Ultimate Guitarist Poll

I think it's James Hetfield as far as rythem guitarists go...and if he wasn't singing I'd say he could be the best lead guitar as well.
 
Ok lets look at Santana and Gilmour. Neither are particularly technical players. Rather they simply have a great melodic ear. But what they play isn't very advanced, and anyone can learn their licks in just a few years training, does this mean that the people who play what they read from the music perfectly are playing with emotion? Of course not. You just have the misleading idea that if its a pretty melody, than that person obviously must have invested a lot of emotion into writing it or playing it. This couldn't be further from the truth, its good song composition, plain and simple.

As for the blues, its no different from any other kind of music, which requires some kind of understanding of musical coposition. You can't expect to become a good blues guitarist just because you play with "feeling". You have to work for it. This is how my view is different from others here, I have respect for any musician if I think they are instrumentally talented, even if its someone whose music I hate. Because I know regardless of how I feel about the music, others feel different. Even Drean Theater earn my espect, even though I can't stand their music, they have worked damn hard to get where they are. So they do deserve some respect, even if according to the inconsistant logic of some people, they play with no "feeling".

And don't accuse me of not knowing a thing or two about personal suffering, I have listened to a Rusty Cooley album in its entirety.
 
Clapton is a mention,Malmsteen can play pretty well, Carlos Santana can shred like non-other, Page was OK when he wasn't stoned as ****, and Hendrix(whom i think is highly overrated because of certain media reasons) could have been one of the greatest if he stayed clean, but I don't know music is in the eye of the beholder.
 
well, since I'm not really a musician, I don't know much about technicalities. I just go more by the feel & flow of the music, which makes Jimmy Page great. Also I'm pretty sure anything Led Zeppelin=innovative.
 
You have Graham Coxon on that list, but not Jonny Greenwood. This makes your list irrelevant.

Besides. guitar solos aren't really my thing, I can think of nothing more horrible than a couple of moronic metal heaRAB wanking to a 5 minute guitar solo.
 
If that is how you want to see it. It would be by default because you are being a closed-minded ignorant fool by saying the same things over and over again. Your past 100 posts have been in this thread, the drummer thread, the DT thread which is no more, and the "Emo Class" thread. I have yet to see you post about a new band you like or say something that isn't fabracated to go against the majority. If you are here to troll, then good job you are a pretty good one, but if not you are one sad meraber of society. Go listen to DT and tell people that they are wrong for liking someone based on the fact that they just like them. I like Green Day are you going to flame at me because they aren't technically skilled, or that they don't write metaphoric songs? Or how about that they aren't insanily fast?

Have fun struggling in a world of compromises.
 
Eric Clapton, Slash, Jimi Hendrix, Dimebag, The Edge, Cobain was okay, I guess, but not AMAZING. I also like Synyster Gates of Avenged Sevenfold. Back to Cobain, yes he was extremely influential and paved a new path for rock and grunge, but that wasn't just him, it was his band too. He's not the best songwriter or guitarists, but the lyrics and the genre still impacted so many teenagers and adults, actually just many people, forming a lot of banRAB in perspective. I'm sure many of the banRAB now-a-days wouldn't be recording right now if it weren't for Nirvana.
 
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