Legendary guitar solos!

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Postby HungryCrackPot » Sat Jun 21, 2003 1:53 am

Anaal Nathrakh - Carnage
Crptyopsy - Cold Hate, Warm Blood

Both have solos that make you give birth to rocks.
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Postby Otohiko » Sat Jun 21, 2003 1:13 pm

Arctyc wrote:
Otohiko wrote:Joe Satriani - Crystal Planet (Album - hard to pick out a track)
Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze, Star Spangled Banner (how the hell did you not mention him before??? And these tracks???)
Frank Zappa - Muffin Man (a beloved great solo of mine), Peaches en Regalia (possibly the funnest instrumental of all time)
Brian May's work on Queen II, Sheer Heart Attack and Night at the Opera - pick your own tracks.
Joe Pass - Virtuoso (Album, Jazz - hard to pick out single track)
John McLaughlin - Electric Dreams (Album, Jazz-fusion, again uniformly good)
Robert Fripp - Fracture (Possibly the most complex instrumental rock track of all time, chilling guitar work), 21st Century Schizoid Man (most legendary)
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Discriminating tastes. King Crimson, while an unstable entity, was certainly accordable.

To tip my hat in, I'd suggest some of the jazz guitar greats, like Mr. John Scofield.


Thank you! I'll certainly take a jazz trip when opportunity arises - my father is himself a jazz guitar player, so it shouldn't be a problem for me to obtain some good jazz records, Scofield included.

Hehe, and I'm glad someone finally caught on to my real musical preference... I think King Crimson's inherent instability is what makes it so timelessly sharp and constantly forward-moving. The band is truly an answer to 'what else is there left for guitar-oriented music to accomplish?'. To me, it's also an answer to many other questions...
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Postby Flint the Dwarf » Sat Jun 21, 2003 4:03 pm

Alright, I'll just make a list of my favorite guitarists around...

Joe Satriani
Steve Vai
Eric Johnson
John Petrucci
Yngwie Malmsteen
Jason Becker
Al Di Meola
Michael Romeo
John McLaughlin
Paco De Lucia
Tony MacAlpine

Check 'em out, those of you who are interested in good guitar work. And there are plenty more that I like, but those are my favorites.
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Postby Otohiko » Sat Jun 21, 2003 9:11 pm

Excellent players all, flint! Have listened to them quite a bit.

Since we're into guitarists... Might as well put up a few that I'd classify as my nominees for the best in certain categories.

Classical - ... will skip this one. Too diverse.

Jazz - Joe Pass

Fusion-Jazz - John McLaughlin

Blues - Jimi Hendrix

Psychedelic - Jimi Hendrix

Rock'n'Roll - Ritchie Blackmore

Most lyrical - Jeff Beck

Most natural - Joe Satriani

Most precise/mathematical - Robert Fripp

Heaviest - Robert Fripp

Honorable mention (?) - Frank Zappa

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That's the way I'd classify them. I'd never name the 'Greatest of all' cause, really - noone's good at EVERYTHING. As for my most favorite - Hendrix and Zappa are guitar gods, but my preference still goes to Fripp. Just the style I guess.
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Postby Flint the Dwarf » Sat Jun 21, 2003 10:29 pm

Gah! I can't believe I forgot Blackmore and Fripp. :x
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Postby Otohiko » Sun Jun 22, 2003 10:22 am

Since you mentioned the two, something ironic kinda struck me...

Blackmore, while you might say he plays a very 'unrefined' style of music, actually had classic-like composition skills. All his parts were thoroughly and intellegently written, and he was really a very accurate guitarist in general.

Fripp, on the other hand, while also a great composer and sounds extremely mathematical, actually prefers improv - the guy is capable of delivering hours of fairly complex music off the top of his head, without having anything pre-written. Also, he tends to throw in some pretty erratic and seemingly illogical passages here and there.

I guess a way to explain this would be that Blackmore was pretty much a natural guitarist, while Fripp (as himself says) started out tone-deaf and no sense of rhythm.

Just an interesting bit of an observation, I guess...
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Postby HungryCrackPot » Sun Jun 22, 2003 10:36 am

i like 80s porn music.
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Postby Otohiko » Sun Jun 22, 2003 10:41 am

HungryCrackPot wrote:i like 80s porn music.


What does that have to do with guitars? :roll:
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Postby Jace Tsunami » Sun Jun 22, 2003 1:12 pm

Otohiko wrote:
HungryCrackPot wrote:i like 80s porn music.


What does that have to do with guitars? :roll:


Everything, EVERYTHING :lol:
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Postby Coyote_FH » Mon Jun 23, 2003 4:37 pm

Tom Morello (Check out "Like A Stone". He can play, albeit laden with FX. 8) )
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Postby ongakuka » Wed Jun 25, 2003 6:09 pm

Otohiko wrote:Joe Satriani - Crystal Planet (Album - hard to pick out a track)
Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze, Star Spangled Banner (how the hell did you not mention him before??? And these tracks???)
Frank Zappa - Muffin Man (a beloved great solo of mine), Peaches en Regalia (possibly the funnest instrumental of all time)
Brian May's work on Queen II, Sheer Heart Attack and Night at the Opera - pick your own tracks.
Joe Pass - Virtuoso (Album, Jazz - hard to pick out single track)
John McLaughlin - Electric Dreams (Album, Jazz-fusion, again uniformly good)
Robert Fripp - Fracture (Possibly the most complex instrumental rock track of all time, chilling guitar work), 21st Century Schizoid Man (most legendary)

many, many others left in this category... See if you can name a few more, meanwhile I'll go back to my listening library and return later with a few more concrete legendary examples.


some awesome artists you've got listed..

John Petrucci / Dream Theater / Liquid Tension Experiment
Vai


I'm a bassist so I feeled compelled to toss in Tony Levin ;)
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Postby MissKaoruKamiya » Wed Jun 25, 2003 6:25 pm

anything led zeppelin
also micheal scheinker
verrrrrry good guitar solos! :wink:
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Postby Flint the Dwarf » Wed Jun 25, 2003 6:46 pm

ongakuka wrote:I'm a bassist so I feeled compelled to toss in Tony Levin :wink:


John Myung! :) And Mike LePond.
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Postby Otohiko » Wed Jun 25, 2003 8:58 pm

Tony Levin is God! :lol: :lol: :lol:

Sorry, had to toss that in. While this isn't really a Bass topic... hell, Jaco was darn good too!

I'm also a fan of both pre- and post-Levin King Crimson bassists, John Wetton and Trey Gunn (first being my favorite bassist of all, latter being really a guitar/piano player who plays Warr guitar for bass - awesome stuff!)
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Postby ongakuka » Wed Jun 25, 2003 10:11 pm

flint_the_dwarf wrote:
ongakuka wrote:I'm a bassist so I feeled compelled to toss in Tony Levin :wink:


John Myung! :) And Mike LePond.


I thought JM was awesome recorded.. totally he's insane live. I saw Joe Satrani/DT last year; during the middle of YtseJam, which they were playing about 2x faster than the record, John and John started kicking back and forth a soccer ball on stage.. during the solos.. it was nuts :twisted:

I've been a big fan of Levin from his Buddy Rich days and more recently with Liquid Tension Experiment. I just recently found King Crimson - awesome music!!
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