In which way is he over rated, in your opinion ?

Ha Ha.

lol .. stevie ray vaughn .. enough said.

I like Maiden too. But the thing is that the guitarists in Maiden are at best mediocre...

OK. I hate>/i> to reveal my black roots here- really.
BUT- listen to Dave Murray's solo on 'Hallowed Be Thy Name' from 'A Real Dead One' and have a think about that 'mediocre' call, dude.

*help*

I couldn't think of three other people to take the piss out of.

Well after reading their latest press release'yesterday" it sounds like Robyn has fed them a whole bunch of bullshit making out like i set out to bad mouth them or something, which aint true, so i'd doubt they would want to gig with us now but who knows, maybe i should try and make contact. Oh well at least it prompted them to issue their first news release in nearly 2 years.

bahahahaha

Thank you Mr Foal

my opinion on top guitarists, you cannot narrow it down to five and any attempt to try and justify shredders as top of the list is only measuring digital dexterity. Look at the instrument globally and holistically the list would be hard to narrow down smaller than a few hundred guitarists.

on the other issue, Portia you fucking cock, follow link below

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Ok I checked your link and it went back to the forum page - thanks.

Honestly Simon what is your problem? I think I've given you shit about being a shred hero about three times or something. Admittedly I shouldn't have indulged on this thread and it was a little childish, but how can I resist when you threaten me with bodily harm? At least gatman, earnest and desperate to deflect any child porn/assault allegations though he may be, has a bit of a laugh about it. You totally FREAK OUT every time. Don't bother. This is the internet, big guy. Your mind is your only weapon. And having to go down that road ( to paraphrase, you said if I ever said anything else, (which I have) you would "smash the shit out of me") implies that your weapon is a little bit blunt. I'm pretty sure it isn't, judging from some of your posts (particularly the one on english teaching in non-english speaking countries, which I enjoyed immensely.

BUT I have to admit, I have given you a bit of a hard time, and Foal's right. Each to his own.

1200 notes a minute, apparently. I saw him years ago at a rock festival, and he was shredding with one hand; like he took the strap off, held his guitar out to one side by the neck (with the one hand) and did fucken arpeggios.

I've met Sean a few times. Don't agree with his politics, he was one of those clowns who marched through Auckland with Brian Tamaki, but he is a very good guitarist. He was over in Poland for a long time doing rock operas and such but is now living somewhere in Ranui.
It'd be fun to jam with him, so far closest we've got to it is talking bullshit bout Yngwie and Eddie.

Honestly I don't know. He was working at Go West music for some time and I suppose I'd probably spoken with him half a dozen times. Went in one day and Brent from 8 foot Sativa was back behind the counter. I asked where the new guy was and Brent said he was marching with Tamaki. Up to that point I had thought him not too bad a guy, a little blinkered at times (he was having a good bitch at one of the other guys there one day for stringing a gothic flying v to drop A as "No one in the real world plays that shit") big ego but I'm guilty of egotism myself.....
Yeah you're right Portia, not pretty politics with Mr Clancy.
There's a guy working at Go West at the moment by the name of Chris Kirby, used to play in Defkt and now plays in a band called remains of a day, he'd be fun to jam with. Grant from Epitome is a very capable guitarist, the guys from These 4 walls and Battle Circus have some serious chops, Rob from Cerebral Vortex is by reputation one hell of a guitarist, I'd love to sit with a classical and some segovia transcriptions and jam with Andy from Remote.
NZ has plenty of great guitarists with far less dodgy politics. Yeah Portia I think you're right on this one.

Don't feel you have to agree with me because of...you know

Yes, of course his playing on Whitesnakes 1987 is great, do you have the first "Blue Murder "album and the "Nothin But Trouble" album, some cool playing on those. Also not a half bad singer either.

That's a shame, they're both cool albums. What about "Thunder And lightning" by Thin Lizzy, that's where it really starting happening for him.

It's a great song - and there's a lot more where that came from. Visit the allmusic profile page:

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And I must say his new album is a beaut:

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