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Petrovsk Mizinski View Drop Down

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Posted: March 12 2008 at 04:15

For those that still think Rusty Cooley has no feeling: http://youtube.com/watch?v=fGVec549bpk

It's my personal favorite Cooley solo btw.

Edited by HughesJB4 - March 12 2008 at 04:16

Petrovsk Mizinski View Drop Down

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Posted: March 22 2008 at 00:04

I'm not a fan of Night Ranger's music, but they had two really great guitarists on board, Jeff Watson and Brad Gillis. For those that aren't aware, Gillis also played with Ozzy Osbourne, the 2nd guitarist, after Bernie Torme, to replace Randy Rhoads.

Youtube both of these guys, both very cool, although I myself are more a Watson fan, a pioneer of 8 finger tapping

The Snark

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Posted: April 09 2008 at 04:16

Why does this topic always rear it's ugly head? Will the perfect master please stand up and tell us all, not who is the very tip top ultimate best toilet flusher, but how to perfectly and properly critique the flushing.

The beauty is in the ear and mind of the beholder. Please don't compare my Santana with my Satriani with my Andress with my Johnson with my Reinhardt and so on. They all danced with Estelle the cosmic whore at one time or another. Let's just appreciate them for what they have accomplished.

MikeEnRegalia View Drop Down

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Posted: April 09 2008 at 04:46

there will always be people who focus on the negative side ... I'm not one of them. I'm more happy to talk about what I like, than about what I dislike. Smile

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The Snark

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Posted: April 09 2008 at 22:05

Okay, let me toss this out. Say you are a fretboard genius born with a pick in your hand. Say someone walks up to you and asks, "We would like you to go toe to toe tonight with Stevie Vai, (or Beck at his hottest, or a couple dozen others). The audience will be all the most caustic critical guitarists or the past 75 years."

Who would feel comfortable?

When you are talking about what exactly is sitting where up in the cream of the top 1%, it becomes just a little academic. In that rarefied atmosphere a bad night or even the wrong comment can put the artist out of the running. On the other hand, when everything is grooving and smoking, you almost fell into the zone, and the lick is playing itself while you stand back in the third row and watch, amazed...

For consistent technique, use Eric Johnson as a weather vane. Maybe not the ultimate all time best, but there are very few players out there who won't stop and pay attention when he extols some neat little finger trick.

For the ultimate, it is a matter of choice. I once saw Zappa run off a lick that was so fast, so complex, and so technically perfect, it would have been impossible for any guitarist, himself included, to have kept running that jamb for more than a few seconds. Your hands would cramp or go numb. I am certain there are many of you out there who can recall a similar riff by some other artist. What is the use comparing them?

weetabix

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Posted: April 10 2008 at 03:25

Got to be Robin Trower

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiNU22nLf48

KrakAtack

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Posted: April 11 2008 at 04:41

Uli John Roth, Tony Bourge, Jan Akkerman, Rick Witkowski, Buck Dharma, Bill Nelson, J.Geils, Micky Jones, Deke Leonard, John Cippolina, Frank Zappa, Al Dimeola, Rory Gallagher.................for starters.........I cannot narrow it down.........I have hundreds that I like and they are all so different............

Edited by KrakAtack - April 11 2008 at 04:43

KrakAtack

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Posted: April 11 2008 at 04:46

everyone wrote:

Jean Luc Ponty...'nuff said.

LOL.....good violinist..........

KrakAtack

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Posted: April 11 2008 at 04:47

weetabix wrote:

Got to be Robin Trower

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiNU22nLf48

Maybe Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush?

KrakAtack

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Posted: April 11 2008 at 04:49

John McLaughlin, Al Dimeola and Paco de Lucia as a trio..............

KrakAtack

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Posted: April 11 2008 at 05:04

Tommy Emmanuel, Joe Satriani and Paco D'Lucia come to mind.

Paco D'Lucia, I'm yet to hear.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLGe6d5adfU

Saw Tommy Emmanuel a few months ago. Played a few of his guitars. Excellent. I like The combination of Al Dimeola and Paco De Lucia sometimes with John McLaughlin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cadbYIzhqQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7ypeZ6R-t0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vakx58fh4bA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StHhwqZwIDs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClbE6YEO6e0

jme

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Posted: April 12 2008 at 02:12

though this is not a "fripp" thread, it is amazing on larks 4, how he rips through scales so fast, and PICKS EVERY SINGLE NOTE!!! me, i can play most any scale, but if i am trying to make it sound "fast", i will pick once for 3 notes, fripp has amaZing stamina for a man his age!

to me, it is not about how fast once can shred. it is about feel as much as technique. my guitar teacher amused me, in how he would talk trash about some, yet he could back it up on the fretboard! lol! while yngwie pulled top 3 (G, B & D) string arpeggios, my guitar teacher could effectively rip through them using ALL STRINGS!

i think adrian belew is an anomaly, in that he does not know scales, per se, yet he plays them with such emotion, and i was drawn to his weird sense of vibrato when i saw him live, fronting crim! (i was front, center stage, i could have touched mr. belew's shoe!).

also, i am amazed in how he breaks up "scales", skiping octaves like in "three of a perfect pair" and "walk around the world". this is good practice. king crimson are great at building songs from excercizes! lol!

i like how joe satriani modulates scales. he has a real feel for that, and is a master at it! a lot of jazz players do this, and joe brings this into rock. though, i am not a fan of the 80s van halen tapping, and satch did this sort of thing, i still dig joe! i like some of the touch guitar stuff he does. (yes, "tap" IS different from "touch";-)

the guitar player from behold the arctopus seems like a real shredmeister. they have a "prog meets speed metal" type feel. sort of controlled chaos.

anyhow, there are my 2 pennies.

"gravity: it's what's for dinner!"

trackstoni View Drop Down

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Posted: April 28 2008 at 07:56

I wonder why , the credit of such perfect solo guitarist must often be taken only with his bands , Robin Trower , with no doubt , is a hell one of the best guitar players since Procul Harum , Bridge of sights is one of the best albums ever in the world of rock , why not to show his excellent releases specially during the 70's to new generations of rock , no matter what was the genre selected by expert to introduce it for the public .................. A call from the heart ....... Tracks Toni ....

--- Remark = a quiet remarkable line of these artists are still on hold for the new generations of rock ,

and involved in making our lives beautiful ....................,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

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