Before Eddie Vai Malmsteen Gilbert etc

hollywoodrox

Blackmore 

Clarky

Django

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVsC4UNYOHM
 

oldfoxy

Also, see Frank Marino...

A forgotten man

roberty

Clarky said:

Django

Yeah totally

Kebabkid

Les Paul, both conventionally and using trickery gadgetry

Al DiMeola

FelineGuitars

Kebabkid said:

Brian May - Anything!

Absolutely!

Clarky

Michael Schenker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSeQchvJ--8

the magic starts a around 2:30

this is a remaster, but I think the original was '76

Sassafras

Most banjo players.

maltingsaudio

No mention of Albert Lee yet? Country boy is 40 years old here’s what happened when Albert and Steve Morse got together... shred v picking you decide 
https://youtu.be/p2Wv0ZyuLhc

Bucket

Clarky said:

Michael Schenker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSeQchvJ--8

the magic starts a around 2:30

this is a remaster, but I think the original was '76

Fucking hell Michael Schenker is great.

One of my all time guitar heroes and one of the reasons I love Flying Vs so much.

Emiel

1973... Jan Akkerman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4ouPGGLI6Q

gordiji

Akkerman here is sensational, his amp is almost clean and his playing very accurate. I don't know anyone else playing so fast

so early on. The crowd are awestruck.

Bellycaster

Mike Sembello's Lead Playing on here is quite wonderful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T5q7BzpEe4

  

Teetonetal

Cliff Gallop - shred in his day!

Philly_Q

sweepy said:

1973, I give you Allan Holdsworth in Tempext, what a sound, go to 2 mins for the embryonic majesty that was to follow

https://youtu.be/KcIFkx8vnUw

Worth mentioning that the second Tempest album, Living in Fear, featured Ollie Halsall, mentioned earlier in the thread.  I think at one point both Holdsworth and Halsall were in the band, but not on record.

sweepy

Philly_Q said:

sweepy said:

1973, I give you Allan Holdsworth in Tempext, what a sound, go to 2 mins for the embryonic majesty that was to follow

https://youtu.be/KcIFkx8vnUw

Worth mentioning that the second Tempest album, Living in Fear, featured Ollie Halsall, mentioned earlier in the thread.  I think at one point both Holdsworth and Halsall were in the band, but not on record.

There is a recorded live gig with both of them out there

Clarky

Bucket said:

Clarky said:

Michael Schenker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSeQchvJ--8

the magic starts a around 2:30

this is a remaster, but I think the original was '76

Fucking hell Michael Schenker is great.

One of my all time guitar heroes and one of the reasons I love Flying Vs so much.

my hero too

Philly_Q

sweepy said:

Philly_Q said:

sweepy said:

1973, I give you Allan Holdsworth in Tempext, what a sound, go to 2 mins for the embryonic majesty that was to follow

https://youtu.be/KcIFkx8vnUw

Worth mentioning that the second Tempest album, Living in Fear, featured Ollie Halsall, mentioned earlier in the thread.  I think at one point both Holdsworth and Halsall were in the band, but not on record.

There is a recorded live gig with both of them out there

Didn't know that!

adamino

sweepy said:

Philly_Q said:

sweepy said:

1973, I give you Allan Holdsworth in Tempext, what a sound, go to 2 mins for the embryonic majesty that was to follow

https://youtu.be/KcIFkx8vnUw

Worth mentioning that the second Tempest album, Living in Fear, featured Ollie Halsall, mentioned earlier in the thread.  I think at one point both Holdsworth and Halsall were in the band, but not on record.

There is a recorded live gig with both of them out there

Fantastic Alan Holdsworth playing

So Eddie Van Halen recites Clapton as his influence and hides the fact that his real influence is Alan Holdsworth.Eddie always hid things in order not to be copied.

Thank you so much for that as I never heard of Tempest.I feel so uneducated

sweepy

adamino said:

sweepy said:

Philly_Q said:

sweepy said:

1973, I give you Allan Holdsworth in Tempext, what a sound, go to 2 mins for the embryonic majesty that was to follow

https://youtu.be/KcIFkx8vnUw

Worth mentioning that the second Tempest album, Living in Fear, featured Ollie Halsall, mentioned earlier in the thread.  I think at one point both Holdsworth and Halsall were in the band, but not on record.

There is a recorded live gig with both of them out there

Fantastic Alan Holdsworth playing

So Eddie Van Halen recites Clapton as his influence and hides the fact that his real influence is Alan Holdsworth.Eddie always hid things in order not to be copied.

Thank you so much for that as I never heard of Tempest.I feel so uneducated

You should hear live live 74 gig with a Holdsworth and Hallisall, absolutely mental guitar playing , if you pop me your email I’ll pop it over to you, it’s an old BBC In concert gig that I managed to snaffle years ago