Worst Instrumentalist Ever

[mshilarious]

http://www.yngwie.org/images/GP10-2005.jpg

check that out

Yngwie doesn't bother me that much. He does his thing, it's a little interesting, but not offensive.

I don't get how guitar rags still sell. All the names on that issue read like it's 1986 . . . or minus Yngwie, 1979

 

[DonGraham]

Steve Morse, I know its not his fault Ricthie aint in Purple but He has ruined every show of Purple I`ve seen

it ain't steve morses fault he's in a band that can't keep up with him.
He belongs on the best instrumentalist list....NOT the worst

 

[beezelbubba]

it ain't steve morses fault he's in a band that can't keep up with him.
He belongs on the best instrumentalist list....NOT the worst

I would echo that for Steve Vai and Billy Sheehan.!I saw them together with DLR and it was a trip!Great players.

 

[cmhansen]

Leo Kottke--but only when he sings!

You got that right.

 

[greenascanbe]

I don't get how guitar rags still sell. All the names on that issue read like it's 1986 . . . or minus Yngwie, 1979

Keith Richards is on the current issue of Guitar World. The Edge was on the last one.

Every other one I've seen has Zack Wylde on the cover.

I don't know if that statement is an indictment against the magazine or modern guitar players. Considering that the only cutting edge modern player out there has made his name as a whammy fiend what choice do the editors have?

Hey guys… the 3 new chords Good Charlotte learned for their new record!!!!

Good Charlotte???? More like Medocre Green Day

 

[giraffe]

guitar heroes came from a time when the instrument (electric anyways) was still being explored, many new alleys were yet to be taken.
the lack of guitar heroes is a result of the obvious having been done, and done, and done, and done, and done, and done..........

lets face it, someone being slightly faster than the last shredder isn't all that exciting...... it was exciting the first time because it was innovative, but it's true power was in it's novelty...... if that weren’t true, we'd be hearing it a lot more still.

so.... guitar heroes gone, mostly. do i see a need for another 3 minute blues solo/tapping frenzy/tricky finger exercise/face scrunching cord bend?
yes, but only very occasionally, because it's currency has lessened so that it must actually make the song better, because it in and of it's self, is not all that interesting.

 

[ewegogetemtiger]

you guys obviously haven't heard of "Bofatron Sofasaurus"

http://www.station185.com/kronoson/kronosonic/site/bofatron2.htm

Faster and more tasteless than all those guys on the list combined.
Except that he was intended as a giant spoof on instrumental guitar that people ended up taking seriously.

check out the track called "jupiter blues"

pretty cool stuff, actually

 

[BrettB]

What in God's name is Keith Jarrett doing on the list???????

Holy shit. I don't know what recordings of his you've listened to, but Keith Jarrett is an outstanding player. Have you at least listened to any of his trio recordings with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette? That alone is seriously heavy shit; light years away from Kenny G and the rest of your list.

My thoughts exactely!

 

[Sirnothingness]

You don't have John Fruciante or Mick Mars on there. They suck. Although not a guitaist, Anthony Kiedis is a horrid singer.

 

[xfinsterx]

Its funny...

I didnt even look at the list of who to vote for (thought id have some original person to flame on), but really i kept thinking and Kenny G is all i could think.

I voted for him and sure enough, hes winning by a landslide! lol.

-Finster

 

[mshilarious]

My thoughts exactely!

Well, somebody voted for him, and it wasn't me!

Chuck Mangione's stylings have thus far been found impeccable

 

[gvarko]

Steve Via

Is tied with Michael Angelo, that should tell you something..

 

[metalj]

I like Zamfir He should do a concert with Yanni

yeah, but what about Zam-Beer from SNL back in the day. NO one to this day can match his Ear for a out of tune Beer bottle

 

[Dani Pace]

You forgot the most important one..."me". Of all the guitarists out there I am one of the worst, if not the worst. Oh well I still have fun while pretending to be something more than I am.

 

[Cyrokk]

I'd hafta go with Satriani. I was kinda shocked at how much I didn't like his style after hearing all the praise about him.

I almost picked Vai because I'm completely sick of his style, but he had a few redeeming moments back in the DLR days.

 

[Codmate]

I'd hafta go with Satriani. I was kinda shocked at how much I didn't like his style after hearing all the praise about him.

I almost picked Vai because I'm completely sick of his style, but he had a few redeeming moments back in the DLR days.

Vai also has kudos from playing with Zappa.
He's fantastic on that stuff, and I always wondered how much of it he wrote.

My guess is 'very little or none', but I could be wrong.
Does anybody here know how much input Vai had into the Zappa & The Mothers tunes?

 

[snow lizard]

Vai also has kudos from playing with Zappa.
He's fantastic on that stuff, and I always wondered how much of it he wrote.

My guess is 'very little or none', but I could be wrong.
Does anybody here know how much input Vai had into the Zappa & The Mothers tunes?

Vai's credits with Zappa are things like,

impossible guitar parts...
strat abuse...
stunt guitar...
light blue hair...

He was mostly a rhythm guitarist in Zappa's bands. Occasionally he'd improvise a lead or something. The whammy effect stuff is kinda sparse on Zappa's recordings, but it's Steve's approach.

Vai was not in any of the "Mothers" bands, and didn't really write any music for him. All he could do was bring his personality to the performances, which he did. It was then orchestrated into everyone else's, by Frank. I don't think he was ever Clonemeister either. Ed Mann had that role in those days from what I can remember. Steve was very young at the time. Got hired to transcribe music as a teenager and ended up in the band.


sl

 

[beezelbubba]

Steve Vai played along note for note with Franks vocal on "Jazz Discharge Party Hats".It's fucking brilliant.
Vai is an outstanding guitarist!

 

[snow lizard]

Vai transcribed "The Black Page" and sent it to Frank when he was something like 17 years old. Not an easy task. Frank was impressed enough to hire him to transcribe the rest of his music.

Some of those transcriptions aren't pretty. This had to have been one of the most difficult jobs in the music industry. "Jazz Discharge Party Hats" is a vocal line that Frank improvised. Vai listened to the recording, transcribed it and doubled the guitar part to the voice pretty much exactly. I'm sure it was this sort of thing that earned his unusual credits on the albums. Frank should be creditied with "impossible vocal parts" on this tune. I'm pretty sure Auto Tune wasn't around in 1982.


sl

 

[Codmate]

Wow - sounds like Vai has an amazing ear!