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crimhead 
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VIP Member Joined: October 10 2006 Location: Missouri Status: Offline Points: 19236 |
 Posted: June 12 2010 at 13:45 |
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Coin flip.
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JROCHA
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Joined: October 18 2007 Location: Oakland, KS Status: Offline Points: 1501 |
Posted: June 12 2010 at 13:36 |
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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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inrainbows
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Posted: June 12 2010 at 13:29 |
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I agree, I love Carlos though.... |
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Epignosis
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Posted: June 12 2010 at 12:50 |
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Al Di Meola is a stellar guitarist.
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Stooge
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Joined: April 09 2009 Location: Toronto, Canada Status: Offline Points: 1003 |
Posted: June 12 2010 at 12:45 |
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I think Di Meola has a more consistent body of work, so I'll choose him.
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cstack3
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Posted: June 12 2010 at 12:16 |
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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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memowakeman
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Posted: June 12 2010 at 12:06 |
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Agree with you guys, like Di Meola but looove Santana
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WalterDigsTunes
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Joined: September 11 2007 Location: SanDiegoTijuana Status: Offline Points: 4373 |
Posted: June 12 2010 at 11:46 |
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Speed-picking is okay. Blues-Latin-Psych-Fusion-Pop is rather better.
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Mellotron Storm
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Joined: August 27 2006 Location: The Beach Status: Offline Points: 12977 |
Posted: June 12 2010 at 11:44 |
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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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yanch
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Joined: January 03 2010 Location: Lowell, MA Status: Offline Points: 3247 |
Posted: June 12 2010 at 11:21 |
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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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dave-the-rave
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Posted: June 12 2010 at 10:52 |
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Santana tiene mucha alma (Carlos has soul). Al, not so much.
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Sean Trane
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Posted: June 12 2010 at 10:46 |
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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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beebs
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Joined: November 04 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 136 |
Posted: June 12 2010 at 10:28 |
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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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WBLGuitar
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Joined: March 21 2009 Status: Offline Points: 2 |
Posted: June 12 2010 at 10:25 |
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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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Anthony H.
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Joined: April 11 2010 Location: Virginia Status: Offline Points: 6088 |
Posted: June 12 2010 at 10:06 |
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Your favorite of these two esteemed Latin-based fusion guitarists?
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