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Like I say I am not a rock fan, but EVH just blew everyone away, even to the layman in the street who didn't play guitar, this was something way out there, same with Jimi Hendrix etc.
Yes Page, Beck and countless others were probably better but none had the impact.
Also as much as some may not want to admit it, Ed Sheeran. He's inspired a generation of acoustic guitarists with looper pedals already.
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ah, so no we're moving the goal posts. OK. Has guitar playing advanced since an arbitarily chosen date? yes, undoubtably. Have the mindless plebs that queue up to watch X factor heard of any of them? No.
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That seems to have been by and large a lost thing in some circles in my opinion.
One area where it is sadly missing is R&B and disco (showing my age now) music.
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Alan Holdsworth - expanded the harmony (reaching for the uncommon chord)
Ted Greene - Baroque like improvisations
For Rock Tom Morello did some weird and wonderful stuff for RATM
For Jazz If you listen to say Wes Montgomery and then Pat Metheny you can hear transition and modernity of Metheny's approach.
For classical the world now seems to teem with talented guitarists, rather than just Bream, Williams and the ghost of Segovia in the old days.
Also, I vehemently reject the idea that EVH changed the face of guitar playing, but let's not open that can of worms again.
Take for example, Albert Lee as part of the hot band, yes he was pretty amazing to most who heard him, but when you know the genre you know of other players around at same time to see where Alberts style came from and was influenced by. Speedy West, Don Rich, James Burton etc.
I can understand how some guitarists who have studied the guitar so much that they can play pretty much anything they think of, and also their style is probably influencing other players, but I personally fail to see any that have had same impact than EVH.
Maybe it's because we have seen so much, that we fail to be so amazed anymore?