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SLASH is not a good guitar player --->Discussion of the musically inclined only, no n00bs

 
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Jimi hendrix, bb king, kirk hammett, david gilmour, dimebag darryl, and so on
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I would include slash in this group of people. Before you all act like you know anything go read what the real elite say about him. There has been a lot of praise from great musicians towards slash even Eric Clapton has praised him pretty well and Eric is no guitar slouch. Id like to ass no exposure for stalker boy Ray Vaughn to that list.. just sayin.. LOL
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Steeeveee Ray Vaughan worship

Eric Clapton? Meh. Saw him live and while he's technically good I don't find his playing that distinctive and he had ZERO stage presence.

no exposure for stalker boy? Two bars in a Bowie song and you can tell it's him.

I'd also add Hendrix, Dick Dale, Link Wray, Chuck Berry, John Frusciante, Chet Atkins, Dave Gilmour...

Being distinctive imho is as important as being technically proficient.

I like Daniel Ash as well but that's more my sixteen-year old self there...

I'm not going to knock Slash but I don't think he's a legend either.

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I've been playing for 20 years and live for my guitars so I know guitar...and Slash may not be technically brilliant but the dude has a whole fucking lot of soul. Of course there are better guitar players, but he's damn fine and you can hear his playing a mile away.
Others I love are: Brian May, Mark Knopfler, SRV, Leo Kotke, David 'The Lord' Gilmour, Alex Lifeson, Andy Summers, Adrian Smith, Angus Young, Jack White, Jimmy Paige, Dimebag Darrell RIP, Robert Johnson, Al di Meola and the list goes on.
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I fed all the relevant data into my 1970s supercomputer...and after 13 hours, the printout confirms that Slash is indeed a good guitar player.
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Slash is awesome. His Godfather theme is one of the best electric guitar pieces of music ever made.
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Lol rawk

Rock dudes...*eye roll*
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so enlighten to whom you think is the best then...
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Buckethead, hands down. It helps that his fingers are like 8 inches long. But he can play any style, from the crunchiest metal to the smoothest jazz.
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buckethead is a great guitarist. One of the only shred types I like listening to. He goes off the scale and plays a lot of chromatics but still makes it artful and powerful.
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I wonder what Slash thinks of Swans.


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Ok, now that all of you are done spamming this thread, get back to the topic, SLASH is not a good guitar player. Discuss.
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so enlighten to whom you think is the best then...
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BTW.. this is how this thread got derailed.
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so enlighten to whom you think is the best then...
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so enlighten to whom you think is the best then...
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Ok, now that all of you are done spamming this thread, get back to the topic, SLASH is not a good guitar player. Discuss.
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If someone doesn't think he's the best we have to post other guitarists to compare. That's not spam, it's context.
But I'll post youtubes as links so it doesn't clog your bandwidth..

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J Mascis is one of the best classic guitarists.

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Slash is very basic. He only uses the pentatonic scale. The 70s are over. He is not even close to Paul Gilbert, John Petrucci and Steve Vai.
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Jimi hendrix, bb king, kirk hammett, david gilmour, dimebag darryl, and so on
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Carlos Santana, Jeff Beck as well
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+1 for Jeff Beck. Santana....he should have stuck with the SG and the Marshalls...he sounds like he's playing a buzzy toy nowadays with the PRS. He peaked with the acid and SG at woodstock.
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This is correct,

Beck in my books is #1,
After you’ve heard Santana for two or three songs....you’ve pretty much heard all he can do. I’ve been playing guitar for over 50 years and have seen Beck and Santana numerous times. Santana was boring...Beck captures your attention if you are a player.
IMHO
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Everyone on GLP knows in their hearts that Dominic Brown (Duran Duran)-is the best guitar player. Better than Jimmy..

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Slash is very basic. He only uses the pentatonic scale. The 70s are over. He is not even close to Paul Gilbert, John Petrucci and Steve Vai.
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He knows Phrygian inside out as well. Uses it in Double Talking Jive and in the middle of the Sweet Child of Mine solo. Near the end of Godfather he's playing classical scales. I also heard he knows Dorian but don't know where he applies it.

This Sweet Child of Mine ascent is Phrygian I think. Whatever it is, it has an egyptian feel and a few minor second intervals, so it's way more than pentatonic:

[link to youtu.be (secure)]

He switches into classical here. Could be Dorian, not sure. I think it's Mozart, Beethoven or someone. Maybe Bach:

[link to youtu.be (secure)]

And if he knows less scales than some of those shredders, he has 10x more musicality, and that's what the crowd want to hear. Music.

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I could play my recorder better in 3rd grade than he can play his guitar. He is just a so so player, nothing special.
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He's better than so so, but no jimmy page.
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Kinda modelled himself on Jimmy Page, methinks, but Pages repertoir, diversity, technical skill's and range are out of this world. Not only that, Page created a band and moulded it to be the thing that it became.
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Uh, Tony Iommi anyone?

whatever

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FFS!

All this whiny Stevie Vai cock-rock, mastubatory speed nonsense has to bow down to one real diverse talent.

The Beethoven of our rock times is.....

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Slash is a try hard unskilled poofy fucking pedo like most "well known" rock stars are.

Enjoy your pedo worship.
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I could play my recorder better in 3rd grade than he can play his guitar. He is just a so so player, nothing special.
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There are better players than Slash doing covers of slash's stuff on youtube. Just saying, that shows how good he is, if you catch my drift.
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But yet they are covering his stuff and not the other way around.
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YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS THANK YOU IM GLAD IM NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO REALIZES THIS I COULD NAME SEVERAL BETTER GUITARIST LETS START WITH ONE JIMMY PAIGE
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Skip to 16:45 and listen until 18:25. I've always considered this to be the most intense minute and a half of rock music I've ever heard, bar none. The guy doesn't open his eyes once and is spitting saliva out of his mouth like he's in some altered state semi-conciousness. SICK!!!
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YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS THANK YOU IM GLAD IM NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO REALIZES THIS I COULD NAME SEVERAL BETTER GUITARIST LETS START WITH ONE JIMMY PAIGE
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Skip to 16:45 and listen until 18:25. I've always considered this to be the most intense minute and a half of rock music I've ever heard, bar none. The guy doesn't open his eyes once and is spitting saliva out of his mouth like he's in some altered state semi-conciousness. SICK!!!
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