Who is your favourite guitar shredder?

[DarkForceRising]

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Zakk Wylde

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Great solos but plodding riffs. Entertaining as hell live, though. His renditions of Randys' songs on Live and Loud are better than Randy was on Tribute.

[PITTM]

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Everyone who knows anything about the electrified geetar knows full well that the only correct response to this question is one word:

Dime.

The leads on Trendkill in particular are like some sort of reinvention of the genre. Freakin terrifying.

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INCORRECT.

Correct Answer: Yngwie J. Malmsteen. motherfucker

rj

[DarkForceRising]

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Everyone who knows anything about the electrified geetar knows full well that the only correct response to this question is one word:

Dime.

The leads on Trendkill in particular are like some sort of reinvention of the genre. Freakin terrifying.

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INCORRECT.

Correct Answer: Yngwie J. Malmsteen. motherfucker

rj

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Saw Yngwie in a small club once about five feet away. Unfuckingbelievable. It was more like a clinic than a concert. We just stood there with our mouths open.

[Gomez22]

Dark - Glad to know that someone else out there knows some greats, mainly Lynch. I have an Aria Pro MA-30 that I got signed by George in Cleveland, Ohio after a Lynch Mob concert (Wicked Sensation tour) while partying with him and Mick Brown in hotel bar after they closed it down..... one hell of a great night....

Sadly, this was in the days when I taught guitar 3 days/week at the local music store. Haven't picked one up in 5 years though..... [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

All in all, I'd have to say:

1 George Lynch
2 Neal Schon
3 Cris Oliva (too bad he died prematurely)
4 Alex Skolnick
5 Al Pitrelli

[PITTM]

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Everyone who knows anything about the electrified geetar knows full well that the only correct response to this question is one word:

Dime.

The leads on Trendkill in particular are like some sort of reinvention of the genre. Freakin terrifying.

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INCORRECT.

Correct Answer: Yngwie J. Malmsteen. motherfucker

rj

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Saw Yngwie in a small club once about five feet away. Unfuckingbelievable. It was more like a clinic than a concert. We just stood there with our mouths open.

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the yngwie instructional video is the coolest thing ive ever seen in my life, hands down. the best is how he acts during the video. okay, so this is how you do this riff ::does most insane riff youve ever heard:: now you try...uhhhhh...?

rj

[coffeecrazy1]

Satriani needs to be in here somewhere.

[Gomez22]

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the yngwie instructional video is the coolest thing ive ever seen in my life, hands down. the best is how he acts during the video. okay, so this is how you do this riff ::does most insane riff youve ever heard:: now you try...uhhhhh...?


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My favorite thing about that vid (I watched it early in my guitar playing years)... he plays a riff, then... he stops, and says, "Now..... I play slow for you..." to about 140 bpm it seemed like at the time....

I remember thinking... "WTF?"

[Gomez22]

Satch and Vai, although great, were always somewhat "out there" and weird to me.

[eastbay]

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1 George Lynch
2 Neal Schon
3 Cris Oliva (too bad he died prematurely)
4 Alex Skolnick
5 Al Pitrelli

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Quality list. Good to see there are still some Schon fans out there that can set aside the "gayness" of Journey to recognize one of the best rock guitarists to ever pick up the six string.

eastbay

[eastbay]

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Satch and Vai, although great, were always somewhat "out there" and weird to me.

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Vai is way further "out" than Satch. They both have their moments. Hard to sit through a whole album, though.

eastbay