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Points: 1485 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 05 2005 at 15:27
I really don't understand why Gilmour is winning this. It doesn't make any
sense how Gilmour could be considered a more emotional player than
Clapton or Stevie Ray or BB King or Hendrix. Don't get me wrong, Gilmour's
great, but we're talking about the best of the best here.

** Also don't forget Angus. He has incredible feel for the guitar and his
vibrato's tend to be unmatchable at times.

EDIT: Than again, Clapton is the only one of those on the list. So I guess it
makes a little bit more sense.

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Points: 1485 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 05 2005 at 15:21
Originally posted by Empathy Empathy wrote:


Originally posted by Radioactive Toy Radioactive Toy wrote:

steve vai's guitar works aren't emotional AT
ALL.. If you think it is
you can also make love to a sex doll in my eyes, it's also cold, and
doing what it's supposed to do.. but there's no beauty


Go back and listen to "Call it Sleep", "For the Love of God", and
"Tender Surrender". Plenty of emotion in every one of those tracks.


Steve Vai is a very very good guitarist. As much as you want to say that he
is very emotional, in the long scope, he is not. Some of his songs (such as
parts of Call it Sleep, For the Love of God, and Tender Surrender, among
other) are emotional, but in the long run, Vai is still a technical player. I
like Vai so don't think I'm just bashing him. He is among the best at what
he does which does not generally include many emotions. He is very good
at diverse sounds of songs and technicalities.
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-David Gilmour

-Omar Rodriguez Lopez from The Mars Volta

-Jimmy Page

-Carlos Santana
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Points: 1068 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 05 2005 at 14:17
Emotional? Clapton.
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Points: 1485 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 05 2005 at 13:35
Originally posted by maidenrulez maidenrulez wrote:

Proper emotional guitarists are really just playing
blues so you might as well add Stevie Ray Vaughan because he is the best
blues guitarist...EVER!!


I agree with you that blues guitarists are extremely emotional and Stevie Ray
Vaughan is excellent. I would say that Clapton was better IMO in his early
days (Bluesbreakers/Cream).
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^ or watch Vai play:

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Originally posted by Radioactive Toy Radioactive Toy wrote:

steve vai's guitar works aren't emotional AT ALL.. If you think it is you can also make love to a sex doll in my eyes, it's also cold, and doing what it's supposed to do.. but there's no beauty


Go back and listen to "Call it Sleep", "For the Love of God", and "Tender Surrender". Plenty of emotion in every one of those tracks.
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Originally posted by erik neuteboom erik neuteboom wrote:

How could I forget  Carlos Santana  .. In the book Soul Sacrafice The Santana Story he reveals that his guitar was the way to forget the poor and dangerous living circumstances in Mexico and the horrible life events like the sexual abuse on his 16th by an American toruist while he was 16. If you listen to Carlos his guitarplay you can feel a wide range of emotions, I'm looking forward to write about his music!
I absolutely agree;  carlos santana was heavily influenced by john coltrane, who is just about the most emotional performer I've ever heard. However from the list I must vote for andy latimer.
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Gilmore from the list.

Hendrix also put alot of feeling into his playing and to me he is the top bluesman.

Also alot of the top guitarists that are NOT shredders put feeling into their work really.
No less feeling than any other.
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Originally posted by Radioactive Toy Radioactive Toy wrote:

steve vai's guitar works aren't emotional AT ALL.. If you think it is you can also make love to a sex doll in my eyes, it's also cold, and doing what it's supposed to do.. but there's no beauty

 and I was already starting to listen to you. Now I know that you're just bashing things you don't even really know.
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 1 Steve Hackett

2 Andrew Latimer

3 David Gilmour

4 Mike Oldfield
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steve vai's guitar works aren't emotional AT ALL.. If you think it is you can also make love to a sex doll in my eyes, it's also cold, and doing what it's supposed to do.. but there's no beauty

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Originally posted by Syntharachnid Syntharachnid wrote:

Originally posted by maidenrulez maidenrulez wrote:

Proper emotional guitarists are really just playing blues so you might as well add Stevie Ray Vaughan because he is the best blues guitarist...EVER!!

Absolutely.  Perhaps a few guitarists from that list are a bit more passionate (I voted Gilmour), but SRV takes the best bluesman title hands down.

I slightly prefer Scott Henderson when it comes to emotional playing, closely followed by Eric Johnson. Greg Koch is also great ... in his particular (narrow) corner of blues nothing beats SRV though.
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How could I forget  Carlos Santana  .. In the book Soul Sacrafice The Santana Story he reveals that his guitar was the way to forget the poor and dangerous living circumstances in Mexico and the horrible life events like the sexual abuse on his 16th by an American toruist while he was 16. If you listen to Carlos his guitarplay you can feel a wide range of emotions, I'm looking forward to write about his music!
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  1. Hackett
  2. Gilmour
  3. Howe
  4. Santana: Makes the guitar cry or laugh

 

The first two work complex and dramatic/emotional atmospheres and Howe can do almost anything and Santana, well I explained already.

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Originally posted by maidenrulez maidenrulez wrote:

Proper emotional guitarists are really just playing blues so you might as well add Stevie Ray Vaughan because he is the best blues guitarist...EVER!!

Absolutely.  Perhaps a few guitarists from that list are a bit more passionate (I voted Gilmour), but SRV takes the best bluesman title hands down.
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Lifeson by a country mile.  His solos eclipse even Gilmour's.  
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Out of that list, Steve Vai probably has the most amazing emotion to go along with it. I mean, he's technically flawless, but however he has A LOT of emotion, much more than Gilmour in fact.

But no one beats Roine Stolt on that!

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