Look esse...Chicago is one of my favorite old school bands but comparing the solo to 25 6 to 4 to rock bottom is like comparing a 1975 ford pinto to a 1999 Mitsubishi eclipse.
but if you want to go old school vs old school then chew on this brah!!
2:30 mark
well... Rik Emmitt...was not bad...he ran a few scales..did a few warm up exercises...not too bad...
but...let's just stop in ` round here...you think?
you want soul? power? grace? mastery? talent? skill? vision?
Love SRV. Crazy skillz. The guitar seemed like it was party of his body, so natural.
Someone mentioned Albert King. I really enjoy their session collaboration. Here's King with SRV doing a session version of "Ask Me No Questions." It's not SRV's greatest display of his skills. Really just a jam session. But what's great about it is that Stevie didn't know the song at all and Albert just told him what key it was in and to just follow along. Pretty sick, if you ask me.
He's not really the same caliber of solo guitarist as some mentioned here, but when I saw this, I was really impressed with the guitar skills of Nuno Bettencourt. He's the former guitarist of that cheesy 90s rock band Extreme. This is an acoustic version of his instrumental song "Midnight Express." It's not really like a guitar solo because it's mostly strumming, but it is a full song and much longer than most solos, and it's more about the difficulty of the finger positioning and changes of his left hand. Pretty ill.
edit: that's not the acoustic version. The acoustic version is a little more impressive but the embedded feature on that youtube clip is disabled. Here's the link if you want to see it:
Love SRV. Aggressive and soulful player.
But come on.....Hendrix wasn't human,he visited us from outer space just to blow our minds for a few years....and then he traveled on.
I can't imagine what it must have been like to watch Hendrix live,or hear his for the first time in '67,'68.......maybe it was like being born into a hypothetical world where everyone only played ukalele's and you were raised in that world.....some ukalele players were better than others,some even liked to smash their ukalele's at the end of their show....but in the end,they were all just strumming and humming. ..........
Then, one day.....you put on a record,or go to a show and there's this dude who is NOT playing a ukalele, he's blowin your ing mind. WTF is that? What's he's doing? Is that a man playing on a piece of wood with six strings on it......? It can't be. How does it sound like that? EUPHORIA and PARANOIA hits you.
Soon after this man comes and goes....no one's playing ukalele's anymore.
I imagine that might have been how it went for alot of people.
Nobody comes close to Hendrix...and nothing comes close to Machine Gun as a guitar lead in this universe. Skip to 3:45 for the lead if you must(not recommended).
You should hear this on CD and not some crappy old youtube vid but WTF right?
I don't believe that anyone will ever come along again that will revolutionize the instrument(or probably even rock music again) like Jimi Hendrix did.
Just sayin
Love SRV. Aggressive and soulful player.
But come on.....Hendrix wasn't human,he visited us from outer space just to blow our minds for a few years....and then he traveled on.
I can't imagine what it must have been like to watch Hendrix live,or hear his for the first time in '67,'68.......maybe it was like being born into a hypothetical world where everyone only played ukalele's and you were raised in that world.....some ukalele players were better than others,some even liked to smash their ukalele's at the end of their show....but in the end,they were all just strumming and humming. ..........
Then, one day.....you put on a record,or go to a show and there's this dude who is NOT playing a ukalele, he's blowin your ing mind. WTF is that? What's he's doing? Is that a man playing on a piece of wood with six strings on it......? It can't be. How does it sound like that? EUPHORIA and PARANOIA hits you.
Soon after this man comes and goes....no one's playing ukalele's anymore.
I imagine that might have been how it went for alot of people.
Nobody comes close to Hendrix...and nothing comes close to Machine Gun as a guitar lead in this universe. Skip to 3:45 for the lead if you must(not recommended).
You should hear this on CD and not some crappy old youtube vid but WTF right?
I don't believe that anyone will ever come along again that will revolutionize the instrument(or probably even rock music again) like Jimi Hendrix did.
Just sayin
...can't argue too much here...
I've always had machine gun up there neck to neck with the long version of voodoo chile...but, hey...I like the bluesy vibe more than anything else....
Hendrix was great, no doubt, but I prefer SRV for blues guys.
With Rock on the other hand, I go with Randy Rhoads all the way.
Not to mention Randy and I share the same birthplace
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It's all subjective of course, but to me SRV played the guitar better than anybody I've ever heard or seen, and nothing demonstrates that better than when he played Texas Flood at El Mocambo. From the singing to the guitar work, the performance is so powerful and honest. You can see the pain in his face when he played. And that performance has some of the nastiest tone you'll ever hear. A Strat with a Tube Screamer run through a Fender Twin (I think), and strings so thick you could use them on a piano. It all came together on that night. We're lucky it was captured on film.
My picks for elite of the elite also include Paul Gilbert, Yngwie, Satch, Chet Atkins, Les Paul, Chuck Berry, Randy Rhoads and Tom Morello. All phenomenal in their way and brought something new and innovative to the game.
I don't include Jimi because he's simply in his own class. With Jimi, it's not a question of who's better and who's not. His contribution is far too profound for that conversation IMO.
And the best guitarist in San Antonio for the last 15 years or so is with a doubt Ruben V.
Mouse, ..nice...always liked Frank Marino...
I love Shenker,F.Marino,et al...
But you can't seriously think they had a better all time solo than Jimi????
So really what your saying is the telephone and typewriter where the best inventions to come around leaving no room for the iPhone later?
Frank Marino took Jimmy and turned a beeper into a cell phone.
Its been nice having this chat fellas but at the end of the day I see no solo here that is better than the solo from Rock bottom. sorry that's life in the Guitar world I guess.
It's all subjective of course, but to me SRV played the guitar better than anybody I've ever heard or seen, and nothing demonstrates that better than when he played Texas Flood at El Mocambo. From the singing to the guitar work, the performance is so powerful and honest. You can see the pain in his face when he played. And that performance has some of the nastiest tone you'll ever hear. A Strat with a Tube Screamer run through a Fender Twin (I think), and strings so thick you could use them on a piano. It all came together on that night. We're lucky it was captured on film.
My picks for elite of the elite also include Paul Gilbert, Yngwie, Satch, Chet Atkins, Les Paul, Chuck Berry, Randy Rhoads and Tom Morello. All phenomenal in their way and brought something new and innovative to the game.
I don't include Jimi because he's simply in his own class. With Jimi, it's not a question of who's better and who's not. His contribution is far too profound for that conversation IMO.
And the best guitarist in San Antonio for the last 15 years or so is with a doubt Ruben V.
All good points.
I watch the El Mocambo DVD every now and then...it is one of his best captured performances.
I do believe the amp was a Fender Vibroverb, however, the one with the 15'' speaker. The tone is nasty and bluesy.
Sorry, can't say I know or have ever heard of Ruben V.
I think the bulk of the people posting in this thread really have no idea who Brian Carroll or Buckethead really is. I think they associate the guy with heavy metal or death thrash blah blah so on and so forth.
Most of the people listed in this thread are extremely gifted in their genre or at best a few genres. Whereas Brian Carroll embodies diversity and range. He does it all. There is simply no one out there as talented as he is if you look at the full scope of his accomplished body of work.
Rock, Metal, Bluegrass, Electronica, Blues, Pop, R&B and so on. He's not just dabbled in all avenues of guitar he's masterfully performed across the board.
I bet we could put on over half his albums or albums where he's featured and very few in this thread would even recognize nor believe its his work. He just doesn't get the credit he deserves.
ever so slightly agree, but its not like AK was the first ever blues guitar player. Mr Johnson ring a bell? Stevie played a little more in key than Albert
Don't challenge my knowledge of blues guitar players, sir. I thought King was an appropriate reference due to the similarities in playing style and tone. Stevie Ray would have been the first to admit the influence.
Pfffffffff. Not taking away what jimi did, Stevie played jimi better than jimi did. Without a doubt. Stevie would bring Jimi to tears if they were both around.
Don't you Pfffffffff me . . . SRV played cleaner than Jimi. I wouldn't say better. It's a matter of taste, I suppose, but Jimi was an innovator. His style transcended any perceived lack of technical skill because he developed his own technique that no one has ever really exceeded.
Absolutely. So underrated. I think because he is such a phenomenal musician and well-rounded performer people forget what a fantastic guitar player he is.
Check out this : Prince comes in @ 3:33
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It's kind of impossible to discount the guitar playing skills of any of the players mentioned here, because they are all so obviously skilled. It's impossible to declare anyone the greatest because there are so many factors, other than skill, that come into play in the final product that we hear. We all have our own tastes when it comes to style and sound and how it moves us. I love Jack White's playing but what he plays it in isn't always appealing to me. I really like the loose, twangy sound of guys like Neil Young and Dwight Yaokum but those are really only attractive in the context of the rest of what is going on in the music. Guys like Jimmy Page, Eddie Van Halen, and Jimi Hendryx I know are very skilled, but I get overwhelmed by boredom in hearing everything else that surrounds their playing. And I love Eric Clapton's playing, just because I love Eric Clapton
But for me, the ultimate guitar experience is SRV. I love the sound and the style, and I love how it makes me feel. All of it put together with his slurring vocals is pure steamy, sensuality for me. He's my greatest
Absolutely. So underrated. I think because he is such a phenomenal musician and well-rounded performer people forget what a fantastic guitar player he is.
Check out this : Prince comes in @ 3:33
I respect Prince as an all around musician but I think his Singing and his guitar playing are his weakest points. He can play but his playing is very basic and in my opinion nowhere near on the same level as an SRV or a Hendrix or most of the players mentioned in this thread.
I had seen this video awhile back and thought he was okay-but he basically played a pentatonic blues scale and his tone was nothing special-just a tele with a piercing distortion that I didn't think was that great.
What I thought ruined it for me though was his obvious showboating--because he seemed to be...separate from the rest of the band and of course him tossing the guitar and walking off without even acknowledging the band or audience just reeked of douchieness and prima donna-ness. If I was in that band I would feel kinda pissed that the little tried to make it all about himself.
If you ever watched someone like SRV play with other famous musicians-you could just see how humble SRV was and actually deferred to less talented people as a show of love and respect. SRV could have tried to cut heads and embarrass someone-but he always took the graceful route.
The only positive thing I can think of Prince's little act---if I really want to look at this in a positive light--and give Prince the benefit of the doubt is this;
You can argue that Prince was thinking of just putting on a star performance and giving no quarter and just having a star moment that would transcend the song to another level...but I don't really get that feeling from watching Prince walk off the stage by himself. The actual guitar playing was not that great to allow him to act like a guitar god.
I had seen this video awhile back and thought he was okay-but he basically played a pentatonic blues scale and his tone was nothing special-just a tele with a piercing distortion that I didn't think was that great.
What I thought ruined it for me though was his obvious showboating--because he seemed to be...separate from the rest of the band and of course him tossing the guitar and walking off without even acknowledging the band or audience just reeked of douchieness and prima donna-ness. If I was in that band I would feel kinda pissed that the little tried to make it all about himself.
If you ever watched someone like SRV play with other famous musicians-you could just see how humble SRV was and actually deferred to less talented people as a show of love and respect. SRV could have tried to cut heads and embarrass someone-but he always took the graceful route.
Like the rest of the band didn't know what he was going to do . . . they all looked like they were digging the show to me. Prince is a showman. That's what he does. Hendrix was a good enough guitar player to just let his playing speak for itself, but he put on a show too.
Don't kid yourself about SRV either. He had an ego and could hot dog and showboat with the best of 'em. I saw him do it.
I think the bulk of the people posting in this thread really have no idea who Brian Carroll or Buckethead really is. I think they associate the guy with heavy metal or death thrash blah blah so on and so forth.
Most of the people listed in this thread are extremely gifted in their genre or at best a few genres. Whereas Brian Carroll embodies diversity and range. He does it all. There is simply no one out there as talented as he is if you look at the full scope of his accomplished body of work.
Rock, Metal, Bluegrass, Electronica, Blues, Pop, R&B and so on. He's not just dabbled in all avenues of guitar he's masterfully performed across the board.
I bet we could put on over half his albums or albums where he's featured and very few in this thread would even recognize nor believe its his work. He just doesn't get the credit he deserves.
I would agree, but even he worshiped the ground Shawn Lane walked on - you can hear his heavy influence in his music. Paul Gilbert taught Carroll to play as well.
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