Guitar players/lovers/wannabes/fans ....... fill yer boots :- https://www.guitarplayer.com/news/t...ll-time?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB I'd guess few of us would agree wholeheartedly with every inclusion and, perhaps, many exclusions let alone the suggested order, but there'ssomething for most in here, I think.
Oh my god, now you've done it. I'm such a fan of Gary Moore's playing I even started using the same strings on my Les Paul. Needless to say I still don't sound anything like Gary. The guitar work on Still Got The Blues is heartwrenching in places. It'd probably be in my top 10. Great to see Steely Dan in a list like this. Not the first band that springs to mind when thinking of guitar solos. I'm a big fan, though. Prince was an incredibly emotive player. I wish he'd done more guitar work like that with The Revolution and perhaps a bit less ot the beat-laden funk. Randy Rhoads' guitar on Crazy Train is obviously brilliant but I would have chosen Zakk Wylde's work on No More Tears over this one. Eddie Van Halen's solo on Beat It brilliant, but shouldn't be ahead of eruption. Which is isn't. Shamefully, I listened to Van Halen's first album properly only quite recently, then I checked when it came out, and then I got it. Amazing. '25 or 6 to 4' is another pleasant surprise. I've got the single tucked away in a box somewhere. It's a song that wafts 1970 at you with every bar. You can almost hear the flapping of flares... And Comfortably Numb wins...again. One final, slightly disturbing observation. The most recent song in that list is still over 30 years old. Surely someone has done something impressive with a guitar since then?
True about Muse. Lots of OTT riffing but not really stand-out solos. I'm still trying to make up my mind about Alter Bridge. I need to listen to some more and maybe put an album on heavy rotation.
First three albums are the best, so one of them. Tremonti is very Slash inspired but also much more than that... but Myles Kennedy is also a great player, so the twin guitars make a great noise over an excellent rhythm section. They also play in all kinds of drop tuning which makes for some really heavy tones... underrated band in my opinion.
It's the drop tuning, which I know makes for a compelling, deep, distorted sound, that puts me off a bit, ironically. I'm on the fence. I need to get off it.
Most of the post 70s bands I like play drop tuning. Playing in a Soundgarden cover band is fun. I need 4 guitars in 4 different tuning.. I reduced to 3 adapting the Eeeeee song (Mind Riot) in std.
