Okay, I must admit that I enjoy great shredding, I can’t help it. It’s not soulful, not particularly meaningful outside the realm of technical difficulty, but still…it sounds cool to me. I’m a child of the 80’s, so sue me.
Who are your favorite shredders? One guy that seems to be slightly overlooked is Paul Gilbert (whom by the way is a respected guitarist for a LOT of non-shredding stuff).
This video of him is a priceless time capsule of late 80’s/early 90’s shred Godhood.
If you like this stuff, post your faves! I love some crazy fast guitar playing. On a related note, what is the fastest electric guitar passage ever recorded? My vote is a sequence from Yngwie's stupid, terribly sung song "Now Your Ships Are Burned". Yours?
I must also add this gem. John Connolly (not the Sevendust guy) was the one and only guitar teacher I took lessons from in the 80’s. He was a shy, Christian guy that could shred the shit out of the Ibanez in his stone washed jeans. Here’s a video of him in a “guitar contest” in 1988 which I attended (you can hear me drunkenly proclaim "its the bumblee, man!) while he inserts the “Flight Of The Bumblee” in his reportoire.
He’s now a very respected musician and guitar teacher in the Northern Virginia area where I am sorta kinda originally from.
A bit of a hijack, my apologies, I take it all turned out well and good and right with your new guitar and you are enjoying it then?
(sorry lost track of the original thread, but I believe it was you that had a guitar go missing for a few days)
Nah, that wasn’t me. I bought a guitar from a fellow Doper that did me righteous on the price and the care of packaging, and I am forever grateful to him. I got a Schecter C-1 Classic from him and I have a Blackstar 20 watt tube amp. I am in heaven with this arrangement, although my neighbors would argue. LOL.
In my OP. GREAT guitarist, one of my favorites. You’re doing yourself a disservice if you don’t listen to his Sweetwater recordings.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kry6MlguvDI
Yeah, I’ve seen that. Crowning Yngwie number one irks me, even though I love him. His biggest issue is that he lost himself. He lost all his melodic power after his first couple albums in pursuit of pure speed. I hate his music now.
The story of Jason Becker is indeed sad. That guy could wail. Sorry to see him where he’s at.
His former bandmate Marty Friedman, however, presides over some of the best metal recordings ever known to man. Rust In Peace and *Countdown To Extinction *still rank very highly on my stranded island list of must-haves.
And God, I hate Michael Angelo’s music more now than I did then. He’s a joke.
At the risk of sounding like a real condescending prick, I’m doubting anyone here seems to appreciate true shreds, but…oh well. (I mean come on - those high notes he hits around the minute mark, and then re-baptizing “Iron Man”.)
I always thought Mr. Lifeson could get quite shreddy.
On the metal side of things many considered Perry King’s solo in Slayer’s “Angel of Death” a landmark for that genre.
Come to think of it, I’m a sucker for a lot of things metal, like my often-posted Cephalic Carnage and the silly nutty mathcore of the Dillinger Escape Plan.
I could really start rattling off more metal guitarists than you shake a stuffed ferret at.
*Actually made Nile frontman Karl Sanders (trying not to) (and rest of crowd) snicker when I yelled out “Power Slave!!!” between songs in Seattle in '02.
I love how he finishes, flips his hair while rolling off his volume, then flatly says of the arpeggio orgasm he just unleashed “okay, that was a VI V I in the key of E minor.”
And then he slows it down, and if anything, it seems *more *ridiculous!! I rarely watch this 1:36 clip without bursting out laughing at some point.
In terms of sheer technical capabilities, musically applied, no one outplays Julian Lage these days. Shredding and other techniques like sweep picking are mastered, but a small part of his brilliance.
A while back I found this little gem for the Paul Gilbert fans. It’s nerdcore rapper, MC Lars, doing his song “Guitar Hero Hero”, with just a little bit of help from Gilbert:
