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  1. 1. Is Alex Lifeson in your top 3 fave rock guitarists?

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1. Alex Lifeson

2. Alex Lifeson

3. Alex Lifeson

 

:)

 

There are others I appreciate from fourth place on, but I'm not sure how to order their names according to the list. I appreciate so many guitarrists.

 

No!

 

Alex doesn't even come close to my TOP 5, yet TOP 10 yes.

 

 

1. Eddie Van Halen

2. Michael Schenker

3. George Lynch

4. Yngwie Malmsteen

5. Wolf Hoffmann

6. Warren DeMartini

7. Dave Meniketti

8. Al Di Meola: I told Al at a meet and greet that he blows away Alex. He smiled at me and gave me hug. He was flattered.

9. Alex Lifeson

10. Pete Townshend

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:yes:

 

1. Alex Lifeson

2. Alex Lifeson

3. Alex Lifeson

 

In my head, when I saw this, I immediately envisioned the puppet saying "Bingo!". I'm not a musician, and I can't put words to why, but Alex's guitar playing captivates me like no other music ever could. It is what brought me into the Rush realm. Certainly, it didn't take long to notice and appreciate how amazing Geddy and Neil are as well, and even more so the totality of what Rush brings as a whole. But Alex's guitar playing is just magical to me. There is nothing else like it.

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Yes he most definitely is..I have always admired emotion, expressiveness,tone, and songwriting over wanky shredding.

 

Agreed. Note choice rather than "wanky shredding (I rather like that phrase)" is way more important to me. Alex makes good note choices a lot.

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Steve Lukather

Lindsey Buckingham

Mark Tremonti

 

My three favourites and I don't care.

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:yes:

 

1. Alex Lifeson

2. Alex Lifeson

3. Alex Lifeson

 

:)

 

There are others I appreciate from fourth place on, but I'm not sure how to order their names according to the list. I appreciate so many guitarrists.

 

No!

 

Alex doesn't even come close to my TOP 5, yet TOP 10 yes.

 

 

1. Eddie Van Halen

2. Michael Schenker

3. George Lynch

4. Yngwie Malmsteen

5. Wolf Hoffmann

6. Warren DeMartini

7. Dave Meniketti

8. Al Di Meola: I told Al at a meet and greet that he blows away Alex. He smiled at me and gave me hug. He was flattered.

9. Alex Lifeson

10. Pete Townshend

 

You've got him one step in front of Alex and there's 7 guys above him! I hope it was a shallow meaningless hug..!!!

 

Signed

 

SHE'S A LIAR!!

 

;)

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1. Nuno Bettencourt

2. Alex Lifeson

3. Warren Cuccurullo

4. Vito Bratta

5. Eddy Van Halen

 

So I guess that means yes.

 

You were a teen/early 20s in the 80s?

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1. Nuno Bettencourt

2. Alex Lifeson

3. Warren Cuccurullo

4. Vito Bratta

5. Eddy Van Halen

 

So I guess that means yes.

 

You were a teen/early 20s in the 80s?

 

I was a preteen to teen in the 80s. Didn't hit my 20s until well into the 90s! Grace Under Pressure was the album that was out when I first became aware of music.

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:yes:

 

1. Alex Lifeson

2. Alex Lifeson

3. Alex Lifeson

 

:)

 

There are others I appreciate from fourth place on, but I'm not sure how to order their names according to the list. I appreciate so many guitarrists.

 

No!

 

Alex doesn't even come close to my TOP 5, yet TOP 10 yes.

 

 

1. Eddie Van Halen

2. Michael Schenker

3. George Lynch

4. Yngwie Malmsteen

5. Wolf Hoffmann

6. Warren DeMartini

7. Dave Meniketti

8. Al Di Meola: I told Al at a meet and greet that he blows away Alex. He smiled at me and gave me hug. He was flattered.

9. Alex Lifeson

10. Pete Townshend

 

You've got him one step in front of Alex and there's 7 guys above him! I hope it was a shallow meaningless hug..!!!

 

Signed

 

SHE'S A LIAR!!

 

;)

 

Hahaha!!! Yes it was a shallow meaningless hug!! Classic reference. Y&T is tonight! Napa!

 

Signed,

 

"FOREVER"

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Yes for me. Top three are probably

Alex Lifeson

Warren Haynes

Duane Allman

 

Next three would be

Jimmy Page

Jerry Garcia

Jimi Hendrix

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Alex Lifeson is my only pick. Was never big into guitar, although I always enjoyed bands that had melodic rides in my metal days.

 

Alex's playing is about as deliberate, precise and melodic as it gets. It's almost like he can convey emotion through the notes.

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I like guitarists who have their own character, its not all about technique. As I get older though I am growing more fond of Allan holdsworth.

 

Lifeson is great, nice balance between emotion and technique. I like Kirk kirtwood of the Meat puppets too. He is as sloppy as hell, but does some wonderful things, including writing great songs, on the guitar.

 

The thing with Holdsworth is, he was a guitarist but also helped redifine what is possible in music, that I admit I don't fully understand. I don't think many do.

So unlike most guitarists he could be considered 2 fold - a guitarist and also a trailblazer in pushing music understanding. I'll wager as time goes on this will become increasingly apparent.

 

so Allan Holdsworth

Kirk Kurtwood

Lifeson

 

Also like page, Beck Van Halen Guthrie Govan. Clapton is way overrated!

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Alex's playing is about as deliberate, precise and melodic as it gets

Emotionally precise, I'll grant you, but from a technical perspective..

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