Favourite? Probably Tom Petty. Suck on it. Best? Not even close.
Best or greatest is a bit subjective. Some people would immediately list the style innovators, others, the imaginative, the technical, the fast, the perfect. There are guitarists that have taken years worth of advanced technique and variant style classes who can play all sorts of riffs that make you want to throw your guitar away they seem so impossible. Why aren't they mentioned? Because they didn't change anything? They aren't doing anything new? Excellent tracers? Does personality come into play? So many factors that can affect people's decisions. Personally, I'm not going to argue anyone's choices. Even though I hate Eddie(Van Halen) as a person and think he has the personality of plywood. :P
When you consider how influential Slayer have been over the years, and then consider just how much of their best music was written by him, it really gives you a scope of just how big of a loss this is.
Very sad to see him go. It hurts to lose him, not only because he's a human being and an icon, but because thrash metal will probably never quite be the same without his presence.
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Best or greatest is a bit subjective. Some people would immediately list the style innovators, others, the imaginative, the technical, the fast, the perfect. There are guitarists that have taken years worth of advanced technique and variant style classes who can play all sorts of riffs that make you want to throw your guitar away they seem so impossible. Why aren't they mentioned? Because they didn't change anything? They aren't doing anything new? Excellent tracers? Does personality come into play? So many factors that can affect people's decisions. Personally, I'm not going to argue anyone's choices. Even though I hate Eddie(Van Halen) as a person and think he has the personality of plywood. :P
You can't deny the man has mad skills:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxAWcsK_6Ac
Gibson SG
Gretsch Billy-Bo Jupiter Thunderbird
Stevie Ray Vaughan Fender Stratocaster
50s Roadworn Fender Stratocaster
’59 Pearly Gates Les Paul
Gibson Epiphone Dot
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Jimmie Vaughan Tex Mex Fender Stratocaster
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Stevie Ray Vaughan “Lenny” Fender Stratocaster
Stevie Ray Vaughan Hamiltone
R.I.P. Jeff Hanneman (Slayer).
49! What a waste.
I'm also a fan of Omar Rodriguez-Lopez (formerly of The Mars Volta), and both Claudio Sanchez and Travis Stever (of Coheed & Cambria).
Yeeeeaaahh!
When you consider how influential Slayer have been over the years, and then consider just how much of their best music was written by him, it really gives you a scope of just how big of a loss this is.
Very sad to see him go. It hurts to lose him, not only because he's a human being and an icon, but because thrash metal will probably never quite be the same without his presence.