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Another vote for Lukather. he really is an outstanding player. Sambora need an honourable mention - may not be a boundary pusher, but he's a fine player within his genre

The player first and foremost - look at a guy like Brent Mason: his tele is pretty much everything that tele purist find sacreligious, and he sure make it twang well enough

Is Dumble still making amps?

in every practical way I agree with this sentiment, but since we're just discussing aesthetics, I prefer the look without the rings

It's a popularity poll made by people of a certain demographic, age, income etc. Nothing more or less. Nothing worth getting too worked up about.

It would be interesting to try and I'd like to give it a go. I can see how this can simplify things a lot, prevent volume wars etc. On the other hand my gut feeling is that I would miss the direct interaction with an amp/speaker. As already stated guitar + amp is one instrument. But it's worth a shot

I don't exactly think it's an abomination but I think it would look better without the rings. They clutter the look a bit

In a perfect scenario where he continued to perform at the top of his game, sure. A more real world scenario would be that like most others he'd be set in his ways by middle age and would perfer to stay within his comfort zone. If the drugs didn't fry his brain first that is. But the thought of Hendrix with say, a Parker Fly, a Line 6 amp and a TC multiefect board is a thrilling one

The gear market round here is dead. The same ads not moving and no new items coming up. Buyers don't have the money in this crisis and any seller than can afford to do so have probably decided to wait it out till the economy comes round

Not really

The only one I've ever named is my ugly as hell unpainted parts build i.e. The IKEAcaster. Generally I'd feel weird naming inanimate objects. ymmv

I don't really the the offensiveness of those quotes - it's not like he was being in any way derogative to black people. OK so the "n word" isn't one to be used in polite conversation, but taking offense over the mere occurence of a word regardless of its intent is silly.

He certainly could get agressive too, but to my ears it's a different kind - I know the dangers of making psychological judgements based on recordings but I always got the impression that EC on Beano was a player hell bent on proving himself wheras to me PG always sound a bit more self confident, a bit more mature if that makes sense.

I agree about the jamming thing - Green (and Kirwan!) were better at the long form jamming than EC. Even if cream was far bigger.

I agree about the studied part, but actually, I always thought EC came across as the more agressive of the two *IF* you compare Beano with Fleetwood Mac or Mayall era Green.

I also hear a lot of tradition in PG's playing - different influences from EC and a different approach to them, but to my ear there's no doubt Green did as much and as deep listening as Clapton.

Of course, at the end of the day they were both outstanding in their way

Aside from OK Computer and In Rainbows the OP is spot on. Says something about a band when their second or third best album is that good

He's up there to be sure, not sure i would say that he was better than beano era EC or indeed that it makes sense to rate them as better/worse. But that's probably for another thread.

PG is one of the greatest blues players ever - one of the truly unique voices in the genre.

of those - the LP. I could go with either for cleans, but I much perfer to work a humbucker equipped guitar for distorted sounds.

But of course the correct answer is ES-335.

Great guitarist that helped produce some godawful cheesy music - seriosly, how can folks here rip on TOTO when later VH is just as cheese infested.

The first album is plain awesome RnR though

You gonna grow old no matter what, so you might as well have fun along the way. Do what you feel like doing

Ibanez John Scofield (on my ugly ass couch)

Oh yeah, another thing is that a lot fusion guitar is very compressed indeed. So getting both a overdrive/distortion pedal and a comp might be a good idea

Do you want something like Sco's sounds, or something like fusion tones in general?

Either way I'd say that a RAT is a nice place to start. And of course the TubeScreamer would be a good choice.

He's been using a RAT since some time in the 80s.

I think some of his drive tones are also from those Mesa Boogie Mark II or IIIs he was using for a good long while.