Author Topic: most over rated guitarist (Read 817 times)

-tronski- · « **Reply #30 on:** August 01, 2002, 04:06:16 PM »

I'd go Eddie Van Halen too,

Cobain gained his fame based more on angst and his writing (and good doses of Heroin) than his guitar playing I thought.

Tronsky

SirLoin · « **Reply #31 on:** August 01, 2002, 04:10:14 PM »

Easy..

Eric Clapton....

Morgoth · « **Reply #32 on:** August 01, 2002, 04:11:04 PM »

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Originally posted by Nifty
Bonzo didn't OD. He drowned in his own puke.

And why was he puking? You say tomato, I say tomato ...

And by the way ain't that a great epitaph? Here lies Bonzo, he chugged too much barf. Waste.

Morgoth · « **Reply #33 on:** August 01, 2002, 04:11:46 PM »

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Originally posted by SirLoin
Easy..

Eric Clapton....

You're kidding, right?

Greese · « **Reply #34 on:** August 01, 2002, 05:19:19 PM »

Wlfgng · « **Reply #35 on:** August 01, 2002, 05:48:05 PM »

notice how the rest of us kinda' refrained from that ...

SageFIN · « **Reply #36 on:** August 01, 2002, 08:53:53 PM »

All those guitarists that proclaim that it doesn't matter if their technique is non-existant because it's about emotion.

Red Ant · « **Reply #37 on:** August 01, 2002, 09:08:09 PM »

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Originally posted by SirLoin
Easy..

Eric Clapton....

I used to think so also, for a long, long time. And then, as recently as last year, i got tickets to see him. Man, he is one AMAZING guitartist, and the scary part is that he just keeps getting better!! Yeah he's written some real cheeze over the years, but we're not talking Clapton the writer, we're talking playing. Man, can that guy play!

My favorite recorded Clapton would have to be the Derek & The Dominoes album, and the Blind Faith album.

Wlfgng · « **Reply #38 on:** August 02, 2002, 09:24:34 AM »

Derek and the Dominoes.. awesome stuff

yeah, I saw him, Jeff Beck and Jimi Page together and Page wasn't even close to the other two. Hard to compare Beck and Clapton because they are sooo different but I love 'em both.

Clapton is deceptive. Beck is scarey.
I never knew you could do so much with a guitar before I saw Beck.

midnight Target · « **Reply #39 on:** August 02, 2002, 10:31:50 AM »

The best guitar... ok maybe not the best, but my favorite crank-it-up solo is still Free Bird. My kids hate it when that song comes on the radio!

midnight Target · « **Reply #40 on:** August 02, 2002, 11:15:52 AM »

Just thought of a really overrated guitarist..... Peter Frampton!!!!

Red Ant · « **Reply #41 on:** August 02, 2002, 02:25:00 PM »

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Originally posted by Wlfgng
Derek and the Dominoes.. awesome stuff

yeah, I saw him, Jeff Beck and Jimi Page together and Page wasn't even close to the other two. Hard to compare Beck and Clapton because they are sooo different but I love 'em both.

Clapton is deceptive. Beck is scarey.
I never knew you could do so much with a guitar before I saw Beck.

I also saw the 3 of them, and have to agree that Page was not in the same class. But ya gotta remember, this was at Page's likely lowest point in life as a musician, "rock star" & person. He was goin on 7 years as a heroin addict, his band was a bust, and he hadn't played guitar for 2 years. Now last year (or was it the year before) I saw Page with the Black Crowes at the Greek Theater, and man he was a totally different guitarist. He BURNED! I think I actually like their version of "Out On The Tiles" better than the original!

Now, Frampton. Yes, he's highly overrated from his so-called solo career, and his writing was any lighter he'd be Liberace, BUT:
Listen to the 1st 3 Humble Pie albums, and "Rockin The Fillmore", the live album from that period. He was just amazing!!! Dunno what happened - i guess he needed Steve "Da Midjit" Marriott to kick his arse every day to "play like a man"

Incidentally, the guy who replaced him in Humble Pie, Dave "Clem" Clemson, was a helluva player himself! He'd fall into the "Underrated" category