Both during their prime: Hetfield Vs. Dimebag....

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in their prime?

neither. Jason Becker.

 

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. On the other hand, any experienced guitar player can basically play any riff James ever wrote.

Yeah, so what? The world doesn't care about cover bands or copy cats. The definition of musician is to create music. ZZTOP and AC/DC know about 4 chords between them both and they've written some of the greatest rock songs ever.

Being original and coming up with great music is MUCH MUCH MUCH harder than being a technician. Any Joe Schmo can sit with a metronome and robotically practice scales, songwriting talent is something you're born with. There's a lot of people out there who can play Scarified, but lock those guys in a room and restrict them to 4 chords and see how many of them can write a hit song.

Well said.

Ill also add...

Cobain wrote songs a 3 year old could play but he still wrote music that influnced many.

Also talking about hets downstroke, I think Scotty is better. And Dave is way more talented that james IMO.

So I have to pick Dime

Oh yeah, James is a dueche and Dime is the coolest mutherfucker ever