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Jan 16th 2015, 22:10:12

Santana

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Jan 16th 2015, 22:47:31

I love Slash, but I wouldn't consider him even top 5.

Clapton, Page, Hendrix, Vaughn, Gilmour

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Jan 16th 2015, 22:49:51

Randy Rhoads!

For pure technical virtuosity, guys like Ron Jarzombek, Michael Romeo, Chris Broderick and John Petrucci are still making new music. I look at it like this. All 4 of those guys could play anything by the other artists mentioned, and I don't think the other artists could all play what those guys do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkpZ645ztl0

braden

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Jan 16th 2015, 23:01:03

slowhand is great

Marshal

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Jan 16th 2015, 23:08:06

david gilmour ain't bad either.

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Jan 16th 2015, 23:12:47

Jimi

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Jan 16th 2015, 23:19:28

trey

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Jan 16th 2015, 23:20:30

well i do love trey most, but to be fair jimi was the best. no contest

major

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Jan 16th 2015, 23:34:00

page

also a forgotten great is Alex Lifeson of Rush

UpTheIrons

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Jan 16th 2015, 23:35:44

Joe Chawki

https://www.youtube.com/...=UUewepsHD5fHyWY5Q0IcC2iw

Vic

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Jan 16th 2015, 23:57:38

nice share on chawki

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Jan 17th 2015, 0:41:37

Originally posted by KoHeartsGPA:

Santana

braden

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Jan 17th 2015, 1:15:09

Originally posted by major:

page

also a forgotten great is Alex Lifeson of Rush

at any time in his career he was the third best musician on stage. not a knock at him, just lee and peart are like, well, retatded talented

braden

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Jan 17th 2015, 1:16:42

and i gotta name drop hackett

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Jan 17th 2015, 5:51:37

Lil Wayne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g762REJWcg

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Jan 17th 2015, 9:31:31

Hendrix

Rhoads, Vaughn and Page were all excellent, but think Hendrix was absolute genius.

Do wish Rhoads had lived longer though, musically gifted and do not think he even came close to his potential.

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Jan 17th 2015, 13:03:14

Dimebag Darrell hands down, no other argument is valid

VicRattlehead

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Jan 17th 2015, 15:09:57

Tosin Abasi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P4GsF1zdzM

UpTheIrons

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Jan 18th 2015, 18:10:30

Originally posted by Vic:

trey

Trey Azagthoth ?

BUTTMAN

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Jan 18th 2015, 18:17:36

Anastasio most like

Vic

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Jan 18th 2015, 20:32:46

ya i'm hugely devoted to the phish, been to over 50 shows. trey is awesome live but he lacks some of the virtuosity to be considered for this conversation. still an amazing guitarist when considered in the context of his band

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Jan 19th 2015, 7:31:33

I'd go with Paco de Lucia or Stanley Jordan.

I'd also include Yngwie Malmsteen, Al di Meola, Buckethead, Wes Montgomery, Steve Ray Vaughn, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, and Andres Segovia for the rest of my top 10.

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Jan 19th 2015, 15:57:35

Hi gabe, buckethead is pretty spectacular

braden

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Jan 19th 2015, 16:38:59

jeff beck?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4emJASIuYA

meh, might as well go whole show, am i right?

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Jan 19th 2015, 16:40:54

neil young?

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Jan 19th 2015, 17:08:57

me on guitar hero
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Jan 19th 2015, 17:33:44

Mrs. Puff.

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Jan 20th 2015, 4:05:41

I grew up in st. louis so a quick hop across the river and I was in East St. Louis Illinois. the true blues center for the midwest. Got to meet albert, bb and freddy king. Ike turner, all are super great. Jimmi was awesome, and check out the cd called rainbow bridge, he had one heck of a buzz going on.
in 1972 was at the mar e sol festival in pureto rico, vega baja/bayamon area. 7 days of music, no food, no water, no clothes. On easter evening which was also a full moon, they flew in two heavy organs and the Allman brothers played. then as the sun was coming up BB King played for hours.
we had bob seeger and teddie nugent play in a cave for us south of st. louis, could not hear for 3 days.

But still my most favorite is Jeff Beck in his rarest cd, that few have heard
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braden

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Jan 20th 2015, 4:21:17

allman brothers are a great deal of fun.. if you can't enjoy their music you must not enjoy music very much ;p
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdnjyalA87Y
bb is amazing, but i would have *loved* to see seger in his prime (which i, not being alive, would guess was between the mid to late seventies, not so much so early as seventy two but of ocurse i very well may be mistaken (when was the hollywood nights album released?)

and yes, it would appear you and i are the only beck fans in the house, brujo :(

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Jan 20th 2015, 5:51:06

let me try to refocus this thread. if jimi, and some of the others mentioned above, had similar levels of virtuosity, and jimi dipped his bandana in acid, and then wrapped said bandana around his head, and then dropped a few more drops of acid directly in his eyes for good measure, who was the better guitarist?

quite literally jimi was seeing sounds (and this actually wasn't from the acid alone, he was born this way) and couple that with a flood load of very potent and clean acid, the likes of which simply are not produced today, jimi was a virtuoso of different levels. he was omnipotent.

jimi hendrix is the best.
a lot of the guitarists above can play a lot of complicated scales quickly, but did they flow with a band like jimi could? OF COURSE NOT. did they create truly transcendent sound? no.

jimi hendrix.

Vic

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Jan 20th 2015, 5:53:28

and bradey, allman bros was my first concert ever. they are awesome.
also in a similar level of awesomeness is govt mule and warren haynes - and specifically check out the last show I saw of them which was boston halloween in either 2008 or 2009. (just look for when govt mule played boston 10/31). second set surprise Dark side of the moon costume. warren haynes killed it. (a musical costume is a halloween show when a band [traditionally it was phish] plays a surprise cover set start to finish of a certain album of another band)

jimi hendrix is still the best though

Edited By: Vic on Jan 20th 2015, 5:58:06

Riddler

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Jan 21st 2015, 1:32:18

apples and oranges guys, there are several great guitarists out there, each within a different genre, let me name a few of my faves.

Dimebag
Randy Rhoads
Jake E Lee
Jesse Triplett
Rivers Cuomo
Joe Satriani
Steve Vai
Eric Johnson

too many more to name really

breeze

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Jan 21st 2015, 1:42:39

Kirk Hammett of Metallica gets my vote

braden

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Jan 21st 2015, 2:52:39

richie havens, joan baez, robert zimmerman, and buddys from sha na na

oh, i'm sorry, i thought we'd started simply naming muscians who, in their career, have held guitars.

chords and scales are for people learning guitar, vic. off the top of my head jimis best guitar work is star spangled banner, what with acid and bandanas and stocks of wood, of course, and this i do not believe, as a black man, he would have been allowed to write.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA51wyl-9IE

now, at the same time.. jimi dropped lsd knowing he'd play. havens played, opening, for like nine hours or something retarded like that, before somebody came off after him. could jimi have done something so impeccably well without ruining it with his acid induced lets all think i'm the greatest, mentality? i guess not.

also, for scott, black people don't know how to play guitar. lets be serious (the joke being that i am literally watching a dvd of a black man playing guitar)

clap your hands, clap your hands, clap your hands, clap your hands..

since drugs beside cords of wood while wearing bandanas makes you talented guitarists, lets go country joe?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuUBCF3KKxc

braden

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Jan 21st 2015, 2:54:45

and.. preferring hendrix is one thing, but you can't listen to woodstock and not adore tens years after. lets be serious, anybody can prefer jimi this is fine.. just don't suggest that what he did while there was any more impressive than what anybody else did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW5M5xljdCI

11:23.. but you'll appreciate it, even if you hate me ;p

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Jan 21st 2015, 3:18:25

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YkDH2s5eW0

now i'm just watching woodstock, is all ;p

(also, vic, if you'd follow me on instagram you might see the progression of me trying for the same beard ;p)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YkDH2s5eW0

Edited By: braden on Jan 21st 2015, 3:21:38
See Original Post

braden

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Jan 21st 2015, 3:29:27

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YkDH2s5eW0

the subtitles i presume were meant for HEARTS

braden

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Jan 21st 2015, 3:37:10

also i apologize vic for entirely derailiing your point, but i got high and now im just having far too much fun with this. i'll go for hours, bud ;p

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YkDH2s5eW0

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braden

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Jan 21st 2015, 3:41:18

five hundred thousand people, all silent? her band, all silent [at times]. her screaming into a microphone. and it's so fluffiing amazing- who else can do this?
ugly as sin, but fluff do i love this woman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YkDH2s5eW0

Edited By: braden on Jan 21st 2015, 3:44:30. Reason: i fucked up my edit i think thrice now :(

braden

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Jan 21st 2015, 3:47:21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn7dKI3fbYg

martin scorcese is a fluffing idiot, it's a live concert. he did the same thing with welcome back, kotter.. or sorry, i mean john sebastian but thats even worse because it's literally naked children. fluffing idiot.

i'll stop now, sorry for ruining the thread. i had fun though.

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Jan 21st 2015, 8:21:11

I'd have to go with Stevie Ray Vaughn or Robin Trower myself. But that might be due to my age. Not that familiar with what's running around out there right now.

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Jan 21st 2015, 8:30:12

Hendrix & Dimebag

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Jan 21st 2015, 8:32:48

Originally posted by HavocMD:

Lil Wayne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g762REJWcg

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This is a joke, right?

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Jan 21st 2015, 13:01:39

I think Bru won this thread already.

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Syko_Killa

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Jan 22nd 2015, 5:32:49

There are tons of better guitarists than these old guys. But if your talking about generationwise, than i'm not sure. But Oli Herbert From All That Remains is pretty awesome. There are many more too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXHa4iyKaYY

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Syko_Killa

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Jan 22nd 2015, 5:36:21

I also like his guitar tune in this song from Oli https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5w2Rw5SdLg

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Rockman

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Jan 25th 2015, 6:48:49

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9RS4biqyAc

A showcase of Paco de Lucia's ability. Normally he plays flamenco, but he's playing classical in this song. It's not as technically impressive as his flamenco work, but his ability to use changes in dynamics or tempo here to add emotion is so incredible.