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Sat Jul-10-04 03:49 PM
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Poll question: Greatest Jam Guitarist Alive Today |
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OK...I've always felt it was wrong to compare apples and oranges...say to compare Jimmy Page to Jerry Garcia. The two had completely different styles, and their bands, although similar at first, evolved into totally different beasts.
So, in the realm of JAM bands, who's the best still alive?
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Sat Jul-10-04 03:50 PM
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Sat Jul-10-04 03:52 PM
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3. I always pegged Living Color as more of a funk/metal band |
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like Fishbone or Red Hot Chili Peppers, not exactly a 'jam' band.
Granted, he is good...very good...
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Sat Jul-10-04 04:47 PM
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20. without a doubt it is Vernon Reid |
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Sat Jul-10-04 03:52 PM
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2. If we're talking about The Jam |
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I'd have to say Paul Weller, even though he doesn't play Jam songs anymore (bad flamingyouth, hijacking this thread):spank:
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Sat Jul-10-04 03:53 PM
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4. Double spankin' for you, FY! |
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That's it! You have to watch really bad Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan movies...ALL DAY LONG!!!!!
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Sat Jul-10-04 03:54 PM
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6. NOOOOO! Stop the cruelty now! |
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Sat Jul-10-04 03:53 PM
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5. Another Vote for Paul Weller |
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Sat Jul-10-04 03:54 PM
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But guitar isn't his main instrument is it? So maybe he doesn't count, but he's still amazing.
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Sat Jul-10-04 03:55 PM
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8. I guess If I can count Chris Wood |
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Bela would be OK....but only as a write in ;)
Did you see the new DVD of him where they have the mounted 'fret cam'?
F'n AMAZING!!!!
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Sat Jul-10-04 03:57 PM
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I haven't heard of that but I'll check it out.
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Sat Jul-10-04 03:56 PM
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9. ERIC CLAPTON IS GOD!!! |
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Sat Jul-10-04 03:57 PM
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12. YEAAAARGH! Why won't anyone stay on topic??? |
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Do I gotta spike the net with ritalin or sumthin!!!
Clapton is a blues guitarist - NOT JAM!!!!!
That's it - SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE FOR THE LOT OF YA!!!!
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Sat Jul-10-04 04:01 PM
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Edited on Sat Jul-10-04 04:07 PM by PoliticsSportsMusic
I've been playing guitar for over twenty years and you can stretch out on the blues and jam...hard...soft...inbetween....maybe you are putting the blues in a little box...sterotyping it. Jerry Garcia was a very bluesy player(just not as skillful as EC or say SRV) and so is Warren Haynes.
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Sat Jul-10-04 03:58 PM
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13. That was another thread |
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Sat Jul-10-04 03:56 PM
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10. Gotta go with Neil Young. |
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He can still make a solo say much with just one note.
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Sat Jul-10-04 04:07 PM
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15. Is this just limited to rock-and-roll? |
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because otherwise most jazz players should be dominating this, guys (and girls) whose main performance is blowing over changes. Mark Elf, Jimmy Bruno, Larry Coryell, John McLaughlin, Robert Conti, Kenny Burrell and hundreds of others should somehow figure in.
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Sat Jul-10-04 04:08 PM
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16. But that would be true jazz |
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And we know most jazz guitarists blow the rock ones away...
Be like Mike Tyson vs. Paul Begala in a fight...
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Sat Jul-10-04 04:15 PM
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18. I guess I'm behind the times |
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as I've been playing guitar since 1966. I thought "jam" meant "to jam" or to improvise over changes. I didn't know that "jam guitarist" denoted an entirely separate type of music.
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Sat Jul-10-04 04:10 PM
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CHUCK GARVEY guitarist/vocalist/talkboxist for the band moe. go to http://www.archive.org/audio/etreelisting-browse.php?collection=etree&cat=moe. to download some free, legal, live moe. shows
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Sat Jul-10-04 04:28 PM
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19. Kirk Hammett is in Other, Steve Vai, E. Mulmsteen in Other? |
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What the hell kind of poll is this? A farsical one!
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Sat Jul-10-04 05:22 PM
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24. those are metal guitarists |
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in case you didnt know, jam bands are those that have been heavily influenced by the Grateful Dead. they were the first "jam" band that i know of.
current jam bands: phish moe. the dead (remaining members of grateful dead) disco biscuits string cheese incident galactic widespread panic umphrey's mcgee
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Sat Jul-10-04 05:51 PM
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25. As Britney Spears said, "Oops...I did it again." |
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Sorry about that. I had no idea the connotations of the denotation of the term "jam." Being a fan of metaphysical heavy metal and hard rock, bands such as Rush, Metallica, Dream Theater, Bruce Dickinson, etc., I had drawn an invalid inference about the definiens of the definiendum "jamming." I study symbolic logic, metaphysics, epistemology -- philosophy in general -- so I should have known better than to leap before I looked.
Please accept my sincere appology.
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Sat Jul-10-04 05:20 PM
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23. I pick ME. I haven't a clue as to who the other guys are. |
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I also pick my brother and another friend. We're the best jam guitarists in our universe... which could include any number of musicians that happen along.
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of the great DREAM THEATER
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