PETRUCCI/ROMEO/LOOMIS SHRED-OFF!!

[Brooks]

My pants get tight just thinking about the possibility

 

[lizard]

sad to say, but loomis looses to them both.

 

[Dying Freedom]

Wanksters.

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

actually, loomis owns them both.

 

[AsModEe]

Yeah, I actually think Loomis has a chance against them.

 

[Dead_Lioness]

exactly.
Loomis is at least interesting and original in what he's doing.
the other two are just.... "hey look at me doing this fast solo on my guitar taalalalalalalalalalalalalalalallalalala did you see it?? did ya????"

 

[unknown]

loomis would have a chance in the soloing field


if it were based on riffs? Loomis would destroy them all

 

[lizard]

that's my point, Loomis is a riffmaster for sure. but for pure SHRED (which was the title of this thread, no?), pure flash, well...

don't get me wrong, Petrucci is capable of godlike playing but lately, meh, and Romeo....he can play up a storm, but to what purpose?

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

pure shredding, loomis could easily hold his own against those guys. as far as riffs go loomis owns them all to boot. dont even get me started about solos....

 

[AsModEe]

exactly.
Loomis is at least interesting and original in what he's doing.
the other two are just.... "hey look at me doing this fast solo on my guitar taalalalalalalalalalalalalalalallalalala did you see it?? did ya????"

Loomis has a very unique style and varies a lot in his solos, while the 2 others are very predictable. If we talk about riffs, Loomis would beat them easily.

 

[Larf03]

Loomis is by far one of the better guitarist on the whole tour... I think even the most hardcore NEVERMORE fan has yet to see his full ability! Even if he never fails to shred everytime he touches his axe, I'm sure he holds back to make his riffs hooks-a-plenty and enjoyable... unlike the two other maybe??

 

[Chromatose]

petrucci used to be one of my favorites, but man, he's really gotten boring.

I had hopes he'd pull out some great new tricks for his solo album.. but what a let down, he can't even do anything new there.

Thats where Loomis shines, always keepin' it fresh

 

[Anvil]

Carl August Tidemann \m/

http://www.carltidemann.com/media/video.htm

 

[unknown]

as soon as I saw you responded to this thread, I knew you'd say Tidemann


Tidemann vs. Loomis would definitely be interesting. Tidemann would destroy Loomis in terms of soloing (ESPECIALLY sweeping and tapping)

 

[mReEtTaIlRsEkD]

actually, loomis owns them both.

Seconded. Romeo is close though, fuck Petrucci.

 

[mReEtTaIlRsEkD]

as soon as I saw you responded to this thread, I knew you'd say Tidemann


Tidemann vs. Loomis would definitely be interesting. Tidemann would destroy Loomis in terms of soloing (ESPECIALLY sweeping and tapping)

Ok, but Rusty Cooley and Francesco Fareri destroy Tidemann in terms of soloing without much feeling. =P

 

[unknown]

I think Michael Angelo does

 

[Matt Lee]

Dear god. You're all so high. Loomis Petrucci and Romeo have three entirely different playing styles. Romeo tends to overemphasize legato string skipping and tapping with the occasional sweep-fest, petrucci is alternate-picking centric but has recently revisited some sweeps/tapping in DT's recent shred-themed album (it's one album, the next one'll be different, I'm so sick of this "lately blahblah" crap) and Loomis...well he plays dimished stuff all the goddamn time, but he is very good at it and usually makes it very interesting.

Petrucci wins on melody. WINS. And no I'm not talking about Train of Thought solos. But other than that it's really tough to say so and so is better than so and so 'cause all three of them are really quite insane. But frankly other than the obvious hypocritical statement I just made, I think claiming anyone would own anyone else out of those guys is pretty ridiculous.

I haven't heard some of those other guys but I do agree on Michael Angelo and Rusty Cooley on being able to play 1 million of the most boring notes per minute. I told one of my guitar students the other day I don't listen to Rusty 'cause all he does is play faster than the human ear can decipher, occasionally playing a few really slow over-vibrato'd notes to be like "oh, now I'm playing melodically and emotionally, ok back to shredding" and he said "But that's kind of what Yngwie does" DING, DING! Tell him what he's won! (the kid is a big fan of Yngwie, and no I don't think Yngwie is quite that boring, it's just an exaggeration of Yngwie's predictable pattern)

 

[fps]

well it's all about personal preference. For me, romeo is the most ridiculously good at what he does, but also has the narrowest *what he does* range of the 3. Petrucci's the only one who can hold it in lotsa styles, and seems comfortable in big jam sessions like Beyond this Life- these huge extended solos are not what the other two are about because their bands are more, shall we say, to the point.

Romeo gets old fastest for me, Jeff rips diminished in a really fresh way each time and is melodic too, Petrucci is the most musically sound and melodic, but really let's be happy that they're all great, great players huh? I really don't think any one of them *owns* any of the others, unless we're talking riffs

 

[Profanity]

I think Michael Angelo does

He is an Ange;l afterall.