Current Greats and all time greatest Guitar players

[The Shadow]

Greg Howe - Jump Start (Solo) - D'Addario EXL110 promo talk

this is the best performance on Howe I could find on youtube as for sound quality and all... i love this guy's ability. the phrasing and technique is tops .... you will enjoy

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Cheers, mate. Greg Howe is a monster. He really turned the corner when the extraction album came out. My friend took some web-cam lessons with him for awhile for $60.00 an hour. I just put his solos into Logic 7 or this other program I have called Transcribe! and it gets the job done. Still having problems getting his playing down, though.
As for Henderson: I never heard him sing. Maybe you're confusing him with Kirk Covington, who was the old drummer and sang all of the vocals on the Blues albums, with the exception of a couple of guest artists?

[Lords Gym]

I think your right... i just remember hearing the album Dog Party a few years back and thought,. the playing is killer. the vocals are shit.. hehehe...

[The Shadow]

I think your right... i just remember hearing the album Dog Party a few years back and thought,. the playing is killer. the vocals are S***.. hehehe...

Yeah, man. That's the loud-ass m.f. Kirk. They finally came to their sense and got rid of him. I've seen the blues band several times and Covington always took away from the music with his crap lyrics and horrible voice. Plus he would be half in the bag by the end of the gig

You might like this clip of England's own Allan Holdsworth. He's like a mad scientist on his instrument.

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[The Shadow]

Here's something you might dig, LG. Steve Vai and Tony McAlpine chopping heads. A bit out of tune in part, but some quality shred.


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[VictorCharlie]

always thought Duarte played terrific.. however his voice has something to be desired, wouldnt you agree vanchilds ?

yeah it wouldn't hurt for him to let someone else do the vocals...but its tolerable...not like when Satriani tried to sing..that was horrible

[TheBESTP4P]

i once got into this loooooooooong debate with this white dude who said metallicas guitar player is way better than carlos santana and jimi hendrix combined.

this dude was one of them ignorant/racist guys who seriously thought white people are just plain better end of story.

so he seriously thought metallica kicks santana and hendrixs asssssss in guitar or shall we say metal up their asses

I think IGNORANT is the most appropriate adjective. To play devils advocate, Kirk Hammett is playing in a completely different idiom. This guy was apparently a metal-head, but Darrell Abbott or Alex Skolnik blows Hammett out of the water in the metal-scene.
I love metal, and an abundance of other forms of music, but Hammett, IMHO, can't hold a candle to the creative maverick of James Marshall Hendrix. In terms of the Santana, and the Hendrix for that matter, it's like comparing apples to oranges. They are coming from very different disciplines and styles.
It's like comparing Picasso's cubist period to Jackson Pollak - it just doesn't make any sense.

CC bro! that was well said, but yes this doosh bag was clearly a racist thats why im no longer friends with him. his racist mouth almost got his asss kicked so many times. i cant stand to be around someone whos like that u know? its a sad situation cuz hes really a lost cause.

Well, CC#680, P4P. I know where you are coming from. I played in a blues band briefly that was headed by a former friend named Doug. He was a black harmonica player who could play the S*** out of his instrument, but sounded like a dying dog when he tried to sing. Guy remarked to me one time that I was too white and too Irish to play the blues. LOL And this was coming from a guy who's father was the first black physicist to break the color barrier at Brookhaven National Lab. I finished the gig, took my $110, and told him to call Buddy Guy (who I can't hold a candle to). Last time I seen him play, he was playing with this morbidly obese Italian dude...go figure.
Shame is he's a really bright guy with an amazing head. I just think that growing up in a predominately white suburb has made him a bit bitter due to some bad life experience.

hahaha maybe he just has a fetish for italian fat assssses?

[The Shadow]

i once got into this loooooooooong debate with this white dude who said metallicas guitar player is way better than carlos santana and jimi hendrix combined.

this dude was one of them ignorant/racist guys who seriously thought white people are just plain better end of story.

so he seriously thought metallica kicks santana and hendrixs asssssss in guitar or shall we say metal up their asses

I think IGNORANT is the most appropriate adjective. To play devils advocate, Kirk Hammett is playing in a completely different idiom. This guy was apparently a metal-head, but Darrell Abbott or Alex Skolnik blows Hammett out of the water in the metal-scene.
I love metal, and an abundance of other forms of music, but Hammett, IMHO, can't hold a candle to the creative maverick of James Marshall Hendrix. In terms of the Santana, and the Hendrix for that matter, it's like comparing apples to oranges. They are coming from very different disciplines and styles.
It's like comparing Picasso's cubist period to Jackson Pollak - it just doesn't make any sense.

CC bro! that was well said, but yes this doosh bag was clearly a racist thats why im no longer friends with him. his racist mouth almost got his asss kicked so many times. i cant stand to be around someone whos like that u know? its a sad situation cuz hes really a lost cause.

Well, CC#680, P4P. I know where you are coming from. I played in a blues band briefly that was headed by a former friend named Doug. He was a black harmonica player who could play the S*** out of his instrument, but sounded like a dying dog when he tried to sing. Guy remarked to me one time that I was too white and too Irish to play the blues. LOL And this was coming from a guy who's father was the first black physicist to break the color barrier at Brookhaven National Lab. I finished the gig, took my $110, and told him to call Buddy Guy (who I can't hold a candle to). Last time I seen him play, he was playing with this morbidly obese Italian dude...go figure.
Shame is he's a really bright guy with an amazing head. I just think that growing up in a predominately white suburb has made him a bit bitter due to some bad life experience.

hahaha maybe he just has a fetish for italian fat assssses?

Your guess is as good as mine. I think the guy he currently plays with works cheap as long as Doug buys him some food.

[TheBESTP4P]

yeah well to me TALENT is TALENT period! true talent has no color or ethnicity all that dont matter when u the MAN at whatever it is you excel at!

[bcollins]

Back to the Buckethead thing -

I really think he is Paul Gilbert. Maybe Paul got a crap deal and Bucketed up to get some play without legal types breathing down his neck.


Notice the similarities - not only in playing, but build, height, and the story that Buckethead was a student of Gilbert's.

Watch closely.

[bcollins]

Chris Duarte is awesome, too.

And did anyone see the Steve Vai/Tony MacAlpine/Billy Sheehan bit on the Clapton Crossroads Benefit disc? Wicked cool. Hurts my feelings everytime.

[FBEAR]

Chris Duarte is awesome, too.

And did anyone see the Steve Vai/Tony MacAlpine/Billy Sheehan bit on the Clapton Crossroads Benefit disc? Wicked cool. Hurts my feelings everytime.

speaking of feelings, you were right about Tin Pan Alley by SRV, it's on a jukebox close to me, way cool. Good for a slow dance at last call.

I also have to handed it to Jeff Beck. Way cool, and very creative, right up there with hendrix for uniqueness. John McLaughlin is not to shabby either.

[The Shadow]

Chris Duarte is awesome, too.

And did anyone see the Steve Vai/Tony MacAlpine/Billy Sheehan bit on the Clapton Crossroads Benefit disc? Wicked cool. Hurts my feelings everytime.

speaking of feelings, you were right about Tin Pan Alley by SRV, it's on a jukebox close to me, way cool. Good for a slow dance at last call.

I also have to handed it to Jeff Beck. Way cool, and very creative, right up there with hendrix for uniqueness. John McLaughlin is not to shabby either.

Yeah, CC for the mention of Tin Pan Alley and Jeff Beck, zzz. Don't know if you have this concert on DVD, but it's absolutely priceless.

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The version of 'Tin Pan Alley' off the In the Beginning album is an absolute masterpiece!

[The Shadow]

yeah well to me TALENT is TALENT period! true talent has no color or ethnicity all that dont matter when u the MAN at whatever it is you excel at!

You pretty much summed that up really well, P4P. It's like saying Andre Watts can't play Liszt because his father was Afro-American. I seen him twice and he's an absolute monster. Not with JUST chops, but he really plays that repertoire with an amazing sense of musicality while others tend to take a more mechanical, robotic approach to Liszt.

[The Shadow]

Back to the Buckethead thing -

I really think he is Paul Gilbert. Maybe Paul got a crap deal and Bucketed up to get some play without legal types breathing down his neck.


Notice the similarities - not only in playing, but build, height, and the story that Buckethead was a student of Gilbert's.

Watch closely.

Interesting theory. I actually thought that for a moment myself. But Gilbert is a world class virtuoso and I don't know why he would do something like that.
It doesn't make any sense to me.

[Lords Gym]

Re: buckethead his name is Brian Carroll