New Improved Strat Poll
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Topic: New Improved Strat Poll
Posted By: Dr Know
Subject: New Improved Strat Poll
Date Posted: March 19 2006 at 12:31
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The last Strat poll I made I realized I left out too many great names. This Poll will be more interesting |
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Posted By: marktheshark
Date Posted: March 19 2006 at 12:55
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Jimi's the one IMO. He set the standards everybody else there took.
And you did forget one that should be listed who I think is 2nd in my book. Jeff Beck. |
Posted By: Kotro
Date Posted: March 19 2006 at 13:09
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Beck, Josh, etc... ------------- Bigger on the inside. |
Posted By: Dr Know
Date Posted: March 19 2006 at 13:21
| Hendrix did revolutionize guitar playing but is he the best player? I agree he could be called The Greatest but the best? |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: March 19 2006 at 15:42
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Go back and read interviews of guitarists back in the day that they first saw Hendrix play. They all say they felt like giving up on the instrument after seeing him. -------------  |
Dr Know wrote:Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: March 19 2006 at 15:47
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Still Blackmore. I totally respect Hendrix' influence, but his music never grabbed me  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: March 19 2006 at 16:04
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The greatest man to ever use a strat:
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Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: March 19 2006 at 16:21
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I can't choose between Balckmore, Hendrix and Gilmour...
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Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: March 19 2006 at 16:25
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Other awesome Strat users:
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: March 19 2006 at 16:52
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Rothery, but then again, I respect very few people who don't play Ibanez. Aside: I despise Gibson guitars! ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: marktheshark
Date Posted: March 19 2006 at 17:37
I love that story Pete Townsend always tells about in '66 him and Eric went to the movies and Pete leans over and tells Eric "I just saw a guitar player playing the other night that's going to put us both out of work!" 
As far as strictly using the Strat for hard rock, Ritchie still doesn't come close to Jimi. Jimi just leaves him in the dust when it comes to feedback, note bending and using the tremelo bar. Beck on the other hand comes a lot more closer than Ritchie. Try to remember guys, Ritchie has a 36 year edge over Jimi and plus his music was more of a group effort as opposed to a more or less solo act Jimi was. And besides, who was first anyway? |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: March 19 2006 at 18:31
I go also with Jimi.  ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: Dr Know
Date Posted: March 19 2006 at 19:15
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I think the guitar work on Catch the Rainbow-Rainbow On Stage and Far Beyond the Sun by Malmsteen are far superior to anything Hendrix has done. Itīs a bit difficult debating Hendrix as people have fixed opinions. Itīs the same as discussing Jesus with a staunch Christian. It can get a bit nasty. He is a great guitarist though but I am just stating my opinion. |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: March 19 2006 at 19:27
Not opinions, Doutor, tastes... it's like mother's meals, once you taste you never forget and others seem copies. However, tastes may change, when something really better appears.  ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: marktheshark
Date Posted: March 19 2006 at 19:41
Why, because he's faster and more technically precise? So what? Jimi was able play the Strat like it was a symphony orchestra. He pulled more sound out of that piece of wood than three guitarists combined. No doubt Malmsteen is great by today's standards, but Jimi was ions ahead of the game at the time. And besides, I really get tired of guitar players that play like they're being paid by-the-note. |
Posted By: Dr Know
Date Posted: March 19 2006 at 19:52
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I promise to listen to more Hendrix Senhor! I still havenīt heard the Hendrix track 1983 (I think itīs called that, Iīm not sure) which many people say is very progressive. I love Little Wing too. I used to eat beans and rice (Mothers Cooking) until I discovered Xis Frango com Ovo But on a lighter note itīs good to see Masa came 5th in the Malaysian Grand Prix, hopefully soon he will be Numero 1 |
Posted By: Dr Know
Date Posted: March 19 2006 at 19:57
| I also agree with you Marktheshark that Hendrix was the best "in his time" but Blackmore played with much more emotion and very precise, never sloppy. |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: March 19 2006 at 20:10
------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: marktheshark
Date Posted: March 19 2006 at 20:35
Forget Are You Experienced and Axis, great albums but very formuliac. Get Electric Ladyland and the Experience Box Set. The Box Set has some great loose jams with Jimi just wailing on the axe like you've never heard before. No to mention the live cuts included there. As for Ritchie, he was pretty sloppy in the early years, especially live on Made In Japan. But I have to admit, over the years he's certainly refined himself. I about fell out of my chair when I first heard Blackmore's Knight. I just went "What! That's Blackmore?!" |
Posted By: AtLossForWords
Date Posted: March 19 2006 at 20:40
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Eric Johnson, his bluesy and jazzy lines are nothing less than great. Mike Romeo plays a start at times. W Chuck has to straighten all of you out. -------------  
"Mastodon sucks giant monkey balls." |
Posted By: Chicapah
Date Posted: March 20 2006 at 12:34
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Stevie Ray Vaughan could wring out more true emotion from his strat than anyone else. ------------- "Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain |
Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: March 20 2006 at 13:17
Why such closemindedness? I don't think you should like King Crimson so much if you don't like Gibson, case in point:
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Posted By: ANDREW
Date Posted: March 21 2006 at 07:48
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Eric Clapton ('70s) Stevie Ray Vaughan ('90s) |
Posted By: Pablo_P
Date Posted: March 22 2006 at 09:51
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Blackmore or Hendrix? Well, Blackmore this time ------------- Pablo P. |