Hey I bet Rogue never heard of this guy either.
This is just a really cool instrumental piece that’s a tribute to Randy Rhoads…very cool…
And must give a shout out to the amazing, melodic and incredibly technical Vinnie Moore…just listen to the chops combined with fantastic feel and awesome composition…
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]SkyNett wrote:
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
The real test of the ‘greatest rock guitar player of all time’ is to take a sample of people from all walks of life and ask them to name a rock (or electric) guitarist.
I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that Jimi Hendrix and/or Eddie Van Halen would win that poll by a large, large, margin. Hell, my mom who certainly knows who Led Zeppelin is doesn’t know who Jimmy Page is (that’s not to minimize Jimmy Page). Ask a group of kids to name the first guitar player to come to their mind and I bet the winner is Jimi Hendrix or EVH.
“Jimi Hendrix” and “Eddie Van Halen” are synonoymous with “electric guitar”. Neither one was/is a great technician, but both turned how people thought about and played electric guitar upside down. That’s what makes them GREATEST.
Jimi didn’t invent the pentatonic scale. EVH didn’t invent ‘tapping’, but their application and phrasing and songwriting were way ahead of their contemporaries. EVH almost single handedly revived a failing electric guitar industry.
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Great post S but I disagree about VH not being a great technician - he definitely is, and certainly in 1978 he was at the forefront of technical rock guitar. Compared to Yngwie or Petrucci or Gilbert - then yea, but that’s all post-EVH…
Also should point out that EVH was the first to jam a humbucker into a strat body and pretty much single-handeldly created the after market electric guitar craze…
And just for shits and giggles…
That incredible clean picked intro, awesome heavy rhythm and all the insane little licks and fills he plays all over this tune live…so awesome… [/quote]
Steely’s the man, but I have to agree with SkyNett here. Yeah, Jimi wasn’t a great technician, but Eddie was/is. Granted, I’m not a guitar player, but as a bassist I could easily see that one of EVH’s strengths was his impeccable sense of rhythm. The man played flawlessly within structure and never got lost with all he was throwing in a passage at any given moment.
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I won’t argue the point of EVH not being a great technician- it’s a semantic arguement at best. By that I meant in context of his playing today versus his hey day. When I use the term “technician”, I think of the Petrucci’s, Holdsworths, etc in today’s context.
I play guitar because of Eddie Van Halen. I was 6 when I was given the first Van Halen album.
Of course, the point of my post was that when you walk into a remote town in rural China where they might have 4 people who have heard electric guitar and you ask them to name one, I’d put $100 on the answer being “Eddie Van Haren” (while miming tapping a guitar fretboard).
That, my friends, is “greatness”
Stevie Ray would piss all over these jokers, except Jimi…done
Obviously posted who I feel is the top spot, but where or how would y’all rank someone like Buckethead? Not even necessarily a fan, but the dude can go.
[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:
how would y’all rank someone like Buckethead? [/quote]
Interesting for about 5 minutes. Can take in small doses.
Incredible technical ability. He’s a guitar god to his 46 fans.
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:
how would y’all rank someone like Buckethead? [/quote]
Interesting for about 5 minutes. Can take in small doses.
Incredible technical ability. He’s a guitar god to his 46 fans.[/quote]
That’s kinda how I felt. One of my buddies showed me a YouTube vid of him, and while impressive I just couldn’t really get into it.
[quote]strangemeadow wrote:
[quote]Viernes wrote:
What’s wrong with Kurt Hammett?
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Holy shit, you’re kidding, right? He writes almost none of the songs and his solos are so stiff feeling and rehearsed they don’t even sit in the mix very well. Except for Justice and Death Magnetic it’s pretty sad…and if you took away his CryBaby he’d have no balls at all.
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Well this is clearly a matter of personal taste then. I am not a guitarist or a musician of any sort, but I do love listening to Metallica more so than any other band.
It’s KIRK Hammett…
I forgot him in my first post but I love listening to old Gary Moore
[quote]mistabreeze wrote:
Stevie Ray would piss all over these jokers, except Jimi…done[/quote]
Saw him twice, once with Jeff Beck. Beck absolutely blew him away.
Gary Moore rules. RIP.
Beck is God-like…
Gilbert’s AWESOME cover of El Becko…
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
[quote]SkyNett wrote:
It’s KIRK Hammett… [/quote]
It’s Burnt Omellette …[/quote]
A terrible waste of precious calories and protein!
[quote]Testy1 wrote:
[quote]mistabreeze wrote:
Stevie Ray would piss all over these jokers, except Jimi…done[/quote]
Saw him twice, once with Jeff Beck. Beck absolutely blew him away.
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Yeah, well I once saw Roy Buchanan open for SRV back in '85, and Roy was the king that night!
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]Testy1 wrote:
[quote]mistabreeze wrote:
Stevie Ray would piss all over these jokers, except Jimi…done[/quote]
Saw him twice, once with Jeff Beck. Beck absolutely blew him away.
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Yeah, well I once saw Roy Buchanan open for SRV back in '85, and Roy was the king that night![/quote]
I don’t find that hard to believe at all, he’s another one of my favorites. Never got to see him though.
Didn’t Roy Buchanan (badass) do the country picking for Ralph Machio’s character on Crossroads?
[quote]strangemeadow wrote:
Didn’t Roy Buchanan (badass) do the country picking for Ralph Machio’s character on Crossroads?[/quote]
No that was Ry Cooder.
Speaking of that…Everyone loves the actual duel part with the classical stuff, but Vai simply kills it from 0:40 - 1:26 playing exactly the kind of insane, fucked up blues/rock shred you’d expect the Devil’s guitar player to bang out. Love the ascending run right at the end and the way he just SLAMS that last bend…the look on Willie’s face there is priceless…
“Jack Butler’s gonna like you!”
[quote]SkyNett wrote:
[quote]strangemeadow wrote:
Didn’t Roy Buchanan (badass) do the country picking for Ralph Machio’s character on Crossroads?[/quote]
No that was Ry Cooder. [/quote]
Good catch, thx.