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Underworld 1020
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-Yngwie Malmsteen (my favorite as you may have noticed)
-Michael Angelo Batio (no doubt the most talented even possible)
-Joe Satriani (Cryin' is an amazing song, I can play most of it)
-Randy Rhodes
-Steve Vai (great skill, but I'm not into his music)
-Kirk Hammet
-James Hetfield (amazing riffs)
-Tom Hess (I only seen one video of him, but his technique was perfect)
-Michael Staertow (my guitar teacher)

Those are my favorites. Yngwie's concerto suite for the electric guitar dvd is amazing, as well as the G3 dvd. Also I actually went to one of Yngwie's shows, by far the coolest thing I've ever seen, he was about 3 feet away from me. I managed to get one of the picks he threw out into the crowd. He also threw his sweaty hand towel out into the crowd, but I didn't dive for that one like some people who were actually fighting over it!

Also, if you haven't ever heard of, or seen Michael Angelo Batio you must. He:

-plays faster than Yngwie
-plays right-handed
-plays left-handed
-plays with a double-guitar (two whole guitars hooked together at the body)
-has an over-under trick, that is really freaky and amazing
-mixs neo-classical, rock, and jazz all together
-invented the double-guitar
-invented a handy little device that gets rid of all the unwanted buzzing (really good for tapping, I've never acutally tried it though just seen some videos)

anyways you get the idea...just to give you a little visual: (check this out)

http://angelo.com/ - main
http://www.deanguitars.com/angelo/mab_videos/ - double-guitar video
http://angelo.com/speed_lives_mab.wmv - full video

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I found some Tom Hess videos:
http://www.tomhess.net/video.php

Also, I forgot to mention my guitar teacher:
http://www.michaelstaertow.com/ (low-bandwidth one sucks, it cuts out basically everything...use the high-bandwidth)
he's got some great songs, check out the samples. His Oxygen cd is worth the money by the way, great cd.


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Quote: "Michael Angelo Batio"


Wooow. That guy sounds good, Ill try listening to him. We all know Satriani has taught many of today's greatest guitarists, but who taught Satriani?



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Michael Angelo Batio sounds like what Matt was trying to call Steve Vai back when he was getting into that argument over music with me A metronome. He is a great guitarist if you're into speed, though.

For the record, I brought him up first

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Touch one... I love guitar-driven music but maybe John Petrucci or Michael Romeo.

I will also stop and listen to anything by Vinnie Moore, Luca Turrilli and Impellitteri.

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Dave Murray
Adrian Smith
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Up the god damn irons my son!!!

I will add Janick Gers - ugliest man in show biznizz.

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Quote: "I will add Janick Gers - ugliest man in show biznizz."


Don't know about that

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I have to say alot of guitarists sound great recorded but live are nowhere near as good, an exception to this has been Maiden, I have seen them 7 times over the years and they have sounded BETTER live.

A few more on my list

Danny Spitz
Rob Cannavino
Craig Wells
Jim Matheos and Frank Aresti
Vernon Reid !!!!!!!
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Agreed. I heard the live version of Afraid To Shoot Strangers on the Best of the Beast Album (I think). Awesome tune. Hairs on the neck action at the time. Then I heard the recorded version when I got the Fear of the Dark album. Nothing in comparison. I've never seen them live but I'm not really a big metaller. If the live recordings are anything to go by, they definitely pull it out the bag at their gigs.

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Quote: "Luca Turilli"
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Yeah, he's excellent, but I think he writes better than he plays. For those who haven't heard him, that's really saying something.

Quote: "I will add Janick Gers"


I left him out because I think the other two are better. Gers is good, but he just doesn't add as much to the music. Smith adds really catchy structured solos, whereas Murray adds fast, bluesy soloes. Gers is more shred, which is great when added into the mix, but I just don't enjoy his solos as much. They're all really great live though. I could watch Rock in Rio DVD for hours on end.
Plus I have absolutely no idea how to pronounce his name, which really counts against him.

I'm surprised that no-one else has mentioned Richie Blackmore though. He's far better than Steve morse (the 'new' Deep Purple guitarist), and he has a very unique style to his solos. He was also better in Rainbow than Deep Purple.

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I can't believe nobody said Frank Zappa yet


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My favourite, is a cliche favourite, but who could else is there to pick that could remotely be considered better;

Jimi Hendrix

However Stevie Ray Vaughan and Eric Clapton do very well in comparison to Jimi, however out of the bands I mostly listen to I would pick either the guitarist from Dragonforce, even when I saw them live I though, dude those two rock, or I would pick the guy from Shadows Fall, when I first heard him, I thought [Bill and Ted style voice]'Dude those are totally awesome riffs"[/Bill and Ted style voice]

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What's up with everyone getting to meet world guitarists' concerts and me not ?



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Not strictly a gituarist, but the bass player from Alien Ant Farm kicks arse.

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Quote: "What's up with everyone getting to meet world guitarists' concerts and me not"


The answer is simple, pick a band you love, buy tickets to their next concert or a festival they are playing in and you'll be head banging to awesome guitarists in no time

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I bumped into Brian May at Heathrow Airport a few years back. I walked up to him in awe, appologised for being a pain and asked if I could have a pic taken.

He was very candid about it, was extremey talkative and incredibly friendly.

I think it's impossible to come across a nicer rock star: and I have a pic to prove it.

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by the way, if anyone is looking for some help with learning guitar, there is a great site just for you:

http://freeguitarvideos.com/

they have tons of videos that get close up. Also there is no logining in or none of that crap either.


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Thanks for the link dude.

Does anyone have any emails of famous musicians?

I have Bill Gates' email, hes the best "keyboardist" around :

Billg@microsoft.com



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Mick Thompson, lead guitarist of Slipknot


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Didn't their manager ban guitar solos or something until their latest album? It was still awful, but the solo on pulse of the maggots was pretty nice.

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Hey Bahamut, Just a question, your band songs' recordings sound pretty clear, what program do you use? Any special mics ?



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David Gilmore.
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The live stuff was recorded on a video camera.

I'm not the technical guy, so this is going to be vague.

Primal was recorded with cubase. I recorded drums on an electric drum kit (I don't normally like these, but we had one available and they allow for a cleaner sound whn it's beng done by amatures in your living room), and we plugged the guitar amps directly into this box thing, which went into the computer. The amp we used was a line 6 spider II, and I think we also used zoom effects pedals.

We used mics as little as possible to avoid background noise. The only time mics were used is for the vocals. I don't know what mic we used though.

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im using Audacity for editing. And I dont think ill be able to buy any more guitar hardware (unless necessary) so ill try getting some good mic that can be connected to the pc.

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What do you guys think of Dream Theater? Their guitarist is John Petrucci.



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I like em, hell I went to one show when it was snowing really bad and there were six of us there, got to talk to em had a good time. I actually used to work with the (think it was the singers) uncle, funny seeing a 55 year old guy in a DT tshirt.
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HEre are some of my favourite by DT:

-As I am (nothing will get better, trust me)
-Take The Time
-These Walls
-In the name of God
-Panic Attack
-Pull me under
-Never Enough is also quite ok.



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You guys wanna hear a cool album? I have a cd with BB King and Eric Clapton playing together.

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What songs do they play?



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I went to a blues festival in newport one time and Johnny Winter was playing, he had all the 4x12 cabinets (about 12) and played great. Them BB king came out, he carried this little amp out onto the stage with him, a guy ran out and put a mic in front of it then BB proceeded to blow everyone away, made Winter look like a hack. BB is great.
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Gotta listen to that guy too.



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Quote: "What do you guys think of Dream Theater? Their guitarist is John Petrucci."


Dream Theater is the best band in the world.

My opinion is fact.

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Jimmeeeeeeehhh.

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Hey, keep it on topic.

My favourite guitarist is Wassup Megatron.

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OMG WB JIMMY

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I am not back, but rather stopping by.

Kirk Hammett.

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lol ok In the military still?

On topic - Guns n roses rock

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Havent heard from Jimmy in a while too, but tis good to know there are some other DT fans around.

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lol keemo This thread Made me wanna go buy a g uitar And now i'm practising :/

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What brand? I want a Fender or atleast a Yamaha... or a Gibson! Or a metronome, or a Guitar... Ah nvm, Ill just get a second guitar..



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What was that?



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I read that kirk hammett studied with Satriani at some point.

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Quote: "I read that kirk hammett studied with Satriani at some point."

A lot of people, including Hammett and Vai, took lessons under Satriani. They all seem to be spiritual people, too.... strange...


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Quote: "Quote: "I read that kirk hammett studied with Satriani at some point."
A lot of people, including Hammett and Vai, took lessons under Satriani. They all seem to be spiritual people, too.... strange..."


Yup, strange that none of them carried on the favor and taught others.

Steve Vai is awesome, just that there's something funny about all his guitars, they all have wierd finger-shaped handles dug into the guitar, maybe so he can carry it to work (assuming he does... so ironic.)

Joe Satriani Is great too, without his sunglasses ,he looks like a kind man with a kind heart who just recovered from blindness, or a monk. But when he puts his glasses at night, he turns into a guitar playing octupus with a unique not to mention "swell" style. He scares me, when he plays solos, he shakes his head along the x axis (left to right) not to the music he's playing, but to the ..um, im not sure.



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Quote: "Yup, strange that none of them carried on the favor and taught others."

Really strange how you happened to make that fact up.

Quote: "Steve Vai is awesome, just that there's something funny about all his guitars, they all have wierd finger-shaped handles dug into the guitar, maybe so he can carry it to work (assuming he does... so ironic.)"

It's his monkey grip Most every JEM will come with it.


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He did Teach? Who?

Quote: "It's his monkey grip"


Well, his hair DOES look monkey-material..



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Bart Frydrychowicz (Quo Vadis, a local band (Quebec) (Yay ))
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Quote: "What brand? I want a Fender or atleast a Yamaha... or a Gibson! Or a metronome, or a Guitar... Ah nvm, Ill just get a second guitar..
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Gibson

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