Looking Back

[ELVIS]

Zakk was better in High School...

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[Eddie's Booze]

Originally posted by ELVIS
Zakk was better in High School...

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Compared to Yngwie.....he is a beginner.

[donanger1]

Solos

Take the 5 seconds to care and spell Stevie's last name RIGHT! It's Vaughan. Get it right.

[Mike-DLR]

eddie is the king....watching him back in '04 (to this day i regret seeing sammy ) his fuckin 20 minute solo was insane...sure he mighta been wasted, but when eddies on, hes truly the best

[DLRdelight!]

Originally posted by Eddie's Booze
this is really good guitar playing....

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yeah i see what you mean but the vibe that ed throws out just seems so real. his emotions really do come out of his guitar and i think that is what makes someone great to watch. there are many guitarists that do too much for show. ed on the other hand was just himself

[Redballjets88]

Originally posted by ELVIS
Yngwie did...

no.

[TOM_5150]

Originally posted by MUSICMANN
Zakk sounds like shit. Just because you can run sclaes at a million miles and hr, doesn't mean you are great. I compare his sound to a cat pissing on a hotwire. Ed played fast but with a touch and feeling. The only other players that had that, was Hendrix and Vaughn.

Why do so many younger players think that playing at light speed means great. Playing fast for fast sake doesn't equal to being a really great player it's just playing fast.

Hendrix changed the way the whole world played guitar, then Ed did the same thing when VH hit the seen. No other guitar players have come out since, to do that.

Right on!

[ELVIS]

Originally posted by Redballjets88
no.

Yes he did, you idiot!

You're 19 years old, how would you even know ??

When Yngwie came out, people all but forgot about Edward at least for several years...

Read comments from people like Paul Gilbert and Brad Gillis who cite Yngwie as major influences...

Everyone was immediately into the neo-classical aproach to the electric guitar and heavy metal...

[ELVIS]

Approach, even...


:D

[jhale667]

Originally posted by Redballjets88
no.

WRONG again, dude. Yngwie has been the only true innovator to come along since EVH...

Though if you ask me, Rhoads was pioneering the neoclassical thing before his untimely death.

[binnie]

I'm a big Zakk fan, but he' verging into self-parody. He does the same thing over and over, and has been playing pretty much the same solo at Ozzy gigs from 20 years now.

He's had some fantastic moments, "No Rest...", "Pride and Glory" and several of the BLS albums, but he's just not in the same ball park as Ed.

Or Randy for that matter.

[ELVIS]

Or any of the top players, but Zakk is entertaining to watch when you're standing in front of him and he's nailing the Randy solos better than Randy ever did live...

[ELVIS]

I would have liked to see Yngwie do a tour or an album with Ozzy, or better yet, with Dio...

Had one of those options happened, Yngwie would be more of a household name...

I think even so, if he had kept Jeff Scott Soto throughout the years...

Grate chemistry there...

[kamaboko]

Yngwie blew his load on the first Alacatraz album. I saw him on that tour. The show was great for the first coupe of songs, but then his crap got old. It was like a two hour solo.

[hideyoursheep]

Originally posted by ELVIS
Yes he did, you idiot!

You're 19 years old, how would you even know ??

When Yngwie came out, people all but forgot about Edward at least for several years...

Read comments from people like Paul Gilbert and Brad Gillis who cite Yngwie as major influences...

Everyone was immediately into the neo-classical aproach to the electric guitar and heavy metal...

You're on dog food!

When Wankvie came out no one gave a shit! Not until Rhodes died, anyway. Then there was this idea that classical guitar could be injected into *cough* Rock n Roll and be en vogue. The reason these guys never really caught on, except for with other guitar players, is because the songs were gag-nasty. Then they would crowbar the wankage in the middle, and you lame assed guitar god wanna be's would sniff the stink from their foreskins.

Yeah, Wankvie's good, but not original. Nor is he exciting.
Gilbert? That Racer X cat? Please! Gillis? The Night Ranger/ Rhoads substitute wanker? You think if he were that good, Ozzy would want to keep him. The world couldn't wait for his Academy Award winning performance in the "Sister Christian" video for Best Dramatic Overacting Performance With a Guitar.
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