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[m4rk0]

Petrucci is really bland and boring, from the little I've heard.

I recently found out that I gave up too early on him.. I did listen to their early '90s stuff back then, but decided that only some of the songs were good.
I really loved their latest albums though and decided to give their older stuff another chance. I still wasn't crazy about them, but I have to admit that their later albums are absolutely fantastic, scenes from a memory, six degrees of inner turbulence, and basically everything after that.. Love it!

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

Dimebag - From all accounts, he's the nicest guy you'd ever meet.  For that style of music, IMO, he was really bland.  Dying young somehow elevated him to mythical status.
C.C. DeVille - needs no explanation
Santana - Neck pickup with tone rolled all the way off all the time gets old, and a conversational space cadet.
Ace Frehley - I don't know where to begin.
EVH - I know he has a lot of space to fill being in a 3 piece, but I always thought he overplayed a tad.  His tone, I've never actually heard it because it's under 10,000 effects.  He's an A-hole from the getgo
          and ruined 2 incarnations of VH.


Threads like these are bait for flamewars.  Everybody remember these are our opinions.

 

[back2thefutre]

+1,000,000 for Malmsteen. He sounds like finger nails down a chalk board :sad1:

 

[exaN]

Mine are

Carlos Santana (similar sounding solos, teaming with other artists I hate for annoying #1 hit songs)
Jimi Hendrix (Only like about 2 songs.  The rest I just don't "get" I guess...)
Zakk Wylde (His acoustic and piano work, I really like, but his solos sound pretty much the same all the time.  Besides, the guy is a billboard now.)
Keith Richards (Overpraised.  Should be dead.  Repetitive)
Kirk Hammett (Needs to learn melody instead of "Hey, if I play more notes, chicks will do me!")

That would be my list, but replace Jimi for Malmsteen

 

[slashgnr88]

I think its so interesting how different people are. I mean i personally love Malmsteen but I seem to be one of few. at least on this board anyway. everyone seems to have valid point to their opinions tho and I have enjoyed both the like and dislike threads so far. 


seems like there is more agreement about players like Hammet and Cobain though.

 

[GoDrex]

Dimebag -   Dying young somehow elevated him to mythical status.

EVH -   His tone, I've never actually heard it because it's under 10,000 effects.  

Dime was elevated to mythical status long before he died. And he was 38 - not old but not exactly young either like Randy Rhoads who was 25. Not that it makes much difference, but it's not like he was a guy who was just starting out and starting to get recognition.

Ed used flange sometimes and phaser sometimes and reverb. Not much else really. I think later in the hagar years he might have used chorus - not sure. Not sure where the idea of him using tons of effects comes from. I remember people though that back in the 70's.

 

[DangerousR6]

I think its so interesting how different people are. I mean i personally love Malmsteen but I seem to be one of few. at least on this board anyway. everyone seems to have valid point to their opinions tho and I have enjoyed both the like and dislike threads so far. 


seems like there is more agreement about players like Hammet and Cobain though.

I personally like Nirvana music, I never really thought of Cobain as a great guitarist. But I liked his vocals..Grohl is a far better musician that Kurt ever was, and I think he really contributed more to their sucess than Cobain

 

[northwood]

interesting that no one mentions J beck, probably the most innovative of all

 

[CrackedPepper]

Add Steve Vai for me, him and Hammett obviously didn't listen to Satriani's advise on the 11 note rule..Zakk was good in his early years with Ozzy, but has since then became very repetitive and no emotion in his playing. Malmsteen never cared for, he just plays a lot of scales and arpeggio's.... :tard:

Hey Doug - what's the 11 note rule?

 

[GoDrex]

Yngwie's first album is killer (minus the songs with vocals). After that it's pretty repetitive.

Nirvana were a great band. I never looked at Kurt as a guitar player. He's more of singer/songwriter that played guitar. And they were a punk band. Amazing chops is not the point. Killer 2 minute songs with huge hooks was the point.

 

[exalted]

interesting that no one mentions J beck, probably the most innovative of all

That's because he isn't obnoxious or pretentious. This is a least-favorite guitar list, and I don't think anyone really hates Jeff Beck.

 

[GoDrex]

interesting that no one mentions J beck, probably the most innovative of all

That's because he isn't obnoxious or pretentious. This is a least-favorite guitar list, and I don't think anyone really hates Jeff Beck.

Orpheo does

 

[Superlizard]

Nigel Tufnel by far.

All this tripe about "world's loudest guitarist" and his mandolin mastery.

And that horseshoe bit during his solo; pure wanking for wanking's sake.

 

[DangerousR6]

interesting that no one mentions J beck, probably the most innovative of all

That's because he isn't obnoxious or pretentious. This is a least-favorite guitar list, and I don't think anyone really hates Jeff Beck.

Orpheo does

I don't care for him either.... :cool01:

 

[AprioriMark]

I think that a lot of guitar players are overrated.

Mark Kwhatever from Dire Straights is one of those guys.  I can actually *see* what he's thinking when he plays and it waffles me off.

I also don't like EVH, though I appreciate the mastery.  I just don't like the songs or the whole attitude.

Santana; it's been said, but he's so boring.

Eric Clapton... I have nothing good to say about him.  A self-centered (perhaps former) racist who is no one I'd ever want to hang out with.  His most emotional song (and yes, I'm including the "I let my kid fall out of a hotel window so I sold a song to a movie about it" song) is about being in love with his friend's wife... awwwwwwwwesome guy.  Did I mention that he got famous playing on wussy gauge strings and copping licks from actually good players?  Borrrrring.

Me.  I hate how I'm too lazy to find a few people who can put up with me.  Seriously.  What a bum.

-Mark

 

[exalted]

interesting that no one mentions J beck, probably the most innovative of all

That's because he isn't obnoxious or pretentious. This is a least-favorite guitar list, and I don't think anyone really hates Jeff Beck.

Orpheo does

I don't care for him either.... :cool01:

You don't care for him, or you dislike him? There's an important difference!  ccasion14:

 

[Justinginn]

I guess I'm the guy who mentioned John Mayer  :-\  :laughing7:
Far as he goes, he's easy to listen to and popular enough that he's starting to get people I play with back into the blues, which makes him our musical savior. If I can't get 'em to drop their Boys Like Girls for Stevie, Mayer's the closest thing I've got.

Overrated list:
1. G3 in general (excluding Eric Johnson, for the most part -- just too technical and in my view lacking feel/tone/general voodoo. Vai's orchestra stuff bugs the crap out of me, Yngwei is unilstenable to me (did yall see that one video where he played a song he called 'blue' because he thought it was bluesy?) and Satch has some stuff I like but not a whole lot. Mostly just my musical tastes. They're all talented but I still think overrated.)
2. Eric Clapton (has his backup guitarist take his solos... really? I'm watching for him to play guitar, not sing.)
3. Jeff Beck/Santana (never really got their stuff; I always think there's something there I'm not getting but I never find it and can never really get into them.)
4. John Mayer as a guitar player (he can sorta play the blues but he's only famous because he could've been a model.  :laughing11: Still like some of his stuff though.)
5. Gonna have to go with EVH. I see tapping and loud guitars but not a whole lot else

 

[CrackedPepper]

In addition to Keith Richards, Santan and Kurt Cobain, I'd add:

John Fogerty
Bruce Springsteen
Neil Young

IMHO, these guys are the epitome of overrated.

 

[GoDrex]

In addition to Keith Richards, Santan and Kurt Cobain, I'd add:

John Fogerty
Bruce Springsteen
Neil Young

IMHO, these guys are the epitome of overrated.

Other than Santana, are any of those guys known as primarily guitarists? I don't think so.

 

[CrackedPepper]

In addition to Keith Richards, Santan and Kurt Cobain, I'd add:

John Fogerty
Bruce Springsteen
Neil Young

IMHO, these guys are the epitome of overrated.

Other than Santana, are any of those guys known as primarily guitarists? I don't think so.

Then neither are Clapton, Jack White, John Mayer or Jimi Hendrix or any other singer/songwriter holding a guitar on this thread