Off Topic => General Off Topic => Topic started by: Casul on June 22, 2016, 02:38:24 am
Title: Best guitarists in the world!
Post by: Casul on June 22, 2016, 02:38:24 am
Who is your personal favorite? Tell me who is missing in the poll or who you like most, glad to hear new stuff!
There obviously isn't THE best guitar player on the world, maybe we can agree on Hendrix tho, although everyone might find his own personal favorite, share your opinion!
#1 Gilmour I am going with David Gilmour by far on this. Pink Floyd has been my favorite group for years now and they still lead by far. He's my personal #1, he might not be the best technician nor is he the fastest player, but the typical Gilmour sound and Pink Floyd's greatest songs is everything I wish on my funeral. Also he is one of my favorite singers ever aswell (screaming background on pigs - 3rd spoiler - fucking incredible!)
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#2 SRV My newcomer and the reason why I make this thread is Stevie Ray Vaughan, like wtf, I feel like I missed his skills half my life, listening to him for years now but never regocnize his genius, woaaaaaah
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#3 Hendrix When I was a kid I saw the picture of him kneeling in front of his burning guitar. Back then I thought he was playing so good that it caught fire. I was right.
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Also 2 of my secret (underrated) guitarists who sadly didnt make it in my top 3:
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Title: Re: Best guitarists in the world!
Post by: Leshma on June 22, 2016, 02:47:51 am
SHOCKING! Metalheads hate Cassi
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Post by: Son Of Odin on June 22, 2016, 03:03:13 am
Dimebag. Always. Best all around. Wrote the heaviest riffs and melted your face off with his solos.
Picked this video because it proves why he's the best. See that small 5Watt mini Marshall amp hanging from his neck? Yes he sounded that good through that. Some morons can buy a 3000€ amp head and still sound like absolute garbage.
Then there's this of course:
oh and PS. Kirk Hammet sucks Lars Ulrich's hairy balls... Only one from the original Metallica who has gas left in the tank but that isn't much of an achievement.
PPS. Did I not see Jimmy Page in the poll? Goddamit Cassi you have couple good ones there but don't make me slap you! :D PPPS. Uh... No slap needed. Found Jimmy.
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Post by: Zergmar on June 22, 2016, 03:04:16 am
pls, jimi is god
Title: Re: Best guitarists in the world!
Post by: Leshma on June 22, 2016, 03:17:28 am
Missing:
Les Paul Muddy Waters Lou Reed Chet Atkins Frank Zappa Joe Satriani Steve Vai Paco de Lucía James Hetfield Keith Richards T-Bone Walker Bruce Springsteen Johnny Marr John Frusciante Tony Iommi Alex Lifeson Ritchie Blackmore Brian May Angus Young Robert Fripp Joe Perry Steve Stevens Yngwie Malmsteen and many more
Voted for Mark. He's my inspiration for playing guitar. Angus comes close second.
Title: Re: Best guitarists in the world!
Post by: Leshma on June 22, 2016, 04:14:20 am
Forgot to mention something important. At first glance I didn't notice Clapton on the list... please remove him and put name J.J. Cale instead.
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Post by: Son Of Odin on June 22, 2016, 04:33:16 am
I'm just gonna throw some names that come after Dime in random order:
Chuck Schuldiner (Maybe not the most technical player but very creative.) Zakk Wylde Randy Rhoads Billy Gibbons Devin Townsend Dave Mustaine Karl Sanders Dallas Toler-Wade Michael Amott (Carcass days. Them dank riffs) Roope Latvala Alexi Laiho Kerry King Marty Friedman (Before he went all J-pop ugh...) Steve Morse
Just to mention couple that weren't on your lists. Of course love those classic rock guitarists you listed Cassi & Leshma. SVR, EVH, Jimmy Page, Blackmore etc. undeniable skill and creativity.
Steve Morse's solos in this always give me goosebumps:
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Example of Chuck Shuldiner's song writing ingenuity. Never heard anyone writing riffs like that before or after him:
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Title: Re: Best guitarists in the world!
Post by: Kadeth on June 22, 2016, 05:23:17 am
you might appreciate this Odin, probably the best Chuck tribute I've heard, they really captured his style:
but yea, European tech death and power metal bands are always pushing the boundaries as far as technical guitar playing goes.
best guitarist is a hard call, there are so many song writers that I have immense respect for that I find it hard to make a short list
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Post by: Jacaroma on June 22, 2016, 07:28:18 am
Where's the John Mayer? I did vote for B.B. just my personal favorite.
At 1:05 he goes crazy.
Also this... Relationships Mayer's famous girlfriends have included Jennifer Love Hewitt,[128] Jessica Simpson, Minka Kelly,[161] Jennifer Aniston, Katy Perry, and an affair with singer Taylor Swift.[77]
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Post by: Christo on June 22, 2016, 08:23:40 am
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Post by: Gurnisson on June 22, 2016, 11:14:57 am
A lot of good mentions there, Leshma. Eddie Cochran deserves a mention too, great talent.
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Post by: Daunt_Flockula on June 22, 2016, 12:54:54 pm
Good mentions overall. I'd definitely add Mikael Akerfeldt though. Maybe also Dan Swanö, but it'd be my unpopular personal opinion.
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Post by: SixThumbs on June 22, 2016, 01:19:02 pm
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Post by: Yeldur on June 22, 2016, 02:51:28 pm
Chuck Berry is the only acceptable answer.
Title: Re: Best guitarists in the world!
Post by: Leshma on June 22, 2016, 06:51:39 pm
I somehow forgot to mention Gary Moore...
As you probably noticed, I don't particularly value technical aspect of playing guitar. That isn't so hard to master, there are many unknown musicians who can do all sorts of crazy things with the instrument. What they cannot do, they can't make guitar "speak". Only few are capable of that. Gilmore, Hendrix and Knopfler are probably the best at doing exactly that. Not that I don't value technical players, included many of them. Overall, Satriani probably wins in every category but he hasn't created truly magical music like previously mentioned guitarists. His music is great, but it isn't magical.
Also don't get the hate for Hammett or Metallica members. They wrote some of the best metal songs. Dave Mustaine was huge part of it, though. But his greatest contribution to music is probably this :mrgreen:
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Post by: Radament on June 22, 2016, 07:14:20 pm
and
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Post by: Knute on June 22, 2016, 07:15:36 pm
They're all good. I have a recommendation for anyone who's into gear, the Premiere Guitar channel on YouTube. They interview musicians about their live setup and have talked to tons of people from Brian May to Eagles of Death Metal:
Title: Re: Best guitarists in the world!
Post by: Kadeth on June 24, 2016, 12:52:53 am
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Post by: Leshma on June 24, 2016, 01:04:59 am
Brilliant but total jerkface. Although he has stiff competition in Steve Stevens (dude looks like bird and is married to total tramp). Thing about Yngwie, he'll be forgotten just as fast he played his guitar.
Radament is backing his fellow 'talians, I see. But he is also showing why I dislike Steve Vai even though I value his technical ability. That piece he played is basically feverishly masturbating with a guitar. There is zero artistical value or style in that. Metal shredders at least serve a purpose in their subgenre, these guys (Vai, Yngwie) who play guitar for sake of playing guitar bring nothing of worth to the table. They are like that one dude in music store who comes when you want to purchase guitar, who'll show you some tricks of what instrument is capable of. It serves purpose in music store, it is pointless on stage. Don't understand the people who pay to listen to that shit.
Radament, if you want to promote Italy at least pick Al Di Meola. He's more Italian than Vai and Satriani combined.
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Post by: Macropus on June 26, 2016, 12:01:34 pm
I don't know shit about guitars, but I really like John Norum from Europe (the band).
And for acoutstic guitar, there's no god for me except the one true god, Igor Presnyakov. :)
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Post by: SixThumbs on June 26, 2016, 12:22:05 pm
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Post by: Tomas_Miles_again on June 26, 2016, 01:42:20 pm
John Williams? Andres Segovia? Julian Bream?
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Post by: Golem on June 26, 2016, 03:03:05 pm