I hate people like you.ashton said:I would like to clearly point out that Hendrix, Clapton, Page, Zappa, BB King and Stevie Ray Vaghan etc are the true masters of guitar. I admire people like Satch and Vai but they are really, just good guitar palyers. What I mean is they can play fast and a hold load of techniques, but they have never written any albums that are truly recognised as the greatest of all time. Hendrix, Clapton etc will be remembered as the true inovators and champions of guitar, because they could write a decent album will fantastic songs. Heres an example; Keith Richards from the Rolling Stones is not a techniquely flashy player, but didnt he need to be. To write those amazing songs like 'sympathy for the devil' he didnt need to shred. Instead he played tasteful guitar that Vai or Yngwie could never do. I mean say for instance Keef and Vai had a guitar contest, there no doubting Vai would win. However Keith could say, 'yes that was amazing but where are the songs,' there just to indulent, noodly songs that really dont go anywhere. To be a fantastic guitar player you dont need to shred, you need to have taste and an ability to play guitar to whatever song with taste. Here is another example. Hendrix is the greatest guitarist of all time and the reason is, yes Yngwie could play faster, but who cares. Could these shredders ever write a song like 'Little Wing' or Eesy Rider' and the answer is no. The true masters recognised that flashy guitar wasnt evrything and would know when to play fast and when not to...............
Excuse me....dude you better get a hearing aid!ashton said:Instead he played tasteful guitar that Vai or Yngwie could never do. .
Heh..heh.....give him a break Tom. He cannot help the fact he's deaf ; )Tom Gilroy said:I hate people like you.
Well Vai and Satriani for example are playing rather unpopular music and who cares what's the greatest album of all time, it's just some guitar magazines and things like that who say what is the greatest album. It doesn't mean anything. My favorite album is Turn Back from Toto, it's melodic rock and deffinetly best album I've heard but generaly it's Toto's most underrated album and least known. Eric Clapton's music just happens to be popular music(mainstream?)ashton said:I admire people like Satch and Vai but they are really, just good guitar palyers. What I mean is they can play fast and a hold load of techniques, but they have never written any albums that are truly recognised as the greatest of all time.
Like an old musician (Rock musician) said in an interview in Globovision's channel here once when asked: What about synphonic (prog) rock? Ahhh, synphonic Rock- he said- to listen to it u must have an educated ear. If you dont have it that sound might offend you see, thats what happens to this guy. I bet if this insane dude (man u must be sick or out of work or somethin to post this at JEMSITE for gods sake) asked Jimmy about Vai, tellin him all that crap he'll laugh straight at his face, OMG.Chroma said:It's all opinion, but here's mine anyway hehe
Hendrix, Vaughn, Clapton, Van Halen etc... are in a completely different league than Vai, Malmsteen, Satch, Gilbert, etc... which are also in a whole other league than say Page, Lennon, Richards, Iommi, etc...
The difference to me between the groups is this:
Hendrix and all those players were very innovative for their time, they played the instrument in ways and directions that influenced changes in the very culture of their times not to mention countless imiatators and fans.
Page and that group to me seemed to owe, at least in part, to being the right fit in the right band at the right time. The "whole is greater than the sum of it's parts" idea. I'm not saying that the bands carried these great players, just that it seems like without the band as a whole around them they accomplished far less.
Then the Vai group to me are the musician's musicians. They are (arguably) advancing the boundaries of guitar playing every bit as much as the first group, but they are having nowhere near the cultural or musical impact of those before them. They are flying below the mainstream radar for the most part, and their music doesn't cross that boundary between the student and the average person so to speak. It usually seems to go over the head of most people.
Thats why music is MUSIC and not MTV.shawn7v said:"best" is the most over used word in the english language in my opinion. I've been on this site for about a year now and i can honestly say i believe everyone here with the exception of a select few ( the guy who started all this ) knows what they are talking about musically. i think we can all agree each of the guitarists mentioned and some that weren't are all great in their own way and thank god for each and every one of them for they all have influenced me in some way. as far as the "wow" factor i think as you get older more things impress you about a guitarists style weather it be Vai or Richards,Satch or Blackmore, Zakk Wylde or George Harrison etc.......... What i am trying to say is Vai's "freakshow Excess" drops my jaw but so does the little 4 second guitar solo at the end of "Strawberry Fields". So thank god for ALL the greats. Our musical lives would surely have suffered without any one of them.
Dudes, dudes just look for my posts (exact same nickname) at VAi.com forums (I cant remeber the forum threaed name). Theres a guy who says his guitar teacher said that Vai couldnt recognize feeeling when playing even if it bit him in the arse. Guess what, you're right another blues "player", I'm not sayin anythin agaisnt blues is just there are guys out there who think that thats it bout music.shredfreak said:Well Vai and Satriani for example are playing rather unpopular music and who cares what's the greatest album of all time, it's just some guitar magazines and things like that who say what is the greatest album. It doesn't mean anything. My favorite album is Turn Back from Toto, it's melodic rock and deffinetly best album I've heard but generaly it's Toto's most underrated album and least known. Eric Clapton's music just happens to be popular music(mainstream?)
And you said that Yngwie and Vai aren't able to write ''tasteful'' songs. I can't disagree more. Evil Eye from Yngwie is great song, nice melodies or what about Icarus Dream Suite from Yngwie? You should listen to that song and don't say it's not melodic or tasteful!!! Satch song I Believe is just fantastic song!
Vai, Satriani, Gilbert, Malmsteen, Timmons, Moore can write as good songs as Jimi Hendrix or anyone else! Believe me!
