Shredders that blues!!

[jwoods986]

I'd say PG from that list.

[bammbamm]

Andy Timmons.

[LethalAe86TypeR]

Paul Gilbert

[MrJacko03]

If JS was on the list, it would be him ;o)

[Angelo Guitars]

From the list Yngwie, and Marty Friedman. Off the list, as mentioned before, Gary Moore.

I'm a big Vai fan, but he doesn't do the blues very well. Even he says so.

[nightfiend14]

Originally Posted by ScreamJem7

If I had to pick my favorite blues rockin' shredder from those I've seen or heard in the past few years, I'd choose Johnny A. The man plays with the groove and blues grit of Jimi Hendrix and has the fluidity of Al DiMeola.

A close second out of the newcomers and #1 in the over the top performance category goes to Eric Sardinas.

I love sardinas as well. He keep coming back to the same areas around iowa 3-5 times a year and I got see him every time, such a great show.

[StevenMikel]

Shredders shouldn't blues,they can't really blues.Anybody here that respects the blues at all knows that blues is a whole other world.A shredder bluesin' is just shreddin' in minor or major pentetonic(maybe some mixolydian or dorian),its still shredding.I've seen Dream Theater live and during Petrucci's solo he got pretty bluesy for a minute.Satch can blues pretty good too.I love the blues and shred but,a blues guy can't shred and a shredder can't really,honestly blues.

[knowbody]

Guthrie Govan

[Wis Redz of Silvanost]

None. These guysr are really good players but they just can't do the blues. Not as a blues player does. Blues isn't shredding IMO.

[rya]

Originally Posted by Wis Redz of Silvanost

None. These guysr are really good players but they just can't do the blues. Not as a blues player does. Blues isn't shredding IMO.

so true!

[Drew]

Originally Posted by jim777

I've seen video of Yngwie playing blues riffs, and he did it effortlessly. Awesome stuff, really. So, from this list, I'd say the Yngster

Surprisingly, I agree - I thought Yngwie's blues playing was surprisingly good, when I first heard it - I'd read a few interviews where he'd said more or less the same (that he was a surprisingly good blues player) and I initially discounted him as just being ****y, but turns out the dude wasn't lying.

Originally Posted by RSVampire

I thought Ry Cooder did all of the blues guitar in Crossroads and Vai only did the ending sequence stuff.

Yeah. I've never been impressed by Vai's blues playing. He sounds like Zappa trying to play the blues.

I also agree that Joe Satriani, as far and away the deepest rooted in blues traditions of any of the blues guys, is a VERY curious admission here.

[electric mud]

I disagree with the idea that shredders can't play blues. Blues can take so many forms. B.B. King's blues are so different from the early blues of Blind Lemon Jefferson or Son House and Johnny Winter is a "shredder" compared to any of them. I think that saying these new guys can't play blues is like saying that they can't play rock and roll just because they don't sound like chuck berry or jerry lee lewis.

[electric mud]

oh yeah I forgot, on the list I would take shawn lane. Off the list I would take scott henderson or blues saraceno.

[AirGuitar]

Timmons!

[kennydoe]

I vote for Gary Moore as the shrediest blues guy./...i'm surprised nobody's brought up Gary Hoey yet.

What about Stevie Ray? He had some shreddy moments...

~K