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Timsan
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Topic: Best guitar player ever Posted: February 08 2006 at 13:57 |
Why not rate the best guitarplayers ever? Dont mind genres, I dont.
1. Jimmy Page, why? Maybe not the best player if you mind the technic, but he is the most elegant, rough and innovative players of them all!!! The best guitarwork/riff: maybe is "kashmir" but I also say "when the leeves break" or perhaps "battle of evermore" Blues/rock/folk has never and will never sound better
2. Jimi Hendrix, offcours, psykedelia, blues and rock n roll, he mastered them all, simply the most gifted man when he was alive, my idea is that he never fulfilled his potential and will be missed forever, thats why he is second. Best Guitarwork/riff: "vodoo child" and "little wing"
3. Pete Townshend, the king of power and volume, easily the most intelligent of all rockgods and often a hilarious man, the who is the best live band ever, and its not all because of pete but he´s guitarwork measures up everything thats good about rock, volume, power and energy and maybe som resentfulness. Best work/riff: all of "live att leeds", "wont get fooled again" "substitute"
4. mick taylor of the stones, maybe a different choice, but he is man who sets the jagger/richards composition to its most attractive way of playing it off, a wonderful sound and the work never gets old. Best riff/work: all of "Get yer ya ya`s out"
5. Stewe howe, probably the most gifted in guitartechnics of the five mentioned. innovative is the word. Best work/riff all of "close to the edge" and "yours is no disgrace" on "yessongs", that bit when he makes the guitar sound like everything but a guitar and inte the same note makes its sound like rock n roll is too f....... good!!!!
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el böthy
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Posted: February 08 2006 at 14:29 |
...mmm take Taylor and Townsend out and put Fripp and Mclaughlin and I agree...
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"You want me to play what, Robert?"
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Rosescar
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Posted: February 08 2006 at 14:31 |
Zappa, Frank.
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My music!
"THE AUDIENCE WERE generally drugged. (In Holland, always)." - Robert Fripp
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erik neuteboom
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Posted: February 08 2006 at 15:01 |
I have always loved the sound from Steve Hackett: it is rooted in the emotional blues, then Hackett got impressed by the Fripperian 'chainsaw sound' and eventually Hackett developped his very distinctive guitar play featuring sensitive and varied soli, heavily distorted or with subtle use of the volume pedal and techniques like glissando and hammering. This man has carried me so often away to Progheaven  !
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FragileDT
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Posted: February 08 2006 at 15:29 |
Pre-heroin Clapton is essential and I would add John Scofield.
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One likes to believe
In the freedom of music
But glittering prizes
And endless Compromises
Shatter the illusion
Of integrity
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Forkface
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Posted: February 08 2006 at 16:03 |
1. Robert Fripp 2. Ed Wynne 3. Jimmy Page 4. Frank Zappa 5. Steve Howe
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Rising Force
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Posted: February 08 2006 at 16:10 |
I think Al Di Meola is the best guitarist I've ever heard, in my opinion.
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DarioIndjic
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Posted: February 08 2006 at 16:24 |
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Ars longa , vita brevis
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timothy leary
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Posted: February 08 2006 at 20:06 |
steve hillage
philip katherine
marc ribot
david torn
steve hackett
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King of Loss
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Posted: February 08 2006 at 20:15 |
Some of the best in their particular styles:
Prog Rock: Steve Hackett Steve Howe David Gilmour Robert Fripp Roine Stolt Alex Lifeson
Just plain-old awesome: Al DiMeola Steve Vai John Petrucci Eric Johnson McLaughlin Paul Gilbert
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GPFR
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Posted: February 08 2006 at 20:17 |
David Gilmour. Steve Hackett.
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micky
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Posted: February 08 2006 at 20:20 |
Jeff Beck.... end of conversation hahahah.
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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mrgd
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Posted: February 08 2006 at 22:42 |
zappa's got to be up there with all the others mentioned- but i love holdsworths straight playing -ie-no synthaxe. steve lukather is amazing to watch and you cant beat larry carlton's great fat sound. in the blues idiom i like winter and walter trout is surprisingly handy. best is best is best-- its really a matter of personal taste,is it not?
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Looking still the same after all these years...
mrgd
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NetsNJFan
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Posted: February 09 2006 at 02:16 |
Steve Hackett, Steve Howe, Phil Miller, Allan Holdsworth, Phil Manzanera are some of my favorites.
Fripp is hit or miss.
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Lorak
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Posted: February 09 2006 at 02:44 |
Phil Keaggy Phillip Katherine Chet Atkins Les Paul Tommy Bolin Jeff Beck
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Two heads are better than one, but if you want something done right, do it yourself.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained, but better safe than sorry.
Look before you leap, but he who hesitates is lost
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zbida
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Posted: February 09 2006 at 03:06 |
There's my crew:
Steve Hackett, Jimmy Page, Andy Latimer, David Gilmour and maybe... Ritchie Blackmore.
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martinprog77
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Posted: February 09 2006 at 03:14 |
zbida wrote:
There's my crew:
Steve Hackett, Jimmy Page, Andy Latimer, David Gilmour and maybe... Ritchie Blackmore. |
mmm.....and maybe ritchie blackmore  he really belong inthis category
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Rising Force
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Posted: February 09 2006 at 03:23 |
Well, if we're saying our favorites, then mine are... Yngwie J. Malmsteen (obviously), Al Di Meola, Tony MacAlpine, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Jimi Hendrix, Ritchie Blackmore, and the list goes on.
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Ray Cathode
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Posted: February 09 2006 at 03:50 |
Dave Gilmour, Jimmy Page, Steve Howe, Stephen Wilson
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D.Noisserger
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Posted: February 09 2006 at 03:57 |
Pettrucci is simply awesome!
But there's also Zappa, Hackett, Gilmour (wow) and for sur master Fripp!
EDIT: I've forgot to mention Buckethead
Edited by D.Noisserger
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