How Do You Rank Sambora to the Likes of Joe Perry, Slash?

Dude I can play a lot of slash never-mind what richie sambora could do. Also slash is not a "smokin picker", smokin picker's are the likes of steve lukather, dann huff, john petrucci etc. It truly amazes me that people consider slash too be more than he really is. Richie is a superior musician/guitarist to slash, always has been.

lukather petrucci etc are on another level. dont mention sambora on this level. nor slash

they are rock players not virtuosos. slash pisses all over richie however. end of discussion

Hahaha... End of discussion on what basis? Your opinion?

Rock players, not virtuosos? What are you talking about? What is Eddie Van Halen then? What is Steve Vai? Randy Rhoads? Mark Knopfler? Etc etc. The two are not mutually exclusive and you can easily be both. As I said before, Slash is the anti-virtuoso. That's what made him stand out back in 1987 when everyone was tapping and shredding the shit out of their guitars, including Sambora. The difference is that Sambora can play the bluesy licks, the slow bended notes, the tapping, etc. His versatility just makes him a superior guitarist and musician.

Read this interview with Alice Cooper from 1997. He talks about Slash, about Satriani, about Steve Vai and some more guys he played with. Yet he particularly picks out Sambora as the guitarist he'd play with for the rest of his career if he had to make a choice. That alone should tell you something.
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Isn't Appetite considered one of the best guitar albums of all time?

Richie still didn't release a influential guitar album, and I don't think his new solo work is memorable.

Hahahaha man have a serious word with yourself, severe lack of guitar knowledge on display here.

Knopfler isn't a virtuoso. Nor is Eddie Van...Randy Rhoads whilst awesome wasn't as technically accomplished as Satriani or Vai (both of whom I hate as guitar players)

Slash is a better guitarist because he's written so many iconic riffs, Joe Soap hears one note and can tell it's Slash...his style is definite.

I prefer to listen to Richie...he's my all time fave player....but he's got worse whereas slash has improved!

That's all debatable. I don't see your point though. Vai and Satriani are amazing rock players. Especially Vai...his stuff with Whitesnake was spot on.

I repeat myself but there we go:
1 - Slash has written a couple of massive riffs/licks which were part of massive songs that people recognise. That's why 'Joe Soap' knows it's Slash when he hears circus music...because every radio station has played Sweet Child O' Mine a million times. The same Joe Soap would instantly recognise the intro to Wanted as being Bon Jovi because it's been played a million times. I doubt Joe Soap would instantly recognise the solo in Nightrain as easily if he just heard that piece.

2 - Regardless, of what I wrote in Point 1, even if a guitarist has a 'definite style', that doesn't necessarily make him better. The Edge has 'a definite' style. Hell, he is a million time more recognisable than Slash and Sambora combined. Yet...would you say he's better than Slash? Or Sambora? No f*ckin' way! That simple.
And there's other examples. Cobain springs to my mind, Jack White, etc.

3 - Overall, Slash has written better riffs, but that's also because the gunners were much more of a riff-oriented band. Richie had to fit a keyboardplayer in the sound, and overall, be a lot more pop-driven. Yet he wrote some dirty mother****ers. You Give Love a Bad Name - that's sensational stuff. Lay Your Hands on Me....insane... and the interplay between organs and guitars in Homebound Train, Slash would have never been capable of anything like that.



That is a very different comment from 'he pisses all over Richie', isn't it? And it's debatable as well. Slash's latest record I rate just as low as Richie's. And live, Richie is a million times more entertaining. But that's all about personal taste. I am a very limited guitar player myself, I massively lack talent so it's all a struggle. Yet if I had a day to learn a solo and I had to chose between Keep The Faith and Coma...hell, I'd pick Coma any time. Keep The Faith just breaks my fingers.

DevilsSon,

Coma is infinitely more difficult to play than keep the faith.

Yngwie pisses all over Slash, Richie, Snake...but i don't listen to him at all.

As for Vai in Whitesnake? He completely butchered an entire album and undid all the genius that John Sykes had done!

How do I rate Richie alongside Slash and Perry? Anything he does with the guitar seems like magic to my ears.Must be something to his playing,I guess.You cannot measure by fame or name,but the times the solos give you gooseflesh.