
ともあれ、今回エディが8位です。
100 Greatest Guitarists | Rolling Stone
ちなみにトップテンは以下のとおり。
- ジミ・ヘンドリックス
- エリック・クラプトン
- ジミー・ペイジ
- キース・リチャーズ
- ジェフ・ベック
- B.B.キング
- チャック・ベリー
8. エディ・ヴァン・ヘイレン - デュアン・オールマン
- ピート・タウンゼント
天才すぎて不動の地位の人とかスローハンドの人とか名曲いっぱい作る人とか不良の人とか指弾き超うまい人とか口から音出てる人とかマーティからゴージャニゴーのヒントもらった人とかキラ星すぎてよくわからない人とか腕グルグルの人とかいますけど、ピョンピョン飛ぶ人が8位です。
エディの項だけ引用します。
8 Eddie Van Halen
Mike McCready of Pearl JamWhen I was 11, I was at my guitar teacher’s place, and he put on “Eruption.” It sounded like it came from another planet. I was just learning basic chords, stuff like AC/DC and Deep Purple; “Eruption” really didn’t make sense to me, but it was glorious, like hearing Mozart for the first time.
Eddie is a master of riffs: “Unchained,” “Take Your Whiskey Home,” the beginning of “Ain’t Talking ‘Bout Love.” He gets sounds that aren’t necessarily guitar sounds – a lot of harmonics, textures that happen just because of how he picks. There’s a part in “Unchained” where it sounds like there’s another instrument in the riff.
A lot of it is in his hands: the way he holds his pick between his thumb and middle finger, which opens things up for his finger-tapping. (When I found out he played that way, I tried it myself, but it was too weird.) But underneath that, Eddie has soul. It’s like Hendrix – you can play the things he’s written, but there’s an X factor that you can’t get.
Eddie still has it. I saw Van Halen on their reunion tour two years ago, and the second he came out, I felt that same thing I did when I was a kid. When you see a master, you know it.
Key Tracks: “Eruption,” “Ain’t Talking ‘Bout Love,” “Hot for Teacher”
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