Best musicians in a technical sense

[Winmar]

Quick questionnaire: which musicians do you think are the best technically? For the purposes of this, I couldn't give a flying fuck about their style, attitude, soul, feeling, hair, penis, fluffy pyjamas or anything like that. Just ability. You might hate them, but reckon they're great in a technical sense. My feeble attempt to answer my own survey goes as follows:

Guitarist: Petrucci

Bassist: Les Claypool (followed by Rob Trujillo)

Drummer: Gene Hoglan

Vocalist: Not sure actually

Keyboard player: As above!


I thank you, chaps and chapettes. I'm a fucking shit judge, so please do better than me. Feel free to add any other instruments you can think of.

 

[TRrEiTxIxRiE DTrash]

Guitarist - Michael Angelo & Vinnie Vincent. Speaking purely technically as you said, what they play is the most difficult in my opinion. I don't think any other guitarist could keep with those 2 technically.

Vocalist - Tony Harnell. His range is simply amazing, I've never heard anybody else hit such high notes without going into a King Diamond/Jim Gillette style falcetto, and with such ease, and a great tone to his voice at the same time. And I've seen TNT live in Japan in '89 and he hits every note perfectly without trying.

Bass & Keyboards - Couldn't care less.

Drums - I don't feel qualified to answer this.

 

[Spiff]

Guitarist - Petrucci
Bass - Geddy Lee
Drums - Neil Peart
Keys - Jordan Rudess
Vocals - no idea

 

[Celestial-Todd]

Guitar - Ron Jarzombek
Bass - Steve Digiorgio
Drums - Virgil Donati, Thomas Lang, Marco Minniman
Keyboards - Jordan Ruddess

 

[Wenda]

Mrm...ok, let's see

Keyboards - Richard Andersson
Guitar - Michael Angelo
Drums - Grant Collins
Bass - John Myung

 

[The Amazer]

Guitar - EDDIE VAN HALEN!
Drums - Don't know!
Vocals - hmmm... don't know
Bass - Les Claypool

 

[Winmar]

My ignorant self doesn't know who half these people are. Could you put the bands of the less well-known ones in brackets or something? Tah! Thanks for your smashing responses thus far.

 

[Goreripper]

Hmmm. I've been thinking about this for a while and it's not that easy. I'll just name some without thinking too much about it. Heh heh.

Guitar: Joe Satriani. He can play anything from speed metal to jazz
Keyboards: Ken Hensley (best known from Uriah Heep)
Vocalist: The late Freddie Mercury. In a rock perspective, I think there's few singers more gifted. If I had to pick someone who's still alive, I'd go with John Farnham.
Drummer: I'm an enormous fan of Danny Carey from TOOL, one of the few bands where the guitar riffs are written around the drums. Gene Hoglan is such a fluid an versatile player he's almost unbelievable.
Bass player: Billy Sheehan. As far as modern bass playing goes, this guy wrote the book.

 

[TRrEiTxIxRiE DTrash]

Vocalist: The late Freddie Mercury. In a rock perspective, I think there's few singers more gifted. If I had to pick someone who's still alive, I'd go with John Farnham.

Have you heard Farnham sing Black Dog? I've heard a live version recorded at a sound check and he leaves Robert Plant for dead!

 

[Goreripper]

I think John Farnham is one of the best rock singers of all. His control, his clarity, inflection, tone, everything, is so far above that of of most others that he isn't even in the same league.

 

[Celestial-Todd]

Farnham still remains the performer I've seen live the most amount of times!

 

[Southy]

Farnsey is bloody good at what hew does

 

[serenesorrow]

Guitar - Rusty Cooley, Vinnie Moore, Tony MacAlpine
Bass - Billy Sheehan
Drums - Virgil Donati
Keyboards - Derek Sherinian
Vocals - Rob Rock

 

[Celestial-Todd]

Guitar - Tony MacAlpine
Bass - Billy Sheehan
Drums - Virgil Donati
Keyboards - Derek Sherinian

So... I'm guessing you're a Planet X fan?

 

[Winmar]

John Farnham's awesome. Not a great fan of his more recent material, from what I've heard of it, but his 80s stuff was great. The first concert I ever went to was his in Hobart in January 1991.

 

[Goreripper]

Farnham could sing the phone book and I'd listen.

 

[Southy]

Unbtil he got to the asian stuff he couldn't pronounce i'd listen gorey

 

[Goreripper]

 

[Wenda]

Bass - John Myung

Ok, fuck Myung. After last night it's Billy Sheehan all the way, and then some

 

[Spiff]

After thinking about this further, I've decided on a vocalist:

Vocals: Guy Sebastian

Yes, I'm serious. The guy has an amazing voice, even if he does waste it doing dodgy R&B.