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Points: 17496 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 14 2014 at 09:51
Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

^ Because Eddie understood the importance of the tone and power of amplification in rock guitar which gave the hammer/pull effect much more immediacy and gain, as compared with Steve's restrained approach.

 
Yup...what Eddie did with his guitar was so in your face and up front it was hard not to notice his incredible playing, to the point that most of the rock fans then and now believe he was the originator of most of his playing technique.
 
Hackett sat back in his chair on stage content to not be the focus of Genesis...neither invented it but in their own way created huge influence to so many young guitarists.
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Points: 20497 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 14 2014 at 16:24
Seriously? Tapping came about with hammer ons and pull offs, but who made it popular should be the question.
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Points: 64350 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 14 2014 at 20:54
^ Then it was Ed.   Eventually everyone wanted to sound like Yngwie but even then Eddie was the undisputed king, by far the biggest rock guitar influence between 1979 and 1985.   And he deserved it.   It wasn't just the tapping either-- his use of pinched harmonics, volume swells, percussive slapping (as on 'Mean Street'), echo/volume arpeggios (as in 'Cathedral'), and a ton of other "neat noises" as he called them.
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Points: 17496 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 16 2014 at 12:11
Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

^ Then it was Ed.   Eventually everyone wanted to sound like Yngwie but even then Eddie was the undisputed king, by far the biggest rock guitar influence between 1979 and 1985.   And he deserved it.   It wasn't just the tapping either-- his use of pinched harmonics, volume swells, percussive slapping (as on 'Mean Street'), echo/volume arpeggios (as in 'Cathedral'), and a ton of other "neat noises" as he called them.

 
I am in this camp for sure.....EVH
 
I remember seeing him play in So Cal at a high school concert in La Puente at Bishop Amat, I think it was 78 or 79.
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Points: 20497 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 16 2014 at 17:33
^Both answers work for me.
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Points: 64350 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 16 2014 at 21:11
Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

^ Then it was Ed.   Eventually everyone wanted to sound like Yngwie but even then Eddie was the undisputed king, by far the biggest rock guitar influence between 1979 and 1985.   And he deserved it.   It wasn't just the tapping either-- his use of pinched harmonics, volume swells, percussive slapping (as on 'Mean Street'), echo/volume arpeggios (as in 'Cathedral'), and a ton of other "neat noises" as he called them.
I am in this camp for sure.....EVH

I remember seeing him play in So Cal at a high school concert in La Puente at Bishop Amat, I think it was 78 or 79.

Nice, he was at his hungriest then, that would've been right around they'd been signed by Warner.
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Points: 20497 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 18 2014 at 09:54
^Did I forget to mention that EVH was awesome in concert. A true rock legend.
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Points: 64350 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 18 2014 at 19:23
^ He was, though by the 1984  tour things had gotten weird and not so great, but it wasn't his fault
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Points: 20497 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 18 2014 at 19:29
^Absolutely true! Crazy s%$# was going on!
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