Originally Posted by: aschlemanI think it can all be summed up by saying...

Van Halen is a more technical player than Angus...

Angus arguably has better "artistry"...

Batio is boring to listen to...

Rusty Cooley owns Bation...

Steve Vai owns all...

The Hetfield/Hammett duo WERE amazing...

Ace Freehly shouldn't be in this conversation...

The opinion that Angus is the greatest guitar player of all time is proposterous... Only a closed minded, die hard ACDC FANATIC would think that...

And my closing thoughts about the topic... It doesn't even matter. I don't listen to Van Halen or ACDC.... But I'd rather listen to ACDC over Van Halen any day of the week... and twice on Sunday. People have different opinions about what music is, and should be... and different tastes.

i have to agree with some of it!

vai, batio, et al are far more technical players but hmmm its so boring to listen to.
I walked out of a vai gig recently after having to endure 2 minutes of different feedback!

if being is better player is all about 20 notes per second then vai wins
but angus has great feel, evh also has great feel even though both players constantly repeat about 10 or 15 licks each!
vai and batio play technical stuff because they can.

the metallca guy though well they just rock!

rusty is pretty cool to when he's being himself

ace freakly he plays ok.

paul gilbert is pretty cool to but has limited appeal like (lesser so than) vai and batio.