Guest Smark-Raving Mad Report post Posted July 27, 2003 Dimebag Dino Cazares The original guitarist of Pissing Razors, although the new guy isn't bad Dan Spitz Josh Homme Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Vitamin X Report post Posted July 27, 2003 Daron Malakian (System of a Down) Songs worth checking out for Malakian: Soil, Roulette (might not be everyone's cup of tea, but it's good for a slow song), Psycho, and the System of a Down cover of Snowblind..which leads me to... Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath and all their incarnations) Kurt Cobain (Nirvana)...Although he's not a particularly talented guitarist, I praise his creativity and coming up with some catchy riffs that just went along perfect for the music. And I should say Kirk Hamett and Dave Mustaine...only 80's though. Except for Mustaine, he still fuckin rocks it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest godthedog Report post Posted July 27, 2003 Kurt Cobain (Nirvana)...Although he's not a particularly talented guitarist, I praise his creativity and coming up with some catchy riffs that just went along perfect for the music. if he's not a talented guitarist, it seems that he doesn't belong on a list like this. that would be like me picking john lennon. i'm not a hardcore fan of his, but everything i've heard by stanley jordan i looooooooove. one time in middle school i brought a tape of "eleanor rigby" to my guitar teacher, hoping to learn to play the rhythm and the lead, and he told me the whole song was being played by one guitar. i have yet to recover from that. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rising up out of the back seat-nuh 0 Report post Posted July 27, 2003 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. Check out "Paranoid Android" or "Just" by Radiohead. Proof of why Johnny Greenwood is a guitar genius... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rendclaw 0 Report post Posted July 28, 2003 Joe Satriani Steve Vai John Petrucci Dave Murray Adrian Smith Jimi Hendrix Don Felder Joe Walsh Al DiMeola John McLaughlin Paco DeLucia George Benson Chris DeGarmo Michael Wilton Slash Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Vitamin X Report post Posted July 28, 2003 Kurt Cobain (Nirvana)...Although he's not a particularly talented guitarist, I praise his creativity and coming up with some catchy riffs that just went along perfect for the music. if he's not a talented guitarist, it seems that he doesn't belong on a list like this. that would be like me picking john lennon. The topic is your FAVORITE guitarists, not who you believe are the most talented. Also forgot to add in Kerry King from Slayer to my list.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest godthedog Report post Posted July 28, 2003 but when you talked about how you liked him, you didn't talk about his guitar-playing abilities, even in a guilty pleasure kind of way. you love him for his creativity & songwriting ability, not his guitar-playing ability. a 'favorite guitarist' list implies a love based on guitar-playing abilities, not a 'favorite musical geniuses who happen to play guitar' list. if we're doing THAT list, then why hasn't anybody picked lennon? or bob dylan, or neil young, or jeff buckley, or lou reed? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Plushy Al Logan Report post Posted July 28, 2003 (edited) Jimi Hendrix Edward Van Halen Vic Johnson Dave Mustaine Eric Clapton Tony Iommi Randy Rhodes Slash Mick Mars C. C. DeVille Edited July 28, 2003 by Plush Cthulhu Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
B. Brian Brunzell 0 Report post Posted July 28, 2003 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. At leasst when Eddie plays fast, it's still well put together, and not sloppy. Paige cannot play a relatively fast solo without hitt wrong notes all over the place and sounding bad. He's nothing more than a sloppy blues guitarist. Paige only sounds decent when playing slower solos, ala "The Rover" and "Ten Years Gone." The "stairway to Heaven" solo isn't bad either. SHIT! I forgot to add Robin Trower to my list. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest WrestlingDeacon Report post Posted July 28, 2003 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. See, I find Bonnie Raitt to be very undderated due to the fact that she is a woman and does pick a more slow hand style. I would highly recommend checking out some of her late seventies albums before she broke into the main stream in the early ninties. But Junior Brown is the shit. I love his voice too. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Agent of Oblivion Report post Posted July 28, 2003 Well, I don't think her gender is really an issue in making her good. Would you call an equally talented country picker, who happens to be male, underrated? Also, although it's not my forte at all, pretty much every other country guitarist worth a damn strikes me as good as, if not better, than her. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest WrestlingDeacon Report post Posted July 28, 2003 Sure I would, if he wasn't getting recognized. The thing is, I just happen to like her abilities and you don't. No biggie. I actually wouldn't consider her to be a country picker, just more of in the slowhand Clapton style. And I can name a ton of country pickers better than Bonnie Raitt; still doesn't I don't like what she does bring to the table. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Mad the Swine Report post Posted July 28, 2003 Among others... Buddy Holly (guilty pleasure) Brian May Stevie Ray Vaughn Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Vitamin X Report post Posted July 28, 2003 but when you talked about how you liked him, you didn't talk about his guitar-playing abilities, even in a guilty pleasure kind of way. you love him for his creativity & songwriting ability, not his guitar-playing ability. a 'favorite guitarist' list implies a love based on guitar-playing abilities, not a 'favorite musical geniuses who happen to play guitar' list. if we're doing THAT list, then why hasn't anybody picked lennon? or bob dylan, or neil young, or jeff buckley, or lou reed? That point is moot since I didn't really talk about ANY of my favorite guitarists, actually. Only who they were, what bands they were from, and some songs worth checking out. EDIT: My bad. I just went back over to my post, I did talk a little about Cobain, and I do believe that his creativity & songwriting ability DOES translate over to his guitar-playing, I count it all as one in the same. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest La Parka Es Mi Papa Report post Posted July 28, 2003 I'd also like to add Joey Santiago, to my list. He kicks ass. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Adam 0 Report post Posted July 28, 2003 Jimi Hendrix, hands down. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Human Fly Report post Posted July 29, 2003 I am surprised that no one has mentioned Yngwie Malmsteen. He may be a pretentious dick who is stuck in the 80s who doesn't like donuts but he can still play guitar. Am I the only one who finds Jimi Hendrix overrated? Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Eric Johnson, and John Petrucci are all top notch. Those are just the first off the top of my head. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest redbaron51 Report post Posted July 29, 2003 I am surprised that no one has mentioned Yngwie Malmsteen. He may be a pretentious dick who is stuck in the 80s who doesn't like donuts but he can still play guitar. Am I the only one who finds Jimi Hendrix overrated? Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Eric Johnson, and John Petrucci are all top notch. Those are just the first off the top of my head. no one mentions Malmsteen because what he says is original, is actually classical rip-offs from Bach, Mozart, Tcheksoky, and yet he calls them original. I mean yes, he's great, but when he ignores the fact he blatenly rips them off every friggin time, is un-original. and how do you mean Hendrix is over-rated? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Thunder Rising!!! Report post Posted July 29, 2003 I'm planning to check out on some blues stuff, so can anyone reccommend me some good shit? Anyway in the genre of brutal death who do you guys think is the best and from which band? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest redbaron51 Report post Posted July 29, 2003 Death Chuck Schulnder... RIP Chuck Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest godthedog Report post Posted July 29, 2003 Am I the only one who finds Jimi Hendrix overrated? yes. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Human Fly Report post Posted July 29, 2003 and how do you mean Hendrix is over-rated? I think he's good and all, but I have never found him to be the guitar deity that he is made out to be. It's probably just personal taste. Are there any lesser known Hendrix songs that would better demonstrate his guitar prowess? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest redbaron51 Report post Posted July 29, 2003 i've always like Hey Joe and Wind Cries Mary, and probably the two favourite songs by Hendrix. But then when you look back then in 67, the only other great guitarist that was known, and can play like Hendrix was Eric Clapton. Hendrix stood out because he played completly different than anyone back then. Everything was original, and basically almost anyone who has picked up a guitar, most of them will mention that Hendrix was the insipartion. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rendclaw 0 Report post Posted July 29, 2003 Hendrix was decades before his time. SRV was the Hendrix of blues guitar. another underrated guitar player is Lindsey Buckingham. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest godthedog Report post Posted July 29, 2003 and how do you mean Hendrix is over-rated? I think he's good and all, but I have never found him to be the guitar deity that he is made out to be. It's probably just personal taste. Are there any lesser known Hendrix songs that would better demonstrate his guitar prowess? almost anything from 'electric ladyland' if you haven't heard it already, but especially "voodoo chile" and "all along the watchtower" (which is my favorite solo EVER). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Agent of Oblivion Report post Posted July 29, 2003 Brutal death guitarists... Trey Azagthoth from Morbid Angel has the moaning divebomb solos down pat, and insane chugging capabilities. All of the myriad guitarists from Dying Fetus have been absolutely INSANE, never lasting long in the band, but honing tough riffs down to an edge, "Praise the Lord (Opiate of the Masses) being a good example of that, and top-notch soloing, with some very cool intros.."Pissing in the Mainstream" being my favorite. Other metal dudes.. Sammy Pierre Duet (Acid Bath/Goatwhore/Crowbar) Pepper Keenan (Down, Corrosion of Conformity) I can't remember the guy's name, but Nile's riffs are just disgustingly technical, evil, heavy, and sick. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest MaxPower27 Report post Posted July 29, 2003 I can't remember the guy's name, but Nile's riffs are just disgustingly technical, evil, heavy, and sick. Karl Sanders? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Agent of Oblivion Report post Posted July 29, 2003 I am surprised that no one has mentioned Yngwie Malmsteen. He may be a pretentious dick who is stuck in the 80s who doesn't like donuts but he can still play guitar. YOU'VE UNLEASHED THE FUCKING FURY~! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest godthedog Report post Posted July 29, 2003 ...so where's the fury? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Agent of Oblivion Report post Posted July 29, 2003 Sweden? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
