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    Best Guitarist?

    Eddie Van Halen


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    The problem is that playing guitar is not an olympic sport. So much is style, sound, genre', writing and always the guy that blazed the trail and did it first. Eddie is certainly in that realm. (as would be Jimi.) He created the room for all of the 80's and early 90's guitarists and guitar based pop/rock/hair metal. I would think that Paul Gilbert is much more refined and technical than Eddie, and can play more types of music to perfection. The best sound on a guitar is Andy Timmons. And what a player he is. You are not going to find anyone that uses odd full chords to perfection as good as he does. When you get to the likes of Vai, it is hard to say that anyone on the planet plays the instrument more like it is an extension of his actual body. When you get to finger picking, Chet and Doyle Dykes are the men! Hard to beat the blues of Albert and BB. Slow hand ain't bad. In recent releases, no one is churning out more tracks pleasing to the ears on guitar than George Lynch. Hard to find someone that plays with the feel of the groove more than a Nuno Bettencourt. The technical players like Chris Broderick of Megadeth and Petrucci of Dream Theater are blowing our minds with new territories in playing.
    I think for Eddie to be back in the current discussion he needs to get back to basics and write some mindblowing stuff like he was from 1975 till Cherone left.

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    For me the guitarist has to tell a story, he/she has to have something to say... Not just play notes...

    AND it's not just playing all the right notes in a song, it's how you get to that chord/note... The path you take...

    I have MUCHO respect for someone like Satriani but for me, he is just playing and not talking to me...

    RObert Cray, Johnny Lang, Jimi, SRV, and many others talk to me when they play...

    Again, I have MUCHO respect for someone that can play like Satriani... I have tried to play and I SUCK...

    Johnny Lang talks to me, but that is just me... Take all of this with a grain of salt:






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    This argument has been going on what seems like forever, all those guys fall into best. I like em all, but for me a little of any of them goes all long way, except for the old Van Halen. My favorite is Jimmy Page, that's because Led Zeppelin is my favorite band.
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    Best Guitarist? I think it depends a lot on who your favorite band is. My favorite band "Pink Floyd" who in my opinion was one of the best shows to ever hit the stage, with that being said David Gilmour would be my favorite guitarist...

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    For me, there is no one "best" guitarist.

    There ARE those in their genres that ARE masters of their trades.
    When I watch videos of SRV (RIP) doing sound checks and improvising its hard to imagine anyone better.
    Then I see clips of him, Albert, and BB take it over the edge every time they ever did Texas Flood.

    Flash back to Pagey just dismantling everything you ever thought you knew about playing guitar, then he "goes to the bow" and ices the cake.

    I remember the first time I heard Edward's lead in on VH first album. Thought my head would explode.

    I can listen to any of those guys, plus beck, jack White, all the way back to Robert Johnson.
    These are men whom the guitar has no secrets.
    The genre does not matter to me when I listen to guys at that level.
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    Quote Originally Posted by thatguy View Post
    For me, there is no one "best" guitarist.

    There ARE those in their genres that ARE masters of their trades.
    When I watch videos of SRV (RIP) doing sound checks and improvising its hard to imagine anyone better.
    Then I see clips of him, Albert, and BB take it over the edge every time they ever did Texas Flood.

    Flash back to Pagey just dismantling everything you ever thought you knew about playing guitar, then he "goes to the bow" and ices the cake.

    I remember the first time I heard Edward's lead in on VH first album. Thought my head would explode.

    I can listen to any of those guys, plus beck, jack White, all the way back to Robert Johnson.
    These are men whom the guitar has no secrets.
    The genre does not matter to me when I listen to guys at that level.


    I remember a few of my music teachers saying to me "there are lots of guys that can play fast... BUT if you dont have anything to say (with what your playing) it's just noise... IT's not about playing fast, it's the progressions, the bent notes, the approach to each chord... The pathways...

    It probably sounds odd to some folks but it's as if these guitar greats (like SRV) are talking to me in a language that is....... I dunno... It's a different language...
    -In a Republic, the sovereignty resides with the people themselves. In a Republic, the government is a servant of the people, and obliged to its owner, We the People..

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    SRV hands down

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    I'm a fan of the Spanish guitar. Not anyone in particular.


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    Michael Schenker and Adrian Smith are my favorites.

 

 

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