Guitar World Readers Poll: The Greatest Guitarist of All Time

[atomic charvel guy]

bill,
That was the ugliest piece of music i may have ever heard, thanks alot, and fuck you.

[horns666]

Hey you dicks.

Somebody tell this fag to listen to "Machine Gun"...http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...Vyk_TObCo&NR=1

[ulijdavid]

Cool, Estonia.......My Mom and Grandma came over on the "Boat" from Latvia. I went to school with a guy whose family was from Lithuania. The trilogy is complete. The Baltic states are all accounted for.

Seriously, I don't know either Metal Maniac or Endrik. The post just became an intellectual tennis match. No disrespect to either, just adding my crap.

[atomic charvel guy]

Kee Marcello didn't write "Cherokee" that was John Norum. As much as people puke on Europe, I think John Norum and Kee Marcello are great melodic guitarists.

But I am your typical short bus rider. I only visit this post after a trip to Walmart for sour cream and salsa pork rinds (engineers can't spell, so I don't know if I spelled pork rinds correct). I am here to view the intellectual elitism battle between Endrik and Metal Maniac. Metal Maniac much respect for graduating from MIT.

UliJ,
Let me give you a little inside information on Endrik. He's a young kid, way beyond his years. Quite knowledgeable on many things,
he's not right about everything, but on most things i find he shoots pretty close to the dartboard, even when i don't agree with him.
Not to mention he came all the way out here from Estonia to visit me, unfortunately for him he was in culture shock
from the first minute. metal Maniac i do not know, and is just another one of us who has his favorites and his own taste,
and who's to say what's right or wrong? after myself of course, I am the all wise and ever knowing El Headacheo extraordinaireo.

[ulijdavid]

Kee Marcello didn't write "Cherokee" that was John Norum. As much as people puke on Europe, I think John Norum and Kee Marcello are great melodic guitarists.

But I am your typical short bus rider. I only visit this post after a trip to Walmart for sour cream and salsa pork rinds (engineers can't spell, so I don't know if I spelled pork rinds correct). I am here to view the intellectual elitism battle between Endrik and Metal Maniac. Metal Maniac much respect for graduating from MIT.

[atomic charvel guy]

I know this list is missing alot of great players & probably has a few that shouldn't be there but..........................

No Victor Smolski or Kee Marcello?

those two guys are advanced great players, but can you actually get through
the song "Cherokee"? i cannot, if you can, my hat is off to you and enjoy it as that
is what music is for. "Music the driving force of nature" - i am quoting Vangelis, and that guy is a motherfucker
of a musician and composer.

[Force]

I know this list is missing alot of great players & probably has a few that shouldn't be there but..........................

No Victor Smolski or Kee Marcello?

[tonemonster]

Maybe he could change the words to "beat it with an axe"

[atomic charvel guy]

wow , this is so great, somebody get me a fuckin' rope so i can dangle from it.


"Beat it!! Don't come around here, I'm a viking with an axe, Yaaaaaaaaaaa!!!"
good god make it stop.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5ieoaolIto

[Endrik]

Endrik,

A lot of interesting and thought-provoking points as usual. But I can't help think you're not serious with the following:



Are we talking about appreciation, performance or composition? If appreciation, then this seems in direct contradiction to your reply to Metal Maniac:

- MY point is if you can't walk the walk(AND PROVE IT!) don't talk the talk!!!
-- Your point is stupid. I forbid you to criticize any subpar meal if you are not a 3 Michelin star chef.

As for the way you use the term 'talented', it's a tautology. You seem to be saying: only talented ('people who are good at making music') make good music/should be allowed to make music. Is this your intention?

Nah, my intention is to take dump on yellow journalism and people who go along with it... on that occasion adapting snobby manner seems very appropriate.

But to answer your question seriously then any kind of analysis which is published and sold should be done by people who know what they are talking about.
Everyone can appreciate or criticize something but when it comes to such subjects as influence for example then it's for people who are very good at musical anthropology, this is a serious study and not an opinion of an average reader.
The opinion of a wal-mart employee who has never heard of Charlie Christian is irrelevant in serious musical study. It is of course awfully "important" in the context of populist yellow journalism but this is a field which serves no benefit to mankind and has a negative effect instead. Such filth deserves to be treated with upmost disdain at every possible moment.

[METAL MANIAC]

Endrik,

A lot of interesting and thought-provoking points as usual. But I can't help think you're not serious with the following:



Are we talking about appreciation, performance or composition? If appreciation, then this seems in direct contradiction to your reply to Metal Maniac:

- MY point is if you can't walk the walk(AND PROVE IT!) don't talk the talk!!!
-- Your point is stupid. I forbid you to criticize any subpar meal if you are not a 3 Michelin star chef.

As for the way you use the term 'talented', it's a tautology. You seem to be saying: only talented ('people who are good at making music') make good music/should be allowed to make music. Is this your intention?

Thank You SIR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Cliff]

Endrik,

A lot of interesting and thought-provoking points as usual. But I can't help think you're not serious with the following:

The biggest problem - Since when guitar world readers know much about anything? Cheap populism. Let the common people discuss about things which they indeed are good at... mopping a floor, fixing a car, typing with a computer etc. Music is an old and serious art-form which should be left to talented and intelligent people.

Are we talking about appreciation, performance or composition? If appreciation, then this seems in direct contradiction to your reply to Metal Maniac:

- MY point is if you can't walk the walk(AND PROVE IT!) don't talk the talk!!!
-- Your point is stupid. I forbid you to criticize any subpar meal if you are not a 3 Michelin star chef.

As for the way you use the term 'talented', it's a tautology. You seem to be saying: only talented ('people who are good at making music') make good music/should be allowed to make music. Is this your intention?

[METAL MANIAC]

Tom G Warrior, best guitarist ever... periods ...... LOL

he was/is pretty damn good..............

[tonemonster]

Yngwie inspired my stage poses and pouting facacial expressions.

[tonemonster]

Strong Bad, way up high on the tiny strings.