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When another guitarist can write songs like this, master every style, shred at 220 BPM 16th notes, do a whole show with 0 mistakes, create super soulful solos, improvise 30 minute songs, write and play a song with 123 (literally) time signature changes and make 0 mistakes and still make it an awesome song, write super awesome riffs, and write very meaningful lyrics, I may reconsider John Petrucci being the greatest ever by unlimited miles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNp4tMcpM10

EDIT: Also never seen a keyboardist on par with Jordan Rudess and Mike Portnoy and John Myung are prospects for greatest drummer/bassist as well. What more does one need in a band?

This post has been edited by shellshock1911: Mar 8 2008, 08:00 PM

i personnaly think that if they would have a little more stage presence they would be a perfect band

by the way that a kickass video that you linked in your comment

Yea lol like I said in another thread, I don't think John Myung has ever lifted his eyes from the bass during a DT show, but thats ok, I don't think making a crazy wild show is what they are out to do.

I think it's because he started a revolution, showing the tapping technique to the big audience.
Also, he is a big reference for the hard-rock sound.
Don't limit yourself just analizying all the guitar players every time!!
Remember that for most people - especially non musicians - the most important thing it's the MUSIC.
Some songs like Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love or Jump are evergreens now.
And I think every guitar player/musician would like to have written these songs (for royalties reasons also )

exactly what i was gonna say

Yea but what about Les Paul, Leo Fender, and Dick Dale, who pretty much popularized the electric guitar itself, you never see people mentioning them. For some reason I just really love DT, I don't analyze things that much, I just really really really like their music like you said.

I didn't know there was one guy already using my name But I just checked and he is actually quite good...

My fav guitarists: Jimmy Page, Slash, Augusto Licks, Kirk Hammett

Well you can see my inspirations in sig, But I can't stress enough How much bigger these three guys are to me than the other 6 in the sig:

Marty Friedman
Jason Becker
and
Eddie Van Halen

Marty; melodic playing, Exotic sounding licks, he has an exeptionally good ear and actually knows what the note will sound like before he plays it --> Awesome improviser.

Jason; IMO the only person living or who has lived in decades that you can actually call a musical Genius, once again IMO musically up there with legendary guys like Mozart, Paganini and Beethoven for example

Eddie; Theres no man like Eddie, he has a very unique style which is really cool, IMO Eddie Van Halen is the "master of the set" if you know what I mean.


And to shellshock:
I think the whammybar is one of the coolest things in eddies playing, maybe his tapping licks are simple but they sound really cool! Eddie has a lot of different Ideas in his playing; cathedral for example, the playing with the volume knob. And I've seen Eddie do some Extremely hard tapped harmonics licks also.... in a way this a little silly like we would be little kids comparing their favorite Pokemans

Actually there is a lot of guitarists who could match Petrucci its just he has his owwn style.

Yea Jason Becker is really really great as well, my favorite song by him would have to be Eleven Blue Egyptians. Shame what happened to him.

As keyboardists go check out Derek Sherinian and Rick Wakeman.

Yeah Gus G is another favorite of mine.

Eheh, Les Paul, Leo Fender, and Dick Dale don't have visibility on MTV, also DT, unfortunately.

speaking of Tom Morello......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2WQtc8f6_Y...ature=related...

Id have to say:
John Petrucci
Joe Satriani
Buckethead
and on a completely different style Tommy Emmanuel (www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhR04kmcSXU) is his best song i think.

Kurt Cobain
Chuck Schuldiner
Jerry Cantrell
Jason Becker
Marty Friedman
James Murphy
Allan Holdsworth
John McLaughlin

Buckethead is good.
Also Clapton
Vaughn
Kirk Hammet.

Yea, I'm familiar with both as Derek was in Dream Theater for a few albums, and Rick made some of my favorite Yes songs and solos (Roundabout, South Side of Heaven, etc.)

Check out this keyboard battle between Rudess and Sherinian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4ids4rOegI
5:49-8:30

I prefer Rudess on this one and Petrucci's little blues-jazzy interlude thing was pretty tight as well. How they managed to keep 2 keyboardists, a drummer, a guitarist, and a bassist prefectly in sync with little to zero mistakes, even through this time signature changes is beyond me though.

However my favorite keyboardist is probably Kevin Moore, his work in Take the Time is amazing!

This post has been edited by shellshock1911: Mar 9 2008, 02:32 AM

Ohhh just a few for me, the two most obvious is Paul Gilbert and Bucket, but also I really like Alexi Laiho, Yngwie Malmsteen, Brian may and the Edge to name a few

Been listening to alot of Neal Schon lately. Like his work with Journey and Santana, and i'm really impressed by the versatility and skills he's got.

Definetly one of my new favs