Author Topic: most over rated guitarist (Read 833 times)

Hangtime · « **Reply #15 on:** July 31, 2002, 08:42:01 PM »

Liberace.

think about it.

Morgoth · « **Reply #16 on:** July 31, 2002, 09:35:30 PM »

::: busy scrubbing off after Hang's post :::

Yngwie Malmsteen

Morgoth · « **Reply #17 on:** July 31, 2002, 09:37:31 PM »

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Originally posted by Udie

The only thing I could say in response would be.........

. Kieth Richards

Oh come on ... anyone that can manage to hold onto a guitar and have it make noises that don't sound like a boiling cat while being as toejam-faced as he has been for 40 years has to be pretty damn good

Boroda · « **Reply #18 on:** August 01, 2002, 04:46:11 AM »

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Originally posted by Morgoth

Yngwie Malmsteen

Agreed. He should trade his guitar for balalaika ifhe wants to play even faster.

James Patrick Page is one of the greatest guitar players of all times. It's not about how he plays, but about what he plays.

Masherbrum · « **Reply #19 on:** August 01, 2002, 05:36:04 AM »

Kirk Hammett or any of the Metallica studmuffins (How's rehab Kirk?)

"Heartbreaker" - Led Zepp. If you listen to the solo in the middle, it is an old tuning chord. He screws it up. I have heard that this was one of the worst bands to ever PERFORM LIVE. Drunk, Drunk. I would have gone just to see Bonham.

Kurt Cobain - sucked as a guitarist and is OVERRATED. He was a margainal songwriter. I laughed my bellybutton of when they TRIED to compare him to Lennon. Kurt, go write some songs for Hole, OH, that's right, YOU CAN'T!

Masher

Morgoth · « **Reply #20 on:** August 01, 2002, 07:14:55 AM »

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Originally posted by Masherbrum
"Heartbreaker" - Led Zepp. If you listen to the solo in the middle, it is an old tuning chord. He screws it up. I have heard that this was one of the worst bands to ever PERFORM LIVE. Drunk, Drunk. I would have gone just to see Bonham.

Masher

Oh yeah, Bonham was sober as a judge

It's amazing he didn't miss the drums and beat himself to death rather than OD like so many others ...

Masherbrum · « **Reply #21 on:** August 01, 2002, 07:34:18 AM »

I know he was an alcoholic, but as a former drummer myself (14yrs). I would love to jam with either Keith Moon (best ever) or Bonzo.

Masher

keyapaha · « **Reply #22 on:** August 01, 2002, 08:05:48 AM »

Nifty · « **Reply #23 on:** August 01, 2002, 08:32:37 AM »

Bonzo didn't OD. He drowned in his own puke.

I dunno, most of the guys listed as over-rated aren't even considered great by most.

I've never heard Keith Richards be called a great guitarist. They always just make jokes about how when the world ends, 5 cockroaches and Keith will still be around.

(Robin Williams on Broadway)

Wlfgng · « **Reply #24 on:** August 01, 2002, 09:11:06 AM »

like we'd even know it if Keith died..
I mean he's a walking zombie already

Makofan · « **Reply #25 on:** August 01, 2002, 10:02:33 AM »

I think Page is just miscast as a guitar solo/hero - to me his strength is in arrangements and textures, like in The Rain Song or Friends, the pushing of the sound envelope. I just love the interplay of some of his chords. Alex Lifeson is similar to me, a great guitarist who couldn't play a solo to save his life.

Most overrated guitarist to me? Kirk Hammet - the basis of that band is Hetfield's guitar playing, yet Hammet wins Guitarist oif the Year one year?

Masherbrum · « **Reply #26 on:** August 01, 2002, 10:06:09 AM »

I'm glad someone else mentions The Rain Song. Next to In The Light, those are my fav. two songs.

Masher

Wlfgng · « **Reply #27 on:** August 01, 2002, 03:10:13 PM »

Page was awesome with arrangements and off-tunings.
I love the rain song...
but then again, I love No Quarter

I agree Mako.. his strength was in the studio.

Red Ant · « **Reply #28 on:** August 01, 2002, 03:51:45 PM »

Most overrated, ever? Eddie Van Halen.
closely followed by Ritchie Blackmore & Gary Moore.

Agree with Boroda re: Pagey - he's one of the finest guitarists ever, just not for what most people like to give him credit for.

Duane Allman. People worship him as a God of slide guitar, and seem to gloss over the fact that he was NEVER in tune

Al Di Meola.

Any 80s metal banana who played scales up & down while the thoroughly stoned kids in the audience went "Wow". They are the reason for the guitar's demise as a lead instrument in Rock.

AKDejaVu · « **Reply #29 on:** August 01, 2002, 04:00:54 PM »

Angus Young (simply because I've heard someone refer to him as a guitarist)