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Cooller.

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That girl.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgxyUQSIN_s&t=0m30s

Play Fender.

Michael Angelo Batio can shred circles around Yngwie with both hands...

He's also extremely humble while Yngwie is pretty douchey with how egotistical he is.


Neither are the 'greatest'. Greatest is mostly defined by influence and legacy.

or by height

Sounds like baksteen to me.
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bu....bu....but baksteen doesn't even shred. I think he only does led zepelen and those guys are sloooooow.

django reinhardt > *

Sweet and Lowdown ^ ^

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NEVERMORE \m/

He did a solo gig not too long ago, and I of course attended. The supporting acts were really 'meh'.

Got to the front row when Loomis came out, and headbanged pretty much through the entire set.

During one of his newer songs off the current album, he went to my side of the stage. Didn't see that, and smashed my head right into his guitar during one of those 'at-the-very-front-of-the-stage-hunched-over-solos".

Apologised at the end of the gig, and he didnt seem to mind one bit. Got him to sign my advanced review copy of Zero Order Phase, too (the ones that get sent out to reviewers, etc).

Win-fucking-win. =D

:OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Here's some pics of the swag.

I'm jelly

lucky bastard :ddd!

I was in a band called ordinance with the bass player and guitar player who play for him live now.

Are you Alex Rudinger?

No I'm Nicholas jeffs, rudy is the drummer. After I left they got a new vocalist named Mike Ssemesky who is a pretty cool dude. I'm not really sure if they play anymore with all of their busy schedules.

Never heard of you, but that's pretty sick. I'm a fan of rudy's drumming, not so much many of the projects he's in. Ordinance had some good songs though.

Yeah, most of the lyrics on the Internal Monolouges ep were still written by me. Not sure if they have done anything since. And yes rudy is like a fatality of drumming, plays around 4 hours a day. If you'd like to hear some other badass shit with another former member of ordinance, check out exist[http://www.existband.com/]. The bass player Alex Weber played with us for a while in ordinance, and this is a band rudy also played in when it went under the name of Azrael. All of these guys are my best friends and I think its the coolest music.

This is pretty good stuff. Not diggin' his clean vocals, though.

Unfortunately Cattle Decapitation and Gorguts have ruined music for me. I get to a point where I try to force myself to listen to anything else for the sake of not listening to them, but I listen to them anyway.

I got a couple of friends that eat little inch wide rack toms for breakfast as well. Albums from them coming out soon. Moths and Dystopian.

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Sad story.

Have you seen the movie/documentary about his life?

'Not dead yet'

I have.

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Dave mustaine and Ritchie blackmoore, other guitarist are just wankers compared to them

lol you probably just named the 2 biggest wanker guitarists on the planet.

Mustaine at his peak was an excellent song writter, from killing to rust in peace Megadeth is fuckin tier 666 thrash metal, and Blackmore is one the most influential guitarist of his time with Iommi, + Deep purple and Rainbow fuckin slay

Mustaine is world #2 guitarist after Jesus.

To be fair, I must say that in term of influence on 80's metal hes #2 equal with Hetfield with the riffing style they created on Kill'em'all

Dave's riff writing slays Hetfield. Dave has a unique style that is extremely counter-intuitive when applied to music.

For me Dave was always a "cheap" version of James.

You do realize that the first couple Metallica albums were basically written by Dave, right?

I guess he ended on kill em all
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They also had to slow down some songs because they were too intense without Dave.

regardless of our tastes, they're still wankers

None of those 2 for sure, but if I had to choose between them: Malmsteen.

care to name a few favourites?

I love David Gilmour, but from the shredders I'd probably pick Paul Gilbert or Guthrie Govan as a favorite, even though I rarely listen to that stuff.

Guthrie is not from this planet so he doesn't count :/

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Batio looks like a dog :E aaaaand sounds like shit.
Malmsteen has better hair and overall swag points.

buckethead ain't bad

Buckethead #1
Most diverse musician on the planet, top 2 shredder, #1 any other type of guitar style.

Let's also mention for the sake of it:
Vishal Singh
Ron Jarzombek

What he said. More people should know about buckethead if they like guitar. Youtube soothsayer, or jordan for a couple of my favorites. Also check out his banjo, lol.

Ive seen him in person, and I have to say he is amazing. He played flawlessly for hours, very impressive to see.

Buckethead in person is probably the most surreal thing I've ever experienced.

elaborate pls :3

Best live performance ever. Seeing him on youtube and such is amazing. Seeing him 20 feet away from you is like a dream.

Frankenstein's Monster soundboard building up to suspense and then the curtains fly open. So awesome.

the acoustic album isn't bad, everything else seems speedup exercises to me.
steve morse:

Speed is extremely under-appreciated.

speed is nothing without the mojo :D
the first 4 notes of "shine on your crazy diamonds" make me shiver every single time i listen to that song.

however, batio gives you "the keys to the lamborghini".


tough decision? i think not.

I'm not saying it's any more or less interesting, that's entirely subjective.

But people that can do things faster than other people will have a much easier time playing the slow parts. Truth is there isn't a guitar part out there that Batio can't technically play. I really don't care for his music, but he IS the most skilled guitarist there is.

only if skill == only mechanic skill

Yes.

i guess we were talking about the greatest guitarist, not the fastest clown :D

People can play Guitar Hero faster than this.

thanks for proving my point :)

No, I didn't.

He's not very fast, and he's only playing a small series of notes.

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Me

Kurt Cobain

davis u r insane

Lithium is better than anything any of these guitarist's have written

The entire Rust in Peace album.

Mehgadeth.

Marty Friedman

Indeed

... was a BUM

YNGWIE MALMSTEEN FTW.

Shawn Lane

Gods : Paco De Lucia, Django, Chet Atkins...

Best human guitar players:

1. Rory gallagher (yes RORY )
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3. Zappa
4. Page
5. Clapton
6. Knopfler
7. Buddy Guy
8. Iomi
9 Gilmour
10. Johnny Winter/ Blackmore/ Peter Green/Alvin Lee/ ....

Best metal guitar players :
1. Jeff
2. Chuck
3. Dimebag
4. some random fag
5. some random fag
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7. some random fag
8. some random fag
9. some random fag
10. Liz Buckingham ( coz she is HOT)

Worst guitar players :
1.Slash
2. Kirk
3. Slash
4. Kirk
5. Slash
6. Kirk
7. Steve Vai
8. Kirk
9. Slash
10. Vai

Randy Rhoads ... saw a newer documentary about Ozzy Ozbourne & Black Sabbath

No mention of Brian May? What is this mockery?

Satriani

Buckethead for sure. Also, the guy put out 40 albums last year...

Of course, there is no 'greatest' guitarist any more than there is a greatest color, or greatest cuisine :)

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nobody mentioned BB King yet :/

B.B. King - Blues For A Dog (Married With Children)

i saw that szene recently ...

Buckethead obviously.

Satriani was not mentioned so here I go.

Comment #53 @ 04:18 UYST, 14 January (5 days before)
Satriani

gg

Once was not enough.

Nikola ''Serious'' Gojic

YES

i would say Slash.
he added the perfect solos, to the perfect rock band.

malmsteen is just a soulless wanker.

I wasn't aware Slash played for The Who...

Shawn Lane vs Tony MacAlpine

FTFY

MacAlpine is light years ahead :(

I'd say the same, but if we're going to have the two best face off the only name that can contend is Shawn Lane.

John Petrucci > ALL :(

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Mike Scheidt from YOB is probably the most technically impressive guitarist in my opinion.

Johnny Marr also deserves an honorable mention.

Because of how slow he can play?