favorite guitar players

[dreams of glass]

For me, Yngwie is the most badass of the "shredders"

you might not like the style or the wankery, but the dude is killing it

[The exploding boy]

Souless wankery is what it is indeed to me. He's an athlete, not an artist.

[dreams of glass]

[The exploding boy]

More twattery by twats. I actually saw this vid before too because this is the kind of vid links that made me stop hanging out on musician forums.


though this one has at least the slight benefit of sounding like a fzero X tune. Which i suppose i kinda ironic since it's from Racer X...

[dreams of glass]

Originally Posted by The exploding boy

Souless wankery is what it is indeed to me. He's an athlete, not an artist.

maybe you will appreciate this, then.

[Elphenor]

Paco is fucking amazing I posted that in a different thread awhile back

[Elphenor]

I've been playing nothing but that style lately because of him

[Elphenor]

Originally Posted by The exploding boy

though this one has at least the slight benefit of sounding like a fzero X tune. Which i suppose i kinda ironic since it's from Racer X...

That's what these super shredders always end up sounding like to me, video game music. It would be enjoyable to play Doom to that shit but otherwise

[Mals Marola]

james dean bradfield, bc, jonny greenwood, peter buck, johnny marr, stephen carpenter, joey santiago

i could give a fuck about shredding if it's not implemented into something worth actually listening to

i'm sure i left some huge ones off but these are more or less the fellas who kept me interested in the 6-stringed beast

[toase]

tom morello, michio kurihara

[Sonic Johnny]

Jim Ward/Omar R-L, Dave Pajo, Josh Homme, Matt Pike, Kurt Ballou, Ben Weinman, John Baizley, Scott Hull, Steve Albini, Thurston Moore/Lee Ranaldo, KEVIN SHIELDS

[bobliefeld]

Dave Mustaine and the guy from

[teh b0lly!!1]

i remember being so intimidated by all those yngwie and paul gilbert guys when i first started playing. it took me a while to understand that it's all rubbish and that i'd rather put my time into being a creative guitar player rather than a technical one.
they really are unbelievable at what they do though. it's just not up my alley.

[teh b0lly!!1]

anyway the correct answer to this thread is david gilmour.
nobody's got anything on him. most creative, fluent, expressive, and smart guitar player ever to touch the instrument

[teh b0lly!!1]

i've actually come to appreciate rhythm guitar players a lot more than lead players

it's so much harder to come up with great parts and play them consistently and make them swagger than it is to wank out a solo

[Elphenor]

Gilmour is really good (obviously)

He has that groovy funk feeling to his playing

[brutechinasky]

id's say greg ginn, j, neil young, johnny ramone and maybe even cobain (had he ever actually learned to play)

but above all a certain guy named james

[brutechinasky]

Originally Posted by The exploding boy

More twattery by twats. I actually saw this vid before too because this is the kind of vid links that made me stop hanging out on musician forums.


though this one has at least the slight benefit of sounding like a fzero X tune. Which i suppose i kinda ironic since it's from Racer X...

heh, he likes to wank for sure but some of his tunes are pretty good

but the most interesting and unique wanker is probably buckethead

[Sonic Johnny]

Originally Posted by teh b0lly!!1

anyway the correct answer to this thread is david gilmour.
nobody's got anything on him. most creative, fluent, expressive, and smart guitar player ever to play in G

fixed

[Sonic Johnny]

Originally Posted by brutechinasky

johnny ramone

this guy could barely put sentences together, let alone play a guitar.

[Elphenor]

That list is baffling

Cobain and Ramone? They would even tell you they sucked. They took pride in not being good at the instrument.

Edit: Not that I don't absolutely adore their bands just to be clear

[Sonic Johnny]

OH FUCKEN Guy Picciotto/Ian Mackaye

[brutechinasky]

Originally Posted by Sonic Johnny

this guy could barely put sentences together, let alone play a guitar.

i agree that he had a very limited skillset but he still played in the first three ramones albums, and that's enough for me.
i mean, i'm aware he was a sort of fascist fuckwit but w/e

[brutechinasky]

i thought the name of the the topic was "favorite guitar players"
not "name the players you think have the mad skillz"

[Elphenor]

fair enough

[fuzzyroes]

Fuck man, I could go on forever and I'm sure I'd forget people.

From the top of my head:

J.Macis, Adrian Smith/Dave Murray, Alex Lifeson, Joey Santiago, John Frusciante, Eddie Van Halen, Buckethead, Nigel Pulsford, Herman Lee,

[bye june]

Originally Posted by dreams of glass

That was pretty badass. Astronaut suits too.

Originally Posted by dreams of glass

maybe you will appreciate this, then.

This is also nice. I need to work on my classical guitar playing.

[bye june]

But my favorite has to be J Mascis all the way.

[Elphenor]

That's Flamenco, man

[teh b0lly!!1]

pat metheny can make his guitar sing some beautiful stuff whenever he touches it
i have no idea how he does it