Page or Slash... Whos your Les Paul Icon?

[L60N]

Pete Townshend - The Who:

Graham Coxon - The Blur:

John Squire - Stone Roses:

Jonny Marr - The Smiths:

 

[Custom53]

What about Pete...? He wasn't a technically great player but an awesome songwriter...

Plus this is just an excuse to put this picture in that I personally took in Cincinnati in 1975... (original lineup)

 

[L60N]

Tom Morello - In my view, Legend player:

 

[Donal]

Both Page and Slash are extraordinary musicians and guitar players but I wouldn't call either of them my Icon. This guy inspired me and was the reason why I started playing guitar.

Don

 

[Greg's Guitars]

Page over Slash , It will be interesting to see how long Slash can stay around and if he can have as long a run as Page, Slash is definitely one of the better axe slingers to emerge in the last 10 years though..but my all time best "Neil Young" .Greg....

 

[Custom53]

Both Page and Slash are extraordinary musicians and guitar players but I wouldn't call either of them my Icon. This guy inspired me and was the reason why I started playing guitar.

Don

I have the "Still Got The Blues" video... Incredible...

 

[80's Rocker]

i heard the reason they clause was because alot of promoters werent giving them what they wanted (im not sure what else was on their list of crazy riders) so they asked for the M&M thing, so they could walk in, see the M&Ms and know everything was taken care of. If the M&Ms were wrong, then other shit would be wrong, and they would throw fit

Yep, I just read this article on it. Van Halen News Desk | Wolfgang carries on Van Halen’s “No brown M&M’s” tradition

They did it to make sure the promotor guys read the contract on what the weight limit would be for the flooring and stuff like that which were the real important things.

They did act like total jerks about the whole thing though if they did find a brown M&M.

 

[Benguitar]

Other.

Steve Clark

 

[MaliBoo]

If I choose between these two guys, I choose Page...

 

[tele52]

Both Page and Slash are extraordinary musicians and guitar players but I wouldn't call either of them my Icon. This guy inspired me and was the reason why I started playing guitar.

Don

Page over Slash, I think EVH had more of an impact on that era of guitarists over Slash. EVH changed guitar playing for an entire generation. But Gary Moore is why I play Les Pauls. I was a Fender guy, then a Jackson guy. Then I saw GM in 1992, and I thought maybe I'll get one of those heavy bastards. It's been a love affair ever since.

 

[luckyrsx]

gotta be Jimmy. he's a true proper musician. i like slash. i think he has a great sound and lots of good riffs. but you can't say that he innovated anything. he does have the look though. even someone who never heard a gnr song would recognise him as that guy on their kid's guitar hero box. great marketability. if the question was who can sell more lp's i think slash, who's the icon? gotta be Jimmy.

 

[Alekseriator]

Who knows does Slash have a 60' or 50' neck on his Les Paul?

 

[Mr Insane]

Who knows does Slash have a 60' or 50' neck on his Les Paul?

probably closer to a '50s neck.

 

[Alekseriator]

I thought on his 1987 Standard he had 60' neck...
ok 50' is 50' lolz

 

[Username1]

He played drums on quite a few things also... He and Steve Miller did something together that was great... (Can't remember the name!)

Thats right! I was listening to back in the ussr, and i was thinking about how everyone always calls ringo a sub par drummer, and theres this little fill at the end of the song that i love, i later find out paul was playing drums on back in the ussr haha

 

[ledfloyd]

Page = GOD

 

[Pix]

Can't choose just one..

Rossington
Skydog
Dickey
Clapton
And of course ACE!!

 

[neju02]

Hi,

could be an neverending discussion. But all in all, they all are different
generations of players and every generation got her own icons.
Simply you can`t compare, there are a lot of much talented and great players in the world today and even so in the past. Slash is also one of them.
Maybe he stands for the ninetees, while Page is a 60-ies/70-ies man.
And each generations influences the following. So it is interesting to look forward what will come next in the 2010 or 2020 ies and i`m sure there gonna be few great players, maybe influenced by slash or buckethead or, or, or.

In my opinion slash has got skills and what is even more important, feeling for the tone. That was and is what made him great beside GnR. But sure there are a few other who can do something similar, but not the same.

And thats what i like on playing guitar. There`s such a great variety, and you would be stupid just having one icon, take all the influences you can get, wheather its form slash, page, Perry, Gibbons and so on. Put it together and you will create an new own style in between. And that`s the way it has always been, so did slash and so even did page who sureley has some influences fron great players in the 50 ies or in the blues. There is no master and no pupil. Music is dynamic and all influences, influence themself. An steady ongoing process, which is great. An everyone who is able to create something new, never heard before, gets my respect for that for, even so if i might don`t like that particular music. But he did something that wasen`t done before and this is a further step to another lever of music. And all great player we talk about are of this kind. Knopfler, Page, Slash, Wilde, Rhoads, Jimi, Buckethead, Satriani, Santana,...... the list is sheer endless. But everyone has a unique style, even so they are all influenced by someone.

Just my two thoughst about it.

Greetings

 

[Moyes-Is-God]

Clapton
Greeny ------the holy trinity
Kossoff

Page is great too though!

 

[Pix]

Clapton
Greeny ------the holy trinity
Kossoff

Page is great too though!

Kossoff def rocks too!!