Most overrated???

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Who gets YOUR vote for the MOST OVERRATED guitar player EVER!!! Not just in the last few years but in HISTORY. You know that there is someone that you hear a lot about and you cant understand why. Let us know who it is, dont worry about offending anyone...come on now...you can do it!!!
 
I'm gonna get flamed for this but....

Stevis Ray Vaughen. He's all fine and great, I like his style and flow. But by the same token he seemed to simply regurgetate the same licks over and over in every tune.......
 
Clapton?

I second BB King. I also never understood what is so incredible about Eric Clapton. **taking cover**

Yeah, the guy can play, far better than I'd ever be able to pretend to, but what's the big deal? He bores me almost as much as The Eagles.
 
Satriani, Vai, Santana, that scaloped fret guy who's name i can't spell, eddie van halen, and all the rest of em.
 
get out the extinguisher

Ok now I KNOW I am gonna get burned for this but....

JIMI HENDRIX!!!!

Now dont get me wrong, I am a Hendrix fan, I dig his music, but...
I find his playing to be sloppy and he relied too much on noise and effects for me. Now when he played it straight like on "Red House" he was very effective, but for us to still be talking about his guitar playing today??? by todays standards I dont consider him to be that great and most of his songwriting is just psychidelic stuff...
 
Slackmaster2K said:
Satriani, Vai, Santana, that scaloped fret guy who's name i can't spell, eddie van halen, and all the rest of em.
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I agree with everything you said except for Eddie VH. He started a certain style of playing and that opened the floodgates. I dont think that we can blame him for that.
 
ok.

Clapton seemed unbelievable to me before I knew how to play guitar. now, he doesn't really stand out.

I'll second Hendrix for sloppy playing. I'm big into melody, not noise. Yes, an innovator and yes, a showman but he doesn't do it for me.

Now, who's gonna be the first to say Gilmour?

"His playing is so simple, that's what makes it so great. It's the nuances, man!" :rolleyes:
 
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What about Slash?

If you write your own songs and brake ground with them, then you're a good musician. I think it has to be called musicianship instead of player.

I know many "players" thinking Keith Richards or George Harrison are overrated. I think if you are skilled enough to write songs like "While my guitar gently weeps" or "Gimme shelter" then noone should say anything about your guitar playing. Guitar playing comes from the soul.

Probably there are at least 1000000 "players" out there beeing far more technically skilled than George Harrison and Keith Richards (to mention two of the important ones).

But the musicianship is a level above this I think. Then if you could reach the "black belt" among those....the "players" starts to imitate you.

Hans,
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a "player" myself
 
hrn said:

Probably there are at least 1000000 "players" out there beeing far more technically skilled than George Harrison and Keith Richards (to mention two of the important ones).

Hans,
www.hagen
a "player" myself
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I have never considered George Harrison to be overrated, quite to the contrary, I think that he is very underrated. Keef on the other hand...He is overrated as a guitarist because, and this is hard for me because I am a BIG Stones fan, most of the time he plays in open A and just plays the same chord figure up and down the neck...check it out...Brown Sugar, Start Me Up, Happy...its the same chord!!! His solos draw directly from Chuck Berry only Chuck played them cleaner.
 
King Elvis,

I know, but Keith knows about it too and have made this choice....If I had wrote Brown Sugar, Start Me Up or Happy I would think the chords were just right in the aftermath.

Chuck Berry is a big influence on most musicians, into rock anyway...some say he's overrated too....not knowing about their own influences from him...

Stones are simple because they want to be. It's free for everyone to do achive something like they have.

You just have to invent a style using old influences and be succesful....get a patent on it too, and everyone will copy you after it....That's how Stones are, at least was.

Hans,
www.hagen.nu
 
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Hmmm... I think I'll have to say Buddy Guy. As far as Hendrix being overated I'll have to disagree. Hendrix was way ahead of his time:)
 
Yeah, you are right. I am a Rock and Roll fan so I love all of these guys we are talking about, its just that there are some players who never get due respect and there are some that get way more than they deserve. I am glad, again, that you brought up George Harrison because he was so underrated in the context of the Beatles. To hear how brilliant he truly was one just has to listen to "Here Comes the Sun" The chord structure and what he does with it are amazing. Its so fresh, even today. There are two kinds of music, one that is caught in a certain time period and one that is timeless. Hendrix always sounds like the 60's to me, Harrison is timeless.
 
King Elvis
Your're so right. Think about the ancient times. Guess there were alot of composers doing music...but Bach among others still influence musicians...timeless.

Of course, it's also a matter of getting published.

"Something" is Great too. Love the melody over the chords...or the chords to the melody..

Hans,
www.hagen.nu
 
Trotter, King Elvis
Agree with Trotter about Jimi Hendrix. The sound is very 60's but the music is ....for example on the album "Axis bold as love" ...maybe the music scene hasn't reached it yet.

Hans,
www.hagen.nu
 
I love Jimi Page, he's one of the few great groundbreaking musicians in modern time!

Listen to "Houses of the holy" for example.

Hans,
www.hagen.nu
 
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