Insane guitar shredders?

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who is on your list ?

https://youtu.be/Y80N0fCBfrw

 

Equipment comments welcome !

I had never seen that four neck guitar before

 

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where is Zappa on your lists

top 25?

One of the gentleman in the compilation above was in Zappa's band

Frank Zappa is best shredder; he never played the same notes back to back.

He was playing them at speed so fast, your mind couldn't digest them individually in nano seconds; but came out as a whole segment of that song.

Even when Frank Zappa was trying to be dissonant. it was coming out melodically. Whether he wanted that result or not; it was always pure music

Does Slash do that ?

You'd have to be insane to shred a guitar, am I right?

 

Wait, what?

Anyone who's tried to get sounds like this out to a live audience. 

Axis: Bold as Love, opens with the track "EXP", which innovatively utilized microphonic and harmonic feedback.[24] It also showcased an experimental stereo panning effect in which sounds emanating from Hendrix's guitar move through the stereo image, revolving around the listener.[25] The piece reflected his growing interest in science fiction and outer space.[26] Author Keith Shadwick described the track as "some of the wildest music Hendrix ever released."[6]

Syd Barrett?

 You just reminded me slash was an amazing,  or is an amazing blues guitarist also

I saw him at the Keystone in Palo Alto and was vastly impressed.  I had no idea how good he was, no actually he was great

He's worth double every sent he made. Slash is the real deal. Not our cup-of-tea; but amazing.

 

Randy Rhoads

Steve Vai

Yngewei Malmsteen

Lita Ford

The purple one?

Just saw Billy Strings at Targhee Bluegrass Festival. Pert danged good.

A few people there, like Andy Falco and others, knew their way around the guitar frets and strings. 

Vernon Reid. Saw him 2 weeks ago with Living Colour, just incredible. Incredible.

Zappa is up there too.

 

Michael Hampton

Allan Holdsworth. You can end it right there. If you've never heard this guy check him out. Tape your jaw to your face first though.

Nels Motherfugging Cline. Listen to anything that's NOT him playing in Wilco, the most terrible talented band in the history of rock

John Abercrombie is prob not the greatest ever but he shreds hard

Jimi

Duane

Jeff Beck

Stevie Ray

Terry Kath

At a level of their own

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Next level is endless...but not even close

Adrian Belew seems to have put in some practice time at some point in his life

As has mr. Fripp

I was wondering when his name would come up

I don't know if Jimi is as much a shredder as just plain otherworldly

hands-down the most amazing performance I was blessed to see 

almost every time I think of it        The hairs on my arms stand up once again

Where imagination, or inspiration or cosmic connection (god?) magically became sounds never heard before or since

The slightest movement of his upper lip would bend sounds and create a new envelope

 

Alvin Lee

Seth Yacovone

Bill Frisell

Marcus King 

JImmy Herring 

Marc Ribot

Chubby Mother Fuckin' Wombat! 

buckethead.

BTW, saw Zakk Wylde in Zakk Sabbath this weekend.  That guy can really play some scales.  I got pretty bored by the end, but he is definitely fast as fuck (but I don't care how fast you are, about 4 bars of playing behind your head is plenty).

Good call on Alvin Lee...

Steve Morse is worthy, saw him with Dixie Dregs at Carleton College about 409 years ago.  Kind of amazing.  Here's a 2001 dregs show:  https://youtu.be/j7gDmkKOS0E

formula 409?    oops.     1979 ~ 40 years ago.

The dregs at the Roxy Hollywood in July 1979:  https://youtu.be/j5OHgHUlBAE

The Dregs were awesome!!

True.  I saw Dregs 2.0.

When Mark O'Connor was in the lineup.  An excellent surprise.  We didn't know until we recognized his hat.