most overrated guitarist

myxomatosis · Post by **myxomatosis** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 12:29 am

I didn't read all this.. but I can't believe someone put Clapton.. he's my 2nd favorite guitarist. I love his blues guitar, it's great. I'm not in to the van halen and yingwie malsteam (sp) stuff.. so anything like that gets my vote..

mdel21 · Post by **mdel21** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 12:42 am

I hate Santana

TimmyThing · Post by **TimmyThing** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 7:28 pm

Saying Clapton is overrated is a joke. He may not have amazing technical ability, but he has an original style and he's successfully blended elements of blues and a little rock. He's done all kinds of music, and he's been around for around 4 decades.

Easy E · Post by **Easy E** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 10:13 pm

Im really suprised more poeple havent said Santana, nothing he does impresses me except black magic woman

And the last 4 years he has just soloed over other people's songs, woooooo

He sold lot of records recently because of a gimmicky approach to writing an album, having others do it

You_Enjoy_Myself · Post by **You_Enjoy_Myself** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 12:33 am

eze3484 wrote:Im really suprised more poeple havent said Santana, nothing he does impresses me except black magic woman

And the last 4 years he has just soloed over other people's songs, woooooo

He sold lot of records recently because of a gimmicky approach to writing an album, having others do it

He co-wrote almost all of the songs on his last two cd's including Love of My Life with Dave. They're not really just other people's songs.

waffle_house_jam · Post by **waffle_house_jam** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 9:28 am

mdel21 wrote:I hate Santana

Thank God someone else does. I swear every song he does sounds exactly the same. He annoys the living crap out of me. You wanna hear melody, listen to David Gilmour's solos. They're unforgettable. And I think there's no way Tim Reynolds is overrated because outside of small circles, no one knows about him.

crashtest42 · Post by **crashtest42** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 12:47 am

cgalves wrote:
jsgksu wrote:
cgalves wrote:
jsgksu wrote:Jimi is not overrated I dont think, hes deffinatley better than Dave.

And NJPearce, Jimi Thing is not about Hendrix, just so you know.
The actual riff of Jimi thing is exactly that, a tribute to Hendrix. The lyrics themselves are about the positive effects of drugs, but the actual song was called jimi thing because it was a hendrix-esque riff.
The guitar riff wasnt written by dave to sound like or be a tribute to Jimi at all, it was just a coincidence. It didnt have a name and Carter wanted Dave to play it one day and said, "Hey dave, play that jimi thing" because he thought it sounded like a hendrix song. As for what the lyrics are about, Ive heard a few differnet explanations from Dave in recordings I have.
IF its called Jimi Thing because it sounds (or CArter thought it sounded) like a Hendrix riff, then couldnt you consider the riff a tribute to Hendrix? I wasnt saying Dave wrote to honor Hendrix, but in that it was a riff that sounded like Hendrix and was called Jimi Thing, isnt that some sort of a tribute?

Aren't the lyrics about jackin' off? Really, take a minute and reflect on what he's saying.

ledzepp4l · Post by **ledzepp4l** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 1:22 am

mdel21 wrote:I hate Santana

Yeah he sucks donkey nuts.

DMBFan63 · Post by **DMBFan63** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 1:47 am

crashtest42 wrote:
cgalves wrote:
jsgksu wrote:
cgalves wrote:
jsgksu wrote:Jimi is not overrated I dont think, hes deffinatley better than Dave.

And NJPearce, Jimi Thing is not about Hendrix, just so you know.
The actual riff of Jimi thing is exactly that, a tribute to Hendrix. The lyrics themselves are about the positive effects of drugs, but the actual song was called jimi thing because it was a hendrix-esque riff.
The guitar riff wasnt written by dave to sound like or be a tribute to Jimi at all, it was just a coincidence. It didnt have a name and Carter wanted Dave to play it one day and said, "Hey dave, play that jimi thing" because he thought it sounded like a hendrix song. As for what the lyrics are about, Ive heard a few differnet explanations from Dave in recordings I have.
IF its called Jimi Thing because it sounds (or CArter thought it sounded) like a Hendrix riff, then couldnt you consider the riff a tribute to Hendrix? I wasnt saying Dave wrote to honor Hendrix, but in that it was a riff that sounded like Hendrix and was called Jimi Thing, isnt that some sort of a tribute?

Aren't the lyrics about jackin' off? Really, take a minute and reflect on what he's saying.

are you serious dude? It's about hendrix/gettin' high. maybe getting high is almost as good as jackin' off to you or something.. dunno

stevenr21 · Post by **stevenr21** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 4:13 am

Santana doesn't suck... His recent music is crap but listen to some of his older stuff.

Dutch · Post by **Dutch** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 2:07 pm

i am new to the boards so no one may respect my opinion, but i comepletely agree that cobain is overrated and i think that Nirvana is overrated in general. Also i am surprised that no one has said anything about aerosmith an joe perry because imo they are one of the most overrated bands of all time.

Bill Efting · Post by **Bill Efting** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 8:35 pm

Alright,

Kurt Cobain was a god-awful guitar player, got it? Hes majorly overrated just like Adam Jones (Tool), etc.

Yngwie created a new standard for guitar, that neo-classical style is amazing, but yea, it can get old after awhile.

Hendrix was a guitar player...yup...a guitar player, everyone was so high and it was so "out-there" that everyone thinks hes the greatest ever, I hate to tell you this but there were many guitarists around at the time that outranked Hendrix in every aspect other than stage presence. Lighting a guitar on fire or playing with your teeth doesn't mean jack. I played with my teeth once on stage, whooooo whatever.
Frank Zappa was around in the 70's, and was far beyond Hendrix as a player, not to mention as a songwriter. Hendrix was just another product of drug crazed/based rock out of the 70's, like the Grateful Dead (Jerry Garcia, also overrated).

Thats my say.

joe-unit · Post by **joe-unit** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 3:03 pm

creativity is probably the most important quality to a good guitarist. It's one thing to be able to play a hendrix song, and another to write. He was amazing...cobain should get the same type of respect for how he impacted music...maybe not as a guitarist so much as a musician, but he deserves credit....calling jimi hendrix overrated is a disgrace to music