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Guitarists Everyone Can Agree On

Why should you care? Only about 20 percent of the people posting in this thread understood what TS was posting about. The urge to throw out your own favorite guitarists is just overwhelming.
 
I think all of the students that Joe Satriani has instructed is highly impressive:

Steve Vai, Larry LaLonde, Rick Hunolt, Kirk Hammett, Andy Timmons, Charlie Hunter, Kevin Cadogan and Alex Skolnick
 
I think Dimebag needs to be on the shortlist. He is certainly metals greatest all around player when it comes to writing ability, diversity, innovation, technicality, and personality.
 


I know a lot of guitarists have huge respect for Shawn Lane. He's just a little too fast for me LOL. When I first heard this I thought it was fake then I found more videos of him and realized he was real.

Quite a loss.. RIP
 
How do y'all feel bout Gary Clark Jr?








 
wish i had a cool hipster one, but herman li is a beast

not one of the best, but i dont know anyone who thinks poorly of him
 
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i think the hard part of picking someone who isnt one of the indisputable GOATs is that they have to be mainstream enough to appeal to everyone but not so much that people say "im tired of him being shoved down my throat, so overrated!"

an MMA example of that sweet spot is joe lauzon. good enough for everyone to like, but no so good as to force 500000 "when will joe lauzon be champ threads"
 
Gorgo said:


I know a lot of guitarists have huge respect for Shawn Lane. He's just a little too fast for me LOL. When I first heard this I thought it was fake then I found more videos of him and realized he was real.

Quite a loss.. RIP
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High speed masturbation. Just awful. Lane doesn't belong in this thread.
 
Read the first 7 pages and no mention of Carlos Santana??

Shame on all you cans.

 
Possum Jenkins said:
Read the first 7 pages and no mention of Carlos Santana??

Shame on all you cans.

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Frank Zappa used a solo to construct a song he named "The Secret Carlos Santana Chord Progression"... because Carlos always uses the same progression.

He's great but so limited. He fell in love with one thing and made a career out of it.
 
lowsingle said:
wish i had a cool hipster one, but herman li is a beast

not one of the best, but i dont know anyone who thinks poorly of him
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Its all studio my friend. Watch him play live, he is very very sloppy and all over the place.
 
Satanical Eve said:
Its all studio my friend. Watch him play live, he is very very sloppy and all over the place.
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Thats true of more "great" musicians than you'd believe.

When I was a kid, I used to hang out at a record store and the owner used to sell me bootlegs of old concerts.

Jimi Hendrix was brutal live. Just awful.
The Doors sounds like every single weekend blues bands I've ever seen. Sloppy, messy.
Led Zeppelin, same thing. Awful.
One band who really impressed me from the tapes I heard was Black Sabbath. They were always tight and accurate with their tunes.
 
Seano said:
Thats true of more "great" musicians than you'd believe.

When I was a kid, I used to hang out at a record store and the owner used to sell me bootlegs of old concerts.

Jimi Hendrix was brutal live. Just awful.
The Doors sounds like every single weekend blues bands I've ever seen. Sloppy, messy.
Led Zeppelin, same thing. Awful.
One band who really impressed me from the tapes I heard was Black Sabbath. They were always tight and accurate with their tunes.
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Old bootlegs are brutal. And unfair to the artist who would never release a bootleg quality album.
 
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