Well...your son has you so far...

Post #52,129 by bepatient 9/17/02 11:24:41 PM Reply	Well...your son has you so far... Blackmore is close...but VH is better (in a technical sense) than your entire list. Stylistically...I'd take your entire list over Eddie. So... Technically Steve Vai Al DiMeola Yngwie Malmsteen Stevie Ray Vaughan These guys get the technical speed advantage over Eddie. SRV gets style points too. Al D is probably the cleanest and fastest of the bunch. You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! _{Laurie Anderson} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #52,134 by Steve Lowe 9/17/02 11:49:51 PM Reply	Expanding List Joe Satriani Steve Morse Phil Keaggy All of which give DiMeola a run for his money, with my nod going to Keaggy. There's others that deserve mention as well Jimi Hendrix Jimmy Page Randy Rhoads Kirk Hammet Steve Rossington Eric Johnson Dave Beegle All mentioned are fantastic musicians, so as to not take away anything from them. I'd give my left nut to play and write half as good as any of them listed here :) That said, my personal favorites of the guys listed thus far in order: SRV Keaggy Morse Winter SRV and Winter because I love the blues and their respective styles, Keaggy and Morse because I love their technical ability and musicianship. Keaggy has got to be the best solo act I've seen live..and I've seen damn near all these guys live. ----- Steve
Post #52,141 by bepatient 9/18/02 12:44:28 AM Reply	Wow... ...how could I have forgotten Keaggy and Morse? I put Satriani and Eddie about equal..which is why I didn't put him on my list. Of the remainder...technically better than Eddie would be Rhoads. The rest all get big style points...but if its raw speed your after...none of those guys are as quick. From a music standpoint...I agree...I'd be signing that contract at the crossroads to be half as good as any of them. You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! _{Laurie Anderson} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #52,193 by pwhysall 9/18/02 12:58:01 PM Reply	Technically /and/ stylistically Jeff Healey. Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Blog]
Post #52,215 by Steve Lowe 9/18/02 3:39:07 PM Reply	not to mention unique playing position :-) ----- Steve
Post #52,312 by drewk 9/19/02 9:53:30 AM Reply	Figured someone would bring up DiMeola Speaking of which, Box, you really should point your son at some Flamenco stuff if he's interested in fast. Especially ones where you've got 3-5 guys going like a bat out of hell in perfect synchrony. Mind blowing to see it done. You really can't appreciate what you're hearing if you've only got audio. === Microsoft offers them the one thing most business people will pay any price for - the ability to say "we had no choice - everyone's doing it that way." -- [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=38978\|Andrew Grygus]
Post #52,391 by bepatient 9/19/02 6:40:57 PM Reply	PACO! You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! _{Laurie Anderson} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #52,392 by Steve Lowe 9/19/02 6:47:42 PM Reply	TRIO! Paco, DiMeola, McLaughlin. Recorded an album or two early-mid 80s. Caught them live at Denver's (now defunct, unfortunately) Rainbow Music Hall. Steve Morse opened for them, and blew them all off the stage IMO, especially when they invited him out to play with them to close thier set. One of the best acoustic guitar shows I've ever seen, just behind seeing Phil Keaggy and Dave Beegle in Boulder last summer. ----- Steve
Post #52,397 by bepatient 9/19/02 9:17:38 PM Reply	T'was amazing... ...I go into the show a huge Mahavishnu fan...and leave a huge DiMeola fan. DiMeola was so clean...amazing technical guitarist. I've seen him several times since...but the one that sticks was him, alone, acoustic for 2 hours. Was the show that made me realize that I >tinker< on guitar... However, again, there is not one guitarist mentioned so far that is anything short of amazing...and I like all of them...though we've all failed to mention probably my favorite overall...Carlos Santana...if one were to judge by the mumber of disks I have...all of them. You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! _{Laurie Anderson} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #52,401 by boxley 9/19/02 10:05:36 PM Reply	we wernt talking great guitarists we were talking great fast guitarists Carlos Santana, Jimmy, Page, BB King, CSNY, Ron Woods, Clapton all Greater than great in someways Better than my list in their own styles. thanx, bill will work for cash and other incentives [link\|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html\|skill set] qui mori didicit servire dedidicit
Post #52,435 by Steve Lowe 9/20/02 3:29:55 AM Reply	Yabut WE are :) ----- Steve
Post #52,486 by screamer 9/20/02 11:55:31 AM 9/20/02 12:08:25 PM Reply	You forgot the best... "fast" guitarists... Frank Zappa and Alvin Lee (Ten Years After). In a slightly different light, one would be remiss by not mentioning Dickey Betts Stylistically, noone has mentioned Jeff Beck or Mark Knopfler or Mike Campbell OR probably the most distinctive lead guitarists - David Gillmore (what's up with that?)... The lead riff hall of fame: The lead guitar in Aqualung, I'd Love to Change the World, whole album Blow by Blow, Stairway to Heaven, That Smell, Muffin Man, Voodoo Chile (slight reprise - hell the whole side four of Electric Ladyland) And this is just off the top of my head... By the way, if you want to see how a web site should be done...After posting and having time to think... the following web site shows what could be done in the future. This site assumes a high speed connection, Quicktime, and a lot of other proprietary stuff... It is the bomb on my G4 OSX.2 Mac That said - [link\|http://www.pinkfloyd.co.uk/pages/main.html\|http://www.pinkfloy...es/main.html] Incredible. Just a few thoughts, Screamer As soon as you're born they make you feel small By giving you no time instead of it all Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all J. Lennon - Working Class Hero Edited by screamer Sept. 20, 2002, 12:08:25 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #52,495 by boxley 9/20/02 12:31:01 PM Reply	shoulda left the dates off the albums that came out when!!! gawd Im old :( will work for cash and other incentives [link\|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html\|skill set] qui mori didicit servire dedidicit
Post #52,521 by bepatient 9/20/02 3:28:00 PM Reply	Tied for #1 Martin Barre's lead in Aqualung is briliant....I hold that as the #1 rock lead ever. You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! _{Laurie Anderson} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #52,534 by boxley 9/20/02 5:18:29 PM Reply	Deep Purple in Concert with the London Philharmonic Tied with Tommy, by the who and Page in lzII for best riffs on albums. Best licks in individual songs? The duelling guitars in rock and roll medly on side 2 of "Johnny Winters Live And" Album. thanx. bill will work for cash and other incentives [link\|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html\|skill set] qui mori didicit servire dedidicit
Post #52,535 by drewk 9/20/02 5:20:18 PM Reply	Maybe "Satisfaction" has to be right up there next to it. === Microsoft offers them the one thing most business people will pay any price for - the ability to say "we had no choice - everyone's doing it that way." -- [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=38978\|Andrew Grygus]
Post #52,481 by jb4 9/20/02 11:31:54 AM Reply	Thanks...forgot about DiMeola... jb4 "About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. " -- Edsger W.Dijkstra (1930 - 2002) (I wish more managers knew that...)

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