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Guest Thunder Rising!!!
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It has been some time i have came across a thread like this before, so i will start one here because the discussions will always be interesting. I don't frequent the music folder so i hope a similar thread has not been done for some time.

 

I appreciate any great guitarists like Clapton, Hendrix etc. but my personal faves would be Gary Moore, Slash and Richie Sambora

 

Name some of your faves here and feel free to explain why you prefer them though i am too lazy to do so. I hope this thread does not turn out into a childish quarrell of which of them suck ass or anything like that.

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Guest redbaron51
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Clapton

Hendrix

Jerry Cantrell

Zakk Wylde

The Iron Maiden Crew

Dave Mustaine

Steve Vai

John Petrucci

Guest Agent of Oblivion
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My 7 favorites, in no order.

 

Tony Iommi

Andreas Kisser

Trey Azagthoth

Kerry King

Jeff Hanneman

Frank Zappa

Muddy Waters

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David Gilmour

Eddie Van Halen

Slash

Eric Clapton

Jimmy Page

Jimi Hendrix

Kirk Hammett

BB King

Buckethead

Adrian Smith

Tony Iommi

Pete Townsend

Angus Young

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Guest Agent of Oblivion
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As far as Idolization goes, Being a bass player, I naturally gravitate more towards them. I try to model my style after Claypool meets Geezer meets John Entwhistle..only heavier. I dabble in guitar though, even if I'm abominable on the instrument..strings are too little..

Guest redbaron51
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Like AoO, I play bass as well. My Idolization is between John Entwhistle, Steve Harris and Mike Inez.

 

 

Oh and I like Jason Newsted as well.

Guest Agent of Oblivion
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The first three I understand completely...but I HAVE to ask...

 

 

Why Newstead? honestly.

 

Edit: Other bass players I dig tremendously..

 

Audie Petrie-Acid Bath

Alex Winters-Cannibal Corpse

Jaco Pastorious

Victor Wooten-Bela Fleck and the Flecktones

Patrick Hearn-Frank & The Mothers..

Jack Bruce-Cream, FZ..

Guest redbaron51
Posted

He's an adequete bass player, but when he was in Metallica he's kinda behind everybody not saying somethin, unless its important. It kinda fits my personality though.

 

And I prefer Jason over Cliff anyways

Guest ArkhamGlobe
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My favourites:

 

Pete Townshend

Jimi Hendrix

Tom Verlaine

Robert Fripp

Ry Cooder

David Gilmour

Phil Manzanera

 

I play guitar myself (I'm not particularly good, but anyway), and Townshend is the one I look up to the most and he's probably the biggest influence on my playing.

Guest La Parka Es Mi Papa
Posted

Skip James

Muddy Waters

BB King

Johnny Marr

Joe Strummer

Chet Atkins

Jimi Hendrix

Steve Jones

Eric Claptain

Kerry King

Jonny Greenwood

Pete Townsend

John Frusciante

 

As far as bassists go:

Jaco Pastorius

Chuck Mingus

Victor Wooten

Les Claypool

John Entwhistle

Geddy Lee

Scott Reeder

Guest WrestlingDeacon
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Jerry Reed

Mike Nesmith (never gets any credit)

Glen Campbell (vastly underrated)

Bonnie Raitt

Terry Kath

Link Wray

and pretty much your usual suspect of Claptin, Hendrix and the like

Guest nl5xsk1
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Top three favorite guitarists:

Angus Young

Stevie Ray Vaughn

Trey Anastacio

 

Not necessarily in that order, they play such varied styles of guitar it'd be hard to rank them 1,2,3

Guest CoreyLazarus416
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Zakk Wylde

Dave Mustaine

John Petrucci

The boys from Shadows Fall (I forget their names right now)

Rich Ward

 

That is all.

 

As for influences...

Kerry King and Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein are my primary guitar influences. So it's old-school pure fucking thrash metal meets melodic horror-based punk.

Guest Steviekick
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Zakk Wylde

Dave Mustaine

John Petrucci

The boys from Shadows Fall (I forget their names right now)

Rich Ward

 

That is all.

 

As for influences...

Kerry King and Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein are my primary guitar influences. So it's old-school pure fucking thrash metal meets melodic horror-based punk.

Doyle's a cool guitarist, but some of Bobby Steele's early stuff with the Misfits is a little better than Doyle. But Doyle is overall much more cooler, and I really like the guitars of the Newfits albums a little better.

 

I'm going to try to pick some guitarists that aren't mentioned here...

-Edge

-Buckethead

-Joey Ramone (as minimalistic as you can get B-) )

-Tom Morello

- Michael Amott (Arch Enemy/Spiritual Beggars) - its guitarists like him that make Sweden rock the world.

Guest Steviekick
Posted

Now that I think about it...it's a shame that so many of the early Misfits stuff was rerecorded/reedited/overdubbed by Danzig. Most of the guitars/bass on all their CD's have been rerecorded by him and Eerie Von.

Guest Agent of Oblivion
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Bonnie Raitt

 

I do not understand what people see in her as a guitarist..she picks slow country and slide guitar, and doesn't do it better than anyone else.

 

As far as country guitarists go, my favorite is easily Junior Brown.

Guest Red Hot Thumbtack In The Eye
Posted

guitar:

 

Satriani

 

mikael akerfeldt

 

oystein aarseth

 

Ivar Bjornson

 

Abbath Doom Occulta

 

Me

 

and a bunch of others that i cant think of right now

Guest gangsteruwa
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Well, most of the ones I like have already been mentioned except for one.

 

Al Di Meola. I think he was shredding before anyone even knew what shredding was.

 

I find inspiration in a lot of guitarists for many different aspects of my playing. Too bad I still suck. haha

Guest redbaron51
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Well, most of the ones I like have already been mentioned except for one.

 

Al Di Meola. I think he was shredding before anyone even knew what shredding was.

 

I find inspiration in a lot of guitarists for many different aspects of my playing. Too bad I still suck. haha

the fastest guitar player alive, shredding at 16 notes a second.

 

 

 

 

and for slide guitarists, no one was better than Duane Allman

Guest Agent of Oblivion
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16 notes per second??

 

That's fucking sick. That's almost a thousand notes per minute.

Guest redbaron51
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At least only one person said Jimmy Paige, the most overrated guitarist EVER.

and no one has mentioned Cobain either...

 

 

except for this post.

Guest La Parka Es Mi Papa
Posted

Jimmy Page isn't even close to being the most overrated guitarist ever. That title belongs to Eddie Van Halen, a man who's only virtue is that he can play really fast. His playing has no soul, life, or death. It just sounds like a screaming, brainless fish.

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Santana

Hendrix

Eric Clapton

Stevie Ray Vaughn

Randy Rhodes

Guest La Parka Es Mi Papa
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Stevie Ray Vaughn

 

Wow, I can't beleive I forgot him.

Guest Thunder Rising!!!
Posted

Please include the bands that these guitarists had played in or is playing in as well as some good solos from them that so that i can check out their stuff.

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