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PostSubject: Favorite Lead Guitarists In Thrash   Favorite Lead Guitarists In Thrash Icon_minitimeTue May 26, 2009 9:52 am

Pretty self explanitory. Which lead guitarits or lead guitar teams are your favortite in the great genre of thrash past & present? Mine are in no particular order except the first two:

Alex Skolnick
Rocky George

These guys went beyond your typical thrash lead guitaritst. While able to play fast they were also able to fill their solos with emotion and passion not found in others. I guess this is what caused them to leave the genre but thankfully Alex returned (I am super stoked to be able to witness his playing live next week 🤘 ). Alex also played arguably the greatest guitar solo ever in Return To Serinity. It's a shame Rocky never returned to thrash because he was one of a kind. I tried to listen to Fishbone to hear him again but the music was not my thing.

Other thrash guitarits I like:

Gary Holt/Rick Hunolt (Toxic Waltz is one of my all time favorite thrash solos)
Glenn Rogers (now that I have had the opportunity to hear the first two Deliverance masterpieces-the first one being my favorite)
George Ochoa (ditto)
Ed Carlson/Michael Gilbert
Kirk Hammett
Robert Gutierrez (Into The Pit is such an awesome guitar solo)
Gary Lenaire
Aaron Guerra
Kerry King/Jeff Hannemen (yeah, sloppy guitar solos but good slop IMO)
Dan Spitz
Marty Friedman (though I'm not sure you could count the Megadeth albums he played in as thrash except for Rust In Peace)
Andreas Kisser
Chris Astley/Kristian Havard (Xentrix)
Chuck Schuldiner
Alex Lee/Juan Boogie (newest additions from Bonded By Blood)
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PostSubject: Re: Favorite Lead Guitarists In Thrash   Favorite Lead Guitarists In Thrash Icon_minitimeTue May 26, 2009 9:57 am

Alex Skolnick (was the first that came to mind for me as well.)
Robert Gutierrez (Robert is an underrated guitarist IMO)
Marty Friedman
Larry Farkas
Glenn Rogers
Mille Petrozza (noisy leads, but I've always dug his style)
Dave Linsk

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PostSubject: Re: Favorite Lead Guitarists In Thrash   Favorite Lead Guitarists In Thrash Icon_minitimeTue May 26, 2009 10:01 am

Alex Skolnick
Glen Alvealis
Jeff Waters
Chris Poland
Marty Friedman
The H-Team
The guy from INTRUDER
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PostSubject: Re: Favorite Lead Guitarists In Thrash   Favorite Lead Guitarists In Thrash Icon_minitimeTue May 26, 2009 10:02 am

Tommy T. Baron (Tommy Vetterli) - Coroner - My favorite by a mile.

Bobby Gustafson

And even though I'm sure I'll get slammed for this one, I've always liked Jeff Hanneman from Slayer.
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Skolnick
Gary Holt
Larry Farkas
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Dave Mustaine
Skolnick
Friedman
Ochoa
Eric Mendez Wonder what happened to him?
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PostSubject: Re: Favorite Lead Guitarists In Thrash   Favorite Lead Guitarists In Thrash Icon_minitimeTue May 26, 2009 12:34 pm

I was always partial to Chris Poland when it came to Megadeth guitarists.
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PostSubject: Re: Favorite Lead Guitarists In Thrash   Favorite Lead Guitarists In Thrash Icon_minitimeTue May 26, 2009 2:13 pm

I'm a little more partial to Jeff Hannemann than Kerry King in terms of versatility, although I like that fact that when a KK solo is on, you know for a fact it's KK.


Gary and Rick from Exodus
Marty Friedman
Dave Mustaine
Mille Petrozza
Andreas Kisser

There are a bunch others, these are my 'at the moment' ones.
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PostSubject: Re: Favorite Lead Guitarists In Thrash   Favorite Lead Guitarists In Thrash Icon_minitimeTue May 26, 2009 4:01 pm

Rocky George(suicidal tendencies)
Larry Farkas(Vengeance Rising)
Caleb Quinn(Detente)
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Rocky from ST
Domo from gama bomb
ol drake from evile
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Kerry and Jeff from Slayer. Alex from Testament would be one.
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PostSubject: Re: Favorite Lead Guitarists In Thrash   Favorite Lead Guitarists In Thrash Icon_minitimeWed May 27, 2009 5:00 am

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Alex Skolnick
Rocky George

My favorites as well... I'll add Jeff Waters, Tommy T. Baron and even though he's not technically thrash Dimebag.
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Alex Skolnick
Jeff Waters
James Murphy
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PostSubject: Re: Favorite Lead Guitarists In Thrash   Favorite Lead Guitarists In Thrash Icon_minitimeWed May 27, 2009 9:28 am

In his prime, Rocky George (Suicidal Tendencies) could smoke just about anybody in thrash. That guy was amazing!

Andreas Kisser (Sepultura) was also pretty damn good when Sep was in its prime (87-91).

George Ochoa (Deliverance/Recon)

Dan Lorenzo of Hades could shred too!

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PostSubject: Re: Favorite Lead Guitarists In Thrash   Favorite Lead Guitarists In Thrash Icon_minitimeWed May 27, 2009 11:34 am

I forgot to add kerry king.He is my favorite guitarist too.
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I thought Brett Erickson of Viking/DA was one of the best I've ever watched...
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Dave Mustaine by a landslide
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PostSubject: Re: Favorite Lead Guitarists In Thrash   Favorite Lead Guitarists In Thrash Icon_minitimeWed May 27, 2009 7:49 pm

I'd have to say:
Mustaine
Skolnick
Dan Spitz (always thought he didn't get enough props)
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PostSubject: Re: Favorite Lead Guitarists In Thrash   Favorite Lead Guitarists In Thrash Icon_minitimeWed May 27, 2009 8:26 pm

Jeff waters
Alex Skolnick
Megadave
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Jeff Waters comes immediately to mind for me.

Will think some more on this later...

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PostSubject: Re: Favorite Lead Guitarists In Thrash   Favorite Lead Guitarists In Thrash Icon_minitimeWed May 27, 2009 9:02 pm

I love Jeff, but for some reason I think of him more as a stellar rhythm player. Not sure why.

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PostSubject: Re: Favorite Lead Guitarists In Thrash   Favorite Lead Guitarists In Thrash Icon_minitimeWed May 27, 2009 9:48 pm

ultmetal wrote:
I love Jeff, but for some reason I think of him more as a stellar rhythm player. Not sure why.

Easily understandable, as he is a creative in coming up with riffs.

I've always seen him as the complete package, though. I like his leads. Short, long, fast, melodic....he plays them all well, and they always fit the song. I'll admit I'm a bit biased, though. I've been an Annihilator fan for a LONG LONG time. They were one of those early bands I found on my own in the early days of discovery. I'll listen to just about anything Jeff does (minus Remains......egads, that album was a mess).

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PostSubject: Re: Favorite Lead Guitarists In Thrash   Favorite Lead Guitarists In Thrash Icon_minitimeWed May 27, 2009 10:22 pm

Jeff's definitely a stronger rhythm player than a lead player.
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Doug Piercy and Lee Altus of Heathen
Josh Christian of Toxik
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PostSubject: Re: Favorite Lead Guitarists In Thrash   Favorite Lead Guitarists In Thrash Icon_minitimeThu May 28, 2009 5:42 am

Dave Mustaine, Alex Skolnik, Gary Holt, Mille Petroza, Martin freidman, Chris Poland, James Hetfield (the solos he wrote not played are btter than Kirk's), Last but not least the lead guitarist from Wrathchild America/Souls at Zero
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