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24-01-2008, 12:18 PM
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steve vai is a rock god.  | 
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24-01-2008, 12:33 PM
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I'll see your Steve Vai and raise you Joe Satriani...
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24-01-2008, 1:04 PM
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Originally Posted by fluffrick  I'll see your Steve Vai and raise you Joe Satriani... | Is anybody able to advise if either of these have music available on the hi-res formats (DVD-A or SACD)? I've had a bit of a search around, but haven't been able so far to find anything. I'm doing my best not to buy CDs if I can help it. | |
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24-01-2008, 1:55 PM
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Hehe, such a subjective question, this is a fairly good list Nuno Bettencourt was one of my faves back in the day..
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24-01-2008, 2:04 PM
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Originally Posted by fluffrick I'll see your Steve Vai and raise you Joe Satriani... | And I'll take the winnnings with Michael Schenker while you two skulk off home  .
Vai and Satriani sure are technically good, but Schenker has a connection with his guitar which Vai and Satriani can't even begin to contemplate dreaming of having and he plays with a feeling that I have never heard from anyone else [apart from Hendrix possibly].
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24-01-2008, 5:58 PM
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Nope........technically competent is he, but the dark side he has turned, showing off with his widdling tendencies.
All time best rock guitarist.........Hendrix, I was never sure if he played the guitar or the guitar played him. Amazing guitarist that only sank into my consciousness when I began playing guitar seriously.
Satriani is better than Vai and I would rate Petrucci as equal to Satriani without the legato slides.
I notice that the website puts 3 brits in the top places the holy trinity of Beck, Clapton and Page.........all were about guitar 'feel' instead of outright technique (Page dropped huge clangers in his solos).
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25-01-2008, 3:00 PM
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Originally Posted by karkus30 Nope........technically competent is he, but the dark side he has turned, showing off with his widdling tendencies.
All time best rock guitarist.........Hendrix, I was never sure if he played the guitar or the guitar played him. Amazing guitarist that only sank into my consciousness when I began playing guitar seriously.
Satriani is better than Vai and I would rate Petrucci as equal to Satriani without the legato slides.
I notice that the website puts 3 brits in the top places the holy trinity of Beck, Clapton and Page.........all were about guitar 'feel' instead of outright technique (Page dropped huge clangers in his solos). | I'll go with that. Listening to Hendrix is nothing like any other guitarist. His technique is totally without peer, and unlike the British guitar Gods he does it so effortlessly.
No wonder Clapton was so upset when he went to seem him play........... and I rate him as the best guitarist I've seen!
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Steve Vai reckons Tommy Emmanuelle is the greatest guitarist
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28-01-2008, 10:04 PM
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They're both great. But shred is subjective just like any other genre of music. Yngwie Malmsteen has to be right up there with them, as does Eddie Van Halen of course. My personal vote/s would go to Paul Gilbert (Mr. Big, Racer X) and Stevie Ray Vaughan. | |
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Agree with most of the above, but there's a sad lack of acoustic greats here 
Try Martin Simpson, Martin Taylor, or Gordon Giltrap for unfettered brilliance | |
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Hendrix is noise.
See Steve Rothery for some really enjoyable riffs.
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raise you joe bonamasa,the real deal
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Originally Posted by mylostmarbles Hendrix is noise.
See Steve Rothery for some really enjoyable riffs. | Heathen! May ye be cast out as a heretic for such blasphemy!
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Ah but such a sublime noise it is..............  | |
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Originally Posted by kherm And I'll take the winnnings with Michael Schenker while you two skulk off home .
Vai and Satriani sure are technically good, but Schenker has a connection with his guitar which Vai and Satriani can't even begin to contemplate dreaming of having and he plays with a feeling that I have never heard from anyone else [apart from Hendrix possibly].
Thread closed . | While I'm not a big Schenker fan I completely get what your saying. Someone like Slash aint in the same class technically as Vai and Satriani but I would much rather listen to him or Hendrix, Page, Lifeson, Moore, Gilmour, Bettencourt, Page, McReady, May etc play.
Vai and Satriani are far to souless IMO
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