What are you listening to, right now................
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@bovidae said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Eddie is known for his solos and tapping etc but it is his rhythm playing that sets him apart.
Comparing his chops to longtime VH bassist Michael Anthony is ridiculous....he only played one note!!
For what its worth my latest top ten all time Guitarists goes like this....
Hendrix.....
Jeff Beck
Richie Blackmore
Jimmy Page
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Eddie Van Halen
Tony Iommi
Carlos Santana
Johnny Winter
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@mn5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Comparing his chops to longtime VH bassist Michael Anthony is ridiculous....he only played one note!!
Eh? I wasn't comparing EVH to MA at all. Just highlighting that Eddie also plays rhythm guitar, not just lead. Check out the song 5150 for another example.
For what its worth my latest top ten all time Guitarists goes like this....
Off the top of my head:
Hendrix
Beck
Blackmore
Clapton
EVH
Gary Moore
Eric Johnson
Allan Holdsworth
John Petrucci
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@bovidae said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@mn5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Comparing his chops to longtime VH bassist Michael Anthony is ridiculous....he only played one note!!
Eh? I wasn't comparing EVH to MA at all. Just highlighting that Eddie also plays rhythm guitar, not just lead. Check out the song 5150 for another example.
For what its worth my latest top ten all time Guitarists goes like this....
Off the top of my head:
Hendrix
Beck
Blackmore
Clapton
EVH
Gary Moore
Eric Johnson
Allan Holdsworth
John Petrucci
Paul GilbertYou're taking the piss with Clapton and Moore. Surprised Joe Bonomassa didn't make the list to complete a 'dreary white boy pentatonic blues' triumverite.
When I mentioned MA I was mainly pointing out he's pretty much the most undynamic bass player I can think of.
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@mn5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
You're taking the piss with Clapton and Moore.
Clapton in his Bluesbreakers days was very good but I wasn't initially going to include him.
Gary Moore was a great guitarist and played everything from jazz fusion to rock to blues. Plenty of guitarists list him as a big influence.
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@bovidae said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@mn5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
You're taking the piss with Clapton and Moore.
Clapton in his Bluesbreakers days was very good but I wasn't initially going to include him.
Gary Moore was a great guitarist and played everything from jazz fusion to rock to blues. Plenty of guitarists list him as a big influence.
Fair call. Also in the Cream days too but those periods were brief. Once the 70s rolled around pretty much all he did was lame covers of other people's songs.
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So after some really shitty management where bands have not been paid we actually have another metalfest heading to Australia. Download fest will be in Melbourne next year in March, the lineup is very 1999 with Korn and LimpBizkit headlining but hopefully this will just be a foundation for bigger and better festivals over the next few years. I've been looking at a number of aussie bands playing and if this vid is anything to go by these fellas will be worth a watch
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@MN5 @Bovidae thoughts on John Mayer? I know he doesn't get a lot of love because his early stuff was dross but now hes made his money he's just doing what he actually wanted to do in the first place.
Also he goes camping around the states in this and it is probably the most awesome thing I've ever seen.
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@bovidae said in What are you listening to, right now................:
For what its worth my latest top ten all time Guitarists goes like this....
Off the top of my head:
Hendrix
Beck
Blackmore
Clapton
EVH
Gary Moore
Eric Johnson
Allan Holdsworth
John Petrucci
Paul Gilbert'Cept for Jimi, DuaneAllman kicks the asses of all those others - and I like those others. Take a chance and try to find some room for Wes Montgomery, Pat Martino, Kenny Burrell, Granrt Green and Tommy Tedesco, to name just a few, while you're at it. And for the love of GOd don't forget Django! They'll destroy most everybody on that list -- who, I say again, I enjoy and appreciate very much.
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@jegga said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MN5 @Bovidae thoughts on John Mayer? I know he doesn't get a lot of love because his early stuff was dross but now hes made his money he's just doing what he actually wanted to do in the first place.
Also he goes camping around the states in this and it is probably the most awesome thing I've ever seen.
Mayer is way better than he used to be. As underrated on the guitar as Joe Bonamassa is overrated.
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I'll be honest and say I haven't heard much of the jazz fusion guys from the 1950s and 1960s. I'll have a look on YT.
I've always wanted to explore more of the early blues guitarists like Robert Johnson too. Speaking of blues guitarists - Roy Buchanan.
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@bovidae said in What are you listening to, right now................:
I'll be honest and say I haven't heard much of the jazz fusion guys from the 1950s and 1960s. I'll have a look on YT.
I don't know how I overlooked Charlie Christian from 30s & 40s, he was the first great American jazz guitarist. George Benson's records through the 60s and early 70s - prior to him becoming a Masquerade and On Broadway vocalist - are often incredible. Fusion as a genre likely started with Miles Davis in the late 60s, his guitarist John McLaughlin, who started his own band Mahavishnu Orchestra and did a great album with Carlos Santana, could easily be ranked among the best ever electric guitarists. I've seen him play numerous occasions in a variety of permutations, including his series with Al Di Meola and Paco De Lucia, documented in the famed Friday Night in San Francisco LP, all-acoustic, it was mind-blowing. Seen Di Meola as well in many permutations, including Return to Forever, who alongside Mahavishnu and Weather Report were probably the premier Jazz Prog Fusion band of the 1970s. If you like Jeff Beck's Wired and Blow By Blow you will probably love a lot of that, Di Meola has amazingly fast playing on electric & acoustic. Fripp and Zappa aren't necessarily the greatest guitarists ever, but both are so idiosyncratic they would make my list. Funnily enough just the other day I was listening to Zappa's Peaches III on Tinsel Town Rebellion where he does his "Ladies & Gentlemen, Al Di Meola" impersonation that is both hilarious and amazing.
Ever heard Frank Marino wail?
Wiki:
An often-repeated myth is he was visited by an apparition of Jimi Hendrix after a bad LSD trip,[5][6] a myth Marino has always disavowed, and still does so now on his personal website.[7] His playing, however, is inspired by Hendrix (on the Gibson website he is described as "carrying Jimi's psychedelic torch"[8]), and Marino is notable for strong cover versions of Hendrix classics such as "Purple Haze" and "All Along The Watchtower".[9][8] He has been criticized by some as a Hendrix clone.[10][11] Marino himself claims that he didn't consciously set out to imitate Hendrix's style at all: "The whole style just came naturally. I didn't choose it; it chose me." [12] -
These might be the best two songs ever inspired by Charlie.
Neil Young - Revolution Blues
(Come to think of it, that may be Neil's best song ever.)
Sonic Youth - Death Valley '69
Can you think of any others? (Besides Helter Skelter, that is?)
