Simply the greatest guitar player in history

[Anthony7]

Bireli Lagrene - was a virtuoso as a child and continues to be today. Comes out of the Django school, but is so, so much more... Like Benson, what he hears he can play. No limitations...

Sylvain Luc - pure genius

Allan Holdsworth

Al DiMeola

John Mclaughlin

George Benson - the old stuff "Bad Benson," etc...

Ray Gomez

[RacerX]

Thank you sir. It has taken me quite a few years, a lot of money, and a few mistakes to collect this gear, and I'm damn proud of it.

Listing your picks & cables goes a bit far though

[jgcable]

Listing your picks & cables goes a bit far though

I make my own cables and I use 60/40 Kester flux Rosen core solder. I should put that in my signature.

[VitaminG]

Listing your picks & cables goes a bit far though

but without them, how will we truly imitate Grim?

[VitaminG]

The first clip that was posted, well I kept waiting for it to take off, but it just kind of stayed low key...I wanted to like it, but it just came off booring...I want to like him but I just can't.....Good player for sure, but he just does nothing that moves me...

Are we talking about Shawn Lane now?

Becker was great...but not in the class of the ultimate shred virtuoso...Shawn Lane! Game over! Over! :-))

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbPTe...eature=related

I guess we are!

[javert]

Listing your picks & cables goes a bit far though

To quote Shrek "Do you think he's maybe compensating for something?"

[tonemonster]

Uli is a fucking 3rd class hack. he isnt even half the guitarist that Yngwie is.

Uli, its all sonic garbaly goop. I have never understood peoples fascination with him. its just a fad. he sucks as bad as Steve Vai.

[Grim]

You should be. Stellar collection. Tell me, how is that Powerball??

Bloody excellent. It replaced my recto when i got it. Although I am considering another recto when I get the $.

I like the Invader better, but the difference isn't worth the $ difference to me. The powerball is utterly awesome.

Just. awesome. Man.

[Grim]

Listing your picks & cables goes a bit far though

I consider them essential.

when I play with anything OTHER than Jazz IIIs, I feel like i'm holding a baby's head.

And BRTB cables are the strongest bastards i've ever used. I go through maybe a cable a year. If that.

[Grim]

Uli is a fucking 3rd class hack. he isnt even half the guitarist that Yngwie is.

Uli, its all sonic garbaly goop. I have never understood peoples fascination with him. its just a fad. he sucks as bad as Steve Vai.

I can't get into either of them.

There is a metric fuckton of better shred out there.

[Jacksons Shred]

Shawn Lane is King.

[javert]

I for my part never questioned that there were better guitarists out there, including Yngwie, Becker, and Lane, but what makes Uli special to me is his place in history as he predates any of those guys. What's being said above is like saying Newton was a 3rd class physicist compared to, say, Einstein, because Newton didn't understand what Einstin did. They were part of different eras. Speaking of Vai, I've tried several times to get into his stuff, but it never stuck. He's a good and very creative guitarist, though.

[javert]

Bloody excellent. It replaced my recto when i got it. Although I am considering another recto when I get the $. I like the Invader better, but the difference isn't worth the $ difference to me. The powerball is utterly awesome. Just. awesome. Man.

How does the Powerball compare in tone to the E530, do you know?

[ulijdavid]

I for my part never questioned that there were better guitarists out there, including Yngwie, Becker, and Lane, but what makes Uli special to me is his place in history as he predates any of those guys.

EXACTLY!!!! I don't think a lot of people realize Uli was doing arpeggios, sweep picking, volume swells, classical elements, etc. way back in the 70's. You could probably argue that Uli (and Blackmore) were the beginning of neoclassical shred. Granted Yngwie started the major craze in the 80's, but his roots began with stealing alot of Uli and Blackmore's stuff.

[javert]

You could say similar things about Schenker. He did very little of the kind of stuff that characterizes modern shred, he was totally old school in terms of technique, yet he influenced a whole generation of guitarists. But in my opinion, Schenker was less innovative than Uli was.