Who do you like better??? #1

[Roubster]

I was thinking about this yesturday while listening to some Tony Macalpine.
Who do you (from these two guys) like better and WHY??? Also which album from the two do you like best?

Tony Macalpine OR Vinnie Moore



I persnoally love both of these guys music and playing out of this typa similar genre. However of course the have their differences in style, composition, phrasing and so on. I personlly grew to like Vinnie Moore a bit more than Macalpine due to his very lyrical playing and his technique. For some reason after listening to Macalpine I do not remember his melodies. Dont take me wrong here, he is an AMAZING musician also playing piano greatly, this is just an personal opinion. I guess HIS compositions are very intricate with a LOT of stuff going on. But Vinnie has I guess more of a simple aproach, but than it is so full of life and great melodies that you can also hear in the solos. Just great song writing.
I dont have all of either of their albums, but these are the ones I like best from what I have:

Vinnie Moore: Meltdown AND Maze

Tony Macalpine: Premonition

 

[beej]

They can both kick my ass

 

[Roubster]

Amen to that brotha!!

 

[SteveB]

Don't make me choose between these two players!

I love Tony MacAlpine's wide vibrato.. it just sings to me. His sweeping arpeggios are unlike anyone else's.

Vinnie's got some little jazzy element to his licks that set him apart and make me sit up and take notice.

Favorite MacAlpine: Maximum Security, and his playing on the MARS Project Driver

Favorite Moore: Mind's Eye, Time Odyssey (although some of Jordan Rudess keys on that album really don't appeal to me at all)

 

[Roubster]

YEa man, I completely agree with you on both of the guys. I love Tony's sweep tapping technique arpeggios as well, and I guess that jazzy element in Vinnie's stuff makes me like him a bit more. However Tony can do some jazz typa fusion as well, like on the CAB albums.

 

[jaxadam]

Man, this is probably the toughest one for me. I like Vinnie Moore's album Mind's Eye a lot, but I really like Tony Macalpine's album called, appropriately enough, Macalpine. It is pretty rare and hard to get, my brother has had it for years, but I love the solo to Wild Ride. Personally, I think this is the best album he did, but he also has a lot of pretty good live solo stuff out there as well.