Guitar One January 2006 [Archive]

webbhead13

12-19-2005, 07:53 PM

Well I just got the new edition of my favorite magazine,
only to see the top ten guitarist who "DESPERATELY" need to retire
10 Dave Navarro
9 Eric Clapton
8 Mike Mushok
7 Carlos Santana
6 Keith Ritchards
5 Ted Nugent
4 Dick Dale
3 Dickey Betts
2 Jimmy Page
Do you guys see where this is headed?
and the Number 1 guitarist who DESPERATELY needs to retire is................

Yep your hero and mine mister
EDWARD VAN HALEN!!!
Do any of you get this magazine??
shouldnt this be the April fools edition :scratchhe
Can someone explain this?
I'm Lost :help :help

DethConsumer

12-19-2005, 08:22 PM

Here's my "Modern Day" top ten in no particular order. I've seen all these players in this decade (except Frank Marino, but I know he is still tearing it up on the guitar). I'm not at all saying that the other list has lame players, but I'd sure like to see Eric Clapton go head to head with Joe Stump! :lol :

Yngwie Malmsteen
Ulrich (Uli Jon) Roth
Tony Iommi
Steve Vai
Joe Satriani
Chris Poland
Frank Marino
Gary Hoey
Joe Stump
George Lynch

They really should have a Guitar Olympics every 4 years and hand out medals in all different catagories (Blues, Metal, triads, Arpegios, etc...).
Then these bozo lists would go away.

Lieutenant Dan

12-19-2005, 10:08 PM

Guys, I agree - the asswipes that write this SHIT in the rags need to be horse whipped :thumbsup

Those dumbasses couldn't find their way out of a paper bag ;)

Dan

ShredisLife

12-19-2005, 10:33 PM

Pay no attention to this crap. Any guitar magazine that puts Jack White, or the guys from Slipknot on the cover AND IIRC makes fun of the Nightswan knows SHIT about guitars nor playing. These guys probably think that the guys from Coheed and Cambria are shredders! :D

kramerpacer

12-20-2005, 12:21 AM

I would say that the ones that need to retire are not the innovators, the groundbreakers or the veterans but the all-soundalike newbie ones that are all over the radio now.

quik

12-20-2005, 12:29 AM

The object of that bullshit list is to cause a stir, and get people to notice the magazine, period. It's utterly worthless in terms of content.

scottie

12-20-2005, 01:29 AM

I hate the Poll too ... but I do have to admit, the "Guitar Hero" is long gone ... with the 80's and the whole rap movement at full speed now. Maybe I am just getting old. :scratchhe

In the magazine.. doesnt it say "Van Halen" has not put out anything decent since the 80's? Sounds "Pro-Dave" to me!

Scott>

lefthandedshredder

12-20-2005, 04:14 AM

Guys, I agree - the asswipes that write this SHIT in the rags need to be horse whipped :thumbsup

Those dumbasses couldn't find their way out of a paper bag ;)

Dan

Mate, I totally agree with you. Spot on! :thumbsup

axegrinder

12-20-2005, 07:01 AM

I wouldn't worry too much about the mentaly challenged over at Guitar One. This is what I refer to as the VH1 syndrome. You get a bunch of people who ,at best; have had a modicum of success. Instruct them to keep a cynical mindset.Then ask them questions that require them to voice their opinion. Have you seen VH1 programming latley. Maybe Guitar One has hired the producers from I love the 80's to edit their magazine :D . I'm sure there are lots of birdcages out there that need lined ...well there you have it. Maybe that's what they had in mind when they wrote that.

I agree dethconsumer Gary Hoey rocks :headbang

Jack :usa

adoxtater

12-20-2005, 08:04 AM

Dave Navarro?? WTF. Give me a break. Are you sure the article wasn't titled "People who have picked up a guitar - in no certain order" and you only pasted the first ten? If so, why isn't Kurt Cobain (or however you spell it) on that list? He pickuped up a guitar once... maybe twice... just to look all angsty I'd imagine.

DAVE NAVARRO???? I quit.

Dr. Greenthumb

12-20-2005, 08:27 AM

You guys ever hear John Petrucci....he is an awesome guitarist... :headbang

He is in DreamTheater, Liquid Tension Experiment
and did a tour with G3 with Satch and Vai.

:guns

Tourpicx

12-20-2005, 09:51 AM

I'll agree with 4 of your choices --- Yngwie Malmsteen, George Lynch, Steve Vai and Joe Satriani. :headbang

Here's my "Modern Day" top ten in no particular order. I've seen all these players in this decade (except Frank Marino, but I know he is still tearing it up on the guitar). I'm not at all saying that the other list has lame players, but I'd sure like to see Eric Clapton go head to head with Joe Stump! :lol :

Yngwie Malmsteen
Ulrich (Uli Jon) Roth
Tony Iommi
Steve Vai
Joe Satriani
Chris Poland
Frank Marino
Gary Hoey
Joe Stump
George Lynch

They really should have a Guitar Olympics every 4 years and hand out medals in all different catagories (Blues, Metal, triads, Arpegios, etc...).
Then these bozo lists would go away.

ShredisLife

12-20-2005, 10:44 AM

You guys are all forgetting Tony MacAlpine. He's probably one of the fastest sweepers around. And his legato style in untouchable. Check out "Noble Savage" by Planet X... ;)

TBDREE

12-20-2005, 10:58 AM

No guitar player should retire. There is always a chance that something great can come from them as long as they have a guitar in there hands. Play till you fall over dead. Then be buried with your axe. Satch and Vai and Malmsteen are still capable of creating something great, as well as the others on the list. I personally believe the problem with all of the guitarist on the list is that they dont use a producer anymore. If they had someone pulling something new and diffrent from them maybe we'd hear something great again. Not the same scales and riffs all over .

unchained1984

12-20-2005, 11:45 AM

Good choice Alex, MacAlpine is fantastic - I just about cried when I tried to do his two handed arpeggio tapping - damn near impossible without a good string dampener. As for Guitar One sounds to me like a good choice for toilet paper , I stopped buying guitar mags in the mid 90's when they stopped focusing on guys that could actually play some. GPM in the late 80's early 90's is still numero uno in my book :thumbsup

Sandy

jumbowolfe

12-20-2005, 01:27 PM

DethConsumer

12-20-2005, 01:35 PM

There are people that are good and there are people that were good. That's why I want a Guitar Olympics every 4 years! :thumbsup

KramerKiller

12-20-2005, 02:00 PM

You guys are all forgetting Tony MacAlpine. He's probably one of the fastest sweepers around. And his legato style in untouchable. Check out "Noble Savage" by Planet X... ;)

Tony is a awesome player I just discovered him a year or so ago, he has been jammin since the late 80's right?

Any Alex Scolnic (1st Testament guitar player) fans here? His jazz cd transformation is cool. for some reason I have been listening to Jazz lately
:scratchhe .
Alex's cd and The ginger Baker trio has been getting so serious rotation on my player :help

eric

unchained1984

12-20-2005, 02:26 PM

Eric yeah I've 3 or 4 instrumental albums from back in the late 80's early 90's plus he also did a kinda Def Leppard meets Dokken type band simply titled Macalpine & he also did the M.A.R.S project driver album with Aldridge & Sarzo. Check out his instructional vid it'll blow your mind, a very accomplished classically trained pianist too to boot :thumbsup

Sandy

KramerKiller

12-20-2005, 02:49 PM

Man I'll have to check out M.A.R.S. Is Aldridge as in Doug ( Ithink that his name) The guy that has been playing with Whitesnake for a couple years? He put on a awesome show when I saw the 25th anv. tour of Whitesnake.
thanks sandy!!
eric

unchained1984

12-20-2005, 03:32 PM

The very same Eric :thumbsup

Sandy

spade2you

12-20-2005, 08:21 PM

I know you guys are going to throw shit at me, but after seeing Eddie on the last tour, I think the fucker should retire. He sounded worse than a bad tribute band on a bad day.

He should hang it up, but then agian, he pretty much already has.

He really disappointed me on that last tour.

Mike

Much agreed. When I saw them, he came on STRONG, but then the show kinda seemed to go down hill along with his sobriety. He could be great if he weren't such a damn head case.

I'd probaby say that CC is worse, though. It's sad to think I can do his solos better than he can right now.

Granted, the guitar mags are full of indie, thrash, shitty players, and improv players who think they're better than everyone else. I don't think they know shit about guitar, but I had to admit that EVH is a has-been, Carlos Santana is a one trick pony, etc.

Axeme

12-20-2005, 09:07 PM

I have to agree......top ten my ass. How about the top 4 (IMHO): Vai, Gilbert, Yngwie, Impellitteri

If you don't know who Chris Impellitteri is.....I suggest you do a search for him on the web. He has never really been in any big bands, but Jesus this guy is fast.......like playing Yngwie's stuff at twice the speed (I shit you not!)

D :evil

Lieutenant Dan

12-20-2005, 10:06 PM

Amen to Frank, Jeff, Jimi, John, and all the others :notworthy

Wow, lotsa Guitar Gods on this thread.

Anyone remember Robin Trower, Rory Gallagher, Robert Johnson, Blind Willie Johnson?

Most of the guys on THE LIST ain't shit.

unchained1984

12-20-2005, 10:57 PM

Impelliterri, he did some great stuff 'Stand in Line' with Graham Bonnet - killer rendition of somewhere over the rainbow too. For speed metal agreed he's right up there with Paul Gilbert. Hey Eric yup Alex Skolnic for me was always the stand out talent in Testament , not heard his solo work but again he used to have a killer column in either Guitar Player or GPM back in the day :thumbsup

Sandy

DethConsumer

12-21-2005, 07:51 AM

Thanks for bringing some of these folks to my attention. Here' another 10 in no perticular order:

Buckethead
Tony MacAlpine
Robin Trower
John Petrucci
Marty Friedman
Vinnie Moore
Larry Tarnowski
Dave Murray
Al DiMeola
Jeff Kollman

unchained1984

12-21-2005, 11:46 AM

On a side not regards Macalpine, I'll need to dig out my old albums but I'm certain he's pictured on the back cover of 'Edge Of Insanity' or 'Maximum Security' with a nana head Pacer.

Sandy