article about Da Man
 

From a homepage about the 5 best and the 5 worst guitar players:

http://rockhole.bravepages.com/guitar.html

But here is the highlight!
#1 Richie Sambora. Alice Cooper commented to Guitarist magazine that if he could choose just two guitarists to be in his band for the rest of his career, Richie Sambora would be one of them. "Richie is one of those guys who can play just anything you say", he enthused, "he can play Jimi Hendrix, he can play George Harrison, and he can play his own style." Richie's total versatility made him perfect for Bon Jovi. Most hair metal players were just rockers, but Richie has the blues flowing in his New Jersey veins, giving tremendous soul to his guitar solo outbursts in lovesick power ballads. So great is his grasp of the blues, in fact, that Eric Clapton guested on his first solo album. Sambora chooses interesting runs within the standard blues framework, meaning his note choice is rarely clichéd. His appreciation for the Beatles shines through in most of his solos: very short, melodic outbreaks which compliment the song perfectly and are usually almost as catchy as the chorus itself. To top it all off, his fat, screaming harmonics, exciting tapping, and whammy bar madness mean that he also includes the best bits of Eddie Van Halen's style. To cap it all off, Richie's one of the best songwriters you'll find. Being in a commercial band like Bon Jovi means that he'll never get the acclaim he deserves from critics or musos, but the owners of the 100 million Sambora-related albums sold worldwide know how great he is. Defining moment: "Dry County", from Keep the Faith, 1992

Well, we knew this earlier, didn't we.

thanks for posting, been posted a hundred times but its still good to see...the roling stone list still baffles me tho :?

It's been posted already? Sorry, I didn't know that. Shame on me.

well, hadn't read it yet so, lol eheheh ;)
thank you,
:)

It hasn't been posted as a Topic but as a part of an argumentation in a guitar debate!

cheers, that's great to read.

Da man?

we get enough of this bloody ganster shit talk from kids !

I demand it be banned from dc

:lol: it was fun reading the worst ones
although I don't agree 100%

I think Becky will come here soon:

http://rockhole.bravepages.com/bonjovi.html

" Jon Bon Jovi is a smooth talking, egotistical pretty boy with really not all that much musical talent. He has written some excellent songs, but really without Richie Sambora he is nothing special and when singing live his voice goes from strong and gritty to whiny and nasal. Sometimes I think the rest of the band should fire Jon and re-christen themselves "Sambora"."

AMEN :twisted: