Select your Favourite Shredder

ConradP

Hi All

Obviously there are no right or wrong answers. Just a poll for interest's sake.

Kind regards Conrad Pienaar

(old forum) Poll Results: From the following 10 shredders, who is your favourite?

Yngwie Malmsteen: 4
John Petrucci: 8
Michael Angelo: 1
Rusty Cooley: 2
Michael Romeo: 1
Joe Satriani: 9
Steve Vai: 7
Al Di Meola: 0
Paul Gilbert: 2
Nuno Bettencourt: 2

ConradP

Oh and obviously feel free to motivate your choice by posting a comment ?

Cheers
Conrad

NorioDS

He doesn't shred much these days but, even when he was ripping it up, he always did it tastefully. Of course I'm talking about Satriani ?

ConradP

Yep. Satch has always been very tasteful and has a great ear and knowledge of theory. His modal work is great.

Gray

Where's Herman Li? ?

Manfred-Klose

michael Romeo!!!!!

ConradP

Gray wrote: Where's Herman Li? ?

I decided to just choose a random 10. Herman Li should have been there. He is amazing. I think, what would be ineteresting is if we have a poll on SA guitarists no?

Conrad

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Manfred Klose wrote: michael Romeo!!!!!

Yep Romeo is a genius. I have his Dark Chapter solo album. His work on the Odyssee, Twilight in Olympus and Paradise lost is INCREDIBLE.

Conrad

Gray

I decided to just choose a random 10

It may take days before I recover from this wound.

I think, what would be ineteresting is if we have a poll on SA guitarists no?

Thats actually not a bad idea. Post one

Welcome to the forum ConradP
Hope you enjoy it dude.

ConradP

It may take days before I recover from this wound.

If you have read any Freud, you would probably have encoutered the phrase super-ego. After reading his work I concluded that I have a harsh super-ego. It boils down to having an over active concience so now I feel quite guilty hahahaha. Are you a Dragonforce fan?

Conrad

azraelscorn

Steve vai is the best there..
But none of them have good composition,just awesome skill..
Thus I would prefer Gelotte and Stromblad from In Flames,if u don't believe me listen to the song Zombie Inc. on the Colony album for proof...they rule!
Also, Nergal and Seth from Behemoth are incredible.

Renesongs

Yay - Steve Vai wins by a nose - Although Malmsteen was faster off the blocks, his ridiculously tight pants and his atrocious rendition of Voodoo Chile at the G3 sung in Svengalish proved too much of a handicap ?

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Renesongs wrote: Yay - Steve Vai wins by a nose - Although Malmsteen was faster off the blocks, his ridiculously tight pants and his atrocious rendition of Voodoo Chile at the G3 sung in Svengalish proved too much of a handicap ?

Ya hahahaha. You are right.

I am listening to Vai at work now (Real Illusions and Reflections). I am having trouble stomaching his vocal tracks though.

Conrad

AlanRatcliffe

Renesongs wrote: his ridiculously tight pants and his atrocious rendition of Voodoo Chile at the G3 sung in Svengalish proved too much of a handicap ?

Oh Lord - don't forget the high kicks in said tight leather trousers, pooching up the succulents at the audience and only stopping shredding to throw the guitar around. I used to defend him before I saw that. It's embarrassing.

cain

Its a damn hard choice that ... Petrucci, Angelo, Vai all of them are geat.

ConradP

Francis Viviers wrote: Its a damn hard choice that ... Petrucci, Angelo, Vai all of them are geat.

Petrucci actually uses and promotes alot of Rusty Cooley's instructional metarial. Between the 2, I prefer Petrucci but I suppose it's a matter of taste.

Conrad

arjunmenon

This is really hard. Vai for phrasing, cooley for technique and i think Petrucci is in between.

Cheers

ConradP

Arjun Menon wrote: This is really hard. Vai for phrasing, cooley for technique and i think Petrucci is in between.

Cheers

And Vai for composition wouldn't you say Arjun? I agree with you on Cooley's technique. I still haven't seen better but that is my subjective opinion. Petrucci has precision that is 2nd to none.

Conrad

scratchy

My favourite guitarist(not shredder) would be Adam Jones. So much emotion in his work and he's great at telling a story rather than providing a sound track.

From the list, Petrucci by far followed closely by Malsteen for his faultless playing.

Paul is also in my list somewhere

ConradP

scratchy wrote: My favourite guitarist(not shredder) would be Adam Jones. So much emotion in his work and he's great at telling a story rather than providing a sound track.

From the list, Petrucci by far followed closely by Malsteen for his faultless playing.

Paul is also in my list somewhere

So why did you not vote for Petrucci then? I'll check out Adam Jones.

Conrad