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Sat 27 Sep, 2003 04:40 pm
1.)Zakk Wylde
That is the only one that matters to me....but i am eager to hear your opinion.
Obviously you are talking in the Rock genre so
Steve Howe
Steve Vai
Chris Squire
John Bonham
Jimi Hendrix
NO NO NO!
Don't feel you have to come with Rock musicians. Come with the best Musicians, period.
hmm. I'm not familiar with all of the musicians in time. So I'll name some of the essentials:
Betthoven
Mozart
Jimi Hendrix
Bjork
Tori Amos
Duke Ellington/Muddy waters
Nine Inch Nails
Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin
Jethro Tull
(for lyrics)
Bob Dylan
Leonard Cohen
Neil Young
Are you seriously putting Tori Amos in the same catagory as Beethoven??
hey! ok don't rat out on Daniel Bedingfield who was #3 for the best male british pop song lyrics for MTV so there BEAT THAT! (just kidding) but he really did win the MTV thingy!
-tatugurl03
Man, this is a tough one without genres included...I would consider, let's say, Mozart (going on Portal Star's post) a better musician than Beethoven, but perhaps not as good a composer, although prolific, and well-respected. John McLaughlin is my favorite guitar player, all styles. Erm, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is the true king of Kawalli, Paddy Keenan is my favorite uillean piper, and Miles Davis probably my favorite jazz dude, with John Coltrane a close second.
If you are speaking of musicianship of classical composers. I believe you should include Liszt and Schumann.
I would also like to include the dumb guy with HUGE and ugly mouth from guitar world. He had the "perfect pitch"
Oh yeah, and Ponytail guy from the older SNL episodes. I think his name is G.E. Wells, or something like that. He could really play, and make odd faces.
Holy crap flyboy, Liszt was an awesome musician/composer....not a big Schumann fan, but Chopin should be on the list too. In terms of musicianship in the classical (a misused term) arena, I would also throw in Bach and Pagannini.
Hey Child, I'm sure you know that Yngwie cites Bach and Pagannini as major influences....Pag is mostly known for his violin compositions, but did you know he also played guitar? Very cool....
Cav, no argument with any of your comments. I was using the term "classical" as it would be understood by most regulars at Avery Fisher or Carnegie Halls.
I can't really tell about number 1 to 5, but definitively, number 6 is:
Johann Sebastian Mastropiero.
No problem flyboy, I got that. How did 'classical' become an all-encompassing term for centuries of music anyway? Personally, I have no clue. fbaezer, what was the name of the Argentinian band with all the homemade instruments again? I want to check out their stuff.
Les Luthiers.
www.leslu.com
Most of their music was composed, precisely, by Johann Sebastian Mastropiero.
You can find his works at:
www.mastropiero.net
Johann Sebastian Mastropiero was born on February 7th, but historians differ about the year. They also differ about the century.
I digress...
Cav, I can't answer how the term "classical" became broadened in usage anymore than I can explain, as was pointed out on another thread, that the term "antisemitic" became narrowed (anti Jewish not anti Jewish and anti Arab).
Well flyboy, I have no clue what thread you are referring to, but I appreciate the reference, being Jewish and all...good question....'semetic' is not technically 'Jewish'.....if you have the link, I'll pop in to take a look. I am so digressing....
Getting back to music....Brian Eno and Trent Reznor, not just for their musical talents, but for their skills as producers as well.
I really don't like Yngwie, he's always seemed like an A-Hole.
To me, Yngwie always sounded like he was just repeating scales and arpeggios ad nauseam, fast and technichally sound, but completely boring.
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