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Poll Question: Who is your favourite fusion guitarist?
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Holdsworth is technically brilliant and innovative, but his guitar sound is sterile and his music is not pleasant to listen to.
Akkerman is great and so is McLaughlin, but my vote goes to di Meola, who combines technical skill, a great tone and musicality in a way none of the others can match.
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^Everyone hears differently but I love Holdswoth's tone and his compositions. I still listen to his music on a regular basis. DiMeola is great but I haven't listened to any of solo records in years.
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Too many great ones to choose from. Al DiMeola, John McLaughlin, Jan Akkerman, Allan Holsdworth, etc. I could vote for all of them. I would add Jeff Beck to the list.
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Originally posted by Grumpyprogfan Grumpyprogfan wrote:

^Everyone hears differently but I love Holdswoth's tone and his compositions. I still listen to his music on a regular basis. DiMeola is great but I haven't listened to any of solo records in years.

Basically, if you come from more of a ROCK background and prefer stuff to be melodic, you will like DiMeola more.  He has the best tone of the big four of fusion (McLaughlin-ADM-Metheny-Holdsworth) and the sweetest melody too, pretty Santana-like but with a lot more shred.  But if you like jazz, you will appreciate the adventurism of Holdsworth much more.  I recently did a re-listen of ADM and found it fairly predictable going after a while.  I NEVER get that from Holdsworth.
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I love so many of these guitar gods but John McLaughlin took it to the level that i love the best and Mahavishnu Orch is stil one of the creative pinnacles of the jazz-fusion world so gotta go for Sri Mac

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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Controversial maybe but John Petrucci for the 2 Liquid Tension Experiment albums. I believe these are wrongly designated as Progressive Metal (understandably because its basically Dream Theater without LaBrie but with Tony Levin) . They are both fusion style albums to my ears so I will stick with that.

Steve Morse could be on here too for his work with the Dixie Dregs. Another one might be Ed Wynne from Ozric Tentacles. Also, even though I'm not that familiar with him Shawn Lane.
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Originally posted by Hercules Hercules wrote:

Holdsworth is technically brilliant and innovative, but his guitar sound is sterile and his music is not pleasant to listen to.

His music is not pleasant to listen to until you've had your fill of everyone else.
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Pat Metheny (awesome) and Al Di Meola.  I do think Paco De Lucia should be mentioned - he did great fusion work with John McLaughlin and Di Meola  - this is fusion - not jazz rock. Frank Zappa was a quite good fusion guitarist. His Hot Rats helped the fusion sub sub sub genre very much.
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Originally posted by uduwudu uduwudu wrote:

I do think Paco De Lucia should be mentioned - he did great fusion work with John McLaughlin and Di Meola  - this is fusion - not jazz rock.
I didn't include him because I think of him more as a Flamenco guitarist.


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Originally posted by uduwudu uduwudu wrote:

Pat Metheny (awesome) and Al Di Meola.  I do think Paco De Lucia should be mentioned - he did great fusion work with John McLaughlin and Di Meola  - this is fusion - not jazz rock. Frank Zappa was a quite good fusion guitarist. His Hot Rats helped the fusion sub sub sub genre very much.

Paco de Lucia was on a different level to any guitarist I've seen. The Friday Night in San Francisco album is just breathtaking. Whilst Di Meola and McLaughlin play brilliantly, the effortless genius of de Lucia steals the show. whether you'd class him as a fusion guitarist, I don't know, but he was incomparable as a flamenco player.
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Holdsworth but only when he's playing as a side man, I'm not a fan of his solo stuff.
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Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Originally posted by uduwudu uduwudu wrote:

I do think Paco De Lucia should be mentioned - he did great fusion work with John McLaughlin and Di Meola  - this is fusion - not jazz rock.
I didn't include him because I think of him more as a Flamenco guitarist.
I was thinking of Paco as well but mostly as a joke since he was part of the Guitar Trio. I would put him up with anyone listed here. My vote went to John McLaughlin, probably the boldest of the bunch and certainly extremely versatile.
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I voted for John Goodsall, but it is hard to beat John McLaughlin as a choice as well! 

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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Controversial maybe but John Petrucci for the 2 Liquid Tension Experiment albums. I believe these are wrongly designated as Progressive Metal (understandably because its basically Dream Theater without LaBrie but with Tony Levin) . They are both fusion style albums to my ears so I will stick with that.

Steve Morse could be on here too for his work with the Dixie Dregs. Another one might be Ed Wynne from Ozric Tentacles. Also, even though I'm not that familiar with him Shawn Lane.
 
The Dixie Dregs is not a band I've paid any attention to and didn't even realise Morse was in the band! I like his solo stuff although I realise its not fusion .
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Originally posted by Progosopher Progosopher wrote:

Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Originally posted by uduwudu uduwudu wrote:

I do think Paco De Lucia should
be mentioned - he did great fusion work with John McLaughlin and Di
Meola  - this is fusion - not jazz rock.
I didn't include him because I think of him more as a Flamenco guitarist.


I was thinking of Paco as well but mostly as a joke since he was part of the Guitar Trio. I would put him up with anyone listed here. My vote went to John McLaughlin, probably the boldest of the bunch and certainly extremely versatile.

Heh, Paco was the first guy I thought of as well..even though I don’t think of him as a fusion player per se, but sure pop on a specific night in San Fran and there he is outplaying the very best from the jazz quarters (in my opinion;).
The man was a one-off. Truly. I’ve never heard anyone play an acoustic guitar with the same level of skill, innovation and sheer emotive power.
...but I have to be in the mood for his music...and then I throw on Entre Dos Aguas and just sit back and revel in the onslaught of guitar sounds that just as well could’ve been spawned by a Jimi Hendrix that went the flamenco route.
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Apparently, I'm not allowed to vote in the poll, but I am able to voice an opinion.
I'd have to vote for the Maestro; Allan Holdsworth.
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