mshilarious
Banned
I'm going for SRV. He couldn't even think of an original way to die! No matter what you want to say about Dime, having a fan cap you on stage is f'in punk as all get-out 
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Guitarer
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I'm gonna get hell for this, but I can't stand Hendrix. Sure, he's a great guitarist, but unless it's a more well known song like Purple Haze or Fire, the rest of his music is just tedious to listen to. He's a terrible singer and his lyrics suck.
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metal_mike
New member
i'll play.... jimmy page couldnt press the strings down hard enough to annunciate a coherent note...
tc4b
Yeah I been drinkin, SO!?
I've always loved zep, but heard he was terrible live. I never saw him. And if zep reunites I;m sure tickets will be more than I'm willing to pay and in a venue too big for me to enjoy. Not to mention no JB.
didgijimmy
vexed
WTF???? I'll wager that you owe Jimmy for every note you play on the guitar. Have you listened to his other stuff even? Listen to the live recording of Machine Gun live. That dude could do more with one note than most popular guitarists do with 50. Not to mention his innovations in the studio, I'm not %100 sure but I think it was his idea to track songs and then play them backwards, as well as his use of feedback and Leslie speakers. Was he the first to use a Leslie on a record? I think he was. Have you heard the tone on Little Wing?? And as for his vocals, the dude can sing in my opinion, prolly my favorite vocalist from his time and his lyrics werent bad either. Plus he sang all his shit will wailing on a strat dude.
I was gonna use my callout to disagree with Mshilarious' SRV bashing, but then I saw this, damn.
Dont take it personal by the way, Im just a biased Hendrix faithful.
James
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Toker41
Better Than You
Hey! You took mine!
He is the sloppiest, most over-rated guitar player to ever stumble onto a stage. I defy you to find a video clip of a whole song where he doesn't fuck up, and get sloppy several times in it. I will not dog his writing, but he simply is NOT a good player. So tired of everyone jumping on the bandwagon of "greatest of all time". Sorry, but Stairway sucks. Lyrics mean nothing, and there is nothing special about the guitar work. It's even worse live, because the guy simply can't play it.
mshilarious
Banned
Your callout has to bash a guitarist, not defend one
So go on and hate on somebody.SRV was just a boring partial Hendrix tribute band. I say partial, because he never did any interesting experimental stuff. I mean, his cover of Little Wing is tedious in the extreme
Plus, he needed an ass-kicking for wearing that hat. His brother didn't need no hat, and I liked his guitar playing way better too
didgijimmy
vexed
Your callout has to bash a guitarist, not defend one
SRV was just a boring partial Hendrix tribute band. I say partial, because he never did any interesting experimental stuff. I mean, his cover of Little Wing is tedious in the extreme
Actually, I never relle cared for his Hendrix covers. Ive got dvd of SRV live at Montreax and his Voodo Chile cover is ok. The little wing cover he did is pointless as it is almost a carbon copy of Hendrix, with a less desirable tone, he added nothing new to the tune and tedious sums it up. But, I really enjoy his originals. Pride and Joy was the first song I learned on a guitar. Texas flood is awesome. I don't think he wrote it, but Tin Pan Alley is a joy to watch him play live. And I love his collaborations with David Bowie and Dick Dale. Also some live stuff with Albert Collins and others is worth checking out. Yeah the dude dressed like a total goof, but i guess he kinda pulled it off. And as far as his playing, I will say he gets a bit noodly and stuck in pentatonic sometimes, but he seems to drag himself out eventually.
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crazydoc
Master Baiter
I was going to say Springsteen, but then I realized this thread was supposed to be about guitarists, not vomit rocket excretions.
Purge
Traitorous Usurper
Eric Clapton. I will never get why everybody worships this comatose pentatonic dickbag, so don't bother trying to convince me. Thanks to him, I've had to tolerate thousands of would-be string slingers claiming that "guitarist X can say more with one note than blah blah blah." Whoopdy fucking doo...I can summarize all my thoughts on Clapton with only one finger...how cool am I?
VomitHatSteve
Hat STYLE. Not contents.
Seconded. (Though, I like to think more coherently.
)I'm also going to add that I'm all for needless fret-wankery (I'm fan of Dragonforce), but boring fret-wankery is one of the worst things you can do to a guitar.
Yes, you can play a lot of notes really fast. You know who can also hit a lot of different notes quickly? Yodelers. Good job, Zakk; you're the guitar equivalent of a yodeler!
didgijimmy
vexed
Seconded. (Though, I like to think more coherently.
I'm also going to add that I'm all for needless fret-wankery (I'm fan of Dragonforce), but boring fret-wankery is one of the worst things you can do to a guitar.
Yes, you can play a lot of notes really fast. You know who can also hit a lot of different notes quickly? Yodelers. Good job, Zakk; you're the guitar equivalent of a yodeler!
LMAO. Brilliant post. Is this pure improvisination? Or did you write this out before hand. I can see the effort you made to stray from the pentatonic and into some more chord based vamps and a good use of neighbor tones in your speach. lol.
I hope that made sense^
didgijimmy
vexed
wtf "you have given out to much rep for 24 hours" indeed.
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Toker41
Better Than You
I love Zakk.
Guess that's all I get?
Guess that's all I get?
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Toker41
Better Than You
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baby britain
New member
Backwards guitars, feedback, Leslie cabinets?... I didn't know this was a forum on the Beatles because I believe we have them to thank for those things. But, it is a bit silly to bash on Hendrix and that I agree with. Speaking of the Beatles, I believe Harrison is the most underrated guitarist out there. Talk about using one perfect note... and, alas, in my opinion all the "shredders" suck. Shredding is not a musical term. It's a matter of space/time. I'm personally more into music than I am into listening to people masturbate. If I wanted to do that I would watch a Star Wars prequel.
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reklus
New member
I hate Guitar Heroes.
I hate hate hate them.
And people who play Rock Band.
Joking aside.
I hate the guitarists in the music shop with their PODS playing a solo that sounds like it came out of a Tesla coil.
I hate hate hate them.
And people who play Rock Band.
Joking aside.
I hate the guitarists in the music shop with their PODS playing a solo that sounds like it came out of a Tesla coil.
David
New member
The OP said Diss A Famous Guitarist, not a wanker that's famous in his/her own head.
didgijimmy
vexed
That's why I wasn't %100 percent. I couldnt be positive if the Beatles used these before or after Hendrix. I just looked up when The White Album was released: 1968. It seems to me that they were both doing these things around the same time. I would have to say that Hendrix may of innovated more with feedback than George Harrison did.
I'm a huge Beatles fan too, and agree Harrison is underrated, probably because his playing was so understated (not intended to rhyme lol). I enjoy some "shredding" to a degree, providing that it is musical and not just guitarolympics.
James
famous beagle
Well-known member
Well, the Beatles were doing backwards guitars on Revolver. And feedback appeared on "I Feel Fine," which was ... ah crap ... I can't remember the album, but it was long before the White Album.