Favorite Shredder

Mine would be a tie between Dimebag, Steve Vai, and Paul Gilbert.

Anyone else?

Aight... as we know, I just cant say Steve Vai, Malmsteen, Laiho, Satriani anymore... theyre best, but they not have advantages like this one have... so heres something new.

Jennifer Batten

matt bellamy

Whos he play for?

Empirism, glad you've heard of her! She's pretty awesome, she played in some of Michael Jackson's songs on stage, and a few other people I've just forgotten who haha. :P

Guthrie Govan,
Muhammed Suiçmez, - Necrophagist
Sami Raatikainen, - Necrophagist
Tom MacLean - To-Mera

@ozz muse

I like Paul Gilbert:

i got to say out of all the em the only one i could truly ever stand to listen to is Paul G. but i do like Steve Vai but that comes from my love affair with Frank Zappa. through that Guthrie guy jazz always talks about(form the videos she/others posted) seems cool but sadly i haven't been bothered to truly listen to him. so my vote goes for Paul for what it is worth, seeing that i find so much with what is wrong with guitar today in people's interest in so called "Shredders"

im gonna have to say:

the Great Kat(another girl shredder)
rusty cooley
michael angelo batio
michael romeo(symphony-x)
joe stump
christian muenzer(ex-necrophagist)
chris storey
yngwie malmsteen
niccolo paganini(he ripped up the violin)
buckethead

but if i could pick just one it would be rusty for sure

@jazz
you dont seem like the kind of person who listens to necrophagist lol

Thank you for mentioning Paganini! I was waiting to find someone else thats in to his stuff!

i find his stuff truely inspiring, i wanna take the violin up cause of him.

I just learn it on guitar =]

^ lol nice

idk if u can count randy rhoads. but if u cant then id say....errrrmmm...well...idk...

I'd definetly say you CAN. Randy would have far bygone EVH had that crash not happened.

rofl @ Relaxeddude

ye thenrandy but i cll him a blues rocker or blues shredder he shreds with soul and feeling

Laiho and Thomson, i like kerry king too

This thread is turning from a favorite shredder to favorite guitarist thread... But as far as the elite of instrumental shred guitarists I'd have to say my absolute favorite is Gilbert. Buckethead is a close second. I just think their stuff is extremely creative.

@ EMB - Very true.

@ BBT - I agree with Alexi. With Kerry, no. He's cocky, and disses other bands for no good reason. Plus his solos sound like hes trying to kill his guitar....or maybe he thought it was a gift from God and purposley tried to destroy it lmao.

yea kerry kings solo are like ble blu bla fdsg and alexis are like WOW

Hahaha! lol.

ok well i admit i dont listen to slayer much, so im not sure how well he solos. but i really like his rhythm.. i guess that doesnt count as shredding tho lol

Jari Maenpaa is amazing too. Jason Becker also

Then you like Jeff Hanaman [Spelt right?]. He's the rhythm guitarist for Slayer.

the both share lead and rythm but all their solos suck to me, and its jeff hanneman. i like their riffs to.

Marty Friedman,
Django Reinhardt,
Andres Segovia,
Dave Mustaine.

I forgot about Jari! He's extremely underrated, I can't wait until the new Wintersun album.



So evidently you consider a shredder anyone who is a proficient guitarist?

hahaha, yeah I listen to pretty much anything, my way of understanding everything and turning it into something amazing.



Awesome choices! :D

my respects to paul G.

I"m gonna have to go with Dimebag

Is a shredder not anyone who is a virtuoso guitar player? I would consider Tommy Emmanuel, and Chet Atkins "shredders" even though they are not metal players.

Actually, when posting this I ment to put virtuoso. Forgot. Sorry everyone.

Gilbert definetly and probs Imperiletti shortly after