Thread: Your Favorite Guitarist

Originally Posted by Northman

Yea, i saw SR at Ozzfest a few years later and it was the same thing. He was spouting off on his political rant and i was like just shut up and sing.

he had a tendency to do that...but I'd still put him in my top 5 of metal front men

Originally Posted by CoachChaz

he had a tendency to do that...but I'd still put him in my top 5 of metal front men

There's no doubt that when Phil is clean and sober he is a excellent frontman. My guess is he is battling a lot of demons and with what happened to Dime he is probably not feeling that much better about how their relationship soured. Classic example of holding onto grudges for too long until those people arent around anymore. Phil and Dime were together for a very long time to not really care about one another.

Originally Posted by CoachChaz

My biggest complaint with the 13 Pantera shows I saw was how Phil would get on his soapbox and rant for half the show...but...he's still an all-time great front man.

If you come across the Superjoint Ritual:Live in Dallas DVD, pick it up. he was sober and the show was amazing...plus there are quite a few shots of Coach moshing. Look for the guy in the pit with the Sabbath t-shirt on.

Which Sabbath shirt do you speak of?

I wore a Justice for All shirt, lol.

Originally Posted by Dr Velcro

Which Sabbath shirt do you speak of?

I wore a Justice for All shirt, lol.

The one I had on in that DVD is black with a picture of the band in a blue haze. Has a cross and Black Sabbath on the back

Originally Posted by Northman

There's no doubt that when Phil is clean and sober he is a excellent frontman. My guess is he is battling a lot of demons and with what happened to Dime he is probably not feeling that much better about how their relationship soured. Classic example of holding onto grudges for too long until those people arent around anymore. Phil and Dime were together for a very long time to not really care about one another.

That's my issue. What gives Rita and Vinnie the right to speak for Dime when it comes to his issues with Phil and deciding if he would have forgiven him?

The man who kille dDime did it because he blamed Dime for breaking up Pantera. I condone nothing of that sort, but if that was his agenda, he should have targeted Vinnie and Rita

Was Pantera a band or a soap opera?

Originally Posted by NightTrainLayne

Was Pantera a band or a soap opera?

Im bombing Oklahomo tomorrow

I don't remember who the guitarist was, but the riff in "Free Bird" was a killer.

Originally Posted by BroncoJoe

I don't remember who the guitarist was, but the riff in "Free Bird" was a killer.

There were three of them...I believe the story goes that a roadie/part time keyboardist wrote the beginning piano and Van Zant heard him playing it one day and turned it into Freebird and then the piano guy became full-time because of it.

Gary Rossington was their lead, if they had one. Allen Collins and Ed King were their other two guitarists.

I have no idea who is playing for them these days.

Originally Posted by MissouriBronc

There were three of them...I believe the story goes that a roadie/part time keyboardist wrote the beginning piano and Van Zant heard him playing it one day and turned it into Freebird and then the piano guy became full-time because of it.

Gary Rossington was their lead, if they had one. Allen Collins and Ed King were their other two guitarists.

I have no idea who is playing for them these days.

yeah - I knew it was more than one guy - meant to say "guatarists were".

Alexi Laiho


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M62fJ...eature=related

Yngwie Malmsteen. I was hooked the first time i heard the prelude to Marching Out.

Originally Posted by BroncoJoe

I couldn't find a thread with this same title - there was one for the '00's only, so I figured I'd start one.

I may get flamed for this, but I don't care. Lindsey Buckingham is my personal favorite. Anyone that can make one guitar sound like two or more is tops in my book.

Try to listen to the music instead of his singing.

He's pretty good. Thanks for introducing him to me. But you wouldn't
classify his singing as music?

I kind of have to go along with Mo on Stevie Ray Vaughan as close to my
favorite in general to watch and listen to. But there are so many whom I
really enjoy.

One of my very favorites is Aussie Tommy Emmanuel:




He has a bunch on You Tube, and this vid may not even be his best.


Others worthy of look-up (all on You Tube) are:

Danny Gatton
Roy Buchanan
Paco de Lucia

Wow, there are so many of them.


My favorite solo? Maybe Seve Vai, "Bad Horsie." You gotta see this:




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Good call on Paco Top. He lives about 10 minutes from me. My spanish tutor teaches his kids english. He's a nice guy from the few words I have had with him.

I'm a rock music fan first and foremost, and it's so hard to name one. I'll try to make a short list.

Brian May (Queen)
Kirk Hammett (old metallica, and the new album has some decent stuff)
Alex Lifeson (Rush, some of the solos on Hemispheres and 2112 are excellent)


Right now, I'm really in to the Mars Volta and Ozric Tentacles, but these are bands with more than one guitar player so it's hard to single any one of them out.

Some great names in this thread...Stevie Ray, Slash, Dimebag. I can't argue with any of those choices either.

Here's one more from Tommy Emmanuel. It's just a three-minute one. Mo ought
to enjoy this one because it is kinda down the road with SRV's "Rude Mood,"
except it's unplugged.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eppz-oP4nYA

(Embedding has been disabled on this one, so I just have to link it.)

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