5 Reasons why you love your Guitar hero

[il˙ti]

Dave Lee Roth has ego, DimeBag just rocked. :shock:

Other way around, mate. When I've seen interviews with Diamond Dave, he seems to have a lot of self-irony, which is certainly apparent in his videos aswell. Dimebag just seemed full of himself and doing everything he could to seem more Metal. To me, Pantera always seemed like a parody of every heavy metal cliche, on and off-stage. Anyway, you're entitled to your opinion, I just don't get what's great about Dimebag.

[Kepu]

2. Underated.

Not to bash Dimebag or anything but hearing "R.I.P. Dime" every day for 10 times get extremely annoying so I think Dime is kinda overrated, sure was great player tho

It's just the fans that make me not to like him so much

[il˙ti]

I tried to like Pantera, I really did. I just couldn't. Same with Priest, bar a few songs.

[Crazy_Joe]

I agree, i love Dime's playing and music but he is definatley not underrated.

[HTH AMPS]

Kerry King...

(1) some of the best metal riffs ever written
(2) tone that can rip your face off
(3) soon as you hear a KK solo you know it's him
(4) makes those JCM800s sound more evil than anyone else
(5) that armband with the 6" nails

[Jonesy76]

[Dons flameproof suit!]

Slash ... a.k.a. Saul Hudson

1.  He led rock music out of the poodle rock and spandex ages of the mid eighties, and put the balls back into rock.

2.  When everyone else was using spineless Superstrats and effects galore Slash came out with a Les Paul slung impossibly low, and whole rack of Marshalls.......nothing else.  It was a sound us bedroom players could get close to.

3.  Some of the greatest riffs of my time came out of this mans fingers.  Rock music was turned from bland image led stuff that was indistinguishable from the rest, into something that was definately Guns N Roses.

4.  Top hats will never be thought of again in the same manner!

5.  The man had (has) unbelievable stage presence.  When I watched him as a teenager in vids of GNR concerts I simply wanted to be this man.  And I knew it was his talent that was shining out rather than some gimmick.   To be this cool I simply had to play guitar and the guitar had to be a Les Paul.........thank God that in all my guitar purchases the Les Paul still seems to be the instrument that feels most comfortable in my hands.

[Will]

[Dons flameproof suit!]

Slash ... a.k.a. Saul Hudson


2.  When everyone else was using spineless Superstrats and effects galore Slash came out with a Les Paul slung impossibly low, and whole rack of Marshalls.......nothing else.  It was a sound us bedroom players could get close to.

lol, I thought you were a fellow Def Lep fan eh

http://www.k5.dion.ne.jp/~lesprs/band/sisyo/Steve_Clark.jpg

Now that was impossibly low, and a few years earlier :D

[Nadz1lla]

Just to say I agree that Dime isn't underrated, you can't turn a corner without hearing someone harping on about how much of a Guitar God he was.

And yeah, I love(d) the guy to bits and will always stick up for him if someone's bad-mouthing the guy, but I get really pee'd off at everyone shouting about R.I.P Dime all the time. I REALLY hope it doesn't turn into another bloody Kurt Cobain situation. And the way that a lot of people are cashing in on his death and keep harping on about it makes me sick to my stomach.

Yeah I own a Dime tribute T-Shirt, but I'm not ashamed as I genuinely loved him. (in a clearly manly-hetero-brotherly way of course...and even if I was batting for the other side...too much beard for me...) Unlike some of these idiots that are clearly just jumping on the Bandwagon.

Anyway, sorry.... I would contribute but my Hero has already had enough coverage.  :lol:

I might think about my 2nd fave hero and post that instead....as long as someone else doesn't get to him first...

[Nadz1lla]

Ok it was a decision I had to make out of 2 possible guys, but I'm going with....


Robb Flynn: Okay he's not the greatest shredder that ever lived, but here are my reasons.

1. Tone: Well the tone on the first 2 Machine Head albums was absolutely crushing! It was hard, dirty, had massive balls and made you listen. Then it changed for the Burning red and Supercharger and I hated it, just glad they've changed again for the better this time!

2. Stage Presence: This guy knows how to get his crowds going, but he also knows who helped put him up there in the first place and is really appreciative of his fans.

3. I can relate: Okay so his teenage / young adult years were a lot harsher than mine from what I can gather, but he's the kind of guy that did the same as me when I was younger: got himself into shitety situations but through pure will dragged himself out of it, and I respect that in anybody, let alone someone who has come out of it and gone on that extra mile and made a success of his life. Bravo to the chap really.

4. Writing: Come on, you know it! Davidian, Ten Ton Hammer etc. The guy can RIFF! Even the most simple of his riffs are just so powerful you can't ignore them. You can really FEEL the energy and feelings he puts into those riffs. I was playing Ten Ton Hammer the other day, it's just open string to 1st fret over and over on the main riff. If anyone else had done it, it would sound like they hadn't bothered, but Robb knew what he was doing on this one and poured his attitude into it and it really comes across.

5. Gambles and correction: He headed up a band that almost shouldn't have worked. At the time the sound was fresh and the rap references were all over the place to see and hear. He took his sound and went with it and it just really paid off. And then he went ahead and released the Burning red and Supercharger, he took a gamble there and to a lot of original fans it didn't pay off very well at all. A lot of us (myself included) felt a little let down, but a bands gotta do what they gotta do. He experimented and put it out there. For a lot of us it went wrong, but then he released Through the Ashes of Empires and not only did they get all the old fans salivating again, the new fans were more than eager to follow on this sound that was new to them. Correction at its best!  :D

[Jonesy76]

lol, I thought you were a fellow Def Lep fan eh

http://www.k5.dion.ne.jp/~lesprs/band/sisyo/Steve_Clark.jpg

Now that was impossibly low, and a few years earlier :D

Mahooosive Def Lep fan :D
But even though Hysteria still remains one of my top 5 albums ever, and I'll watch them every time they come out touring, Slash was the guitarist I idolised as a teenager.  You have to appreciate that even though I'd loved Def Leppard well before GNR I was still playing the trombone.  It was only at the age of 18, and stupidly into GNR by this time, that I sold my trombone to purchase my first guitar.  That got sold within 6 months to buy a Les Paul copy and I've been hooked ever since.

..........I still went nuts though when Chris Evans played 'Animal' on Thursday on Radio 2 :D  :twisted:

[donovan.x]

Just to add some reason to my choice.

Firstly not once did I mention R.I.P Dime, I dont go in for that, it wasnt getting shot that made him a great player. I went to see them when I was 15, I am now 28, band wagons arent my thing.

When I said Dime was underated I was thinking more about when everyone was slamming them after Far Beyond Driven, when the Band Wagon had passed by, not 2 seconds after he was killed when the band wagon came by again and everyone suddenly remembered that he was a kick ass guitar player.
Ego, going on the thinking that great show man equals ego then all of our heros are Ego, some are productive and some just rub you up the wrong way, Dime always seemed pretty down to earth, just enjoying the ride.

The point of this thread I thought was a chance to let people know what made you tick guitar wise not a flaming session.

As for all the Lep love on here are any of you on the Lep board?

[Nadz1lla]

Just to add some reason to my choice.

Firstly not once did I mention R.I.P Dime...

Dude, hope you don't think I meant you, heh. I was actually agreeing with you...just apart from the underrated bit cos I think a lot of people have woken up to how amazing he was now, heh. (But I totally get what you mean about the reaction to Far Beyond, in that respect I agree with you!) I'm on about all the people that really just use his name for their own purposes and profit these days etc.

Dime always seemed pretty down to earth, just enjoying the ride.

That's a good way to put it, enjoying the ride. And he helped others to enjoy it with him too, which is not something you find every day in show business, he was all about the party and making sure everyone was having a good time. The guy was all about other people.

[donovan.x]

8)  :twisted:

[noodleplugerine]

Guthrie:

1- Technique, anyone that tells you Guthrie's technique is lacking deserves a slap. The guy's a machine.

2- Phrasing. Some of the best melodic phrases and solos you'll ever see. Even when he goes off on his massive speed sections, you can really see the melody and how it fits in to the backing.

3- Modesty. The guy's mainly a guitar teacher and lecturer, it took something like 10 years for people to convince him to make an album because he was so dedicated to the work he does.

4- Tone. Suhrs through Cornfords, some of the best lead tones you can ever witness.

5- The guy looks like Jesus.

[Pierre]

Anybody but Slash:

1) not Slash
2) Not Slash...



ok sorry  :lol:  couldn't resist


Mhmm... Ritchie Blackmore:


1) Absolutely GENIUS musician. I mean... he took a Hendrix influence along with a lot of Blues, jazz, whatever else he could play, mixed it all together and out came Ritchie's sound.
2) Neoclassical licks while everybody was playing rock&roll
3) Always himself. No image to speak of (unlike sl... I mean others). Just a guy playing guitar in a band.
4) Got tired of rock&roll, went on to play accoustic baroque music. From guitar hero/rockstar to 'where is he now?' file. Respect.
5) The solo in 'Burn'. Need I say more?

I spared you Billy Gibbons, Duane Allman and Steve Morse.