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Thread ID: 101357 2009-07-11 10:56:00 Greatest Guitar Player Twelvevolts (5457) PC World Chat
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791000 2009-07-14 04:46:00 Van Halen.
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Trev (427)
791001 2009-07-14 06:03:00 what about buckethead? im not a huge fan but his some of his solo stuff is pretty cool hueybot3000 (3646)
791002 2009-07-14 22:48:00 Buckethead is out of this world, he's been around alot longer than people think. I put him in the Vai catergory(sp?): Awesome technical ability but over all hard to listen to except a couple of songs. To much fretboard gymnastics and not enough solid songs. rob_on_guitar (4196)
791003 2009-07-15 00:28:00 Buckethead is out of this world, he's been around alot longer than people think . I put him in the Vai catergory(sp?): Awesome technical ability but over all hard to listen to except a couple of songs . To much fretboard gymnastics and not enough solid songs .

Yeah he's kind of in that avant-garde category with guys like Allan Holdsworth, John McLaughlin, Al Di Meola etc . . . . . . technically amazing, but often pretty unlistenable .

Vai has always been a musician who just happens to rip it up fiercely, whereas other guys are just shredders or technically great, but have no musicality .

If you want some nutty playing, check out Freak Kitchen :thumbs
nofam (9009)
791004 2009-07-15 00:57:00 Tony Joe White? the_bogan (9949)
791005 2009-07-15 01:42:00 Tony Joe White?

No .

He might be a good gaitor-guitman, but not all that great . He's slightly above Keb' Mo' ( . wikipedia . org/wiki/Keb%27_Mo" target="_blank">en . wikipedia . org) for style, but not ability . There are so many other swamp-men in the US that you cannot even fathom the sheer number of them on the radio here . Some just get the "sound" by flatting their top E-string a little to get a raw edge on their tone .

You are bringing a whole different category (Delta Bluesmen) into the "Best Ax" question . Muddy Waters and Slim Harpo and a lot of the Bayou guitarists are 'way out in another field .

Henry James Townsend, Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins, Robert Lockwood, Jr . , "Papa Charlie", McCoy, David Honeyboy Edwards and others abound here with much respect and devotion to their craft . They are NOT TOP-40 artists however . ,

For sheer guts and "musical presence" on stage or recordings and DVDs, you cannot beat ZZ Top ( . wikipedia . org/wiki/ZZ_Top" target="_blank">en . wikipedia . org) . Two guitars - (a bass and a rhythm/lead plus drums) completely fill the voids (of which there are none) in their music and style . I cite: "She's Got Legs" or "Eliminator" - the WHOLE album .


Their 2003 album - Mescalero, was too much synth I feel to really get into the music as there was a wall that blocked one from hearing the tones and feedback . I also hear a clicktrack in a few of the cuts .

Ah well - I digressed again . .
SurferJoe46 (51)
791006 2009-07-15 01:59:00 Eliminator and everything that has come after it is incredibly weak ZZ Top material, All over produced and light weight synth pop. Metla (12)
791007 2009-07-20 03:57:00 Peter Frampton. John Fogerty.
:)
Trev (427)
791008 2009-07-20 06:51:00 Yeah, x 2 @ Peter Frampton. He sure has some skills. Greg (193)
791009 2009-07-20 09:30:00 My favourite guitarist these days is Ryan Jarman, and given he is now in the same band as another favourite Johnny Marr, then it makes it a must to see The Cribs when they get to New Zealand. Hopefully that is later this year. Twelvevolts (5457)
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