New Guns N' Roses

[KevinStorm]

Slash is arguably the best and most well known guitarist who's done his work in the confines of a band. Everybody knows his riffs, even if they can't tell you who he is. Everybody.

Dude the hell? ever herd of Eddie Van Halen? or maybe Randy Rhodes? dude slash is nothing compared to them and what they've done even if one is dead and the other has a cocaine problem

The fact you think the fact they're dead/have a drug problem would make a difference to how good their GUITAR PLAYING is alone is worrying. But more to the point you misunderstand what he's saying, he's not saying he IS the best, he's saying he's ONE of the best.

no i dont think just because their dead and have a drug problem make them look good as guitar players, but they make slash look terrible. maybe if you actually herd eruption or crazy train when randy did it then you'd see. also i never said that they were THE best im just saying that there are WAY better people then slash

Christ, you sound like the guitarist in my old band. He types horribly and worships Randy Rhodes, too.

lol if you were trying to insult me you should try harder. Other forums have done worse then that. Second Randy Rhoads or any guitarest for that fact is better then your whole friggin band. Maybe thats why they get famous while your probably at home playing your moms garage

....I wasn't trying to insult you. There are people on this board much better at that than I am.

Like Keith, for example.

EDIT: And they're not "my band" anymore, which is why I said, "my old band."

Edited April 16, 2008 by KevinStorm

[Nerf]

Eruption is shite.

And that's coming from a massive Van Halen fan.

[rvdseven]

Eruption is shite.

And that's coming from a massive Van Halen fan.

i wasn't saying eruption was really good im just saying thats something slash couldnt do ever. Also if your a great van halen fan if you saw them live , Eddie's guitar solo is crazy, he messess with the guitar.

[Nerf]

Eddie's a phenomenal guitarist, no doubt, but Slash is great in his own right. To be fair, Slash could write a solo song with ease... hell, he did it for Guitar Hero, and it's pretty decent. It's like comparing beans and marmalade... they're both completely different. Eddie is very much shred and effects orientated, while Slash plays bluesy rock & roll.

[Tarheels.]

Yeah but even in terms of blues players there are a lot better players than he is. Stevie Ray Vaughn, John Mayer, etc. He's in my opinion a slightly above-average guitarist who has gotten the fame he has because he was in that 80's rock band that hit it big.

[Nerf]

...how else do you want him to get fame?

He's not a solo guitarist. He works as a member of a band; that band made it big. What the fuck more do you want from him? And if you wanna talk about overrated guitarists; Stevie Ray Vaughan is shite.

[Tarheels.]

...how else do you want him to get fame?

He's not a solo guitarist. He works as a member of a band; that band made it big. What the fuck more do you want from him? And if you wanna talk about overrated guitarists; Stevie Ray Vaughan is shite.

I'd hardly say Vaughn is an over rated guitarist. The man has miles more technical guitar aspects than Slash has incorporated into the majority of his work. If it comes down to "catchy riffs" then yes, Slash has the upper hand. But when it comes down to sheer guitar skills, Vaughn has the upper hand.

And I'm not getting at him making it big because he was in a band. I'm getting at it not being like a "wow this guy is a great guitarist" rather than "Oh, that's a catchy riff. And ooh, listen to those vocals".

When people listen to Vaughn, Mayer, Hendrix, Clapton, etc. people hear lots of exceptional guitar playing. So it's hardly that he couldn't have made it big on guitar skills alone, look at Clapton. He could have been solely just the guitarist for Cream, and even if he hadn't had a solo thing people still would have cared about him as a guitarist.

[Skummy]

Yeah, but when people hear Clapton, Mayer or Vaughn they think "my, that's dull".

[MalaCloudy Black]

No I don't.

[Iain76er]

Mayer's the guy who played guitar on Fall Out Boy's version of Beat It right?

Yeah, his solo sucks.

Edited April 18, 2008 by Iain76er

[KevinStorm]

Mayer's the guy who played guitar on Fall Out Boy's version of Beat It right?

Yeah, his solo sucks.

He only played the solo, I think.

[METALMAN]

John Mayer has a whiny voice.

[New Damage]

People like Slash and other bands guitarists aren't really going for a technical style, they're just trying to give you something that what they're band/song is all about, no BS hard rock with a blues influence.

Were as with Stevie Ray, that is more country based and the style extra style and technique thats encorporated is probably fed from what he grew up listening to, a country, real blues style, with less of a hard rock feel.

I mean, you can't really compare guitarists of different styles to one another, they're probably not limited to doing what they do by skill, more what they actually want to do. If you, for example listen to the solo in Texas Flood and then Sweet Child O' Mine, they both serve the same purpose in the different songs.

I think we could do with a "EWB Top 50/100 Guitarists" voting thread .

[K]

Bored now.

[Tarheels.]

People like Slash and other bands guitarists aren't really going for a technical style, they're just trying to give you something that what they're band/song is all about, no BS hard rock with a blues influence.

Were as with Stevie Ray, that is more country based and the style extra style and technique thats encorporated is probably fed from what he grew up listening to, a country, real blues style, with less of a hard rock feel.

I mean, you can't really compare guitarists of different styles to one another, they're probably not limited to doing what they do by skill, more what they actually want to do. If you, for example listen to the solo in Texas Flood and then Sweet Child O' Mine, they both serve the same purpose in the different songs.

I think we could do with a "EWB Top 50/100 Guitarists" voting thread .

I think we do need a Top Guitarists thread, but we'd just need somebody to be dedicated to doing it.

The point is, Slash is hardly "the greatest guitarist" but usually the best guitarist arguments are always completely based solely off of opinion because somebody could think that Pete Wentz is the best bassist in the world and is miles better than Les Claypool but millions upon millions of others will argue. While that is a very different argument this is always generally how it will go.

Therefore let bygones be bygones and let everyone like whichever guitarist they like. Mainly because I don't feel like getting into another debate about Slash.

[Crybaby Bunting]

New song has leaked, something called Chicken Dinner

The Synths are badass

[Vendetta]

His voice maybe whiny but I gurrantee he makes your mom wet.

[tristy]

They're saying this "Chicken Dinner" song is "Sheckler's Revenge".

[GhostMachine]

Which do you think will come out first:

Chinese Democracy, an actual Chinese Democracy, or Duke Nukem Forever?

Edited August 19, 2008 by GhostMachine

[JKDaRock]

Which do you think will come out first:

Chinese Democracy, an actual Chinese Democracy, or Duke Nukem 3D?

Duke Nukem 3D. It came out more than 12 years ago.