Ok well I am gonna make my pick as I am sure Mr. Fish will find a spot for Elvis,lol. Neon Dion And The Iggy Pops are pleased to select perhaps the best technical guitarist ever and the teacher of likes of Kirk Hammett and Steve Vai, in the Guitarist Category...Joe Satriani.
saw Joe back in 1990 play live, I really wish he'd come back this way.
I have seen him a few times and he just makes the crowd awe inspired. I am a singer/rythm guitarist in my band but once in a while I will try to learn some Satch...and fail miserably,lol. The guy is unreal!!! If I ever learn to play Mystic Potato Head I will have it made!
With our 3rd pick Hot Banana Thrust is happy to select in the category of Drummer, Terry Bozzio the debate over who is the greatest will rage on forever but Terry's work is probably one my of favorites. I had 3 Drummers in mind, Terry, Peart and you know Who. With Pert gone I couldn't take the chance on Bozzio being available by my next pick.
I pick in the Guitar Player category, Eric Johnson.
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Eric Johnson (born August 17, 1954) is a guitarist and recording artist from Austin, Texas. Best known for his success in the instrumental rock format, Johnson regularly incorporates jazz, fusion, New Age, and country and western elements into his recordings. Guitar Player magazine calls Johnson "One of the most respected guitarists on the planet". Johnson composes and plays not just instrumental songs, but also sings and plays piano.
Widely recognized for his guitar skills, Johnson's stylistic diversity and technical proficiency have drawn praise from Carlos Santana, Allan Holdsworth, Larry Carlton, Steve Morse, Billy Gibbons, Johnny Winter, Jeff Baxter, Prince, B.B. King, Joe Satriani and the late Stevie Ray Vaughan. His critically-acclaimed, platinum selling 1990 recording Ah Via Musicom produced the single "Cliffs of Dover", for which Johnson won the 1991 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance.
With the 53rd overall pick in the third round, AliceLoveGarden is proud and frankly stunned to be able to select in the category of guitarist, Jimmy Page.
Page has explained that he had a very specific idea in mind as to what he wanted Led Zeppelin to be, right from the very beginning:
“I had a lot of ideas from my days with The Yardbirds. The Yardbirds allowed me to improvise a lot in live performance and I started building a textbook of ideas that I eventually used in Zeppelin. In addition to those ideas, I wanted to add acoustic textures. Ultimately, I wanted Zeppelin to be a marriage of blues, hard rock and acoustic music topped with heavy choruses -- a combination that had never been done before. Lots of light and shade in the music.[5]”
Page's past experiences both in the studio and with the Yardbirds were very influential in contributing to the success of Led Zeppelin in the 1970s. As a producer, composer, and guitarist he helped make Led Zeppelin a prototype for many future rock bands, and was one of the major driving forces behind the rock sound of that era, influencing a host of other guitarists.[10] For example, his sped up, downstroke guitar riff in "Communication Breakdown" is cited as guitarist Johnny Ramone's inspiration for his punk-defining, strictly downstroke guitar strumming, while Page's landmark guitar solo from the song "Heartbreaker" has been credited by Eddie Van Halen as the inspiration for his two-hand tapping technique after he saw Led Zeppelin perform in 1971. Page's solo in the famous epic "Stairway to Heaven" has been voted by readers of various guitar magazines, including Guitar World and Total Guitar, as the greatest guitar solo of all time, and he was named 'Guitarist of the Year' five years straight during the 1970s by Creem magazine.
For the recording of most of Led Zeppelin material from Led Zeppelin's second album onwards, Page used a Gibson Les Paul guitar with Marshall amplification. During the studio sessions for Led Zeppelin, and later for recording the guitar solo in "Stairway To Heaven", he also used a Fender Telecaster. He also used a Danelectro DC-59, mainly for slide guitar parts. He usually recorded in studio with a Vox AC30, Fender, and Orange amplification. His use of the Sola Sound Tone Bender Professional MKII fuzzbox ("How Many More Times"), slide guitar ("You Shook Me", "Dancing Days", "In My Time of Dying", "What Is And What Should Never Be"), pedal steel guitar ("Your Time Is Gonna Come", "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You", "Tangerine", "That's the Way" and for effect at the very end of "Over the Hills and Far Away"), and acoustic guitar ("Gallows Pole", "Ramble On") also demonstrated his versatility and creativity as a composer.
Page is famous for playing his guitar with a Violin bow, as on the songs "Dazed and Confused" and "How Many More Times". This was a technique he developed during his session days, although strictly speaking he was not the first guitarist to use a bow, since Eddie Phillips of The Creation had done so prior to Page.[9] On MTV's Led Zeppelin Rockumentary, Page said that he obtained the idea of playing the guitar with a bow from David McCallum, Sr. who was also a session musician. Page used his Fender Telecaster and later his Gibson Les Paul for his bow solos.
On a number of Led Zeppelin songs Page experimented with feedback devices and a theremin. He used a Wah-wah pedal but not always in the traditional way of rocking it back and forth as done by Jimi Hendrix and other contemporaries; instead, he put it fully forward in the treble position to get a sharper tone.
“Many people think of me as just a riff guitarist, but I think of myself in broader terms... [A]s a producer I would like to be remembered as someone who was able to sustain a band of unquestionable individual talent, and push it to the forefront during its working career. I think I really captured the best of our output, growth, change and maturity on tape -- the multifaceted gem that is Led Zeppelin.[5]
Here are some of my favorite Page riffs, via Led Zeppelin.
No Quarter live in Madison Square Garden
Nobody's Fault But Mine
Ten Years Gone
And a wicked version of my favorite, Since I've Been Loving You
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AliceLoveGarden is proud and frankly stunned to be able to select in the category of guitarist, Jimmy Page.
Honestly, the core of our draft have been focused on the base players as each one was getting picked off. Which allowed me to then focus on the Guitar (outside of Hendrix and Kirk being picked) and I frankly can't stand Page's playing.... I respect him 100% but for some reason his playing never warmed over on me.
Great pick for a 3rd rounder though. I'm actually starting to enjoy this 3rd round a lot better then the 1st. With the 1st we seemed to be all over the board but right now it looks like we're all focused on the same guys. I get the feeling there is going to be a lot of shuffling as peoples 1st and 2nds choices gone
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