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Keemo1000
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Come to think of it, Seether's Main Singer looks like Captain Jack Sparrow on guitar or a Jack Black clone gone wrong, what do you guys think?

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Would Michael Angelo (Symphony X) be considered as a skilled player (with really fast alternate picking -seriously fast-) and also using his signature model (4 guitars in one) for some performances? Or is he more skilled in the music he plays. Incase you didnt know, there's a big difference between Skill and Music, you might be a really good guitarist, but you need to demonstrate good music than how fast or (cool) you fingers move. I know its irresistable but you just gotta try.. Anyways, back to the Michael Angelo thing.

Here's a video for him: http://youtube.com/watch?v=0130j5UVpbQ


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BucketHead has got to be the fastest player I've ever seen. I have his robots album and I think he played in Praxis too. I saw him at Ozzfest playing with Primus years ago.

And why are you resurrecting a thread that stopped 2 months ago?

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Posted: 31st Aug 2006 15:26 Edited at: 31st Aug 2006 15:27
Jimi Hendrix (Do I need to say who)
John Petrucci (Dream Theatre)
Mikael Ã…kerfeldt and Peter Lindgren (Opeth)

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Posted: 31st Aug 2006 17:56
My favorite guitarist is Adam Sandler.

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No, just no!

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Posted: 31st Aug 2006 21:37 Edited at: 31st Aug 2006 21:38
Batio has great speed and great theory knowledge. Obviously he can make good music with that. He could also make good music without the speed and theory, its just more basic, primal music which focuses more on the beat. Sometimes its in between, and you get a good mix. Its art, so its really relative to the listener more than anything.

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Also, I got to see Ted Nugent live yesterday he puts on a very good and er... patriotic show =)

2 more days at this time and I'll be on my way to see TOOL live =D


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JOHN FRUSCIANTE

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Posted: 1st Sep 2006 00:55
Quote: "2 more days at this time and I'll be on my way to see TOOL live =D"


I've seen them live, they're awesome live, they don't say much to the audeinece. I didn't get a good view, but here;



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Saw them on Undertow at the Strand, top notch show but maynard gets a little silly with acting like he is pissing on things. Some poor guy (Who I bet had the time of his life) got pulled out of the audience onto the stage and placed in a dog cage where maynard "poured" things all over him and kicked the cage around the stage.

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My faves are the main guitarist(s) for ColdPlay, and the guys in the jpop group "The Pillows".

I'm not a huge music buff, so even though I love the music of the above 2 groups, I don't know the names of the members and stuff like that

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My favorites are Joe Satriani and Larry (Ler) LaLonde from Primus.

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ColdPlay? Are they that good?


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Quote: "Larry (Ler) LaLonde from Primus"


great concert seeing him and primus playing side by side with buckethead. I found out that there were rumors that Ler was actually buckethead, so they had buckethead join the tour to prove to everyone that they were to separate ppl. Its not hard to dismiss the rumor anyway, buckethead is like 9ft tall compared to Ler.

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Come to think of it, my favourite guitar players are those that don't unplug their unmuted guitars while I have my headphones on. All three of them.


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Steve Vai, because he did the guitar in the Halo theme song...

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Hendrix or Page...either Jimmy is fine with me.

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Quote: "because he did the guitar in the Halo theme song"


Yea. You know I actually made an instrumental song. And just befor I finish it, I heard Halo 2's theme, which had exactly the same main riff! Only different tempo and beats. Steve Vai is awesome. Just learned alternate picking! Now this is rock...


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Quote: "ColdPlay? Are they that good?
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Depends on your musical tastes. Personally I think they're awful. As guitarists, technically they're very poor. One freely admitted in an interview that he couldn't do a guitar solo. However, if you're a fan of Coldplay you could argue that they're good for their songwriting skills i suppose. Still doesn't change the fact that coldplay are very, very dull though.

I've been listening to alot of Opeth recently. The guitars are very good in their songs (though I think the drums are better in terms of skill level).
I also got Iron Maidens new album the day it came out (Last monday in England), and the guitars are excellent, though the solos are much shorter than usual. Still, the band still boasts three of the best guitarists in the world (especially Murray and Smith), and it still shows.

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Quote: "Who's your favourite guitarist ? "


Me.
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I know not the names, but I can list the bands:

* Children of Bodom
* Death
* Opeth
* Tool
* Dragon Force
* Joe Satriani (ok, I know some)
* Steve Vai
* Sublime is ok
* Trivium

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Posted: 3rd Sep 2006 12:34
Tool. Was. SICK.

That is all.


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I'm my favorate! I can play amazing grace now... * marvels at own cleverness *

That guitarist from Queen is my favorate, I can never ever remember his name though... mind you it took me 2 weeks to remember my last girl friends name (that's two weeks after we started going out). Amazing that didn't last more then three isn't it?

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Posted: 3rd Sep 2006 16:41
Quote: "Tool. Was. SICK.

That is all."


Glad you liked it.

Quote: "* Children of Bodom
* Death
* Opeth
* Tool
* Dragon Force
* Joe Satriani (ok, I know some)
* Steve Vai
* Sublime is ok
* Trivium"


All a good bunch...Nice taste

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Dude. Coldplay is really bad. That song called "Yellow"... I Had a friend who loved it... I cant belive I actually know people who have horrible music tastes. Its just that... Ok it might be good, but still, you cant call yourself a rocker and play this kind of stuff. And by the way, there is NO SUCH THING as a rock band anymore, we are now in the future where more than category exists under one big category. Death Metal, Progressive Metal, Punk Rock, Opera Metal, you name it.


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Actually, Iron Maiden, Coldplay, The Offspring and In Flames are all rock music. Punk, metal, soft rock etc are all branches of rock, so rock band is a legitimate (however vague) term.


Does anyone else think the guitarists from Slayer play guitar like a 5 year old who's picked one up for the first time and is pretending to know how to solo?

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Hey guys, please please do yourselves a favor and watch this instrumental by Dream Theater, please!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=cF6tCPlFaO8


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Since this thread's up again, I'll have too add Jason Becker to my list, incase he wasn't already in it.

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Quote: "Hey guys, please please do yourselves a favor and watch this instrumental by Dream Theater, please!"

If it has to be prog, then by those who co-invented it. :p

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Quote: "Does anyone else think the guitarists from Slayer play guitar like a 5 year old who's picked one up for the first time and is pretending to know how to solo?"


I don't know about that, I find Kerry King's stuff some of the hardest stuff to play accurately. Granted I am no guitar god, but I can play just about anything from Yngwie to the Ramones. The only guy whose stuff I find more challenging is Vernon Reid. Not saying King's stuff is great just that you will get Carpal Tunnel after one song.

Not a lead player but Scott Ian proves just how good a rythym guitarist can be.

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Kerry King just plays variations of the Solo over and over, maybe hard, but are pretty much the same, I like to listen to Slayer, mostly their earlier stuff, but they can be boring, so I tend to listen if I doing stuff, was great for sitting at school revising though when I was doing my GCSE's, blocked out one annoying guy...

However, as the Bill Bailey act goes. 'Hellew we're Slayer, our songs they all sound the same...CHEMICAL WARFARE! *Frantically strums guitar* MANDITORY SUICIDE! *Frantically strums the same notes*'

There is rock, and many many many variations of it, some for metal...Heavy Metal, Nu Metal, Black Metal, Death Metal, Opera Metal, Progressive Metal, Progressive Death Metal (Thank Opeth for that one) Symphonic Metal, Gothic Metal etc.

Quote: "Actually, Iron Maiden, Coldplay, The Offspring and In Flames are all rock music. Punk, metal, soft rock etc are all branches of rock, so rock band is a legitimate (however vague) term."


Pretty much true, a Rock band is made up of serious people, with guitars, bass, drums and any extras (Or taken away, eg no bass in White Stripes) who have passion in what they do and Rock it out...Busted or Mc Fly don't count though, no matter how much they tell themselves...Heck Fightstar got bottled at download .

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Well, maybe it's hard to play but it sounds awful. Guitar solos should be melodic, not a bunch of notes played in a random order. DragonForce manage to play really fast and keep a decent structure to their solos. Slayer's sound poorly improvised, whether they're hard to play or not.

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Heck Fightstar got bottled at download"


Not only do they have the busted dude but their image is about as emo as physically possible....Damn those guys are going to have a tough time.

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Slayer was better in the early days, more tuneful. Solo's are mainly melodic, but for what Slayer are like, with satanist and Neo Nazi fans, it works. Of course I prefer something from John Petrucci or Opeth, the song Masters Apprentice is just awesome I'd say.

Quote: "Damn those guys are going to have a tough time. "

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Hi, we're Fightstar, we're death metal, we eat our nails for breakfast and bite the heads off chocolate bunny rabbits. And at parties we have thumbs wars and drink non alcoholic beer.

Hi I'm Charlie Simpson and I'm a wannabe who went to school up by Musashi, and the same places were his Karate was held...

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Quote: "Actually, Iron Maiden, Coldplay, The Offspring and In Flames are all rock music"


Offspring I'd consider alternative rock, maiden hard rock/metal depending how you look at them. in flames, never heard of. Coldplay? don't ever dare call coldplay rock. how they ever became popular is beyond me.

I'd consider rock a relative term. led zepplin formally rock, now classic rock. (and the "Godz" if anyone remembers them) Poison, once rock now consider hair metal. Nirvana, later called grunge. And now the new stuff called rock (which I call "crock" crap-rock). Each generation called rock but sounds uniquely different in style.

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a Rock band is made up of serious people, with guitars, bass, drums and any extras (Or taken away, eg no bass in White Stripes)
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white stripes? are you serious? hmmm, boring power chords paired with the worst drummer on radio equals rock success? I just don't get it.


I listened to the King Crimson thing, sounded kinda neat but rather boring. Looked fairly simple to play also. (only listened up to the first half) And the bass player could be doing so much more to fill up the background with a guitar like that.

The dream theater solo is difficult to play (im not even gonna try it) but not sure how creative it is.


I'd really love to see what Randy Rhoads would've come up with if he hadn't died at 25. He was only a teenager when he formed quiet riot, and some of his music definately showed his classical talent.
Dee is one of my favorite songs to play on acoustic. If anyone's curious, he's a recent picture of Rhoads' tomb that i've never seen before. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:RhoadsTomb.jpg

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Quote: "Looked fairly simple to play also. (only listened up to the first half) And the bass player could be doing so much more to fill up the background with a guitar like that."

And that is exactly the point most (younger) musicians don't understand. I've listened to hundreds of local and not so local young bands. Often each and every song was a complete overkill arrangement-wise. While that can be neat for one or two songs it makes the entire set nothing but boring. Secondly, a song does not exist to show your technical or musical skills all the time.


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Quote: "Coldplay? don't ever dare call coldplay rock. how they ever became popular is beyond me.
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Quote: "white stripes? are you serious? hmmm, boring power chords paired with the worst drummer on radio equals rock success? I just don't get it.
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A band doesn't necessarily have to be good to play rock music. In fact, most rock music is dull and repetitive. But it's still technically rock.

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Adam Jones FTW.


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I enjoy Coldplay, and I love the song "Yellow".

Just because you don't like a certain type of music doesn't mean that it's worthless.
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Quote: "A band doesn't necessarily have to be good to play rock music. In fact, most rock music is dull and repetitive. But it's still technically rock."


i suppose you're right.


Quote: "And that is exactly the point most (younger) musicians don't understand"


What do you consider a "younger" musician? I been playing for 10 years now. Not a professional, just a hobbyist really.

it sounded pretty, but with nothing else at all going on in the music, it became boring to listen to very quickly. My favorite solos to listen to are in Pink Floyd songs. Usually not difficult, often played slow, but Gilmor just knew exactly what note to play and when.

Quote: "Secondly, a song does not exist to show your technical or musical skills all the time"

But it should show something. I'm just real picky on how instruments play together, its why I like classical so much.

Quote: "Just because you don't like a certain type of music doesn't mean that it's worthless. "


does that mean brittany spears isn't worthless then? Cause I was pretty darn sure...



Is there any artist or song that everyone here would agree on?

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Quote: "does that mean brittany spears isn't worthless then?"


You know, I suppose that every group that puts out music will have some sort of following. Many metal groups have large followings. Coldplay has a large following.

And even Brittany Spears has a large following. So if you go by the numbers ... she may be worthless to you, but to 1.3 million girls between the ages of 13-16, she wasn't worthless.
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Hmmmmm...

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- Randy Rhoads (Ozzy Osbourne)
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I just got Joe Satriani's Super Colossal. Its awesome. One thing I really like about that guy, is his method of making music. In an interview, he said he'd imagine a certain situation for each song, and sees how he would react or how he would feel and starts playing to that idea.

Petrucci is just as great, but he's too technical in his music.

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Now that this has been bumped, I'm going to add Eddie Van Halen to my list.

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I'm going to add Tommy Emmanuel to mine.


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