Baloney Balderdash
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Honestly, and not to play holy in any way, but I genuinely have a hard time thinking of any obvious candidates for my personal list of guitarists I don't get.
I guess because I never really bothered to listen much to music that I didn't actually felt spoke to me, and also I kind of respects most musicians.
Even Kirk Hammett I don't really have anything particular against, even if he isn't exactly a natural guitar genius, and although I kind of lost all respect for Metallica long ago, though especially Lars Ulrich, and more so because he is a giant jerk, than because he doesn't bother to practice drums anymore, which he never actually was exceptionally great at to begin with.
But after all Metalica still managed to create 3 truly great records, even despite the fact of Lars Ulrich deciding that his ego power trip should have priority over giving their fans a properly mixed record, as far as goes the third one (oddly enough though all their up till now 3 bass players seems like they were/are genuinely great guys).
I can respect that Metalica at least all had the skills to create great music once (and that at least Cliff Burton was a truly original and innovating musician, though I guess that's kind of his achievement alone, that James, Lars and Kirk can't really take any of the credit for). .
I guess the only guitarist that crosses my mind who's guitar play I really don't get would be someone like Yngwie Malmsteen, like: "let's speed classical music inspired distorted melodic riffs up till the point where they sound more like someone having an unusually extremely controlled epileptic seizure, like one perhaps could imagine an epileptic android would, so that they doesn't make any musical sense anymore, and let's further more execute them without any sense of soul or feeling whatsoever, so that it ends up sounding like a crazily speed up distorted midi guitar track, without any use of the humanization function" (well, admittedly except for the fact that some very guitar specific techniques are really hard to copy realistically using midi programmed samples).
Though I suppose it is kind of impressive on a technical level, more to do with sports than music really though in my opinion, and I have never really been a great fan of any sports to begin with, and speaking about sports, at this point many amateur guitarists can do the same, and some even surpassing him regarding technical skills.
But after all I guess Yngwie should still get credits for being one of the absolute top tire pioneers of an unique guitar playing style and genre, even if I personally don't get it at all, and don't really think it has much to do with playing actual music.
Guitar sports, I guess more specifically guitar gymnastics/athletics, that is what it is, as far as I am concerned.
I guess because I never really bothered to listen much to music that I didn't actually felt spoke to me, and also I kind of respects most musicians.
Even Kirk Hammett I don't really have anything particular against, even if he isn't exactly a natural guitar genius, and although I kind of lost all respect for Metallica long ago, though especially Lars Ulrich, and more so because he is a giant jerk, than because he doesn't bother to practice drums anymore, which he never actually was exceptionally great at to begin with.
But after all Metalica still managed to create 3 truly great records, even despite the fact of Lars Ulrich deciding that his ego power trip should have priority over giving their fans a properly mixed record, as far as goes the third one (oddly enough though all their up till now 3 bass players seems like they were/are genuinely great guys).
I can respect that Metalica at least all had the skills to create great music once (and that at least Cliff Burton was a truly original and innovating musician, though I guess that's kind of his achievement alone, that James, Lars and Kirk can't really take any of the credit for). .
I guess the only guitarist that crosses my mind who's guitar play I really don't get would be someone like Yngwie Malmsteen, like: "let's speed classical music inspired distorted melodic riffs up till the point where they sound more like someone having an unusually extremely controlled epileptic seizure, like one perhaps could imagine an epileptic android would, so that they doesn't make any musical sense anymore, and let's further more execute them without any sense of soul or feeling whatsoever, so that it ends up sounding like a crazily speed up distorted midi guitar track, without any use of the humanization function" (well, admittedly except for the fact that some very guitar specific techniques are really hard to copy realistically using midi programmed samples).
Though I suppose it is kind of impressive on a technical level, more to do with sports than music really though in my opinion, and I have never really been a great fan of any sports to begin with, and speaking about sports, at this point many amateur guitarists can do the same, and some even surpassing him regarding technical skills.
But after all I guess Yngwie should still get credits for being one of the absolute top tire pioneers of an unique guitar playing style and genre, even if I personally don't get it at all, and don't really think it has much to do with playing actual music.
Guitar sports, I guess more specifically guitar gymnastics/athletics, that is what it is, as far as I am concerned.
