Sure. Here’s the Soundclick page we used for a long time.
ETA: please be aware that I do NOT qualify in terms of “total guitar control”, especially since I played bass in this band.
Danny “The Humbler” Gatton was a rockabilly cat who could hang with the best of them and venture into whole other territories - e.g., jazz - at the drop of a hat. His musicianship and taste were amazing…
don’t ask - I wasn’t able to get your link to work, but yes, Slash, in addition to being crossover-celebrity-famous, is actually a very accomplished guitar player in the blues/rock vein. And he has done his homework - when Les Paul died, some of the most articulate eulogizing in interviews came from Slash, Eddie Van Halen, Jeff Beck - these guys aren’t good magically; they put in their time.
I have heard your stuff in the past - really like it! I don’t think of Nag Hammadi, the first track you list here, as sounding explicitly *shoegaze *- not enough blurry vocals and distortion soup - but I love the Middle Eastern flavor and vocals as they are, so am okay with that 
For this I have to go to my main man, Steve Morse. The guy is always in complete control and not only that he does it in a ton of different styles. His writing covers rock, jazz, classical, bluegrass, country and more. He does this all with the same level of competence, which is very hard.
The list of artists he has worked with is mind blowing in that the artist are so different. He has worked with Liza Minnelli (!?!), Steve Walsh, Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin, Paco de Lucía, Triumph, Deep Purple, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Marcel Dadi (finger picker, think Chet Atkins), Manuel Barrueco (heck of a classical player), Jordan Rudess and others.
I’ve seen him up close a couple times. The first time I saw him it shook my world. It was a demo in a music store. At that time he ran a complex rig. I won’t go into the details of his rig but it let him put down a rhythm track on delay, add a midi loop, put a melody on top of all that and then he would solo on top of it all. One guy, a guitar and a bunch of pedals and it sounded like there were four people playing.
It was rather amazing.
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I have to bow down to Steve Morse. The “Living Loud” lineup. “Every moment a lifetime” brings me to tears every time I hear it. I’ve searched the web up and down for a link and am sorry to report that I only have it on my itunes account and am not able to share it with you all. :mad:
No argument as an ultimate insider guitarists’ guitarist kinda guy. Same with some of the top session players, like Steve Lukather.
Well, I can’t agree with that enough. My favorite song of 2010 is probably going to wind up being Dr. Alibi, with Slash and Lemmy. It’s not complicated, but it hangs together perfectly. Slash and Alice Cooper’s Vengeance is Mine is a bit older, but it showcases him pretty well, too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jiw8KnDxSBc Dr. Alibi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCtu7A9WGKs Vengeance is Mine
(Youtube seems a bit broken)
I like Steve Morse, but I think he’s a guitarist’s guitarist kind of musician, and is largely a session guy. He can sit in with virtually any band, any style, any genre and sound great, but he hasn’t written any classic or enduring songs.
Well, we didn’t have the blurry vox because we had a hot redhead who could actually sing. Why screw with that? 
As for the distortion soup, it’s there, man. It really is. You should see the guitarist’s (he also played homemade electric bouzouki on quite a lot of that stuff) pedal board. It would be a nightmare for me to navigate. And every single one of his pedals he made himself. He was just particularly good at piling on loads of effects and having it come out clear and well-managed. He was obsessive about matching timing for delays, envelope filters, phasers, etc.
And thank you very much!
Steve Morse plays too many notes.
You mis-spelled it. It’s Tumeni Notes.
In fact, Sometimes I feel like screaming.
I know! You’re supposed to say “I see what you did there!”
And I love Slash. He’s awesome. One of my favorite licks is the one where he plays with Lenny Kravitz on “Always On The Run”.
ETA: I forgot just how awesomely strong Morse’s vibrato is. Its stellar!
“A million miles away”, you say, in a thread about guitarists? Well, allow me.
Thanks for that. The blues being played while looking at that wet concrete landscape on a dreary Irish day was neat!
For my money (although I’d prefer it if we could spend yours), Jeff Beck just keeps getting better with age, and is now playing with as much taste as anyone ever has:
I thought your link was going to take me to this song. (Maybe because I just finished watching this and had Book Of Shadows on the brain).
Well, Million Miles Away reminds me of this. I know, it ain’t complete control, but I like it, love it, yes I do.
Anyway, I actually like Steve Vai. I’m no fan of the whole shreddy thing, but this guy has done a lot of stuff with a lot of people (PIL, for instance) that makes me think he’s got a lot more going on than wankery.
Wow, that guy is like “the twang bar King” or something.
I am a huge Belew fan and I drove from north Louisiana to Houston, Texas to see him a few years ago when he was touring with Eric Johnson (an amazing technician). After the show I really wanted to ask Eric how it felt to have his ass handed to him by an old, balding guy!
If you want to see “complete control” find video of Belew playing the Crimson song “Elephant Talk”
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Okay, after thinking about this a bit, here is my shot regarding Vai: Every time someone says he’s proficient but boring, someone shows a really cool clip. Face it, even naysayers like me have to admit that he can interpret and sell the emotions of a piece. On any standard criteria for rating a schooled musician – except for having enduring, crossover Songs – Vai is clearly supremely highly rated.
However, that is the problem: he is too good. Rock music, as I have said in many threads, must be dangerous to work*. Vai is so freakin’ proficient on his instrument, that there is never. any. question. as to whether he is in control of his instrument. I mean, jeez, what is the title of this OP??? “Complete Guitar Control” – any questions?
Well, you know what – the best guitarists DO NOT sound like they are in control. My favorite quote from Eddie Van Halen – I have no recollection of the exact wording, only the concept – is that he wants his solos to sound like he is falling down the stairs but somehow manages to land on his feet. Any great rock guitarist, IMHO, must have a sense of urgency, of taking it to the limit and pushing their playing to the edge. Jack White would be an obvious example of someone whose guitar sounds like it will explode any minute, and his “pitchy” bend work makes it sound like he’s squeezing out that last howl.
Vai is the antithesis of that – he has researched those stairs on a variety of levels and can do cartwheels down them without breaking a sweat and stick a gymnast’s landing with a victorious smile. But try to make me care. That is extreme and way too dismissive - I actually enjoy a lot of Vai - but I hope you see my point.
*as I think about this, a great test subject is Randy Rhoads. Left on his own, he could’ve been in Vai-land – super proficient but not dangerous. But paired up with whackjob Ozzy? 