Will the Real Messiah Please Step Forward?

<---This guy.... thinks he's.....

<---this guy..... (hmmm think I'm a little extreme?)

<--he insists on making his acceptance speech here...

<----on THIS STAGE?!?! YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING ME!

Top Ten reasons why Eddie Van Halen is NOT the worlds greatest guitar player!

# 8 Andy Timmons

This amazing and criminally underrated guitarist from the late 80's band Danger Danger has been dropping jaws all over the world (except in the U.S. of course, because we don't know what talent is anymore-thank you Kurt Cobain). His style is a mixture of Jazz/Fusion, finger-style acoustic, and even country. Very few guitarists out there with the speed and technique of Andy can play with the amount of feeling that he puts into every phrase he plays. His versatility is one of the reasons Joe Satriani picked him to join him twice on the legendary G3 tour.. It was very hard to decide which video of his to put up here, because they are all incredible, but here is a video of him performing his song "Electric Gypsy" at GIT, the guitar school in L.A. where the top players in the world go to learn to attempt to be as good as Andy. As you can see, and hear, they have quite a mountain to climb.....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fON3Ia5HSio

and here is groove or die...a shredders paradise...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIAaAXBtwwI

Top Ten reasons why Eddie Van Halen is NOT the worlds greatest guitar player!

#9 Brad Paisley

Country? A country player beats out Eddie?! Absolutely....country guitar is one of the hardest styles of guitar to play. In the words of John 5 (Marlyn Manson, Rob Zombie band) " It is like trying to learn a new language, and the language is Chinese". Even the simplest sounding riffs take hours and hours of practice, fusing bass lines, and lead runs all on one guitar, and all at the same time, (using all picking fingers to play, instead of just a pick). It is usually played clean, so any mistakes are VERY noticeable...Brad is not THE King, but he is one of them, and certainly demands the attention of anyone who appreciates the instrument.....check out nervous breakdown.....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y-Ipi1dnng

As an aside...Brad doesn't have alot of videos of himself shredding on the guitar- but here is a video of a kid playing his song "toad rag"..the kid is incredible, so you can only imagine how good it must sound when it is played by Brad himself. This one will make you say...............what the?!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGCc9cOyIzY

Top Ten reasons why Eddie Van Halen is NOT the worlds greatest guitar player!

I have always been into music, and musicians who are not a part of the mainstream of music (if it is part of pop culture, I usually hate it, like reality T.V. ugh...gag)- some of the greatest guitar gods of all time fall into this category, so here is my ALTERNATIVE list of the greatest guitarists who ever lived...

#10 Steve Morse

what can you say about the legendary guitar player of the Dixie Dreggs, a band which birthed yet another legendary player (drummer) Rod Morgenstein, now with Winger...he plays so flawlessly, and effortlessly, that he refuses to use the most common technique known as legato, (a finger trick that makes you sound like you are playing faster than you actually are) opting instead to pick every single note individually...witness TUMENI NOTES...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEnmpVFD2W0

Here is another link to the incredible Steve Morse- this one is 8 minutes long, but it is some of the most creative guitar playing I have ever heard, and worth EVERY second of your time...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-CC2jOVNSI

Candidate #2

Lets see here....
Candidate #2
*War hero ( a real one, not a fake one like Kerry)

*Spent 5 years as a POW in the Hanoi Hilton ( thats a prison camp where torture consisted of beatings every two hours, and having your skin sliced with a dull knife- not having embarassing pictures taken of you- for all of you young-and old- Dems out there who think Gitmo is so bad)
*Lifetime of service in the Senate, House, and Reagan administration
*over 537 bills sponsored, 31 have been enacted-
*straight-talking maverick (often to his own party's dismay)

...are you going to vote for the hero or the hype...?