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Posted: August 26 2010 at 06:17
Certainly an excellent player, but have heard this before. Steve Vai, Alan Holdsworth, Jeff Beck, Eric Johnson have all done similar sounding material and gone beyond. The 3 Steves-Morse, Howe and Hackett are more talented and interesting to listen to as are a lot of other players.
Doesn't take away from his ability, but he is not the best player alive.
Joined: July 24 2008
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Posted: August 26 2010 at 06:30
yanch wrote:
Certainly an excellent player, but have heard this before. Steve Vai, Alan Holdsworth, Jeff Beck, Eric Johnson have all done similar sounding material and gone beyond. The 3 Steves-Morse, Howe and Hackett are more talented and interesting to listen to as are a lot of other players.
Doesn't take away from his ability, but he is not the best player alive.
This video is completely improvised, every bit made up on the spot. I've been at a similar clinic with Steve Vai, and I honestly couldn't say which one is better. once you get to that level it becomes more a matter of each player's niche.
You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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Posted: August 26 2010 at 07:32
Of all the players ever, no one can pull more breadth of expressive sound out of the guitar than Chris. That I can say pretty confidently. Beck is obviously the prototype in that regard but Chris IMO went beyond that. I also think Chris' playing is much more expressive than Holdsworth. Holdsworth is just too clinical for me.
For JJ, Chris and Gar Samuelson were in a fusion band (they loved Weather Report and Mahavishnu) and starving in LA. Both finally got jobs with BC Rich, Chris was sanding necks and Gar was more in promotions. That's how Gar got the Megadeth gig and he pulled in Chris. Both had terrible smack habits, introduced Dave to the stuff, and eventually got kicked out. Chris cleaned up (I think twice) and starting about 2000 has been doing fusion again. He's in a trio called Ohm: whose first album is phenomenal.
The smack aged Chris pretty badly but his playing from about 1999-2005 was probably his best. He's still phenomenal, though I think he's settling into a groove and not as adventurous as he was when he first got back into jazz fusion.
You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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Posted: August 26 2010 at 07:34
yanch wrote:
That's great, improvisation is great, but any of the players I mentioned could improvise mind-blowing stuff on the spot too.
I've jammed with both of them. Vai does indeed improvise mind-blowing stuff too, but it's not better than Chris'. They're different players and each brings different things to the table.
If you're not into Chris, that's fine, but he really is up there with the guys you talk about. I've been into this scene for 25 years, I've seen most of the big guys live, I've heard pretty much everybody.
In a completely different style, Tommy Emmanuel has to be up there for best guitarist alive.
You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
I have the first Ohm: album, he certainly is among the best I've heard. Always hesitate to call someone #1, it really comes down to taste when you're talking about the cream of the crop methinks.
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