dargormudshark said:
Hey !! I am supposed to be the VP fanatic here.
Like you, I love Stephan's tone and I also love his songwriting and his soloing is strong, but I am big on phrasing in both a blues and classical style. A player that plays jazz fusion loses me instantly and a player that relies on boring pentatonic riffs bores me as well as does a purely technical player that plays all of his/her stuff so fast, he/she can't put any technique and emotion into individual notes at least at some point into the solo.I have a challenge for you.... Dargor. You have had to tolerate my praising of Wolf Hoffmann since you have been here, but though I think as a band "Balls to the Wall" is Accept's masterpiece, Wolf hadn't come into his own when they recorded that release. The fact I think Hoffmann is God on guitar doesn't mean you will, but if you want to know what I am trying to achieve as a guitarist, you can listen to him and you will get a general idea. I don't use his riffs, but he is by and large my biggest influence. Look up the songs It's Hard to Find A Way, Aiming High, Up to the Limit, Midnight Mover and Metal Heart.
If you do that, and don't like him, I probably will still talk about Wolf when the thread dictates, but I won't pester you about him, I promise. Ha ha ha. If you do like his stuff then you will be able to join me in the thread so you have nothing to lose.
If nothing else you will definitely understand what I mean by how I like phrasing notes. Wolf can play a single note a thousand different ways, but he doesn't forego the strong left-hand technique and can run circles around most guitarists technically as well. Bryant
