Guitar greatness

[Online Veteran]

You guys are leaving out one of the greatest guitar players of all time. This is someone that was a personal acquaintance / friend of mine, and would pull me up on stage whenever I went to his shows. I still have the voice mail he left me when he got lost on his way to Sun Studio, and he called me to ask for directions. I am talking about the King of the Surf Guitar, Dick Dale.

He played LOUD, through an early 60's brownface Showman, with his famous Stratocaster known as "The Beast." While Dick played much smaller venues than all the other musicians mentioned in this thread, his ear bleeding volume and staccato picking technique could not be matched. I play guitar in an instrumental surf band, but I am currently working on becoming a Dick Dale tribute artist. By the way, Dick met Hendrix before he was famous (Jimmy was the bass player for Little Richard). Also, SRV and Dick did a record together in 1987.

Anyway, feel free to disagree with me if you would like. I just wanted to give my personal opinion about a great guitar player. If there are any gear heads in here, feel free to tell / show me what you got!

[garrett]

limited Les you been erratic like another bomb track

Tom Morello is awesome. Rage Against the Machine is get you ready to get hit in the face music. I loved Rage against the Machine in high school, they got so political though which then worked against them broad spectrum but theyre good, they have a message in their music, and Tom Morello went to Harvardi think, so tha alone seperates him form many musicians right, especially heavier metal ones. So big fan enjoy

[Cerveza Fria]

Steve Howe. "nuff said.

[mickeycrimm]

You guys are leaving out one of the greatest guitar players of all time. This is someone that was a personal acquaintance / friend of mine, and would pull me up on stage whenever I went to his shows. I still have the voice mail he left me when he got lost on his way to Sun Studio, and he called me to ask for directions. I am talking about the King of the Surf Guitar, Dick Dale.

He played LOUD, through an early 60's brownface Showman, with his famous Stratocaster known as "The Beast." While Dick played much smaller venues than all the other musicians mentioned in this thread, his ear bleeding volume and staccato picking technique could not be matched. I play guitar in an instrumental surf band, but I am currently working on becoming a Dick Dale tribute artist. By the way, Dick met Hendrix before he was famous (Jimmy was the bass player for Little Richard). Also, SRV and Dick did a record together in 1987.

Anyway, feel free to disagree with me if you would like. I just wanted to give my personal opinion about a great guitar player. If there are any gear heads in here, feel free to tell / show me what you got!

Best version of Pipeline I ever heard:

[garrett]

kuntmissioner knows

Zach De La Rocha sings it like this...

"another funky radical bomb track started as a sketch in my notebook"

[Online Veteran]

You guys are leaving out one of the greatest guitar players of all time. This is someone that was a personal acquaintance / friend of mine, and would pull me up on stage whenever I went to his shows. I still have the voice mail he left me when he got lost on his way to Sun Studio, and he called me to ask for directions. I am talking about the King of the Surf Guitar, Dick Dale.

He played LOUD, through two early 60's brownface Showmans, with his famous Stratocaster known as "The Beast." While Dick played much smaller venues than all the other musicians mentioned in this thread, his ear bleeding volume and staccato picking technique could not be matched. I play guitar in an instrumental surf band, but I am currently working on becoming a Dick Dale tribute artist. By the way, Dick met Hendrix before he was famous (Jimmy was the bass player for Little Richard). Also, SRV and Dick did a record together in 1987.

Anyway, feel free to disagree with me if you would like. I just wanted to give my personal opinion about a great guitar player. If there are any gear heads in here, feel free to tell / show me what you got!

Best version of Pipeline I ever heard:

I just wanted to humbly show off my guitar. Only serious players will appreciate the details and specs. I think I've gotten pretty darn close! It's even strung with .16-.60 gauge strings. For reference, see the thumbnail of the video above. Let's keep this awesome thread going.

[Zap_the_Fractions_Giraffe]

Best version of Pipeline I ever heard:

I just wanted to humbly show off my guitar. Only serious players will appreciate the details and specs. I think I've gotten pretty darn close! It's even strung with .16-.60 gauge strings. For reference, see the thumbnail of the video above. Let's keep this awesome thread going.

Beautiful guitar but you and Dick Dale are insane. you'd think that would rip the neck right off the body.
for non guitarists, my top E string has 14.4 pounds of tension tuned to pitch
this dude's top E: 45.6 pounds

[limitles]

I just wanted to humbly show off my guitar. Only serious players will appreciate the details and specs. I think I've gotten pretty darn close! It's even strung with .16-.60 gauge strings. For reference, see the thumbnail of the video above. Let's keep this awesome thread going.

Beautiful guitar but you and Dick Dale are insane. you'd think that would rip the neck right off the body.
for non guitarists, my top E string has 14.4 pounds of tension tuned to pitch
this dude's top E: 45.6 pounds

Speaking for non guitarists, huh?

[Zap_the_Fractions_Giraffe]

Speaking for non guitarists, huh?

this is Gilmour (Roger Water's guitar player) bending the top E
imagine pushing 45 pounds with a couple fingers basically

[OK2]

Eddie Hazel



Covering one of the best Beatles songs

[WSPreadHead]

no love for Derek Trucks?... but honestly, Hendrix is the anointed GOAT... but there some mighty fine players out there in competition Trucks just happens to be my favorite (at the moment)

**nice Eddie Hazel mention"OK2" !

[nunbeater]

Best version of Pipeline I ever heard:

I just wanted to humbly show off my guitar. Only serious players will appreciate the details and specs. I think I've gotten pretty darn close! It's even strung with .16-.60 gauge strings. For reference, see the thumbnail of the video above. Let's keep this awesome thread going.

holy fuck I've been playing for years and never knew anyone to play a high e that high
Even the late great SRV used 12s. Personally I worked my way up to 12s because SRV used 12s but no matter how much I played they hurt so I stepped down to 10s, then I fell in love with Skinny Top Heavy Bottoms as they suited my style of chunky rhythm while being able to rip out some soaring leads.

Billy Gibbons said he used to use heavy strings until BB King talked him out of it, he said shit why you creating more work for yourself? Now he plays fucking 8s