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Anthony H. ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() Joined: April 11 2010 Location: Virginia Status: Offline Points: 6088 |
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Your favorite of these two esteemed Latin-based fusion guitarists?
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WBLGuitar ![]() Forum Newbie ![]() ![]() Joined: March 21 2009 Status: Offline Points: 2 |
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Kind of hard to compare oranges and apples. DiMeola is flat out one of the fastest guitarists around, on both electric and acoustic. Plus, with Return to Forever, and his own, and as one of the "Three Guitarists," he's written and played some tasty music. A true fusion guitarist.
Carlos Santana, on the other hand, is more like a blues-based guitar player with some latin feel -- much of which is provided by his band. I like them both for different reasons. |
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beebs ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: November 04 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 136 |
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Absolutely no question. Carlos has done it all.
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"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of one's own mind" * Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Sean Trane ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() Prog Folk Joined: April 29 2004 Location: Heart of Europe Status: Offline Points: 16177 |
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Carlos , no contest....
ADM actually strongly inspired himself from Carlos , Paco DeLucia and john McL............ In his early solo career, there isn't one ounce of originality.
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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dave-the-rave ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: January 04 2006 Location: NY metro area Status: Offline Points: 276 |
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Santana tiene mucha alma (Carlos has soul). Al, not so much.
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yanch ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: January 03 2010 Location: Lowell, MA Status: Offline Points: 3247 |
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Both great, but I think Carlos can play anything he wants, plays with both flair and grace, where Al is a great technician, amazingly fast, but lacks originality and true flair.
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Mellotron Storm ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: August 27 2006 Location: The Beach Status: Offline Points: 9964 |
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Carlos without question.A matter of taste though isn't it.
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"The wind is slowly tearing her apart"
"Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
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WalterDigsTunes ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() Joined: September 11 2007 Location: SanDiegoTijuana Status: Offline Points: 4373 |
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Speed-picking is okay. Blues-Latin-Psych-Fusion-Pop is rather better.
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memowakeman ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: May 19 2005 Location: Mexico City Status: Offline Points: 13025 |
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Agree with you guys, like Di Meola but looove Santana
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cstack3 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() VIP Member Joined: July 20 2009 Location: Tucson, AZ USA Status: Offline Points: 4865 |
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I voted for Al D. since I think he's been more progressive and has done more to expand the vocabulary of the idiom.
LOVE Santana, he continues to do wonderful things, but Al's work with synth guitar, amazing flexibility (fusion, world music, etc.) impresses me greatly. They should do an album together!!
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Stooge ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: April 09 2009 Location: Toronto, Canada Status: Offline Points: 1003 |
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I think Di Meola has a more consistent body of work, so I'll choose him.
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Epignosis ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Eclectic Prog Team Joined: December 30 2007 Location: Raeford, NC Status: Offline Points: 32357 |
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Al Di Meola is a stellar guitarist.
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inrainbows ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: February 20 2008 Location: on a rainbow Status: Offline Points: 489 |
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I agree, I love Carlos though.... |
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JROCHA ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: October 18 2007 Location: Oakland, KS Status: Offline Points: 1501 |
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Both are amazing guitarists, Al D gets my vote.
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Somewhere out of a memory of lighted streets on quiet nights...
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crimhead ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() VIP Member Joined: October 10 2006 Location: Missouri Status: Offline Points: 19236 |
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Coin flip.
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The Quiet One ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: January 16 2008 Location: Argentina Status: Offline Points: 15745 |
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Santana no doubt, I enjoy every bit of his playing and compositions. Al might be a better technician, but most of his playing does me nothing.
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b4usleep ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: December 21 2009 Location: Istanbul Status: Offline Points: 620 |
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Really don't mind if you sit this one out.
My words but a whisper, your deafness a shout. |
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squire4001 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: November 16 2009 Location: Mexico Status: Offline Points: 188 |
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I think Al D. is more progressive than Santana, because he combines a lot of styles including many instruments, but Santana has more feeling IMO and I like that!
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Prog´ everyday in every way of your life including music!
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Progosopher ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: May 12 2009 Location: Coolwood Status: Offline Points: 5291 |
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Santana definitely has more soul, but Al is more versatile and has a wider body of work. Carlos is pretty much one dimensional for me.
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The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"
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CinemaZebra ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: March 13 2010 Location: Ancient Rome Status: Offline Points: 6795 |
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Meola is both better AND more consistent. Blending genres doesn't work if you don't do it right.
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