(real) Guitar Heroes Thread

Parsley

Duane Allman!!!

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Parsley wrote: »

Duane Allman!!!

His double CD Anthology is great!;)

nhughes100

Surprised John Sykes didnt get a mention. Yeah Rory is prob my fave, Gary Moore too. I think Satriani's stuff is more listenable then Vai. Altho I like AC/DC I wouldnt count either of the Youngs as great guitar players.

Good that nobody mentioned the edge - another effects monkey

hyn-zie

Burning Eclipse wrote: »

I can't believe I'm the first to mention Eric Johnson.

Also, the hugely under appreciated, John 5.

Fu@kin sure, he's a true guitar god! here's my top 5

Slash
Randy Rhoads (R.I.P)
Zakk Wylde
Jerry Cantrell
John 5

hyn-zie

nhughes100 wrote: »

Surprised John Sykes didnt get a mention. Yeah Rory is prob my fave, Gary Moore too. I think Satriani's stuff is more listenable then Vai. Altho I like AC/DC I wouldnt count either of the Youngs as great guitar players.

Good that nobody mentioned the edge - another effects monkey

Edge only does effects cause he cant play outside four chords, he's boring,

RVD420

Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal.

Mental Mickey

RVD420 wrote: »

Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal.

Meh. Guitar w&!k in my opinion.

Mental Mickey

hyn-zie wrote: »

Edge only does effects cause he cant play outside four chords, he's boring,

Edge does the simple things well. His guitar playing on "One" is class.

Parsley

Mental Mickey wrote: »

Edge does the simple things well. His guitar playing on "One" is class.

And since when does doing the simple things well make someone a hero?!

ANarcho-Munk

J Mascis, Brian Baker, Giordai Ua Laioghaire (mad man), Chuck Shuldiner.


Edit: How could I forget Carlos Vamos, he is mind blowing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwm-vxGgFf4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3oevOU-s5w

Not all of them may be that technically brilliant but they all influenced me quite big. Giordai Ua Laoighre is very good though, he's from Cork and quite a strange guy. He's not very well known, there was a documentary done on him over here. It's pretty interesting and entertaining.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8506414122127399745&q=mayfame&total=1&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

hyn-zie

Mental Mickey wrote: »

Edge does the simple things well. His guitar playing on "One" is class.

One is a good song, but i've never heard anything special from him, personally i would congrdulate him in fooling the world with his simple structure of playing guitar, never heard him doing a lead solo more 8 notes, he's toooooooooooo basic and again boring snorrrrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!1

grames_bond

does anyone like newton faulkner? as a guitarist he is incredibly talented, knows how to do licks at the same time drum on the guitar, very talented!

Whiskeyjack

Joshe Homme, original and a damn fine lookin man to boot.

It wasn't me!

Santiago Dobles
Paul Masvidal
Bill Steer

Blackthorn1011

Warren Hayes is the man of the moment for me.

Closely followed by Billy Gibbons

boycey

Mick Taylor.
Was great with the Stones and John Mayall's bluesbreakers.

Actually that just made me think of Buddy Whittington too, his current guitarist. Big man, big talent.

carchaeologist

Any john pettruci fans here?I haven heard alot of his stuff, but i like what i have heard.Theres some funny dubbed over vids on u tube of him talking about his set up.

Karl Hungus

carchaeologist wrote: »

Any john pettruci fans here?I haven heard alot of his stuff, but i like what i have heard.Theres some funny dubbed over vids on u tube of him talking about his set up.

Huge fan of John Petrucci here.

ANarcho-Munk

Has anyone mentioned John McLaughlin yet?


He is an inspiration.

somerandomguy

Matt Bellamy Anyone??!!?? Ok not the fastest, but truly an innovator in terms of the way we look at the guitar, his use of effects and general style.
James hetfield aswell, awesome rythm player ( it's not all about the lead ya know) he had the best rythm skills ever.... too bad his right hand has gone to ****. Michael Angelo Batio if your lookig for pure shred. but alot of these shredders have no substance to their blur of notes> Joh petrucci is one of my favourite players but somehow I just feels he tries to cram as many notes as he can into a bar. daron Malakian is another favourite - creative and simple and riffmeisters joel stretzel and adam dutkiewicz.

Mental Mickey

Parsley wrote: »

And since when does doing the simple things well make someone a hero?!

Ya don't have to be flashy to be brilliant, imo.

ANarcho-Munk

Mental Mickey wrote: »

Ya don't have to be flashy to be brilliant, imo.

Or to be influential.

damonjewel

ok pretty much all of the guys mentioned so far are awesome in some way or other but come on guys only a percentage of them could be REAL guitar heroes.

Anyone see the 'pick of destiny', where they break into the rock museum and find the guitar gods room? well how many of the guitarists mentioned so far would be in that room?

Slutmonkey57b

I can't envision a situation where I would ever be in a room where Pick of Destiny would be playing, never mind watch the thing.

Kold

Jonny Greenwood rises above guitars. Instrumental hero.

dr.bollocko

Gimme a bit of Angus Young, just cos its possible he aint been mentioned yet.
And Mr. Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead is a legend.
And Adam Jones of Tool. He on here yet?

CianRyan

grames_bond wrote: »

cork should be proud:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RLvUWrYzKI

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redmosquito

Mike McCready