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Old 15-04-2010, 02:06
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tis a sad day. I like RHCP. I like Metallica. I love GnR. I love Muse.
Not surprised at all that Slash is near the top
but.... come on!!!
http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/...5875-22175416/

Top 10: 1. John Frusciante (Red Hot Chili Peppers). 2. Slash (Guns N'Roses). 3. Matt Bellamy (Muse). 4. Johnny Marr (The Smiths). 5. Tom Morello (Rage Against The Machine). 6. Kirk Hammett (Metallica). 7. Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead). 8. Prince. 9. Jack White (White Stripes). 10. Peter Buck (REM).
Friedman, Satriani, Vai, Van Halen, Gilbert, Malmsteen, Johnson.... they are just a few off the top of my head at this early hour.

Out of my little list Hammett comes nowhere close and Bellamy and Morello are very...erm...experimental, same could also be said of Greenwood. Good, but not Slash or Friedman.
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Old 15-04-2010, 04:47
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nice to see marr there. very distinctive sound that shaped indie in the 80s
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Old 15-04-2010, 05:01
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Completely agree with OP. As much as i despise hair metal, them dudes could play.
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Old 15-04-2010, 05:02
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not sure buck should be there. most rem tunes are hardly the most technically complex... and indeed, at the start of REMs career, buck could barely play... mills was a more competent player than he was. i'm guessing this list was compiled by the public
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Old 15-04-2010, 08:04
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Also pleased to see the genius that is Johnny Marr recognised.
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Old 15-04-2010, 18:20
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not sure buck should be there. most rem tunes are hardly the most technically complex... and indeed, at the start of REMs career, buck could barely play... mills was a more competent player than he was. i'm guessing this list was compiled by the public
Radio 6 listeners. Maybe a reason it's being scrapped
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Old 15-04-2010, 18:26
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Matt Bellamy is an absolute genius.
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Old 15-04-2010, 18:37
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No Ritchie Blackmore, Michael Schenker, Randy Rhodes, Angus Young, Neil Young, Tom Petty, Tony Lommi or Mark Knopler
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Old 15-04-2010, 18:55
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No Ritchie Blackmore, Michael Schenker, Randy Rhodes, Angus Young, Neil Young, Tom Petty, Tony Lommi or Mark Knopler
I know its pathetic i dont think you want to see the full list lol

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Old 15-04-2010, 18:59
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No Ritchie Blackmore, Michael Schenker, Randy Rhodes, Angus Young, Neil Young, Tom Petty, Tony Lommi or Mark Knopler
If it was 40 years then all the above would be incuded along with a certain James Patrick Page of course ,but on the whole a think there exclusion is warrented
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Old 15-04-2010, 19:01
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Give it some leeway as it's from the last 30 years, so not sure if it means guitarist that came to prevelance after 1980 or who were still going strong though the last 30 years, but there are still a large number of greats missing out in the top spots.
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Old 15-04-2010, 19:01
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No Ritchie Blackmore, Michael Schenker, Randy Rhodes, Angus Young, Neil Young, Tom Petty, Tony Lommi or Mark Knopler
Gary Moore? Joe Satriani?
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Old 15-04-2010, 19:40
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At the moment I think Carlos Santana shows a lot of promise.
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Old 17-04-2010, 20:10
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Where the hell is Jerry Cantrell?????? He is simply a master of riffs!
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Old 17-04-2010, 20:50
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John Frusciante!!!
Johnny Marr!!!
Tom Morello!!!

Perhaps tere were only 5 Guitarists to vote for, what a load of old tosh.
Wheres Clapton?
Brian May for gods sake.

No wonder the channel is closing, it must be very niche.
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Old 17-04-2010, 21:01
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hah well to be fair, it says the last 30 years. arguably clapton and mays best work was earlier.

i'm by no means some kind of guitar genius but my mate reckons brian may is not that talented. says his live performances show his lack of talent when the studio can't cover for him.

he reckons his gran could put together a queen guitar solo given the studio expertise that queen had.
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Old 17-04-2010, 21:36
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hah well to be fair, it says the last 30 years. arguably clapton and mays best work was earlier.

i'm by no means some kind of guitar genius but my mate reckons brian may is not that talented. says his live performances show his lack of talent when the studio can't cover for him.

he reckons his gran could put together a queen guitar solo given the studio expertise that queen had.
I'm sure given enough time anyone could emulate his playing style and sound.

Point is though he is unique, and is instantly recognisabe, his guitar is self made out of his old fireplace, and IMO, live has blown neary everyone else i have ever seen out of the water.

I have seen David Gilmour live also, and hi aint really that technically great IMO, but i tell you what, the stuff he does play kept me either on the edge of my seat of jumping up and down like a 5 year old.

Theres more to paying than technical ability, what your saying need to come through in the music.

For me, Red hot chilli peppers is a bit same old, heard one song, heard them all.
Of course that is also what a ot of people say about 80s Queen stuff
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Old 17-04-2010, 21:55
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Apart from Slash, Matt Bellamy and Johnny Marr, none of those others would be in my top 500, never mind 10!
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Old 17-04-2010, 23:37
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I'm sure given enough time anyone could emulate his playing style and sound.

Point is though he is unique, and is instantly recognisabe, his guitar is self made out of his old fireplace, and IMO, live has blown neary everyone else i have ever seen out of the water.

I have seen David Gilmour live also, and hi aint really that technically great IMO, but i tell you what, the stuff he does play kept me either on the edge of my seat of jumping up and down like a 5 year old.

Theres more to paying than technical ability, what your saying need to come through in the music.

For me, Red hot chilli peppers is a bit same old, heard one song, heard them all.
Of course that is also what a ot of people say about 80s Queen stuff
my mates brian may hate blog post. i thought it was quite funny


I can't stand him. Reasons include:

1. His hair. The poodle look might have been great in 1973, but not today. Or yesterday. It appears he and his squeeze, Anita Dobson, have interchangeable heads, a bit like Worzel ****ing Gummidge.

2. He wears wooden clogs. What a bell-end, if you are lanky streak of piss, you don't need to wear clogs to give you some lift. (Perhaps Anita was complaining he needed a few more inches and he misunderstood)

3. He's an astronomer. The only heavenly bodies a rock musician should know about are the legions of groupies he's had. Which obviously, Brian hasn't. Rockers should only know about the stars they see when they are trying out exotic dangerous narcotics on my behalf in seedy fleshpots around the globe. Do you think Brian has ever lived up to his responsibilities as a Rock Star, to risk his life through excessive partying? No, nor me.

I can imagine him knocking on the dressing room wall about the noise when he's trying to watch "Sky at Night" as Freddie bums a midget who's been carrying a tray of Coke around. There has to be a Uranus gag in here somewhere, but frankly, I can't be arsed.( Wha-hey! That'll do)

I like my Rock Stars to be illiterate drug addled alcoholic burglars from Birmingham, not posh idiots who WENT BACK to finish their degree after they became successful. Just "for something to fall back on if it all ends tomorrow", no doubt.


4. Playing a guitar made out of bits of fireplace and old pushbike. OK, so his Dad and him made it themselves, but he's a git for not retiring it quietly as soon as he could buy a REAL guitar, ie. thirty seconds after he got into a real band.
I refuse to believe him and his pa are better luthiers than Kalamazoo's finest, I'm sure the old boy wouldn't have been offended if Bri had used it to get started then ditched it, there was no need to cart it round the world for years on tour. I bet his guitar tech hates the thing, he knows if anything falls off it, he's going to get the blame, and where will he find a replacement 1938 pushbike saddle?

5. He doesn't use a plectrum, he uses a coin, a sixpence. Not a 10p piece, no, a sixpence, a coin out of circulation for 40 years. Billy Gibbons uses a silver peso coin to get that scratchy squealy string attack, but why would Mr May use one? Because he is a pretentious moron, that's why.

6. His guitar playing. This is the root of it all, my hatred for this man.
It's rubbish. He may have written and performed multi-million selling records for years, but he is not worthy of any praise as a guitarist. I'm sorry, but when he appeared onstage at the Guitar Legends gig in Seville in 91, alongside some REAL guitarists, he crapped his pants, he knew he was bluffing. Steve Vai played a solo, Satriani stepped up and played one, Joe Walsh, Nuno Bettencourt, all wailing away, now it's Brian's turn. Oh, hang on a mo, Brian need to adjust his amplifier. Damn, and now he's missed his turn, how convenient. When he did manage to play anything it sounded like he was taking the piss, appalling, just a load of elephant noises.
He isn't fit to tune those others' guitars, let alone play alongside them. Fair enough, he has bluffed his way through life, but to think he could stand up there with true masters of the guitar, what a tosser.

I'm sure if I locked my Mum in a studio for 6 months with a guitar and told her to put some guitar tracks down or she isn't coming out, she could come up with something to equal anything Mr May has done, anyone could. A good studio can disguise all evidence of a lack of talent. I bet there's not many spontaneous takes on any of his records, apart from maybe the abysmal solo on the end of "We Will Rock You". It sounds like Stephen Hawking falling down stairs with a guitar on his lap, I can't believe it was a planned piece, more like the engineer saying:
"Listen, Brian, we've been here for 9 months, I'm tired, the LP is due out in 2 days time, just play ANY THING, you've got 30 seconds and then I'm locking up".

7. He proved to me God doesn't exist. If He did, God would have listened to my prayers, no one has prayed like I did, but NOTHING happened. Even though I prayed and prayed, Brian May stood on the roof of Buckingham Palace and played the National Anthem and didn't get struck by lightning. That, ladies and gentlemen, was when I realised we are alone, there is no God.

I really really don't like Brian May.
And yes, I am jealous of his fame and money.

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Old 18-04-2010, 00:01
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Dont hold back Irish guy,

but i cant agree. for me Brian May is wonderful that fireplace guitar is a uniqie piece, I love the sound it makes and his solos along with Mr Gilmour's move me in a way no other guitarist has apart from Blackmore.

Satriani and Vai bore me to tears just noodleing noise to me.
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Old 18-04-2010, 01:30
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At the moment I think Carlos Santana shows a lot of promise.
And me, even though I've liked others better. John Frusciante comes close though, and don't forget Jimmy Page.
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Old 18-04-2010, 01:47
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By best do they actually mean, most popular?

None of those guitarists are close to being technically the best guitarists out there, meaning the list is 100% opinion and therefore 100% useless!

Frusciante at no1? 4, 7, 8 and 10 are a bit too.

Replace them with Mikael Åkerfeldt, John Petrucci, Kristian Niemann and Timo Tolkki and it wouldn't look so bad then again, they are less well known, so they can't be the best
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Old 18-04-2010, 17:15
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A list that ignores the likes of David Gilmour, Mark Knopfler, Eric Clapton and Brian May is surely incomplete.
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Old 18-04-2010, 17:35
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I quite like Orianthi Panagaris.
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Old 18-04-2010, 17:45
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Here's a blog on how the list was compiled
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcmusic/...xe_factor.html
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