Originally posted by Hades55
Satriani is a quitar god 
malmsteen & steve vai also.
I would disagree. Malmsteen and Vai while being excellant technical players, their music is flat. It's complex, it's fast, it's flat. No soul, no spaces no harmonic melody, it's just "stuff" and LOTS of it. It overwhelms. A better version would be John McClaughlin.
Satriani has moments with some real sweet melodic transitions and plays with a real "touch"
Good stuff out there. Not as "much" as time has gone by.
My guitar God is David Gilmore. He isn't fast, he isn't complex. He has the ability to put holes inbetween the notes that mean more than the notes that surround them. He's infinately melodic. He has like none of the others has the ability, a melodic sense to build a guitar solo into a piece of work that stands by it's self.
A story with a Strat.
Have an old fart like me that plays local when he feels like it and he just fuggin RIPS. He does stuff that brings a tear to the eye, so sweet, he has that "touch" that can't be taught or practiced.
Long live the guitar players.
