I think i found the best guitar player in the world.
 

Alvin Lee.
My god, i downloaded his session at Woodstock, and its truly amazing, he is just so fast.
Check it out on kazaa

Goin' Home-Alvin Lee

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Agreed. In terms of feel, page was the man.

If you want speed download yngwie malmsteen. You would be able to listen to it for more than around 5 minutes, mainly because its so fast and gets annoying really quickly, either that or because the whole songs like one large repition of the same 3 notes throughout the same meaningless song. But what do I know, hes a virtuouso oOo: IF virtuoso means youre a guitar player that plays with no feeling what so ever then Michael Angelo of nitro is one too.

Oh yea Check out anything from Ten Years After (not the current lineup).

Only discovering Alvin Lee now? The man is a guitar diety.

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^ The reason I started playing guitar

John Petrucci owns

Yea, my dad got the woodstock dvd, its a great movie.

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imwithstupid:

jimmy page is one of my idols, van halen is fucking fast also, but heres another great guitarist, but seemingly underrated
[img]http://24.58.175.68/upload/angus2open.jpg[/img]

Van Halen, Jimmy Page rock:

And, aren't we forgetting...

[img]http://www.temple.edu/history/hendrix.jpg[/img]

[quote:b70a6]^ The reason I started playing guitar[/quote:b70a6]

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keith

edit - lol I didn't read anything before my post.

YEAH!!...Keith is teh man, the heart and soul of rock & roll!! rock:

the man made a career on 3 chords. Hardly underated. He deserves no more nor less.

[img]http://www.concertshots.com/images/cs-JohnPetrucci2-Atlanta71901.JPG[/img]
[img]http://www.satriani.com/2000/road/2001-06-27/G3v1.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.kenmat.dircon.co.uk/metheny.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.philzone.com/interviews/trey/phish-eri-japan-6-11-00-trey.jpg[/img]

I think I've said enough just from those pics.

[quote="Short Hand":c4d7d]the man made a career on 3 chords. Hardly underated. He deserves no more nor less.[/quote:c4d7d]

i mean underrated in my expierience
most people i know dont know who he is

rock: rock: rock:

"The Earth was quakin'! the walls were shakin'!
...my balls were breakin' and WE WEREN'T FAKIN' baby,
YOU!...SHOOK ME ALLLLL NIGHT LONG....YEAH YEAH YEAH YOU!!... SHOOK ME ALLLLL NIGHT LONG..." rock:

trey anastasio is my favorite, but probs not the best ever

i dont know how many ppl are into phish, but i think its incredible how he just makes these crazy long solos off the top of his head cool:

Of the top of his head ? Nah...

It's like rappers doing "freestyle" battles: they have hundreds of rhymes
already prepared and they just try to mix'n'match appropriately and hope
it falls into place properly. Your guitarist probably experimented with many
different combinations and added them up together in an sensical order.

Still, it takes a lot of talent to do it so props to them! rock:

of course trey knows the usual scales, progressions, etc

i play guitar, and i know of a fair amount, but it doesnt mean anything if you cant put it all together

plus his guitar is a custom made work of God himself; the hollow body of the guitar is made so perfectly, it gives him the power of unlimited sustain on harmonics and high notes, so he can make cool noises while he decides what to do next! rock:

check out nugs.net for some free phish and other jam band shows...i like moe. the most personally, if anyone knows of them.

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Sorry but no.

oh, it's true

Who the fuck is that?

Anyway, back to the good guitar players...

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zoner you disapoint me... that is jack white... from the white stripes.

Jack White... sleeping:

Why would THAT disappoint you? The White Stripes?!?! I listen to good music, remember?

The White Stripes can go pack sand up their arse. Fucking talentless potzers.

are all the canadians in here stuck in 80's? if not earlier....

oOo:

wow.... have you EVER actually heard them... eh, i'm wasting my time here

i suppose he should just try to play highpitched as fast as he can no matter how crappy it sounds

[img]http://www.dwponline.com/rock/images/van_eddie1_mike.jpg[/img]

[img]http://www.angelfire.com/80s/WyldeRocker/randy.jpg[/img]

[img]http://www.concertshots.com/images/cs-SteveVai1-Atlanta71901.JPG[/img]

THOSE are guitar players...not Jack White. He's just an asshat who holds a guitar while looking like a dork.

way to avoid the question

is this better?

[img]http://filebox.vt.edu/users/bwolf/MOHStats/08.jpg[/img]
[img]http://filebox.vt.edu/users/bwolf/MOHStats/10.jpg[/img]

and playing guitar with tongue=pure crap

No, that's not it at all. I've been a guitar player for 17 years and over that time I've come to appreciate a whole spectrum of players from Chet Atkins to Buddy Guy to Pat Metheny to Tom Morello to Joe Satriani.

I can spot guitar prowess, I mean pure guitar virtuosity, pretty innately by now...and my friend, Jack White is not a great guitar player.

well i respect your musically-experienced opinion, as long as you've actually heard him. but i, and i also play guitar (clearly not for 17 years), do think he's one of the best.... i have to go to class now

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I s'pose that's good enough for me. Fill your boots with that stuff if that's what gets yer pecker hard.

It's not my cup of tea at all.

yep

Even if you like the White Stripes...Jack white is not even CLOSE to EVER being regarded one of the best.

of all time, of course not... but of people and living and still playing well today, he's definately one of the best (and this thread has nothing to do with best of all time... it says best in the world). I'm not going to make any claims that Jack White is better then Hendrix or Page or any of the other legends, but of his generation he is the best.

and if you think this is just my opinion, go pick up any copy of nearly any respected music magazine... spin, rolling stone, whatever...