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Dan Bobrowski 
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 Posted: March 31 2005 at 16:05 |
 < Ouch! That's gotta hurt.
 < Even after 35+ Years, he still kicks Ass.
Cheers to Allan and to each and everyone's favorite guitarists. IT AIN'T EASY. They are all the reason we debate so heavily and, sometimes, pointlessly!
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lucas
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Posted: March 31 2005 at 16:10 |
Steve Morse : he can play every kind of music and he is one of the few guitarists which improvised solos are not boring.
Andy latimer : his playing is full of passion and he inspired a lot of guitarists
Mario Millo : one of the numerous guitarists influenced by Latimer, he is as well at ease with his guitar as with his vocal abilities
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"Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood)
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Dan Bobrowski
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Posted: March 31 2005 at 16:11 |
Tell me about Millo, Lucas my man. I followed up on your tip about Shaun Guerin and, Whoa! I'm listening to him right now. Thanks.
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Forgotten Son
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Posted: March 31 2005 at 16:31 |
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My favourites are: David Gilmour, Steve Rothery, Steve Hackett and Andy Latimer.
In terms of most technically skilled I would have to say John Petrucci.
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alchemist
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Posted: March 31 2005 at 16:42 |
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hey someone know who steve vai is, although he isn't prog he kicks ass
and can qualify to be one of the best contemporary guitar
players...
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no great genius has existed without a touch of madness...
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alan_pfeifer
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Posted: March 31 2005 at 17:04 |
 Reed Lover wrote:
Certif1ed wrote:
greenback wrote:
Certif1ed wrote:
Nice to see Steve Rothery so high on your list there, Greenie - but I think you're unnecessarily harsh on Johnny Greenwood (Radiohead), who develops some amazing sounds and does some really creative (and progressive  ) things with his guitar.
Because you don't like Radiohead, your marking of him just looks like sour grapes - not a reasonable technical evaluation at all.
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maybe you are partly right, Cert, but i proceed with comparison, and, seriously, i have right now no worse guitarist names in my mind: they certainly exist, so that greenwood' ratings would slightly increase to 0.5/10; 1/10 in the best case.
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I'm totally right! There are hundreds of worse guitarists - Greenwood is one of the most inventive guitarists alive, so I would give him 8.5 out of 10, to redress the balance.
I would prefer to listen to Johnny Greenwood than whatshisname from Dream Theater any day. Hmm. That makes DT's guitarist worse than Greenwood.
Also worse is John McLaughlin on "Inner Mounting Flame" - what a load of noodly tripe!
I could go on...
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Yes,but dont start on Lifeson-he'll do you!
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ReedLover, you have to hear his work outside of Mahavishnu to get a real perspective for him. His work with Miles Davis is nowhere near as noodley as the songs with TMO.
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lucas
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Posted: March 31 2005 at 17:52 |
danbo wrote:
Tell me about Millo, Lucas my man. I followed up on your tip about Shaun Guerin and, Whoa! I'm listening to him right now. Thanks.
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Glad to see you like Shaun Guerin, I hope my short description was close enough to reality.
Now about Mario Millo. He is the most famous australian prog artist. He began his musical career with Sebastian Hardie, the band released two albums in the vein of Yes and Camel, then he followed with another band, Windchase, which takes its name from a song of the second S hardie album. The music is still leaning towards symphonic fields, but this time it is a bit more Camel-oriented than the previous records. After the disbanding of Windchase, mario recorded music for movies and TV series. The OST for 'Against the wind', written in collaboration with John English, is a set of beautifully crafted compositions, mainly acoustic. A solo album entitled 'Epic III' was an attempt to recreate the mood of his earlier records, and is a very good record too. In 1982, Mario recorded his second solo album, but from what I read about it, it was rather disappointing as he entered into a more commercial phase. However, Mario returned to form in 2001 with his third solo album 'Oceans of the mind' which is a pretty good 'pop-symphonic-prog' album.
All the above-mentioned Millo records contain top-notch quality music, trust me!
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"Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood)
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Reed Lover
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Posted: March 31 2005 at 18:00 |
alan_pfeifer wrote:
Reed Lover wrote:
Certif1ed wrote:
greenback wrote:
Certif1ed wrote:
Nice to see Steve Rothery so high on your list there, Greenie - but I think you're unnecessarily harsh on Johnny Greenwood (Radiohead), who develops some amazing sounds and does some really creative (and progressive ) things with his guitar.
Because you don't like Radiohead, your marking of him just looks like sour grapes - not a reasonable technical evaluation at all.
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maybe you are partly right, Cert, but i proceed with comparison, and, seriously, i have right now no worse guitarist names in my mind: they certainly exist, so that greenwood' ratings would slightly increase to 0.5/10; 1/10 in the best case.
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I'm totally right! There are hundreds of worse guitarists - Greenwood is one of the most inventive guitarists alive, so I would give him 8.5 out of 10, to redress the balance.
I would prefer to listen to Johnny Greenwood than whatshisname from Dream Theater any day. Hmm. That makes DT's guitarist worse than Greenwood.
Also worse is John McLaughlin on "Inner Mounting Flame" - what a load of noodly tripe!
I could go on...
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Yes,but dont start on Lifeson-he'll do you!
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ReedLover, you have to hear his work outside of Mahavishnu to get a real perspective for him. His work with Miles Davis is nowhere near as noodley as the songs with TMO.
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It's Cert who has the problem with him,pas moi!
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Arsillus
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Posted: March 31 2005 at 19:27 |
alchemist wrote:
hey someone know who steve vai is, although he isn't prog he kicks ass and can qualify to be one of the best contemporary guitar players... |
Steve Vai is an awesome guitar player. I just saw him on his most recent tour not 3 weeks ago, and met him at a Guitar Center the next day. He's very underrated in my opinion. I mean, you've got to have some skills to be Zappa's sideman at only 16 years old...
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alchemist
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Posted: March 31 2005 at 20:28 |
Arsillus wrote:
alchemist wrote:
hey someone know who steve vai
is, although he isn't prog he kicks ass and can qualify to be one of
the best contemporary guitar players... |
Steve Vai is an awesome guitar player. I just saw him on his most
recent tour not 3 weeks ago, and met him at a Guitar Center the next
day. He's very underrated in my opinion. I mean, you've got to have some skills to be Zappa's sideman at only 16 years old... |
I couldn't agree more, I'm jealous thats great that you got to meat him!
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no great genius has existed without a touch of madness...
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Fibonacci's Se
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Posted: March 31 2005 at 20:34 |
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Cygnus X-2
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Posted: March 31 2005 at 20:36 |
danbo wrote:
< Ouch! That's gotta hurt.
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What kind of chord is that?
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greenback
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Posted: March 31 2005 at 21:27 |
i always believed those 3 celebrities look alike.
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[HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!>
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Certif1ed
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Posted: April 01 2005 at 03:01 |
Reed Lover wrote:
alan_pfeifer wrote:
Certif1ed wrote:
John McLaughlin on "Inner Mounting Flame" - what a load of noodly tripe!
I could go on...
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ReedLover, you have to hear his work outside of Mahavishnu to get a real perspective for him. His work with Miles Davis is nowhere near as noodley as the songs with TMO.
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It's Cert who has the problem with him,pas moi!
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I will check out his work with Miles with pleasure - I always like listening to Miles and don't have enough of his music in my collection (only 5 albums ).
But we're agreed that McLaughlin's playing on "Inner Mounting Flame" is diabolical - rather like Nigel Tufnell on a bad day?
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Blacksword
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Posted: April 01 2005 at 03:10 |
In no order..
Alex Lifeson
Steve Hackett
Andy Latimer
Frank Zappa
Dave Gilmour
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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comicbookguy
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Posted: April 01 2005 at 05:58 |
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Has anyone mentioned Snowy White? His solos on PFs The Wall album are some of the most memorable.
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