Best Heavy Metal Band of all time. (Do people still listen to metal?) (1 Viewer)

[KCWhoDat]

I'm a hard rock guy through and through....a one-trick pony on guitar, but that's okay because all I ever wanted to do was play for ME. And I'm satisfied with my ability to say most of what I want to say on the guitar. But I can absolutely appreciate virtuousity when I see it, or hear it. And there's different types of virtuosity, IMO. Some guys are technically virtuous. Some guys are creatively virtuous. Some guys just hear things or play things in a way no one else has heard them before. Some guys give virtuous performances.

But one of my all-time favorite guitar players...absolutely a guitar god before the phrase even existed....Roy Clark! Playing was nowhere near the realm of hard rock/heavy metal, but man that dude could play. I watched Hee-Haw every week just to see what he would conjure up next. I wanted to take Buck Owens place and "play underneath" Roy's performances. Virtuoso!

Chet Atkins was an amazing guitarist also since we’re talking about country. I don’t like country music at all but I respect musicians period no matter the style.

Since I’ve been playing guitar I started out with AC/DC. I love that blues sound, hellacious rhythm. People say it’s simple but it damn sure sounds good and their music has SOUL and FEELING. I really liked Lenny Kravitz music also…I could go on forever. The most influential to me is Dave Mustaine, I can’t play a lot of his stuff but he really pushed me to be better. But Angus Young and Tony Iommi were influential to me also. Jimmy Hendrix and the star spangled banner really hit home also whenever I first hear it….

Sorry I went off the rails. I don’t think there is a best. So many people like so many things. I listen to 80s Metallica and all of Megadeths stuff. Iron Maiden is phenomenal…Pick anything Ozzy has done and Sabbath also with RJD. I can tell you who were some really BAD bands though, lol.

 

[KCWhoDat]

You are so right. I have a friend who plays in a local band. He told me Yngwie Malmsteen was technically perfect. He
just played the scale faster than most. Hendrix just ripped notes out of his soul. There's a big difference

Yes, Roy Clark could play anything with a string

I agree…there are some musicians who you could consider as technicians, others with feeling. Both sound great , but I kinda like the soulful sound.

 

[sfidc3]

I accidentally went to an Alice Cooper concert one day on my way to lunch in Towson, MD and thought I dreamt it. But unless this video isn't real, I WAS there!

That’s cool…my son went to Towson

I agree…there are some musicians who you could consider as technicians, others with feeling. Both sound great , but I kinda like the soulful sound.

It’s all so subjective….my favorite players are the more dynamic players…Steve Morse is both technically gifted and can play many styles, hard rock, bluegrass, jazz, funk, classical/baroque….I can’t think of any other player that can do that and do it well…

 

[Goatman Saint]

Never a big fan of Clapton myself, but the crossroads is a bad arse song. That said I believe the best parts were Jack
Bruce's bass solo and Ginger Baker on the drums. Two criminally underrated musicians. Clapton did a great job as
well on this Robert Johnson blues classic

Team as a group was fantastic. Clapton on his own I dunno.

Opposite of Jeff Beck. Beck is such a me first show off no matter how good or great he can be to me there’s never any heart.

The one I dunno about is Mick Mars. Some of his stuff is really there, but a lot kinda meh, but I feel that way about a lot of the Crue’s stuff.

 

[faceman]

Team as a group was fantastic. Clapton on his own I dunno.

Opposite of Jeff Beck. Beck is such a me first show off no matter how good or great he can be to me there’s never any heart.

The one I dunno about is Mick Mars. Some of his stuff is really there, but a lot kinda meh, but I feel that way about a lot of the Crue’s stuff.

The crue will be remembered as a hair metal band. That said, they were the best one. Shout at the devil is a great
album imo

 

[Goatman Saint]

Hey now you could make an ep of their music and it would be really frigging good

Although I do have to say if I never hear Vince live again it will be too soon.

 

[sfidc3]

The crue will be remembered as a hair metal band. That said, they were the best one. Shout at the devil is a great
album imo

Mick Mars had some interesting hooks and licks/riffs in his playing…but not my type of music

 

[Marcotte]

Metallica pre-black album
Slayer
Megadeth
Motorhead
Anthrax
Testament
Exxodus
Panterra


Dream Theater and System of the Down?

Very good list.

 

[Marcotte]

I don't think Metallica is the best, but I will admit they're up there.
Suicidal Tendencies
Corrosion of Conformity
Down
Pantera
Slayer
Tool
Anthrax
Just naming a few that I like. It's not a complete list, by far.

 

[Scorpius the Allfather]

So Dream Theater won a grammy for Best Metal Performance.

 

[FatCitySaint]

Hard to say the best...but its definitely close.

 

[Scorpius the Allfather]

Mine is Titties and Beer.

Baltimore contributed John Doe (X), Mama Cass Elliott, and Frank Zappa to music history.

Frank Zappa discovered Alice Cooper.

 

[Scorpius the Allfather]

Glad i'm not the only one. Petrucci is fast,but lacks the musicianship ( your words ) of a Hendrix,Vaughn,Vai etc. He
reminds me of drummers who've eclipsed Buddy Rich's hand speed record. Yes they can play faster,but it's just a
monotonous tone,no musicianship at all.

You guys are crazy thinking this about Petrucci. It's like the people that say Mangini is too "robotic".

 

[Scorpius the Allfather]

Absolutely. You hear of all these modern guitarists developing all these fancy techniques, then go hunting the back basement of YouTube and there’s Roy Clark 50-60 years ago doing them before some of these guys were even born. He was possibly the first real public star in the television sense with the guitar. Of course he always differed to Haggard, different styles, but Clark could go from instrument to instrument without hesitation. Guitarist form ZZTop Billy Gibbons always speaks very highly of Roy Clark and what he brought to music

So Steve Vai had a new guitar created called the hydra. Every sound you hear in the song was played by Vai on the hydra.

 

[Scorpius the Allfather]

glad you made that point...i once argued with someone here about Joe Satriani just being a bore to listen to....like, he's obviously very talented but his music just sounds like it belongs on a truck commercial...it's very bland

on the other hand, Larry Lelonde, who learned to play directly from Joe Satriani, makes interesting and unique use of his skills

Kirk Hammett was taught by Satriani as well.