Your Top 5 Rock Guitarist

[binnie]

Originally posted by Mr Badguy
I used to think that way too.

Thin Lizzy were great pioneers and Priest and Maiden do have incredible partnerships, but...

...now I think King Crimson do the two guitar thing on a different level to everyone else. It`s not all doubled up riffs and twin harmonys but two interlocking parts that make no sense without each other with mindblowing arrangements and amazing...erm..."discipline". It must have been a lot of work for Robert Fripp and Adrian Belew (two guitarists who are equally famous for thier individual work) to get that stuff so tight, to the point where entire songs would consist of two intricately weaving guitar parts.

Anyone interested in some HOT guitar work should check out "Discipline", "The construKction of light", "The power to believe" or the excellent live "Absent lovers".

Cheers Badguy, King Crimson will be on my lst of things to check out.

[Mr Badguy]

Originally posted by rustoffa
The title track of Discipline is exactly what you're typing about. The thing about that record, for me, is the way Belew just took it over. Elephant Talk is some LOL shit!!

Yeah!

Fripp said that Belew, Levin and Bruford were so good that he felt almost like a spare part in his own band.

"Discipline" is an awesome record and one that too few people have heard.

[king of rock]

Originally posted by binnie
Yep, probably the first band to really pave the way for using duel leads and harmony playing that became such a stock of metal later on. Priest and Maiden did it best, and really standardized it, but Lizzy paved the way.

Fuckin' incredible band.

Originally posted by GO-SPURS-GO
I don't wanna talk for Redball, but I think he was telling you to respect peoples opinions. That's all.... By the way you are shitting on these guitar players, you must be well known. What's the name of your big time band? And what web-site can we hear your music, so we can compare your playing to these boring players that you don't like.

[Hyman Roth]

Alex Lifeson
Steve Morse
Pat Metheny
Eric Johnson
Jeff Beck
Steve Howe
Larry Carlton/Dean Parks/Dennis Dias
Lowell George/Paul Barerre/Fred Tackett

[king of rock]

Originally posted by GO-SPURS-GO
I don't wanna talk for Redball, but I think he was telling you to respect peoples opinions. That's all.... By the way you are shitting on these guitar players, you must be well known. What's the name of your big time band? And what web-site can we hear your music, so we can compare your playing to these boring players that you don't like.

Are you a total dope?Let's take a survey of the amount of people in this post with platinum albums.Wait no one has a platnum album in this forum,or is even in a band,or even worse can even play guitar(which i actually can thank you as a hobby of course).But we can put forth an opinion of who we like ,and or dislike,can't we.But the problem is with you and your opinion stiffleing buddy.Didn't he just reply to a post of Clapton being boring just like I originally did?(contridiction)Boy he better have a web site highlighting his shredding.So next time he farts and your head pops out his ass,remember that old saying only 2 things come from texas steers and ******,and you don't look like a steer.Good Day

[matt19]

Originally posted by Mike Sobolewski
1) Sammy Hagar
2) Johnny Bravo
3) Esteban
4) David Cassidy
5) Prince

LMMFAO! I didn't catch that Esteban.

[Golden AWe]

EVH...
May...
Beck...
Iommi...
Page...

It ain't easy to leave Clapton, Townshend or Hendrix from the list...

[Redballjets88]

Originally posted by king of rock
Are you a total dope?Let's take a survey of the amount of people in this post with platinum albums.Wait no one has a platnum album in this forum,or is even in a band,or even worse can even play guitar(which i actually can thank you as a hobby of course).But we can put forth an opinion of who we like ,and or dislike,can't we.But the problem is with you and your opinion stiffleing buddy.Didn't he just reply to a post of Clapton being boring just like I originally did?(contridiction)Boy he better have a web site highlighting his shredding.So next time he farts and your head pops out his ass,remember that old saying only 2 things come from texas steers and ******,and you don't look like a steer.Good Day

you're a retard, find a new way to diss texans other than using a line from a movie made 30 years ago

[binnie]

I don't play guitar, so this definately a "favourite" lists rather than a "best", which I am not qualified to discuss.

For me, a guitar player has to maintain my interest over a decent amount of time and always excite me.

1) Tony Iommi (the riffs, the thickness of the sound, the groove and heaviness. No frills, just kills)
2) Dimebag. (bought Vulgar dialay of Power the day it came out, a it crushed me. Someone who actually pushed extreme metal forward and combined groove, melody AND heaviness, which is a rare thing)
3) Jeff Beck (really gotten into his back catalogue after joining this site a year or so ago, and realising how unbelievable his music is)
4) Slash (as soon as he plays, you know it's him.)
5) Jake E Lee. (Love his Ozzy-era and Badlands is one of my favourite bands. Under-appreciated, in my opinion.)

Other people I love: Schenker, Randy Rhoades, Dave Mustaine, Angus Young, James Hetfield just for the sheer asskickin riffs on the first five records), Hendrix, Page, Nugent, and Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Could go on and on about players I like a lot, but there's only a few who constantly make me smile

[ppg960]

EVH
Uli Jon Roth
Jimmy Page
Jeff Beck
Steve Vai
Clapton
Hendrix
MSG
Kirk Hammitt

[king of rock]

Originally posted by Redballjets88
you're a retard, find a new way to diss texans other than using a line from a movie made 30 years ago

Diss?Oh so your what they refer to as a wigger.I don't need to bust on texans,I mean come on your from texas,ya'll do a fine job on your own.And if your finished now i would like to go back to disscussing the wonders of David Lee Roth and VH past present and future.If not believe me I can argue forever.

[Shaun Ponsonby]

I'd have to say...

1) Ed (in his prime...for the obvious reasons)
2) Brian May (for his tone)
3) Tony Iommi (for inventing metal, and opening the door for do many others)
4) Pete Townshend (for his compositional skills)
5) Slash (cos he's so damn cool rather than his technical ability. Plus he writes a catchy solo)

If I was allowed a 6th...Rory...

[tajmahal]

1. EVH
2. Tom Scholz
3. Alex Lifeson
4. Neal Schon
5. Randy Rhodes

[ELVIS]

Edward

Yngwie

SRV

Randy

And, umm...

Ted

[ELVIS]

I could probably replace Randy or Ted with Tony on any given day...

[FORD]

Nugent blows dead goats.

[ELVIS]

No way, dude...

That's silly...

[Redballjets88]

Originally posted by king of rock
Diss?Oh so your what they refer to as a wigger.I don't need to bust on texans,I mean come on your from texas,ya'll do a fine job on your own.And if your finished now i would like to go back to disscussing the wonders of David Lee Roth and VH past present and future.If not believe me I can argue forever.

argue what, an ignorant view of a state and the people from there?

[Redballjets88]

Originally posted by ELVIS
No way, dude...

That's silly...

dude when a guitarist doesnt politically agree with ford it means they cant play, i cant believe you didnt know that

[binnie]

Originally posted by FORD
Nugent blows dead goats.

That's the topic of his next hunting book...

[Shaun Ponsonby]

Ooooh, I hope he names it something similar

"101 Ways to Blow a Dead Goat"

[rustoffa]

Originally posted by Mr Badguy
Yeah!

Fripp said that Belew, Levin and Bruford were so good that he felt almost like a spare part in his own band.

"Discipline" is an awesome record and one that too few people have heard.

It's almost like a concept record that noone in the band was conceptualizing....the first time I heard it was during a road trip to Sebastian Inlet (surfing). Think A1A, lots of krypto weed, and beer. After like the third or fourth I heard Belew go, "this is a dangerous place" , I asked the pot-addled driver who the band was. He said it was King Crimson, and he wasn't going to play any more of my shitty metal tapes or something.

[FORD]

Here's some cool jamming for all you guitar freaks....

Guitar - Phil Keaggy
Bass - Tony Levin
Drums - Jerry Marotta

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I don't know if these guys ever officially recorded anything together, but I wish they would. Phil's been slacking lately with all his acoustic stuff. Needs to plug in to an amplifier again.....

[GO-SPURS-GO]

Originally posted by FORD
Here's some cool jamming for all you guitar freaks....

Guitar - Phil Keaggy
Bass - Tony Levin
Drums - Jerry Marotta

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I don't know if these guys ever officially recorded anything together, but I wish they would. Phil's been slacking lately with all his acoustic stuff. Needs to plug in to an amplifier again.....

Sounds pretty cool. I played in a blues/jazz type band (never this good though), so I can appreciate this stuff. Not the kind of music to listen to while tired and driving. Thanks Ford. Is this at a church?

[FORD]

Originally posted by GO-SPURS-GO
Sounds pretty cool. I played in a blues/jazz type band (never this good though), so I can appreciate this stuff. Not the kind of music to listen to while tired and driving. Thanks Ford. Is this at a church?

Looks like it. And it wouldn't be unusual for Phil Keaggy to be playing in a church, though I'm not sure about the other guys' religious beliefs.

[rustoffa]

Gotta love YouTube!!!

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[FORD]

Adrian Belew & David Bowie - Pretty Pink Rose

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[Mr Badguy]

Originally posted by rustoffa
Gotta love YouTube!!!

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Great!

I still have no idea how Tony Levin plays that stick.

[Hyman Roth]

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[mako_kimura]

I knew I'd end up changing this list 50 billion times, so here goes:

1. Roope Latvala
2. Alexi Laiho
3. Muhammed Suicmez (From the German band Necrophagist. Don't like the band, just Muhammed's playing)

4. Paul Gilbert
5. Al Di Meola