What's Your Preferred Type of Musical Genius?18485
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| When it comes to guitar players. what type of brilliance do you gravitate to? What type of genius strikes more of a chord with you? Are you in the "shredder" camp? Eddie Van Halen Steve Vai Joe Satriani Yngwie Malmsteen Herman Li etc. "Inbetween" Jimi Hendrix Jimmy Page Slash Angus Young Brian May Randy Rhodes etc. Standard/"Simple" Kurt Cobain Johnny Ramone Steve Jones John Lennon The Edge etc. Of the three....what does your record collection represent most? |
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| I'm about 50/50 shredder/standard, but that doesn't mean I have no Queen or Led Zeppelin. Both Brian May and Jimmy Page are stunning. | ||
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| Rivers Cuomo and Harry Nilsson- I have no idea what type either is though... | ||
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| None of the above. | ||
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 The apple sauce and pudding were the best part...
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| How is Eddie van halen not in his own category? Lol | ||
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| Feel Brian May is the best. his epic solos in "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "We will rock you" are epic. The way he shreds | ||
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| You already know... |
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 would be nice to have a snugger fit.
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| David Gilmour. VH easily the most technically genius but Gilmour is the absolute best player from the soul. My vinyl represents more Page, Van Halen, Rhoads, and Edge. CD era, mostly Edge and Gilmour. Current day, just Gilmour and this guy. Jonsi.  |
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Davethebrave private msg quote post Address this user | |
| I appreciate most of the guitarists across those categories pretty equally. What I listen to most often are likely in the first two categories. David Gilmour, Marty Friedman, Yngwie Malmsteen, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Slash probably best represent my personal influences. I listen to / play a lot of different styles. Good music is good music. |
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| I like the jangle James Honeyman-Scott or Johnny Marr type. The Edge is also in that mold |
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| I listen to just about everything, but my favorite is Tom Morello. The sounds he can create with a guitar are amazing. Not sure you can put him in one category though. | ||
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Davethebrave private msg quote post Address this user | |
| Most of these players can’t easily be categorized in my opinion but I get the idea. Shred is not all the same. Plenty of jazz bebop or fusion players shred. Many shredders have great soul and are melodic, etc etc. |
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 Staple topics, nice.
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| My heart is made of metal, my blood is molten rock, my attitude is shit, and gotta have punk rock! I dig all of that stuff GAC listed, and more. I'm also a multimedia artist/musician, I met my god in 1988, backstage, I asked James Hetfield if he had a guitar pick, he dug in his pockets, pulled out a large handful of change(no quarters, they liked their video games at the time) and a hair tie. Hetfield looked at me and apologized. This was totally awesome to me, that he even dug in his pockets. That same year I met Dave Mustaine at Tower of Records, Mustaine is also a fav. Dave and crew were in a part of their lives full of debauchery and madness. Dave Looked at me and said they were at the gig, they were all partied out, and because I was in my youth, I thought he didn't care about my request(based upon what Hetfield had done), because of my naive, youthful ways, I used to think Mustaine was a jerk. Looking back, I understand more of what was going on and have taken back my thoughts of him being an ass hat. | ||
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Byrdibyrd private msg quote post Address this user | |
| @makahuka I grew up in the 70's and while I never dyed my hair, I was still a big ol' punkette. Classic British punk? I'm there! |
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 Suck it up, buttercup!!
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| Glam Rock? | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by KatKomics Paganini? Liberace? |
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Definitely this guy. Adam Jones pushes boundaries in music and visual arts  |
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| Where does Ravi Shankar fit? You probably need to expand those catagoies. | ||
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| Steve Howe Jimmy Page David Gilmour Tony Iommi Richie Blackmore Stevie Ray Vaughn If Randy Rhoads were still alive, he'd probably be on the list. |
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| I grew up on the 60's & 70's Rock. Bachman-Turner Overdrive Bad Company Black Sabbath Alice Cooper Dr Hook and the Medicine Show Uriah Heep etc. Looking at the above names, I only recognize 5 of the names. I also enjoy the Mannheim Steamroller Christmas music. |
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| Slash is definitely my favorite on the list. I saw the kickoff of their reunion tour several years ago in Detroit and I was absolutely stunned how great Slash still is. He really just kept getting better and better and hasn't showed his age at all on the axe. on the flip side, Axl REALLY showed his age. That Asshole. |
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KatKomics private msg quote post Address this user | |
| So really...vocals and lyrics John Prine Robert Zimmerman Tom Petty Roy Orbison Geoff Lynn Neil Young George Harrison did I mention John Prine? Stan Rodgers Gordon Lightfoot Stompin Tom etc.. will have to think about guitarists... |
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| Eric Clapton Pete Townshend Jeff Beck Steve Hackett Roy Harper Joan Armatrading Tom Scholz Jimmy Page Ritchie Blackmore Jimi Hendrix Stevie Ray Best Metal Rock singer.... Ronnie James Dio!!! |
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| David Gilmour seems a consensus icon. Unsurprising. | ||
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| I’d say that not too many people posting play guitar. It’s is the only explanation I can think of why Eric Johnson, and Duane Allman aren’t on anyones list or been in a post up to mine. | ||
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Davethebrave private msg quote post Address this user | |
Quote:Originally Posted by Towmater I posted Eric Johnson and then did a classic edit. I actually had his old REH instructional video and let a “famous” virtuoso friend borrow it more than 20 years ago. Whole host of influences like Johnson and Gambale, Becker, Gilbert, Friedman, Petrucci, Pass, Morse etc… but comic forum is probably the wrong audience. Edit: also, re: some Van Halen references, EVH was a great innovator, song writer and versatile musician. He was nowhere near tops in the technical category, even in his era. An innovator instead, with massive impact. Similar to Hendrix. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by HotKeyComics Axl Rose still sings incredibly well… great, great singer. Natural talent. |
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would be nice to have a snugger fit.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Towmater I play, but I think it just comes down to peoples' favorites. Not just lists of who's best. Eric Johnson is incredible, like Satch and Vai, but I don't really listen to any of them. Was Robin Trower mentioned? I overlooked him in my first post, which is odd because he was up there with Page and Mick Ronson as my major influences. And unlike Page, he was good live. |
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| I like those who's talents were cut short by life's misfortunes like Jimi Hendrix, SRV, Randy Rhoads, Jason Becker, Duane Allman, and many more who make you wonder what if...? | ||
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