Who is the FASTEST guitar player?

[DeadCell]

the one from bowling for soup?

[Septimus]

slash

[DasFox]

Michael Angelo

HOLY CRAP:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rutyA12z3Ok

[..::Prince::..]

rusty cooley

[Evil_Monkey]

Daron Malakian

...that baritone iceman is the shit

[bigboab]

It is no use being fast unless the end result is perfect. I can type 200 words a minute, but you cant read the gobblygook output.

Here is my all time favourite guitar player;

Mat 'Guitar' Murphy


http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=L7nRV9...eature=related

[Quarter]

Slash from Guns n' Roses.

[will17]

Jack White has some great moments both live and on albums.

[RyCooder]

Zakk Wylde or Malmsteen! They're great!!

[cpt_azad]

The read the Topic about who was the best guitar player.

There are many really good guitar players and i started to thinking about it.

Then i player Guitar Hero 3, The last bonus song i F**king crazy hard.
The song Dragonforce - Through fire and flames.
Guitarist: Herman Li

I think he is the fastest guitar player.

Know anyother ?

LMFAO, Herman Li's is not that fast man, he can't even play that solo from Through the fire and flames at full speed live, they ahve to take it down to 180bpm instead of 200 which is a huge diff considering 16th notes are the meat and bone of the solo from that song.

My choices would be:

(Based on the solos/leads they play, not counting how fast a person can tremelo pick, I'm talking either sweeping or 3 notes per string kinda thing, you know, actually shredding not fake shredding.)

Note: Other than Michael Amott and Jeff Loomis, I'm not a fan of the other artists listed here, I've heard A LOT of their work but I'm not a fan of them. This list is about as unbiased as it's going to get.

5) Jeff Loomis of Nevermore, he's not as good as Rusty Cooley, but if there was ever an award for "2nd best sweep picking/shredder", he would get it. His sweeps are fucking fast and beautiful, and the only person I've heard that can beat him in sweeping is Rusty Cooley and maybe, just maybe Jason Becker.
Loomis in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oipOtikCJQM (solo at 2:56=about 1/4 times faster than Herman Li can play, solo at 4:54 = fastest sweeps I've heard [sound quality is shit, download actual song entitled "Godless Endeavor"] right up there with Rusty Cooley's)
Loomis in action part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhGot...eature=related

4) John Petrucci of Dream Theater, super fast, pretty clean, def. untouchable in most areas.
Petrucci in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT39qE9UDm8

3) Michael and Chris Amott of Arch Enemy, listen to the solo from "Vultures" (it's the 2nd main solo after Chris' solo), that's fucking fast man and its not a simple scale either, while most of the "fastest" guitarists just play scales, Michael Amott makes things pretty intricate and tricky, finger positions are as fucked up as Malmsteen's were. And yes, he can outplay #'s 4 and 5. Chris Ammot is also a shredding bastard, he's not the "fast" player in the band but he sure can play fast when he wants to (he just doesn't like playing fast I guess), Nemesis will always be the song that outshone most songs in the metal scene. The solos from Nemesis are a hell of a lot faster than what most guitarist can even fathom let alone play, to the original poster: Herman Li has got nothing on the Amott Brothers.
Amott brothers in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu4J8...eature=related (1st solo @ 41sec= Chris Amott, 2nd solo @ 1:35= Michael Amott)

2) Rusty Cooley. God damn, look him up on youtube or download some of his stuff from Outworld. He can play circles around anyone, and I truly believe that he can easily outplay Malmsteen. The only problem is every single solo he plays sounds almost the same (his leads have variation, but solos, not so much). Yes, its ludicriously fast and it doesn't involve tremelo picking the same note, but its so fast that sometimes it sounds like a "slur" and seems that not much thought was put into it, he doesn't play from the heart and there is no emotion in his fast solos, but he can shred to kill.
Cooley in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3Eo1...eature=related (if you think you know anyone faster...good luck)
Cooley in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd5Y-...eature=related (lol)

1) Malmsteen tied Jason Becker, there's really no need to explain anything about this guy, Malmsteen is a fucking legend and he might be over rated but god damn he reinvented shred guitar in the 80's. Fast as fuck. Becker is also a great guitarist whom I have tremendous respect for, its such a shame that he was diagnosed with that disease, if he were capable of playing today he'd be this generation's Malmsteen.

Honorable mention:
Michael Angelo Batio <-- great guitarist, fast, clean, and his stage antiques are top notch, double guitars anyone?
Paul Gilbert <-- his work in Racer X is amazing, I decided to learn "Scarified" the other week, fuck its hard work lol, those sweep shapes are intense.

I'm still laughing about the Herman Li comment lol