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Where is the next guitarist who can stand next to SRV and Jimi?

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Title says it all.

I have been looking at videos of SRV and Jimi Hendrix.

Where is anybody today who can even come close to the guitar wizardry of those two?
 
There are guys that can play. Very few that can write. Jimi is just on a higher plane. He didn't play the guitar...the music came from him and the guitar was just there to keep people from getting too confused. I think he is the best proof we have of extraterrestrial life.
SRV....I don't know. Will rock/blues every be mainstream enough again to make someone as big as SRV?

John Meyer. Coming out with Body Is A Wonderland made him a pop star, but it didn't earn him much cred among players. But the guy really is a great player.
Brad Paisley . Big enough and known for his guitar work.

Wizardry? A few guys that I think have monster chops and are also very musical/entertaining.....

Junior Brown
Walter Trout
The Hellecasters (any of these three guys are absolutely lethal).
 
When you say surpass, it's just way too subjective. There are many more technically proficient guitarists than either of them, and there are a multitude of guitarists that produce music that many people like better than those two. You'll have to clarify.
 
videogames101 said:
When you say surpass, it's just way too subjective. There are many more technically proficient guitarists than either of them, and there are a multitude of guitarists that produce music that many people like better than those two. You'll have to clarify.
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You're right that it's subjective. What I mean is that although Hendrix and SRV were great for their time, there isn't much reason to place them above the new talent today, or even talent of yesterday--I see Ritchie Blackmore was already brought up.

I usually don't get involved in these things anymore because it's a matter of taste and to each their own 🙂

edit: If you're interested in relatively little-known, innovative and proficient players though, I recommend Bettencourt (Extreme), Akerfeldt (Opeth, etc), Waggoner (Between the Buried and Me), Mansoor (Periphery), Devin Townsend.. this is kind of a small cross-section of music but they're some of my personal favorites.
 
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repoman0 said:
Lots of guitarists these days surpass both of them.
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Not really. There's guitarists that are technically superior, but it's boring as shit to listen to. After you get past the "wow" factor, there isn't anything there. It's technique for the sake of technique. Both Jimi, and SRV could /swing/. They made music, as opposed to making sounds.
 
lxskllr said:
Not really. There's guitarists that are technically superior, but it's boring as shit to listen to. After you get past the "wow" factor, there isn't anything there. It's technique for the sake of technique. Both Jimi, and SRV could /swing/. They made music, as opposed to making sounds.
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First off, while you may find them "shit" to listen to, clearly many people disagree with you. People like different kinds of music.

Second, are you claiming modern guitarists don't make music? Look, I know you think those two were great, but that comment is asinine.
 
videogames101 said:
First off, while you may find them "shit" to listen to, clearly many people disagree with you. People like different kinds of music.

Second, are you claiming modern guitarists don't make music? Look, I know you think those two were great, but that comment is asinine.
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Indeed.

Anybody who thinks modern music is dull, boring, technique for no reason - listen to these guys and get back to me - The Dear Hunter

This is the most creative and beautiful music made in decades, IMO. 🙂
 
repoman0 said:
Indeed.

Anybody who thinks modern music is dull, boring, technique for no reason - listen to these guys and get back to me - The Dear Hunter

This is the most creative and beautiful music made in decades, IMO. 🙂
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Sounds good, but creative? Sounds like Radiohead meets 70s art rock. Also. I'm not sure what it has to do with guitarists.
 
lxskllr said:
Sounds good, but creative? Sounds like Radiohead meets 70s art rock. Also. I'm not sure what it has to do with guitarists.
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Yes, very creative, though it may require a listen to full albums. It's a bit more than Radiohead and art rock.

Another one

I like what the guitarist here does without any fancy or fantastic technique, that's why it came to mind as an example. SRV and Hendrix created interesting music without a particularly amazing grasp of the instrument just like what is done here.
 
The first part to a song recorded live during a jam session that I consider a perfect demonstration of modern guitar, with all the feeling Hendrix had.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtK3nxIv3w4

Whether you prefer the classic or modern guitar, I think it's a hard case to make that one or the other doesn't have merit.
 
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repoman0 said:
Yes, very creative, though it may require a listen to full albums. It's a bit more than Radiohead and art rock.

Another one

I like what the guitarist here does without any fancy or fantastic technique, that's why it came to mind as an example. SRV and Hendrix created interesting music without a particularly amazing grasp of the instrument just like what is done here.
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I like these guys, but it's entirely different than what Hendrix and Vaughn were doing. These guys are highly orchestrated, with everything scripted out beforehand. There's nothing wrong with that, but it's like comparing apples to turnips.
 
It sounds like these modern guitarists are trying way too hard.

Guys like Jimi could just take a simple MELODY in their head and weave a guitar riff that just grabbed you by your soul.
 
There are plenty of guys who meet or surpass him. They guy from Rage Against the machine is really good. If you look past his pop stuff, then Graham Coxon from Blur can at least hang with him. The issue is that he kind of put the ground work down, so it's kind of hard to surpass him when everyone says he is the benchmark.
 
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Why we have one of the greatest in the midst of the ATOT kingdom. He's the sublime mix of all forms, he's the apex of the guitar world. He's Fritzo. 😀
 
Hundreds of modern guitarist surpass them on technical merit. You think Hendrix could play like Petrucci? No way.

Musically speaking, it's subjective. A lot of these guys who can shred 64th notes at 200BPM get bested by Neil Young and his one note solos from a musical perspective.

The thing about Hendrix, Page, Clapton, etc. is that they were all pioneers. They revolutionized guitar. Hendrix was really the first to use the amp as an extension of the instrument itself. That's why they're immortalized. Not because no one will ever play as well as them ever again or that they wrote the best music.
 
repoman0 said:
Yes, very creative, though it may require a listen to full albums. It's a bit more than Radiohead and art rock.

Another one

I like what the guitarist here does without any fancy or fantastic technique, that's why it came to mind as an example. SRV and Hendrix created interesting music without a particularly amazing grasp of the instrument just like what is done here.
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I liked that. A artsy, prog version of Panic At The Disco and Fall Out Boy. When I read your posts I was really expecting something that was just some guy sweep picking scales at warp speed. There's a lot of that going around these days. Not my thing.
 
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