Joe Satriani or Steve Vai? (Best Guitarist)
 

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What's your opinion?
Who's the best guitarist?

George Lynch

Joe is fucking great but my the best 1 is Patt MAtheny :thumbsup

They are both very good IMO but I would say Satriani considering that Vai took lessons from him when he first started. Vai showed up with a guitar with no strings and a pack of strings and wanted to learn how to play. Mind you Vai did get alot of his style from Frank Zappa which is why they only sound a little bit alike. Another one of my favs is George Lynch... :glugglug

Steve Morse

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Metheny is awesome...

but so is Al Di Meiola

Randy Rhoads wasn't too shabby either

There is NO such thing as a "best guitarist".

There are so many awesome guitarists...

Carlos Santana. Gary Moore, Larry Carlton, Lee Rittenauer, Michael Hedges, Phil Keaggy, Jimmy Page, Luther Allison, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton... and a hundred other guitar slingin' muthafukkahs.

ew neither

He has to be right near the top..:thumbsup

Hmm none of them

saw them live with dreamtheatet at the willturn 2 yeaqrs ago...best show ever!

i still have the ticket stub

Between them 2, it has to be Vie hands down:)

Vie is far more creative and expressive with the guitar I think.

Not to mention he is still doing insane sweeps that are amazing.

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correct!


next.. :2 cents:

nuno

both of them rock

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This is the source of where it all flowed from for both of them

Without question! That dude is amazing.

Well if we can name dead ones:

Steve Ray Vaughan

heroin dealer?
ok I know he was great :glugglug

Michael Angelo Batio beats all of them

www.angelo.com

I'd have to say my top 10 are

Johnny Lang
Eric Clapton
Jimmi Hendrix
Eddie Van Halen
Chet Atkins
Jimmy Page
Kurt Cobain
Duane Allman
Ronnie Vanzant
Stevie Ray Vaughan

No real order, just good at what they do/did best :)

Not a big fan of both of them prefer Santana , Al Dimeola and the guy from pink floyd.

Actually the first real heavy distorted rock guitarist was Jeff Beck when he was in the yard birds. Jimi could sing and be upfront but the first was Jeff Beck.

I took guitar & bass lessons with Joe Satriani. Personally, I think Vai and Satch rock, but they aren't the best around. Jeff Tyson and Alex Skolnik is by far the most amazing students of Satriani. While I find this type of playing impressive, it lacks profound depth and sentiment.

My rock favorites would include:

Peter Green, the original guitarist of Fleetwood Mack (back when they were a blues band with songs like Black Magic Woman [original version], Green Manalishi with the Two Prong Crown, The Albatross.

Gary Moore, Thin Lizzy and solo career.

Jimi Hendrix, the god.

Michael Schenker, this guy sings. Listen to UFO's Strangers in the Night all the way through in one sitting. MSG, UFO, Scorpions.

George Lynch, listen closely to his solos off the first Lynch Mob album. The River of Love guitar solo uses alot of John Coltrane sax elements.

Frank Zappa. Without Zappa there would be no Steve Vai.

Eddie Van Halen, party rock at its finest.

Jimmy Page, awesome song writer.

Eric Clapton, Cream.

There are other rock players I like alot. I won't mention jazz players since it is completely different.

The first distorted (overdrive) guitar were the Kinks.

The Yardbirds were an incredible band: Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, and Eric Clapton!

Stevie Ray Vaughan, BB King, Jimi Hendricks to name a few

Between just those two - Vai is better

I saw them both live on G3 (With Petrucci, who is my fave guitarist). And Satriani is the most boring stage performer ever...

Seen both live and htey both kick ass!!!

But Joe gets my vote! :thumbsup

I say Neither. Satriani is fast but I don't particularly feel anything in his music; it's almost synthesized. Steve Vai rocks but he's still not my favorite.

I think Roy Buchannon is the best "emotional" guitar player, he tells a story when he plays and his guitar sounds alive. I think Hendrix owns the guitar world for ass-kicking rock and creativity. I'm not old enough to have seen Hendrix play live and I hear a lot of his experimental stuff missed the mark but the catalog of work he left behind is still awesome in my opinion.

SpaceAce

Rock guitarist
#1 = Eddie Van Halen for sure.

Man i fell down my chair when i first heard Eruption in 79 (or was it in 78, anyways...)
WHOAAAAAHHHHH !!!!!

Put it on, and crank the volume and remember that it was in the late 70's

Awesome !

all these guys is a great guitar players, but Mike Novikoff from Lux Eterna is a guitar G O D !!!

By the way, "best" is unfair; there are too many artists with too much skill but if I had to pick the ones who stand out completely, they would be the oens in my post above.

Other notables include Stevie Ray Vaughan, Carlos Santana, Ry Cooder, B.B. King and Gary Hoey.

SpaceAce

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Go Cubbies!!

Ritchie Blackmore :thumbsup

FUCK YEA, but mines is Tom Morrello!!!! Rage motherfuckers!!!!!!:thumbsup

Vai. Technically, tonally, emotionally and as a stage performer. Satriani writes better melodies however.

The post says Vai vs Satriani and all you cocks start talking about other guitarists like Tom Morello and Kurt Cobain etc. These guys are no where near the same league as Vai and Satriani.

Steve Morse on the other hand and is way up there with Satch and Vai.

Anyway Vai is touring Australia in July and I'm as happy as a cock in a hahahahashop about it.

Satriani between the two

but of all time?

there is only one answer....

HENDRIX

do any of you nuggets even play guitar seriously?

You people have no idea.. Fred Durst!

No, seriously... Steve Vai is amazing. He even wrote a song about this place! (Track 1 on Flex-Able Leftovers) :winkwink:

these guys blow away both
when ya hear em ya know its them.
vai and satch are good but no distinguisable style or sound

hendrix
page
van halen
leslie west
schenker
rhodes
beck
clapton
young
iommi
slash

"vai and satch are good but no distinguisable style or sound"... are you high no one sounds like Vai. You can tell it's Vai instantly. no one else has vibrato like that.

as for

hendrix
page
van halen
leslie west
schenker
rhodes
beck
clapton
young
iommi
slash blowing them away... bullshit! they are all good, innovative guitarists but Vai is last person you'd ever want to have a head cuttin' duel with.

I'm a Satriani fan myself, DEVILS SLIDE BITCH!!!!!!!!!!!

neither, can't stand either of them... If you're going virtuoso, gimme al dimeola.

Randy Rhoads :(

Satch has that great balance of chops and melody. The songs he writes are more memorable in my opinion. Loved the live in San Fransisco dvd. Wore it out last year. I'd be thrilled to see either one play live though.

Satch, no doubt,

Crystal planet = excellent

Just got done listening to that song :thumbsup

Neither of the two. :(

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