EVH is the man

[StereoInstaller1]

well we could take the discussion one further, best bassist ever?

Technique: Jamaladeen Tacuma
Speed: Les Claypool
Musicality: Marcus Miller
Wish I could do that: Nathaniel East/Johnny Gayden
Best singing bassist: Mark King/Geddy Lee (of course aside from Phil Lynott, who is there?)

Luke

[CleanAzzE30z]

Anyone heard about the Irish blues guitarist Gary Moore???? That fucker doesnt miss one note and is very clean. He played with Thin LIzzy for a while. He's definitely up there...... I guess I f I had to choose.....\

(thing is top 5 if full of tieing dudes, so ordering them is the problem.

Page, Moore, SRV, Kossoff, Hammett (UP TO BLACK ALBUM), Santana (non radio played stuff)

Mariano

[browntown]

When rolling stone did the top 100 guitarists, I think they were off a bit. Curious about people's top five electric guitar, and I think originality, crazy solos, and just awesome skill count. Stern was talking about this last week and I got to thinking. Clapton (minus cream years), shouldn't be on anyone's list.

mine (in no real order):
Hendrix, Page, Angus, EVH, Walsh or Satriani for a tie

well we could take the discussion one further, best bassist ever?

jaco pastorius gets my vote.

[CleanAzzE30z]

EVH is the king of the string in my book 8)

Jon

ahhh this is where there is discussion haha.

Mariano

[aschmidt]

Straight outa the '80s folks, The Man With Two Brains!

Makes Malmsteen look asleep!

Joke? Yngwie blows Angelo away...ever try to play Angelo's stuff and then try to play Yngwie's stuff? Angelo is like a bunch of exercises played really really fast. Yngwie's technique is god-like.

[Jon325i]

I was a Van Halen fan back in the day....their material from the late 70s to early 80s was probably their best stuff IMHO.

EVH is the king of the string in my book 8)

Jon

[Old'n'Slow]

http://www.deanguitars.com/angelo/mab_videos/

This guy looks like a total tool compared to Eddie but wow!

Straight outa the '80s folks, The Man With Two Brains!

Makes Malmsteen look asleep!

[Purdue89E30]

http://www.deanguitars.com/angelo/mab_videos/

This guy looks like a total tool compared to Eddie but wow!

[Old'n'Slow]

Man Im not even a fan of metal and that was sweet.

Metal? I wouldn't have thought of that as metal. Slayer and Megadeth are metal bands. Van Halen is more of a rock band. They just happen to have a bonifide guitar virtuoso on board.

I don't know of any metal players with those kind of chops.

But you are right. Sweet it is!

[AdironRider]

Man Im not even a fan of metal and that was sweet.

[CleanAzzE30z]

Cool thing is he taught himself. I think thats why he has so much skill he didnt have the restraints of what was "the way to do it" he just did what he wanted. :)

Mariano

[aschmidt]

Wow, incredible technique and awesome finger tapping. That timing ain't easy.

[browntown]

http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=5359103616892068933&hl=en