Modern Guitar 'Gods'
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Topic: Modern Guitar 'Gods'
Posted By: ManDog
Subject: Modern Guitar 'Gods'
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2015 at 7:42am
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These are just who come to mind in the last minute Who are the most respected guitar 'gods' that have started in the 00s? 70's - Hendrix, Page, Eddie Van Halen Randy Rhoads, Angus, etc 80s - Vai, Vaughan, Mustaine, Slash, Dimebag (?) 90s - Morello (?), Frusciante (?), Zak Wylde 00s - Who are at the top? Not even metal specific. PCE! |
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Posted By: LittleBig
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2015 at 7:50am
Hendrix died in 1970 so he would be a 60s guitar god. Also Pantera became huge after Cowboys from Hell so Dimebag would be a guitar god of the '90s. I'll look up some name s of guitarists of some bands I listen to (I do not know them by heart) - ex. guitarist of Circus Maximus or Riverside's guitarist and many others. |
ManDog wrote:Posted By: ManDog
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2015 at 7:57am
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Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2015 at 1:25pm
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Some possibilities would be (largely based on who guitarists talk about): Tosin Abasi Mikael Akerfeldt and Fredrik Akesson Jeff Loomis (I know he was playing all of the 90s, but a lot of people didn't realize what a beast he was until his solo albums) Gus G -outside of metal: John Mayer Guthrie Govan Claudio Sanchez Joe Bonamassa Derek Trucks |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2015 at 1:27pm
I think the reason there are so few real big-name influential guitarists right now is that, in this internet age where everything is at your fingertips, everybody is still listening to the old gods
See, for me that is an instant disqualifier for "guitar god" status. It doesn't matter how talented a guitarist is if they aren't recognizable. If Fender put out a signature guitar for the guitarist from Riverside, most potential buyers would go "who?" Compare that to a Jimi Hendrix or Eric Clapton signature, which would sell like hotcakes |
Posted By: LittleBig
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2015 at 2:56pm
ok then, I dunno any guitar gods post 2000  |
Posted By: Balthamel
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2015 at 3:18pm
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Josh Homme ------------- 
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Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2015 at 4:42pm
| Loads of great players with fantastic chops - probably more than there's ever been but perhaps the reason for lack of guitar gods in this century is less originality. Page, Van Halen, Vai, Hendrix and many more had an instantly recognisable style which set them apart. |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2015 at 5:25pm
More 90s than 00s |
Posted By: ManDog
Date Posted: 19 Jun 2015 at 9:40am
Yeah dude this is exactly what I meant...you say Eddie Van Halen (example) and everyone knows who they are and what type of guitar he used. Perhaps there is so much music today it just gets bogged down. Idk country music is pretty huge (like metal in the 80s). Maybe there's a signature Luke Bryan guitar out there that I just don't really give a shit about haha |
Posted By: LittleBig
Date Posted: 19 Jun 2015 at 10:04am
well, for instance there is a Steve Rothery signature guitar, I'm sure very few know who Rothery is. |
Posted By: Vic
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2015 at 10:49am
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I don't know about 00s but there are 3 guitarists that I consider to be the next generation of the guitar gods of the 80s (which were guitarists like Malmsteen, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Jason Becker, Marty Friedman, Vinnie Moore, etc). They are Buckethead, the INSANELY prolific guitarist with the enigmatic and pretty crazy self-presentation. The man releases one or two albums PER MONTH for the past few years. And they are good. Crazy, I tell you. There is Ron Thal, aka Bumblefoot, who became better known for replacing Buckethead in the new Guns n Roses. I knew him from his solo works, which I LOVE, especially 9-11 and Uncool but there is plenty of stuff to look into, he has a lot of diverse stuff to offer. And then there is Mattias IA Eklundh from Freak Kitchen and his solo albums Freak Guitar. I would describe Freak Kitchen as Frank Zappa playing KISS-pop with very heavy guitars. Insane harmonics, insane control and very, very playful style, like the candy of shredding. As far as metal goes, I am a fan of Jeff Loomis of course, as well as Michael Romeo of Symphony X and I used to be a fan of John Petrucci before Dream Theater became the epitomy of boredom and predictability. So, mostly 90s-early 00s stuff I'm afraid, although all of the above shredders have released plenty of work throughout the 00s and '10s. Again, check out Buckethead's page in metal-archives. It's fucking crazy, I tell you! Most prolific rock artist, ever? ------------- 42 |
Posted By: Unitron
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2015 at 10:55am
Mattias Eklundh is definitely a modern guitar god, really crazy stuff. ------------- If I say fuck two more times that's forty-six fucks in this fucked up rhyme |
Posted By: Jbird
Date Posted: 09 Aug 2015 at 11:16am
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70s - Page, Iommi, Blackmore, Van Halen, Schenker, Lifeson 80s - Rhoads, Malmsteen, Lynch, Vai, Satriani, Vaughan, Gary Moore, Morse, Gilbert 90s - Dimebag, Petrucci, Morello, Timmons, Eric Johnson, Skolnick, Friedman 00s - Romeo, Gus G., Akerfeldt, Tolkki, 10's - Abasi, Mansoor, Govan, Andy James tons I can't think of right now, and I know some of the ones I listed were known the decade previous, but I elt they didn't get 'big' to the public awareness 'til later. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi4BQCmWGiU |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2015 at 2:46pm
Totally agree with everything you say here Vic. Indeed Buckethead, Bumblefoot and Eklundh are on top of the heap. Personally i view a guitar god not as who is most popular but who is the most innovative and able to take what has been done before and advancing it. These three guitarists are not only proficient in virtually every type of guitar genre (metal, jazz, ragtime, flamenco etc) but are quite dazzling in their creativity as well. While there are literally hundreds of guitarists who can perform old ideas quite well, there are a very very few who have actually fused all styles of guitar playing as well as these three guys have done. ------------- 
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