influence from Rich Ward. Focusing more on the groove and the feel of the song, I feel a lot more confident about my playing when I'm not trying to match up to other shredders who cram a billion notes into a 20-second guitar solo.
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presdoug
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Posted: April 26 2015 at 07:37 | |
Eddy Marron
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emigre80
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Posted: April 26 2015 at 08:45 | |
I approve of the opening up of topics to posters of both genders One small step for progheads, one giant leap for....a very small segment of the world. For my choice: Steve Howe. Of course.
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Raff
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Posted: April 26 2015 at 08:56 | |
micky
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Posted: April 26 2015 at 09:04 | |
^ yeah.. he's good.
but when it comes to guitar playing.. there really is only one.. and his name is Duane |
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ExittheLemming
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Posted: April 26 2015 at 09:10 | |
John McGeogh (Magazine, Siouxsie & the Banshees, PIL)
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Svetonio
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Posted: April 26 2015 at 11:49 | |
Radomir Mihajlović Točak
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The Dark Elf
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Posted: April 26 2015 at 11:57 | |
There can be only one:
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...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
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sublime220
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Posted: April 26 2015 at 12:20 | |
Agreed. There will never be another like him.
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There is no dark side in the moon, really... Matter of fact, it's all dark...
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justin4950834-2
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Posted: April 26 2015 at 14:43 | |
The one and only Steve Howe
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Horizons
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Posted: April 26 2015 at 14:43 | |
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez.
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Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
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Michael678
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Posted: April 26 2015 at 15:48 | |
........Jimmy Page........
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Progrockdude
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micky
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Posted: April 26 2015 at 16:01 | |
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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Smurph
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Posted: April 26 2015 at 16:05 | |
I don't have a favorite guitarist because all the ones I like are not for their guitar-work but for their compositional abilities.
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Valarius
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Posted: April 26 2015 at 17:32 | |
That's awesome!
So pick one anyway!
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The Bearded Bard
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Posted: April 26 2015 at 17:38 | |
<= that guy, Motorpsycho's Hans Magnus Ryan. Very underrated.
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emigre80
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Posted: April 26 2015 at 18:03 | |
Man, you really believe in enforcing the rules, don't you?
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Terakonin
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Posted: April 26 2015 at 18:17 | |
Going to go with my old favourite the Frippster here. Just an all-round innovate and unique guitarist.
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You left a note in your perfect script
Stay as long as you like I haven't left your bed since |
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dr wu23
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Posted: April 26 2015 at 18:30 | |
Can't pick one this time.,,,,,there are too many I like who are equally good imho.
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One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
Haquin |
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Polymorphia
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Posted: April 26 2015 at 18:37 | |
*Shifts uncomfortably*
All the guitarists I'm really liking right now are ones I'm just getting familiar with. The ones I am familiar with are in bands with equally great guitarists. I'll say Thurston Moore, though he is in the latter category. |
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