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 May 15, 2008 @ 18:55:35 | #22 | guitarist319
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Join Date: May 2008 | christobar said:
Ugh you ignorant people you. No way to say the "best" guitarist because everyone has their own style, its all opinion. But what isn't opinion is saying one guitarist is better than the other based on versatility, technique, and overall complete mastery of the guitar. And that my friends is why Hendrix and Clapton should not even be mentioned in a thread about the best guitarists. They are undeserving of that title by a long shot. Maybe you could consider Hendrix for innovator or top showman but hes far from the best guitarist. Steve Vai, Michael Romeo, John Petrucci, Al Di Meola, and countless others would rape Hendrix and Clapton in a battle of versatility, technique, and overall mastery.
I agree with you here. You forgot Allan Holdsworth and Steve Morse.
Here's the problem. Most people just believe Hendrix, Clapton, and Page are the best because that's what they have always been told.
Think for yourselves. The playing those folks do is very basic compared to what has been done since, not to mention the fact that there were more advanced players around before AND during the time those three came around.
Page was about the sloppiest player in rock history. How are you going to be sloppy yet be considered one of the best? If you play tennis and are sloppy, you will lose. If you are an architect and your work is sloppy, the structure will collapse.
The saddest part? All three of the aforementioned rock guitarists are basically bluesmen with distortion.
Blues guitar is level one when you take lessons. It is to guitar what 2+2 is to mathematics.
Expand your horizons by listening to a variety.
Better yet, learn to play the instrument for a few years THEN see if you still think they are the best. |   | |
| May 19, 2008 @ 23:07:49 | #24 | uflaz
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Join Date: Feb 2008 | guitarist319 said:
I agree with you here. You forgot Allan Holdsworth and Steve Morse.
Here's the problem. Most people just believe Hendrix, Clapton, and Page are the best because that's what they have always been told.
Think for yourselves. The playing those folks do is very basic compared to what has been done since, not to mention the fact that there were more advanced players around before AND during the time those three came around.
Page was about the sloppiest player in rock history. How are you going to be sloppy yet be considered one of the best? If you play tennis and are sloppy, you will lose. If you are an architect and your work is sloppy, the structure will collapse.
The saddest part? All three of the aforementioned rock guitarists are basically bluesmen with distortion.
Blues guitar is level one when you take lessons. It is to guitar what 2+2 is to mathematics.
Expand your horizons by listening to a variety.
Better yet, learn to play the instrument for a few years THEN see if you still think they are the best.
yo retard, you agreed with someone saying there is no best guitarist but then you say a few names on top of his that no one has heard of or if the have they play the same chords over and over again in one song. A true guitar mastar is Jimmy Page. Listen to the solo in Dazed and confused. Brilliant riffs and speed. But speed isn't everything such as david glimour's case.
Gilmour uses original riffs and chords in every song he has made. Van Halen has used almost the same technique as page but put his own spin on it.
Clapton sounds like a difefrent person every time he plays. Layla and Sunshine of your love sound like two different artists and lests face it, both songs are at most 6 years apart.
Its true there isn't any clear cut winner, but when you say there is not best guitarist but pull out a few random names, lets face it, it makes you look like a fag.
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| May 19, 2008 @ 23:42:04 | #30 | jmo
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Join Date: May 2006 | christobar said:
Ugh you ignorant people you. No way to say the "best" guitarist because everyone has their own style, its all opinion. But what isn't opinion is saying one guitarist is better than the other based on versatility, technique, and overall complete mastery of the guitar. And that my friends is why Hendrix and Clapton should not even be mentioned in a thread about the best guitarists. They are undeserving of that title by a long shot. Maybe you could consider Hendrix for innovator or top showman but hes far from the best guitarist. Steve Vai, Michael Romeo, John Petrucci, Al Di Meola, and countless others would rape Hendrix and Clapton in a battle of versatility, technique, and overall mastery.
Out of interest, do you just hover on tfs constantly until someone says that Hendrix or Clapton or Page is the best guitarist so you can explain to them that it isn't?
I think every post you've ever left has had to do with that.
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