Best Actual Guitarist? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Nah, if you seriously want best actual guitarist you can't go wrong with the cream of the crop like Ron Thal aka Bumblefoot

or Matthias IA Eklundh

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Atavachron wrote:

All three of those guys suck big donkey balls, not an original voice in the group. If it weren't for Steve Vai and Yngwie Malmsteen these gentlemen wouldn't have a voice between them. What happened to individual style?

Best Actual Guitarist ? I don't think you can get much better than Ulrich Roth, with Ron Jarzombek, Holdsworth and a handful of others right behind.

Those were just two clips. If you checked out their albums you'd find the two i suggested have mastered it all: metal, blues, jazz, flamenco, prog and are about as original as guitarists get for adding their own stamp. In fact they not only play guitar, they play all the instruments and make their own guitars from scratch.

As a multi-instrumentalist myself, i guess i hear things you don't. Of course Steve Vai was an influence but if you play that game then you can go all the way back centuries when the guitar was invented. I could post another 20 songs of each of those guys, each radically different than the next but anyone who wants to explore further can do so ;)

I do love all those guitarists you mentioned but they are a bit one-dimensional to be considered a top notch guitarist in the 21st century.

Edited by siLLy puPPy - March 27 2022 at 20:49

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^ Everyone knows that, at least everyone here does--- doesn't mean EVH and Hackett and Vai didn't push the instrument forward.

siLLy puPPy wrote:

Atavachron wrote:

All three of those guys suck big donkey balls, not an original voice in the group. If it weren't for Steve Vai and Yngwie Malmsteen these gentlemen wouldn't have a voice between them. What happened to individual style?

Best Actual Guitarist ? I don't think you can get much better than Ulrich Roth, with Ron Jarzombek, Holdsworth and a handful of others right behind.

Those were just two clips. If you checked out their albums you'd find the two i suggested have mastered it all: metal, blues, jazz, flamenco, prog and are about as original as guitarists get for adding their own stamp. In fact they not only play guitar, they play all the instruments and make their own guitars from scratch.

As a multi-instrumentalist myself, i guess i hear things you don't. Of course Steve Vai was an influence but if you play that game then you can go all the way back centuries when the guitar was invented. I could post another 20 songs of each of those guys, each radically different than the next but anyone who wants to explore further can do so ;)

I do love all those guitarists you mentioned but they are a bit one-dimensional to be considered a top notch guitarist in the 21st century.

Yeah, they're great, talented dedicated hard-working musicians. But the music evaporates as it plays with very little to grab a hold of as genuine or unique. I haven't heard an evolutionary, let alone revolutionary, rock guitarist for quite awhile.

Edited by Atavachron - March 27 2022 at 20:54

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QUOTE : Everyone knows that, at least everyone here does--- doesn't mean EVH and Hackett and Vai didn't push the instrument forward.

RESPONSE: Well that is my exact point. I agree with you and the same applies to Bumblefoot, Buckethead, Eklundh and a whole bunch of other modern guitarists.

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siLLy puPPy wrote:

BTW i just noticed that it is lame that video of the Italian guitarist doesn't say his name! It is Vittorio Camardese and he went unnoticed in the 1960s with his cutting edge hammer on style and still remained unknown despite Van Halen making the style popular.

Roy Smeck was taping in 1932. Jimmy Webster and Harry DeArmond were taping in the 50's and there were probably some before 1932 that were taping.

Also, Allan Holdsworth (already mentioned) and Pat Metheny should receive recognition. Even Van Halen said Allan was the best guitarist he ever heard, so did Zappa.

Too many specialists worth noting to name. In an "all-around" category, it'd have to be someone who enjoys expressing him (or her-) self through many mediums, many styles, even across genres. Who comes across equally well in classical, Spanish (flamenco, tango, Andean folk, etc.), jazz, fusion, rock, blues, klezmer, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Afro-Caribbean, etc., traditions/interpretations?

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dwill123 wrote:

Previously mentioned all good choices BUT the best was Shawn Lane.

I'm a Shawn Lane fan as well. He's amongst the handful of modern guitarists who are on my list. I just find his music a bit sleepy and not full of the energetic overdrive that Bumblefoot and Eklundh offer. While technically proficient he sat comfortably in the easy listening section of the jazz-fusion world for the most part.

Bumblefoot and Eklundh on the other hand can effortlessly fuse classical, metal, prog, jazz, flamenco, gypsy swing, clever lyrics, songwriting, bizarre originality and the element of surprise without flinching.

There are hundreds of excellent guitarists in the world of technical metal as well which is where the most innovative progression of all musical styles is moving forward in the 21st century.

Now how can anyone not recognize these guys are totally unique creative guitarists?

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siLLy puPPy wrote:

Now how can anyone not recognize these guys are totally unique creative guitarists?

Agree they are unique. Covet guitarist Yvette Young, Allan Holdsworth, Pat Metheny, Guthrie Govan, Tom Monda (Thank You Scientist), Jan Zehrfeld (Panzerballett), and hundreds others are unique.

I'm familiar with all the guitarists you posted and Eklundh is my fave by far. He is much more than shred. He can write, what I consider, good music.

And the big question is where's Buckethead from your suggestions??

Steve Howe.

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