Quote from jzlucas:
Version... do you honestly think Clapton or any other guitarist from that era is anywhere near the technical prowess of Malmsteen and the like?
That is not what I was saying in my post. And "technical" prowess
is not all there is to being a guitar player unless all you are trying to
do is impress with your "tech" abilities...
The video Pekelo put out was "Going Down" wasn't it? Is that not
a Clapton song? This is why I was referring to Clapton. And Eddie
learned most of his stuff from Clapton, then added his whammy bar
stuff and his two handed finger board playing (with lots of speed)
to his playing also.
Satriani, Vai, and others (including Randy Rhoads) then folowed
by copying Eddie's techniques. Randy Rhoads was coming up with
some cool stuff before his plane crash. He was going to write (and did)
some good stuff.
Malmsteen's main "strategy" when it comes to playing seems to
be that of a "speed demon" which is okay. I guess I haven't heard
all his stuff to see if he can play slower stuff with any taste.
Satriani does play more melodic kind of stuff and Vai is actually
pretty good at what he does. I like his playing.
I haven't really listened to Johnson too much, so I can't really say
anything about his playing.
When I hear players saying stuff like "he is way better than this
guy because he can play scales and chords" and "this guy is no
good because he plays pentatonic stuff" it bugs me.
I did pentatonic stuff, scale stuff, jazz, you name it. Only because I
was interested in playing all syles. Even classical. When you do covers
for years you learn how to play all kinds of styles.
And out of that is where you can come up with your own stuff.
And when someone mentioned Malsteem could outplay any rock/blues
guitarist at his own stuff, I had to cringe. I haven't heard him play
anything that resembles blues/rock.
Who knows, maybe he could play just like Stevie Ray Vaughn.
But it sounds like he is stuck in "scalitis" (that's what we used to call it)... lol...
I was a "scale monster" and sure it makes it to where you can play some
fast stuff. But if that is all your going to play, then it seems to me
it will limit what you can do. Just my opinion.
And in response to your earlier post:
No Jazz? No Gibson Les Pauls? No Gibson SG's? I could go on...
At least you don't sound like a moron like Pekelo.
Glad he put me on ignore. All he wants to do is argue...
Amazing he is turned on by others video's copying the Vai's,ect., of this world.
Guess he doesn't get out much does he?...