Author Topic: List your all time favorite axe men. (Read 3672 times)

bmacsys · « **on:** April 27, 2007, 08:18:05 AM »

1. Hendrix
2. SRV
3. EVH
4. Joe Perry
5. Ted Nugent
6. Buck Dharma
7. Marty Stewart
8. Clapton
9. B.B. King
10. Bo Diddley
11. Chuck Berry
12. Keith Richards
13. Alex Lifeson

BroadStreetBruiser · « **Reply #1 on:** April 27, 2007, 12:24:12 PM »

overall cool factor I always go with Billy Gibbons

bmacsys · « **Reply #2 on:** April 27, 2007, 01:17:37 PM »

Quote from: BroadStreetBruiser on April 27, 2007, 12:24:12 PM

overall cool factor I always go with Billy Gibbons

ZZ Top, I like his solo's in Rough Boy. Its an underrated tune.

BroadStreetBruiser · « **Reply #3 on:** April 27, 2007, 01:38:02 PM »

A lot of their stuff is underrated. Eliminator while a good album really overshadows their whole career

natural al · « **Reply #4 on:** April 27, 2007, 02:01:21 PM »

everyone knows I'm gonna pick EVH as number 1 but I like alot of different guitar players, the guy from Dream Theatre is awsome. Ihave thier concept record and it's incredible to listen to that guy just kick ass for the entire thing. I like guys like Vito Bratta from white lion and Reb Beach from Winger, both those guys could tear it up even if they did play in hairbands. Paul Gilbert is great...I like Randy Rhoads and I've REALLY been getting into Tony Iommi for awhile now, his stuff with dio is incredible. Vai is interesting but he does to muc whacky shit for me and I still gotta mark him down for Slip of the Tongue, not that it's really a bad record cause I feel it's actually pretty good but it's a major drop off from whitesnakes 1987 LP. Never really got into SRV, I like guys who can shred but who also play melodic music. I'm not againts thrash players I like Hammet and Mustaine but I don't really listen to them too much. there's a guy named Micheal Angelo who prolly only a guy like BSB knows about...if you watch him play it's incredible but I wouldn't list him as my favorite cause he's kinda a one trick pony...just fast as fuck.

bmacsys · « **Reply #5 on:** April 27, 2007, 03:07:05 PM »

Quote from: natural al on April 27, 2007, 02:01:21 PM

everyone knows I'm gonna pick EVH as number 1 but I like alot of different guitar players, the guy from Dream Theatre is awsome. Ihave thier concept record and it's incredible to listen to that guy just kick ass for the entire thing. I like guys like Vito Bratta from white lion and Reb Beach from Winger, both those guys could tear it up even if they did play in hairbands. Paul Gilbert is great...I like Randy Rhoads and I've REALLY been getting into Tony Iommi for awhile now, his stuff with dio is incredible. Vai is interesting but he does to muc whacky shit for me and I still gotta mark him down for Slip of the Tongue, not that it's really a bad record cause I feel it's actually pretty good but it's a major drop off from whitesnakes 1987 LP. Never really got into SRV, I like guys who can shred but who also play melodic music. I'm not againts thrash players I like Hammet and Mustaine but I don't really listen to them too much. there's a guy named Micheal Angelo who prolly only a guy like BSB knows about...if you watch him play it's incredible but I wouldn't list him as my favorite cause he's kinda a one trick pony...just fast as fuck.

Reb Beach was the only good that came out of Winger. The utimate poseur band. In 1981 people were arguing who was better, Rhoads or Van Halen.

Debussey · « **Reply #6 on:** April 27, 2007, 04:07:49 PM »

John Petrucci
Al DiMeola
Pat Metheny
Steve Vai
Pat Martino
Joe Pass
Django
Larry Carlton
Robert Conti
Greg Howe

And more...

bmacsys · « **Reply #7 on:** April 27, 2007, 07:24:04 PM »

Quote from: Debussey on April 27, 2007, 04:07:49 PM

John Petrucci
Al DiMeola
Pat Metheny
Steve Vai
Pat Martino
Joe Pass
Django
Larry Carlton
Robert Conti
Greg Howe

And more...

Pretty eclectic bunch. All great players.

the shadow · « **Reply #8 on:** April 28, 2007, 12:26:05 AM »

tom morello is the king

...nuff said

Always Sore · « **Reply #9 on:** April 28, 2007, 07:26:12 AM »

Oh not what you ment...

Dr. D · « **Reply #10 on:** April 28, 2007, 08:36:59 AM »

Yngwie..hahaha....he is the best!!

Funny!!

240 is Back · « **Reply #11 on:** April 28, 2007, 09:06:54 AM »

1: Slash

2-Infinity: Everyone else.

Camel Jockey · « **Reply #12 on:** April 28, 2007, 12:59:59 PM »

Jimmy Page, Slash and Kirk Hammett.

BroadStreetBruiser · « **Reply #13 on:** April 28, 2007, 10:14:10 PM »

Quote from: 240 is Back on April 28, 2007, 09:06:54 AM

1: Slash

2-Infinity: Everyone else.

I'd take the 1988 top hat drug addicted Slash if that's who you're talking about

UPINTHEMGUTS · « **Reply #14 on:** April 29, 2007, 12:51:49 PM »

Eddie Van Halen. Next question.

bmacsys · « **Reply #15 on:** April 29, 2007, 03:37:20 PM »

Quote from: UPINTHEMGUTS on April 29, 2007, 12:51:49 PM

Eddie Van Halen. Next question.

Too bad Eddie stopped making rock and roll in 1986. He didn't have one meorable solo in Van Hagar while every album with Roth is full of smoking solo's and molten riffs.

Thin Lizzy · « **Reply #16 on:** April 30, 2007, 07:58:02 AM »

Guitar:

Paul Kossoff

Rik Emmett

Bass:

Andy Fraser

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FhCilozomo

natural al · « **Reply #17 on:** April 30, 2007, 10:03:31 AM »

Quote from: bmacsys on April 29, 2007, 03:37:20 PM

Too bad Eddie stopped making rock and roll in 1986. He didn't have one meorable solo in Van Hagar while every album with Roth is full of smoking solo's and molten riffs.

totally false. VH did do songs that were more melodic when they hooked up with Sammy but that's cuase they could and it's what Eddie wanted to do. There's plenty of great guitar playing during the Sammy era: Good Enough, 5150, summer nights, Source of Infection, the solo on Mine all Mine, AFU, Poundcake, Judgement Day..the whole FUCK album for that matter and Ed plays his balls of on the Live CD and most of Balance, check out the solo on the song Feelin or Amsterdam.

go over to youtube and look up 5150 from Live Without a Net, it's widely considered one of Ed's best ever solo's..he's totally smoking on that clip.

BroadStreetBruiser · « **Reply #18 on:** April 30, 2007, 02:07:37 PM »

EVH's best solo is on Fender's Myspace page where he whispers to the interviewer he's looking for tone and searching for tone. All the while he's sniffing and touching his hair about 500 times in 4 mins.

Bluto · « **Reply #19 on:** April 30, 2007, 02:30:15 PM »

didn conan have an axe at one time

onlyme · « **Reply #20 on:** April 30, 2007, 02:31:15 PM »

Paul Bunyan

natural al · « **Reply #21 on:** April 30, 2007, 04:01:43 PM »

Quote from: BroadStreetBruiser on April 30, 2007, 02:07:37 PM

EVH's best solo is on Fender's Myspace page where he whispers to the interviewer he's looking for tone and searching for tone. All the while he's sniffing and touching his hair about 500 times in 4 mins.

I think that's from NAMM in Feb of this year, I was bored to death when I watched that. Ed's playing was garbage there, same shit he's been doing for years but it was just sloppy and unorganize. Check out the solo from Live without a net's version of 5150

ribonucleic · « **Reply #22 on:** May 01, 2007, 12:24:27 PM »

Hendrix is #1 of course. And I've already put George Lynch at #2 in another thread.

It doesn't look like anyone has mentioned Eric Johnson. He's not always the most galvanizing soloist. But I think he deserves enormous credit for taking a total approach to the instrument.

I place a high value on lyricism - which is a much rarer gift than pure shredding. So I think Vito Bratta from White Lion is extremely underrated. Slash scores high marks here - as does David Gilmour, of course.

BroadStreetBruiser · « **Reply #23 on:** May 01, 2007, 12:25:19 PM »

Quote from: ribonucleic on May 01, 2007, 12:24:27 PM

Hendrix is #1 of course. And I've already put George Lynch at #2 in another thread.

It doesn't look like anyone has mentioned Eric Johnson. He's not always the most galvanizing soloist. But I think he deserves enormous credit for taking a total approach to the instrument.

I place a high value on lyricism - which is a much rarer gift than pure shredding. So I think Vito Bratta from White Lion is extremely underrated. Slash scores high marks here - as does David Gilmour, of course.

Eric Johnson has no feel. He's to much of a perfectionist. It sterilizes his music.

ribonucleic · « **Reply #24 on:** May 01, 2007, 12:45:37 PM »

Quote from: BroadStreetBruiser on May 01, 2007, 12:25:19 PM

Eric Johnson has no feel. He's to much of a perfectionist. It sterilizes his music.

I see where you're coming from. You definitely have a point here. His is a cold sort of mastery. That does have its place in the arts. But it's certainly outside the tradition as it has developed in this genre of music.

How about Stevie Ray Vaughan then? He put on some wild displays of bad-assery.