Badass Players With Shitty Vibratos, Vibrato Snobs, & More

[Bronco]

Great thread...DeMartini and Van Halen are by far my two faves. Keith Scott (Bryan Adams) is criminally underrated as well.

 

[ewill52]

and the chest hair

Does that even need saying? Epic chest bush.

300 pounds of neoclassical monster chops, sweating his balls off in leather pants and a shirt that looks like he stole it from Prince, chest bush in full view, kicking picks into the crowd. Majesty.

 

[SpiderWars]

Keith Scott (Bryan Adams) is criminally underrated as well.

I saw them open for what was supposed to be Ozzy with Randy (Randy died so it was Pat Travers instead). Was very surprised and impressed by his tone and playing.

 

[SavageRiffer]

 

[Deleted member 13074]

F**kin' Lynch
The other members of KXM are carrying him

 

[geetarmikey]

Vibrato is an area we're ALLOWED to be "snobby" about I think; you can be the fastest most technical player in the world, but if you have that shrill "classical guitar" vibrato, out of tune or just plain none then it doesn't mean anything.

Sykes, Yngwie, Clapton, May and Wylde to name just a few all have distinctive and really cool vib.

 

[braintheory]

I'm surprised to see 46 posts here, yet no mention of Randy Rhoads (my personal favorite electric guitarist of all time)

My favorites for vibrato are Randy Rhoads, Marty Friedman, Zakk Wylde, and Yngwie Malmsteen

 

[SavageRiffer]

I'm surprised to see 46 posts here, yet no mention of Randy Rhoads (my personal favorite electric guitarist of all time)

My favorites for vibrato are Randy Rhoads, Marty Friedman, Zakk Wylde, and Yngwie Malmsteen

I'm with you on Randy Rhoads. He's one of my biggest influences.

 

[thiswaythatway]

that is a real mans vibrato

My favorite thing about Yngwie is his right hand!!! Looks like he's hardly moving it! WFT. Yngwie to me will always be THE shredder. Even if he does write cheesy Viking metal!

 

[Mr. Willy]

Has anyone mentioned Gary Moore yet? He has killer vibrato. One of the best, imho.

 

[Mr. Willy]

I might get slammed for this, but Zakk Wylde's vibrato gets on my nerves. It's only because he does it so much without any variation that it gets old fast.

 

[SavageRiffer]

that is a real mans vibrato

My favorite thing about Yngwie is his right hand!!! Looks like he's hardly moving it! WFT. Yngwie to me will always be THE shredder. Even if he does write cheesy Viking metal!

Check out Katsu Ohta then

 

[Tone Ranger]

I learned vibrato watching Jeff Watson. Think Sing Me Away and When You Close Your Eyes. Nice and Floyd.

 

[Monkey Man]

Haven't seen him mentioned yet, but Steve Lukather's vibrato (and pitch-perfect bending) are what attracted me to his playing back in the late '70s. That kicked off my dream of wanting to be able to play guitar - his tasty bends and icing-on-the-cake vibrato, raising songs like Hold the Line to new heights.

Unfortunately, life, bass playing, MIDI and technology Hell got in the way and I've yet to embark on the guitar journey properly. Can't play a friggin' note, really; it's a joke, but at least I've finally got a couple o' axes and a Kemper, so it's on the cards that I'll get there eventually.

Bottom line 'though, I owe the initial spark to Steve and his epic, melodic, ballsy-and-always-song-appropriate playing. Way to go, Steve. Amazed he hasn't been mentioned yet.

 

[ghosty999]

I might get slammed for this, but Zakk Wylde's vibrato gets on my nerves. It's only because he does it so much without any variation that it gets old fast.

That's an interesting point, he took pinch harmonics and the Yngwie/Sykes bending and over did it. I'm all for strong vibrato but only in the appropriate places

 

[Crunchity]

Some of my personal favs for vibrato INPO..

Marty Friedman
Neal Schon
Yngwie
Angus
Michael Lee Firkins
Satch
Reb Beach

Back in day, I really liked MacAlpine's (think Max Security era), even if it was mostly a bar type wiggle - but oddly over the years it doesn't seem to be something he focuses on and actually sounds kinda heh now.

 

[animal]

Hammett gets ragged on a lot, but note for note his solos aren't that easy to play. He does those horizontal runs real fast and I can't figure out if he's just hitting whatever notes or has some actual method of hitting notes. .

I've wondered the same thing
If you just play quickly doing pull offs running down the neck it doesn't sound a whole lot different to that run in Blackend or some of the other ones he does...
What is everyone else's opinion?

 

[napalmdeath]

Yngwie never did a thing for me, but, I agree about his vibrato. Tops.

Kirk Hammet, is probably the weakest of the bunch that Satch touched. I find his solos a mess, and weak. Skolnik obviously showed up for class! Another Satriani student.

I strongly agree with a few posts up, Sykes and Moore are at the top, as is Friedman.

A truly underrated player who gets little attention is Andy Larocque. His blistering leads and truly sick vibrato van be heard plenty on Them and Conspiracy. Yes, plenty of other albums in the catalog, but those two grabbed me by the poo-poo, along with Gary Moore's Victims Of The Future in high school. Epic albums. Epic playing, (honorable mention to Pete Blakk).

 

[Mr. Willy]

I strongly agree with a few posts up, Sykes and Moore are at the top, as is Friedman. Gary Moore's Victims Of The Future

Dude, I'm wayyyyy late to the party on this, but I always associated Gary Moore with Live at Montruex and Still Got the Blues. I went back this past week and listened to Victims of the Future, Corridors of Power, G-Force, Wild Frontier, Back on the Streets, etc. for the first time...Good. Lord. I've never heard hard rock electric guitar played with more balls and fury yet still being super melodic at the same time. His playing on these albums is so beautifully intense and inspiring. Moore is now one of all-time favorites. Better late than never.

 

[Rdodson]

I strongly agree with a few posts up, Sykes and Moore are at the top, as is Friedman. Gary Moore's Victims Of The Future

Dude, I'm wayyyyy late to the party on this, but I always associated Gary Moore with Live at Montruex and Still Got the Blues. I went back this past week and listened to Victims of the Future, Corridors of Power, G-Force, Wild Frontier, Back on the Streets, etc. for the first time...Good. Lord. I've never heard hard rock electric guitar played with more balls and fury yet still being super melodic at the same time. His playing on these albums is so beautifully intense and inspiring. Moore is now one of all-time favorites. Better late than never.

Yes!! Victims of the Future was so crazy good. The solo in Law of the Jungle still blows me away.