Malaysia's perception of great guitarists :roll:

King Knall · #1 09-17-2005, 02:34 AM

My friend showed me an old article on Malaysia's Top 100 guitarists. I won't bore you with all of them, so I'll just mention a few:

1. Tony Iommi (really?)
2. Kirk Hammet (no surprise here

)
5. Eddie Van Halen (he deserved this and I don't care what you say!

)
22. Head and Munky (what the ****?)
23. John Petrucci
53. Steve Vai (again, what the ****?)
77. Joe Satriani (why is he at this number

)

Any comments? I for one couldn't think that it can be any more fair

.

ZOMB13 · #2 09-17-2005, 03:12 AM

Wow, maybe its not based on skill, but popularity?

fettouhi · #3 09-17-2005, 03:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kamikaze_1

My friend showed me an old article on Malaysia's Top 100 guitarists. I won't bore you with all of them, so I'll just mention a few:

1. Tony Iommi (really?)
2. Kirk Hammet (no surprise here

)
5. Eddie Van Halen (he deserved this and I don't care what you say!

)
22. Head and Munky (what the ****?)
23. John Petrucci
53. Steve Vai (again, what the ****?)
77. Joe Satriani (why is he at this number

)

Any comments? I for one couldn't think that it can be any more fair

.

Reminds me of Rolling Stones top 100 list

. But at least Joe and Steve are on there

. By the way where is Jimi?

Regards

André

King Knall · #4 09-17-2005, 03:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fettouhi

Reminds me of Rolling Stones top 100 list

. But at least Joe and Steve are on there

. By the way where is Jimi?

Regards

André

Yup, except this is in Malaysia. As for Jimi, he's somewhere in the top 10. Quite frankly, I'm quite surprised. I thought that Hammet was going to be number 1!

fettouhi · #5 09-17-2005, 03:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kamikaze_1

Yup, except this is in Malaysia. As for Jimi, he's somewhere in the top 10. Quite frankly, I'm quite surprised. I thought that Hammet was going to be number 1!

Him and James were number one on the top 100 list RS

.

Regards

André

mi2tom · #6 09-17-2005, 06:35 AM

Tell you what..... that list is a piece of **** ..... Where did you get that list anyway

mi2tom · #7 09-17-2005, 06:36 AM

Which mag was it??????

King Knall · #8 09-17-2005, 10:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mi2tom

Which mag was it??????

Sorry, but I didn't know which magazine it was, 'cause it was my friend's (he photocopied the pages). It was definitely a Malay magazine. I can remember it said this though:

Ini untuk segala headbangers. Bang your heads! Bang! Bang!

Or something like that.

mi2tom · #9 09-17-2005, 01:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kamikaze_1

Sorry, but I didn't know which magazine it was, 'cause it was my friend's (he photocopied the pages). It was definitely a Malay magazine. I can remember it said this though:

Ini untuk segala headbangers. Bang your heads! Bang! Bang!

Or something like that.

Then we are Malaysians are screwed up people I think

EHHHmm let's hope Prime minister Badawi is not a member of this forum hahaha

King Knall · #10 09-17-2005, 01:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mi2tom

Then we are Malaysians are screwed up people I think

EHHHmm let's hope Prime minister Badawi is not a member of this forum hahaha

How can you say that? Especially when we had our 'Merdeka' earlier this month!

No, Malaysians aren't screwed up. There are a lot of great musicians in our country, but alas, they're not nationally recognised. The whole Hammett and Slash group are there because of one thing. They're macho. Luckily Vai is known for his playing, not because he's macho (he's definitely far from it). This happens in other countries as well. Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, etc. The same thing usually happens in Europe, except its Death Metal over there

mi2tom · #11 09-17-2005, 01:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kamikaze_1

How can you say that? Especially when we had our 'Merdeka' earlier this month!

No, Malaysians aren't screwed up. There are a lot of great musicians in our country, but alas, they're not nationally recognised. The whole Hammett and Slash group are there because of one thing. They're macho. Luckily Vai is known for his playing, not because he's macho (he's definitely far from it). This happens in other countries as well. Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, etc. The same thing usually happens in Europe, except its Death Metal over there

cheer up... I'm just joking

Yes it's true there are many great musicians here .. Just not well known

pawel · #12 09-17-2005, 08:06 PM

Who was at 3 and 4? Jimi? EC? Page?

King Knall · #13 09-19-2005, 05:45 AM

Sorry guys, I lost the list

. I'm sure its around here somewhere, I just didn't bother to look for it. As for the guitarists I mentioned, I copied down their numbers.

red5 · #14 09-25-2005, 07:34 PM

Well Malaysia is one car ahead of us on the stupid train apparently.. refreshing to know we are not last!

little wing · #15 10-01-2005, 11:30 PM

ha. taking that into consideration, i guess that was a pretty fine line up. i'm really suprised there's no ritchie blackmore and micheal shanker & rudolf shanker. even good ol' slash as well. but for John petrucci to be there's a little wierd..

where did you got the source dude?